WELFARE; HELPING THE NEEDY NEAR & FAR

The next meeting of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, which works to relieve poverty in

our local community, is on Wednesday 8th November, 6.30pm, in St. Joseph’s Presbytery. The next meeting of the Developing World Group will be on Tuesday 7th November at 7pm at St. Joseph’s Presbytery.

Our parish story: From the Log Book 8 May 1971 Sr. Annette, Headteacher of the Infants School, celebrated the Silver Jubilee of her profession in the Sisters of the Cross and Passion.

26 May 1971 A member of the parish, Councillor A J Ryan, JP, was installed as Mayor of Heywood, 6 June Mayor’s Sunday. At 10.15am Holy Mass was attended by the Mayor, Town Clerk, the MP for Heywood and Royton (Joel Barnett) and many aldermen and councillors of the Heywood Bor-

ough Council. The celebrant and preacher was the parish priest, Fr. Murphy, Chaplain to the Mayor.

WELCOME: PARISH COMMUNITY

There will be a meeting on Thursday 9th November at 6.30pm in St. Jo-

seph’s Presbytery for anyone interested in going on next year’s trip to Palazzola, Italy.

Would parishioners kindly donate any old Christmas teddies, or any teddies, or trees (or trees that could be loaned for the event)

for this year’s St. Joseph’s Christmas Market/Christmas Fair, which will be held at St. Joseph’s church hall on Sunday 26th November after the

9.30am Mass. Thank you for the jamjars. Just a reminder that we hope people will donate to the usual

stalls, such as the cake stall, fancy goods, etc. Raffle tickets will be on sale next weekend.

There will be a meeting for all involved in the Christmas Fair on Thursday 16th November at 7pm in St. Joseph’s Presbytery.

Congratulations to the winners in the October Draw of the 200 Club: 1) £217.50 Stephen Weatherilt 2) £87 Anne Colgan

3) £43.50 Deborah Hughes 4) £43.50 Catherine Rothwell The parish received £435. This weekend payments are due for the November Draw.

New members always welcome. It really does help our parish. If you want to join, please speak to Fr. Paul or Fr. Michael.

WORD: GROWING IN FAITH;

KNOWING OUR FAITH RCIA/Journey in Faith continues on

WEDNESDAY 8th November at 7pm. IF GOD IS CALLING YOU TO THE CHURCH, or you wish to grow in un-

derstanding the Faith, speak to Fr. Paul or Fr. Michael.

The next Baptism meeting will be on Sunday 3rd December at 6pm at St.

Joseph’s Presbytery. Please contact Fr. Paul or Fr. Michael before attending.

Together with time, talent, treasure; Body

of Christ for Heywood

Thank you for your kind support of your parish: Gift Aid: £552 Loose: £288.02 & £55.02 Developing World Fund and £477.40

(Buildings Fund).

The repair works to the sacristy at St. Jo-seph’s are scheduled to start on Monday 13th November. The sacristy will be inaccessible

during this time. Please check next weekend’s Newsletter to see where next week’s weekday

Masses will be held.

NEXT SUNDAY’S (12/11/17) MINISTERS

6.30pm (St J) 9.30am (St. J) 11.30am OLSP)

Reader 1 P Sherry L Killoran G Hennon

Reader 2 J Sherry P Guest K Czujko

E.M. 1 P Greenall A Noonan C Shore

E.M. 2 K Brown H Sharrocks G Hennon

E.M. 3 A Haymes D Sharrocks D Dodd

E.M. 4 K Kenny B Doyle

E.M.5 L Mather L Armstrong

E.M. 6 B Bennion

Children’s Liturgy N Davies and P Caffrey

Did you know that: In the parish area, 39 percent of households rent their accommoda-

tion, and 33 percent do not have access to a car. Within the deanery that places our parish in the highest third in both groupings.

WORSHIP, PRAYER AND SACRAMENTS

Mass on Remembrance Sunday, November

12th, at Our Lady and St. Paul’s will begin at 11:30am in order to attend the Service of Re-membrance in the Memorial Gardens at 10:45am

The Service of Prayer and Remembrance for

all who have died in the past year will be at St. Joseph’s church at 3pm on Sunday 19th No-vember.

Następna Sw. Msza w niedzielę 5 listopada o

16:00 w kosciele Sw. Jozefa.

CAFOD CORNER

Prayer for those who mourn

Bless those who mourn, eternal God, with the comfort of your love

that they may face each new day with hope

and the certainty that nothing can destroy the good that has been given.

May their memories become joyful, their days enriched with friendship,

and their lives encircled by your love.

Amen.

We pray with the Pope for November: That Christians in Asia, bearing wit-

ness to the Gospel in word and deed, may promote dialogue, peace and mutual understanding, especially with those of other religions.

For the people of the parish of St. Vincent, Norden, and Canon Paul Brindle, their parish priest. For all who live or work on Shadwell St East, Mutual St and Miller St.

For Glen Wildman, Bernard Hatton, Kenneth Bray, Clare McCarthy, John Slawson and all the sick

For John Wood, Philomena Finnerty, Laurence Barlow, John Stephens, Margaret O’Grady and all who died recently and for Kevin How-arth, Margaret Smith, Kevin Noonan and all remembered at this time.

Thank you to those parishioners who came to

the meeting of the parish Hope in the Future Planning Group. From the beginning of 2018 we

hope to celebrate and publicise all the good work that parish groups and individual parishioners do and give thanks for the way God uses so many generous and

talented people in our parish to build His Kingdom. We have a lot to celebrate. Watch this space! (The

group’s next meeting is on Monday 13th November at 7pm in the presbytery, lasting only one hour!)

OUR LADY & ST. JOSEPH, HEYWOOD partner with St. Joseph’s, Numan, Nigeria

Parish Priest: Fr. Paul Daly, paul.daly@dioceseofsalford.org.uk Assistant Priest: Fr. Michael Deas

michael.deas@dioceseofsalford.org.uk St. Joseph’s Presbytery, Mary St, OL10 1EG Tel: 369777 Chaplain - Fairfield Hospital: Fr. Andrew Starkie

(Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham)

Our Lady & St. Paul’s Presbytery, Argyle St, Heywood

PARISH WEBSITE www.catholicheywood.com DIOCESE’s WEBSITE www.dioceseofsalford.org.uk

Saturday

St. Martin of Tours

Date Mass, other Services and Parish Events Time

Church

All at St J

All at St J

9.30am

11am

11am

4pm

St J

OLSP

St J

St J

Wednesday

Confessions

Mass

Baptism of Lacey Jacqueline Parkinson Light

Confessions

First Mass of Sunday

9.30am

2pm

6.30pm

Friday ABSTINENCE from meat

St. Leo the Great

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

Mass

SVP

RCIA/Journey in Faith

10.30am

7pm

7.30pm

Mass

Mass

Sung Mass (Ordinariate Use)

Sw Msza

St J

St J Presbytery

St J

5th November 2017 Thirty First SUNDAY in

Ordinary Time

Thursday

THE DEDICATION OF THE

LATERAN BASILICA

This week’s Feasts: Tue: : St Willibrord, born in Yorkshire in 658, died in 739. After ordination he set out in 690 to evangelise

Frisia. He was ordained bishop in 695, and founded the see of Utrecht. He preached the Gospel in North Germany and Denmark and founded dioceses and monasteries in the Netherlands and

Luxembourg. St. Congar was born c 470 in Pembrokeshire and travelled across the Bristol Channel to establish churches in Som-erset and to set up a Bishopric which later became the Diocese of Bath and Wells. He died on pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 527

Wed: Bl John Duns Scotus, born in 1265 in Scotland, became a Franciscan friar and studied and taught at Cambridge, Oxford, Paris and Cologne where he died in 1308 and is buried. His tomb

bears the words: Scotia me genuit. Anglia me suscepit. Gallia me

docuit. Colonia me tenet. (trans. "Scotland brought me forth. Eng-land sustained me. France taught me. Cologne holds me.") He

taught in favour of the doctrine of Mary’s Immaculate Conception. St. Willehad, born in Northumbria, educated at York, continued the missionary work of St. Boniface and preached in Frisia and Saxony, establishing the Diocese of Bremen where he died in 789.

Thu: The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica commemorates the Pope’s Cathedral in Rome, known as “Mother and Head of all the Churches of the City and the World” and sign of unity with the

Bishop of Rome, the Pope. Bl George Napper was sent down from Oxford for being Catholic in 1568. After ordination at Douai, he worked near Oxford. He was arrested for carrying the Blessed

Sacrament and the holy oils and martyred in 1610. Fri: St Leo the Great became Pope in 440, protecting the faith, defending the Church, resisting foreign incursions. He died in 461. St. Justus, of the 2nd group of monks sent by Pope St

Gregory, was 4th Archbishop of Canterbury. Sat: St Martin of Tours, born in 316, began as a soldier, but was baptised and founded a monastery in France. He was chosen

as Bishop of Tours. He died in 397.

Monday

9am

9.30am

Tuesday

St. Willibrord

Requiem Mass for Laurence Barlow

Developing World Group

Mass (Ordinariate Use)

9am

9.30am

6.30pm

7pm

St J

St J

St J Presbytery

St J Presbytery

An Arundel Tomb by Philip Larkin A poem for the month of the Holy Souls—

note the final line, when you get to it. Side by side their faces blurred,

The earl and countess lie in stone, Their proper habits Clothes vaguely shown As jointed armour, stiffened pleat,

And that faint hint of the absurd— The little dogs under their feet.

Such plainness of the pre-baroque Hardly involves the eye, until It meets his left-hand gauntlet

Clasped empty in the other; and One sees, with a sharp tender shock, His hand withdrawn, holding her hand.

They would not think to lie so long. Such faithfulness in effigy

Was just a detail friends would see: A sculptor’s sweet commissioned grace

Thrown off in helping to prolong The Latin names around the base.

They would not guess how early in Their supine stationary voyage The air would change to soundless damage,

Turn the old tenantry away; How soon succeeding eyes begin To look, not read. Rigidly they

Persisted, linked, through lengths and breadths Of time. Snow fell, undated. Light

Each summer thronged the glass. A bright Litter of birdcalls strewed the same Bone-riddled ground. And up the paths

The endless altered people came, Washing at their identity.

Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins

Above their scrap of history, Only their attitude remains:

Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone fidelity They hardly meant has come to be

Their final blazon and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

Mass, followed by refreshments

Mass

Legion of Mary

Meeting about Palazzola Trip

OLSP

St. J Presbytery

St J Presbytery

11am

12noon 1pm

6pm

6.30pm

9.30am

10.45am

11.30am

11.30am

1.30pm

4pm

St J

Memorial Gardens

OLSP

St J

St J

St J

God our loving Father,

we thank you for blessing our parish with all that we need to respond to our vocation

to be a missionary parish in our locality. We thank you for all our parish members

who, in response to your call, give of themselves so freely

to enrich our parish life in the ways of love and service. We ask you now to pour out afresh

the gifts of your Spirit upon each one of us that we may be inspired to serve you

in new and creative ways as missionary disciples, bring-

ing your light to the world. We ask your blessing upon us

as we journey together in hope, through Christ our Lord, AMEN

Mass

Mass Service of Remembrance

Mass please note later time this week

Sung Mass (Ordinariate Use)

Baptism of Lewis William Holden

Choral Evensong

Pope Francis, writing on marriage and family life (Amoris Laetitia 113) Married couples joined by love speak well of each

other; they show their spouse’s good side, not their weakness and faults. They keep silent rather than speak ill of them. This is not a way of acting in front of others; it springs from an interior

attitude. Far from claiming not to see the problems and weak-nesses of others, it sees those weaknesses and faults in a wider context. It recognizes that they are a part of a bigger picture.

All of us are a complex mixture of light and shadows. The other person is much more than the sum of the little things that an-noy me. Love does not have to be perfect for us to value it. The

other person loves me as best they can, with all their limits, but the fact that love is imperfect does not mean that it is untrue or unreal. It is real, albeit limited and earthly. If I expect too

much, the other person will let me know, for he or she can nei-ther play God nor serve all my needs. Love coexists with imper-fection. It “bears all things” and can hold its peace before the

limitations of the loved one.

9.30am St J

Thirty Second Sunday in

Ordinary Time

Remembrance Sunday

Baptism purifies from all sins and makes the neophyte (newly baptised) "a new creature," an adopted child of God, who has become a "partaker of the divine nature," member of Christ and coheir with him,

and a temple of the Holy Spirit. The Trinity gives the baptized sanctifying grace, the grace of justification: enabling them to believe in God, hope in him, love him; giving them the power to live and act under the prompting of the Holy

Spirit through the gifts of the Holy Spirit; allowing them to grow in goodness through the moral virtues. Thus the whole organism of the Christian's supernatural life has its roots in Baptism. Baptism makes us members of the Body of Christ: "We are members one of another." Baptism incorpo-

rates us into the Church. From the font is born the one People of God of the New Covenant, which tran-scends all natural or human limits of nations, cultures, races, and sexes: "For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body."

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1265-7)