Our weekly newsletter
30th AUGUST – 22nd SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Year A)- BACK TO SCHOOL BLESSING
MASS TIMES
Monday 10:00am Weekday Mass
Tuesday 10:00am Weekday Mass
7:00pm Divine Mercy Prayers
Wednesday 10:00am Weekday Mass
7.00pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction
Thursday 10:00am Mass- St Gregory the Great
Friday 10:00am Weekday Mass
Saturday 10:00am Weekday Mass
5:30pm Vigil of Sunday Mass
Sunday 10:30am 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Masses and Prayer Intensions this Week
Lately Dead: Bryan Camara (2), Mellissa Welch, Matthew Riley, Darren Webb.
Anniversaries: Thomas Sneyd, Melvyn Littler, Bernard Jones (2), Barbara Jean Hoburn.
Doreen Denham (Birthday), Doreen and Eddie Denham (Wedding anniv.)
Others: Callum Wall (very poorly) , Sayers, Riley Families & Paul & Anne White.
For all the sick of the Parish, Our Lady & St. Peregrines Care and Prayers
to St. Blaise, Noreen Leonard, thanksgiving for Prayers answered,
Fr. Bernard Wilson, in thanksgiving to the Christie Hospital for
treatment received. Thanksgiving to St. Jude for Prayers answered.
Mass
Readers
Eucharistic Ministers
Saturday 29th August
Martin
Linda & Mary
Sunday 30th August
Hanna & Paul
Ronnie & Anthonia
Saturday 5th September
Martin
Joan P. & Linda
Sunday 6th September
Caoimhe & Anthonia
Samantha and Ronnie
Bidding Prayers: Reader: Keep us, O God,
Response: in the shadow of your wings.
Comments on today’s readings:
First Reading: A reading from the prophet Jeremiah
Jeremiah, the prophet, recognises the Power of God’s will in the world and the pattern of his own weakness – I grow weary and cannot endure it: he says.
Second Reading: A reading from the letter of St. Paul to the Romans
Paul tells the people – they must conform their lives to the ways of God and not seek only to please mankind.
Gospel: A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew
Jesus begins to prepare his disciples for the journey that lies ahead. He is to suffer at the hands of earthly powers and authority but he does not lose faith and trust in God. Despite all the difficulties that lie ahead he trusts God alone.
God will bring his peace and healing to all His peoples according to His will not by the ways of the world.
MARRIAGE MATTERS
The ‘sign’ of growth is change
St Paul urges us to think of God’s mercy and change the way we behave so that the will of God is visible in us. As husbands and wives we can help each other in this endeavour, so that a renewed and deeper love is revealed in our relationship and, in turn, reflected out to our family, friends and community.
MEMORIAL BOOK: The following names are included for September:
Albert Matthews, Alice Wrall, Anne Wilson, Clair Cecelia Craig, Denis O’Donnell, Edith Gray, Francis McGrath, Georgina Doyle, Georgina Doyle (B/Day), Jack Cabbin, James Cain killed in action, Jean McDonald, Josephine Duxbury, Lee Banister, Leslie Newton, Malachy England, Marie Smith (Hamlet), Marjorie Kelly, Matt Brennan, Maureen Barry, Melvyn (Mel) Littler, Michael McDonnell, Norman Martin, Pat Saunders (b/day), Paul Bartlett (b/day), Queen Elizabeth II, Robert Bridgeman, Ted Corcoran, Terrence Riley, Terry Potter, Thomas Earl, William (Bill) O’Connor.
NOTICES
BACK TO SCHOOL BLESSING: Pupils, students and teachers will be blessed at this Mass. May God bless you and keep you all as you resume a new school year.
APPRECIATION: Many thanks to Tony Orrel for providing us with a beautiful kitchen cabinet for our Social Room.
OPEN AIR MASS: at St Jospeh’s Cemetery, Moston this Monday at 11am. If it rains, the Mass will be in St Dunstan’s Church, Moston Lane.
CHURCH GARDEN: Do we have two parishioners that could help to cut our privets.
BARBECUE – SUNDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER
Yes, we are having another Barbecue!
We would like to include our usual Tombola Stall, so if you have anything to donate, it would be very much
appreciated. Each Barbecue gets better and better – please make a note in your diary.
ADORATION AND BENEDICTION:
Please join us for the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction every Wednesday at 7pm. Please feel free to come and go at what ever time suits you. For the time being we will hold it to half an hour.
RECEPTION OF SACRAMENTS
Anyone interested in receiving the Sacraments or intending to be received into the Catholic church at Easter next year are invited to speak to Fr. Callistus or contact the parish office by e-mail.
PRAISE NIGHT
The parish is organising a Praise night on Friday 16th October at 7pm. Everyone is warmly invited to come along and celebrate with us. Please bring your family and friends to join us for and evening of joyful praise and worship. We have invited neighbouring churches from other Christian denominations to join us making this a wonderful opportunity for fellowship and to praise God together as one Christian family.
Featuring: St Stephen’s Parish Choir, Angelic Voices Choir, Born to Worship Choir, Musical Instrumental Medley
Kindly register using the Eventbrite link by scanning the QR code on the flyers pasted on the church doors and notice boards.
LETTERS AGAINST ISOLATION: We are launching a letter-writing drive to fight loneliness. Letters Against Isolation is a volunteer-run charity that sends friendly handwritten letters to older people in care homes and community programmes. Our goal is 100 letters over the next three months. Please join us! Just a short, warm note can brighten someone’s day. Simply write your letter and drop it in the box at the church entrance and we will do the rest. Copies of the LAI guidelines and ideas for your letter are also available in the church entrance. This costs nothing except a little of your time; so please consider participating.
DESPERATE PLEA FROM DROYLSDEN FOOD BANK:
Please can you help, we are very short of the following tinned items, Spaghetti, Baked Beans, Vegetables, Tuna, Fruit, Meat, Soup, Tomatoes and Potatoes. As always, we are short of Breakfast Cereals, Long Grain Rice, Biscuits, Jam and cartons of Juice. Many thanks to all our St Stephen’s contributors, we would be lost without you. Stella Chorlton.
100 CLUB AUGUST DRAW:
Don’t forget to put your envelope in this weekend. Some were missed last month. We need more contributors. If you are not a member already, please join up – forms on the table at the entrance, only £5 per month.
CARITAS SPONSORED WALK
Fr Callistus will be taking part in the hike at Downham, Lancashire, on 5th September, and he would love for you to join him in this fundraising. Many thanks to Caritas, Diocese of Salford for this inspiring initiative to continuously help those most in need. Thank you for your generosity. Kindly use this link for online support:
https://www.justgiving.com/page/callistus-orjika-1?utm_medium=FA&utm_source=WA
MASS TIMES
Monday 10:00am Weekday Mass
Tuesday 10:00am Weekday Mass
7:00pm Divine Mercy Prayers
Wednesday 10:00am Weekday Mass
7.00pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction
Thursday 10:00am Mass- St Gregory the Great
Friday 10:00am Weekday Mass
Saturday 10:00am Weekday Mass
5:30pm Vigil of Sunday Mass
Sunday 10:30am 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Masses and Prayer Intensions this Week
Lately Dead: Bryan Camara (2), Mellissa Welch, Matthew Riley, Darren Webb.
Anniversaries: Thomas Sneyd, Melvyn Littler, Bernard Jones (2), Barbara Jean Hoburn.
Doreen Denham (Birthday), Doreen and Eddie Denham (Wedding anniv.)
Others: Callum Wall (very poorly) , Sayers, Riley Families & Paul & Anne White.
For all the sick of the Parish, Our Lady & St. Peregrines Care and Prayers
to St. Blaise, Noreen Leonard, thanksgiving for Prayers answered,
Fr. Bernard Wilson, in thanksgiving to the Christie Hospital for
treatment received. Thanksgiving to St. Jude for Prayers answered.
Mass
Readers
Eucharistic Ministers
Saturday 29th August
Martin
Linda & Mary
Sunday 30th August
Hanna & Paul
Ronnie & Anthonia
Saturday 5th September
Martin
Joan P. & Linda
Sunday 6th September
Caoimhe & Anthonia
Samantha and Ronnie
Bidding Prayers: Reader: Keep us, O God,
Response: in the shadow of your wings.
Comments on today’s readings:
First Reading: A reading from the prophet Jeremiah
Jeremiah, the prophet, recognises the Power of God’s will in the world and the pattern of his own weakness – I grow weary and cannot endure it: he says.
Second Reading: A reading from the letter of St. Paul to the Romans
Paul tells the people – they must conform their lives to the ways of God and not seek only to please mankind.
Gospel: A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew
Jesus begins to prepare his disciples for the journey that lies ahead. He is to suffer at the hands of earthly powers and authority but he does not lose faith and trust in God. Despite all the difficulties that lie ahead he trusts God alone.
God will bring his peace and healing to all His peoples according to His will not by the ways of the world.
MARRIAGE MATTERS
The ‘sign’ of growth is change
St Paul urges us to think of God’s mercy and change the way we behave so that the will of God is visible in us. As husbands and wives we can help each other in this endeavour, so that a renewed and deeper love is revealed in our relationship and, in turn, reflected out to our family, friends and community.
MEMORIAL BOOK: The following names are included for September:
Albert Matthews, Alice Wrall, Anne Wilson, Clair Cecelia Craig, Denis O’Donnell, Edith Gray, Francis McGrath, Georgina Doyle, Georgina Doyle (B/Day), Jack Cabbin, James Cain killed in action, Jean McDonald, Josephine Duxbury, Lee Banister, Leslie Newton, Malachy England, Marie Smith (Hamlet), Marjorie Kelly, Matt Brennan, Maureen Barry, Melvyn (Mel) Littler, Michael McDonnell, Norman Martin, Pat Saunders (b/day), Paul Bartlett (b/day), Queen Elizabeth II, Robert Bridgeman, Ted Corcoran, Terrence Riley, Terry Potter, Thomas Earl, William (Bill) O’Connor.
NOTICES
BACK TO SCHOOL BLESSING: Pupils, students and teachers will be blessed at this Mass. May God bless you and keep you all as you resume a new school year.
APPRECIATION: Many thanks to Tony Orrel for providing us with a beautiful kitchen cabinet for our Social Room.
OPEN AIR MASS: at St Jospeh’s Cemetery, Moston this Monday at 11am. If it rains, the Mass will be in St Dunstan’s Church, Moston Lane.
CHURCH GARDEN: Do we have two parishioners that could help to cut our privets.
BARBECUE – SUNDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER
Yes, we are having another Barbecue!
We would like to include our usual Tombola Stall, so if you have anything to donate, it would be very much
appreciated. Each Barbecue gets better and better – please make a note in your diary.
ADORATION AND BENEDICTION:
Please join us for the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction every Wednesday at 7pm. Please feel free to come and go at what ever time suits you. For the time being we will hold it to half an hour.
RECEPTION OF SACRAMENTS
Anyone interested in receiving the Sacraments or intending to be received into the Catholic church at Easter next year are invited to speak to Fr. Callistus or contact the parish office by e-mail.
PRAISE NIGHT
The parish is organising a Praise night on Friday 16th October at 7pm. Everyone is warmly invited to come along and celebrate with us. Please bring your family and friends to join us for and evening of joyful praise and worship. We have invited neighbouring churches from other Christian denominations to join us making this a wonderful opportunity for fellowship and to praise God together as one Christian family.
Featuring: St Stephen’s Parish Choir, Angelic Voices Choir, Born to Worship Choir, Musical Instrumental Medley
Kindly register using the Eventbrite link by scanning the QR code on the flyers pasted on the church doors and notice boards.
LETTERS AGAINST ISOLATION: We are launching a letter-writing drive to fight loneliness. Letters Against Isolation is a volunteer-run charity that sends friendly handwritten letters to older people in care homes and community programmes. Our goal is 100 letters over the next three months. Please join us! Just a short, warm note can brighten someone’s day. Simply write your letter and drop it in the box at the church entrance and we will do the rest. Copies of the LAI guidelines and ideas for your letter are also available in the church entrance. This costs nothing except a little of your time; so please consider participating.
DESPERATE PLEA FROM DROYLSDEN FOOD BANK:
Please can you help, we are very short of the following tinned items, Spaghetti, Baked Beans, Vegetables, Tuna, Fruit, Meat, Soup, Tomatoes and Potatoes. As always, we are short of Breakfast Cereals, Long Grain Rice, Biscuits, Jam and cartons of Juice. Many thanks to all our St Stephen’s contributors, we would be lost without you. Stella Chorlton.
100 CLUB AUGUST DRAW:
Don’t forget to put your envelope in this weekend. Some were missed last month. We need more contributors. If you are not a member already, please join up – forms on the table at the entrance, only £5 per month.
CARITAS SPONSORED WALK
Fr Callistus will be taking part in the hike at Downham, Lancashire, on 5th September, and he would love for you to join him in this fundraising. Many thanks to Caritas, Diocese of Salford for this inspiring initiative to continuously help those most in need. Thank you for your generosity. Kindly use this link for online support:
https://www.justgiving.com/page/callistus-orjika-1?utm_medium=FA&utm_source=WA
