Responsorial Psalm:

Remember your mercy, Lord.

Gospel Acclamation:

Alleluia, Alleluia!

If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him

Alleluia!

Money Matters Offertory Collection last weekend:

£635.00 of which £361.90 was Gift Aided. Flowers Collection: £103

Gift Aid: If you are a Tax Payer, please consider filling out the Gift

Aid form which is in the church porch to receive a box of weekly

envelopes for your offertory donation or for a one-off

donation then please use the Green envelopes.

Please remember to write your name, address, sign and date the

green envelope. Thank you for supporting

our Parish.

Let us pray for the Sick

Jenny Mansley, Nancy Wil-son, Joe Goggin, Joe & Luisa Desena, Peggy Edwards, Sheelagh Fulham, Margaret Stubbs, Philomena Lamano,

Maureen Edwards, Frances and Leo McManus, and for those who care for them.

We remember in our prayers Those whose anniversaries

(27th) John Cooper, Eric Ryle, Martin Green, (Sept 28th) Peter Stevens, Bridget Burns, Michael Vincent Richards, William Parker (30th) Mary Griffiths, Mary Clavin, Catherine McAvaghan, Matthew O’Brien, Ann Gavaghan, Margaret Helen O’Brien,

Bea Coupe (1st Oct) Bridget Gallagher (2nd) Nel-lie Tizzard (3rd) Catherine Wilson, and Wilfrid Lydiat

3rd October: First Friday

Holy Hour in the Convent Chapel

3pm to 4pm

Eglwys Catholig Dewi Sant, Yr Wyddgrug

St.David’s Catholic Church, Mold

Parish Priest: Fr. Pius Mathew CMI,

St.David’s Presbytery, St.David’s Lane, Mold. CH7 1LH

Email: piuscmi@gmail.com 01352 752087 Deacon David Joy:01352 754722 LSUConvent:01352 700121

Website: http://www.stdavidsmold.org.uk/

27th September Saturday

Mass 5.30pm Martin Green RIP

(Dee Green)

28th September Sunday Mass 10am

For People of the Parish

Monday : Feast: Archangels

29th Sep Mass 9.15am Jack Hobbs RIP (Christine Jeffrey)

Tuesday: Mem: St. Jerome

30th Sep Mass 9.15am

Bea Coupe RIP (Alicia Mullen)

Wednesday: Mem.St.Therese of the Child Jesus

1st Oct Mass 7pm Frank Farrelly RIP (John Farrelly)

Thursday Mem: Holy Guardian Angels

2nd Oct Mass 9.15am

Sr.Mary Evangelista RIP(M&S Standring)

Friday Liturgy of the day(Cafod Family Fast day)

3rd Oct Mass 9.15am

Frank Farrelly RIP(John Farrelly)

LITURGY OF THE WEEK: Psalter Week II

Eucharistic Adoration with

Rosary and Benediction

Every Sunday At 4pm.

Everyone is Welcome

Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confessions)

Saturdays 10.30am to

11.30am & Before the Vigil

Mass (4.45-5.20pm)

Sundays before the Mass

(9.30-9.50am)

And at any time on request

28th September 2014 26th Sunday Year A

5th October Sunday

Mass 10am

For People of the Parish

4th October Saturday

Mass 5.30pm

Graham Cox RIP (Pam Cox)

A ll’s fair in love and war, they say. But

all’s not fair when it comes to Christianity. This is be-cause our human concept of fairness does not even come close to understand-ing God’s creative mixture

of justice, mercy and grace.

We human beings seem to have an inbuilt sense of justice that is like the old-fashioned shop scales with two buckets. You put the food in one bucket and then balance it with some weights in the other bucket and this tells you the weight that is at stake and the price that must be paid. In fact we regularly depict Justice as a character hold-ing a pair of scales. What-ever goes into one side has to be weighed up and bal-anced with a penalty of similar cost. In the early

period of the Jewish King-doms this even led to a culprit’s family being pun-ished for his or her crime although the relatives them-selves had done nothing wrong. The scales had to balance.

Throughout history God has failed to take any no-tice of this type of justice. In today’s passage from Eze-kiel the people are com-plaining that God is unjust because he allows wrong-doers to live rather than die. Ezekiel points out (speaking on behalf of God) that the weight of punish-ment should only be exact-ed against those who stub-bornly refuse to admit their sin and to repent. And a similar scene greets us when Jesus discusses with the priests about someone who comes to their senses after behaving badly. They are not to be condemned.

This human view of justice and fairness is too crude for God to commit to it, for it leaves no room for ma-noeuvre, takes no account of the true circumstances of

the person involved, and completely abandons any reference to Christ’s re-deeming sacrifice for sin and the effects of grace. Faced with our faults, God, who has every reason to be indignant, chooses to be forgiving and calls us to be the same with those who offend against us. Yet we obstinately cling to our ap-peals for “justice” when in fact we often are only inter-ested in revenge. We plead fairness when what we re-

ally want is graceless re-prisal. God hates sin and wrongdoing as much as do our tabloids and politicians yet he always views things from a wider perspective of grace and forgiveness. And God’s passion for pardon is so strong that while we clamour for the scales to balance, God clamours for a balanced judgement.

FIXED PENALTY GOD? FAITH IN FOCUS:

Sacrament of Baptism

We welcome into our parish Community Harri Scott Wyn-Hughes

who was baptised here on Saturday.

As Alison Hughes and Dewi Wyn Hughes give thanks to God for the gift of Harri, may he in turn bring many blessings and much happiness to them.

Collection this Weekend for Hall Renovation Fund

SVP As SVP

Awareness

month draws

to a close I

would like to invite any-

one considering joining

the SVP to an 'open

evening' this Tuesday

30th September at 7pm

in the convent. Maybe you

have recently retired or

have some spare time on

your hands. You will be

very welcome if you wish

to find out more.

Finally please do take a

moment to view our no-

tice board in the porch

from time to time - it is

constantly changing and

touches on some of the

aspects of our work.

Brian Cullen - President.

(01352 755067).

“Sacred Spaces” We are hosting a specially designed, themed day for Wrexham Diocese Primary Schools on this Wednes-day, October 1st 2014 in our church, with Bishop Peter in attendance.

If you feel that you would like to be a part of this exciting venture in your parish then please contact Mark or Carole Philpot

Prego Group meet on Thursday 2nd October at 7pm in the Convent.

Future meetings will be on the First and Third Thursdays of the month

Our Parish Hall renova-tion will cost £12,105 and we are expected to raise £3000 for this pro-ject, through special Fund raising activities (while the rest will be taken care of from our parish funds).

So there will be a door Collection this Week-end and there will be a Coffee morning on 5th October.

There are some special envelopes (Marked: Par-ish Hall Renovation Fund) in the porch which you can place in the of-fertory collection. Thank you for your continued support. God Bless you for your generosity.

Please Note: 1. Coffee Morning: After mass on Sunday 5th October we will be hold-ing a coffee morning in the church hall to raise funds for the refurbish-ment of the hall. We will also have the new fairtrade Christmas cata-logues available and start to take orders. We hope you will come and join us. 2. Children's Liturgy: Did you know? Each Sunday morning during mass, the children are invited to their own liturgy for part of the mass. This gives them an opportunity to share and explore the gospel mes-sage in ways suited to their age. All children aged 8 and under are encouraged to take part - and parents are welcome to accompany the

very young. Why not come and see this Sunday? Karen Morris

Mold Choral Society invite you to an Open Evening to meet

Flintshire's largest mixed voice choir. Wednesday 1st October

7.30p.m. Bryn Coch School Victoria Road Mold. Join us for a

taste of great singing, light refreshments &good company. Jane Kay