Responsorial Psalm:

May the Lord bless us all the days of our life.

Gospel Acclamation:

Alleluia, Alleluia!

Your Word is truth, O Lord,

Consecrate us in the truth

Alleluia!

Money Matters Offertory Collection last weekend:

£656.45 of which £344.84 was Gift Aided.

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

Joan Lawrence, Gay McCornick, Moira Catherall, Lea Hill, Anne Turner, Mary Rowe, Rose Bryan, Jenny Mansley, Jennifer Rowley, Nancy Wilson, Joe Goggin, Joe & Luisa Desena, Peggy Ed-wards, Shelagh Fulham, Margaret Stubbs, Philo-mena Lamano, and Leo McManus.

We remember in our prayers Those whose anniversaries

occur this week (3rd) Catherine Wilson, Wilfrid Lydiat (4th) Ann Dal-ton, Matthew Maugher, Christopher Douglas Ogden, Robert Francis Danson, Graham Cox, James Geary, (5th Oct) Michael McManus, Robert Williams, Michel-angelo Polcari, Jack Carri (6th) James Gerard Mur-phy, Mary Scott, Ann Powers (7th) Mary Cassidy, Mary Ann Amith, Michael Gizzi, Veronica Piper, Ag-nes Gavaghan, Erick Cocker (8th) Mary Jones, Elena Castaldo, Edward Whitley (9th) Mary Ann Cooper, Mary Jane Maddocks, Aloysius Maddocks, Angela Carpanini Belli, Michael Sewall

Looking Ahead I will be away from 2nd November to 2nd December. Fr.Francis Doyle will take care of the weekend Masses and there will be Mass on Wednesdays (except 25th Nov) at 9.15am . There will be a Mission Appeal on 28/29 November by Fr.Joe Brown SDB, on behalf of the Salesians of Don Bosco.

Christmas Mass times

24th Dec. Thursday: Christmas Eve 5.30pm and 9pm

25th Friday: Christmas Day: 10am

Feast of the Holy Family 26th Saturday 5.30pm

27th Sunday 11am

Cafod Harvest Family Fast Collection at the door Today

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

3rd October Saturday Mass 5.30pm

For People of the Parish

4th October Sunday Mass 11am

Michael Moors RIP (Sue Dennehy)

Monday : Liturgy of the day 5th Oct Mass 9.15am Int. Kath Evans Tuesday: Liturgy of the day

6th Oct Mass 7pm Pauline Stewart RIP (Brian Cullen) Wednesday: Mem. Our Lady of the Rosary 7th Oct Mass 9.15am James King RIP (Mary McCarry) Thursday Liturgy of the day 8th Oct Mass 9.15am Int. Andrew Heath (Agnes Christmas) Friday Liturgy of the day 9th Oct Sep Mass 9.15am Brendan Towey RIP (Bea Towey)

LITURGY OF THE WEEK: Psalter Week III

Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confessions)

Saturdays 10.30am to

11.30am & Before the Vigil

Mass (4.45-5.20pm)

Sundays before the Mass

(10.30-10.50am)

And at any time on request

4th October 2015 27th Sunday Year B

11th October Sunday

Mass at 11am

For People of the Parish

10th October Saturday

Mass 5.30pm

Int. Cathy Carr (Judy Cartwright)

Eucharistic Adoration with

Rosary and Benediction

Every Sunday At 4pm.

Everyone is Welcome

T he priest was giving out little

wooden crosses to the people who had attend-ed a service for married

couples. “Put it in the room where you find yourself arguing, and it will remind you of your renewal of vows today.” One woman came up to him and said, “You’d better give me five.”

Marriage is probably the most complex of human relationships and is cer-tainly the one on which civilisation has been founded over the centu-ries. It is the most natu-ral thing in the world for men and women to leave the safety of the family home and branch out with another partner to restart the whole pro-cess of love, compan-

ionship and procreation.

But any married couple will tell you that if a mar-riage is to be successful then you have to get married to several differ-ent people! This is not a plea for divorce but for accepting that people change as they mature and that if a marriage is to be successful then both partners have to adapt to the changes in each other. In a certain sense each one has to keep “remarrying” the same person as he or she changes over the years. A Christian polyg-amy but with only one wife and one husband!

T he young love of

the courting cou-ple is beautiful but unlikely to stand the test of time if one of them thinks that the other is going to be-have in the same way when he or she is forty, sixty or eighty. If we re-fuse to allow each other to develop and grow then we are guilty of try-ing to “infantilise” the other person. We are

trying to freeze them at a moment of time, the wedding day, and pre-vent them from ever de-veloping and expanding the embryonic gifts and personality that God has given them.

A ll of this is just another way of

saying that Christian marriage is not simply a state of life but is a sac-rament. A wedding takes a day but a marriage takes a lifetime. The love between two Chris-tians is a reflection of the love that God has for each of us and that

Christ has for his bride, the Church. Being mar-ried means striving at all times to be signs to the world of God’s love through the way we love our partners. And that means “remarrying” them many times before we both grow old

CHRISTIAN POLYGAMY

FAITH IN FOCUS:

ROSARY SUNDAY (October 4th)

October is sometimes called the month of the Rosary and today we remind ourselves of this ancient devotional practice that focuses our minds and hearts on those episodes that are con-nected with the unfurling of our salva-tion in Jesus Christ, with particular ref-erence to the role played by his moth-er, the Virgin Mary. Rosary means a crown of roses, a spir-itual bouquet given to the Mother of God. It is sometimes called the Domini-can Rosary, to distinguish it from other rosary-like prayers such as the Francis-can or the Servite Rosaries. It is also, in a general sense, a form of chaplet or corona (crown), of which there are many varieties in the Church. In Eng-lish it has been called “Our Lady’s Psalter” or “the beads”. This last term derives from an Old English word for prayers (bede) coming from the word to request (biddan or bid).

There will be Rosary before the Mass on weekdays.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, and always with the same person. (Mignon McLaughlin)

THE PIT There was a man who fell into a pit and couldn’t get himself out. So, a sympathetic passer-by came along saying, “I feel for you down there.” A scientist observed, “It’s logical that someone would fall down into that.” A judge decided, “Only bad people fall into pits.” A mathematician calculated its depth. A news reporter wanted the ex-clusive story on the pit. An Inland Revenue employee asked if he was paying taxes on it. A moaning character said, “You haven’t seen anything until you’ve seen my pit.” A fire-and-brimstone preacher ranted, “You deserve your pit.” A TV evangelist asked, “Did you bring your wallet into the pit?” A psychologist noted, “Your mother and fa-ther are to blame for your being in it.” A therapist advised, “Believe in yourself and you can get out of that pit.” But Jesus, see-ing the man, took him by the hand and lift-ed him out of the pit. Which one are you?

L'Arche Charity Concert

An evening of classical music

Ten Strings Duet

16th October 2015

7.30pm-9.30pm

St. David’s Church Hall

Tickets (£8) available after the Mass this weekend

Contact: Sr. Helen Randles (01352 700121)

The Prego Meetings take place in the Convent on the 1st and 3rd Thursday each month at 7pm. The next meeting is on 15th October.

Prayer Meeting The Prayer Group following the Life in the Spirit Seminar will meet as always in the hall at 7.0 pm on Thursday 8th October.

200 Club The winners for September are

First prize 57 PAT COTTER Second prize 156 ALICIA MULLEN Third prize 58 TINA HARRADINE

The next draw will be made over the last weekend in October. As always thanks for your support. Tony Gent

Junior Youth Retreat Retreat for ages 10 - 13 year olds. It is planned to take place over the weekend 31st October -1st November at Loreto, Llandudno. Please let Mrs. Clair Smith know by Monday 5th October if you would like to go.