Together with time, tal-ent, treasure

There is a meeting to plan the Christmas Fair on Thurs-

day 8th November at 7pm in

the Presbytery. All welcome.

The Fair will take place on Sun-

day 9th December. Thank you for your kind sup-port: GiftAid £583.05; Loose

£472.01; Developing World

Fund £33.54; Buildings Fund

£221.37. This weekend pay-

ments are due for the 200 Club.

Congratulations to the win-ners in the October Draw of the 200 Club: 1) G. Evans £207.50

2) Michelle Molloy £83

3) Therese Feerick £41.50

4) Wendy Beanland £41.50

The parish gained £215. New

members always welcome.

Anyone wishing to go to Wal-singham next year—Friday

9th August to Sunday 11th August 2019. Please give your name

and £20 deposit to

Anne or Maureen before

the end of November.

Anne 364670/Maureen

369750.

WITNESS—BEARING CHRIST TO THE WORLD

The Heywood Lights Switch On is on Sat-

urday 17th November. Once again we

need adults and children (accompanied

by adults) to take part in our Walking

Nativity that leads the parade. Gather at

the Heywood at 4pm dressed as an an-

gel, a shepherd, wise man or woman, inn

-keeper, camel, ox, ass, sheep and join

in helping witness to the true meaning of

Christmas. For more information speak

to Margaret Schofield or Fr. Paul.

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WELFARE—Serving Christ in sisters and brothers in need in our local community and beyond To raise money for the work of the SVP in supporting children and families in need in Heywood,

there will be an Elvis Curry Night at Jazba, Heywood, on Wednesday 14th November at 7pm.

Tickets cost £15, including food, and are available from the Presbytery. This evening is sponsored

by Jazba and Kavanagh and Coates Funeral Service.

The SVP meets on Wednesday 7th November, at 6.30pm, in the presbytery.

Carol Hartley wishes to thank all who supported her recent coffee morning in support of

the orphans of Belarus. £1075 was raised.

The Christmas Fair will be held on Sunday 9th December. The Hall will be open after the

9.30am Mass for teas, coffees and refreshments (and Father Christmas may have arrived

by then) and the Stalls will open

at 11:45am, after the 11am

Mass.

Raffle tickets are now avail-able. Do please take some to

buy yourselves and take a lot to

sell to your friends. Please re-

turn the stubs and money to

church or to the Presbytery.

WELCOME—WITAMY—BEMVINDO—BIENVENIDO- KAABO- ������- Καλώς όρισες— اھ� و� - ברוך הבא

The Pope’s prayer for NOVEMBER: That the language of love and dialogue

may always prevail over the language of conflict.

For all who live or work on Vale St, Russel St and Fir St,

For Noreen Dawson, Jack and Wyn Kay and all the sick

For Mary Mullins, Marie Judge and all who died recently and Margaret Smith,

Blanche Judge, William Judge, Kevin Noonan and all we remember at this time.

FROM CONGREGATIONS TO COMMUNITY—BODY OF

CHRIST TOGETHER

The Bereavement Group meets

on Tuesday November 6th at

6:30pm in the Presbytery with a

talk from Frank Coates, a local

undertaker, regarding his role and

useful pointers on how to cope

with losing a loved one and ser-

vices in the area who may help.

The talk will last about 20-30

minutes and is a chance to ask all

the things you wanted to know

around death and funeral customs

from an established undertaker.

The tone will be upbeat and light.

Our meetings are open to all.

GROWING IN FAITH; GROWING IN KNOWLEDGE OF OUR FAITH The next Baptism meeting is Sun-

day 25th Novem-

ber, 6pm, at the

Presbytery. Contact

Fr. Paul or Fr. Mi-

chael before at-

tending.

RCIA/ Journey in Faith meets on-

Wednesday 6th No-

vember at 7pm in

the Presbytery. IF

GOD IS CALLING

YOU TO THE

CHURCH speak to

Fr. Paul or Fr. Mi-

chael.

WORSHIP—MEETING CHRIST IN WORD AND SACRAMENT Would you be interested

in helping once a month

with the Children’s Litur-

gy at the 6.30pm or

11am Mass? Please email

Nicola.davies@dioceseofsalford.org.uk

Sw. Msza w niedziele 4 listopada o 16:00

Ministers for 10th/11thNovember October

6.30pm 9.30am 11.30am

Reader P Greenall K Walmsley N Skrzypiec

Reader J Matthews P Bell D Doyle

EM S Fitzsimons H Sharrocks D Dodd

EM M O’Neill K Kenny L Graham

EM J Matthews D Sharrocks C Wilson

EM A Noonan

EM S Skinner

EM P Guest

Children’s Liturgy P Caffrey and A Wolstenholme

CARITAS CORNER Many of us remember vividly

the pictures from the 1980s and 90s of starving chil-

dren in Africa. Then the world united and answered

the call for help. Thankfully for a number of years

world hunger was on the decline. Now it is on the rise

again. Today, over 821 million people are suffering

chronic undernourishment. Each year food waste in

this country is comparable to taking Wembley Stadi-

um as an imaginary bowl and filling it to the brim 9

times over. And at the same time 1.2billion people

will simply go to bed tonight not having had enough

to eat. We are likely to scrape off our plates at the

end of a meal up to 30% of the food that has been

placed before us. We produce more than enough to

feed the world, but we throw it away or

make it unaffordable. Something has to

change.

That is why we are supporting the call on World Food Day to

make zero world hunger by 2030 a reality. It is time to realise that our

actions are our future. We will be judged on the world we leave for fu-

ture generations.

On Sunday 11th November the 11am Mass

will begin at 11.30 to allow people to attend

the Remembrance Sunday Service in the Me-

morial Gardens at 10.50am

On Sunday 25th November at 4pm we have

a Service of Prayer and Remembrance espe-

cially for those who’ve died in the past year.

CAFOD CORNER INDONESIA TSUANMI UPDATE

The latest official figures report that the death toll from the disaster

is at least 1,948, more than 60,000 people have been made homeless,

and 200,000 people are in need of urgent life-saving aid. The Indonesian

authorities are warning that thousands more people could have perished af-

ter waves of up to 20 feet hit the city of Palu- which is home to more than

300,000 people.

The priority now is to reach the worst affected communities, many

of which have been cut off by landslides and road blockages.

The immediate needs for vulnerable families are the basics of life to

survive over the coming weeks. Families who have lost everything will need

clean drinking water and food, shelter – tents tarpaulin, and blankets - medi-

cal and health services, alongside solar and fuel oil, due to fuel shortages.

Despite the challenges, local aid workers are doing all they can to

reach people. We received this report from our CRS aid worker Fatwa Fa-

dillah who is on the ground just outside of Palu: “In Balaroa village, on the

outskirts of Palu, everything is destroyed. The streets are ruined and there’s

no water or sanitation facilities for people gathered in shelters. Most fami-

lies only have one tarp and one mat. At Talise beach, where the tsunami

came ashore, it’s a scene of devastation and search and rescue teams are still

looking for survivors. All along the coast,

you can see just how massive the tsunami

was and the extent of the damage. Body

bags are lining the road and the smell is

almost unbearable.

“It’s extremely hot and most people

are sitting under tarps, (tarpaulin) just

waiting. They’re waiting for aid and the

sun to go down. They have nothing to do

but wait.”

4th November 2018

THIRTY-FIRST SUNDAY

IN ORDINARY TIME

Mass

Mass

Sw. Msza

9.30am

11am

4pm

MONDAY

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

Mass

9am

9.30am

TUESDAY

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

Mass

9am

9.30am

WEDNESDAY

St. Willibrord

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

Mass

SVP, Presbytery

RCIA/Journey in Faith, Presbytery

9am

9.30am

6.30pm

7pm

THURSDAY

Mass, at Our Lady and St. Paul’s Primary School

Legion of Mary, presbytery

9.30am

2pm

FRIDAY (ABSTINENCE) DEDICATION OF THE LATERAN BASILICA

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

Mass, followed by refreshments 9am

9.30am

SATURDAY St. Leo the Great

Confessions

Mass

Confessions

First Mass of Sunday

12noon

6pm

6.30pm

(REMEMBRANCE)

SUNDAY

Mass

Joint Remembrance Service, Memorial Gardens

Mass (please note later time)

Baptism of Jack Vincent Dixon

9.30am

10.50am

11.30am

1pm

Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 1548-51) In the service of the ordained

minister, it is Christ himself present to his Church as Head of his Body, Shepherd

of his flock, high priest of the redemptive sacrifice, Teacher of Truth. This is what

the Church means by saying that the priest, by virtue of Holy Orders, acts in perso-

na Christi Capitis: It is the same priest, Christ Jesus, whose sacred person his min-

ister truly represents. Now the minister, by reason of the sacerdotal consecration

which he has received, is truly made like to the high priest and possesses the au-

thority to act in the power and place of the person of Christ himself .

Christ is the source of all priesthood: the priest of the old law was a figure of

Christ, and the priest of the new law acts in the person of Christ.

Through the ordained ministry, especially that of bishops and priests, the

presence of Christ as head of the Church is made visible in the midst of the com-

munity of believers.In the beautiful expression of St. Ignatius of Antioch, the bish-

op is the living image of God the Father.

This presence of Christ in the minister is not to be understood as if he was

preserved from all human weaknesses, the spirit of domination, error, even sin. The

Holy Spirit does not guarantee all acts of ministers in the same way. While this

guarantee extends to the sacraments, so that even the minister's sin cannot impede

the fruit of grace, in many other acts the minister leaves human traces

that are not always signs of fidelity to the Gospel and consequently can

harm the apostolic fruitfulness of the Church.

This priesthood is ministerial. "That office which the Lord com-

mitted to the pastors of his people, is a service." It is entirely related to

Christ and to people. It depends on Christ and his unique priesthood; it

was instituted for the good of people and the communion of the Church.

Holy Orders communicates a "sacred power" which that of Christ. The

exercise of this authority must therefore be measured against the model

of Christ, who by love made himself the least and the servant of all.

"The Lord said that concern for his flock was proof of love for him."

God our loving Father, we thank you for bless-

ing our parish with all that we need to respond to our vocation to be a mission-ary parish in our locality. We thank you for all our parish members who, in re-sponse to your call, give of themselves

so freely to enrich our parish life in 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 cre-

ative ways as missionary disciples, bringing your light to the world. We ask

your blessing upon us as we journey together in hope, through Christ our

With all my heart by Malcolm Guite

With all my heart? You know my heart too well,

It’s Yeats’s rag and bone shop. Will it do

To start my loving in that little hell,

Closed on itself and still excluding you?

Could I not offer you some empty room,

Some small apartment full of light and air,

Some portion of my life, above the gloom,

But not this pit of pride, not this despair.

Only your heart will do. Let me begin,

To break the ground and plant a seed that grows

Up through the closing darkness of your sin

Till your unsightly roots brings forth my rose.

For I have learned to make the broken true

Since my heart too was broken once for you.’

This Week’s Feasts: Wed: St Willibrord, born in Yorkshire in

658, died in 739. After ordination he went 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,

founding dioceses and monasteries in the Netherlands and Luxem-

bourg. St. Congar, born c 470 in Pembrokeshire, travelled across

the Bristol Channel to establish churches in Somerset and set up the

Diocese of Bath and Wells. He died on pilgrimage to the Holy

Land in 527.

Thu: Bl John Duns Scotus, born 1265 in Scotland, became a Fran-

ciscan 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. Co-

lonia me tenet. (trans. "Scotland brought me forth. England sus-

tained me. France taught me. Cologne holds me.") He taught in

favour of the doctrine of Mary’s Immaculate Conception. St.

Willehad was born in Northumbria and educated at York. He con-

tinued the missionary work of St. Boniface, preaching in Frisia and

Saxony, establishing the Diocese of Bremen where he died in 789.

Fri: The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica commemorates the

Pope’s Cathedral in Rome. As “Mother and Head of all the

Churches of the City and the World”, this feast is observed through

all the Church as a sign of unity with the Holy See. Bl George

Napper was sent down from Oxford for being a Catholic in 1568.

After ordination at Douai, France, he worked near Oxford where he

was arrested and found to be carrying the Blessed Sacrament and

the holy oils. He was martyred at Oxford in 1610.

Sat: St Leo the Great became Pope in 440 and protected the in-

tegrity of the faith, defended the Church and repelled the incursions

of the Huns and Vandals. He died in 461. St. Justus, one of the

2nd group of

monks sent by

Pope St Gregory

the Great, became

4th Archbishop of

Canterbury.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Since the sacristy fire last year the parish has been

working with the Fire Service to ensure that the

Church and Presbytery have an appropriate compliant

level of fire protection, for the safety of the buildings,

residents and church users.

This involves considering a fire detection and emergency

lighting system for the church and presbytery, which are

listed buildings, and reminding all church users of the appro-

priate procedures:

IF YOU DISCOVER A FIRE IN CHURCH BUILD-

INGS OR GROUNDS 1) If the fire is small enough to be

tackled with a fire extinguisher and you know how to do so

safely, do so

2) Raise the alarm, dialling 999 and letting one of the

parish staff know

3) If we need to evacuate church, please leave the church

calmly, being aware of different exits, gathering on Emmott

Cl.

4) Until emergency lighting can be fitted, torches are

provided at the church entrances, the sanctuary and the con-

fessional doors

Let us pray for the people of the parishes of

St. Dunstan and St. John Vianney, Moston,

with Fr. Saunders,

and for the people of the parish of St. Ed-

ward, Lees, with Mgr Marsland and Fr.

Brown.

We pray for their primary schools,

and for St. Matthew’s High School.

Let us remember our baptismal call-

ing to become truly holy.

Pope Francis on God’s call of each one of us to holiness (Gaudete et Exsultate 60) We

should remind ourselves that there is a hierarchy of virtues that bids us seek what is essential.

The primacy belongs to the theological virtues, which have God as their object and motive.

At the centre is charity. St Paul says that what truly counts is “faith working through love”.

We are called to make every effort to preserve charity: “The one who loves another has ful-

filled the law… for love is the fulfilment of the law”. “For the whole law is summed up in a

single commandment, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself’”.

Pope Francis on Marriage and Family Life, Amoris Laetitia (201-2)

“This calls for missionary conversion by everyone in the Church, one

not content to proclaim a merely theoretical message without connec-

tion to people’s real problems”. Pastoral care for families “needs to

show that the Gospel of the family responds to the deepest expectations

of the human person: a response to each one’s dignity and fulfilment in

reciprocity, communion and fruitfulness. This consists not merely in

presenting a set of rules, but proposing values that are clearly needed

today, even in the most secularized of countries”. The Synod Fathers

“stressed that evangelization needs unambiguously to denounce cultur-

al, social, political, economic factors – such as the excessive im-

portance given to market logic – that prevent authentic family life and

lead to discrimination, poverty, exclusion, and violence. Dialogue and

cooperation need to be fostered with societal structures and encourage-

ment given to lay people who are involved, as Christians, in the cultural

and socio-political fields”.

“The main contribution to the pastoral care of families is offered

by the parish, family of families, where small communities, ecclesial

movements and associations live in harmony”. Along with a pastoral

outreach aimed specifically at families, this shows the need for “ more

adequate formation of priests, deacons, men and women religious, cate-

chists and other pastoral workers”. In the replies given to the consulta-

tion, it became clear that ordained ministers often lack the training

needed to deal with the complex problems currently facing families.

The experience of the broad oriental tradition of a married clergy could

also be drawn upon.

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

Fr. Paul Daly, paul.daly@dioceseofsalford.org.uk Fr. Michael Deas michael.deas@dioceseofsalford.org.uk

Parish Secretary Nicola.davies@dioceseofsalford.org.uk

St. Joseph’s Presbytery, Mary St, OL10 1EG Tel: 369777

www.catholicheywood.com

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