___________The Parishes of__________

St. Mary of the Angels, Batley

& St. Patrick’s, Birstall

23RD AUGUST 2020 - 21ST SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME (YEAR A) DAY DATE TIME CHURCH FEAST INTENTION

Saturday 22 Aug 04.30pm St Mary’s 21st Sunday O T Shirley Caine (RIP)

06.00pm St Patrick’s 21st Sunday O T Clare Hartley (A)

Sunday 23 Aug 09.00am St Patrick’s 21st Sunday O T Joan & Desmond Kirby (Rem)

10.30am St Mary’s 21st Sunday O T Thomas & Alice Merriman (Rem)

11.30am St Mary’s Baptism of William Louie Penny - Whitworth

Monday 24 Aug 09.30am St Patrick’s St Bartholemew David Lynch (Rem)

03.00pm Funeral Service of Gerard Martin (RIP) - Batley Cemetery

07.00pm St Mary’s St Bartholemew Private Intention (EH)

Tuesday 25 Aug 09.30am St Mary’s Weekday O T Ian Harrison (Poorly)

12.00am Funeral Service of Cindy Carter (RIP) - Dewsbury Moor Crem

Wednesday 26 Aug

Thursday 27 Aug 09.30am St Patrick’s St Monica Bernard Cauldfield (RIP)

12.00noon St Mary’s St Monica Yorkshire Brethren

Friday 28 Aug 09.30am St Mary’s St Augustine Bernadette Granger (YB)

Saturday 29 Aug 10.00am St Patrick’s Passion of John the Bapt Hubert Vergeot (RIP)

11.00am St Patrick’s Baptism of the George Peter Dyson

30TH August 2020 - 22ND SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME (YEAR A)

Saturday 29 Aug 04.30pm St Mary’s 22NDSunday O T Kevin Hill (A)

06.00pm St Patrick’s 22NDSunday O T Jeff Murphy (A)

Sunday 30 Aug 09.00am St Patrick’s 22NDSunday O T Stanley Leese (A)

10.30 St Mary’s 22NDSunday O T Mary Robertshaw (RIP)

St Mary’s, please pray for……

Those who are poorly

Maria Ashton, Kathleen Pawson (nee Rush), Fr Bernard Funnell, Patricia Scrutton, Lindsey Redgewick, Frank O’Neill,

Ruth McMullen, Ann Leach, Elaine Richardson, Catherine & Jimmy McVeigh, Andy Swindells, Sheila Haigh, Michael

Haigh, Leonie Briggs, Fr David Bulmer, Tolan Kilgallon, Geoff Holland, Marie Mavel, Ian Harrison & baby Sophia

Taylor and all the sick members of our parish and their family and friends.

Those who have died

Gerard Martin, Cindy Carter, Bernard Cauldfield & Hubert Vergeot

Anniversaries / Remembrance

Shirley Caine, Clare Hartley, Joan & Desmond Kirby, Thomas & Alice Merriman, David Lynch, Bernadette Granger.

Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord. Let perpetual light shine upon them.

May they rest in peace. Amen

23rd August 2020 - 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year A)

ST MARY’S PARISH MATTERS

FORTHCOMING FUNERALS

Gerard Martin (RIP) - Funeral Service - Monday 24th August - 3.00pm - Batley Cemetery

Cindy Carter (RIP) - Funeral Service - Tuesday 25th August - 12noon - Dewsbury Moor Crematorium

OUR LADY’S CANDLE

Angels of Mons - 23rd August 1914

RECORDED MASSES - As you know since the beginning of ‘lock-down’ in March, with the help of Michelle

& Patrick Anderson I have been doing a recorded Sunday Mass each week. This is has happened for the last

5 months. However, now that churches are open again and I am celebrating 11 Masses each week, along

with the various funerals and baptsims that are now taking place, I am finding it increasingly difficult to

find a time to celebrate an extra Mass to be recorded.

With this in mind, and with regret, the last ‘Recorded Mass’ from St Mary & St Patrick’s will take place on

Sunday 6th September. I will continue to give details of where other ‘live-streamed’ Masses are available

for people who still wish to celebrate Mass from home.

I had hoped to be able to install a ‘live-stream’ facility in both of our churches but this is proving to be very

costly and more difficult than I envisaged. However, I will keep looking into how this could be done in due

course and hopefully we can get a ‘live-stream’ facility in our churches in due course.

May I take this opportunity to say a big ‘thank you’ to Michelle & Patrick Anderson, who have given so

much time and effort in order that we were able to have recorded Masses each week for 5 months. I know

your hard work and effort is much appreciated.

UPDATE ON VIRUS PRECAUTIONS - May I please remind people that facemasks are now compulsory

whilst in church. This is a Government stipulation. If you have your own facemask, please bring it with you.

If not I will have some available as you come into church. For full guidelines please see the parish websites.

CELEBRATING THE SACRAMENTS - To see a copy of the latest guidelines please see the parish website.

NEW ROTAS FOR READERS, SACRISTANS / STEWARDS & COUNTERS - The new rotas are now available

for August to October 2020. Please pick up your copy when you are in church. Thank you.

WEBSITE – ‘REFECTIONS ON THE WORD’ - Thank you to all who have so far shared photos from scenes in

their daily lives and related them to a piece of Scripture. This is a lovely way to share thoughts and ideas

and offer each other a word of encouragement during these strange times.

If you would like to take part in this lovely idea please send your pictures to Fr Eamonn at;

eamonn.hegarty@dioceseofleeds.org.uk

with your chosen piece of Scripture and we will make them available on the websites. I look forward to

seeing your pictures and your insights from Scripture.

PARISH OFFERTORY - I have been asked by a number of parishioners how they might be able to continue

contributing financially to their parish during these days when access to the church is no longer possible. If

people wish to continue giving to the church at this time, there are two ways possible.

Giving by Text – We now have the facility to take offerings using text messaging. To use this service and to

contribute £5 to the Parish Offertory, please text;

CHURCH BATLEY to 70500

Please note that it is a feature of the text-giving facility that allows for no more and no less than £5 to be

given to the Offertory via each text. If your regular weekly parish giving is either more or less than this

amount, please feel free either to send more than one text – or maybe use this facility just once a month.

Standing Order Mandate – More and more people are paying their offertory collection by Standing Order,

rather than using cash each week. If you would like to start using this facility please download the standing

order form from the parish website or contact Annette Crowther and she will arrange to post one to you. If

you have any questions about setting up a standing order with the parish, do not hesitate to contact

Annette Crowther the Parish Administrator.

The following contact details are for both St Mary’s and St Patrick’s.

Annette Crowther:

Email: office.stmarys.batley@dioceseofleeds.org.uk

Mobile: 07738901165

Pay by Card - following advice from the Diocese we now have a facility available to the parish, whereby

people can make donations to the parish via their bank cards. This facility is available on the parish website

and is very quick and easy to use.

Thank you for supporting the work of the Church: your generosity is much needed and particularly

appreciated at this time. If you have any questions about your offertory giving, please do not hesitate to

contact Annette Crowther and she will be happy to help.

PARISH MEMORY LANE PAGE - If you have any old photos / stories / articles of the parish of yester-year

we would love you to share them on our new ‘Parish Memory Lane’ page. This can be of anything you wish

from our parish past.

Any pictures which you are happy to share or stories of parish life, we would love to see them here too.

Photographs can be sent as hard copies and we can scan them if required.

YOUR THOUGHTS FOR THE WEBSITE - If you have any thoughts of what you would like to see on our

websites, please do not hesitate to contact me – if we can do it, we will certainly try. It is a Parish Website

and so new ideas from the parish are always welcome. Many thanks to Michelle and Patrick Anderson for

their continued support here.

Fr Eamonn Hegarty - Parish Priest

St Mary’s Presbytery, Cross Bank Road, Batley, WF17 8PQ

Tel. (01924) 474650 Email: eamonn.hegarty@dioceseofleeds.org.uk

Parish Administrator

Parish Office for both St Mary’s & St Patrick’s matters:

office.stmarys.batley@dioceseofleeds.org.uk