Third Week of Eastertide – Easter Week - Year B

Saturday 17th April - Saturday 24th April 2021

Source: Luke 24,35-48 | Digital Catholic Missionaries (DCM) (digitalmissioners.com)

Jesus Appears to the Disciples

36 While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be

with you.”

37 They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. 38 He said to them, “Why are you

troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? 39 Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch

me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”

40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. 41 And while they still did not believe it

because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” 42 They gave him a

piece of broiled fish, 43 and he took it and ate it in their presence.

44 He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is

written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”

45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. 46 He told them, “This is what is

written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, 47 and repentance for the

forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 You are

witnesses of these things.

Third Week of Eastertide – Easter Week- Year B

Saturday 17th April – Saturday 24th April 2021

St. Mary’s Church

Monday- Friday Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Confessions- 12:00 (noon) – 12:45pm

Saturday’s Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Confessions: 11:00am-11:45am

Saturday 17th April Easter Feria Third Week of Eastertide

St Mary’s Christ the King

Mass Mass

12noon 5:30pm

Stewards at St Marys Win & Norman Statham RIP

Sunday 18th April

THIRD SUNDAY OF

EASTER

St Mary’s

Holy Family

St Mary’s

St Mary’s

Mass Mass Mass Mass

9.00am 9.30am 11.00am 6.30pm

D. Moore Intentions Tara Lawrence RIP 51st Birthday People of the Parish Joseph Conroy RIP Intentions of Teresa

Monday 19th April Easter Feria

St Mary’s

Mass 1:00pm Sheila Goodwin RIP

Tuesday 20th April Easter Feria

St Mary’s

Mass 1:00pm Bishop Patrick McKinney’s Intentions

Wednesday 21st April Saint Anselm, bishop and doctor

Christ the King St Mary’s

Mass Mass

9:00am 1:00pm

People of the Parish Brian Woodward RIP

Thursday 22nd April Easter Feria

Holy Family St Mary’s

Mass Mass

9:00am 1:00pm

Intentions of Mary In loving Memory of John Allsop RIP

Friday 23rd April Saint George, Martyr, Patron of England

St Mary’s

Mass

1:00pm

Joseph Conroy RIP

Saturday 24th April Easter Feria Fourth Week of Eastertide

St Mary’s Christ the King

Mass Mass

12noon 5.30pm

People of the Parish John Hogarth

Please remember in your Prayers those who have died. May they rest in peace. Amen

Father Greg writes: This week we welcome to our parishes Fr. Taz who has journeyed from the Archdiocese of Capiz in the Philippines to minister in the Diocese of Nottingham. I know that you will make him very welcome. Restoration appeal: Thank you for your generous response to our initial appeal for the restoration of the beautiful Jesse tree stained glass windows together with the restoration of the stone mullions, and lead that holds it all in place. Your financial generosity is much appreciated and needed for this major project. Saint Marys primary school: The new school term begins tomorrow (Monday), and St Marys moves to the property of Saint James house in Chester Green where the entire school community can be together once again. Parking is at a premium and so parents will be using the church car park to both drop off and collect their children at the end of the school day. Once again the head teacher and staff of this wonderful school have worked miracles in transferring the school from the church at Mackworth and St Benedict’ School to Saint James's house. We do of course look forward to the day when all of our children can return to their new school which will be rebuilt on the original site. Clergy formation fund: next Sunday the second collection will be for the clergy formation fund. Thank you for your generosity. The 22nd of April is the Earth Day. It is a day where the whole humanity is proposed to take care particularly for our planet. The St Mary Parish livesimply Group propose to the St Mary’s parishioners to not use their phone, TV or radio on this day. As well, they should try to observe an hour without using electricity. It’s a great opportunity to reduce our energy consumption and consequently help to reduce climate change; but it is also the opportunity to spend a quality time with families, friends or God.

Source: Earth Day - The Global Catholic Climate Movement : The Global Catholic Climate Movement

Notices

------------------------------------------------------------------- CAFOD - unwanted currency Any foreign currency, notes or coins, and old UK money is collected and used by CAFOD. Please consider donating any you have to help CAFODs work with the world’s most vulnerable communities. St Mary’s has a great record of collecting this currency. Place any that you have in one of the green CAFOD envelopes, available in church, or your own envelope or bag, and put in the offertory basket at the end of Mass. Many thanks for your continued generosity. Mrs. Judith Honey -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First Holy Communion 2021 - Next session is Sunday 25th April 2021, Chapter 7, Bread of Life 10.30am to 11.15am, (for safeguarding reasons no child must be left alone on a Zoom meeting). Due to the restrictions caused by the Coronavirus, the preparation sessions will be held remotely using Zoom.

Complete the survey: How has Covid-19 Affected You and Your Faith? Bishop Patrick would like to hear from you! The Diocese of Nottingham has launched a short survey to deepen its understanding of Covid-19’s impact on all Catholics across the diocese. Bishop Patrick is eager to know more about peoples’ experiences of the pandemic, with a view to ensuring that the faithful are well supported and understood in the years ahead. Please visit https://www.dioceseofnottingham.uk/whats-on/news/share-your-story-how-has-covid-19-affected-you-and-your-faith and fill out the short questionnaire. Please encourage other parishioners to do so. The deadline for submissions is July 4th 2021. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The post of full time Roman Catholic Chaplain (priest, deacon, religious or lay person) for HMP Stocken is now being advertised. Please follow the link for more details or to apply: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/appcentre-1/brand-13/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/3/opp/42456-42456-Roman-Catholic-Chaplain-Full-Time-Roman-Catholic-Ordained-Priest-Ordained-Deacon-Religious-Brother-Sister-Lay-Person/en-GB

------------------------------------- Here are the bank details of all three parishes: Name of the account: St Mary Derby RCP Sort Code: 30-92-59 Account: 00428642 Name of the account: Holy Family Allestree RCP / Nottingham Diocese Sort Code: 30-92-59 Account: 07412601 Name of the account: Christ the King Mackworth RCP Sort Code: 30-92-59 Account: 00063601

URGENT: St Mary’s Restoration Project:

The Jesse Tree Main Sanctuary Window

St Mary’s Church is fortunate to be blessed with exceptional artwork, and our

crowning glory is probably the stained glass in the main sanctuary windows. This was

installed in 1854-5 as part of Edward Pugin’s alterations to his father’s 1839 Church.

The window was made by Hardman’s, the leading stained-glass manufacturer in the

country at the time, and was designed by John Hardman Powell.

Unfortunately, recent surveys have revealed that this window is in a serious state of

disrepair – with areas considered critical and a danger of the glass falling out. We

have arranged for a complete restoration of the glass by Chapel Studio of Norfolk.

This will involve the Jesse Tree window being removed and painstakingly re-leaded

and cleaned. The work will take place from Easter this year and last approximately 10

months. During this time, there will be scaffolding on the Sanctuary for extended

periods of time and the high altar and reredos will be boarded to protect them from

damage. There will also be scaffolding externally to the window space.

The work will cost a considerable amount of money - £50,000 for the actual windows,

plus ancillary costs for scaffolding, stone repairs etc. As a parish we have lost

significant revenue during the past year due to Covid lockdowns and limits on the

numbers who can attend Mass. Many thanks to those of you who have continued

your regular donations either in person or by Standing Order, but the shortfall in our

income is something we have to be mindful of. It is therefore, with a heavy heart,

that we ask you to show your generosity once again in contributing towards the cost

of the Jesse Tree Window repairs, any contributions will be gratefully received.

Money can be put in the baskets in an envelope marked ‘Restoration,’ or in the metal

box at the back of Church or pay electronically via the Church Bank Account (see the

newsletter for details), please use the reference ‘Restoration.’

We thank you for your help in restoring our beautiful sanctuary window to its former

glory.

Fr Gregory Tobin

Our Sanctuary window shows the Jesse

Tree – an ancestral record of Jesus’ family

tree that establishes he is a descendant

of Jesse, King David’s Father, and thereby

fulfills Isaiah’s prophecy about the

coming Messiah:

"And there shall come forth a rod out of

the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall

grow out of his roots." Isaiah 11:1

The photos show the cracks in

the glass segments and the

‘bulging’ which is a sign that

the window could fall out of its

casing.

Saint George's Day Soliloquy by Martin Ward

On Saint George's Day,

I always wonder why

so many other Patron Saints

are venerated to a greater extent

than our own Saint George.

Saint Patrick's Day is massive in Ireland,

the USA (New York especially)

and all around the world.

Similarly, the Scots love Saint Andrew,

and Saint David is venerated

by Welsh people, Christian or not.

The English seem more reticent.

Could it be because they do not believe

in dragons being slayed,

or that a man from Turkey (maybe)

or certainly somewhere in the middle-east

should be a saint of dark satanic mills?

I'm on your side Saint George.

He was real alright, but the dragon story

was added about 500 years after he died

to represent the victory of good over evil.

George was named after his father Gerontius:

a noble name that drifts my thoughts

to Saint John Henry Newman,

whose dream in poetic form

fired Elgar's great gift of music.

George: a Praetorian Guard; military man

from a solid Christian family:

not everything the Romans would want.

Holding such a prestigious post,

the Emperor would expect

George to recant his faith on pain of death.

But he would not: choosing

to follow His Saviour's path.

That great empire, now turned to earthly dust,

yet amidst its ruinous grandeur

stands The Holy See:

a testimony to the triumph of God

over adversity and persecution.

Here in Derby, we can scratch the earth

of our own city and turn up coins and pottery

from the time the Romans ruled.

I give a variation on a greater voice:

'Here's to England and Saint George.'

St Teresa of Avila (José Luis Filpo Cabana)

Pope Francis: Prayer made St Teresa of Ávila an exceptional woman

Pope Francis sends a video message on the occasion of the International Congress "Mujer exceptional", or Exceptional Woman, dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of the proclamation of St. Teresa of Ávila as a Doctor of the Church.

By Lydia O'Kane

In a video message to participants taking part in an International Congress commemorating the

fiftieth anniversary of the proclamation of St. Teresa of Ávila as a Doctor of the Church, Pope

Francis spoke of how prayer made this great Saint an “exceptional woman”.

The Congress, which began on Monday, April 12, at the St Teresa of Ávila Catholic University,

closes on Thursday, April 15.

The Pope said that St Teresa was outstanding in many ways. However, he underlined, “it should

not be forgotten that her recognized relevance in these dimensions is nothing more than the

consequence of what was important to her: her encounter with the Lord, her ‘determined

determination,’ as she says, to persevere in her union with Him through prayer, her firm

intention to carry out the mission entrusted to her by the Lord, to whom she offered herself

with simplicity.”

St. Teresa's boldness, creativity and excellence as a reformer, said Pope Francis, “are the fruit of

the interior presence of the Lord.”

Recalling the universal call to holiness spoken of by the Second Vatican Council, the Pope said,

it is “not only for some ‘specialists of the divine’, but it is the vocation of all believers.”

Uniqueness of the Saints

“Union with Christ, which mystics like St. Teresa experience in a special way by pure grace, we

receive through Baptism,” he said.

“The saints stimulate and motivate us, but it is not for us to literally try to copy them; holiness

cannot be copied, because even that could lead us away from the unique and different path that

the Lord has for each one of us.”

“What is important,” the Pope added, “is that each believer discerns his own way, each one of

us has his own way of holiness, of encounter with the Lord.”

Union through charity

Pope Francis recalled that St. Teresa herself warned her nuns that prayer is “not to experience

extraordinary things, but to unite us to Christ. And the sign that this union is real are works of

charity.”

Path of Prayer

The Pope stressed that “St. Teresa teaches us that the path of prayer that made her an

exceptional woman, and a person of reference through the centuries, is open to all who humbly

open themselves to the action of the Spirit in their lives.”

Such a path, he said, “is not open to those who consider themselves pure and perfect, the

Cathars of all centuries, but to those who are aware of their sins.”

“Prayer made St. Teresa an exceptional woman, a creative and innovative woman,” emphasized

Pope Francis.

“From prayer she discovered the ideal of fraternity that she wanted to make a reality in the

convents she founded.”

Faithful friends of God In his video message, Pope Francis said that like the Doctor of the Church, St. Teresa, we live in

hard times that require “faithful friends of God.”

He emphasized that “the great temptation is to give in to disillusionment, to resignation, to the

dismal and unfounded presage that everything will go wrong.”

Some people, he said, “frightened by these thoughts, tend to shut themselves away, to take

refuge in little things.”

Giving an example of this, the Pope recalled a convent where all the nuns took refuge in “little

things” because they were all enclosed in little things, “as a refuge, in selfish projects that do

not build up the community, but rather destroy it.”

On the other hand, Pope Francis continued, “prayer opens us up, allows us to taste that God is

great, that He is beyond the horizon, that God is good, that He loves us and that history has not

escaped from His hands.”

God gives us fullness and joy

We can be encouraged to do great things, stressed the Pope, “because we know that we are

favoured by God. And together with Him, we are capable of reaching any challenge, because in

reality it is only His company that our heart desires and that gives us the fullness and joy for

which we have been created.”

Concluding his video message, Pope Francis invited participants to pray St Teresa's prayer:

"Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you; all things pass away, God does not change.

Patience, all things come to pass. He who has God lacks nothing. God alone is enough."

15th April 2021

Source: Pope Francis: Prayer made St Teresa of Ávila an exceptional woman - Vatican News

Grapevine Issue 22

Resurrection: the tender revolution

We're used to thinking of the resurrection as a moment in time - the moment when Christ who was

dead becomes alive. But as we emerge from lockdown, this Easter feels different - it is also a

slow dawning of something new.

The coming months invite us to reconnect with friends, family and neighbours, discover new

vocations, and re-open ourselves and our parishes to a wounded world. We will rediscover each

other 'in the flesh'. This long resurrection will require both care and courage from us all.

Pope Francis talked of 'the revolution of tenderness' in The Joy of the Gospel in 2013. His words

then prove strangely prophetic today:

"The Gospel tells us constantly to run the risk of a face-to-face encounter with others, with

their physical presence which challenges us, with their pain and their pleas, with their joy

which infects us in our close and continuous interaction.

True faith in the incarnate Son of God is inseparable from self-giving, from membership in the

community, from service, from reconciliation with others. The Son of God, by becoming

flesh, summoned us to the revolution of tenderness."

Evangelii Gaudium, 88

This edition of Grapevine offers a routemap for this revolution of tenderness, through Eastertide,

beyond Pentecost, and into next year. This is not an invitation to keep to yourself: it is an invitation

to pass on. The gift of the Gospel is one to give away.

Paul (Programme Leader for Social Action)

Please feel free to forward this email to fellow parishioners,

or include content in your parish bulletin.

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In this issue

• Revolution of Tenderness - at a glance

• Listening campaign - coming soon

• Prepare the future - workshop next Wednesday and on 2 June

• Relay to the Glasgow climate summit - coming our way

Revolution of Tenderness: at a glance

Click to download the poster below.

Feel free to circulate it with your parish e-bulletin with the text that follows.

Sample article for your parish bulletin

Please feel free to copy the 'Revolution of Tenderness' logo at the top of this issue

Revolution of Tenderness: As we emerge from lockdown into the 'new normal', God is

calling each of us afresh. The diocese is offering a series of initiatives and events inspired by

Pope Francis called Revolution of Tenderness, to help us answer that call. The invitation

comes from Caritas, the new diocesan network supporting social action, and includes:

• Prepare the Future: Practical workshops on 21 April and 2 June and regularly

thereafter, to help parish activities and outreach start up again

• Kindle the Fire: Online prayer for the eve of Pentecost to mark the launch of Caritas

• Lend an Ear: A diocesan listening campaign to rebuild social friendship and

understanding after the pandemic

• The Word and the Common Good: Workshops on Scripture and Catholic Social

Teaching on Monday evenings in June and July

Everyone is welcome - visit dioceseofnottingham.uk/revolution-of-tenderness for ways to join

in.

Revolution of Tenderness is a revolution in eight

steps...

Many thanks to everyone who has already responded to the diocesan survey. There is

plenty of room for more responses.

It can be completed in ten minutes. People tell us they are finding it offers a valuable opportunity

to reflect on the last year.

However long you want to give it, click below to share your story.

Kindle the fire of Love

Join us on the eve of Pentecost, 22 May 2021, for a special interactive online service to mark the

launch of Caritas. Find out how you can grow the Church's mission of justice and charity. Book

your place today.

Booking now open for Pentecost prayer

Lend an ear

From Pentecost 2021, you'll be receiving an invitation to join our listening campaign. We'll engage

people in conversation on some of the important questions in the current survey - both in our parish

congregations and in the community at large.

Find out more about the listening campaign

Here: Now: Us is a three-part programme to help your

parish grow as a confident, outward-looking

community, and invest in the leadership of lay people:

• The Word and the Common Good,

a practical seven-week programme of

Scripture-based workshops on Catholic social

teaching, starts on 7 June 2021 on Zoom

• A Saturday workshop in your parish when

Covid restrictions allow

• Support for your post-pandemic mission and

outreach through Caritas.

If you'd like to find out more, visit our website, or

click below to book for a forthcoming Open Evening,

all 7.00 - 8.00 p.m.:

• Tuesday 13 April

• Monday 26 April

• Monday 17 May

Better still, encourage a few of your fellow

parishioners to come too, and join up as a parish

group.

Book for a 'Here: Now: Us' Open Evening

Prepare the Future: two new workshops

Prepare the Future workshops offer ideas, practical advice and mutual support for re-opening

your parish for mission after lockdown. They're open to everyone in the diocese, and take place on

Zoom. We're now going to run them monthly to keep pace with demand! Here are details of the

next two.

Wednesday 21 April 2021

3.30 - 5.00 p.m.

Regeneration for post-Covid mission

The forthcoming workshop will be a buffet of opportunities that might be relevant to your

parish:

• Two's Company: setting up a parish telephone befriending scheme

• Parish Councils: organising for mission in the post-Covid Church

• Building a Census and skills audit for the post-pandemic parish

Subject to demand we'll also touch on:

• Opening a drop-in centre or listening café in your parish hall

• Renovating and upgrading parish facilities for outreach

• Power of Four: a model for mutual aid in the parish and beyond

• Lend an Ear: plans for the diocesan Caritas listening campaign.

Scroll down for a link to the booking form, where you can let us know which topics interest

you most.

Wednesday 2 June 2021 3.30 - 5.00 p.m.

Open with Care

Resuming parish life in the 'new normal'

In late June the government hopes to relax the restrictions that have prevented most parish

activities taking place. It will be the moment when many parish facilities and groups can start

up again.

Open with Care on 2 June will help you ensure that your church premises and the things

that happen in it are as safe and healthy as possible, and fulfil the government guidance.

We'll be joined by Catherine Scholes from the diocesan property office. Having guided us

through lockdown, she'll now be helping us make plans to re-open.

Book here for Prepare the Future workshops

There's three more elements of Revolution of Tenderness to tell you about, but we'll save

them up for later:

• Caritas Friends: Find support and inspiration to nourish your vocation and live the

Gospel

• Renew the parish: Post-pandemic mission planning workshops

• Thy Kingdom come: Build back better with the Gospel, in care for Creation, justice

and peace.

Finally, in other news...

A relay of young (and not-so-young) walkers, supported by CAFOD, is travelling through our

diocese at the end of August and in early September. The Young Christian Climate Network are

forming a relay from the G7 summit in Cornwall to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. They

are walking for an end to the injustice of climate change - and indeed for their own future.

• Read more about their motives here.

We're blessed to have these young people passing through our diocese. Could you be a blessing

to them in return? There are a variety of ways you can help, especially If you are on the route

through the diocese:

• Netherseal

• Aston-on-Trent

• Melbourne

• Nottingham

• Hucknall

• Sutton-in-Ashfield

They're looking for accommodation overnight in or near these places, people to cheer them on in

between, and many other kinds of practical help which can be done from anywhere.

Find out how you can support the relay

Give a Catholic charity a chance of £3,000

The annual Catholic Charity Conference can't take place this year, so instead the organisers

are offering three awards of £3,000 each, to charities which have 'gone the extra mile' in the

pandemic. They are looking to reward those which have demonstrated:

• Best digital transformation by moving their business online

• Most innovative response to the pandemic, in what they do or how they do it

• Best outreach programme or activity in its contribution to the local community

Put your nomination in by 23 April - visit catholiccharityconference.org.uk

The Catholic foundation Fellowship and Aid to the Christians of the East (FACE) is hosting a

webinar on Saturday 24 April, 10.00 - 11.30 a.m. with:

• His Beatitude Louis Raphaël Cardinal Sako, Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans and

head of the Chaldean Catholic Church, and

• His Eminence Cardinal Michael Fitzgerald M.Afr., Patron of FACE

FACE warmly invite parishioners from Nottingham Diocese to this opportunity to hear about life for

Catholics in the Middle East.

Cardinal Sako recently hosted Pope Francis's recent apostolic visit to Iraq. He faces the challenge

of leading an Eastern Church in a highly charged and often changing situation, which has

witnessed the mass exodus of Eastern Christians from their homelands where Christianity was first

spread.

The webinar takes place on Zoom. Please book your place via the link below.

Book for the webinar on the Middle East

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DERBY St Marys, Derby

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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF2-bh2Py9WX1LKT6tDx2jw NOTTINGHAMSHIRE The Private Chapel of the Bishop of Nottingham, Bishop’s House, Nottingham. Bishop Patrick McKinney http://youtube.com/BishopPatrickMcKinney. & Father Jonathan Rose Masses are live streamed from Nottingham Cathedral and at www.derbycatholiclive.co.uk The Cathedral of St Barnabas, Nottingham Canon Malachy Brett and Father Mathew Neriattil http://www.stbarnabascathedral.org.uk/01_Community/livestream.html

DERBYSHIRE Parish of St Alban’s, Chaddesden, Derby - Father David Cain http://www.derbycatholiclive.co.uk/ Live stream of Weekly Liturgies: Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays 10.00am Mass & Exposition at 9:30am

Thursdays 7pm Mass & Exposition at 9:30am

Parish of St Anne’s, Buxton Father Gerry Murphy https://www.facebook.com/StAnnesRCBuxton/videos/220404315997502/ Sundays

10 am Mass

Derby Catholic Podcast

https://www.mixcloud.com/DerbyCatholic/

During this time of social isolation, we hope to reach out to the community and continue to spread the Word of God. St Mary's Catholic Voluntary Academy & St Mary's Parish, Derby have joined up to create a Podcast.

Podcast schedule: Sundays 9am - Children's Liturgy

Contact: fran@brightshark.co.uk