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THE PARISH OF OUR LADY AND ST. PATRICK’S
THIS WEEK'S SERVICES

THE SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER

JUNE 1ST - 6TH
2025



WEEKLY SERVICES
SUNDAY: 10.00am.  12.30pm (Polish Mass)
6.00pm
MONDAY: 12 noon Mass
TUESDAY: 12 noon Mass
WEDNESDAY:
12 noon Mass
THURSDAY:
12 noon Mass
FRIDAY: 12 noon Mass
SATURDAY:
12 noon Mass

LIVESTREAMING THIS WEEK

From now on we will be using Twitter to provide online Masses. Either download the Twitter App and search for @PhilipSumner13 or click the pic below

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Then either just watch from there. You can also click Follow if you have a Twitter account.

Weekday Masses and Saturday's 12 noon Mass will continue to be Livestreamed, as will Sunday's 10.00am Mass

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The church will normally be open on Mondays to Saturdays from 10.00am for private prayer

Confessions
each Saturday 11.00am-11.50am

Baptisms & Weddings
by arrangement

THE SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER (YEAR C)
WEEK: JUNE 1ST - 6TH 2025

Seventh Sunday of Easter

“…that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you… that the world may believe that you have sent me.”

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YOUR  CHARITABLE  PRAYERS are requested for our parishioners and friends, especially those whose names appear below.
SICK: John Green, Joan Killeen, Christine Clarke, Tony Kenny, Luke Burke, Dominic Boardman, Connie Marrone, Alexander Loughlin, Surya Duval, Margaret Lawless, Peter Barlow, Jean Barlow, Nynna Carpio, Terry Cummins, Elizabeth Flanagan, Margaret Emsis, Francis Doyle, Linda Solan, Fred Kibblewhite, Daniel Keane, Ethel Keenihan, Peter Bradbury,
LATELY DEAD: Mack Coleman (Laurina’s dad), Theresa Czerwonka
ANNIVERSARIES Michael and Catherine McGladdery, Mary Ellen Coen, Elizabeth Ann and Fred Lees, Jospeh Boyle, Catherine Duddy, Mary Boden, Ellie McDermott and Molly McDermott, Veronica Peace, Kathleen and Andrew Curran

LAST WEEK'S COLLECTION: £824.62

Standing Order: £674.00 a month

CHURCH BOXES / DONATIONS
Caritas (Homeless) £20.00

Many thanks for your kind generosity.

If anyone needs the Bank account details to set up Direct Debit payments, please contact Father Phil.


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THIS SUNDAY'S MISSALETTE & HYMNS

The Seventh Sunday of Easter - Missalette

The Seventh Sunday of Easter - Hymns


NOTICES:
All Masses will continue to be live streamed. A link is provided on the Parish website: www.smwsp.org.uk or via the Twitter App (@PhilipSumner13). 

POPE FRANCIS’ MESSAGE FOR WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY (1ST JUNE)
“In these our times, characterised by disinformation and polarisation, as a few centres of power control an unprecedented mass of data and information, …
As I reflect on the Jubilee we are celebrating this year as a moment of grace in these troubled times, I would like in this Message to invite you to be “communicators of hope”...
Too often today, communication generates not hope, but fear and despair, prejudice and resentment, fanaticism and even hatred. All too often it simplifies reality in order to provoke instinctive reactions; it uses words like a razor; it even uses false or artfully distorted information to send messages designed to agitate, provoke or hurt. On several occasions, I have spoken of our need to “disarm” communication and to purify it of aggressiveness. It never helps to reduce reality to slogans. All of us see how – from television talk shows to verbal attacks on social media – there is a risk that the paradigm of competition, opposition, the will to dominate and possess, and the manipulation of public opinion will prevail.
There is also another troubling phenomenon: what we might call the “programmed dispersion of attention” through digital systems that, by profiling us according to the logic of the market, modify our perception of reality. As a result, we witness, often helplessly, a sort of atomisation of interests that ends up undermining the foundations of our existence as community, our ability… to listen to one another and to understand each other’s point of view. Identifying an “enemy” to lash out against thus appears indispensable as a way of asserting ourselves. Yet when others become our “enemies”, when we disregard their individuality and dignity in order to mock and deride them, we also lose the possibility of generating hope. As Don Tonino Bello observed, all conflicts “start when individual faces melt away and disappear”.  We must not surrender to this mindset.”

SPECIAL DAYS THIS WEEK
Monday 2nd June – Ss. Marcellinus and Peter - Little is known about the actual lives of these two men. Later hagiography suggests that Marcellinus, a priest, and Peter, an exorcist, died in the year 304, during the persecutions by the Emperor Diocletian.
Tuesday 3rd June – Ss Charles Lwanga and his companions - Charles Lwanga;
1 January 1860 – 3 June 1886) was a Ugandan convert to the Catholic Church who was martyred with a group of his peers and is revered as a saint by both the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion.  A member of the Baganda tribe, Lwanga was born in the Kingdom of Buganda, the central and southern part of modern Uganda, and served as chief of the royal pages and later major-domo in the court of King Mwanga II of Buganda. He was baptised by Pere Giraud on 15 November 1885. King Mwanga II, in fear of losing the overbearing power he had on his subjects to a Christian worldview, insisted that Christian converts abandon their new faith and, when they refused, he executed many Anglicans and Catholics between 1885 and 1887, including Lwanga and other officials in the royal court.
Thursday 5th June – St. Boniface - He was born in Devon about 675. He was originally called Wynfrith and was educated at the monastery of Exeter. After years as a monk and teacher, he went to evangelise the Germanic peoples. Ordained a bishop, he was given a wide-ranging commission for the whole of Germany and Gaul (France). He had the support of several Framkish rulers and successive popes. It was one of these popes who gave him the name ‘Boniface’. He founded monasteries and established dioceses, presided at synods and liaised with kings. He is remembered as a determined missionary, whose work shaped the future of Europe. He was killed in the Netherlands in 754.
Friday 6th June - St. Norbert – He was born in Germany in 1080 and, initially, pursued a life of empty pleasures. Around 1115, he had a conversion experience and became a priest. The manner of his life attracted others to accompany him, and the Premonstratensian (Norbertine) Order was begun. He later became Archbishop of Magdeburg and died in 1134.

THIS SUNDAY’S READINGS
We are in that section of John’s Gospel today, known as the ‘priestly prayer of Christ’. John takes a quarter of his Gospel to cover what Jesus said and did at the Last Supper. This prayer is the climax of that section. When people speak of how Jesus taught us to pray, they usually refer to Matthew’s Gospel and to the ‘Our Father’, but we have a much longer example here in John’s Gospel. This is the reading that I often suggest being used at weddings. I imagine Jesus as a guest, praying for the couple. He prays that they may be one so that the world will realise that there is something of God in the world today. This is what is meant by the sacrament of marriage: God is made present through the love of the couple. We need people to bear witness in this way, not by preaching but simply by living their love.
But this reading is intended not just for married couples but for all of us. Jesus is praying that his disciples will be one so that the world will realise that there is something of God among them.
Last week, I had a conversation with someone who was thinking of becoming a Catholic. He spoke of how he’d been to visit many architecturally impressive churches, but that it was something about what happened in those churches, in terms of the community he witnessed, that impressed him the most. This is surely one example of an answer to Jesus’ prayer. God is made present in the world of today by people being a genuine communion of people, and a communion of diversity.
Remember that Jesus’ prayer was that his disciples would be one as the Father and the Spirit are one with him. This is a communion of diversity, a communion that embraces difference and respects it. He is not praying for uniformity in the Church but for what Pope John Paul II called ‘a spirituality of communion’. He described
this as knowing “how to "make room" for our brothers and sisters, bearing "each other's burdens" (Gal 6:2) and resisting the selfish temptations which constantly beset us and provoke competition, careerism, distrust and jealousy.” He also said: A spirituality of communion indicates above all the heart's contemplation of the mystery of the Trinity dwelling in us, and whose light we must also be able to see shining on the face of the brothers and sisters around us” (Encyclical: Novo millennio ineunte , 6th January 2001).

DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO LADYEWELL
The Diocese of Salford's Pilgrimage Office is delighted to announce a prayerful pilgrimage to Our Lady’s shrine at Ladyewell, taking place on Saturday 28th June. Join us as we take up the Jubilee call to pilgrimage by visiting this beautiful shrine right on the doorstep of our diocese. For more information and to register, please visit https://dioceseofsalford.org.uk/ladyewell-pilgrimage-2025

A FILIPINO CULTURAL EVENT 
“Kulturang Pilipino”. On 7th June, from 2.00pm-7.00pm at Heyside Parish Hall, Heyside, Royton, OL2 6NB. Cost of entry on the day will be £3.00. Anyone will be welcome.

Can you help?
The Diocese of Salford's Laudato Si' Centre is on the hunt for green-fingered volunteers. Email us at laudatosi@dioceseofsalford.org.uk to find out more.