Friday 26 May 2023

Pentecost Sunday

 


MASSES THIS WEEK. 

Sunday 28th May.
Pentecost Sunday. Year A.

Mass at 8.30am & 10am. 

Refreshments served after both Masses 
in the Pope John Paul Room. 
Come and join us! 
 
Note from our musical director, Anthony Dickinson.

Of your charity please pray for the repose of the soul of one of our regular parishioners, my dear uncle, Richard Neil Bibby, aged 86. Neil died in Chorley Hospital fortified by the Rites of Holy Mother Church in the early hours of Saturday, 20th May surrounded by his loving family. Neil was an active parishioner here at St Catherines from the early days and helped on the physical building of the church when Fr Burke was sent to establish a parish, here in Farington. Neil was born in Leyland but moved to Euxton at the outbreak of WWII to be with extended family whilst his father was away in the army. He returned to Leyland at the end of the WWII and attended the old Leyland St Marys school and church. Neil moved back to Euxton when he married his wife Monica in 1964 and where he raised his family. He started attending St Catherines again when Fr Simon arrived and became a weekly 11:30 Mass attender. Latterly he attended the 8:30 Mass on Sunday. He was in reasonable health until he suffered a stroke in September last year, at which point his health started to deteriorate. He was last here at St Catherine’s for Novena and Benediction on Candlemas Day. Monica and family wish to extend their grateful thanks and prayers to all who have asked after Neil over recent months and, since his death, for the kind Mass offerings and expressions of sympathy. Neil will be buried at Euxton St Mary’s following a Requiem Mass this coming Wednesday, 31st May 2023 at 12:30 p.m. Those who knew Neil are more than welcome to attend.

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Please note:
No public Masses on weekdays this week.

Sunday 4th June.
Trinity Sunday. Year A.
Mass at 8.30am & 10am. 


Saturday 20 May 2023

May Crowning on the Seventh Sunday of Easter

 


Together with children from our school and this year's recent First Communicants we will honour Our Blessed Lady this Sunday at 10am.

The Christian people have always attested to Mary's exalted glory as a sharer in Christ's royalty. Like him, it is hers by birth (as Mother of the King) and by right of conquest (as his faithful co-worker in the Redemption). Our Lord has placed in her hands the superabundant merits He gained by his death on the Cross, so that she might distribute them according to God's Will.


MASSES THIS WEEK. 

Sunday 21st May.
Seventh Sunday of Easter. Year A.

Mass at 8.30am & 10am. 
Procession and Crowning of the statue of Our Lady at the 10am Mass

Refreshments served after both Masses 
in the Pope John Paul Room. 
Come and join us! 
 
Monday  9.30am Mass

Tuesday 9.30am Mass

Wednesday 9.30am Mass
                 
Thursday  7pm Novena & Benediction
                                     
Friday 8.30am

Saturday 9.30am Mass
               Confessions afterwards.

Sunday 21st May.

Pentecost Sunday of Easter. Year A.
Mass at 8.30am & 10am. 

Saturday 13 May 2023

Sixth Sunday of Eastertide and the Ascension

 

ASCENSION THURSDAY: HOLYDAY OF OBLIGATION. Holy days of obligation are feast days on which we are required to attend Mass and to avoid (to the extent that they are able) servile work. The observance of Holy Days of Obligation is part of the Sunday Duty, the first of the Precepts of the Church, and are listed in Canon 1246 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law. Holy Days of Obligation are days other than Sundays on which we are required to participate in the Mass, the primary form of worship. Any feast celebrated on a Sunday, such as Easter, falls under normal Sunday Duty and thus isn't included in a list of Holy Days of Obligation. 

What Is an Obligation? A lot of people misunderstand what it means to say that Catholics are obligated to attend Mass on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation. This isn't an arbitrary rule, but part of general moral life—the need to do good and avoid evil. That is why the Catechism of the Catholic Church (Para. 2041) describes the obligations listed in the Precepts of the Church as "the very necessary minimum in the spirit of prayer and moral effort, in the growth in love of God and neighbor." These are things that, as Christians, Catholics should want to do anyway; the Church uses the Precepts of the Church (of which the listing of Holy Days of Obligation is one) simply as a way to remind adherents of the need to grow in holiness.


MASSES THIS WEEK. 

Sunday 14th May.
Sixth Sunday of Easter. Year A.

Mass at 8.30am & 10am. 

Refreshments served after both Masses 
in the Pope John Paul Room. 
Come and join us! 
 
Monday  9.30am Mass

Tuesday 9.30am Mass

Wednesday 9.30am Mass
                 
Thursday  9.30am Ascension of Our Lord.
                                Holyday of Obligation
                                     
Friday 8.30am

Saturday 9.30am Mass
               Confessions afterwards.

Sunday 21st May.

Seventh Sunday of Easter. Year A.
Mass at 8.30am & 10am. 
Procession and Crowning of the statue of Our Lady at the 10am Mass

Friday 5 May 2023

Fifth Sunday of Eastertide & Coronation celebrations

 
The first Coronation in Westminster Abbey.

Harold Godwinson is crowned King by Stigand, 

Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1066.

He was not a terribly virtuous churchman!

MASSES THIS WEEK. 

Sunday 30th April.
Fifth Sunday of Easter. Year A.
Celebration of the Coronation of King Charles II.
Mass at 8.30am & 10am. 

Refreshments served after both Masses 
in the Pope John Paul Room. 
Come and join us! 
 
Monday  9.30am Mass

Tuesday 9.30am Mass

Wednesday 9.30am Mass
                 
Thursday  7pm NOVENA & BENEDICTION
                                     
Friday 8.30am

Saturday 9.30am Mass
               Confessions afterwards.

Sunday 14th May.

Sixth Sunday of Easter. Year A.
Mass at 8.30am & 10am.