Masses this week and our Summer Fete

 

Friday marks teh feast of St John Plessinton, another of our local Catholic Martyrs who gave his life for the Mass and the Church. "As in the Primitive times, Christians were esteemed Traitors, and suffered as such by National Law, so are the Priests of the Roman Church here esteemed, and suffer such."            

From his speech at the scaffold.

A reminder that tomorrow, Saturday 13th, is our Summer Fete, starting at 1pm. The rain keeps getting less likely every time I look at the forecast.  But we'll be here anyway.  Come along and join us - you can always huddle around the BBQ to keep warm!

Fifteenth Sunday. Year B. 14th July.

Mass at 8.30am

Mass at 10am 

MASSES DURING THE WEEK:

Monday 9.30am

Tuesday 9.30am

Wednesday 9.30am

Thursday 7pm NOVENA & BENEDICTION

Friday 8.30am Mass

Saturday No public Mass today. 

            

Sixteenth Sunday. Year B. 21st July.

Mass at 8.30am

Mass at 10am

This week at St Catherine's

 

Fourteenth Sunday. Year B.

7th July.

Mass at 8.30am

Mass at 10am 

MASSES DURING THE WEEK:

Monday 9.30am

Tuesday 9.30am

Wednesday 9.30am

Thursday 7pm NOVENA & BENEDICTION

Friday 8.30am Mass

Saturday No public Mass today. 

               SUMMER FETE AT 1pm.              

Fifteenth Sunday. Year B. 14th July.

Mass at 8.30am

Mass at 10am

Solemnity of Ss Peter and Paul

 

Solemnity of Ss Peter & Paul. 30th June

Mass at 8.30am

Mass at 10am 

MASSES DURING THE WEEK:

Friday 8.30am Mass

Saturday 9.30am Mass.               

Fourteenth Sunday. Year B. 7th July.

Mass at 8.30am

Mass at 10am

Twelfth Sunday of the Year

Twelfth Sunday 

23rd June. Year B. 

Mass at 8.30am

Mass at 10am 

Monday 9.30am Mass

No other public Masses this week.               

Solemnity of Ss Peter & Paul. 30th June

Mass at 8.30am

Mass at 10am

Eleventh Sunday of the Year

 

Saturday is the Feast of Saint John Rigby (1570-1600) Martyr, Confessor, Layman. Born in 1570 at Harrack Hall, Wigan, Lancashire, England and died on 21 June 1600 at Southwark, London, England. His body was chopped up and scattered around Southwark. Patronages – of bachelors, of torture victims.

Eleventh Sunday 

16th June. Year B. 

Mass at 8.30am

Mass at 10am 

Monday 9.30am Mass

Tuesday  9.30am Mass

Wednesday  9.30am Mass

                 

Thursday 7pm Novena & Benediction

Friday 8.30am Mass

Saturday 9.30am Mass

                Confessions after Mass

                

Eleventh Sunday Year B. 16th June

Mass at 8.30am

Tenth Sunday of the Year at St Catherine's

 

Tenth Sunday 

9th June. Year B. 

Mass at 8.30am

Mass at 10am 

Monday - No public Mass today

Tuesday  - No public Mass today

Wednesday  9.30am Mass

                 

Thursday 7pm Novena & Benediction

Friday 8.30am Mass

Saturday 9.30am Mass

                Confessions after Mass

                

Eleventh Sunday Year B. 16th June

Mass at 8.30am

Corpus Christi

 

Corpus Christi

2nd June. Year B. 

Mass at 8.30am

Mass at 10am 

Just one weekday Mass on Monday 9.30am 

              

2nd June. Tenth Sunday Year B. 

Mass at 8.30am

Mass at 10am

JUNE: MONTH OF THE SACRED HEART

The secular world now dedicates months to all sorts of causes - some more worthy than others! Of course this is yet another idea stolen from the Church. Traditionally June has been the month of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Perhaps you might pray each day this month.

O most holy heart of Jesus, fountain of ever blessing, I adore you, I love you, and with lively sorrow for my sins I offer you this poor heart of mine. Make me humble, patient, pure and wholly obedient to your will. Grant, Good Jesus, that I may live in you and for you. Protect me in the midst of danger. Comfort me in my afflictions. Give me health of body, assistance in my temporal needs, your blessing on all that I do, and the grace of a holy death. Amen. 

The Devotion to the Sacred Heart: 

The modern form of the devotion began in the 1670s, when Jesus appeared multiple times to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, a Visitation nun in France. Through these visions, He told her how He wished to be honored with the symbol of His heart, asking for the faithful to make amends for any wrongdoing they had done, frequently take Communion, and observe the Holy Hour. In 1856, the devotion was added to the church calendar by Pope Pius IX.

Significance of the Devotion: 

Jesus’s profound love for us is demonstrated through His willingness to sacrifice His life for our sake. The love from His heart motivated all His actions — His inner life manifested in His demonstrated virtues and sacrifice. Yet this great love is often received with ingratitude, even by the faithful. The purpose of devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is to focus our hearts on receiving and returning His love with gratitude — with all of our heart, soul, and strength — that He may be glorified. Pope Pius XII explained that the devotion to the Sacred Heart is connected to our worship of Christ as God incarnate:  

It is altogether impossible to enumerate the heavenly gifts which devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus has poured out on the souls of the faithful, purifying them, offering them heavenly strength, rousing them to the attainment of all virtues. Therefore, recalling those wise words of the Apostle St. James, “Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of Lights… That all may understand more exactly the teachings which the selected texts of the Old and New Testament furnish concerning this devotion, they must clearly understand the reasons why the Church gives the highest form of worship to the Heart of the divine Redeemer.