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28th Sunday, 11th October   -   Day of Prayer for Prisoners

Sunday Masses                           

9.30am      Jock Halton (A)                        
11.00am    Gerald & Teresa Thompson, Harold and Hannah Slater      
6.30pm      Frank Smith

Weekday Masses

Mon.   8.30am    Geraldine Ellis
Tues.  8.30am    Anne Gerard (FM)
Wed.   8.30am    Valerie Bretherton
Thurs. 8.30am    Peter Higgins (A)                                          
Fri.      8.30am    For the Sick
Sat.     8.30am    Mary Gaskell (LD)   

Sunday Masses, 18th October                             

9.30am       Jean Trafford (LD)                           
11.00am      Doreen & Jock Harvey (A), Mary Winifred Booth                    
6.30pm       Deceased Members of the Dickinson and Cocker Families

Please Pray For Our Sick Brothers and Sisters  

Jayne Hodge  Kathleen Reynolds  Bridget Cain  Hazel Lee  Mary Patten  Agnes  Martindale  Robert  Stretton  Hilda and Harold Haworth    Mildred Bridge   Margaret   and   Fred  Wood    Harold Sutton   Josie Down    Mary Campbell    Margaret Bower  Thomas Moss    Winifred Marshall   Gerard Baker    Hugh O’Daly    Margaret Dearden    Maureen Jackson    David  Woods      Frank Morris    David Lynch

Please remember two old faithful parishioners both ninety-three years of age – who died this week: Winifred Walmsley and Maureen Turner. We thank God for their good and long lives. May they rest in peace. Maureen’s requiem will be celebrated here on Tuesday at 10.30am, and Winifred’s on Friday at 10.30am. 

Baptism

Today we welcome in baptism Lindsay Karen Blyth.

Collection

Thank you for last week’s offertory collection of £916 and for your generous response to the Harvest Appeal - £555 to the CAFOD collection, and £860 to the “Water Aid” collection. Thank you.

Prisoners’ Sunday

Not perhaps the most appealing of appeals, but one the Church is very involved in... after all, we believe that no one is beyond redemption and that change can and does take place. Prisoners need our help and support. There are more than eighty thousand people in prison... that’s eighty thousand families – husbands, wives, children, that are affected. Will anything ever be done to change prisons from ‘lock-ups’ to places where people are encouraged to change their lives... for example more than three quarters of them cannot read, write or count to the standard of an eleven year old... drug use is widespread, undermining any attempts to clean up prisoners from pre-existing addictions: one inmate said drugs are easier to obtain than soap. The new Secretary of State is making the right noises... we pray that they will effect change in the way we treat prisoners in goal.

200 Club

The winners for the September draw were as follows:
1st prize no.36 (£50) G. & I. Barker    2nd prize no.102 (£30) P. Gomersall   3rd prize no.86 (£20) L. Smith

And thanks to the children who delivered ‘Harvest Boxes’ to our old parishioners – they were delighted to meet you when you called at their homes. Many thanks to their parents whose generosity filled the Harvest Boxes.

Open Evening

You are all invited to come to look around the School on Wednesday (6.00 to 8.00pm) – an Open Evening to show the School to prospective new parents (and children) and for us all to see the work being done there. You will be most welcome.

Synod on the Family

Please continue to pray for the 270 bishops who are meeting in Rome to talk about family life today.... we pray for the Holy Spirit to inspire them... .

Ministering to the Assembly

Counters  (12th October)        Terence Donnelly, Bernard Kiley

Rotas        (18th October)      

S.A.S.             Sandra Donnelly, Madge Martin, May West         
Readers        Terence Donnelly           Linda Walmsley            Norma Gillett
Ministers       David Chadwick             Catherine Todd             Carol Hardman        
                        Clare Meredith                Margaret Scard    
Dial a Ride    Phil Southworth              Bernard Hargreaves