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29th Sunday, 18th October

Sunday Masses                           

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

Weekday Masses

Mon.    8.30am     Frank Morris
Tues.   8.30am     Frank Smith
Wed.   8.30am     Mary & Bernard Rigby (A)
Thurs. 8.30am     Florence & Annie Guest (A)
Fri.       8.30am     Special Intention
Sat.      8.30am     Bridget McManus

Sunday Masses, 25th October

9.30am     John Houghton (A)
11.00am    Christina Catterall
6.30pm     Frank Smith                                                                                                               

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      Jim Green

Please remember Tracey Lynch (Margaret’s granddaughter) who sadly died last week. May she now rest in peace.

Baptism

Today we welcome in baptism Neave Elizabeth Walsh and remember her and her family in our prayers.

Collection

Thank you for last week’s offertory collection of £964, including some envelopes returned from other churches.

Synod on the Family

The synod enters its final week today. Please pray that the Holy Spirit will inspire the deliberations of the bishops as they reflect on the issues facing family life today.

Welcome

Today we welcome Alan Cunliffe into our parish community. Alan is no stranger to the church... he and Yvonne have been married for more than forty years bringing up their three children in the practice of the Faith... and now he has decided to join them and the grandchildren.

Alan, the Christian community here welcomes you with great joy, and wishes you and your family every blessing. Olivia, Alan’s granddaughter who is a chorister at Blackburn Cathedral, will sing the Pange Lingua after Communion as a prayer of thanksgiving.

Lourdes Pilgrimage

There is a lovely photograph on the notice board of our younger parishioners who joined the Lourdes pilgrimage last summer. Kathy Charnock, one of the diocesan organisers, writes: - “This year 45 young people from across Lancashire made the journey to Lourdes – over 1000 miles and 25 hours each way by coach.... to serve the sick and elderly. The young people worked long hours, after starting their day at 6.30am and finishing at 10.30pm. During this time they worked with sick, frail and elderly people providing care, companionship, and a means of getting about (by pushing wheelchairs).

The young people came back deeply affected by the experience, learning so much about themselves and their faith.... we have no doubt the experience of Lourdes will remain with them.... thank you all for your financial support which enabled the young people to make this pilgrimage.”

Bookings for next year’s pilgrimage (21th – 29th July) open on 9th November (at 9.00am!). To book a place, pull off an application form from www.animateyouth.org and send it straight back – you will need to have it signed by me and send the deposit with the form, so please come up to see me and the parish will find the deposit for you. But you have to move quickly as the places on the Lancs Coach go very quickly!

Dates for the diary

Nov 1st      Lamp Sunday
Nov 8th     Remembrance Sunday, Presentation of the children to be confirmed
Nov 15th    Annual Mass to remember parishioners who have died these last twelve months
Nov 22nd   Youth Sunday
Nov 29th    First Sunday of Advent

Ministering to the Assembly

Counters  (19th October)        Eileen Snape, Rita McIntyre

Rotas        (25th October)      

S.A.S.                  Mary Wakeman, Liz Fowler         
Readers            Angela MacLeod (9.30am)        Donna Lynas (11.00am)            Alex Duxbury (6.30pm)
Ministers           Christine Crossen                        Linda Walmsley                          Caroline Straw        
                            Emmy Moss                                  Sharon Hobin    
Dial a Ride        Malc Scard                                    Terry Donnelly