ST PETER APOSTLE CHURCH, RUSHDEN
Parish Priest: Rev Joe Walsh
Tel: 01933 353649
Deacon: Rev Peter Remmington
Parish Secretary: Charmaine: Tue to Thu: 10am – 2pm Parish Safeguarding Representative: Stuart Pearce
Email: parish.stpeterrushden@northamptondiocese.org
Website: https://rushdencatholicchurch.co.uk/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/rushdencatholic
Facebook: www.facebook.com/StPeterApostleRCChurchRushden
23rd JULY 2023 – YEAR A
SIXTEENTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR
MASS BOOK: Page 105
PREFACE: Page 68 Number 8
EUCHARISTIC PRAYER: Number 3
MYSTERY OF FAITH: When we eat this Bread…
Sat: 6:30pm – Peter Gunn
Sun: 10:00am – People of St Peter’s living & deceased
Tue: 9:30am – Fr Kieran Dodd (Brentwood), Fr John Sullivan (Nottingham), Fr Martin Orme (E.Anglia)
Wed: 7:30pm – Enrico Panarella
Thu: 9:30am – Special Intention
Fri: 7:30pm – Cross
Sat: 6:30pm – Philip Wardle
Sun: 10:00am – People of St Peter’s living & deceased
Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturday 11am – 11:30am
Please pray for those whose anniversaries occur at this time: (Catherine) Anne Brennan, Alice Merle Vinter, Maureen Joylisa Roberts, Patrick Brogan, Pietro Sacco, Jim Knighton, James Horner, Michael Prystorz, Philip Wardle, Bridget Presland, Ernie Hulett, Jan Indyka, Norman Cox and John Robinson.
Please remember in Prayer
Tony A., Bris, Nick, Bernie, Anna, the Collett family, Jeff, Kevin, Sindhu, Susan, Gill, Rosie, Samantha, Richard Addae Jnr., Marrianne, Susan, Rosie, Gill, Albert & Tina, Sophie, Neil, John, Terry, the Skilton and Vallet families and Fleurette.
OFFERTORY: Last week’s collection amounted to £518.35. Thank you very much.
SECOND COLLECTION: next weekend for Survive-Miva Survive-Miva is a Catholic lay Association, based in Liverpool and founded in 1974, which provides grants to fund essential transport for health outreach work in isolated rural areas, and for Church’s pastoral care in places of difficult access, across Africa, Asia and Latin America. The speaker on behalf of the Association will be Mr Alan Morris.
ROSARY: Is taking a short break over the summer and will resume again in September.
BAPTISM: At the 10am Mass today for Elliott Leo Lucente
FOODBANK DONATIONS: There is a comprehensive list of requested items at the back of Church (including tinned foods & household goods). Please keep the donations coming, as stocks are running low and demand is increasing more and more. Thanks to everyone for all the donations, both of goods and money!
FOOD BANK DONATIONS UPDATE: Thank you for all your donations. Cash donations came to £317.81 for the months of May and June. God bless you all.
WORK AID: There are a few copies available of the Summer newsletter which highlights the empowering of young people in Africa through vocational training.
QR code for St Peter Apostle Rushden.
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ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION
My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the most Blessed Sacrament. I love You above all things and I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there, and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen.
Seeing your Life through the Lens of the Gospel
- The owner of the filed who allowed the wheat and the darnel to grow together is a reminder to us to be patient with ourselves and with others when we see everything is not right. Sometimes a preoccupation with the negative (the darnel) can blind us to seeing the positive in our own lives and in the lives of others. When have you found that a willingness to live with the messiness of the present created the conditions for future growth?
- Have you ever found that it was through accepting the darnel that you learned important lessons for life, e.g. learning by making mistakes, or asking stupid questions, or taking foolish risks?
- The parables of the mustard seed and the leaven are reminders that seemingly insignificant things can have very positive results. Have you ever been surprised by the benefit to yourself or others of a kind gesture, a small initiative, or a word of encouragement?
PREPARATION FOR MASS: Please help when preparing for Mass in church by being aware of others who are praying, by keeping noise and distraction to a minimum. Thank you.
St Ignatius of Loyola *(1491-1556) * 31st July
We must speak to God as a friend speaks to a friend, now asking some favour, now acknowledging our faults, and communicating to him all that concerns us, our thoughts, our fears, our projects, our desires, and in all things seek his counsel.
The Pope’s intention for July:
For a Eucharistic life: We pray that Catholics may place the celebration of the Eucharist at the heart of their lives, transforming human relationships in a very deep way and opening to the encounter with God and all their brothers and sisters.
ADORATION: Tuesday from 10:15am to 6pm.