ST PETER APOSTLE CHURCH, RUSHDEN
Parish Priest: Rev Dariusz Bialowas
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/StPeterApostle churchRushden
13th OCTOBER 2024 – YEAR B
TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR
MASS BOOK: Page 143
PREFACE: Page 69 Number 6
EUCHARISTIC PRAYER: Page 18 Number 1
MYSTERY OF FAITH: When we eat this bread …
Sat: 6:30pm – People of St Peter’s living and deceased
Sun: 10:00am – Marg Ellis RIP
Tue: 10:00am – Mary Nelson RIP
Wed: 7:00pm – Pietro Aufiero RIP
Thu: 10:00am – K V Varghese RIP
Fri: 12 noon – Special Intention
Sat: 6:30pm – People of St Peter’s living and deceased
Sun: 10:00am – For prisoners and their families
Rosary: Wednesday 6:30pm
Holy Hour, Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and
Confession: Friday 11am
Please pray for those whose anniversaries occur at this time: Helen Berwich, Franciszek Kureczko, C. O’Brien, Zoe Buckman, Harold Stocker, Patrick Spring, Patrick Higgins, Margaret (Madge) West, Monica Chadbon, Maureen Maher, James Foster, Helena Indyk and Siobhan Buckley.
Please remember in Prayer
Tony Bird, Mia, Victor, Cynthia Connor, Jane, Andrew, Alejandre, Nerita, Peter, Mia, Patsy, Gregory, Shaun, Louise, Lily, Frances, June, Matthew, Barbara, Susan Allen, Elizabeth, Win, Sunbarashe, Alessandra, Catherine, the Cudone family, Maria, Bud, Jan, Mary, Alan, Nick, the Collett family, Gary, Isla, Anna, John, Win & family and Michael, Eileen Bishop, the Igerl family, Emma, Eva, Ann, Margaret Murray & family, Joan, Emilia, Sam, Yvonne, Kele, Luna, Kirk, Sopie, Lewis and Nathan.
OFFERTORY: Last week’s collection amounted to £460.29. Thank you very much.
SECOND COLLECTION: Last weekend raised £862.48 for CAFOD Family Fast Day. Thank you very much.
SECOND COLLECTION: Next weekend is for World Mission Sunday.
CHILDREN’S LITURGY: Is available to all children age 5-9 years old at the 10am Mass. We invite the children to come out to the hall/lounge after the entrance hymn and we return them at the Offertory.
FIRST HOLY COMMUNION 2025: If your child is in year 3 or above and you wish for them to make their First Holy Communion next year then could parents please complete the enrolment form at the back of church and return it to the office. We will be beginning the lessons in November.
NOVEMBER DEAD LIST: Envelopes are provided at the back of church to give names of loved ones whom you wish to be remembered at all November Masses. Include your offering in the envelope and put it in the collection basket
BISHOP VISITING: Bishop David will be joining us for Mass on Sunday 27th October 2024 and will be blessing the new cross in Church.
THANK YOU: A very big thank you from the St Vincent de Paul Society for your very generous donations of clothes for Five Wells Prison. They have been added to the clothes collected at the two Wellingborough churches and duly delivered to the Prison
CONFIRMATION 2025: Enrolment forms will be coming out soon for the Confirmation programme. This is open to children in year 7 and above who have received their First Holy Communion.
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!
LIVING FAITH: Daily scripture reflection magazine for October to December 2024 now in Church, priced £3.00.
CHRISTMAS CARDS: Now available in the repository.
WORLD MISSION SUNDAY: Next Sunday, is when the Holy Father invites all Catholics to contribute to a special collection for Missio, his charity for world mission. Please support Missio in helping missionaries to work alongside communities throughout the world that are poor or in need, regardless of their background or belief. Join in on this special day that unites Catholics all over the world in prayer and celebration of our Church’s mission to share God’s love with all people. Please Gift Aid your donation if possible: see https://missio.org.uk/donate/
Seeing your Life through the Lens of the Gospel
- We often get satisfaction from the things we own, clothes, cars, homes, gadgets, or money. There would be something unnatural if we did not. But what happens to us when our possessions begin to ‘own’ us, when they take a hold us, when we become obsessed with them? Jesus seeks followers who have the freedom to let go of possessions in order to be a servant of others. In whom have you seen this freedom? When have you experienced it yourself?
- Growth implies change. That change sometimes means letting go of something we have at this moment: job, status, home, security, or something else we value. There can be an apparent loss in letting go. Yet have you ever found that you gained more than you lost by having the freedom to let go of something to which you had previously clung?
- The disciples thought that Jesus was making impossible demands of people following him. He acknowledged that discipleship was impossible to us on our own efforts alone. How have you experienced the benefits of the help of others and of God when you were faced with difficulties in life?