Masses and Services this Week

Monday - 10am Eucharistic Service                    Tues – 9.30am Mass          Wed - 9.30am                      

Thursday - 10.30am Requiem Mass for Mary Veronica (Vera) Walmsley                           

Friday –  11.30am Rosary.  6.30pm Mass followed by Exposition.

Saturday – 10.30 Exposition then Mass at 11am followed by Confessions and the Rosary

Next Sunday Masses: 8.30am, 11am, 6.30pm

 

Please remember in your prayers this week:

Our sick and housebound:  Mark Keating, Rita Benthom, Sheila Rudd 

Lately Dead: John Morris, Dorothy Howard, Mary Veronica (Vera) Walmsley, Rev Malcolm Drummond (a local Anglican Minister)       

Anniversaries: Herbert Darbyshire

 

Parish Secretary. The office will be open this week on Tues/Wed 10-1pm, Thurs 10 – 12noon and Fri 10 – 2pm. If you wish to contact the Presbytery either call in or email: secretary.stmaryshorwich@gmail.com.  Tel no. 01204 468209.

 

St Patrick's Missionary Appeal We welcome to our parish this weekend Fr Henry Nkop who is making an appeal on behalf of the St Patrick Missionary Society (Kiltegan Fathers). There will therefore be a second collection taken after Communion.

 

Fr Richard will be away this coming week on retreat

 

November Prayer list If you would like anyone deceased to be mentioned on our November Prayer list then please send names to us as soon as possible and no later than the 25th October.  Mark any correspondence as "November Prayer list."  If there is an anniversary please state and we will attempt to include them on the day. Please do not include a donation with these lists.

 

Theatre Trip Group Thank you to all those who attended the trip to Chorley Little Theatre. 

 

The Enquirers Group continues this Thursday evening, time 7.30pm - 9pm in the Rosary Room, anyone is welcome to come along especially if enquiring about the Faith.

 

APF Mill Hill Red Mission Boxes  The ‘Mission Today’ magazines  will soon be delivered by promotors.   Pope Francis has declared that October 2019 is to be an ‘Extraordinary Month of Mission’.  If anyone would like to become a red box holder or to help with collections, please contact Paula Rowlinson on 01204 770378 or 07565 555502.

October is the Month associated with the Rosary Why not try to say a decade on the way to work or school or at home or at work, when you have a quiet moment, or when you need a quiet moment! We are also having a recitation of the Rosary on Saturday mornings after the 11am Mass.

 

Sunday Mass Times In Bolton Deanery there are 30 Masses at present. With the reduction in the number of priests, we are looking to reduce Masses. St Mary’s has 3 Masses and according to our numbers attending we only need 2. It is proposed we keep the Sunday 6.30pm and have 1 Sunday morning Mass at 10am (?) followed by Baptisms at 12 noon. Mass times can't be based on what is convenient for individuals but for the gathering of the community as a whole. Any thoughts?

 

Northern Philharmonic Orchestra at Salford Cathedral next Saturday.at 7.30pm. The concert will feature music by Debussy, Ravel, Daniel Hogan and Rimsky-Korsakov, performed by some of the UK’s most promising young musicians. Parishioners from the Diocese of Salford can receive £2 off their tickets by entering the code DIOCESE at the checkout.  For tickets, visit www.Northern-Philharmonic.com, phone the box office on +44 (0) 20 3627 6295 or email boxoffice@northern-philharmonic.com

 

Clocks go back next Sunday morning 27th October  - so one hour more sleep!