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Confessions

3rd Saturday of Month 11.30.-11.55.am.

Important Cemetery Notice

All visitors are asked to help keep tidy the Cemetery and use the appropriate bins for general waste (Green) and for composting (Brown). The Cemetery is maintained on a voluntary basis and any volunteers would be deeply appreciated. Please contact Tony Dilworth 277849.

On Admittance to Hospital

Hospital staff need to be made aware by you: that you, or the member of your family, or the person you accompany, are Catholic, and require the services of the Catholic Chaplaincy.

Children’s Liturgy-’Little Church’

Next Week: Clare Clitheroe/Gill Egan

Masses received upto

The Secular Franciscan Order-North West Region (M.Ks Intention); Sean & John (24/9).

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We pray for the Sick, especially the Sick of the Parish, including Phyllis McMahon, Louise Gallagher; John Ince; Bill Smith and Graham Johnson.

School Summer Fair will take place next Saturday, July 12, 2.00.pm. Raffle Tickets available after Masses today.

Today-Day for Life

‘The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; he rescues those who are crushed in spirit’ is the theme for this year’s Day for Life – the day dedicated to raising awareness about the meaning and value of human life at every stage and in every condition.

Day for Life 2008 will focus on Mental Health. It will help raise awareness of the needs of those affected by mental ill-health, their friends, their family and their carers and the support that the parish community can bring. Mental ill-health can happen to anyone - 1 in 4 people will experience a mental health problem at some stage in their life. Millions of people across Britain and Ireland are either living with or know someone close to them who has been affected by depression, schizophrenia, suicide, self-harm, bereavement, substance misuse or mental health difficulties at some stage in their lives.

Visit http://www.dayforlife.org/2008/resources.htm for helplines and useful websites.

Pope Benedict’s Prayer Intention for July

On volunteering, Pope Benedict writes, “The willingness to take up volunteer work can have various motivations. Frequently it is simply born of a desire to do something meaningful and helpful, and out of a desire for new experiences. Young people rightly and naturally also discover in volunteer work a source of joy, positive experiences and genuine camaraderie in carrying out a worthwhile project alongside others. Often these personal ideas and initiatives are linked to a practical love of neighbour; the individual thus becomes part of a wider community of support. A readiness to be at the service of others is something which surpasses the calculus of outlay and return: it shatters the rules of a market economy. The value of human beings cannot be judged by purely economic criteria. Without volunteers, then, no state can be built up. A society’s progress and worth constantly depend on people who do more than what is strictly their duty.”

We are invited to join Pope Benedict’s prayer intention for July, “….That there may be an increase in the number of those who volunteer to serve the Christian community with generous and prompt availability.”

Friday-St Benedict ~ Patron of Europe

Pope John Paul II dedicated six patron saints to Europe, one of which is Saint Benedict, whose feast day we celebrate on 11th July. Benedict was born of a distinguished family in central Italy, studied at Rome and was drawn to the monastic life. At first he lived as a hermit in a cave high up in the mountains. For a while some like-minded monks chose him as their leader, and the shift from hermit to community life had begun. Benedict had an idea of gathering various families of monks into one ‘Grand Monastery’ The Rule that gradually developed prescribed a life of liturgical prayer, study, and manual labour. In the course of the Middle Ages, all monasticism in the West was gradually brought under the Rule of St. Benedict.