St Mary’s atholic hurch

1 Gggggggggggggggggggggggg Church cleaning every Friday, after the Morning Mass. Your help would be much appreciated NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - B AUGUST 12, 2018 THIS WEEK S MASS TIMES AND INTENTIONS Sunday (Sat) Mass Glendria De Souza (Intentions) Mass Ken Rees (RIP) Mass Giuseppe Fraone (Anniversary) Monday NO MASS TODAY Tuesday Mass Regina De Sa (Intentions) + Marcos Fernandes (Intentions) Wednesday Mass Francisco Vas (Anniversary) Mass Paul Gosling (RIP) Thursday Mass Stacey Francisco Crasto (Intentions) Friday Mass Johnny McGlone (Anniversary) Saturday Mass Bernard Pereira (RIP)

2 NEXT SUNDAY S MASS TIMES AND INTENTIONS (AUGUST 19, 2018) Sunday (Sat) Mass Janina & Adam Baron (Anniversary) Mass Frank & Sandra Sommers (Wedding Anniversary) + Ferdie De Oliveira (Intentions) Mass Pelia Edoandeou (Intentions) PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOU PRAYERS all those who are sick especially: Cathy Walker, Anna Tickner, Peadar Heffron, Sheila Hughes, Christopher and Cath Brown, Julia Harrison, Lena Watson, Cheryl Dawson, Louise Stacey, David Edwards, Irena Fliska, John Foley, Eileen Hughes, Benny Zammit, Terri Rhind, John Ruck, Joanne Connelly, Ruth Sellars, Lucy Murray, Eileen Foley, Mary Joyce, Bill Cummins, Bill Mckay, Bill O Donnell, Elizabeth McGill, Francisco Fernandes, Bernard McGuinness, Andrew McCarthy, Kathleen Lenehan, Xena Przybyszewski, Marie Lowe Parish website: Deanery website: Diocesan website: Parish Administrator: Deacon Elias Fernandes - Parish email: Safeguarding Rep: (CRB): Teresa Sugden - Parish records: Parish Priest: Fr Michael McAndrew - Deacon: Shaun Murphy (retired) Deacon: Elias Fernandes Deacon.

3 Terry Aspell St Mary s Catholic Church Tovey Road Swindon SN2 1LQ Tel: 01793 535089 Entrance Antiphon: Look to your covenant, O Lord, and forget not the life of your poor ones for ever. Arise, O God, and defend your cause, and forget not the cries of those who seek you. Response to the Psalm: Taste and see that the Lord is good. Gospel Acclamation: If anyone loves me he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him. Communion Antiphon: O Jerusalem, glorify the Lord, who gives you your fill of finest wheat. SUNDAY MASS TIMES (Sat) and CONFESSIONS Saturday: & - Church cleaning every Friday, after the Morning Mass. Your help would be much appreciated ASSUMPTION OF OUR LADY: Wednesday is the Feast of the Assumption and is a holy day of obligation. Mass is at 9am and 7pm. PRAYERS TO MARY MEMORARE: Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thine intercession was left unaided.

4 Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my mother; to thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me. Amen. PRAYER: Pour forth, we beseech you, O Lord, Your Grace into our hearts; that we, to whom the incarnation of Christ, your Son, was made known by the message of an angel, may by his passion and cross, be brought to the glory of His Resurrection, through the same Christ, our Lord. Amen. BAPTISM: We welcome into the Church Thomas offley who is being baptised this weekend here in St Mary s. FEAST OF ST LAWRENCE: The Goan Community in Swindon will be celebrating the feast of St Lawrence on Saturday 18th August at 3pm in Konkani (Goan Language) here at St Mary s Church. All are welcome. ST MARY S SVP: Many thanks to all those who contribute to the Foodbank each week.

5 They have contacted us to say that they are in particular need of the following items like small bags of sugar, small bottles of squash, small bags of Tea bags, small jars of coffee. All donations goes in the basket at the back of the Church. Thank you so much for your continued support and generosity. A DAY WITH MARY: There is a poster on the notice board giving details of the service held at Downside Abbey on Saturday 25th August 2018. CHILDREN S LITURGY OF THE WORD: A formation day for those who lead the Children s Liturgy of the Word, will be held on Saturday 13, October from 10am to 1pm in the Apostle Room, Clifton Cathedral, Pembroke Road, Bristol, BS8 3BX. This formation morning welcomes all those who work to enable the children in our parishes to hear and reflect upon the word of God through Children s Liturgy. We spend time with CLOW leaders and catechists helping one another understand how and why we celebrate the Liturgy of the Word with children.

6 All are welcome. OFFERTORY COLLECTION last weekend came to 999 and 510 by standing order. Many thanks for your generosity. YEAR OF MISSION The beautiful narrative from today s first reading presents us with a man on the run Elijah. He s fed up and he s had enough! The food that he is offered a simple scone and some water nourishes and strengthens him to continue his journey a little further. Without that food the Lord offers him, he will wither and fade; with it he is encouraged and enlivened. What is offered to us in the gift of the Eucharist is life. We come to encounter the Lord who feeds us with his very self in our own weariness, sadness, loneliness, fear and desperation. We come to Mass sometimes fed up and with that feeling of wanting to give up. Christ reaches out to us in that weariness only to encourage us in the Eucharist, enliven us in the Eucharist and love us in the Eucharist.

7 May the gift we receive this Sunday enable us to be something of the Lord s encouragement to may they find strength from the Lord they encounter in us.