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St Peter’s and St Philip’s Newsletter 16, Green Lane, Hazel Grove, SK7 4EA Phone 0161 483 3476 Fax 419 9592
www.stpeterscatholic.church www.churchservices.tv/stockport Email [email protected]
Fr. Peter Sharrocks [email protected]
YOU ARE ALL WELCOME TO OUR PARISH COMMUNITIES
If you wish to attend Mass at St Peters on Saturday or Sunday then you should re-serve a place by e mailing [email protected].
If you wish to attend Mass at St Philip’s on Saturday evening then you should e mail [email protected]
FIRST READING: Exodus 20:1-17
PSALM 18 You, Lord, have the
message of eternal life
SECOND READING: 1 Corinthians 1:22-25
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory!
God loved the world so much that he gave his
only Son; everyone who believes in him has
eternal life. Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory!
GOSPEL READING: John 2:13-25
LENT WEEK 3 Year B Divine Office Psalter Week 3
ALL MASSES FROM ST PETERS WILL BE AVAILABLE ON THE LIVE STREAM Each evening the Rosary will be said at 7 00 p.m, except Sunday then at 5 00 p.m.
join in on line www.churchservices.tv/stockport. The Rosary is not open for people to attend but just broadcast over the internet.
Saturday 6th March 2021 11.00 am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 12 Noon Claire Grady & Gina Gormley 4 00 p.m. Mass in Syro Malabar Rite 6.00 pm Mass at St. Phillips - Sheila Smith (Birthday Int) 6.00 pm Polish Mass Readings Micah 7:14-15,18-20; Psalm 102; Luke 15:1-3,11-32 Sunday 7th March THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT Readings Exodus 20: 1-17; Psalm 18; 1 Corinthians 1:22-25;
John 2:13-25 10 00 a.m. People of the Parish 6 00 p.m. Dorothy Egerton Monday 8th March ST DAVID Patron of Wales 12 Noon Requiem Mass for John Hand (Invitation only) Readings: 2 Kings 5:1-15; Psalm 41; Luke 4: 24-30 Tuesday 9th March 2021 12 noon Deceased of McQueen & Carrahar Families Readings: Daniel 3:25, 34-43; Psalm 24; Matthew 18:21-35 Wednesday 10th March 2021 12 Noon Staff of St Philip’s School Readings: Deuteronomy 4:1,5-9; Psalm 147 Matthew 5:17-19 Thursday 11th March 2021 12 Noon Louis Daly Readings: Jeremiah 7:23-28; Psalm 94; Luke 11:14-23 Friday 12th March 2021 11 00 a.m. Requiem Mass for Tony Byrne (Invitation only) Readings: Hosea 14:2-10; Palm 80; Mark 12:28-34 NOTE TIME 6—00 p.m.—8 00 p.m. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Saturday 13th March 2021 11.00 am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 12 Noon Audrey Judge 6.00 pm Mass at St. Phillips—Rita Beryl 6.00 pm Polish Mass Readings Micah 7:14-15,18-20;Psalm 102; Luke 15:1-3,11-32 Sunday 14th March FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT Readings Chronicles 36:14-23; Psalm 136; Ephesians 2:4-10;
John 3:14-21 8 30 a.m. Secular Clergy Fund 10 00 a.m. Isabel Ana Paul (Birthday Intention) 6 00 p.m. People of the Parish
Welcome back to those attending Mass for the first time since lockdown NOTE 8 30 a.m. Sunday Mass recommences NEXT Sunday
The Sacrament of Reconciliation
will be celebrated in the sacristy during Exposi-tion of the Blessed Sac-rament on Fridays and Saturdays and subject to social distancing
THE WORD OF GOD
POPE’S INTENTIONS FOR March
Evangelisation:
That we may experience the sacrament of reconciliation
with renewed depth, to taste the infinite mercy of God.
Mother of God
Local Missionary
Area in Stockport
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Please remember to wear face masks and sanitise your hands coming in and going
out of church and keep to social distancing in-cluding sitting away
from the aisles as much as possible.
YOU SHOULD ONLY SIT WITH MEMBERS OF
YOUR OWN HOUSEHOLD
Please follow the Arrow markings on the
floor of the church DO NOT COME TO
CHURCH IF YOU HAVE ANY SYMPTOMS -
SNEEZING, COUGHING, SORE THROAT ETC
The Mill Hill Missionar-ies will offer their annual Novena of Masses and Prayers in preparation for the Feast of St Joseph, their patron, at St Jo-seph’s Church in Maid-enhead from Wednesday 10th to Thursday 18th March . Further details on
the online version of this
newsletter
Your prayers are asked for
The sick - Canon Brenda Hoban—former parish priest at St Philip’s, and remembering, all the sick in the par-ish, in our hospitals and nursing homes. We also remember those who are housebound and are unable to come to Mass. We remember especially young people who are sick. Let us also keep in our prayers all those who have care of the sick and the dying at this time often putting their own lives at risk in the process.. Lately Dead: , Tony Byrne (funeral on March 12th at 11 00 a.m.) John Hand (Junr), (funeral on March 8th at 12 noon, Michael Fogarty whose funeral will be on Tuesday March 16th at 12 noon here, Alan Shuttleworth , Anniversaries that occur around this time: Patrick Duffy, Austin McDonald, Margaret (Peggy ) Wagstaffe, Bernard Donlan, Mariette Hahn, Thomas Michael Parker, Peter Keary, Peter Ormerod, Keith O’Hara, Mary Wright, Vic Chesham, Alan Morgan, Margaret Parker, Arnold Riddiough, Frederick Carr and Jacob Holmes Prayer Intentions - We have a team of ’prayer warriors’ who will pray for your intentions at this time, send your intentions to the parish office and they will be forwarded. You can also light a ‘virtual’ candle on the par-ish website.
The Most Holy Body and Blood of the Lord (Year A)
Gospel Matthew 10:26-33 © Copyright 1966, 1967 and 1968 by Darton, Longman and Todd, and Doubleday and Co Inc., and used by permission.
1. Take time to read and reread this Gospel, noticing which words, phrases draw your attention.
2. What new insights does the passage give you about Jesus?
Allow yourself to hear Jesus speaking these words to you today. Take time to respond to Jesus in
prayer.
For Conversation:
How receiving the Eucharist nourishes your community
to share Christ’s love with others.
How
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For Conversation:
The enormity of God’s love for each one of us.
To prepare for this prayer, spend a few moments asking the Holy Spirit to open your mind and heart to
hear this Word being spoken to you. 3rd Sunday of Lent John 2:13-25. The Cleansing of the Temple
Just before the Jewish Passover Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and in the Temple he found people selling cattle
and sheep and pigeons, and the money changers sitting at their counters there. Making a whip out of some
cord, he drove them all out of the Temple, cattle and sheep as well, scattered the money changers' coins,
knocked their tables over and said to the pigeon-sellers, 'Take all this out of here and stop turning my Father's
house into a market'. Then his disciples remembered the words of scripture: Zeal for your house will devour
me. The Jews intervened and said, 'What sign can you show us to justify what you have done?' Jesus answered,
'Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up'. The Jews replied, 'It has taken forty-six years to
build this sanctuary: are you going to raise it up in three days?' But he was speaking of the sanctuary that was
his body, and when Jesus rose from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed
the scripture and the words he had said.
During his stay in Jerusalem for the Passover many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he gave,
but Jesus knew them all and did not trust himself to them; he never needed evidence about any man; he could
tell what a man had in him. Copyright…1966, 1967 & 1968 by Darton, Longman & Todd, & Doubleday & Co. Inc. and used by permission
1. Spend some time quietly reading and rereading the passage, noting the words/phrases that draw your attention.
2. Notice all that Jesus said and did…notice how different people reacted…and how Jesus responded to them…
3. What does the story tell you – about Jesus? - about discipleship?
4. The body of Christ …human beings ‘temples’ of Christ…Take time in prayer to reflect on the people to whom you
show most/least respect…the way you reverence the presence of Christ in others…
For Conversation:
The ways you/your community work for justice for the downtrodden.
LENT
Keep the crosses on you during Lent to remind you of the journey we are all on in union with the Lord..
During Lent there will be Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament each Friday evening from 6 00—8 00 p.m. and I
will be available for the Sacrament of Forgiveness at that time as well as on Saturday mornings as usual.
HOLY WEEK AND EASTER
Because of the current restrictions attendance at the Holy Week and Easter Services from Palm Sunday to
Easter Sunday inclusive will be by ticket only which will be able to be booked on line as at Christmas. Book-
ings will open after Mass on Sunday March 21st. Please do not e mail the office for booking these days.
On Palm Sunday there will be Masses at 8 30 and 10 00 a.m. and 6 00 p.m.
Holy Thursday at 7 30 p.m. Followed by Watching at the Altar of Repose until 9 00 p.m.. Good Friday at 3 00
p.m.. The Easter Vigil will be at 8 30 p.m. And Masses on Easter Sunday at 8 30, 10 00 and 11 30 a.m. only.
The actual ceremonies will be slightly curtailed, again, because of the restrictions.
INTERACTIVE ZOOM STATIONS OF THE CROSS.
“Lovely calm, reflective times and thought provoking”
Thank you to everyone contributed very thought provoking reflections and music on Wednesday evening for
the Stations of the Cross. Next Wednesday, 10th March 7.30pm, the reflections will be on the 7th, 8th, and
9th stations and everyone is most welcome to join in. The zoom codes are below but, if you prefer, you can
email David Fitton before next Tuesday and he will send you a link directly. [email protected]
We look forward to continuing this Lenten observance with you next week.
Meeting ID: 780 9998 1859 Passcode: 18kHk4
CAFOD Lent Appeal
Abdella lives in an extremely remote and
mountainous part of Ethiopia. It takes him ten
hours a day to collect water. He says his life
is being wasted as he has no time for any-
thing else. Give today to reach vulnerable
communities around the world with water
and to provide other vital support. Donate
online at cafod.org.uk/lent or by using a CA-
FOD envelope. You can also give via text.
Text LENT to 70460 to donate £10*. *Texts
cost £10 plus one standard rate message
you’ll be opting in to hear more about CA-
FOD’s work and fundraising via telephone
and SMS. If you’d like to give £10 but do not wish to receive marketing communications, text LENTNOINFO
to 70460. For more information, please see CAFOD’s Privacy Policy: cafod.org.uk/Legal-information/Privacy-
notice . The Lenten Family Fast Day envelopes aree available in the porch as you enter or leave Mass and the
Family Fast Collection will be taken on Easter Sunday. There is more information about this appeal on the
Cafod website. https://cafod.org.uk/Fundraise/Family-Fast-Day.
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ST PETER'S JUSTICE AND PEACE LENTEN PROJECT:
Laptops for schools - We have had a really positive response to our request for old laptops that can be sent into schools for children to use, but we would like to give the schools as many as possible, so please keep them coming. If you can, please deliver to Carmel O'Malley at 11, Aldwyn Crescent, Hazel Grove SK7 5HY - she has made space in her porch for a Covid safe drop off. If you would prefer, Carmel is happy to collect so please call her on 07747 145326 to arrange this. Supply of dried foods and tinned goods - Thank you for your kind generosity - we have had a fantastic re-sponse to our appeal and have already delivered food to the three primary schools. We intend to keep the appeal open and will deliver more food to the schools but in case there is a surplus, we will distribute food to the Hazel Grove Foodbank or the Wellspring. The green bin is in the porch next to the Piety Stall and is clearly labelled DRIED FOOD FOR SCHOOLS. We continue to ask for food that parents can use to make a nutritious meal or snack for children, so dried food without expiry dates, such as tinned meat/fish, cereal, beans/pulses, pasta, tea/coffee, long life milk, sugar etc. Please continue to pray for our schools: Our schools are a really big part of our church family and have remained open for teaching the most vulner-able students and the children of key workers throughout lockdown. Please hold our teachers, the support staff and the whole school community in your prayers: Thank You, Father, for technology allowing many students to continue their educations online. For virtual classrooms and technological resources. Thank You for every teacher and student adjusting to their new normal. Comfort teachers and support staff as they miss interacting with their students in person. Equip them with energy and inspiration to come alongside their students in this challenging time of crisis. Protect their health, Father, both physically and mentally. Encourage them to use their gifts and talents to find new ways to reach students.
BEREAVEMENT GROUP Our next Zoom Bereavement Group Meeting will be on Tuesday 9th March at 2.00 pm, when we will be being entertained by Brendan. Rachel will send out the Zoom link to you all. If you have not joined us before and would like to please email Rachel on [email protected].
NEWSLETTER DELIVERIES
If you, or someone you know, would like a church newsletter delivered every few weeks to your door, because
you can't access this online, please email us [email protected] and we will try to help.
If you, or someone you know, would like to go on our list because you're feeling more isolated or in need of a
friendly phone call, you can fill in the form on https://sites.google.com/view/st-peters-helpers/home or leave a
message for us at church
OFFERTORY GIFTS Thank you for your generous donations last week which amounted to £705-55 plus online giving last month came to over £1000 per week. Thank you to those who are putting their Offer-tory envelopes through the door and who have done the on line giving.. Please continue to put your of-ferings in an envelope and save them until we are ‘back to normal’ or you can post them through the presbytery door. If you are putting several weeks collection in at the same time you only need to use one envelope. Many of the new sets of Offertory Envelopes have been delivered through your doors over the past few days but there are some remaining to be picked up in church or will be sent by post shortly.. If you wish you can send an offering by cheque payable to St Peters Hazel Grove or
do a direct transfer to: St Peters Hazel Grove at Lloyds Bank 30 15 52 54607668 or set up a Standing Order or for St Philip’s
go to St Philips Offerton 30 15 52 54674660 If your bank asks for the name of the account it is Shrewsbury Roman Catholic Diocese Trustees with the above
account numbers NEW PROJECT - CARD MAKING
Are you interested in trying out a new hobby - or perhaps revisiting one you have tried before?
You will need: scissors, pencil, ruler, clean cloth to press down toppers, (coloured pencils/felt pens
would also be useful but not essential)
We will provide: simple instructions, the materials needed to make the cards (card blanks, toppers, glue
stick if needed).
Stage 1 will be making some simple cards/notelets for your own use.
Stage 2 will be the main purpose of the project i.e. making Christmas cards for 2021, to be distributed in
the Parish, using recycled images from 2020. We will need 800+ if we are to achieve our aim!
Can you help?
If you are interested please contact Mary on [email protected] with your name, address and
telephone number, or you can leave a message for us on the church number.
FROM FR PETER
Another week gone and another week nearer liberation from lockdown! It is good to see the infection and
death rates going down so our lockdown has not been wasted. This week too sees the full time resump-
tion of the opening of our schools which will be a great relief to parents, if not children and teachers. My
youngest nephew and his good lady celebrated the birth of their first baby on Tuesday—a hefty 8lbs+
born on the same date has her great great
grandmother but some 132 years apart.
The rest of the family took a glass or two
to celebrate. Needless to say we have only
seen photographs up to now but we look
forward to seeing the real one in person.
I also took part in the Diocesan Youth Ser-
vice Lenten Service on Wednesday eve-
ning. It was live from our front garden and
it was bitterly cold but fortunately part of
the service was the lighting of a fire which
helped to keep the circulation going.
United and Crystal Palace was hardly
something to warm us up afterwards. If
you have nothing better to do you can
watch a recording on the SYMT channel
of You Tube (That is the service not
United and Palace!)
Next Sunday, March 14th, sees the reintro-
duction of the 8 30 am Mass. Our atten-
dances have been going up steadily in re-
cent weeks so much so that last week we
had to turn some people way who came hoping to get in but had not booked.. Some weeks at 10 00 a.m.
we have been very close to our legal capacity so the 8 30 Mass will give us an extra 38 ‘spots’. Please
remember to book in for the weekend Masses and if you have booked and then find you cannot come
please let us know so that where possible we can give the place to someone else.
Have a good week
Fr Peter
The National Novena to St Joseph will take place from 10th- 18th March 2021
at St Joseph’s Church in Maidenhead. In this Year dedicated to St. Joseph, t
he Mill Hill Missionaries are preparing for the Feast of St Joseph, their patron,
with a special Novena of Masses and prayers to ask for God’s blessing on their
Society’s missionary outreach, and for the intentions of all those who support t
heir work.
If you are able, and if it is possible to attend, Masses are on Wednesday to Friday
(10-12 March), at 7.30pm, Saturday, 13 March at 10am, Sunday, 14 March at 11.00am, Monday –
Thursday (15-18 March) at 7.30pm.
If you are unable to attend but would like to join in from home, for the first time this year, Masses from St. Joseph’s Church will be available to follow on Zoom and YouTube via the parish website: stjoseph-sparish.co.uk and the Mill Hill website: www.millhillmissionaries.com/novena, where you will also find the Novena prayer leaflet. You can also join in by praying the daily Novena prayer, which will be in your Novena prayer leaflet. You are welcome to send in your petitions and/or to request a printed Novena prayer leaflet. Please write to
the Novena Director, 41 Victoria Road, Liverpool, L37 1LW, or email [email protected]
The past twelve months have been an exceptionally difficult time for all of us. We can only hope that the cur-rent vaccine rollout will eventually provide some relief. May the coming Novena to St. Joseph, in this Year dedicated to him by Pope Francis, be a source of comfort and support to all who have lost loved ones and whose lives have been adversely affected by this pandemic
NEW BEGINNINGS - A JOURNEY FROM LENT TO EASTER For the past few years I’ve produced a Lent reflection leaflet continuing a format started by Bryan Halson during our time to-gether on the former Shrewsbury Diocesan Justice and Peace Commission. This year Lent takes on a new meaning for me fol-lowing the death from natural causes of my beloved elder daughter Annie in June 2020. For Advent 2020 I put together a se-ries of weekly reflections based on her writings as a scripture scholar, teacher and evangelist. For Lent this year I am sharing some more of her material as we journey through Lent towards Easter. I’ve been looking at C S Lewis’ classic The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe whilst helping home-school our 9 year-old grand-daughter during the latest lockdown. It seems apposite in the current situation to identify with a bleak land where it is ‘always winter but never Christmas.’ At present it feels as though we are existing in a continual season of Lent, an enforced time of fasting and abstinence from so many of the ordinary pleasures we take for granted: visiting family and friends or new places, going to a film or out for a meal, enjoying a day out to the coast or the countryside. We wait, sometimes with impatience, for the time to move forward to Easter and the joy of the Resurrection. We are locked in a period of stasis, of stagnation. There is frustration and fear. Will our lives ever be the same again? But we can choose to embrace this enforced isolation as an oppor-tunity to quieten ourselves, to truly listen to God and discern a new way forward. We can use this time wisely to consider changes to our lifestyle that will help conserve the fast-diminishing natural resources of our planet, to live more simply and to work for the good of all. This is an opportunity to focus on what really matters and to journey in faith and hope.
Anne O’Connor Sunday, March 7 Lent 3 You, Lord, have the message of eternal life. Ps 18: 8-11 ‘God watches over me every day.’ Monday, March 8 My soul is thirsting for God, the God of my life. When can I enter and see the face of God? Ps 41: 2-3, 42: 3-4 ‘As we sought the face of the Lord we were filled with light, joy, peace and love.’ Tuesday, March 9 Your Father will not forgive you unless you each forgive your brother from your heart. Mt 18: 21-35 ‘In prayer we contemplated God’s unconditional love for us and his willingness to reform us when we fail.’ Wednesday, March 10 O praise the Lord, Jerusalem! Ps 147: 12-13, 15-16 ‘In telling our own stories we were able to invite God into our lives anew and to recognise his powerful presence among us.’
Thursday, March 11 O that today you would listen to his voice! Harden not your hearts. Ps 92: 1-2, 6-9 ‘So often we hurry through life, rushing from one task to the next, barely pausing to reflect or listen to the voice of the Lord.’ Friday, March 12 Repent, says the Lord, for the kingdom of heaven is close at hand. Mk 12:28-34 ‘Sometimes my path is blocked and I cannot go the way I would choose.’ Saturday, March 13 What I want is love, not sacrifice. Hos 5:15 - 6:6 ‘I believe that true evangelisation is born of love and desire: a love for all people and a desire that they come to know the love of Christ and the blessings of living in his kingdom.’
ANOTHER LENTEN RESOURCE The Jesuits in Britain and the BBC are bringing a special on line Lenten retreat. For Further details go to https://www.jesuit.org.uk/bbc-and-jesuits-britain-bring-you-special-lent-retreat
