SUNDAY: PARISH MASS at 10.00am (live-streamed on parish website)
Glastonbury Pilgrimage – Mass with Bishop Bosco at 3.00pm
MONDAY: No Liturgy
TUESDAY: Feast of St Bonaventure, Franciscan Bishop & Theologian (1218-1274)
Adoration at 6.00pm Mass at 6.30pm
WEDNESDAY: End of Year School Mass at 9.30am (all welcome)
Adoration at 6.00pm Mass at 6.30pm
THURSDAY: Adoration at 11.30am Mass at 12noon
FRIDAY: Adoration at 8.30am Mass at 9.00am
SATURDAY: Adoration at 11.30am Mass at 12.00 noon
Mass in Shona with the Zimbabwean community at 1.30pm
Sacrament of Reconciliation: After Mass and 4.00-4.30pm
TODAY [1] We celebrate on the Fifteenth Sunday Year B Jesus who entrusts the Mission of Love to the Apostles – and to us in our day! Each one of us is called to be His disciples; each one of us sent to do His work of proclamation and healing; each one of us is called to build a New Way of being Church and sent to build a New Way of being our World! And the Good News that we are sent to proclaim is a loving and prophetic message – challenging both the Church and the World to be different – more divinely human! Will we accept His call? Dare we be His Apostles, His Prophets, His healers in the power of His Spirit?
[2] We gather for our Diocesan Pilgrimage to Glastonbury. Please pray for our new Bishop and all our diocesan family, seeking the intercession of Our Lady of Glastonbury and the three Martyrs of Glastonbury Abbey: may learn from their lives of prayer, witness and courage, to be a diocese of the Spirit’s courage, shaping a new future for our Church.
NEXT SUNDAY [1] On the Sixteenth Sunday of Year B we celebrate Jesus the Good Shepherd who puts aside his and the Apostles need for space to rest and ‘de-brief’ after their first experience of mission. Always the needs of broken humanity, wounded, defeated people come before His own need. He serves and shepherds with a generous heart that knows no limits. Our world of today needs us to touch the wounds and serve with the same heart overflowing with the love of the Good Shepherd. Will we be His Heart, His compassion?
[2] We gather with the LGBTQ+ community, families and friends for their monthly Mass at 3.00pm. As ever all are welcome – why not come and share and encourage them.
DIOCESAN PRAYER The Diocese prays today for Parish in Communion for Mission of Holy Family, Patchway, served by Fr Eugene Campbell VF (also Dean of our St Edmund of Abingdon Pastoral Area), Deacon Donald Cramer-Barnicoat, and all their community.
PRAY FOR THIS WEEK’S PARISH MINISTRY OR MISSION We pray for our Ministry of the Journey of Faith. We are called to share our faith not only with each other but with all who might come to us searching for new meaning, a new wisdom – the Gospel and the love of Christ. That is the purpose of our Journey of Faith group. It also serves Catholics who wish to explore about their faith more deeply and seek a renewal in Christ and his Spirit. Adult Catholics who have not yet been Confirmed in the Holy Spirit – this group is also for you in your journey towards completing your ‘Initiation into Christ’. The group is animated by Richard, Mary Hopper and Margaret Ulloa – interested in joining? please contact us.