FIFTEENTH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME
SUNDAY: PARISH MASS with APPEAL FOR MSP MISSIONS at 10.00am (Live-streamed)
(Mass for Slovenian Pilgrims at 8.30am)
MONDAY: No Parish Liturgy – (Mass for Slovenian Pilgrims at 8.30am)
TUESDAY: No Liturgy
WEDNESDAY: No Parish Liturgy
Funeral Mass for Canon Michael English (St John’s Bath at 12noon)
THURSDAY: Feast of St Bonaventure, Bishop & Franciscan Theologian (1218-1274)
School Leavers & End of Year Mass at 9.30am – all welcome
Adoration at 11.30am Mass at 12.00 noon
FRIDAY: Adoration 11.30am Mass at 12noon
SATURDAY: Adoration 11.30am Mass at 12.00 noon
Sacrament of Reconciliation after 12 noon Mass and 4.00-4.30pm
TODAY [1] With the Fifteenth Sunday of Year A we celebrate Jesus the Seed of Gd’s Word and Love sown into the fertile soil of our lives of faith. Matthew gives us Jesus great parable to the Sowing of the Seed. We are all called to be ‘sowers of the Seed’ of Jesus Word and Love into the soil of our world, the soil of every human heart. Do we welcome HIs Word and allow that Word to grow within us and shape our lives? Do we sow the Gospel into our world and it structures?
[2] We welcome Fr Francis Ezennia MSP, parish priest of Lawrence Weston and Shirehampton, to preach the Annual Missionary Appeal on behalf of his Congregation – the Missionaries of St Paul of Nigeria. I will be celebrating the masses in Shirehampton and Lawrence Weston while you all make Fr Francis at home here at St Nicks!
[3] We also welcome a group of 29 Slovenian Pilgrims, with their Franciscan priests, Fr Pavle Jakop OFM and Fr Vid (Franc) Lisjak OFM. They are celebrating Mass at St Nicks at 8.30am.
NEXT SUNDAY [1] On the Sixteenth Sunday of Year A we celebrate Jesus, servant and proclaimer of the Kingdom of God. He speaks of the Kingdom as seeds growing with us to bring about a great harvest of justice and tree of welcome and love. Our parish is called to that tree that gives shelter and warmth and the discovery of freedom in Christ. Are we the yeast within our society – our inner city – that gives wholesome and life-giving bread to all?
[2] Thank you for your generosity in responding to Ricardo’s moving words after Mass on the 5th July. We are holding another Retiring Collection for the victims of the devastating Earthquakes in Venezuela, and the money will be channelled through CAFOD. Thank you again.
PRAY FOR THIS WEEK’S PARISH MINISTRY OR MISSION We pray for the Lay Ministry of the Eucharist. Our Lay Ministers of the Eucharist enable us to receive the Precious Blood of the Lord each Sunday Mass and lead Services of Word and Communion when Richard is away. This nurtures the prayer and worship life of the community especially when a priest is not available. Lay Ministers of the Eucharist also ensure that all our housebound and long-term sick can receive the Healing Christ of the Eucharist in their own homes on a weekly basis. We are needing to train and commission a few more lay ministers to continue this invaluable ministry and touches the praying and sacramental heart of the parish..
DIOCESAN PRAYER We pray for the parish in communion for mission of St Luke and St Teresa, Wincanton , served by Fr Francis Eyo MSP and all their community.