St. Mary’s Newsletter

St. Mary’s Newsletter
Parish Priest: Fr. Tim O’Sullivan
Assistant Priest: Fr. Peter Ingman
Parish Administrator (Part-time): Kim Cheek
Parish Catechetical Co-ordinator: Fran Wickes
30th Sunday
St Mary’s Rectory
Bridge Gate, Derby, DE1 3AU
Presbytery: Tel: 01332 346126
Office: Tel: 01332 989505
Twitter:@StMarysHolyFam
email:[email protected]
www.stmarysparish.co.uk
NRCDT a registered charity – www.nottingham - diocese.org.uk
Year A
26th October 2014
Mass Intentions
Sun 26 9.00am Derek & Dorothy Halliday RIP
11.00am Rev Michael Archer RIP
6.30pm People of the Parish
Mon 27 1.00pm Terry Maplestone RIP
Tue 28 1.00pm Veronique Villanueva Leal RIP
Wed 29 1.00pm George & Mary Biggs RIP
Thur 30 8.00am Bridgegate Convent
Holy Souls
1.00pm Dorothy Doherty RIP
Fri 31 8.00am Bridgegate Convent
Holy Souls
1.00pm Sheamus Hennessy RIP
Sat 1 12.00noon Rose Conway RIP
6.30pm Philomena Convery (ill)
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Mon - Fri 12.30pm - 12.55pm
Sat 11.00am - 11.55am
6.00pm - 6.25pm
Collections for w/e 12h October 2014
Loose plate and envelopes
£ 1,116.00
Standing orders
£ 406. 00
Total £ 1,522.00
CAFOD Harvest Fast
World Mission Sunday
£669.00
£665.00
October Devotions -There will be Rosary and
Benediction this Friday (31st) evening at 7.30pm in
the Lady Chapel. Please come and join us.
boxes at the back of church. Many thanks for your
support.
Irish Rambling House Variety Concert , an
evening of music, song and dance at Derby Irish
Centre on Sunday 2nd November at 8pm
Adm £10. For tickets contact 07941621488 .
Lourdes in a Day II today, Sunday 26th October
Following the event in August, Fr. Greg and the
Lourdes team invite us all again to a day of Prayer
with Mary at St. Mary Crowned Glossop.
This will be an opportunity to unite in prayer with
our Lady, particularly at this time of war and hatred
in our world.
The programme for the day will be
2pm Mass
4pm Blessed Sacrament procession and
6pm Torchlight Procession.
Everyone Welcome
Derby Churches Justice and Peace Group
Tuesday Nov. 4th St Mary’s Parish Centre.
‘Resistance to WW1 – ignored or forgotten’
Valerie Flessati and Bruce Kent will address a
range of issues and consider what we may have
learned from WW1.
Refreshments 6.30pm-7.00pm, Meeting 7.00pm8.30pm. See notice board for more details.
First Holy Communion 2015 – Parents who would
like their child to receive the Sacraments of First
Holy Reconciliation and First Holy Communion in
A University Student Mass is held each Sunday at 2015 are asked to attend a meeting at St Mary’s
5.00pm in the Multi-faith Centre, Kedleston Road
Catholic Primary School, Broadway on Thursday
campus. All welcome. Contact
20th Nov at 7pm. Info about the programme and an
[email protected] for more information.
application form are available from the back of
Church or by contacting the Church office. They
Derby Churches Night Shelter has started their
can also be downloaded form the school website
preparations for opening their programme for this
www.stmarys.derby.sch.uk (under ‘Spiritual life’)
Winter on December 1st. They need money but
most of all they need Volunteers. The real heart of
Journey in Faith – there will be no RCIA meeting
this project is the welcome given to our guests
on Mon 27th Oct due to school half-term. Meetings
between 8pm and 10pm. We need about 250
will resume on Mon 3rd Nov in the Parish Centre. If
volunteers, with different roles including setting up,
you are a non-catholic and wish to learn more
cooking, welcoming and talking to the guests. Are
about Catholic teaching please come along. All are
you 18yrs or over and think this might be something welcome! More details from on of the priests.
you would like to explore? You will be given full
training and assigned to one of the venues on a
School Foundation Governors – Foundation
night that suits you.
Governors are an integral part of the leadership and
We also have volunteering opportunities like
management of our Catholic schools and
helping in the office, driving the minibus, cooking
academies and make a substantial contribution to
breakfast and helping at the Guest Support
their success. Most people find being a governor to
sessions which will be on Wednesday mornings
be highly rewarding. Across the diocese we have a
from 10.00am-12.00 noon at Ozzy Road Church.
number of vacancies that we need to fill and we are
The additional training sessions for Guest Support
inviting people to come forward who are willing to
th
will be on Wednesday, 12 November at Ozzy
become Foundation governors. If you have the
Road Church.
commitment and desire to become a governor now
Can you raise money? Finance – we ned
or in the future we would be delighted to hear from
£75,000 for our second winter of operation. Please you. For more info call the diocesan Education
contact us for details on Service Governor Support Team on 01332 293833
(01332) 460346.
or from the ‘governor Information’ section of the
Diocesan Education Service website
Food Bank
www.nottingham-des.org.uk where you will also find
Our parish supports local food bank and donations
an ‘Expression of Interest’ form which we would
are always gratefully received. If you are able to
encourage you to complete and return to us.
contribute, please bring your gift and put it in the
Permanent Diaconate – Our congratulations and
best wishes go to Martin Farrell and his family.
Martin will be ordained Deacon for
St Mary’s and Holy Family parishes next Saturday,
Nov 1st at St Barnabas Cathedral, Nottingham. The
mass will begin at 11:30am and Martin will be
ordained by Bishop John Sherrington, formerly a
priest of our diocese, now Auxiliary Bishop in
Westminster. Martin will speak about the role of the
Deacon at the Sunday morning Masses at St
Mary’s the following day (Nov 2nd), and at the
evening Masses and at the 9:30am Mass at Holy
Family the following weekend (Nov8th/9th). There
will be an opportunity to meet Martin over coffee in
the Parish centre after the Masses. Everyone is
welcome to the Cathedral next Saturday.
Nottingham is well served by buses from Derby, but
for those who require transport (and those who can
offer transport), a list is available on the tables at
the back of the Church for you to put your details.
November Dead List – It is part of Catholic
tradition to commemorate and pray for the souls of
our departed relatives and friends during the month
of November. If you wish to make a list of the
names you wish to be remembered, take an
envelope from the back of Church and then either
post it in at the presbytery or give it to one of the
priests. The list of names will then be placed on the
altar at each Mass celebrated during November.
Further Masses will be offered throughout the year.
St Mary’s Christmas Fayre meeting.
Mon 3rd Nov 7:30pm Parish Room 2 – Please
come along to our fundraising meeting. The mince
pies are waiting, and last year we raised £3,400
and were able to make a variety of donations.
Youth Worker Vacancy – The Catholic parishes of
the city of Derby are looking for a dynamic and
inspiring Youth Worker. 24 hours per week,
£20,000 per annum pro rata. For an application
pack – Fr Paul Newman, St Alban’s The Presbytery,
Roe Farm Lane, Derby DE21 6ET or email
[email protected]. Closing date Mon 3rd
Nov, interviews Wed 12th Nov.
African Catholic Community Derbyshire –
African Sung Mass Sun Nov 2nd at 2pm at St
George’s Church, 40 Village Street, Derby DE23
8SZ
New Group – We are mums with small children
who would like to create a welcoming and
community-spirited group for other women and
mums with kids. We would like to meet weekly to
get to know each other and to allow our children to
play together. Come along for tea and coffee every
Wednesday at 11:30am (until 1pm) in the Parish
Centre. Contact [email protected] for more
info.
Ministers of Holy Communion
The new rota is now available in the sacristry
With every blessing for the coming week from Fr Tim and Fr Peter
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