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TWENTY-NINTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME  

20th OCTOBER 2024  

James and John, the sons of Zebedee, approached Jesus. ‘Master,’ they said to him ‘we want you to do us a favour.’ He said to them, ‘What is it you want me to do for you?’ They said to him, ‘Allow us to sit one at your right hand and the other at your left in your glory.’ ‘You do not know what you are asking’ Jesus said to them. ‘Can you drink the cup that I must drink, or be baptised with the baptism with which I must be baptised?’ They replied, ‘We can.’ Jesus said to them, ‘The cup that I must drink you shall drink, and with the baptism with which I must be baptised you shall be baptised, but as for seats at my right hand or my left, these are not mine to grant; they belong to those to whom they have been allotted.’
When the other ten heard this they began to feel indignant with James and John, so Jesus called them to him and said to them, ‘You know that among the pagans their so-called rulers lord it over them, and their great men make their authority felt. This is not to happen among you. No; anyone who wants to become great among you must be your servant, and anyone who wants to be first among you must be slave to all. For the Son of Man himself did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.’ Mark 10:35-45


Sun 20thTWENTY-NINTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (p.147)
11.30Mass – John Ollerton 

Mon 21st 

Tues 22nd St John Paul II 
09.30Mass – Edna Eastmead (LD) with Perpetual Succour Novena 
Please note the earlier time. 

Wed 23rdSt John of Capestrano   
Thurs 24thSt Anthony Mary Claret  

Fri 25th 
10.00Mass – Cathell McWilliam

Sat 26thSs Chad and Cedd   

Sun 27thTHIRTIETH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME  (p.149) 
11.30Mass – Peter Warren (A) 
12.30Baptisms - 

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK AND THE HOUSEBOUND: 
Joan Bailey, Francis Brennan, Anne Byrne, Mary Patricia Case, 
Gerard Clarke, Leo Duffy, Clare Edwards, John Fearnhead, Pat Font, 
Tom Fraser, William Freeman, Bob Goulding, Rosemary Hough, 
Cathy Hull, Mary Johnston, Archbishop Emeritus Patrick Kelly, 
John Kerfoot, Bill King, Emma King, Val McGlade, Janet McGowan, 
Fintan McPeake, Fr Laurence Mayne, Ellen Morris, Irene O'Neil, 
Heidi O’Neill, Barrie Swift, Jean White, all at Grove House & Marley Court.

ANNUAL MASS COUNT: the average attendance over four weeks at the 11.30 Mass was 79. 

RECENTLY DECEASED: John Moon (86)  died in Chorley Hospital on 4th October. The Funeral Mass was on Friday 18th October at 10.00, followed by interment in the parish cemetery. May John rest in peace. Also Frank Makinson who was at Marley Court for a long time, but died in Aarondale Nursing Home, Coppull. 

SPECIAL COLLECTION FOR UKRAINIAN REFUGEES  
The total collected came to £655.06. Many thanks for your generosity. Much appreciated. May God reward you. I will send this money out to Bishop Hryhoriy in Drohobych this coming week. 

CHANGE OF SUNDAY MASS TIME: 
Reaction has been almost unanimously positive to changing the Sunday Mass time to 11.00 from 3rd November 2024. This means moving St Mary’s Mass from 10.00 to 09.30. It would allow more time for baptisms and for visiting the sick. The Saturday Vigil Mass at St Mary’s will remain at 17.00. 

ST JOHN PAUL II – QUOTATIONS 
"Prayer can truly change your life, for it turns your attention away from yourself and directs your mind and your heart towards the Lord". 
“The more ready you are to give yourself to God and to others, the more you discover the authentic meaning of life.”
“Never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.”
“Courageously follow the path of personal holiness and diligently nourish yourselves with the word of God and the Eucharist. The holier you are, the more you can contribute to building up the Church and society.
“Today Christ is asking each of you the same question: do you love Me? He is not asking you whether you know how to speak to crowds, whether you can direct an organization or manage an estate. He is asking you to love Him. All the rest will ensue.”
“It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the whole world more human and more fraternal.”
"Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial". 
“When a young man or woman recognizes that authentic love is a precious treasure, they are also enabled to live their sexuality in accordance with the divine plan, rejecting the false models which are, unfortunately, all too frequently publicized and very widespread.”
"Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth". 
"Every person must be given the opportunity to profess his or her faith and belief, alone or with others, in private and in public". 
“The most beautiful and stirring adventure that can happen to you is the personal meeting with Jesus, who is the only one who gives real meaning to our lives.” 
"The Eucharist educates us to this love in a deeper way; it shows us, in fact, what value each person, our brother or sister, has in God's eyes". 
“Dear friends, if you learn to discover Jesus in the Eucharist, you will also know how to discover Him in your brothers and sisters, particularly the very poor.”
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire. 
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain there only remains standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.

RED ADMIRAL BRASS BAND – Early Christmas Concert at St. Chad’s Church, Whittle-le-Woods. Following the previous highly successful Brass Band Concert, Red Admiral Music Academy Brass Band are to give an early ‘Christmas concert’ on Sunday 24th November, at 2pm until 4.30pm in St. Chad’s Church, Town Lane PR6 8AJ. Tickets are £10 each for adults, no charge for children, and includes light refreshments.
The tickets can be reserved from Angela Derbyshire 07761 983041 or Ann Billington 07708 992621.

CHORLEY AND PRESTON HOSPITALS: Please contact St Joseph's Chorley (262713) if any member of your family is admitted into Chorley Hospital and needs a visit. In urgent cases or emergency please ask the ward staff to call the duty Chaplain on his bleep/phone. For the chaplaincy service at Royal Preston Hospital Tel: 01772 522435. For the chaplaincy service at Wigan Infirmary Tel: 01942 822324. 

BAPTISM BOOKINGS DATES: 24 November, 15 December, 26th January, 23rd February, 30th March. Baptisms on these dates will take place at 12.00 noon. Could those who have returned baptism forms please let me know which date they want for their child’s baptism? 

NOVEMBER PIOUS LIST:  As October is the month of the Holy Rosary, November is the month of prayer for our deceased families, friends and benefactors. Pious List envelopes now available at the back of church. 

WHY DO WE PRAY AND OFFER HOLY MASS for the deceased members of our family, friends or colleagues? “It is a holy and a wholesome thing to pray for the dead, that they may be released from their sins.” (2 Maccabees 12:46)
“For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.” (1 Cor 3:11-15) 
In these words, Scripture speaks of a purification after death.We live our lives being good or bad or more usually, a mixture of the two. When we die, our personalities, our souls have been formed by the choices we have made and the acts we have done on earth. Death separates the body from the soul, and we cannot after death change the choices we have made, 
If we have lived perfectly sinless lives, or made full reparation for any sins, the soul goes immediately to heaven to the presence of God with all the angels and saints. Those who die in unrepented mortal sin, definitively rejecting God, will be in a state of remorse and anger and hatred where God is not, called hell. 
If we die imperfect but in a ‘state of grace’ – repenting of our sins and trusting in Christ – then we need some purification, cleansing our souls so as to be fit for the presence of the All-Holy God. 
This is why we offer prayers and the Holy Mass, the most powerful of all prayers, for the deceased, to help them through this process of purification. We pray for all souls in purgatory, especially those who have no one to pray for them, because they cannot do anything for themselves.  




Parish Priest: Fr Francis Marsden
Secretary: Mr Frank Webster 
Parish Office: St Joseph’s Presbytery, 28 Bolton Road, Adlington, PR6 9NA
Wednesdays 10.00-13.00
Tel: 01257- 262537 (St Mary’s Chorley)
(No telephone now at St Joseph's Presbytery)
E-mail: stjosephs.anderton@tiscali.co.uk
Parish Website: www.stjosephsanderton.com

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