OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST THE
UNIVERSAL KING
2 6 t h NOVEMBER 2023
Sat 25th
17.00 Vigil Mass – St Mary’s Chorley
Sun 26th SOLEMNITY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, UNIVERSAL KING
(Mass Book p.158)
10.00 Mass at St Mary’s Chorley
11.30 Mass – Pious List
12.30 Baptisms
Mon 27th
18.30 First Confessions for Year 4 children, in church
Tues 28th St Catherine Labouré
10.00 Mass – Pious List- with Perpetual Succour Novena
10.30 Meditation
Wed 29th
Thurs 30th
ST ANDREW, APOSTLE
Fri 1st Dec Ss Ralph Sherwin, Edmund Campion and
Alexander Briant, priests and Martyrs
10.00 Mass –– Louis Nightingale
Sat 2nd
17.00 Vigil Mass – St Mary’s Chorley
Sun 3rd FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT (Mass book Year B Vol 1 p.)
10.00 Mass at St Mary’s Chorley
11.30 Mass – Betty McGlade (A)
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK AND THE HOUSEBOUND: Joan Bailey, Doreen
Banister, Francis Brennan, Anne Byrne, John Campbell, Gerard Clarke, Leo Duffy,
Clare Edwards, John Fearnhead, Mary Fearnhead, Pat Font, Tom Fraser, William
Freeman, Bob Goulding, Rosemary Hough, Cathy Hull, Archbishop Emeritus Patrick
Kelly, John Kerfoot, Shirley King, Mary Johnston, Emma King, Fr Barry McAllister, Val
McGlade, Janet McGowan, Fintan McPeake, Fr Laurence Mayne, Fr Roman MIrchuk,
Ellen Morris, Irene O'Neil, Heidi O’Neill, Barrie Swift, Sylvia Walsh, Jean White, Betty
Wignall, all at Grove House & Marley Court.
RECENTLY DECEASED: Fr Nick Wilde (72), in the 49th year of his priesthood, died on
10th November. He had retired from St Luke’s Kirkby for many years. Funeral Mass at St
Joseph the Worker, Kirkby on Friday 1st December followed by interment in Yew Tree
Cemetery.
RETIRING COLLECTION this Sunday is for the Archdiocesan Youth Service ANIMATE. Next week for the Church Restoration Fund.
FIRST CONFESSIONS for Year 4 children will take place on Monday Nov 27th Nov. at
18.30 in church.
DATES AVAILABLE FOR BAPTISMS: 17 Dec. 31 Dec. 28 Jan
FORTHCOMING EVENTS:
Sunday 3rd December - Our next Family Mass.
Sunday 10th December - A special SVP Mass followed by Hot Pot Lunch.
A PARISH CHRISTMAS LUNCH is booked for Wed. 6th December at 13.00 at
The Retreat, 19 Church St, Adlington PR7 4EX. Lifts can be arranged both to
and from The Retreat, for those who need transport.
AN ADVENT EVENING OF RECOLLECTION FOR MEN organised by the
Wigan and District Catholic Men's Society, will take place at St Patrick's
Church, Wigan (WN1 3RZ) on Wednesday 6th December from 7pm. The Evening will include a Talk by CMS Chaplain and Parish Priest, Father Ian O'Shea,
and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament; concluding with Night Prayer and Benediction. Afterwards, refreshments will be served in the Lappin Room. All men
are welcome.
ADVENT RECONCILIATION SERVICE – Sunday 17th December 15.00, St
Gregory’s Weld Bank. PR7 3NW.
CHRISTMAS PRAYER GIFTS: If anybody would like to gift somebody a prayer or
psalm this Christmas, these are available to order from Linda Hoole. Examples are
available in a folder in the Repository. Proceeds from the sale of these will go towards
the SVP (proceeds from the Ukraine prayer will go Bishop Hryhoriy).
PRESTON ORPHEUS CHOIR invites you to A Festive Christmas with Music Director
Dan Adams, accompanist Paul Greenhalgh and featuring Freckleton Brass Band and St
Pius X Catholic Preparatory School Choir. On Saturday 9th December at 7.00pm in St
Michael and All Angels’ church, Egerton Road, Ashton-on-Ribble, Preston, PR2 1AJ.
Admission: Adults £13, under 18s £5, family £30 (2 adults and 2 under 18s) Advance
tickets available from: https://tinyurl.com/2smjybpk (no booking fees) or pay on the door
SVP BUDDIES will be hosting monthly lunch socials in St Mary’s Parish Centre, Devonshire Road, Chorley, commencing 22nd November from 12 until 2 pm. This includes
lunch and either entertainment or an activity. Transport is available. The social is free
but we accept donations towards the cost of lunch. Places must be booked in advance.
Call 01257 542367. If you are feeling lonely and isolated, please get in touch.
LIVERPOOL ARCHDIOCESE EVENTS: Latest events from across the Archdiocese
can be found here: Events – What’s on ( liverpoolcatholic.org.uk)
QUOTATIONS: “Christ’s kingdom is not just a figure of speech. Christ is alive, He lives
as a man, with the same body He took when He became man, when He rose after His
death, the glorified body which subsists in the person of the Word together with His human heart. Christ, true God and true man, lives and reigns. He is the Lord of the universe. Everything that lives is kept in existence only through Him.” St Josemaria Escrivá
(1902-1975)
“You say that I am a king. For this I was born and for this I have come into the world, to
bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.” John 18:37
“But what is the “truth” that Christ came into the world to witness to? The whole of His
life reveals that God is love – so this is the truth to which He witnessed to the full, with
the sacrifice of His own life on Calvary.” Pope Benedict XVI
Secretary: Mr Frank Webster
Parish Office: St Joseph’s Presbytery, 28 Bolton Road, Adlington, Chorley PR6 9NA
Wednesdays 10.00-13.00
Tel: 01257- 480237 or 01257- 262537 (St Mary’s Chorley)
E-mail: stjosephs.anderton@tiscali.co.uk
Parish Website: www.stjosephsanderton.com
ARCHDIOCESE OF LIVERPOOL Registered Charity No. 1199714
