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Newsletter: The Most Holy Trinity

31st May 2026

Newsletter: The Most Holy Trinity

31st May 2026

16.30 Confessions
17.30 VIGIL MASS

9.00 MASS
10.30 MASS (& Coffee)
12.00 Baptisms

14.00 Requiem Mass, Isabel Babbitt

10.00 Mass
14.00 Funeral Service: Frank Bond, Peel Green Crematorium

10.00 Mass

10.00 Mass

16.30 Confessions
17.30 VIGIL MASS

09.00 MASS
10.30 MASS (& Coffee)
12.00 Baptisms

NEW EMAIL ADDRESS

The new email address is: [email protected]


NEW PARISH WEBSITE ADDRESS

The new website is www.rcradcliffe.co.uk


PLEASE NOTE

Due to the Requiem on Tuesday 2nd June, there will be NO Coffee Morning this week.


UCM

The UCM meeting on Wednesday 3rd June will be at 7.30pm in the Atrium.


UCM TRIP TO CHESTER

We will be leaving Church at 10.30am and depart Chester at 4.30pm. There is an exhibition at Chester Cathedral of 12 enormous silk panels retelling the creation story from the first pages of the Bible. 8 million stitches! We have 3 spare seats on the coach £25.00 each. All monies now due. Please ring Iris Turner on 07463 497753 if you would like to join us.


PARISH SOCIAL MEETING

There will be a meeting to discuss further parish social events on Thursday 4th June at 7pm in the Atrium. If you are unable to attend, please leave any ideas in the suggestion box. Thank you. All welcome.


CONFIRMATION

Confirmation will take place at St. Bernadette’s, Whitefield on Sunday 4th October at 2pm. Please see Fr. Brady for more information.


CARITAS VOLUNTEER WEEK

From 1st-7th June it is national Volunteer week, with various
celebrations and activities taking place across the UK. Our diocesan charity, Caritas Salford, has a wide range of volunteering opportunities available to help support heir work with people in Greater Manchester and Lancashire who are experiencing homelessness, poverty and discrimination. If you have a passion or Skillset you’d like to share with others, you can find out more about the volunteering opportunities available on their website at > or
contact Matt Yates


OFFICE HOURS

Wednesday 9am – 3pm
Friday 9am – 3pm

MADONNA DEL ROSARIO PROCESSION

Sunday 5th July at 1.15pm, departing from St. Michael’s, George Leigh Street, Ancoats, M4 5DG. See poster on noticeboard for contact details.


FREE ENERGY BILL ADVICE FOR CARITAS

If you are worried about rising energy costs, our diocesan charity Caritas Salford runs a range of free drop-in sessions to help with everything from energy debt to making your home more energy efficient. You can find out more about these and other ways the team can help people across Greater Manchester and Lancashire on the Caritas website at: click here >


QUARANT’ORE

The Manchester Oratory are holding a Quarant’ore devotion from Thursday 5th June to Saturday 7th June. All are warmly welcome to spend time in prayer and adoration before the Blessed Sacrament during these special days of devotion. Please see poster on the noticeboard.


MANCHESTER CHINESE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY (MCCC)

MCCC would like to invite you to their monthly Mass. This takes place on the second Sunday of the month at 2pm and is held in Salford’s Temporary Cathedral on Great George Street, M3 6EH.


NATIONAL DEAF AWARENESS – FREE RESOURCES

Did you know that Caritas Salford, our diocesan charity , has a range of resources and tips on its website. To access these and a range of other free resources, prayers and other documents visit the
Caritas website >


DONATE IN MEMORY OF
FATHER’S DAY

Donating to our diocesan charity Caritas
Salford in someone’s name is a special way to honour their memory while supporting people experiencing poverty, homelessness or isolation in our parishes. This Father’s Day, if you’d like to make an ‘in memory’ donation, please visit the special space on the Caritas Salford website for remembering a loved one.
Donate >


QUOTE OF THE WEEK

‘Go therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name off the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.’
Matthew 28:19

STAY WITH US, LORD, ON OUR JOURNEY

THIS WEEK’S GOSPEL

At first sight this part of the dialogue with Nicodemus seems to mention only the Father and the Son and not involve the Holy Spirit.

A chief concern of the Gospel of John is to show the relationship of loving obedience between Father and Son.

The love and equality in a perfect relationship between a human parent and a child is the nearest reflection of such divine love which we can envisage. In complete trust and confidence the parent gives to the child everything that is theirs.

The parent’s only interest is the advancement of the child.

The child’s only care is to please the parent and to be as close to the parent as they can be, in word, in action and in relationships.

Each has a vibrant and continuous bond of love for the other.

Such a relationship may be rare in human family life, but it can model for us a pale reflection of the loving relationship between the Father and the Son.

The Holy Spirit is the love between the Father and the Son, love in person, the living bond which unites them.

We must, however, appreciate that any such language limps and belittles the divine relationship, which is of a different order of perfection and intensity.

Human language can never fully explain the mystery of God which is beyond our total understanding.

BAPTISMS Please see Fr. Brady after Mass if you would like to have your child baptised, where all enquiries will be dealt with in person. Fr Brady much prefers this rather than an email. Thank you. A baptismal certificate for one of the parents must be provided as evidence of baptism in a Roman Catholic Church. Fr. Brady is available after weekend Mass on Saturday at 5.30pm, Sunday at 9.00am or 10.30am, all of which fulfil the Sunday obligation. All Catholics are OBLIGED to celebrate Mass EVERY Sunday.

BAPTISM CERTIFICATE COPIES REQUESTS For those requesting copies of baptism certificate the office can be contacted initially and the certificate can be collected at any of the weekend Masses. This is also to encourage people to come to Mass.

SICK AND HOUSEBOUND If you know of anybody who would like Fr Brady to visit, could you please give him their name and address with postcode and a contact telephone number. Thank you.

MASS INTENTIONS, OUR LADY’S LAMP AND THE SANCTUARY LAMP  The practice of requesting a Mass to be offered for loved ones, living or deceased, is a beautiful and wonderful part of our Catholic Tradition. Continuing this long-standing practice, you can remember someone who has died recently or many years ago. The Mass can also make beautiful gifts for any special occasion: birthdays, anniversaries, in thanksgiving for a prayer answered etc. You can offer an intention for anybody who is struggling with a serious illness or other difficulties of life. There are Mass Intention Envelopes provided on the table in the Atrium. (Please ensure that you have the express consent of the sick or housebound person as the bulletin is posted on the parish website, therefore making that information available to the public at large. Please provide a contact number with Mass Intentions so that any discrepancies can be resolved. Our Lady’s Lamp and Sanctuary Lamp are £5.00 and burn for seven days. Please place any intentions in an envelope with your donation and give to Father Brady or place in the Mass offering Box in the Atrium. All newsletter items must be sent in by Thursday morning.

MASSES AND PRAYERS RECEIVED THIS WEEK

Lately Dead
Judith Nuttall, Adele Burns, Frank Bond, Isabel Babbitt, Antonio Vacca, Peter Baron, Young People who have Drowned Lately.


Birthday Memories
Bernard Malone, Sharo Mohndino, Bernard Fendlen.


Anniversary
Adrian Moran, Peter McClusky, Maureen Kieran, John (Jack) Hickman.


Sick
Andy Watson, Noel Moore, Paul Moore, Francis Loughran, Monique Malone, Richard Allen, Dorothy Fairclough.


Other
For a Special Intention for All Holy Souls in Purgatory (Throughout May), Geraldine & Brian Hay on their Golden Wedding Anniversary, Special Intention, Remembering 2 Lovely Aunties Elizabeth & Honarah Forkin, In Thanksgiving for 66 Years of Marriage on 2nd June for Maria and Francesco Chiodo, Students and their Exams, Happy Birthday to Mrs Mary Gracey.

This week, the Sanctuary Lamp burns for:

Judith Nuttall.

This week, Our Lady’s Lamp burns for:

Amanda Sherman,
William Sherman.

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