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Newsletter: Twenty Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time

20th September 2026

Newsletter: Twenty Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time

20th September 2026

16.30 Confessions with visiting priest
17.30 VIGIL MASS

9.00 MASS
10.30 MASS (& Coffee)
12.00 Baptisms

10.00 Mass
10.30 Coffee Morning

No Service in Church

No Service in Church

No Service in Church

16.30 Confessions
17.30 VIGIL MASS

09.00 MASS
10.30 MASS (& Coffee)
12.00 Baptisms

WELCOME

This weekend we welcome Fr. John Convery a Xaverian Mission Priest who will celebrate all the Masses this weekend, while Fr. Brady takes his Summer break. We also welcome Canon McBride who will celebrate the 10am Mass on Tuesday.

UNION OF CATHOLIC MOTHERS (UCM)

The next meeting is on Wednesday 23rd September at 7.30pm. The Union of
Catholic Mothers are also hosting a Macmillan Coffee Afternoon on Wednesday 30th September 2.30pm to 4.00pm in the Atrium. Everyone is welcome to attend. Come and enjoy a cup of tea, coffee or soft drink and cakes. There will be a raffle. All monies collected will go to the Macmillan Nurses.

CHRISTMAS FAIR MEETING

The new date for the Christmas Fair Meeting is Thursday 24th September at 7pm in the Atrium. Please come along with all your ideas.

VOLUNTEER REMINDER

A polite reminder that all new volunteers are required to complete the appropriate volunteer form before undertaking any new role. This helps us to ensure that everyone is properly registered and that our parish safeguarding procedures are followed. Please speak to Clair Bogdany or email the parish office. Thank you to all our volunteers for your continued support, commitment and generosity. Your help is much appreciated.

FEAST OF OUR LADY OF
WALSINGHAM

Bishop John Arnold will celebrate Mass in honour of Our Lady of Walsingham on Thursday 24th September 2026 at The Church of St. John the Evangelist, Salford Cathedral, 250 Chapel Street, Salford M3 5LE. Mass will start at 7pm and will be followed by refreshments.

CONFIRMATION

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

BIG SLEEP OUT

Caritas Salford invite you to join people from across our diocese in ‘The Big Sleep Out’ to raise funds for hundreds of people in our area currently experiencing homelessness. For more information and to register please contact >

OFFICE HOURS

Wednesday & Friday 9am – 3pm

CAFOD FAMILY FAST DAY

Friday 2nd October. Please donate to our Family Fast Day parish collection. Put your faith into action and share the Lord’s love by supporting our global neighbours experiencing shortages of food and safe water. Please take an envelope from the table in the Atrium and return with your donation. Thank you for your generosity.

OPEN EVENING

St. Monica’s High School are holding an Open Evening on Thursday 1st October 2026 from 4pm – 7pm.

SERVICES TO SUPPORT LOCAL PEOPLE

Caritas Salford runs a wide range of community and outreach services to the people in our diocesan communities who are experiencing poverty, homelessness, isolation and discrimination. If you, or someone you know, might benefit from the support, you can find details on their website >

HELP END CHILD POVERTY IN OUR PARISHES

Child poverty is increasing in our area, with latest statistics from the government showing almost one in three children are growing up in poverty. Our diocesan charity Caritas Salford supports local families facing crisis and is asking us to join them in taking action to help. There are lots of different ways we can get involved. Visit > to find out more.

CAR VALETING AND DETAILING

We are delighted to support a new local business in our community. Please support and spread the word among family and friends. Supporting local business helps our community to grow and thrive. See poster on noticeboard for more information.

SAFEGUARDING REMINDER

For the safety and wellbeing of all our children, we kindly ask that parents and carers accompany their child if they need to leave Mass for any reason (for example to use the toilet). Please remember that the Church doors remain open during Mass, and therefore children should not leave the building unaccompanied. Thank you.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

‘The last will be first, and the first will be last.’
Matthew 20:16

STAY WITH US, LORD, ON OUR JOURNEY

THIS WEEK’S GOSPEL

It is hard not to sympathize with the workers who have sweated it out right through the day in the hot sun.

The idlers who have hardly got earth on their spades or grease on their hands get a great bonus and I get no bonus at all!

Is this fair? No. God is not fair.

You can’t apply the concept of “fairness” to God at all.

We can’t enter into a reckoning with God. God does not calculate as we do. In the terms of this world, this is obvious enough.

The wicked do prosper, while honesty and high moral standards, instead of being rewarded are often simply mocked.

Can we go deeper and say that the reward is in heaven?

This hardly fits with the way Jesus worked here on earth.

He did not reward the virtuous. He said he was the doctor who had come to the sick. His favourites were the worst of society, tax collectors and prostitutes, not even amiable rascals. Heaven was open to anyone who accepted him.

It is no good looking for fairness in God, for this implies that we deserve something.

We cannot claim to ‘deserve’ anything; we are simply called into a loving relationship and to put our trust in Jesus.

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
Bernard Tonge, Jean Rice, Leo Fawcett, Catherine Latham.

Birthday Memories
Derek Dickens, Edith Hopkins, Paul Calderbank.

Anniversary
Paul Dickens, Gaynor Lomax, William Bates, Lucy Severs, Austin Dum-Obioha.

Sick
Andy Watson, Noel Moore, Paul Moore, Clive Dovey, Margaret Harkins, Sharon Doyle, Oran Collard, John Jones.

Other
Holy Souls (Throughout September), Special Intention for Amanda Sherman, William Sherman and Antonio Vacca.

This week, the Sanctuary Lamp burns for:

Jean Rice.

This week, Our Lady’s Lamp burns for:

Leo Fawcett.

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