Responsorial Psalm:

What marvels the Lord worked for us!

Indeed we were glad.

Gospel Acclamation:

Alleluia, Alleluia! Prepare a way for the Lord.

Make his paths straight, and all mankind shall see

the salvation of God.

Alleluia!

Money Matters Offertory Collection last weekend:

£621.09 of which £325.24 was Gift Aided.

Mission Appeal: £933.34

Gift Aid: If you are a Tax Payer, please consider filling out the Gift

Aid form which is in the church porch to receive a box of weekly

envelopes for your offertory donation or for a one-off

donation then please use the Green envelopes.

Please remember to write your name, address, sign and date the

green envelope.

Thank you for supporting our Parish.

Let us pray for the Sick

Tricia Twizell, Angela Morris, Rosa Maria, Joan Lawrence, Gay McCornick, Moira Catherall, Lea Hill, Anne Turner, Mary Rowe, Rose Bryan, Jenny Mansley, Jennifer Rowley, Nancy Wilson, Joe Goggin, Joe & Luisa Desena, Peggy Edwards, Shelagh Fulham, Margaret Stubbs, Philomena Lamano, and Leo McManus.

We remember in our prayers Those whose anniversaries

(7th Dec) Fr.Bertrand Walsh, John Gavaghan, Catherine Tobin, Thomas Evans, Attilio Belli (8th Dec) Andrew Mulligan, Cyril Smith; (9th Dec) Norah Valentine Legge, Mary Williams, Elizabeth Woods (10th Dec) Ann Collins, Ethel Saum, Mary Shannon, Austine Hatfield, Harry Turner, Stephen Wilson(11th Dec) James Carroll, Thom-as Kildbride, Margaret Carroll, Maud Mary Chap-man

Flowers for Christmas There will be a Collection at the door at the weekend of 19/20 December for Flowers for the Altar at Christmas.

Jim Dunlea RIP

The Requiem Mass for Jim Dunlea will take place here on Friday (11th) at 10.15am. We hold Jim’s family and friends in our prayers at this time loss and sadness.

May Jim rest in peace and rise in glory.

The Prayer Group following the Life in the Spirit Seminar will meet as always in the

hall at 7.0 pm on Thursday 10th December. Steve Halsall

Eglwys Catholig Dewi Sant, Yr Wyddgrug St.David’s Catholic Church, Mold

Parish Priest: Fr. Pius Mathew CMI, St.David’s Presbytery, St.David’s Lane, Mold. CH7 1LH

Email: piuscmi@gmail.com 01352 752087 Deacon David Joy:01352 754722 LSUConvent:01352 700121

Website: http://www.stdavidsmold.org.uk/

5th December Saturday Mass 5.30pm

For People of the Parish

6th December Sunday Mass 11am

Int. Rose & Jim Hamill (Phyllis & Joe Goggin)

Monday : Mem. St. Ambrose 7th Dec Mass 9.15am Nicholina Ward RIP(Jean&John Ward) Tuesday: Solemnity:Immaculate Conception

8th Dec Mass 9.15am Int.Sr. Eithna (Maureen&Roland)

Opening of the Year of Mercy Mass in the Cathedral at 7pm

Wednesday: Liturgy of the day 9th Dec Mass 9.15am Deceased Members of Legion of Mary (AC) Thursday Mem. St.John Roberts 10th Dec Mass 9.15am Richard Cavanagh RIP (Eileen Kavanagh)

Friday Funeral of Jim Dunlea RIP 11th Dec Requiem Mass at 10.15am

LITURGY OF THE WEEK: Psalter Week II

Eucharistic Adoration

with Rosary and Benediction

Every Friday With the morn-

ing Mass.

Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confessions)

Saturdays 10.30am to

11.30am & Before the Vigil

Mass (4.45-5.20pm)

Sundays before the Mass

(10.30-10.50am)

And at any time on request

6th December 2015 2nd Sunday of Advent Year C

13th December Sunday Mass 11am

For People of the Parish

12th December Saturday Mass 5.30pm

Manuela RIP

(Tosca Serreni)

W hen God first agreed to be our

ancestors’ God, by signing the covenant, he said it would be based on two things: “hesed and emeth”.

These two Hebrew words mean “steadfast love and faithfulness”. Even a fool can see that our ancestors didn’t take long to break their side of the agreement. They soon forgot that their “special relationship” with God de-pended on how they be-haved, how they responded to God’s favour by the way they treated him and other people. So you might think that God would have torn up the cov-enant and declared it null and void. But God remem-bered his part of the bar-

gain, those two things: steadfast love and faithful-ness. God never stopped being loving and faithful, whatever his people got up to. No matter how far peo-ple strayed, God remained steadfast and faithful. This dual characteristic of God, steadfastness and faithfulness, is the reason why Christians trust God. It is the basis of Christian hope. Our Advent liturgy today invites us to deepen this sense of hope. Don’t be miserable, says the prophet Baruch, don’t go around sad and distressed be-cause your God is coming to set things right. Advent looks forward to the fulfil-ment of the promises that God has made to us. And God is steadfast and faith-ful.

B ut Christian hope is not merely about the future. It’s not

like the vague hope that one day we might win the lottery. It affects how we live our lives today, be-cause the seeds of the fu-

ture are based on my rela-tionships here and now. Hope shines a new light on this reality. It’s a dynamic gift that stops us from clos-ing in on ourselves and instead spurs us on to new beginnings, to new chal-lenges and to new life. We live by faith; we continue through charity; we flourish in hope. The hope we entertain is not simply an optimism that

Jesus will return at the end of time, but is a conviction that here and now he can come into our lives as Mes-siah and can set us free from whatever weighs us down. And come he will if we invite him. For he is steadfast and faithful.

TWO REASONS TO HOPE

FAITH IN FOCUS:

Cytun News Advent & Christmas Celebrations

On Sunday 6th Dec parishioners from St David's will be leading the service at Llys Jasmine at 3 pm.

On Wednesday 9th Dec the Salva-tion Army band will be playing in Daniel Owen Square from noon.

On Saturday 19th Dec Cytun will be singing carols (with free mince pies) in

Mold Precinct 10 30 to noon.

On Sunday 20th Dec Cytun will be holding a Carol service at

Llys Jasmine at 3 pm.

All are very welcome to join in any of these events.

Mena Kerslake & Sue Cocker

Have a look at our diocesan website! You will find it interesting and

enlightening : http://www.wrexhamdiocese.org.uk/

Mold Choral Society Concert

Christmas means Messiah - especially for Mold Choral Society who will give a performance of Handel's famous ac-count of the Nativity story on Friday December 11th 7.30p.m. in Bethesda Chapel . Come and join us to hear excellent music with trumpet and drums in the Hallelujah chorus. A real Christmas cracker! Tickets £10. Children free.

Jane Kay

Children's Liturgy

The Children's Liturgy group continues to meet during the 11am Mass on the second Sunday of each month and all those children of primary school age or younger are very welcome to join us. During Advent we will meet on both the 2nd and 3rd Sundays (13th and 20th) - so that we can prepare for Christ-mas. As is our tradition, the children play an im-portant part of our Christmas celebrations at the 5.30pm mass on Christmas Eve. If you would like to be part of this please join us on 20th both during mass and briefly afterwards so that we can prepare. Karen Morris

Christmas Carol Concert

L’Arche Flintshire invite all of the parishioners of St.David’s parish to a Christmas carol Concert at Buckley Cross Methodist Church (Nr.Buckley clinic) on this Monday 7

th December at

7pm. No cost. Monica Standring

Year Of Mercy

Bishop Peter will be inaugurating the

Jubilee Of Mercy in our diocese with a

Celebration of Mass in the Cathedral this Tuesday at

7pm, on the Feast of the Immaculate

Conception. Please be there if

you can.

Merciful Like the Father : Logo The motto Merciful Like the Father ( Luke, 6:36) serves as an invitation to follow the merciful example of the Father who asks us not to judge or condemn but to forgive and to give love and forgiveness without measure The logo – the work of Jesuit Father Marko I. Rupnik – presents a small summa theologi-ae of the theme of mercy: that of the Son having taken upon his shoulders the lost soul , his eyes are merged with those of

man. More at www.im.va