Responsorial Psalm:

Sing and shout for joy for great in your midst is the

Holy One of Israel

Gospel Acclamation:

Alleluia, Alleluia!

The spirit of the Lord has been given to me. He has

sent me to bring good news to the poor.

Alleluia!

Money Matters Offertory Collection last weekend:

£549.75 of which £304.30 was Gift Aided.

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

(12th Dec) Ruth Lovelock (13th Dec) Clara Lucy Carey, Rose Jones, Evelyn Hughes, Betty Roughley, (15th Dec) Catherine Neale, Mary Jones (16th Dec) Michael Feeney, Elizabeth Allen, Patrick Vesey, Kathleen Wood (17th Dec) Thomas Hughes, Maria Lommano (18th Dec) Maria Jones, Thomas Joseph Jones, Theresa Jones, Eileen Lewis, John Faulkner

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

Ignatian Outreach 'Prego' Group

There will be no meeting this Thursday 17th December but we will resume

again on Thursday 7th January. In the meantime we keep each other,

and the parish, in prayer during this time of Advent.

Thank you and blessings to you all this Christmas. Ged Johnson

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/

12th December Saturday Mass 5.30pm

Manuela RIP (Tosca Serreni)

13th December Sunday Mass 11am

For People of the Parish

Monday : Mem. St. John of the Cross 14th Dec Mass 9.15am Sarah Doak RIP (Ian Doak) Tuesday: Liturgy of the day

15th Dec Mass 9.15am Int.Sr. Olivia (Maureen & Roland) Wednesday: Liturgy of the day 16th Dec Mass 9.15am James Dunlea RIP (Brian & Win Eagan) Thursday Liturgy of the day 17th Dec Mass 9.15am Deceased Family Members (Joe & Louisa Desena)

Friday Liturgy of the day 18th Dec Mass 9.15am John Faulkner RIP (Eunice &Jo Faulkner)

LITURGY OF THE WEEK: Psalter Week III

Eucharistic Adoration

with Rosary and Benediction

Every Friday following the

morning Mass at 9.15am

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)

13th December 2015 3rd Sunday of Advent Year

20th December Sunday Mass 11am

Int. Bishop Peter

(Phyllis&Joe Goggin)

19th December Saturday Mass 5.30pm

For People of the Parish

T oday is known as Gaudete or Re-

joicing Sunday, and St Paul is quite insistent that we should know what we are doing: I want you to be hap-py, always happy in the Lord!

Happy is a strange word. Some people think they are h a p p y b u t they’re really only content. To b e c on t e n t means that we put up with something with-out complaining too much because we know things could be a lot worse. So we’re content with our lot. Some people think they are happy but they’re really only pleased. Something has happened that has giv-en them a bit of a fillip. Per-haps their football team has won an unexpected victory. But it’s hardly ecstasy!

Some people think they are happy but they’re really only in a good mood. May-

be they’ve been out to cele-brate passing an exam or celebrating someone’s birthday and they’ve had a lovely evening. But tomor-row this will only be a memory. Content, pleased, glad, cheerful, jovial, merry…all of this is good but it’s not

actually the same as happi-ness. To be happy means to be blessed. And to know that you are blessed makes you happy. Really happy. So at the root of happiness for a Christian is the knowledge that we are made in God’s image, loved by him and held in that love every mo-ment of our being. Although we stray from this image of God we are constantly

called back to the joy of our relationship with God and are redeemed through Christ’s death and resurrec-tion. This is the greatest blessing we could wish for: to belong to God.

Pleasure is a fleeting thing. We can feel it today but it can desert us tomorrow.

But Christian happiness is full of more than pleasure; it’s coated with joy. And such happi-ness and joy can never be taken away from us, even though

at times our vision of them may seem clouded. As we continue our Advent journey Paul advises us to be happy, for our God is very near and is coming to set us free. This deep-down happiness at the approach of our God is something that doesn’t waver with every gust of the wind be-cause it is at the heart of our loving relationship with God. In fact it’s a real blessing.

HAPPILY EVER AFTER?

FAITH IN FOCUS:

Cytun News Advent & Christmas Celebrations

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

Our diocesan website: http://www.wrexhamdiocese.org.uk/

Mayor’s Christmas Concert

Mayor of Mold Councillor Brian Lloyd’s fundraising Christmas concert will take place on 21st December Monday at St Mary's Church, Mold, starting at 7.30pm. Tickets are now on sale and the concert is expected to be a sell out!! All proceeds from the evening are to be donated to the Mayor’s charity for the year, the Stroke Association Wales to be used by the charity within the local community. Tickets are priced at £10.00 each and available from Mold Town Council, Mold Town Hall.

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 3rd and 4th 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

200 Club

Here are the results from the last 3 draws for our 200 Club.

October First Prize Anne Gillespie 19 Second Prize Mark Philpot 47 Third Prize Joyce Elcock 80

November First Prize Suzanne Malone 21 Second Prize Joe Goggin 145

Third Prize Frances Battersby 34 December

First Prize Sue Price 117 Second Prize Sr Eva Flanagan 105

Third Prize Beryl Fazal 15

Thank you all so much for all your help and support This year we have contributed just over £600 to our Church's funds. I will confirm the exact amount within the next couple of weeks. The process of renewal will start around the weekend of 16 January 2016. Thanks to all again.

Tony Gent

Year Book 2016 available from the porch @ £3.40

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.

(David Steindl-Rast)

Christmas Mass times 24th Christmas Eve: 5.30pm & 9pm

Christmas Day : 10am