PARISH INFORMATIONPARISH INFORMATIONPARISH INFORMATIONPARISH INFORMATION

• Parish Priest : Father Dominic O’Connor 01652 652221

• Address of St. Mary’s: 12 Barnard Ave, Brigg, North Lincs DN20 8AS

• Address of St. Augustine Webster: Whitecross Street, Barton on Humber, DN18 5DF

• Diocesan Web Site: www.nottingham-diocese.org.uk

• Parish Website St Mary’s: Use facebook: www.facebook.com/stmarysbrigg for latest newsletter.

• Parish Website St Augustine Webster: www.staugustinewebsterbarton.co.uk

• Bank Details: BRIGG RC PARISH/ST. MARY’S

• or ST AUGUSTINE WEBSTER R C P

• Email address: stmarysbrigg@gmail.com staugustinebar-ton@gmail.com

• Our Local Schools: Primary: St Mary’s Catholic Primary School 01652 653355 Secondary: St. Bede’s 01724 861371

• Parish Hall enquiries Kim Boston 01652 651685 01652 652221

stmarysbrigg@gmail.com

All Honour and Glory to you, Most Holy

Trinity.

Bp Patrick mckinney Seek the face of christ

St.Augustine Webster, Barton & Saint Mary’s , Brigg

seventeenth sunday seventeenth sunday seventeenth sunday seventeenth sunday

19th July 19th July 19th July 19th July

Year B (Sun) Year 1 (Wkd) / Psalter Week: 1

St Ignatius 31st july

LITURGICAL CALENDAR LITURGICAL CALENDAR LITURGICAL CALENDAR LITURGICAL CALENDAR

Sunday Benediction/Evening Prayer: Brigg 4.00pm

MASSESMASSESMASSESMASSES

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Day/Date Parish Time Liturgical Calendar Mass Intention

Saturday 25 Brigg 6.00pm Vigil Dulcie Daine

Sunday 26 Barton 9.30am Parish

Brigg 11.00am 17th Sunday N. Nyland

Brigg 5.00pm Parish

Monday 27 Brigg 9.00am Feria E.Hoy

Tuesday 28 Barton 9.30am John

Wednesday 29 Barton 7.00pm St Martha Sue Mullen

Thursday 30 Brigg 9.30am Feria F Kusyk

Friday 31 Brigg 9.00am St Ignatius NDL

Saturday 1 St Alphonsus

Brigg 6.00pm Vigil Nicola

Sunday 2 Barton

Brigg

Brigg

9.30am

11.00am

5.00pm Latin

18th Sunday

Parish

Marie Roache

Parish

Holy Hour

Exposition

Confessions

Brigg

Barton

Monday 8.00-9.00am

12.00-1.00pm

Barton Weekday

Mass

After weekday

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Barton Tuesday 8.30am Sunday 8.45-9.15am

Barton Wednesday 6.00pm

Brigg Thursday 10.00am

6.30am

Brigg Saturday 11.00-11.45

Brigg

Barton

Friday 6.00pm

7.00pm

5.30-5.50pm

Brigg Saturday 5.00pm

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+WEEKLY MEDITATION+

Dear Faithful,

St. Ignatius of Loyola whose feast day we celebrate on Friday used to tell his Jesuits that “if because of the great burden of your work you can not do any of your other usual prayer duties , you should never omit this exercise.” The exercise he was referring to was called the “Examination of Consciousness.” Sounds complicated, but quite simply it means bringing to mind God’s actions in our lives and our faithful-ness to them. It is different therefore from a standard examination of conscience. We are here trying to put our lives in the context of our loving relationship with God.

•Step One: to remember the moments shared with God and the signs of his love. It is identifying God’s grace in our lives; e.g. how did God make himself present to us today? A kind word from a stranger; a project accomplished; a suffering endured. Simply “remembering with gratitude God’s love alive in our life.” The grace we want here is Gratitude.

•Step Two: Asking Jesus’ Spirit to show us the truth of our life. What was mov-ing us during the day? Was it God’s Spirit or a spirit of darkness? The grace here is to be able to discern the different powers that seek to influence us.

•Step Three: Examining how we responded. Did we do God’s will? Did we fall into selfishness or sin? Did we do what we had promised God at the beginning of the day. The grace here is to know our sins and to repent because of the loving relationship we have with God.

•Step Four: Simply speak to Jesus, present to you– thank him, ask his help to improve our virtues. This step should flow naturally from the above. Prayer above all is simply a loving conversation with He who loves us. The grace here is to build our relationship with Jesus.

•Step Five: What does Jesus want us to accomplish tomorrow? What is he ask-ing us to work at and overcome? Ask his help. The grace here is reform.

If we do this exercise regularly we shall find that we develop a whole new awareness of God’s presence in our lives—the presence of a God who loves us and wishes to heal us. We become able to renounce our petty self and take up our true destiny to become saints. It builds trust because we begin to see God working in our lives positively; it builds positively because we begin to experience Jesus’ power to change us and above all it builds love because we see our relationship with God.

How long should this take? Probably about 10-15 mins. Some days we might spend more time on one of the sections. Sometimes we might have a much quicker run through. The key is to do it consistently and then gradually we shall found ourselves recapping it briefly during the day. Don’t worry either if some of the steps overlap.

God bless, Fr. Dominic. (On the internet there are different versions—this is mod-elled on one whose author is unknown but entitled The Consciousness Examen. See me if you would like a copy.)

•SOLEMN VESPERS: Sunday 26th July at 4.00pm.

•TEA AND TALK,THINGS TO DO: St Mary’s Brigg Social group is an infor-mal group which meets on every other Wednesday usually at 2pm for out-ings, films, speakers, demonstrations, tea and a chat. . Restart 16th Septem-ber 2pm.

•THANKS: Many thanks to all who helped last Sunday with First Holy Communion: florists, servers, choir, organist, helpers with setting up and clearing up etc It was a grand day.

•For your diary: Father’s last mass Tuesday 8th September 7.00pm followed by shared table. Father very much appreciates people who have asked about a leaving present but he would prefer any donations to go towards the addition of a Chapel at our primary school.

MASS CANCELLATION: Apologies but there will be no vigil mass on Saturday August 15th. Please note the changes in Scunthorpe (see page 4)

Volunteers needed for church cleaning please see Father or Kim if you can spare an hour a month.

NOTE CHANGE IN ADORATION TIMES SEE PAGE 2

PARISH DIARY

8th September Birthday of Our Lady. Father’s Leaving Mass 7.00pm

PRAYERS

Sick: Tony West , Betty Ault, Jarvis Judge, Norah Joyce.

House Bound: Michael Sweeney; Michael Quinn; Tina Tytler, Marjorie McCarthy; Elizabeth Clarkson. Mary Moyse

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FORMATION FOR THE PARISHES

Parish Cell Formation See Father if interested.

Community of Enquiry

(Education)

St Mary’s Presbytery 9.00am-5.00pm

Lectio Groups:

See Father if interested.

Confirmation Groups Sunday evenings 6.00-7.05pm St Mary’s Presbytery during term

time. Yrs 6/7 and 8/9 see Father for details.

Parish Cell groups al-

ready meeting

Barton Tuesdays (see p.5) Brigg Monday 6.00pm

See Father for details.

Youth Group

Brigg

Friday evenings 7.00-9.00pm St Mary’s Church Hall during term

time Entrance fee £1

Pilgrimages

Retreat Days

Spiritual Direction On request—See Father.

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General Announcements: events

On Friday 11th September, the House of Commons will debate and vote on a Bill to legalise assisted suicide. This will put the most vulnerable people in our society at risk. Please contact your MP, urging them to attend the debate and vote against the Bill. You can send an e-mail to your MP via the Catholic Bishops’ Conference website (www.catholicnews.org.uk/assisted-suicide) or send a letter by post, a draft of which can be found at the back of the Church. SECOND COLLECTIONS: 25/26th July Day for Life—then no more until Oc-tober! Fr Dominic will be moving to St Bernadette’s for the weekend masses 12/13th September. Fr Benedict will be moving to St Mary’s and St Augustine Webster for the weekend masses 12/13th September. July 26th 4.00pm Solemn Vespers at Saint Mary’s. With Rev.Mr. Daniel Palmer and Mr.Whitby-Smith from Allen Hall with us we shall have solemn vespers.

•REQUIESCANT IN PACE: Fr J.Fox; Fr J Donne

•PRAYERS FOR SICK CLERGY: Mgr Jonathan Moore, Mgr George Tüttő, Mgr Ed-ward Walker, Fr John Abbott, Fr Hugh Doherty, Fr Frank McLaughlin, Fr Neil McLaughlin, Fr Robert Rutledge, Fr Michael Tutcher, Canon P Coyle; Rev S Durkin; Fr Holmes; Mgr J Phelan; Fr A Colebrook; Fr J Hannigan; Fr R Hardstaff; Fr P Harvey; Fr R O’Callaghan.

•TODDLER GROUP: Saint Mary’s Parish Hall, Brigg. Wednesdays 9.15 –11.15am all welcome Runs during term time, summer break restart 9th September.

•LIFE NEWS:1st Wednesday of every month a vigil 8.00am—8.00pm at the BPAS Clinic Danum Lodge, 123 Thorne Rd, DN2 5BQ in Doncaster on Thorn Road

August Mass changes in Scunthorpe.

'Earlier in the spring the priests of the Scunthorpe Deanery got together to co-ordinate their holiday plans so that the current schedule of Masses could be maintained throughout the summer. However unforeseen family circum-stances mean that this is no longer the case. Therefore for the weekends of 8/9 and 15/16 August Masses in Scunthorpe and Ashby will be as follows:

Saturday 6.30pm St Bernadette’s Sunday 9.30am Holy Souls 10.30am St Bernadette’s 6.30pm Holy Souls

The Deanery priests hope that parishioners will understand the reason for these changes, and will realise that such changes may need to reoccur in the future as the number of priests in the Deanery decreases by one in the au-tumn.' Also there will be no vigil mass at Brigg on Saturday August 15th.

COMMUNITIES OF ENQUIRY

The next three Community of Enquiry meetings will be at Holy Rood Pres-bytery, Market Rasen, from 9.00 am till 12.45 pm on Saturday 1st August, Sat 5th September, and Sat 3rd October (ie every first Saturday of each month).

General Announcements (continued)

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•NOTE ADDITIONAL ADORATION TIMES see page 2

•Parish Cell Groups: Tuesday 10.15am Parish Room First and Third Tuesdays Tuesday 7.30pm Parish Room second,fourth and (Fifth) Tuesdays

•Thanks to John Curran for coming to speak to us last Sunday with an update on where we are in respect of our contribution to the appeal. We are approx. 50% towards our tar-get of £18000 and grateful thanks to all of you who contribute in any way be it pledges, one off donations or via other fund raising events throughout the year ie regular coffee mornings on a Sunday. For those of you who weren’t with us last Sunday…if you are interested in learning more about the appeal please have a word with Ann Taylor. Those of you who took the small collecting boxes please would you hand them in as and when they are full to Ann Taylor.

Thank you to all at Barton on Humber for the kindness and courtesy shown to me on Sunday 19th July. We will let Ann know in about one month how the ap-peal stands in your parishes. John Curran, Chairman Retired Priests Appeal.

•Father’s last mass will be on Tuesday 8th September 9.30am. We shall have a parish get together on the afternoon of Sunday 6th September. Father would like any leaving do-nations to go to the addition of a Chapel at St Mary’s Primary School.

•RESIDENTIAL SERVICES: Also Each First Friday, “prayer time” 1.30-2.30 pm at Trin-ity, all welcome for this gathering of Christians in Barton, use slope and side door and ask for directions, normally Lady’s Parlour

NEW WEBSITE: www.staugustinewebsterbarton.co.uk

CONFESSIONS: Sundays 8.45—9.15; 20 mins before daily mass. Enter when green light is on. Close door when you leave. PARISH DIARY 29 July PPC 7.30pm 6 September Parish Celebration 8 September Birthday of Our Lady PRAYERS Sick: Charles Hosier Fr Holmes Fr Bede Viv Bostock Damian Cochrane

House Bound: Pat Mullen, Brian Walker.

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