St. Margaret W

ard

All Saints

O

ur Lady of Lourdes

32nd Sunday in Ordinary Tim

e

Sat 7th 5.30 pm

Tracey Jones

Sun 8th

9.30 am

G

ed Ludlow

11.00 am

Val Halligan

Sun 8th

5.00 pm

Frank Byrant

Mon 9th

9.15 am

Eucharistic Service

Eucharistic Service

Tues 10th 9.15 am

Alan Butterw

orth

No Service 7:30pm

Paddy French

Wed 11th

9.15 am

Eucharistic Service 7:30 pm

Eucharistic Service

12:15pm

Eucharistic Service

Thurs 12th 7.30 pm

M

adelene Campbell

No Service

11.30am

Eileen Walsh

Requiem M

ass

Frid 13th 9.15 am

Eucharistic Service 9.15 am

Special intention

12.15pm

Seamus Rooney

33rd Sunday in Ordinary Tim

e

Sat 14th 5.30 pm

John Davies

Sun 15th

9.30 am

Fabian G

aughan 11.00 am

Bridie Burke

Sun 16th

5.00 pm

Joan Allan

The Parishes of St. Margaret Ward

Sale M33 4GY Tel: 0161- 962-4444

Primary School: Tel: 0161- 969-9852

All Saints 164 Carrington Lane, Ashton-on-Mersey M33 5WL

Tel: 0161- 962-4444 Our Lady of Lourdes

Chapel Lane, Partington M31 4EZ Office Tel: 0161-775 2905

Newsletter 32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time

First Reading 1 Kings 17:10-16 Psalm Psalm 145:6-10 Second Reading Hebrews 9:24-28 Gospel Mark 12:38-44

Parish Priest:. Father Ned Wall. The Presbytery, 164, Carrington Lane Permanent Deacons: Anthony Caffrey and John Conway

The RC Diocese of Shrewsbury is a registered charity No. 23402

Website - http://ourparishes.church

My soul, give praise to the Lord.

Gospel Acclamation:

Alleluia, alleluia! How happy are the poor in spirit: theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Alleluia! Communion Antiphon :

The disciples recognized the Lord Jesus in the breaking of bread.

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First Reading Daniel 12:1-3 Psalm Psalm 15:5.8-11.Rv1 Second Reading Hebrews 10:11-14,18 Gospel Mark 13:24-32

REFLECTION In our Gospel today, we hear how Jesus puts the Scribes down. He says they wear odd clothes, and say long prayers in order to attract attention. They want to be noticed because they love being honoured. They did not hesitate to take the property of widows, while at the same time making a show of lengthy prayers. They were the opposite of everything Jesus was proposing as the way to love and serve God. They thought only of what they could get through their privileged position, rather than what they could share, especially with those in need. Teaching his Apostles how to give from the heart, Jesus singles out a poor widow - and widows at that time really were poor-regarded as non-persons, and often reduced to poverty. Yet she approaches the treasury box and drops in two coins--of negligible value. Jesus draws attention to the fact that the Scribes' contribution was what they could easily spare, whereas the poor widow put in her whole livelihood. This anonymous widow is, in a way, a symbol of Jesus Himself. He also will empty himself; will give everything away, including his life, out of love for his Father, and for us. "Teach us, good Lord, to be generous.

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OTHER NEWS

SPEAKER DANIEL O’LEARY

Daniel O'Leary is coming to speak in Altrincham on 19 November.

He is a much sought after author, conference speaker and retreat animator and will certainly be worth hearing.

Details are as follows:

Where - St Ambrose Prep School Hall, Wicker Lane, Hale Barns WA15 0HE (next to Holy Angels church)

When - Thursday 19 November at 7.30pm What - "The heart of Pope Francis: the heart of you."

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CAFOD

St Joseph’s CAFOD Group

presents another of their famous Quiz and Chilli Nights

on Saturday 14th November - 7.30pm,

at Holy Family Parish Centre.

Price £6 (pay on the door), includes food, but bring your own drinks and glasses

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ST MARTINS

Winter Fair On

Saturday 14th November at 2pm At

Wellfield Infants and Nursery School, all are

welcome.

ST MARGARET WARD CHRISTMAS FAIR The school Christmas Fair takes place on Saturday 5th December 11am until 1.00pm. All parishioners are welcome on the day and any help on the stalls would be appreciated. Please ring the school on 969 9852 if you’d like to help out. Donations of groceries, bottles, chocolate or cakes for the stalls would be most welcome. The Offertory Collection was £399.08 - Thanks for all once again for your giving and generosity. =================================================================

OUR LADY OF LOURDES SHOEBOX APPEAL The School Council of Our Lady of Lourdes is taking part in the shoebox appeal for children overseas. Full details are available on the website samaritans-purse.org.uk Completed boxes should be delivered to school by Friday 13th November. Last year we sent 48 boxes and would like to send even more this year. Many thanks in advance PIETY STALL Our lady of Lourdes Piety Stall has a large selection of Christmas cards, gifts, calendars, candles etc Please call and have a look. The stall is manned Sunday after Mass and Tuesday evening. CHRISTMAS MINI FAIR We are appealing for items and your attendance to our Mini Christmas fair taking place, after Mass at 12 noon Sunday 13th December. We will be having the following stalls and would appreciate any donations of items to be dropped off in the sacristy at Our Lady of Lourdes. Toiletries/Jewellery Bottle Stall Coffee, tea and Irish Coffee's Chocolate Tombola Cake Stall/Donated Cakes Good as new toys Many thanks The Offertory Collection was £ 375.22. Thanks for all once again for your giving and generosity. =================================================================

ALL PARISHES MONDAY CLUB We had a lively quiz last week, all music. It’s surprising the ones you can sing-along with but can't recall the artist. Thank you Aileen. This week we are having parishioner Rosie Donne visiting. Rosie is a consultant and her talk is entitled "Making the most of the NHS". SOUND OF MUSIC Thank you to all those who have paid so far. Could we ask those who haven't to put your ticket money (£35) in an envelope with the names of the tickets you have reserved, if you are writing a cheque please make it out to All Saints Church and give the envelope to Fr Ned or the Deacons. HEALING MASS FOR THE SICK Just to let you know we have our Mass for the sick on 15th November 2pm. at St Margaret Ward with tea & Coffee afterwards. The S.V.P. are organising this Mass but all housebound and ill are welcome. CLERGY EDUCATION & TRAINING FUND - SPECIAL COLLECTION Hopefully you will remember we decided to postpone this collection as we noticed that the following weekend was the CAFOD National Collection weekend. We will now have this retiring collection the weekend of the 14th /15th November 2015. Special Envelopes will be available for you to use. If you use weekly Offertory Envelopes, please can I ask that you write in your envelope number? If you do not have this, or you give to your Parish by means of a Standing Order, write in your name and full address (including postcode). It will then be possible to claim Gift Aid on your donation if you have joined the Gift Aid scheme. FOODBANK UPDATE Christmas is coming up they would be grateful if anyone could provide selection boxes/ tins of sweets for the children. So in November if we could suggest we do a collection of selection boxes for distribution in December , thank you . If any of you wish to take your own bags to the warehouse please see details below, however we are still prepared to accept any donations at all the churches: Timperley Methodist Church, Stockport Road: Mon, Wed, Fri & Sat 10am-12noon Altrincham Methodist Church, Barrington Road: Mon-Sat 10am-2pm, Thurs 4pm-5.45pm POPPY APPEAL Poppies are available at the back all churches. Please support the Poppy Appeal by buying and wearing your Poppy.

CONFIRMATION If there are any students in Year 8 who would like to make their Confirmation, the programme will begin in February/March time. Forms will be available from December for students to register for the programme. We are still waiting for a date for Confirmation, which will be in May/June. Further information please contact Linda on 07951 281484

CANON J CAHILL TRIP A five day trip to Ireland, departing 19 April 2016, is being arranged to see where Fr Cahill grew up and to visit other places of interest nearby. A couple of spaces are still available. Travel will be by coach and ferry with hotel accommodation on a Dinner, B&B basis. The cost is £360 per person sharing . A single supplement of £60 applies. If you would like to join, please get in touch now. Email johnfinnan@hotmail.com (of St Vincent's Parish, Knutsford) or Phone/Text him at 07763 403 531 OLD GREGORIAN’S PUPILS Old Gregorian's: Annual Mass for deceased former pupils and teachers of St Gregory's R C High School, Ardwick Green, Manchester to be celebrated at St. Kentigern's Church, Wilbraham Road, Fallowfield, M14 7DW at 7.30 p.m. on Friday 27th November, 2015 followed by a gathering in the St Kentigern's Social Club. Further information from Terry O’Neil 442 6839 or terry.oneil43@ntlworld.com =================================================================

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

READERS DAY Saturday 21st November 2015 This will take place at All Saints and will be 9.30 am till 1pm LPA MEETING FOR THREE PARISHES For our members of the LPA Team, we are holding a meeting on 13th November at 6pm. for us to do a review of where we are at. We will have a light supper to share. Please put this in your diary as your presence is so important. ADVENT EVENINGS We will have two evenings taking time for reflection with Margaret Lillis and Sr Catherine Darby: Tuesday 1st December 2015 Tuesday 8th December 2015 The Advent Evenings will take place at Our Lady of Lourdes after the evening Mass. CHRISTMAS CHURCHES TOGETHER We have organised two gatherings for our Churches Together in Advent. Please put the following dates in your diaries: St Martins Thursday 3rd December 7.00pm All Saints Thursday 17th December 7.00pm So please try and support us for these special services .

FIRST FORGIVENESS / FIRST COMMUNION DATES We know you all do like these dates well in advance so here goes:

FIRST FORGIVENESS Our Lady of Lourdes Tuesday 8th March 2016 6.30pm All Saints Wednesday 9th March 2016 6.30pm St Margaret Ward Thursday 10th March 2016 6.30pm

FIRST COMMUNION St Margaret Ward Saturday 23rd April 2016 12pm All Saints Saturday 30th April 2016 12pm Our Lady of Lourdes Saturday 7th May 2016 9.30am & 11.15am

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CHARITY AUCTION Thank you to all who attended and supported the Charity Auction held last Friday. We raised an amazing £1838 to go towards The Roof Fund. A special thanks to John and Eileen Skelhorn for all their hard work to get the auction up and going. ALL SAINTS MINI CHRISTMAS FAIR We appeal for bottles, chocolates and NEW toys for one of our stalls. If you could see Rose Crowe or Win Meakin with your donations or drop your donations off at All Saints Presbytery it would be very much appreciated. All money raised will go to the Roof Appeal. Thank you. BIDDING PRAYERS Here is a reminder to those of you who volunteered to write bidding prayers for November. Many thanks for offering to do so. There is also a full list of volunteers for November pinned to the noticeboard at the back of church and can be found on the Website., 8th The Moley family 15th Ruth Horton 22nd Mary Wilkins 29th Nina Chidgey Please drop your contribution into the sacristy or email to: parishes3@yahoo.com by the Friday before. Many thanks. The Offertory Collection was £ 823.45 - Thanks for all once again for your giving and generosity. =================================================================