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1st Sunday of Lent Parish Priest: Fr John Southworth Parish Office: 27 High Park St, Liverpool L8 8DX Phone: 0151 727 1463 www.mountcarmel-stpatrick.org.uk • Email: [email protected] • [email protected] Liverpool Roman Catholic Archdiocesan Trustees Inc Registered Charity No 232709 Our Lady of Mount Carmel & St Patrick Newsletter 18th February 2018 FAITH IN FOCUS: FIGHTING BACK ‘Spiritual warfare’ is not a very popular term because it tends to conjure up the image of Christians who are besieged by a hostile world and holed up in some sort of religious system which is a bastion against all progress and development. Sometimes it is the rallying call for off-balance people who want to ban all pleasure and find fault in the most innocent of things. The Church, of course, is not an organisation that is primarily against things. It’s in favour of life and goodness in all its forms. It’s something wholesome and positive. Yet in today’s scriptures we cannot escape spiritual warfare. We find Noah’s ark battling the floodwaters of all that is evil, and we meet Jesus in the wilderness fighting off the temptations of the devil. There is no doubting that evil exists in our world. There’s no need here to give a long catalogue of terrible things that happen day by day. We can all cite the examples. And even more speedily we can recall the various ways in which we ourselves co-operate with evil. For evil is not just something that other people get involved in. We are tempted each day to become part of it. Far from being something terrible, like genocide or war, evil creeps up on us in the simplest and craftiest of disguises. It may be the gossip we chip in with that blackens someone’s character, the small act of dishonesty that weakens us for the next time, the festering coldness with which we treat members of our family or the prejudice we house for certain types of people. Evil starts as a small seed and is prepared to bide its time. But it is never too late to fight back against sin and evil. God told Noah that although the world had turned from goodness and truth he would never allow evil to get the better of humanity. And Jesus himself, although he was really tempted at the roots, gave us the pattern to fight against temptation. God has made a covenant with us that ensures we can never be overcome against our will. Lent is the period for taking stock of how we allow evil to take hold of us. And with God’s grace it’s the period for fighting back. Lent prepares us for Easter so…... Easter Triduum The Three Day Feast St Patrick Thursday 29th March Maundy Thursday 7pm Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper Our Lady of Mount Carmel Friday 30th March Good Friday 3pm Celebration of the Lord’s Passion Our Lady of Mount Carmel Easter Vigil Saturday 31st March 9pm T he Spirit drove Jesus out into the wilderness and he remained there for forty days and was tempted by Satan. (Mark 1:12) It’s comforng to know that even the Son of God was tempted. Temptaon is not a sin but is oſten a prelude to sin. Knowing our weaknesses puts us at an advantage when we’re “tempted” to think that we can behave in a harmful way and come out unscathed. LENTEN THEMES The themes for the first two Sundays of Lent are the same in every year of the three year cycle: First Sunday - Temptaon Jesus’s temptaon in the wilderness emphases the humanity of Jesus. St Mark’s account is very succinct and is the shortest of all the Gospel accounts. Second Sunday - Transfiguraon Jesus takes Peter, James and John to the top of a high mountain where they experience the sight of Jesus in glory. He is flanked by Moses and Elijah, represenng the Law of the Old Testament and the Prophets. These first two Sundays of Lent show us Jesus in his humanity and in his divinity.
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1st Sunday
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Parish Priest: Fr John Southworth
Parish Office: 27 High Park St, Liverpool L8 8DX Phone: 0151 727 1463
www.mountcarmel-stpatrick.org.uk • Email: [email protected] • [email protected]
Liverpool Roman Catholic Archdiocesan Trustees Inc Registered Charity No 232709
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18th February 2018
FAITH IN FOCUS: FIGHTING BACK
‘Spiritual warfare’ is not a very popular term because it tends to conjure up the image of
Christians who are besieged by a hostile world and holed up in some sort of religious system
which is a bastion against all progress and development. Sometimes it is the rallying call for off-balance people who want to ban all pleasure
and find fault in the most innocent of things. The Church, of course, is not an organisation that is primarily against things. It’s in favour of life and
goodness in all its forms. It’s something wholesome and positive.
Yet in today’s scriptures we cannot escape spiritual warfare. We find Noah’s ark battling the
floodwaters of all that is evil, and we meet Jesus in the wilderness fighting off the
temptations of the devil.
There is no doubting that evil exists in our world. There’s no need here to give a long
catalogue of terrible things that happen day by day. We can all cite the examples. And even more speedily we can recall the various ways in which we ourselves co-operate with evil. For evil is not just something that other people get involved in.
We are tempted each day to become part of it.
Far from being something terrible, like genocide or war, evil creeps up on us in the
simplest and craftiest of disguises. It may be the gossip we chip in with that blackens someone’s
character, the small act of dishonesty that weakens us for the next time, the festering
coldness with which we treat members of our family or the prejudice we house for certain types of people. Evil starts as a small seed
and is prepared to bide its time.
But it is never too late to fight back against sin and evil. God told Noah that although the world
had turned from goodness and truth he would never allow evil to get the better of humanity. And Jesus himself, although he was really tempted at
the roots, gave us the pattern to fight against temptation. God has made a covenant with us
that ensures we can never be overcome against our will.
Lent is the period for taking stock of how we allow evil to take hold of us. And with God’s
grace it’s the period for fighting back.
Lent prepares us for Easter so…...
Easter Triduum The Three Day Feast
St Patrick Thursday 29th March Maundy Thursday 7pm Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Friday 30th March Good Friday 3pm Celebration of the Lord’s Passion
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Easter Vigil Saturday 31st March 9pm
T he Spirit drove Jesus out into the wilderness and he remained there for forty days and was tempted by Satan.
(Mark 1:12)
It’s comforting to know that even the Son of God was tempted. Temptation is not a sin but is often a prelude to sin. Knowing our weaknesses puts us at an advantage when we’re “tempted” to think that we can behave in a harmful way and come out unscathed.
LENTEN THEMES The themes for the first two Sundays of Lent are the same in every year of the three year cycle:
First Sunday - Temptation Jesus’s temptation in the wilderness emphases the humanity of Jesus. St Mark’s account is very succinct and is the shortest of all the Gospel accounts.
Second Sunday - Transfiguration Jesus takes Peter, James and John to the top of a high mountain where they experience the sight of Jesus in glory. He is flanked by Moses and Elijah, representing the Law of the Old Testament and the Prophets.
These first two Sundays of Lent show us Jesus in his humanity and in his divinity.
Collections ………………………….Many thanks
OLMC Sat Loose £137.07 Sun Loose £74.87 Envelopes £146.01 Total £357.95
St Patrick Envelopes £0 Loose £142.10 Box £23.11 Brick £10.00 Tea/Cakes £81.55.
Bonus Ball / Mount Carmel and St Patrick The bonus ball for Wednesday 14th February: No 5
Please Pray For…. Those who have died: Gillian Gray, Donna Marie Allen, Patricia Edwards, Margarita Henshaw
The sick: Christopher Dean, Tony Robinson, Carol Pickford, Betty Billingsley, Sharon Gray, Tommy Duffy, Mary Frances, Audrey McKenna Ian McCafferty, Betty Christian, Bernard Duffy, Helen Melarange, Jack Davies, Joan Higgins, Michael McNicholas, Billy Thompson, Freya Matheson, Rene Humphreys, Clifford Browne, Gary Hollinson, Jackie Heath-Anderson, Ted Cunningham, Anne Deuchar, Charlotte Rice, Irene Finneran, Lisa Balshaw, Mary Kewley, Claire Kearney, Lyn Barton, Betty Devine, Kathleen Devine, Joseph Baxendale, Ann Chapman, Nadia Kent, Susan Roberts, Alex Sielski, Lee Foster, Denise King, John Dunning, Tommy Huyton, Emily Rolands, Angela Kent, David Majoury, Donald Smith, Pius Laizer, Maria Jones, Mary O’Toole, Sally Wilkins, Michael Murphy, Margaret Chung, David Stevenson, Thomas & John Paul Conroy, Keith Holden, Kathleen Crowny, Joanne Fairbrother, Eileen Edwards, Erin Caulfield, Lisa Ginley, Lillian O’Connor, Owen Hall, Anne Brannigan, Thelma Mainwaring, Cheryl and Lenny Hart, Sheila Chapman, Elaine Gorry, Alexandra Reid, Winifred Williamson, Kathryn Reid, Wally Williams, Chrissy White, Nicholas Maher, John Hodson, Terry Macklin, Muriel Minshull, Maureen Ryan, Mary Ryan, Regna Lewis, David Shea, Steven Binks.
Adoremus: National Eucharistic Congress
A full timetable of events is available at the back of church. There is a print out on the notice boards and copies at the back of church which you can take home.
Anyone willing to go should fill in the forms provided at the back of church.
Besides these official events there will be several other ‘fringe’ events throughout Liverpool which will be open to everyone. These will be publicised when details are available.
BANNERS The Archdiocese has had made some banners for display in
each church to focus our attention on different aspects of Eucharist. They will be circulated around the 7 churches of the Pastoral Area each month leading up to September.
CAFOD Lenten Fast Day This Friday is the bi-annual collection for CAFOD. You will find details of the purpose of the collection this year in the publicity at the back of our churches. There will be a retiring collection next weekend.
Nugent Care—Annual Appeal The Archbishop has authorised
another annual collection, this one will be for our own home grown charity, Nugent Care. The traditional annual collection usually takes place in October but has always been an optional collection and often has coincided with other collections at that time. So the Archbishop has given Nugent Care a collection on the 4th Sunday of Lent.
Annual Celebration of Marriage and Family Life Archbishop
McMahon invites you to join him for this annual Mass on Sunday 11th March at 11am at the Cathedral. There will be a special blessing for those celebrating significant anniversaries.
OLMC—Fund Raising After our Christmas/New Year break funding
starts again in earnest...Buy a Brick, Raffle (any donations of prizes welcomed)……
Liverpool Archdiocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes: 20-27th July
You will find details of the cost of the pilgrimage on the notice boards.
John Southworth
MASSES AND SERVICES
In Church this week
• Requiem Masses on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
Sunday 18th February 1st SUNDAY of LENT Sat 5pm Ronnie Snr, Ronnie Jnr & Kevin Griffiths OLMC Sun 9.45am Parishioners St Patrick Sun 11.15am Bridie Thompson OLMC
Mon 19th February 9am Gabrielle Crabbe OLMC
Tue 20th February 12noon Requiem: Donna Marie Allen OLMC 7pm Ann Dawe OLMC
Wed 21st February 10am Irene Stockton St Patrick
Thu 22nd February 12noon Requiem: Patricia Edwards St Patrick Fri 23rd February 7am Daniel Finlay OLMC 12noon Requiem: Margarita Henshaw OLMC
Sunday 25th February 2nd SUNDAY of LENT Sat 5pm Parishioners OLMC Sun 9.45am Joseph Roberts St Patrick Sun 11.15am Michael Foley OLMC
Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturday 4-4.30pm
Evening Services - Stations of the Cross 7pm Wednesday St Patrick 7pm Thursday OLMC
Lent Weekday Evening Mass • Tuesday 7pm at OLMC Weekday Early Mass • Friday Mass at 7am at OLMC NB Both these Masses will be celebrated even if there is a Requiem Mass the same day.
Stations of the Cross • St Patrick Wednesday 7pm • OLMC Thursday 7pm
