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This week we videoed the hanging of two BoB (bird or bat) boxes in the trees in the chaplaincy garden. CAFOD are producing BoB boxes in flat-packs for their upcoming environmental campaign.

They will encourage people to put up a box which can either be configured to be suitable for a bird or a bat to live in. This will give a bird or bat a home and hopefully also helps you to feel a personal connection with an animal who shares our common home.

The video will be one of a series of videos of people hanging the boxes. If you are interested in getting a BoB box for your garden, either in Manchester or at your family home and are willing to make a video when you put it up, please contact Br Geoff (geoffteb@gmail.com).

‘If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his

cross and follow me.’ – Mt 16,24

Sunday 15th of May 2016 | 0161 273 1456 | general.muscc@gmail.com

Pentecost “… And for all this, nature is never

spent; There lives the dearest freshness

deep down things; And though the last lights off the

black West went Oh morning, at the brown brink

eastward, springs– Because the Holy Ghost over the

bent World broods with warm breast

and with ah! Bright wings.” (from God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins)

Two weeks ago 11 candidates received the sacrament of Confirmation in Holy Name church. We rejoiced with them and their families, that they now can grow and have the power to become Jesus’ witnesses ‘to the ends of the

earth’.

The Spirit of Jesus lives in us all, Our job is first to Welcome the Spirit saying, ‛Come Holy Spirit‘ or ‘Veni Sancte Spiritus’ and allow this amazing Spirit of Jesus to work in our lives—cleansing, healing and inspiring us with grace upon grace.

Organ recital Renowned and popular organist, Gordon Stewart, presents the final concert in our annual organ recital series. This Friday 20th May at 7.30pm in Holy Name Church. From 7pm there are refreshments in the Strada Room, beside the sacristy, to the left of the sanctuary.

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This Week’s Events This week at the Chaplaincy… Monday 16th May

- Morning Prayer: each weekday 8.30am morning in the chapel for 15 minutes

- SVP meeting 6.30pm Tuesday 17th May

- Foodbank: serving the local 10am-12pm community in crisis (also Weds / Fri). 6.30pm Taizé prayer in the Chapel.–

Wednesday 18th May – prayer for persecuted Christians 6.45pm

in the Calvary chapel in the Holy Name Church

– jamming session 7.00pm Friday 20th May

- Staff Bible Study. 1pm-2pm 7.30pm-9pm - Organ recital with Gordon Stewart. Saturday 21st May 3-4pm – JRM concert in Church Sunday 22nd May Mass - Please come along and join us for Mass: 9:15am hymns; 12pm classical choir; 7pm contemporary music followed by dinner in the Chaplaincy. 8.00pm – Dinner after Mass: a great time together and home-made food (£3 for 2 courses). Rosary 5.15pm each weekday in the chaplaincy chapel.

The Mount Street Young Adult Group is going on the second stage of the Ignatian Way pilgrimage this summer, which will take place from Santa Cruz de Kanpezu to Gallur (Spain). The cost is £650 including flights and the dates are 23rd June to 3rd July. There is still one and possibly two spots left for this spiritual journey. Money should never stop a pilgrim from being on the road, so if you have any issues there are possibilities to get funding. If you have any further questions about this trip, please contact Sister Anouska Robinson-Biggin fcJ: yam@mountstreet.info

Saturday Soul Session On 21st of May, 7.00PM we will be holding an open jamming session in our lounge (1st floor of the Chaplaincy). The evening will be dedicated to pray and play some Christian tunes together with our 7pm Mass music group. Any song requests for this relaxed night are

more than welcome.

This week’s Saints

Monday - St Andrew Bobola SJ was a Polish missionary who was martyred (1657) by Cossacks and is venerated as the Apostle of Lithuania. He is invoked as a patron of Catholic/Orthodox unity.

Thursday - St Dunstan is a very popular English saint (10th century - abbot and bishop) who according to legend pinched the devil's nose with a pair of hot tongs. Such stories have a serious message: the devil cannot bear to be ridiculed.

Friday - St Bernadine of Siena was a popular Franciscan friar (d 1444) who preached devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus. His IHS banner (first letters of the Greek name of Jesus) inspired the Jesuit monogram.

Saturday - St Cristobal Magallenes was a Mexican priest who become a hero to his flock in Totatiche when they were oppressed by anti-Catholic revolutionaries. He was shot in 1927.

"Faith is a flame that grows

stronger the more it is shared and passed on".

We invite young volunteers to help (with leading groups,

singing, acting, taking pictures, etc.) in a youth Congress called

Convivio. Convivio is a Congress for

Catholic students in secondary school, that is taking place once more in Manchester on 13th-

14th July at Holy Cross College in Bury (9.30am-2.30pm).

This year's theme will be 'MErcy begins with ME' and it will

include a variety of activities centred on Mercy. If you would

like to get involved in the organising team as a volunteer,

please contact us:

Gabriela.Teixeira@dioceseofsalford.org

Michael turned 91 this Saturday and he is a

valued member of our team because he has

been serving in the Holy Name since he was 7

years old (84 years). The community is having

a special birthday lunch on Tuesday 17th May

to celebrate with him. This picture is of him

and Shiela on his 90th birthday last year. We

wish Michael all the best for the year ahead.

Prayer Group for Persecuted Christians Last week: We prayed together for Fr. Tom Uzhunnali, who has been kidnapped by Islamic militants in Yemen, for two months now. Thanks to all those who joined us on Wednesday and others who remembered Fr. Tom in their prayers during the week. This week: Let's pray for Asia Bibi, a Christian

woman, who is accused of blasphemy and has

finally received the death sentence in Pakistan.

Please join us in remembering her in our prayers this week especially on Wednesday, 18th May 2016 at 6.45pm in Holy Name Church Please let us know if you would like us to pray for anyone in particular, who is suffering religious persecution or oppression anywhere in the world. Contact: Hinna (hinnapz@gmail.com)

Last week Fr David Stewart spoke to us about the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network, also known as the Apostleship of Prayer. You join the network by praying daily, even for a few seconds at a time, and sharing the Pope’s monthly prayer intentions. Making a prayer intention is also an

intention to do things to actualise the intentions which concern the world in general and evangelisation. Being a worldwide network, information and the intentions are available in several languages (English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish). The main website is www.apmej.org www.clicktopray.org is a website and app that help you to pray daily and to connect with other people who are also praying. There is also an opportunity to ask for prayers for your specific intentions and also to pray for the specific intentions of other users of the app. We also have various leaflets at the back of the church with more information.

We are currently running low on the following item for our food parcels:

UHT long-life milk Thank you to all those who generously donated long-life fruit juice and tinned fruit to our foodbank last week following our request!

Donations Thank you to all those who donated to our fundraising bake sale last week! We raised £53.30 which went towards our 10k Run Fundraising goal. We also received a fantastic donation of tinned chickpeas, kidney beans and chopped tomatoes from the The Eighth Day Cafe on Oxford Road!

Great Manchester 10k Run on Sunday 22nd May Entries are now closed for the Great Manchester Run 10k. We have already raised an amazing £599.35 so far, well on our way to reach our target of £2,000! Best of luck to the latest team members Cesar Pereira and colleagues from the team at Gama. If you wish to sponsor our team please visit: campaign.justgiving.com/charity/m-c-f/greatmanchesterrun10k

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THIS MONDAY 16th May

The Chaplaincy has a close working relationship with local PCSO Sarah Monaghan and we are keen for her to come and give a talk here in May as she is currently a volunteer at MASH (Manchester Action for Street Health.) which supports sex workers within Greater Manchester. (http://www.mash.org.uk/) We have asked Sarah to give a short presentation on human trafficking and sexual exploitation, alongside her role at MASH and the work the GMP does to support the victims of human trafficking and modern slavery.

Monday 16th May - Sarah will give a short talk at 6.30pm at the Catholic Chaplaincy and then open the floor for questions and discussion.

All University students are welcome to attend!

Volunteers needed for our Tesco Food Drive next weekend! We have a one day food drive planned at Tesco Extra Gorton (M18 8LD) next Saturday (21st May). We still need volunteers on the day to help distribute our foodbank's shopping lists to customers as they enter the store and to help sort/pack donations as they are received. If you would like to volunteer on the day any time between 9am and 6pm please email: volunteering@manchestercentral.foodbank.org.uk

Volunteers needed for nightclub fundraiser on Saturday 21st May In the evening following our Tesco Food Drive we have another Food 4 Thought Nightclub fundraising event. The Food 4 Thought events, hosted by local DJs LEVELZ take place at a local Manchester nightclub (venue to be confirmed soon!) offer free entry to any attendees who bring tins of food for our foodbank on the night. The event will start around 10pm and is likely to go on late into the night! Should anyone wish to volunteer at the event (helping collect tins and transporting them into our van) please email: volunteering@manchestercentral.foodbank.org.uk for more information.

We received a request for volunteers to help at the SVP Furniture Warehouse and Charity Shop. If you have one day a week to spare or are staying here over the summer and would like to volunteer - please follow up with Beverley directly (see below for details). Feel free to pass on to anyone that you know that might be interested. Two volunteer opportunities:

1. There is a Furniture depot in Middleton, Manchester that runs 5 days a week picking up donations and doing deliveries. We are desperate need of some volunteers to answer telephone enquiries (from 10.00-4pm daily) take orders or pick ups and relay this info to the van drivers, as well as basic filing and computer literate activities.

2. Charity shop assistants helping with all manner of shop duties including steaming, sorting and shop merchandising etc.

We would be happy with odd days here and there if people can commit, but regularity and continuity are really important for us to ensure that the volunteers get the most out of what they are doing. We can always look at rotating from option 1 to option 2 to feed variety. Beverley Whittaker Head of Compliance & North West Region Community Support Projects Mob: 07708595953 Email: BeverleyW@svp.org.uk

Congratulations to Kika who was given the Citywise

(www.facebook.com/citywiseuk) Best Mentor Award last week.

Citywise mentors share their time and talents with young people

who need a positive experience of committed and consistent

adults.

Congratulations also to Siobhan Cartwright who received a Making a Difference

Award for Social Responsibility from the University of Manchester for her

volunteering with the foodbank.