St Helen’s church St. Joseph’s Church

Parish Office based at St Helen’s church: Mrs Anne Fearon 0151 924 3417 Liverpool Archdiocesan Trustees Inc. Registered Charity No. 232709

St Helen’s Sunday 29th 9.45 am Mass for Marge Agg (lately dead) 6.30 pm Mass for John Potter (lately dead)

Monday 30th 9.30 am Service of the Word & Communion 2.00 pm St Pio Prayer Group 7.00 pm Holy Hour

Tuesday 31st 7.30 pm Novena & Benediction

Wednesday 1st August

9.30 am Mass for Clement Southern (R.I.P.) 10.00 am Rosary for the Unborn

Thursday 2nd

7.00 pm Mass for Bridget Hone (lately dead)

Friday 3rd

9.30 am Service of the Word & Communion 3.00 pm Wedding Service: Dawn Walsh & Anthony Godfrey

Saturday 4th

11.10 am Fatima Prayers 11.20 am Exposition & Confessions 12.00 Mass for a private intention (AK)

Sunday 5th 9.45 am Mass for Veronica Donnelly (lately dead) 6.30 pm Mass for the people of the parish

St Joseph’s Saturday 28th 5.30 pm Exposition & Confessions (until 6.20) 6.30 pm Mass for Gertrude Dancer (lately dead)

Sunday 29th

11 am Mass for Linda Caswell (lately dead)

Monday 30th

9.30 am Mass for Eileen Divine (lately dead)

Tuesday 31st NO SERVICE

Wednesday 1st August NO SERVICE

Thursday 2nd

11.00 am Funeral Mass for Tom Costigan

Friday 3rd 9.30 am Mass for Fr John Joyce (golden jubilee)

Saturday 4th 5.30 pm Exposition & Confessions (until 6.20) 6.30 pm Mass for Mark Edwards (anniversary)

Sunday 5th

11 am Mass for John Potter (lately dead)

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK OF OUR PARISHES: Stephen Wilson, Christine Moore, John Murphy, Christopher Brown, John Regan, Hannah Amelia Regan, Hugh Dillon, Rita Barber, Celia Bradshaw, Sheila Brennan, Margaret Walsh, Joan Bamber, Susan Natsheh, Pat Corner, Marie Brownrigg, Peter Holmes, Mary Cookson-Gower, Norah Byford, Joan Doyle, Rachel Cunningham, Jean Greenwood, Jim Byrne, Reg Fitzgerald, Hagai Atzmon, Mary Kilbane, Peggy McGoldrick, Anthony Belderbos, Ged Manning, Pauline Bent, Tom O’Leary, Stephen Smerdon, Jack Jones, Barbara Lee, Janet Kinsey, Betty Hennessey, Christopher Cadley, Graeme Davidson, Stephen Deary, Catherine Sinnott, Joan Newton, Sandra Wilkinson, Helen Coulson, Carol Carroll, and Mary & Clare Rimmer and another sick person.

40, Warren Road, Liverpool, L23 6UE Fr Martin Caddell - 0151 924 2101 Mobile: 07710247633 stjosephsblundellsands@hotmail.co.uk www.stjosephsblundellsands.org

112, Alexandra Road, Liverpool L23 7TQ 0151 924 3417 sthelenscrosby@hotmail.co.uk www.sthelenscrosby.org.uk Fr Martin Caddell Deacon: Rev. E Douglas

Seventeenth Sunday OT

28th/ 29th July 2018

Year B

Anniversaries: Hugh Morgan, Mark Edwards, Emma Byrne, Vera Kinsella Irene Pennington, Theresa Lovelady, Brian Payne, Edward O’Thy.

Coming SVP Collections in both Churches 4/5 August

1/2 September Thank you all for your support

Please remember in your prayers: Tom Costigan who died recently. Tom will be brought into St Joseph’s for prayers and the Rosary at 6.30pm on Wednesday 1st August. Tom’s funeral will be at 11.00am on Thursday 2nd August

Contributions for this newsletter need to reach the Parish Office 12 noon on Thursday. Please provide a contact ‘phone number in case of query.

Thank you. Office hours are: Tuesday to Friday, 10 am to 2 pm. e-mail: sthelenscrosby@hotmail.co.uk

(St Joseph’s) Don’t forget our £1.00 in an envelope scheme . In aid of Ebola Orphans Last week’s winner: Jackie Kazi

Used postage stamps: Deacon Peter is still collecting used stamps and will be grateful for your contributions. The stamps are sorted and sold to dealers. The proceeds are then sent to the British Leprosy Mission and the Hearing Dogs Society. A box has been provided at the back of church.

Thinking outside the pew: Scripture Group: : 'Bread from heaven' - how does this nourish us? Continuing our study of John chapter 6 and its links to the Eucharist. In the light of the upcoming Eucharistic Congress, this chapter allows us to question and deepen our understanding of what we celebrate in the Eucharist. Monday, 7:30, parish centre. All

CAFOD (St Helen’s) pray-fast-give

A prayer to take/keep with us over the summer holidays:

God of the poor, Help us to rescue the abandoned and forgotten of this earth, so precious in your eyes. Bring healing to our own lives, that we may protect the earth and not prey upon it, that we may sow beauty rather than pollution, life rather than destruction and hope in place of despair. Amen

We’ll report weekly collection totals when normal service is resumed in a few weeks. Many thanks for the £207 donated last week.

Walton Prison are looking for guitars in good condition that they could use for teaching the inmates to play. If you have one to donate please leave at St Joseph’s church. They will be collected from there.

FATIMA FIRST SATURDAYS: In a spirit of reparation to Our Blessed Lady, the Fatima Devotions will take place on Saturday, 4th August. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 11 am; Rosary 11.10 am; Sacrament of Reconciliation available; Holy Mass at 12 noon.

Please note that the office will be closed for the summer break from 27th July.

The office will re-open on Tuesday 28th August.

Nugent Care Charity shop needs donations! The shop is one of the most popular charity shops in the area, with a lot of regular customers and the team have sold over 40,000 items so far this year and raised over £90,000 for our community services. Our stock is going so fast we can't keep up! So if your having a clear-out, looking to free up some space, have some unwanted gifts, we would be happy to take them. You can drop goods off at the shop on Allerton Road, or we can collect from you. Our drivers collect on Thursdays, please call Jeanette at the shop to arrange a collection. 0151 737 2951

With You Always: Our parish-based programme preparing children for their First Holy Communion, will begin again after the summer holidays. If you have a child going in to Year 4 in September you will need to register. (Forms available in both churches.)

Sandymount House of Prayer and Retreat Nights of Testimony

10th August –7pm: Sister Catherine Holum (Former Olympic Ice Skater)

See notice board for more events

Food For Thought— No more meetings until September

Knights of St Columba—Fundraiser Friday 3rd August at 7.30pm

At St Benets, Netherton. Tickets £5 available from Peter Kinsey

Many thanks to everybody for donating so much in recent months. Items for the food bank can still be put in the boxes provided over the summer weeks but if you have donations of other items for the homeless/ asylum seekers please do not bring them now until after the summer break (September) . This includes buggies and pushchairs, which we will happily accept after the holidays. Thank You

St Edmund of Canterbury Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help

The Untier of Knots Begins Wednesday 8th August at 7.15pm and continues for 9 consecutive weeks. 8th August: Identifying the Knots in our lives

Irenaeus: “Come and See 2018” Saturday 27th October 10 am—5pm Maricourt High Scool, Maghull, L31 3D

Keynote Speaker: Fr Eamon Mulcahy Workshops: Fr Chris Thomas, Eileen T Snow,

Dr Karen Groves and others.

CONTACT THE IRENAEUS PROJECT ON 0151 949 1199

OR EMAIL jenny@irenaeus.co.uk

ST. PIO DAY OF PRAYER, PANTASAPH FRIARY, HOLYWELL: Sunday, 12th August. For those who have booked, please meet in St. Helen’s Car Park at 8.50 am to leave at 9 am. Packed lunch required, tea/coffee provided. For further details phone Noelle (924 4118).