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Crypt Crypt Chapel

STV St. Vincent de Paul Parish Church

SS - 55 Seel St, Missionaries of Charity

RLUH - Royal Liverpool University Hospital

CLERGY: PRIESTS: Canon Anthony O’Brien Dean Mgr Peter Cookson Fr Gerard Callacher Fr Stephen Lee

DEACONS: Rev Noel Abbott Rev Paul Mannings

Since the beginning of September Cathedral life has been gearing back up to its normal hectic schedule and there should be plenty to keep us all busy over these next few months. With all the Cathedral Departments now back to full strength following the summer holidays, we come together to celebrate our Community Mass at 11.00am today - it is an opportunity for us all to recognise the important part all play in supporting and building the life of our Cathedral and to call on God’s Blessing for the year ahead.

Benedictine Monks will lead a special evening prayer this Monday in Latin as part of events in the year of consecrated life. This will be at 4.00pm in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel followed by a talk on the Benedictine Life in the Gibberd Room. They have extended a general invite to anyone who would like to join them for this. Next Tuesday we begin the first in a series of five weekly talks reflecting on the legacy of the Second Vatican Council. This week Archbishop Malcolm reflects upon the document ‘Nostra Aetate’ on the church’s relationship with other faiths and how this has led to significant changes in the way we deal and relate to those of other religions over the last fifty years. The talks take place in the Gibberd Room at 7.00pm. On Friday ‘The Sixteen’ will be performing in the Cathedral as part of their 2015 Choral tour entitled ‘Flight of Angels’. They will be singing music by Francisco Guerrero and Alonso Lobo, Spanish Renaissance composers who directed the music in Seville Cathedral during the sixteenth century. (tickets available from the Cathedral shop).

On Friday Bishop Vincent Malone will celebrate his Diamond Jubilee as a priest. We offer him our congratulations and best wishes on reaching this milestone of 60 years service as a priest – some of those years as Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese

and others as Dean (administrator, as it was then known) of our Cathedral and prior to that as University Chaplain. He will preside at the Solemn Mass next Sunday.

The Daughters of St Paul are also celebrating their centenary at a special mass at 4.00pm in the Cathedral next Sunday. They were founded in 1915 by Blessed James Alberione with the first Daughter of St Paul the Venerable Tecla Merlo in the town of Alba in Italy. They first arrived in England in 1955 and four years later received an invitation from a parish priest in Widnes to come and work in the parish, living in a house next to the parish church. From there the sisters visited families and schools throughout the Diocese. The sisters moved to a convent in Mossley Hill in 1966 and acquired the bookshop in Richmond Street. After acquiring further premises which had been the former Burns and Oates book shop, they eventually moved to their present site on Bold Street in 1973 selling these two former premises. When the sisters first arrived in the Archdiocese little was known of their charism to spread the word of God through all our modern means of communication. Through the witness of so many sisters who have served in Liverpool over the years they have provided a valuable resource for people to discover or to deepen and develop their faith in Christ. Archbishop Malcolm will preside at this mass and you would be most welcome to join with the sisters in giving thanks to God for all that has been achieved through his grace and the commitment of so many members of the Daughters of St Paul.

There will be a retiring collection at all the masses next weekend for Home Mission Sunday and there will also be a Pastoral Letter from Archbishop Malcolm.

Canon Anthony O’Brien Cathedral Dean

 

13 September 2015 Twenty-Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time

Mass Intentions Received

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WEEK COMMENCING: 13 September 2015 Mass & Service Times All services take place in the cathedral unless marked otherwise

Special Intentions, Gerard Webb (RIP), Holy Souls, Eddie O’Neill (Birthday Remembrance), Edward and Evelyn Kenny (RIP), Linda Lea (RIP), Tom Quayle (Anniversary), Kevin Clarke (Intentions), Carmel Traynor (Intentions), Traynor Family, Joe Kenny (RIP), Syd McKeon (RIP), Kenny Powell (RIP), Trisha Jones (Anniversary), Noelie McGloughan (Anniversary), Roy and Gary Fell (Intention), Mary Roche and Family (Intentions), Fr

Pat Foley (Intention), Peter Feney (Intention), Kathleen and Tom Woods (50TH Wedding Anniversary), Joyce Hillman (RIP), Norma Comerford (RIP), Bernadette Lawless (RIP), Thomas McGuirk (RIP), William Heague (RIP), David Burke (RIP), Joseph McGarry (RIP), Martha Connolly (Anniversary), Bernard Connolly (Birthday Remembrance), John Jonson (RIP), James Hanson (Buhagiar) (RIP), John Farrelly (70th Birthday), Mary Catherine and Jim Loftus (In Memoriam), George S Harrison (Remembrance), Joan Hodge (RIP), Vera Naughalty (RIP).

 

Sunday 13 September 24th Sunday of Ordinary Time 8.30am Mass 10.00am Family Mass Crypt 11.00am Solemn Choral Mass 1.00pm Polish Mass Crypt 3.00pm Choral Evening Prayer 4.00pm Mass RLUH 7.00pm Mass Crypt

Monday 14 September The Exhaltation of the Holy Cross 7.45am Morning Prayer 8.00am Mass 12.15pm Mass Crypt 5.15pm Sung Mass

Tuesday 15 September Our Lady of Sorrows 7.45am Morning Prayer 8.00am Mass 12.15pm Mass Crypt 5.15pm Sung Mass

Wednesday 16 September Sts Cornelius, Pope & Cyprian 7.45am Morning Prayer 8.00am Mass 9.00am Mass (Patsie Tricia Williams) STV 12.15pm Mass Crypt 5.15pm Mass 5.45pm Choral Evening Prayer

Thursday 17 September 7.45am Morning Prayer 8.00am Mass 9.00am Mass SS 12.15pm Mass Crypt 5.15pm Mass 5.45pm Choral Evening Prayer

Friday 18 September 7.45am Morning Prayer 8.00am Mass 9.00am Mass (Ronnie Hillis ) STV 12.15pm Mass Crypt 5.15pm Mass 5.45pm Choral Evening Prayer

Saturday 19 September 8.45am Morning Prayer 9.00am Mass 6.00pm Vigil Mass (Peggy Maddocks) STV 6.30pm Vigil Mass Crypt RECONCILIATION (Confession) Monday - Friday: Following the 12.15pm Mass Crypt Saturday: 11.00am – 12noon 3.30pm - 4.30pm  

Tel: 0151 709 9222

Email: enquiries@metcathedral.org.uk @LiverpoolMet  

 

   

 

 

ST VINCENT’S LOTTERY NUMBERS For week commencing 5 September. Winning numbers are 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, and 14. Prize was £1,150. There were no winners. Next week the prize money will be £1,200.

ST NICHOLAS’ SCHOOL Hello again! School returned after the summer break this week and it was great to see everyone again. We have not only welcomed new children to our school ‘family’ but there are also several new faces in the staffroom too. As the summer holiday began, baby Oliver James Craig came into our world and, although he had a rocky start, it’s great to be able to say that he is now home with Gemma and Andrew and is doing well. This year’s With You Always sacrament preparation programme will begin again in a few weeks, so if you know of a year 4 child in our parish who wishes to be confirmed and receive Holy Communion this year, please let Father Ged or Deacon Paul know. It is hoped that the children from both St Nicholas and St Vincent de Paul schools will receive their preparation sessions together along with any parish children. Mrs Vicki Fallon www.stnicholasliverpool.co.uk

NEW STUDENT HOUSE The Chemin Neuf Community has opened a student house in the former Cathedral Convent for young adults to experience common life and to share Christian faith. Rooms are still

available. Contact Marie-Eve on 07482 713 009 or on email at 18-30.uk@chemin-neuf.org for more information. JOURNEY IN FAITH This is a process of discernment for anyone who may be interested in becoming a Catholic. It is open to those of any faith, religion or world view. We meet on Monday evenings from the end of October until March. At that stage those wishing to be received into the Church are welcomed at the Easter Vigil. Throughout the process (and it is a process rather than a programme or syllabus) there are presentations accompanied by space to pray, to reflect and to discuss. There are no written assessments or examinations! We aim to gather a group any time from now. Would you like to join us? Contact: Deacon Paul Mannings p.mannings@rcaol.co.uk CAR BOOT SALE The next one will take place on Saturday 10 October. Ring now to book your pitch. Pitches are only £10. Please note that we hardly have any good quality items to sell on our stall. Remember that any money we raise from the stall goes directly to the Cathedral. Thanks to everyone who has made donations so far. Our stock is excellent and we hope to raise a lot of money for the Cathedral at the next sale. MET MAIL We recently issued our first quarterly newsletter via email.

This is in addition to the regular weekly newsletter that you can find at the back of the Cathedral and the Crypt. If you would like to receive a quarterly newsletter via email please send your full name and email address to c.hanlon@metcathedral.org.uk. This is our first attempt and we hope to build on our success!

FR STEPHEN WRITES Hello my name is Fr Stephen Lee and I was ordained priest on the 18th July at St Marie of the Annunciation Church in Standish. I studied for the priesthood for 7 years in three different seminaries, St Alban’s College in Valladolid, St Cuthbert’s Seminary, Ushaw and St Mary’s College Oscott. Before going to seminary I was an IT technician working at the University of Salford. I hope that you will keep me in your prayers as I settle into life at the Cathedral and I will keep you in my prayers.

HOPE+ NEWS By the time you read this, our wonderful volunteers will have provided our 300,000 meal portion and come very close to providing our 20,000th food hamper, which we will probably achieve at our St Vincent’s pantry on 15th September.It has been a very busy summer; indeed July was our busiest month ever as we provided 1214 people with food, clothes, and toiletries, with a further 973 people helped in August. Thanks to help from people across the city and from all faiths and none, for the first summer ever, we remained open and turned no one away.

Refugee & Asylum Seeker Crisis. Although care for Asylum Seekers and Refugees did not form part of our original plans when Hope+ opened in February 2013, we very soon began to see a few from the Initial Asylum Assessment hostel, Birley Court; only a few hundred yards from our St Bride’s pantry. It was a very sharp learning curve for us. Today, we offer care for everyone that needs it and that includes our newly arrived neighbours. So far we have cared for people from over seventy countries; but principally five countries stand out: Syria, Iraq, Eritrea, Sudan, and Iran. We have seen over 1600 people from Syria. The people we see are deeply traumatised, first by whatever crisis caused them to leave their homes, and then by their journey to the UK. We help them as best we can; with food, basic toiletries and feminine hygiene items, and clothes; we really need clothes especially men’s clothes. Please see our new Newsletter for details of how you can help. If you might like to volunteer your time, set up a standing order, or discover others ways you can support our work, please contact foodbank@liverpoolcathedral.org.uk.

THE DAUGHTERS OF ST PAUL (Pauline Books and Media) invite you to join them for Mass in the Cathedral on Sunday 20 September at 4.00pm to celebrate the Centenary of Foundation and the 60th Anniversary of Foundation in Great Britain. All welcome. Archbishop McMahon is the celebrant.

Last week’s collection: £1,280.00

PIAZZA CAFÉ 0151 707 3536

Fine Food, Speciality Coffees, Continental Beers and Wines

Monday – Saturday 9.00am – 5.30pm Sunday 10.00am – 4.00pm Located in the Cathedral Visitor Centre  

GIFT SHOP Inspirational Gifts and Souvenirs to choose from. Monday – Sunday 10.00am – 4.00pm Located in the Cathedral Visitor Centre 0151 707 3525 giftshop@metcathedral.org.uk Giftshop@metcathedral.org.uk

GOLDEN BOOK OFFICE 0151 707 2107 t.lundbeck@metcathedral.org.uk The 5.15pm Mass on the first Friday of every month will be offered for all those who are recorded in the Golden Book. Monday – Friday 10.00am – 3.30pm  

Open Monday-Saturday: First Admission: 10.00am Last Admission 3.30pm

Crypt Admission Charges: £3 Adults, £8 Family (2 adults + 2 children) £2 School Parties (per person)