STECHFORD

ALLELUIA! ALLELUIA! ALLELUIA!

Christ is truly risen and is with us. May He fill our hearts, our homes and our world

with the Peace that only He can give. ALLELUIA! ALLELUIA!

ALLELUIA!

Fr. Andrew Martinez, SDV (0121) 783 2792 Rev. Fretch,SDV & Bro. Augustine,SDV

E-mail: CorpusChristi.Stechford@gmail.com www.corpuschrististechford.co.uk

Sr. Maureen and Sr. Maura RSM (0121) 784 2090 Mandy O’Borne - Children & Vulnerable Adults Protection Officer 624 2258 / 07740 537 787

16th April 2017

EASTER SUNDAY

AL ANON (Support/self-help group for relatives and friends of problem drinkers) - meetings at Church Hall, Sacred Heart & Holy Souls, Acocks Green, on Weds at 8.00 pm. Email: enquiries@al-anonuk.org.uk or tel: 020 7403 0888. SVP - Please contact Carol 783 2617. Thank you for all donations including baby items, books, and items for our SVP table in parish room, also for your generous contributions to the SVP collection last weekend. Thanks so much for Easter eggs donated for less fortunate children in our parish The SVP members wish you all a happy and holy Easter.

OUR PRAYERFUL CONGRATULA-TIONS to Collette and Stacey who celebrate their Baptism, Confirmation and First Communion as adults this Easter. We warmly welcome them into our Parish Family. APF/MISSIO: The April quarter is now due and

boxes should be brought in by 30th April Thank

you.

The HELP GROUP will hold a meeting on Tuesday 18th April, 7:30 pm, in the parish room. HELP GROUP ANNUAL MASS: 10.00 am next Saturday 22 April, led by the Keralan Community. Fr John Collins, Columban Fathers, will celebrate. Big sale & raffle weekend 22nd/23rd April.

YOUTH PRAYER GROUP - a safe, happy and holy Easter Break to our young people and their families. Sr. Maureen

PILGRIMAGE TO WALSINGHAM, 13 May - A coach is being organised for this Pilgrimage, cost £17 per person, to be paid on

the day. Leaving here at 7.30 am , arriving back approximately 9.00 pm.. If interested please contact Gill in the office (0121 783 2792). A MESSAGE FROM FR ANDREW: I will be visiting my family in the Philippines from Easter Sunday evening for two weeks. I ask your prayers for my mother Josefina who is unwell. Thank you so much and Happy Easter!

.ARE YOU PASSING BY OR PARKED OUTSIDE? Our Church door is OPEN all day. Bring your own and your family’s needs in

prayer to Jesus and His Mother Mary? “Risen Jesus, I believe in You. Fill my heart with Your Peace. Amen.” WELCOME TO OUR PARISH. If you are new to the area, please come to any Mass, take a green form from the main Porch Newspaper table, fill it in and hand to the Priest. ** If you would like to learn about our Catholic Faith or re-visit your own Faith after ‘being away’, take an orange leaflet from the same place or contact us via

numbers or email on front of Parish Newsletter. Thank you.

We work together with: St Wilfrid’s, Castle Bromwich (Confessions Tue &Thu 9.30-10.00 am), Holy Family, Small Heath (Confessions Sat 11 am-12 pm, Sun 4.30-5 pm)& Our Lady of the Rosary, Saltley (Confessions after Sat 5 pm Mass)

Bonus Ball winner: No. 42 M. Talbot (22.3.17) No winner this weekend

FINANCIAL NOTES Offertory Collection: £863.88

Second Collection this weekend for Priests of the Parish

We ask your prayers for: Shirley Finlan, Kelly Turner, Josefina Martinez, Donie O’Connor, Kath Kelly, Eileen Sullivan, Tom Ayres, Raymond Cowan, Maureen Fitzgerald, John Cond, Olive McNil, Marie McArdey, Noel Foley, Adrian Sacilotto, Peter Dowling, Kathleen McGettigan, Alistair Howard, Kerry McAllester, Mary Webb, Michael Kilgallen, Thomas Lynch, Olwyn Manuel, John Finlan, Joyce Pullen, Gerry Davitt, Margaret Rose, Kathleen Cumiskey, Mrs Whelan, Mary Overton, Maurice (Mossie) Fitzgerald, Scott Benton, Karen Smith, Tim Bradley, Joe Whale, Karen Parke, Fergus & Ann Kelly, Rachel Canavan, Mary Hughes, Keith Hands, Cath Laidlaw, Helen McMullan, Tony Austin, Annette Smith, Terence Franklin, Sheila Ward, Kathy Bergin, Tom Roper, Bernard McHale, Pat and George Pollock, Maureen Rooney, Steven and Melissa O’Brien, Jaqueline Smyth, Michelle Flydd, Peg Roper, Linda Brady all those in nursing homes in the parish and all who are sick, housebound and in special need of our prayers. Please remember in your prayers: Carol Cecilia Cleary, Ellen Turner, Bernard Christopher Williams, Veronica Bernadette McDonnell, Sheila Ward and those who have died recently and those whose anniversaries are recorded in the Book of the Dead in Saint Joseph’s Chapel. May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

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NEXT WEEK

MASS READER BIDDING PRAYERS EXTRAORD. MINISTERS Team B : Sun: Team 3

Sat 6.00 pm Anna K J Keegan C Barber

Sun 10.30 C Clinch Drury Family K Smith/B Ryan

Counting Team 1

PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS

Divine Jesus, Son of the eternal Father and Mary Immaculate, grant many of the faithful true generosity in following your call, and bestow on them the grace of your Holy Spirit to persevere in overcoming all obstacles to their vocations. Give the Church in this Diocese and throughout the world many holy priests and fervent religious. Through the intercession of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, all the Angels, Blessed Justin and all Saints, we humbly ask you to hear our prayers and multiply the ministries by which we may serve one another in faith and love. Hail Mary…

MASSES EASTER VIGIL pg 216: EASTER SUNDAY Year A pg. 251

Weekday Readings: Easter Octave

Saturday, 15th April

7.30 pm Frank Doherty RIP

(Vigil of Easter Sunday)

Solemnity of the Resurrection of the Lord 16th April Year A

10:30 am Eileen Swan RIP

Easter Monday, 17th April

7.00 pm Reception of Sheila Ward RIP

With Mass: Loretta Morallos and

Ely Almoguera Sr. RIP

Easter Tuesday, 18th April

11.00 am Requiem

Sheila Ward RIP

Easter Wednesday, 19th April

7:00 pm Rose Moran - Get Well Mass

Easter Thursday 20th April

9.15 am Mary and Larry Greene

Easter Friday 21st April

9.15 am Kate Finneran - Get Well Mass

Easter Saturday 22nd April

10.00 am Help Group Mass

Mick Dunne RIP

6.00 pm Pat Fildes and Colin Bird RIP

Sunday 23rd April Year A

Second Sunday of Easter - Divine Mercy Sunday

10:30 am Margaret and Nora Kearns

& Elizabeth and Peadar Hand

CONFESSIONS: Saturdays at 10.30 - 11.30 am & 5.15-5.45 pm

Open confession available on request.

The parish is part of the Archdiocese of Birmingham: Registered Charity No. 234216 Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England & Wales: www.catholic-ew.org.uk

Baptisms- 1st & 3rd Sundays of the month at 12.00pm Parents & Godparents wishing to arrange a baptism should attend the next baptism course at 6.00 pm on Mon 1st May in the Parish Room. Parents are encouraged to consider a saint’s name for their child along with any other name of their choice. Congratulations to Thomas Cash, Anesha Mae Guevarra and Leo Edward Clifford Howl who will be baptised today.