St Benedict’s Social Club Rowan Rd Batchley

Available for hire Baptisms, Weddings, Funerals and other occasions.

Telephone the Club on 01527 60345

BINGO Every Sunday 2.30pm & Monday 8pm

Hadzor Prayer Group Friday mornings 11am-12.30pm to reflect on the Gospel for the coming Sunday. Refreshments provided

St Mary’s Alvechurch Ecumenical Faith Group On the third Wednesday of every month at 10.30 am – all welcome

New LIFE Care Service in Redditch EVERY FRIDAY 10.30am-12pm

in the Parish Centre - telephone 07516 257409 Free National Helpline 0808 802 5433

In the porches there are some LIFE cards which we would ask you to take and place in your doctor’s surgery

Statue Visitation for the Consecrated Life

Parishioners are invited to receive the statue of Our Lady for one week and place her with flowers and candles in a prominent position in the home. Each day you are committed to praying the rosary to which parishioners can be invited to join in if you so wish. If you would like to participate in this, please see one of the clergy or contact the parish office.

ROTA SO FAR ......... Sunday 5th June 2016 Ann Glennon Sunday 12th June 2016 Caroline Holland Sunday 19th June 2016 Vincent Sampays Sunday 26th June 2016 Linda Gordon Sunday 3rd July 2016 Christine Watson If your date is not convenient for you, please either swap with someone else or let the parish office know. Could you welcome the statue of Our Lady into your

home? - Yes? - please contact the parish office!

If you wish to contact the parish St Vincent de Paul group, please telephone

07531 818731 (the SVP phone) and leave

a message with your contact details so we can

return your call.

THE SHRINES OF OUR LADY & THE SACRED HEART To have the lamp burn for your intentions or loved ones, please contact the parish office, suggested donation £5.

Fellow Catholic Parishioners please come and join us

The Catenians - a Catholic men’s association

‘Strengthening family life through friendship and faith’ The Redditch Circle meets on the 3rd Thursday of every month at the Abbey Hotel and welcomes new members. In June we invite our Clergy to join us for dinner. For further information please contact Andrew Farrell on 07767831548 or Brian Green on 01527 543111 or visit our website on www.redditchcatenians.co.uk

PARISH SVP are

going to be featured in this month’s Catholic Today. The article looks at the work our Parish SVP Group carried out each and every week in Birmingham city centre supporting homeless men and women at soup kitchens and with outreach work.

GOING INTO HOSPITAL—IMPORTANT

Please let us know if you are going into hospital. It is ESSENTIAL that you ask for a Catholic Chaplain when in hospital. Chaplains are no longer given names of patients. Many health care providers (Hospitals, Nursing Homes) appor-tion resources for chaplaincies in line with how many requests are made, so you are actually doing the Church a favour by requesting the Catholic chaplain and the sacraments. The Catholic Chaplain for the Alexandra Hospital is Father David.

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Mount Carmel Seniors Group

Thursdays at 2.30pm St Benedict’s

23rd June Fire Safety at home 30th June Day Trip to Llandudno—Coach leaving St Bene-dict’s at 8am, a few seats available, cost £22.00 7th July Food 4 Thought Eating on a Budget (Jan Vale Age Concern) ? July Day trip to Morton in the Marsh Market in the morning, Lavender Fields in the afternoon, calling at Evesham Country Park on way home. 28th July Tea, Cake & Chat 4th August Afternoon Tea 18th August Stratford River Trip & Fish & Chips 25th September Two day trip to Blackpool Illuminations & the Lake District. Cost £85.00.

Are you aged between 16 and 24?

Are you contemplating to volunteer for a project to

help and benefit other people?

This may typically be an unpaid teaching, nursing, building, caring or general assistance anywhere in the world.

There is a Bursary Fund available through the Catenian Associa-tion for young people to help support their efforts to raise mon-

ey. It can be claimed for any project of 15 days or more. It can be claimed for gap year projects.

For more information please contact Brian Green on 01527 543111

CAFOD Petitiion—Power to the People 1 in 5 people around the world do not have enough electricity. Please sign CAFOD’s petition to the Development Minister for him to support overseas energy services. The petition is online via the Parish Web-site or CAFOD: http://cafod.org.uk/Campaign/One-Climate-One-World/Power-to-the-People

CAFOD - Refugee Action To send a message of hope to refugees, inspired by the Lampedusa Cross, you can do so online at http://cafod.org.uk/Pray/Year-of-Mercy/Send-a-message-of-hope

1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY—LAUDATIO SI If you would like to order a copy of the Pope’s document on Caring for the Environment (Laudato Si) please contact the Parish Office

Altar Servers’ Trip to Westminster Cathedral

Saturday 17th September, Mass at 2.30pm—if any

Servers’ would like to go, please let the parish office know.

Mass in Latin (Extraordinary Form)

This Tuesday at 6pm

OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL, REDDITCH

Beoley Road West, Redditch, Worcestershire, B98 8LT (01527) 63096

Email: office@mtcarmel.co.uk Website: www.ourladyofmountcarmel.co.uk

The Parish is part of the Archdiocese of Birmingham: Registered Charity No. 234216

Parish Clergy: Fr Anthony Rohan, Fr David Doran & Fr Cornelius Safe

Permanent Deacons: Revs Des Chilton & Peter Griffiths

NEWSLETTER 1712 ELEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR C SUNDAY 12TH JUNE 2016

Page 36 2 Samuel 12:7-10.13 Psalm 31 Galatians 2:16.19-21 Gospel Luke 7:36. 8:3

www.ourladyofmountcarmel.co.uk PARISH WEBSITE UPDATE: Twitter—Please follow us! @frdaviddoran Journey in Faith, Baptism Enquiries, Wedding Enquiries etc, Vacancies can now be made via the Parish Website.

Mount Carmel Summer Fete 12.30pm Sunday 26th June

Presbytery Garden

Raffle tickets available soon BBQ, Bar, Refreshments & Cream Teas in the Marquee

Children’s Games, Irish Dancing, Bouncy Slide and much more—Stalls include toys, gifts, groceries, bread

& cakes, plants etc. WE NEED

Donations for the cash prizes for the raffle (£200, £100, £50), lots of bottles for the Raffle & Tombola, Unwanted gifts, groceries, bread & cakes

Please no Jumble or Electrical items thank you

If you are unable to attend on the day why not make a donation?

SP0NSORED WALK - Sun 24th July 9.15am at Mount Carmel

The Parish AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED society is organizing a sponsored walk to help raise funds for persecuted Christians around the world. It will start at 9:15am at Mount Carmel and go around the Arrow Valley Lake and back to the Church Garden for refreshments! Everyone is welcome to join the walk even just to stretch their legs! If you would like a SPON-SOR FORM contact the Parish Office/Sacristy. If you want to DONATE online use the Just Giving option on the Parish website: www.ourladyofmountcareml.co.uk Pope Francis has urged us to look beyond our own boundaries and support our brothers and sisters who suffer because they practice the Faith of Jesus since we are one family in God.

JOSÉ MOURINHO The CATHOLIC HERALD is reporting that Manchester United’s new manager, Jose Mourinho, is lending his voice to the character of Pope Francis in an animated film about Our Lady of Fatima. Mourinho has spoken of his Catholicism: “I believe totally, clearly,” he told the Telegraph last year. “Every day I pray, every day I speak with Him”. He said he prays for his family life and for happiness. He and his wife support several causes including a Catholic food programme in Setubal, Portugal. The film, called ‘Fe ’, is being made to mark the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to 3 shepherd children in Fatima: Jacinta, Francisco, Lucia. It is scheduled to premiere on May 13th, 2017, 100 years since the 1st apparition. There are notices at the Back of church for pilgrimages to Fatima for the 100th Anniversary.

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION The story of Fatima is a compendium or summary of many Catholic beliefs. Not least that Jesus is truly present to us, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, in Holy Communion. In other words, Holy Communion is God’s gift of Himself to us. It is where heaven and earth are joined, which we call a Sacrament.

Part of the message of Fatima is that God would like us to make reparation, or make up through sacrifices, for men and women, who do not love God in Holy Communion. One way of showing we love someone is being with them. That is why we come to Mass - to be with God in Holy Communion. This is where we are closest to God and receive His life, or grace, if we are open to Him. Jesus,

who is God, knew that children are the ones who are most open: “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to these” (Luke 28:16). Jesus is saying that children are the ones who trust, not in themselves, but others. That is what the Catholic Faith is : trusting in God. May Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Our Lady of Fatima, Blessed Jacinta and Blessed Francisco pray for them.

Mass Times & Intentions

Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C

Week beginning Sunday 12th June 2016

Saturday Mount Carmel 5.00 pm Peter & David McHugh MCS FHC Day Hadzor 5.00 pm Howard & Maud Galton

Sunday Mount Carmel 8.15 am Albert & Eva Langston & Special Intention 9.45 am Mass in Polish 11.15 am Abilash Abraham (a) MCS FHC Day 6.00 pm Eileen Campbell Alvechurch 9.45 am People of the Parish Feckenham 10.15 am Simon Ward Monday Mount Carmel 9.10 am Morning Prayer 9.30 am Pattie Coombes

Tuesday Mount Carmel 9.10 am Morning Prayer 9.30 am Pat Deady (a) 6.00 pm Mass in Latin (EF) St Thos More Sch 9.10 am Mass in School Elizabeth Doyle

Wednesday

Mount Carmel 9.10 am Morning Prayer 9.30 am Holy Souls 5.00 pm Mass in Polish Hadzor 2.00 pm Funeral Mass Margaret Teresa Mooney

Thursday Mount Carmel 9.10 am Morning Prayer 9.30 am Meg Hamill 6.30 pm Adoration 7.00 pm Bronislawa Slobodzian St Augustine’s Sch 9.30 am Mass in School

Friday Mount Carmel 9.10 am Morning Prayer 9.30 am John McAuliffe 5.00 pm Mass in Polish + Rosary St Bede’s Sch 9.00 am Mass in School Yr 5 Class

Saturday Mount Carmel 9.10 am Morning Prayer 9.30 am Anne Courtney The following fulfils Sunday Obligation Mount Carmel 5.00 pm Frances Beryl Hiles (b’day a) STM FHC Day Hadzor 5.00 pm Hilary Hewitt

Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C

Week beginning Sunday 19th June 2016 Mount Carmel 8.15 am Elizabeth Morrissey 9.45 am Mass in Polish 11.15 am Alan Gourley Parish Class FHC Day 6.00 pm Christopher Srebniak & Marcin Nowak (daughters’ intentions for fathers) Alvechurch 9.45 am Patrick Dixon FHC Day Celebration Feckenham 10.15 am Holy Souls ________________________________________________

Parish Diary ….

Sunday Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C, Psalter Week 3 6.30pm Churches Together in Alvechurch & Rowney Green Joint Service at Baptist Church

Monday 5pm Legion of Mary 6pm Parish FHC Class Confessions in church 7pm Choir practice

Tuesday 6pm Mass in Latin (EF)

Wednesday 6pm ACN Prayers in church 8pm SVP Meeting in the Parish Centre

Friday 1pm Wedding in OLMC 7.30pm Redditch Catholic Fellowship Disco at St Benedict’s

Saturday

5pm STM FHC Day Teas & Coffee after 5pm evening Mass Teas & Coffee in the Newman Room after 5pm Mass at Hadzor

Sunday Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C Psalter Week 4 9.45am St Mary’s Alvechurch FHC Day 11.15am Parish Class FHC Day __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What’s on ……...

Jo Boyce & friends in Concert Saturday 25th June

At St John Fisher Catholic Church, West Heath at 7.30pm, followed by refreshments. Tickets £6/£4 please ring 0121 475 3194

Choirathon Wednesday 8th July

St Augustine’s choir will be singing in St Peter’s Bromsgrove 6.30pm, Mount Carmel Church at 7pm & St Peter’s, Crabbs Cross at 7.30pm

Third Order Carmelites Year of Mercy Event

Saturday 10th September ‘Rich in Mercy, Joy in Forgiveness’ at St Catherine’s Catholic Church, Bristol Road, B5 7BE, 1pm start finishing with 5.30pm Mass. Teas/Coffee provided

Confessions at Mount Carmel

During Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament followed by Benediction Saturdays 10-10.50am

On the 1st Saturday of the month the Rosary will be said

after Devotions

SAINTS & FEASTS FOR THE WEEK …

Monday Saint Anthony of Padua

(1195-1231) St Anthony of Padua was born in Lisbon, Portugal. A Franciscan, he was known for his profound knowledge of theology and for his power of persuasion. His preaching carried him from the north of Africa to Italy and France. He is known as the ‘Evangelical Doctor’ because he based all that he said on the texts of the Gospels. He died in Padua..

Thursday Saint Richard of Chichester

St Richard was appointed as bishop of Chichester in 1244 against the wishes of the monarch, Henry III. He was both hard-working and charitable. He is said to have dropped the chalice while celebrating Mass which miraculously remained unspilled. In Christian art he is often depicted with a chalice at his feet.

Saturday Dedication of St Chad’s Cathedral

Pilgrimages

For further information on all pilgrimages below contact Andrew Oldnall either by phone 0121 440 8623 or mobile 07733 226063, or email an-drewsoldnall@gmail.com.

Lourdes

Thursday 28th July-Friday 5th August 9 day luxury pilgrimage £520.00 per person (£125 single room supplement extra). Pick up from centre of B’ham, staying in Hotel Basilique, just 120 yds from St Joseph’s Gate.

Rome (Jubilee Year of Mercy)

Monday 24th-Saturday 29th October. Flying from Birmingham £725.00 per person (sharing). Single room supplement £155.00. Instalment plans available.

Weekend to Rome (Closing of the Holy Door in St Peter’s)

Friday 18th-21st November, flying from Birmingham, £399.00 per person (sharing) Single room supplement £66.00. Instalment plans available.

Lamp at the Shrine of Our Lady of Mt Carmel

This week the lamp burns for MARY GINTY (BIRTHDAY & ANNI-VERSARY) ... Next week the lamp burns in loving memory of CHRISTOPHER SREBNIAK (DURAJ FAMILY)

Lamp at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart

This week the lamp burns for the intentions of JEREMY PERCIVAL ... next week the lamp burns in loving memory of BRIAN MANDER (ANNIVERSARY)

For the dead ...

Your prayers are asked for MARGARET THERESA MOONEY Funeral Mass 2pm Wednesday 15th June at Hadzor. FATHER MICHAEL RYAN relative of parishioner, CATHERINE May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed through the mercy of God, rest in peace

Please pray for the sick...

Deacon Des Chilton, Kathleen Kavanagh, Thomas Adams, Alison Cole, Johannah White, Selina Kilker, Carmel Fiolka, Anna Byrne, Fred & Pauline Clarke, Mark Collins, Mary Grady, Delia Bree, Matthew Smith, Paul Hart, Anne McVicker, Ruby Urka, Jane-Christina Thomson, Bob & Caroline Holland, Mick Halloran, Sr Catherine Devaney, Allan Barber, Chris Figgett, Peggy Woods, Joseph Curtagar, Cynthia Williams, Gina (SVP), Teresa Gran-tham, Edwin McGlynn, Dave Pugh, Francis Latchford, Simon Taylor, Lilian Lee, Lottie Hatcher, Fiona Short, John Gannon, John Gill, Phyllis O’Brien, Mary Hillier, Margaret Hughes, Lily Robinson, Kitty Fanning, Thomas Henry Burnside, Bridget Heat-ley, Winifreda Olga Hall, Kathleen Donovan, Brian & Devan Dixon, James Vaughan, Jill Bennett, Kerry Boyd, Andrew Berry, Pat Conner, Aidan & Ita Hayes, Margaret Beddows, Helen Hard-wick, Kate Shenton, Martin & Margaret Daly, Clifford & Christo-pher Browne, Michael Smith, Michael Burke, Andrea Ferguson, Loretta Burns, Charlie Walker, Maureen Reavey, Lynda Rose, Ann Lowe, baby Ellis Morbey, Emma Martin, Jim Gallagher, James Cull, Daisy Mae Williams (aged 3), Pat O’Boyle, Sas Bur-ford, Jackie Gallagher, G Smith, Megan Collier, Cee Sheriden (Hadzor), Thelma Edwin, Martin Twomey, Gregory & Linda Daniel, Maura Lee, Sheila Nicholson, Gordon Taylor, John Laugharne, Dick Bell, Tony Gillespie, Chris Whyte, Margaret Clarke, Paul Kearns, Joyce Tremeer, Philip Broom, Alan Purvis, Brigit Broom, Oscar Rees, Monty Breslin, Judy Mitten, Nellie Gilbert, Sean Harkin, Anthony Obinna, Margaret Leonard, Ann Barratt, Kobie Boggis, Nora O’Connor, Lucia Galleo, Jacquie Barker-Dean, Norah Hughes, Mary Hickey, Duncan MacInniss, James Hopper, Bill Cosgriff, Kath Harkin, Ken Harler, Rt Rev Christopher Jones, Bishop Emeritus of Elfin, Rita Wilson, Pat Gordon, Jane Elliott, Theresa Price, Marion Furey, Bill Hopkins, Peter Daniel, Rita Wilson, Martin Brand, Pat Davis, Margaret Maddison, Marie Palmer

Congratulations to ……

We welcome into God’s family MILEY WILKES and LAILA MARSHALL baptised last Sunday at Mount Carmel

WEEKLY STATISTICS

Weekend 4/5 June 2016 1st Collection £759.25 2nd Collection £ 362.05 Attendance 570 (No Polish count) These figures do not include Standing Orders

Baptism To arrange for the baptism of your child/children you will need to contact the parish office on 01527 63096 or visit the parish website to find out when the next available Baptism Meeting is for you to attend. At this meeting you will be given the Baptism Form to take away with you for completion. Once completed please bring it with you to the parish office on either a Monday or Friday morning between 10am—11am when one of the priests will be able to see you and book the date for baptism. Baptisms normally take place on a Sunday at 12.45pm in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. There is an administrative fee of £30 for Baptism which should be paid at the time of arranging the date.

TREE OF HOPE

The tree of hope is near the shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel for anyone who wishes to hang a leaf for their own

particular petition or sorrow. Feel free to take a leaf anytime and write a name or message on it to hang on the tree and

spend sometime in prayer

£66.00. Instalment plans available.

WHAT IS THE CHURCH SAYING?

There has been a great deal of interest in the media recently about the Church’s position on the environment and the family. If you would like to order a copy of Pope Francis’ books on the subjects, “Laudato Si’ - On Care of our Common Home (Environment)” (£4.95) or “Amoris Laetitia—The Joy of Love (Family)” (4:95), please contact the Parish Office for further details and we will order it for you.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Please, Please, Please, ‘Do Not Touch’ the Padding on the Kneelers!!!

Parents be responsible for your children.

(Syro Malabar Rite) Monthly Mass 6.15pm Rosary followed by Mass,

First Saturday of the month