St Norbert's Parish Church

PARISH NEWSLETTER No: 41 - 2017/2018 (Sunday Year: B, Weekday: Year 2)

PARISH CLERGY: Fr. Neil Peoples, Fr. Emmanuel Abbem, Deacon Bernard Croft and Deacon Sebastian Grab Tel: (01724) 842197. (Mobile: 07738168735 - For emergencies only) Church Address: St Norbert’s Priory, Fieldside, Crowle, Scunthorpe. DN17 4HL. Websites: www.stnorbertscrowle.org.uk www.holysoulsscunthorpe.co.uk/ email: holysouls@btinternet.com www.dioceseofnottingham.uk/ Hospital Chaplain: Fr. Neil Peoples - Tel: (01724) 842197

Please remember in your prayers all those in our parish who are sick or housebound,

and those whose anniversaries occur at this time.

Articles for inclusion in the Newsletter by Wednesday midday please. Either ring Jane on 01724 711434 or email: jane.sarsfield@talk21.com

Hospital:

If you wish to receive a visit from a priest while in hospi-tal, or know someone who

wishes to receive a visit, you must explicitly request this. The clergy do not have ac-

cess to patient lists produced by the hospital

Parish Finances:- 02/09/18

Thank you for your offerings.

Weekly Envelopes : £ 152.00 Standing Orders : £ 140.77 Loose Plate : £ 46.00 Quota Envelopes : £ 12.00 Quota Loose Plate : £ “ Standing Orders : £ 8.31 Bulletins : £ 5.50 Miscellaneous (including Rents) : £

Total : £ 364.58

Second Collection : £

Pope Francis’ Tweet of the Week: Faith helps us grasp the meaning of life: God is with us and loves us infinitely.

If you are housebound, unable to attend Mass, and would like to receive Holy

Communion please contact Father Neil on 01724 842197

to arrange a visit.

DIARY OF EVENTS - AT A GLANCE: 2018:

9th Sep - Education Day 15th Sep - Scunthorpe Male Voice choir Concert. 7.00pm 16th Sep - Home Mission Day — Second Collection 22nd Sep - Mass for Altar Servers at the Cathedral Nottingham 23rd Sep - Day of Thanksgiving for the Harvest

5th Oct - CAFOD Harvest Fast Day 13th Oct - Vocations: Day of Discernment. The Old Friary, Nottingham

MASS TIMETABLE

Date Day Time Liturgical Celebration Intention

9th Sept Sunday 11.15am 23rd Sunday in Ord Time B Patrick Pender, RIP Glenys Pender

10th Sept Monday Feast

11th Sept Tuesday 10.00am Feria The Tonge Family’s intention Terry & Helen Condliff

12th Sept Wed’day Feria or the Most Holy Name of Mary

13th Sept Thur’day St. John Chysostom

14th Sept Friday 10.00am The Exaltation of the Holy Cross (Feast)

Tom Lydon, RIP Glenys & Bill

15th Sept Sat’day Our Lady of Sorrows

16th Sept Sunday 11.15am 24th Sunday in Ord Time B David Townend, RIP Robbie Pender

Sacrament of Reconciiliation: On Request

Cycle of Prayer Ordinary Time: Autumn—The Harvest, the Fruits of Human of Work, and the Reverent Use of Creation, Students and Teachers, The Spread of the Gospel, Justice and Peace in the world, Prisoners and their Families, All Victims of War, Young People.

The Holy Father's Intentions for the Month of September 2018 Universal – Young People in Africa: That young people in Africa may have access to education and work in their own countries.

HYMNS for Sunday — 09/09/2018 (Play list 49)

Entrance: O for a thousand tongues to sing 295

Offertory: Lord, accept the gifts we offer 243

Our Father 687

Communion: Make me a channel of your peace 262

Our Lady’s Anthem: Salve Regina 357

Recessional: God is love, his the care (2 verses) 148

ROTAS:- READERS

09/09: Karen Penston 16/09: Helen Condliff Co-ordinator: Jane - 01724711434 ——————————————————–———

COUNTERS 09/09: Sheila & David Eade 16/09: Bill Flanagan & Pat McHale Co-ordinator: Maureen - 01724710610 ————–——-————————————–——

TEA & COFFEE 09/09: Diana & Steve Dillon 16/09: Glenys Pender & Bill Godson Co-ordinator: Kate - 01724711572 —————————————–————–———-

CHILDREN’S LITURGY

Lynne Crewe & Margaret Daniels —————–——-—————————–————

CHURCH CLEANING (2 Wkly) 03/09—Helen Mellers & Siobhan Worthing 17/09—Liz Hasselby & Rebecca Kirk Co-ordinator: Pauline - 01724489517

Church Hall, Liturgy Room

Margaret Daniels & Leah Shipley —————————————————————————————————————-

CHURCH HALL: Bookings: Bill Flanagan-01427874557 Keys: Ray & Margaret Bassindale

The month of Septem-ber is dedicated to

Our Lady of Sorrows

Fr Neil: As of the beginning of September Fr. Neil will be changing to the other payment scheme. So instead of taking a monthly salary, he will receive the Mass offerings & Stole Fees and the Christmas and Easter collections. Scunthorpe

Male Voice Choir in Concert at St. Norbert’s

on Saturday 15th September at 7pm.

See Tom for tickets.

Today, after Mass, we will have the opportunity to say farewell to Fr. Emmanuel. Please join us in the hall for a buffet lunch.

Mass for Altar Servers: Bishop Patrick will preside at a Mass for the altar serv-ers of the Diocese, on Saturday 22nd September 2018, in St Barnabas Ca-thedral, Nottingham, at 11.00 am. If interested please give name to either Fr. Neil or Fr. Emmanuel to be included on a sign up sheet at Holy Souls, and if there is enough interest a coach will be arranged to the Cathedral.

The Annual CTS Sun-day Missal is now available to be pre-ordered: This volume runs from the First Sunday of Advent 2018 to Christ the King 2019. Cost £5.95 each. If you would like one ordered please let Jane know.

Next Sunday - second collection for Home Missions

Next Sunday - The annual Mass Count will take place slightly earlier, start-ing next weekend.

Catholicism Course: Will take place in St Bernadette’s Hall, on Thursday Eve-nings from 7pm. The first session takes place on 11th October and the course runs for 10 weeks. Each session will look at an episode of Bishop Rob-ert Barron’s Catholicism Series, fol-lowed by Q&A. Each session stands alone, so don’t worry if you can’t make all the sessions.

MacMillan Charity—Coffee Evening at Holy Souls : Takes place on Thursday 27th Sep-tember at 7pm. With raffle, bingo and cake stall. Suitable raffle prizes would be appreciat-ed. Tickets cost £2 and all proceeds go to local MacMillan Nurses. For more information con-tact Michael on 01724271531 or 07867981230

23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)

Reflection: Jesus said to the deaf man who had also a speech impediment ‘ Ephphatha’ that is ‘Be opened’. Is he not addressing the same words to us? An invitation also to us. ‘Be opened’ – to the goodness of other people, the inno-

cence of babies, the gentleness of the old, the beauties of crea-tion, the knowing smile or people in love, the so many gifts we receive from God daily. ‘Be opened’ to the unspoken cry for friendship of another, to the call of a lonely person living nearby, the call to share what is sur-plus to me and no longer needed instead of leaving them in my cupboard when I may never use them again. Can I practicalise the ‘Be opened’ invitation of Jesus? We all know that we ourselves and others will be the better for it.

Prayer: Lord Jesus, you alone can open the ears of our hearts and free the tongues of our spirits to glorify and praise you by being sensitive as Jesus was to those needing our kindness in whatever form you reveal this to us. Amen

First Reading: Isaiah 35:4-7 Theme: The ears of the deaf shall be unsealed and the tongues of the dumb shall be loosed.

Say to all faint hearts, Courage! Do not be afraid. Look, your God is coming, venge-ance is coming, the retribution of God; he is coming to save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, the ears of the deaf unsealed, then the lame shall leap like a deer and the tongues of the dumb sing for joy; for water gushes in the desert, streams in the wasteland, the scorched earth becomes a lake, the parched land springs of wa-ter. The word of the Lord. R/. Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm: My soul, give praise to the Lord.

Second Reading: James 2:1-5 Theme: God chose the poor to be the heirs to the kingdom.

My brothers, do not try to combine faith in Jesus Christ, our glorified Lord, with the making of distinctions between classes of people. Now suppose a man comes into your synagogue, beautifully dressed and with a gold ring on, and at the same time a poor man comes in, in shabby clothes, and you take notice of the well-dressed man, and say, 'Come this way to the best seats'; then you tell the poor man, 'Stand over there' or 'You can sit on the floor by my foot-rest.' Can't you see that you have used two different standards in your mind, and turned yourselves into judges, and corrupt judges at that? Listen, my dear brothers: it was those who are poor according to the world that God chose, to be rich in faith and to be the heirs to the kingdom which he promised to those who love him. The word of the Lord. R/. Thanks be to God.

Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia! Alleluia! Speak, Lord, your servant is listening: you have the message of eternal life. Alleluia!

Gospel Reading: Mark 7:31-37 Theme: He makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.

Returning from the district of Tyre, Jesus went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, right through the Decapolis region. And they brought him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they asked him to lay his hand on him. He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, put his fingers into the man's ears and touched his tongue with spittle. Then looking up to heaven he sighed; and he said to him, 'Ephphatha', that is, 'Be opened.' And his ears were opened, and the ligament of his tongue was loosened and he spoke clearly. And Jesus ordered them to tell no one about it, but the more he insisted, the more widely they published it. Their admiration was unbounded. 'He has done all things well,' they said, 'he makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.' The Gospel of the Lord. R/. Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ.

Communion Antiphon: Like the deer that yearns for running streams, so my soul is yearning for you, my God; my soul is thirsting for God, the living God.

A few excerpts from literature produced for the Adoremus—Eucharistic Congress:

Peoples Ponderings: This weekend I will be attending Adoremus—the National Eucharistic Congress, in Liverpool. This will be a gathering of nearly 10,000 people to learn more about the Eucharist and Adora-tion. The main event takes place on Saturday with the key note speaker being Bishop Robert Barron from the United States. I have been lucky enough to hear him speak before during my time at seminary and I am sure that he will give all those attending plenty to think about. The great danger with such events is that they happen and then nothing changes in our parishes. The Diocese is preparing a day to look at the legacy of Adoremus in October, which we will advertise soon. One of my hopes in the parish has been to run more catechetical pro-grammes and I am delighted that Seminarian Liam Carpenter who is based at St Berna-dette's is going to run the Catholicism Course for our parishes starting on Thursday 11th Oc-tober. It will use the superb DVD series produced by Bishop Robert Barron and a chance for Questions and Answers. I would encourage people to attend this event, as it looks at all the areas of our Catholic Faith, it would also be good for those thinking about joining the Catholic Church. Fr. Neil

Gestures of Adoration: St Thomas Aquinas explains that both angels and humans adore God spiritually, but hu-mans in addition adore with our bodies. This is a great prompt to us, especially before the Eucharist. Kneeling, putting hands together in prayer, bowing, genuflecting, making the sign of the cross as we pass a church which con-tains the Blessed Sacrament and similar ges-tures, includes our bodies wonderfully in ado-ration prayer.

Keeping Silence: Contemporary research tells us that silence helps to restore well-being and keep our men-tal health sound. What is more, silence is a key to our own inner world where we meet God face to face. It is not selfish, therefore, to regularly seek a quiet sanctuary in the midst of the noises of our daily living. Time before the Blessed Sacrament offers a precious op-portunity to spend a few moments in a quiet environment and allow the noises fade into the background so that we can focus on what is in front of us: the silent sacrament of God’s love. Silence is God’s first language; everything else is a poor translation. In order to hear that language, we must learn to be still and to rest in God. Thomas Keating

Listening: When we come to the Lord, we often have a list of petitions we would like to voice. This is very good and a healthy part of prayer. How-ever, it is important to give God a chance to answer too. After all, prayer is a conversa-tion, not a monologue. So, if we start a prayer in a mode of ‘Listen, Lord, your servant is speaking,’ we then need to allow for a mode of ‘Speak, Lord, your servant is listening.’ At the Transfiguration, the disciples are in turn told to listen to Jesus. The time, in front of the Blessed Sacrament, is a good oppor-tunity to do just that.

Jesus can be present to us in all sorts of ways—but his Eucharistic presence is a great gift —assuring us that he is indeed with us always—to the end of the age.

Whether we pray standing or kneeling or sitting or prone we know that God is with us. All we must do is recognise this moment.