St Peter’s Catholic Church London Road, Gloucester GL1 3EX

Tel: 01452 523603 Email: gloucester.stpeter@parish.cliftondiocese.com

Parish website: www.stpetersgloucester.org.uk Diocesan website: www.cliftondiocese.com

Diocese of Clifton Registered Charity No. 233977

Parish Priest: Monsignor Liam Slattery VG liam.slattery@priest.cliftondiocese.com Assistant Priest: Fr Gerry Walsh gerry.walsh@priest.cliftondiocese.com Deacons: Rev Colm Robinson colm.robinson@deacon.cliftondiocese.com Rev Tim Meadows timothy.meadows@deacon.cliftondiocese.com Parish Secretary: Mrs Thérèse English gloucester.stpeter@parish.cliftondiocese.com Parish Office: Tuesday - Friday 9.30am-1.30pm

Sunday Mass Times 6.00pm (Sat), 9.00am, 10.30am, 2.15pm (Polish), 5.30pm

Reconciliation/Confessions Saturday: 10.30am-11.30am & 5.15pm – 5.45pm

Schools

St Peter’s Catholic Primary School. Tel: 01452 524792. Web: www.st-peters-pri.gloucs.sch.uk St Peter’s Catholic High School & Sixth Form Centre. Tel: 01452 520594. Web: www.st-petershigh.gloucs.sch.uk

19th July 2015 – 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)

Mass Text Responsorial Psalm: The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.

Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia! The sheep that belong to me listen to my voice, says the Lord, I know them and they follow me. Alleluia! Preface: V of Sundays in Ordinary Time Eucharistic Prayer: II

LAST WEEKEND: Mass Count –814 Offertory-£1496.79 Apostleship of the Sea-£480.15 MASS TIMES & INTENTIONS THIS WEEK: 6.00pm (Sat) (People of the Parish) Sunday 9.00am (Lisa Maguire RIP). 10.30am (Danny McCarthy RIP). 2.15pm - Polish Mass. 5.30pm (Special Intention - Stewart Family). Monday 9.30am (Ints of Dominic Philip). Tuesday 7.00pm (Paul Montanaro RIP) Wednesday 11.30am (Funeral Mass for Muriel Moore) Thursday 9.30am (Deacon Colm’s Intentions). Friday 9.30am (Kathleen Hall RIP). Saturday 10.00am (Joe Heffernan – Ponderosa RIP). 6.00pm (Noel and Breege Maguire - Wedding Anniversary). Please note mass on Wednesday is at 11.30am. EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT: Tuesday 6.00pm-6.40pm. THIS WEEK: Psalter Week 4. Wednesday - St Mary Magdalene. Thursday- St Bridget. Saturday-St James. NEXT SUNDAY: 26th July is Day for Life. This year’s theme is cherishing life and accepting death. There will be a retiring collection at all masses to help the Church fund the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, as well as projects which work to save life at every stage and every condition. Please visit www.dayforlife.org PRAYERS FOR THOSE WHO ARE ILL: Andrea Brushneen, Alison Blake, Sarah Anderson, Marie Cunningham, Jessie Hall, Cheryl Loy, Norah King, Charlie Slade, Daryl Paris, Christopher Browne, Clifford Browne, Hayley Fox, Florence Stephens, John Staley, Rita Lenagan, Eileen Dewsnip, Lloyd Smith, Anne Creevy, Mary Hicks, Sharon Williams, Bridget Johnson, Neil Hillyer. If you would like someone who is sick and in need of you prayer to be added to this list pleas speak to one of the clergy. RIP: We ask your prayers for those who died recently. Anita Freeman. Her funeral service takes place on Tuesday at 1.00pm followed by burial at Coney Hill Cemetery at 2.30pm. Muriel Moore. Her coffin reception takes place on Tuesday 21st July at 6.45pm. Her funeral mass takes place on Wednesday 22nd July at 11.30am followed by committal at Gloucester Crematorium. Deacon Luis Navarro, retired deacon from Churchdown, who died near Slough where he has been living for the past couple of years. BAPTISM: We welcome into the family of the Church Roger Ryan, Bernie Ryan, Eileena Sweeney, Charlie McDonagh, Brian & Samuel Marcin, Filip Balog, Dominika Palánová, Anriekka Anton Sathish & Oliver Cleave baptized this week.

SUPPLY: Both Mgr Liam and Fr Gerry are supplying the weekend mass in Matson and Tuffley this weekend. SCHOOL HOLIDAYS; We would like to wish staff, pupils and all involved in our schools a very happy, restful and safe summer holiday. LITTLE CHURCH: Is now finished for the summer and will resume in September. Thank you to all who enable Little Church to be so much a part of our parish life. WELCOMERS: We are in need of volunteers to act as additional welcomers at the 10.30am mass on Sundays. If you feel you can help please speak to Mgr Liam. SAFETY: In order to ensure the safety of all parishioners, parents are asked not to allow children walk around the church unaccompanied and especially to ensure that children are accompanied by an adult family member when they are using the church toilet. PRINKNASH ABBEY: Days of Prayer at Prinknash Abbey to The Divine Mercy and The Immaculate Heart of Mary. The next one will be on Saturday, 15th August - at 10.30am. Please see poster displayed at the back of the Church. All are welcome. CENACOLO: The next Cenacolo Prayer Group will meet on Wednesday 29th July and 7.30pm. It will then break for the summer and resume on September 9th. From then on the Cenacolo Prayer Group will meet on the second Wednesday of each month. GIFT AID: If you currently gift aid your donations to the parish please notify the parish office if you stop being a tax payer. If you are a tax payer and do not currently gift aid your donations please contact the parish office if you would like information about gift aid. KNITTING GROUP: Next gathering is on Wednesday July 22nd following the 11.30am funeral mass. Meet in the coffee bar. SERVICE FOR PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS: On Wednesday July 29th at 7.30pm in Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Newent. All welcome. EXPLORING THE CATHOLIC FAITH: New Saturday group to be held at Prinknash. If you are interested in exploring aspects of the Catholic faith through discussion and using art, music, scripture, poetry and prayer, you are most welcome. The meetings will also explore different ways of praying. Saturdays 2.00 p.m. – 4.00 p.m. 18th July: Exploring our faith in God. 1st August: How do we live our faith? 12th Sept: Prayer - how do we pray? 3rd October: Exploring sin and forgiveness. 7th November: Suffering and mercy. 5th December: What do Catholics do... and why? For further details see poster in the Narthex or contact prinknashabbey1@gmail.com

PROCLAIM 15: Visit www.catholicnews.org.uk to get reports on the Proclaim 15 National Evangelisation Conference that took place on July 11th, and to read the keynote address given by Cardinal Nichols. Copies of this address are also available at the back of the church. We will continue to pray the Proclaim 15 prayer up to Home Mission Day, September 20th. CLERGY MOVES: Bishop Declan has announced the following Parish Priest appointments to take effect in September: Fr Matt Anscombe – St Bernadette’s, Bristol. Fr Philip Beisly – St Dominic’s, Dursley and St Joseph’s, Nympsfield. Canon Alan Finley – St George’s, Taunton. Canon Bosco MacDonald – Clifton Cathedral. Fr David Mills – St Gregory’s, Cheltenham. Fr Martin Queenan – St George’s, Warminster. Fr Alex Redman – Our Lady of Lourdes, Weston-Super-Mare. Fr Michael Robertson – St Thomas of Canterbury, Fairford and St Mary’s, Cricklade. Fr Tom Smith – St Bonaventure’s, Bristol. Fr Christopher Whitehead has been appointed as full time Director of the department for Evangelisation and Adult Education ASSISTED SUICIDE BILL: On Friday 11th September the House of Commons will debate and vote on a Bill to legalise assisted suicide. This will put the most vulnerable people in our society at risk. Please contact your MP, urging them to attend the debate and vote against the Bill. You can send an e-mail to your MP via the Catholic Bishops’ Conference website (www.catholicnews.org.uk/assisted-suicide) or send a letter by post, a draft of which can be found at the back of the Church.

PROCLAIM 15 PRAYER: Loving Father, You so loved the world that you sent us your only Son, that

we might believe in him and have eternal life. May we encounter Jesus Christ anew this day and live the Good News with joy. Through the power

of your Holy Spirit, help us to “go out to the whole world and proclaim” our faith with confidence. Give us the courage to witness to the Joy of the

Gospel by our words and actions. Help our parish to become more welcoming and missionary, so that you may be known and loved by all

people. We make this prayer through Our Lord Jesus Christ Your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever,

Our Lady, Star of the New Evangelisation, Pray for us. Blessed John Henry Newman, Pray for us.

St Thérèse of Lisieux, Pray for us.

Next Sunday- 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2 Kings 4:42-44. Ephesians 4:1-6. John 6:1-15.