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

Feckenham Ecumenical Prayer Group Meet every Wednesday at 9.15am in the Anglican Parish Church

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

“My house shall be called a house of prayer”

Please be sensitive to those who want to pray in silence before Mass. Before Mass Talk to God During Mass Listen to God After Mass Talk to each other

Please pray for the following priests of the diocese -

Sunday 26th July Fr Thomas Kurtikkatt Monday 27th July Fr David Lacy Tuesday 28th July Fr Mark Lagorio Wednesday 29th July Fr Douglas Lamb Thursday 30th July Fr Stefan Laszcyk Friday 31st July Fr J Nicholas Latham Saturday 1st August Fr Brian Lawlor

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 19th July Bernard Cannon Sunday 26th July Susan Salam Sunday 2nd August Anne Glennon Sunday 9th August Caroline Holland 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.

The Catenian Association

‘Strengthening family life through friendship and faith’ The Redditch Circle meets on the Third Thursday of every month and welcomes new members. For further information please contact Andrew Farrell on 07767831548 or Brian Green on 01527 543111 or visit our website on www.redditchcatenians.co.uk

Mount Carmel Children’s Choir

Parents, if any of your children are inter-ested in joining this choir, please give your name and contact details to either Fr David or Mrs Mayne after Mass or the parish office during the week.

ALL CHILDREN WELCOME __________________________________________________

THANK YOU

Peter Daniel would like to pass on his thanks

and gratitude to the clergy and everyone who

said prayers for him and the sick of the parish

during his illness. He is sure that this

contributed greatly to his recovery.

God bless you all.

@ Our Lady

of Mount

Carmel

August 17th 2-4pm in the presbytery garden. Theme: OUR BEAUTIFUL WORLD.

A chance for children and families to explore their faith in a fun and creative way. There will be lots of FREE crafts and activities, plus a small session of praise to thank God. You can turn up on the day with no advanced booking needed and the event is open to all children and families of all ages.

This Sunday is ‘Day for Life’

‘Cherishing Life, Accepting Death’

Please pray for the protection and promotion of human life from conception to its natural end. The second collection next weekend will be in aid of this and enables the Church to fund the Anscombe Bioethics Centre (formerly the Linacre Centre), as well as projects which work to protect life at every stage and every condition. Please visit and encourage others to visit www.dayforlife.org.

Annual Pilgrimage to Harvington Hall

Shrine of the English Martyrs

SUNDAY 6 SEPTEMBER

Mass 3pm (Confessions 1.45pm-2.30pm) Principal Celebrant Rt Rev Bishop Robert Byrne Preacher Fr Brian Doolan. Free Parking, Teas, Picnic Area. It is essential to bring your own chairs.

Journey in Faith

This year’s Journey in Faith will take place on Thursday evenings in the parish centre beginning on 10th September at 7.30pm. The course is for people who are interested in joining the Catholic Church and for anyone who is interested in finding out more about the faith, so existing parishioners are also very welcome to attend. For more information, please contact one of the priests.

Mount Carmel Seniors Group

Thursdays at 2.30pm St Benedict’s

6th August Cup of tea & chat with bowling 20th August Visit to Buckingham Palace 3rd September Talk on ‘Action Energy’ 6th September Trip to Ireland

Forthcoming events :

Tewkesbury Market & Boat Trip to Upton-on-Severn 22nd October 6 day holiday to Scotland £228.00

Friends of the Holy Land

The Summer/Autumn newsletters are available at the back of church or if you prefer visit their page on the parish website www.ourladyofmountcarmel.co.uk to download.

Today’s Gospel ‘Jesus gave out as much as was wanted to all who were sitting ready.’

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 1666 SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B 26TH JULY 2015

Page 51 2 Kings 4:42-44 Psalm 144 Ephesians 4:1-6 Gospel John 6:1-15

SPONSORED WALK – This Sunday

9.30am at Mount Carmel

Everyone welcome

The Parish AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED society is organizing a spon-sored walk to help raise funds for persecuted Christians in the world. It will start at 9:30am at Mount Carmel and go around the Arrow Valley Lake and back. Everyone is welcome to join the walk even just to stretch their legs! If you would like a SPONSOR FORM contact the Parish Office. If you want to DONATE online please use the parish website www.ourladyofmountcarmel.co.uk and click on the sponsored walk.

CARMELITE SPIRITUALITY GROUP

At each meeting there is a talk on Carmelite Spirituality, lectio divina (prayerful meditation on scripture) and a shared lunch. Next Meeting in the Parish Centre at Mount Carmel Church Saturday 1st August —Start with tea/coffee at 11:15am and finish after shared lunch at 1.45pm. ALL WELCOME!

www.ourladyofmountcarmel.co.uk PARISH WEBSITE UPDATE: Keralan Feast Day & Parish Feast Baptism Enquiries, Wedding Enquiries and Going into Hospital can now be made via the Parish Website.

Mass Times & Intentions

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr B

Week beginning Sunday 26th July 2015

Saturday Mount Carmel 5.00 pm Paddy Slattery (wedd.a) Hadzor 5.00 pm Andrew Burgess

Sunday Mount Carmel 8.30 am Ints of K K Rappai 9.45 am Polish Mass 11.00 am Teresa Vespa 6.00 pm Josie Beard (a) Alvechurch 9.45 am People of the Parish Feckenham 10.15 am Holy Souls

Monday Mount Carmel 9.10 am Morning Prayer 9.30 am Swedan McHugh Kay Morton (a)

Tuesday Mount Carmel 9.10 am Morning Prayer 9.30 am Carmel Tierney 6.30 pm Ints of Brother Sean O’Driscoll (50th Anniv)

Wednesday Mount Carmel 9.10 am Morning Prayer 9.30 am Mary Ginty 4.00 pm Reception of Body Mary McCrudden 5.00 pm Polish Mass

Thursday Mount Carmel 9.10 am Morning Prayer 9.30 am Kay Reagan 11.15 am Funeral Mass Mary McCrudden 6.30 pm Adoration 7.00 pm Ints of Margaret & family

Friday Mount Carmel 9.10 am Morning Prayer 9.30 am Mary Ginty 5.00 pm Polish Mass

Saturday Mount Carmel 9.10 am Morning Prayer 9.30 am All souls in purgatory esp. dec’d members of FOSS The following fulfils Sunday Obligation Mount Carmel 5.00 pm Tom Casey (a) Hadzor 5.00 pm Galton Trust

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr B

Week beginning Sunday 2nd August 2015 Mount Carmel 8.30 am People of the Parish 9.45 am Polish Mass 11.00 am Pattie Coombes 6.00 pm Eileen Fitzgerald Alvechurch 9.45 am Breege O’Hagan Feckenham 10.15 am Christine Grogan

Parish Diary ….

Sunday Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B Psalter Week 1 Aid to the Church in Need Sponsored Walk after the 8.30am Mass

Monday 5pm Legion of Mary

Tuesday 7.15pm Journey in Faith Review Meeting

Saturday 10.15am Carmelite Spirituality Group in Parish Centre Tea & Coffee after 5pm Mass in the Parish Centre Tea & Coffee in the Newman Room after 5pm Mass at Hadzor

Sunday Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Psalter Week 2 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

GRAND RAFFLE WINNERS Unclaimed Prizes

5th Prize Small Hamper Ticket 1115 S Gibbon 68518 6th Prize Port Set Ticket 1981 Evie Telephone 528161 10th Prize Harveys Sherry Ticket 2877 Helen 459554 11th Prize Brandy Ticket 418 Angela 07864 959598 14th Prize Martini Prosecco Ticket 1008 Marie 07780115646 18th Prize Baron Red Wine Ticket 1051 Val Fanning 28th Prize Thorntons Premier Ticket 461 A Smith 01214451374 29th Prize Fox’s Biscuits Ticket 533 C Spencer 07514 073114 30th Prize Milk Tray Ticket 231 Laurence Read 61421 Alternative Raffle

Preserves Selection Tom Enright Milk Tray Claire Csepcsany Marshmallow Chicken Frank Knight

Confessions at Mount Carmel

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

(Malayalam) Monthly Mass 6.15pm Rosary followed by Mass,

First Saturday of the month

Parish Bereavement Group Grief can be very lonely even when you have loved ones around. The Bereavement Support Group offers help to those who are

experiencing difficulties in coping with the death of a loved one. This includes miscarriages and still births. We also offer

support to those suffering from terminal illness, and support to their loved ones.

For details please contact the parish office.

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.

Monday Blessed Robert Sutton

(1588) St Robert Sutton was born at Kegwell in Leicestershire, and as an adult went on to become a schoolmaster in London. He was hanged at Clerkenwell for having been reconciled with the Catholic Church. He was beatified in 1929.

Wednesday Saint Martha

Our Lord liked the home of St Martha, her brother Lazarus, and her sister Mary. As our Lord’s friends in Bethany, they took loving care of Him.

Thursday Saint Peter Chrysologus

(Fifth century) As Bishop of Ravenna, Italy, he was outstanding in his apostolic zeal, for his preaching and his writings.

Friday Saint Ignatius Loyola

(1491-1556) Born in Loyola, Spain, he became a soldier. Following his conversion, he went to Paris to study theology. There he gathered his first followers. With them he founded the Society of Jesus in Rome, which is dedicated to the greater glory of God and to the service of the Church, in total obedience to the Pope.

Saturday Saint Alphonsus Mary de’Ligouri

(1696-1787) St Alphonsus was born in Naples, Italy. As a young man, he was a lawyer, but later became a priest. He founded the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists). He was given the title Doctor of the Church for his writings on Moral Theology. A tireless apostle of the Eucharist and of our Blessed Mother, he worked with great zeal for the poor and the sick.

Lamp at the Shrine of Our Lady of Mt Carmel

This week the lamp burns for in loving memory of JOSIE BEARD (ANNIVERSARY) .... next week the lamp burns for JUSTINA STROH & ST PAUL’S FAMILY

Lamp at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart

This week the lamp burns for the intentions of MAXIMILIAN BUGLER (2nd Birthday) ... next week JOHN ANTHONY LYNCH

For the dead ...

Your prayers are asked for MARY McCRUDDEN Reception into church Wednesday 29th July at 4pm, Funeral Mass Thursday 30th July at 11.15am, MARY JEFFRIES (nee JOYCE) Reception into St Peter’s, Bromsgrove 4pm Thursday 30th July, Funeral Mass 12 noon Friday 31st July. 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, Chris Burke, Selina Kilker, Mary Hickey, 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, Martin Webb, Joseph Curtagar, Cynthia Williams, Gina (SVP), Teresa Grantham, Edwin McGlynn, Dave Pugh, Francis Latchford, Simon Taylor, Lilian Lee, Lottie Hatcher, Fiona Short, John Gannon, John Gill, Phyllis O’Brien, Mary Hillier, Bridget Wynne, Margaret Hughes, Lily Robinson, Kitty Fanning, Thomas Henry Burnside, Bridget Heatley, Winifreda Olga Hall, Mike McLarney, Teresa Cole, Kathleen Donovan, Brian & Devan Dixon, James Vaughan, Jill Bennett, Kerry Boyd, Zofia Srebniak, Andrew Berry, Pat Conner, Aidan & Ita Hayes, Margaret Beddows, Helen Hardwick, Kate Shenton, Dawn & Alex Robinson, Margaret Daly, Clifford & Christopher Browne, Michael Smith, Michael Burke, Andrea Ferguson, Loretta Burns, Charlie Walker, Maureen Reavey, Lynda Rose, Ann Lowe, Michael O’Leary, baby Ellis Morbey, Emma Martin, Jim Gallagher, James Cull, Daisy Mae Williams (aged 3), Pat O’Boyle, Sas Burford, Jackie Gallagher, Jayden Reyes (aged 10), G Smith, Megan Collier, Cee Sheriden (Hadzor), Thelma Edwin, Martin Twomey, Gregory Daniel, Maura Lee, Kath McDermott, Sheila Nicholson, Gordon Taylor, John Laugharne, Dick Bell, Timothy Mills, Tony Gillespie, Chris Whyte, Margaret Clarke, Paul Kearns, Joyce Tremeer, Philip Broom, Darren Merrick, Alan Purvis, Paul Woodward, Brigit Broom, Oscar Rees, Monty Breslin, Judy Mitten, Nellie Gilbert, C J McColgan, Sean Harkin, Anthony Obinna, Irena Kandulska, Mary Meakin, Rachel Hemming

Congratulations to ...

We welcome into God’s family SHYLA TALLULA COSTLEY, HENRY NATHAN & JESSICA ROSE ALLMONT baptised last Sunday at Mount Carmel

Congratulations also to ...

JOHN HARRIS & CHANTELL ADAMS married at Mount Carmel last Saturday.

WEEKLY STATISTICS

Weekend 18/19 July 2015 1st Collection £798.50 2nd Collection £374.80 Attendance 649 (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 12.30pm 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.

SAINTS & FEASTS FOR THE WEEK-

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) apportion 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.