YEAR OF MERCY
PRAYER
Lord Jesus Christ,
you have taught us to be merciful like the heavenly Father,
and have told us that whoever sees you sees Him.
Show us your face and we will be saved.
Your loving gaze freed Zacchaeus and Matthew from being enslaved by money;
the adulteress and Magdalene from seeking happiness only in created things;
made Peter weep after his betrayal,
and assured Paradise to the repentant thief.
Let us hear, as if addressed to each one of us, the words that you spoke to the Samaritan woman:
“If you knew the gift of God!”
You are the visible face of the invisible Father,
of the God who manifests his power above all by forgiveness and mercy:
let the Church be your visible face in the world, its Lord risen and glorified.
You willed that your ministers would also be clothed in weakness
in order that they may feel compassion for those in ignorance and error:
let everyone who approaches them feel sought after, loved, and forgiven by God.
Send your Spirit and consecrate every one of us with its anointing,
so that the Jubilee of Mercy may be a year of grace from the Lord,
and your Church, with renewed enthusiasm, may bring good news to the poor,
proclaim liberty to captives and the oppressed,
and restore sight to the blind.
We ask this of you, Lord Jesus, through the intercession of Mary, Mother of Mercy;
you who live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit for ever and ever.
Amen.
Calendar of Activities
LENT 2016 (excluding regular weekday and Sunday Masses) “Be compassionate as your God is compassionate” (Luke 6:36) | ||
Wed 10/2 |
9:10am 7:30pm | ASH WEDNESDAY Fasting & Abstinence Mass and Distribution of Ashes |
Fri 12/2 | 7:00pm | Mass and Stations of the Cross - Readers Friday Abstinence |
Sat-Sun: 13 – 14 Feb | FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT: Bishop Mark’s Pastoral Letter | |
Mon 15/2 |
| NDCT weekly Lenten House Groups and Lenten Lunches begin |
Fri 19/2 | 6:00pm | First Communion Meeting for children who are at schools other than St Winefride’s |
7:00pm | Mass and Stations of the Cross - SPUC Family Fast Day | |
Sat 20/2 |
| Parish Pilgrimage to the Holy Door at St Anthony’s Wythenshawe |
10am – 1pm | Celebrating the Holy Year of Mercy in Prayer, Scripture & Music: St Mary’s, Middlewich | |
Sat – Sun: 20 – 21 Feb | SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT: Family Fast Day 2nd Collection AND HUNGRY OF THE WORLD | |
Fri 26/2 | 7:00pm | Mass and Stations of the Cross – SVP Friday Abstinence |
Sat – Sun: 27 – 28 Feb | THIRD SUNDAY IN LENT 9:45 am Confirmation Session | |
Tue 1/3 |
| St David, Patron of Wales |
Wed 2/3 | 7:00pm | First Holy Communion Parents’ Meeting |
Fri 4/3 | 2pm, 7:30pm | Women’s World Day of Prayer Little Neston Methodist; Neston Christian Fellowship |
6:00pm | First Communion Meeting for children who are at schools other than St Winefride’s | |
7:00 pm | Mass and Stations of the Cross - Eucharistic Ministers Friday Abstinence | |
Sat 5/3 | 10-12 noon | Marriage Preparation Meeting |
Sat – Sun: 5 – 6 Mar | FOURTH SUNDAY IN LENT | |
Fri 11/3 | 7:00pm | Mass and Stations of the Cross – CWL Friday Abstinence |
Sat – Sun: 12 – 13 Mar | FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT: Reconciliation Sunday, Fr Melville Wright SSS Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) 9:45 am Confirmation Session | |
Wed 16/3 | 7:00pm | LPA Reconciliation |
Thu 17/3 |
| St Patrick, Patron of Ireland |
Fri 18/3 | 6:00pm | First Communion Meeting for children who are at schools other than St Winefride’s |
7:00pm | Mass and Stations of the Cross -Choir Friday Abstinence | |
Sat 19/3 |
| St Joseph, Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary |
HOLY WEEK | ||
Sat – Sun: 19 – 20 Mar | PASSION SUNDAY (Palm Sunday) | |
Sun 20/3 | 1:30 – 5:30pm | Diocesan Jubilee of Youth, St Chad’s High School, Runcorn. |
Mon-Tue 21 – 22/3 | 9:30am | First Forgiveness, priest available for Sacrament of Reconciliation |
Wed 23/3 | 7:00pm | CHRISM MASS Our Lady’s and the Apostles, Stockport |
Thu 24/3 | 7:30pm | MAUNDY THURSDAY Mass of the Lord's Supper – Fr Chris Lightbound Adoration at the Altar of Repose until Midnight |
Fri 25/3 |
9 -10:00am 3:00pm | GOOD FRIDAY Fasting & Abstinence Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) Stations of the Cross - Fr Brendan Hoban Celebration of the Lord's Passion – Fr Russell Cooke |
Sat 26/3 | 7:30pm | HOLY SATURDAY Easter Vigil – Fr Ravi Bosco |
Sun 27 Mar | EASTER SUNDAY | |
Mon 28/3 | 10:00am | Mass |
Home Masses: Please contact Fr Ravi if you would like to arrange a house mass celebrated on Tuesdays or Thursdays |