Walking through the

Holy Door

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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
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
SPECIAL PRAYERS FOR THE NEEDY

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
Special Mass with First Communion children 10:45am

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
Priests available after each Mass for

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
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