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Newsletter for the weekend 25th/26th October 2014
30th Sundays of Ordinary Time (Year of St. MatthewYear A)
SERVICES THIS WEEK
PLEASE REMEMBER
IN PRAYER
Saturday 25th October: 30th Sunday of the Year
7.00 pm: Mass
Sunday 26th October: 30th Sunday of the Year
8.45 am: Mass
10.30 am: Mass
Monday 27th October:
9.15 am: Eucharistic Service
Tuesday 28th October: Ss Simon and Jude
7.00 pm: Mass
Wednesday 29th October:
9.15am: Mass
Thursday 30th October:
9.15am: Mass
Friday 31st October:
9.15am: Eucharistic Service
Saturday 1st November: All Saints
7.00 pm: Mass
Sunday 2nd November: All Saints
8.45 am: Mass
10.30 am: Mass

Sacrament of Reconciliation
Saturday 25th October: Confessions6.00pm
Saturday 1st November: Confessions6.00pm

The Rosary (for the sick and peace)
Monday 7.00 pm In Church
OUR SICK:
Fr Francis Fitzpatrick,
Bro. Nicholas Hutchinson,
David Lindley, Ann McGuigan.
Michael Dewsnap, Barbara
Kendall, Mary McSherry, Dominic
Gamble, Geraldine Short, Rita
Deegan, Eileen Cock, Angela
Rogers, Molly Davison, Gladys
Abram, Derek Simpson, Becky
Bolton.
LATELY DECEASED
Fr Kevin Griffin
Fr Martin Brogan
Bridie Gill
Marjorie Fogarty
Brian Nugent
Magdalene Rothwell
Peter Sheridan
ANNIVERSARIES
John & Annie Divinney
Bert Wright

Let us prayer especially for peace in
the troubled places of the world and
all members of our armed forces

To include someone on the
prayer list please give their name to
Fr. Paul, put it through the letterbox
of the Parish Office, call the Office on:
0161 764 1630 or e-mail to
olgcga@btinternet.com
Please use the
White Mass Intention
envelopes for Mass
intentions which you will
find in the porches. Thank
you. When adding the
name of someone sick
please ensure that you have their
permission (or the permission of their
family). The list is updated each week.
and because of space the names of the
sick will be removed from the list after
four weeks. You can ask for them to
be added again.
NEXT WEEKENDS
SCRIPTURES (Year A)
THIS WEEKENDS
SCRIPTURES
'CIRCLE OF PRAYER'
St Theresa of Lisieux
Deanery

For the weeks beginning Sunday
26th October we pray for the
parish of St Peters Middleton,
and their parishioners and their
pari sh Pr i est Fr Ki eran
Mullarkey.
To receive our Parish Newslet-
ter by e-mail each weekend,
simply e-mail the Parish Office
on: olgcga@btinternet.com
with the tag line newsletter and
we will add you to the list.

Follow us on Twitter also
@olgcga for reminders and up-
dates on parish events.
Follow the Department for
Evangelisation: @SalfordDFE
First Reading: Revelation 7:2-4,
9-14
Psalm 24
Second Reading: 1 John 3:1-3.
Gospel: Matthew 5: 1-12
First Reading: Exodus 22:20-26
God hears the cry of the
oppressed.
Psalm: 18. Response: I love
you, Lord, my strength
Second Reading: 1 Thessaloni-
ans 1:5-10 Gods people are
renowned for their conversion
and love of God.
Gospel: Matthew 22: 34-40 The
greatest law is the law of love.
Flowers on the Sanctuary.

If you would like to have the flowers on
the sanctuary in memory of someone or
something special just let Fr Paul or Sharon know and
they will arrange it.

The flowers on the sanctuary this weekend are in
memory of John & Annie Divinney and Bert Wright,
whose anniversaries occur around this time.
Question of the Week in the light of todays liturgy
(26th October)

Because we only love God as much as the neighbour we
love the least, whom do I need to begin looking at differ-
ently this week if I hope to begin looking more like
God?
You are now able to access the parish newsletter from our twitter
feed (@olgcga).
This involves the use of a new programme for us, so please bear
with us if we have some teething problems!!!!
Saturday 25th October
10.303.30 Maintenance Day
Tuesday 28th October
Tuesday club: NB: No Lunch only Bingo
UCM: Natter night
7.45 pm: Social Events Group Meeting Parish House Meet-
ing Room.
Wednesday 29th October
7.30pm Book ClubParish Centre
Thursday 30th October
No Seeking Christ or Awakening Faith Meetings
due to the half term holidays.
Sunday 2nd November
10.30 am Mass: Welcome and Presentation for Bap-
tism (for those who have been through the baptism
programme)
After 10.30 Mass: Baptism Preparation Meeting (1)
Tuesday 4th November
11.00 am Tuesday Club Committee meeting
7.45 pm Guardian Angels Full Governors Meeting
Wednesday 5th November
7.30 pm Our Lady of Lourdes Full Governors Meet-
ing
Sunday 9th NovemberRemembrance Sunday
Wednesday 12th November
7.30 pm Bereavement Support Group Meeting
Saturday 15th November
1.00 pm Setting up the Parish Centre for the Christmas
Extravaganza - volunteers needed.
Sunday 16th November
9.00 am1.00 pm: Our Christmas Extravaganza
Please support this event.
Friday 21stSunday 23rd November
Annual Weekend of Eucharistic Adoration (full details
to follow soon)
Sunday 23rd November
10.30 am Mass: Annual Mass with and for the Bereaved
Wednesday 26th November
7.30 pm Book Club in the Parish Centre
Thursday 27th November
5.30 pm St Gabriels H.S. Full Governors Meeting
Saturday 29th November
2.00 pm Advent Wreath Making in the Parish Centre
Sunday 30th November1st Sunday of Advent
Welcome Sunday (more details to follow)
Monday 1st December
Parish Minibus outing to Boundary Mill (sign up sheet
will be in Church next weekend)
Monday 8th December
The installation of our new Bishop, Bishop John Arnold
at Salford Cathedral. (Admission by ticket only)
Friday 12th December
7.30 pm Sean Ruane in Concert (more details to follow)
Wednesday 17th December
7.00 pm Advent Parish Reconciliation Service
Thursday 18th December
9.15 am End of Term Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes
School
Friday 19th December
9.15 am End of Term Mass at Guardian Angels School
Sunday 21st December
After the 10.30 am Mass: The BIG DRAW of the Ten
Week Draw
PARISH DIARY
WEEKLY OFFERI!S"

The Offertory Collection for: 18th/19th October was:
Envelopes: 848.86
Loose: 326.35
TOTAL: 1175.21

CAFOD Fast Day Offerings to date:
400.01

Thank you for your generosity.
If you wish to join the Gift Aid scheme please see Fr Paul at the
back of Church after Mass. It only takes a couple of seconds!
The Clusterers
Sunday 2nd November
Ashworth Valley for autumn colour (Moderate with some steep parts)
Leader Jeff 764 0127. 10.00am Start from Guardian Angels car
park

Thursday 20th November
Holcombe and Stubbins (Moderate)
Leader: David Willis (0161 764 0127)
10.00am Start from Guardian Angels car park
Awakening Faith is for people who have been
away from the church for a while and now want to
make a fresh start.
Seeking Christ is for those who want to look at
the Catholic Church, who have either been bap-
tised in another Christian tradition or never been
baptised.

NO MEETING THIS WEEK (because its half-
term) So, our next meeting is on Thursday 6th
October at 7.30 pm in the Parish Centre Lounge.
APFMILL HILLSeptember 2014
Would APF-MILL HILL Promoters please collect their books, maga-
zines, etc. from the Welcome and Information Centre (next to the Li-
brary). The amount collect this quarter was 737.72 Many thanks. If
anyone has a Red Box that needs opening, please call: 0161 761 5195.
THE NEW YORK MARATHON
& THE GOOD LIFE ORPHANAGE

Next weekend (2nd November), Sinead
Hayes (Mary & Kevins daughter) will be taking part in
the New York Marathon raising funds for the Good Life Orphanage.
There are two ways in which you can sponsor Sinead:

1. There is a sponsor sheet at the back of Church.
2. You can go to her Just-giving page at www.justgiving.com/
Sinead-Maguire0/ and pledge your sponsorship there (and you
are able to gift-aid your sponsorship money by doing it this way)

Thank you to all those who have already sponsored Sinead, and GOOD
LUCK next weekend Sinead.
Many thanks Fr Paul.
The Autumn Ladies Fashion Show which should have
taken place on Thursday 23rd October sadly had to be can-
celled due to a lack of support.
If you bought a ticket for the event please return your ticket to
the Parish Office and we will be able to refund your ticket
money.
CHILDRENS LITURGY OF THE WORD
We had a great meeting a couple of weeks ago for our
existing helpers and new volunteers who are going to get in-
volved (with apologies from quite a few others as well).
Where do we go now? We will be having another meeting (after
half-term), looking at the practicalities in more details, and also
looking at the safeguarding regulations and practicalities. If you
would like to get involved in being a part of the team for either
the 8.45 or 10.30 Mass, please contact the Parish Office and we
will add you to the list. The more people we have in the team,
the less pressure it is on our existing team members.
If you would like to get involved, please contact the office on
0161 764 1630 or by e-mail: olgcga@btinternet.com.
Many thanksFr Paul.


It started again last weekend!

WEEK ONE RESULTS 19th OCTOBER
1st Prize: 50 No 490 Margaret Shepherd
Agent: George Ponka
2nd Prize 25 No 584 Kathleen Daly
Agent: George Ponka
Maintenance Day
Saturday 25th October
As we go to press, the Maintenance Day
hasnt yet taken placeso all I can say (in ad-
vance) is thank you to those who turned up!
THE INSTALLATION OF BISHOP JOHN ARNOLD

Bishop John will be installed as the eleventh Bishop of
Salford on Monday 8th December at 11.00 am.
As I am sure you realise, there will be a lot of people
attending the installation. Places are seriously restricted, so if
you would like to put your name into the hat to represent our
parish, please fill in your details on the tear off slip below and
return it to the Parish Office no later than this Sunday eve-
ning (26th October). I have to submit names to the Bishops
Secretary by 1st November, and then he will send a personal
invitation.
There will be a coach leaving from Guardian Angels (for
our side of the deanery), and after the Mass of Installation the
invitation will also include admission to the reception. The
coach will return to Guardian Angels at an agreed time.
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I would like to put my name in the hat for attending the
Installation of Bishop John on Monday 8th December.

Name:

Address: .

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Tel no: ...

E-mail address: ..
Return to the Parish Office no later than Sunday Night 26/10/14
I would like to help out at the Christmas Extravaganza!

Name .. .

Telephone No...

E-mail address: ..
Anyone who would like to volunteer to
help organize this very busy event either be-
forehand or helping out on the day, please con-
tact Sharon in the Parish Office0161 764
1630 or fill out the form below and drop it
through the letter box of the Parish Office.
All donations of bottles, chocolates and
cakes etc would be greatly appreciated. Just
hand them in at the Parish Office before
Wednesday 12th November (except the
cakes!)
Very successful last year was the idea
of filling a Jam Jar with whatever you like,
coins, crayons, sweets, or just a jar of jam)
and bring them along to Church or to the
Parish Office no later that 12th November
we will use them at the extravaganza
FREE ADMISSION
And lots, lots more !!!
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Jam Jars
30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year
If you wish to contribute to the View from the
Pew, please contact the Parish Office.
These are anonymous comments from
parishioners.

Once again Jesus finds himself being tested by
the Pharisees. This time he is asked to name the greatest law.
He does so, but immediately invokes its complement,
placing love of God and love of neighbour on equal footing.
Indeed, his point is that you cannot have one without the
other.
So let us listen for the challenge today: how is our love
of God reflected in our love of neighbour?
Having your child baptised.
If you are planning on having your child
baptised, please pick up a leaflet from the
Welcome and Information centre, which
outlines our baptism preparation
programme.
Please note that the first thing that parents have to do is contact
the Parish Office (telephone on 0161 764 1630 or call in) to
book onto the First Meeting, held on the first Sunday of each
month. This means that our Baptism Preparation Team have a
workable number of people.
MINIBUS DRIVERS
If you cannot fulfil your rota duty, please arrange a swap with
another team. Thanks.
This weeks team: Marcia & Lawrence Cook
Next weeks team: Pat & Sue Moriarty
ITEMS FOR THE NEWSLETTER
Please submit all items for inclusion in the newsletter to the Parish
Office no later than Wednesday evening.
Either pop them through the Office letter-box or e-mail them in.
Anything received after Wednesday evening cant be guaranteed
to make it into the next weekends newsletter.
YOGA CLASS
Each Friday 9.0010.00 am in the Parish Centre.
A couple of Parish events that are coming up in the
near futuremore details will follow soon but get
the dates in your diary now!!!!

Christmas Extravaganza Sunday 16th November
9.30 am1.00 pm in the Parish Centre
Sean Ruane in Concert (professional, international Opera
Singer) - 7.30 pm on Friday 12th December.
Fr Denis McBrides latest
book:

PRAYING THE ROSARY
A journey through scripture
and art.

Copies of this new book only
arrived in the Parish Office a
week ago, so it is still hot off the
press! We have had time to look
through it and feel that it would
be a real support in praying the
rosary, individually, or as a group. We would highly recom-
mend this book to you.

The format of the book is simple:
1. First there is a reading from the New Testament
2. This is followed by a meditation on the scripture
passage
3. A painting is then included which offers its own take
on the subject
4. There is a brief reflection on the painting
5. Finally there is a prayer on some aspect of the
mystery.

There are copies of Fr Denis new book on sale on the table at
the back of Church this weekend, and available from the Par-
ish Office during the week.

12.95 a copy (136 pages)


OTHER BOOKS AT THE BACK OF CHURCH
Having just had two talks organised by the Department
for Evangelisation in the Diocese, one on St John Paul II and
one this past week on St John XXIII, there is an opportunity
to browse and buy some of the books we got for the talks.
There are also other books on different topics. We wanted to
give you the opportunity to buy them before they are sent
back to our suppliers.
Have a look at them, and if you havent got money
with you today, the person on the bookstall will gladly fill in
your details and we will invoice you for anything you take
away.

Enjoy browsing and get yourself a good book!
This is the last weekend they will be available, as we have to
return them to the suppliers.
GETTING MARRIED AT GUARDIAN ANGEL
Now that the 2014 Wedding Season has come to
a close at Guardian Angels, we start planning and pre-
paring for the 2015 Wedding Season!
All those who have already booked their wedding for 2015
with Fr Paul will be receiving a letter very soon with the details of
the Marriage Preparation Day.
If you are planning on getting married here in 2015, and
haven't booked the wedding in, please contact the Parish Office
(0161 764 1630) as soon as possible. It is a diocesan regulation
that 6 months notice must be given to enable all couples to take
part in preparation for celebrating the sacrament.
SETTING UP FOR
THE CHRISTMAS EXTRAVAGANZA
If you are able to give us a hand in the setting up of the
Parish Centre for the Christmas Extravaganza (which happens
in a couple of weeks time - Sunday 16th Nov) - please come
along to the Parish Centre at 1.00 pm on Saturday 15th No-
vember. We are having a Social Events Meeting to finalise the
arrangements on Tuesday 28th October at 7.45 pm in the Parish
House Meeting Room.
Please dont just leave it someone elsecome along and
lend a hand!
AND SUPPORTING THE EVENT
Please support the Christmas Extravaganza Its a parish
social event which raises some extra money for the parish
which of course benefits us all!!! On page three you will find
details of how you can support the Extravaganza.