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HOLY FAMILY PARISH NEWSLETTER
Sunday 3rd August
18th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Year C

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Notices

DEVELOPMENT FUND DRAW: A list of July winners can be found below. A draw review meeting will take place on Sunday after Mass. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are also looking for new people to be agents for the draw, it is not an onerous task as payments can be made by standing order or quarterly or even annually. The monthly payment has also increased from £4 to £5 per entry, the first increase for over 22 years

 

GOSPEL JOY DISCUSSION GROUP: The group will be taking a break until Monday 8 September.

 

SEWING GROUP: The sewing group is taking a summer break until Monday 15 September.

 

GARDENING GROUP: Tuesday & Saturday, after Mass. All welcome. On Tuesday there will also be church cleaning for all who are able to assist.

 

CAFOD COFFEE MORNING: Friday, after Mass.

 

SOCIAL CALENDAR: Our next event will be afternoon tea for our senior members on Saturday 16th August 3-5pm, tickets are available now. Please look at the published calendar at the back of church for all the latest on other events and dates.

 

CORNERSTONE DONATIONS: A collection was made this week. Cornerstone have expressed their thanks once again for this timely and abundant donation and for all our previous ones. Thank you. Please keep the food coming in, it is much needed by the poor of all ages in Manchester. The Lally centre’s Food bank is in very high demand.

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St John Henry Newman, the Catholic theologian canonised in 2019, is to be given the title, Doctor of the Church, The first English Doctor of the Church

in an audience, the Holy Father confirmed the affirmative opinion of the Plenary Session of Cardinals and Bishops, Members of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, regarding the title of Doctor of the Universal Church which will soon be conferred on Saint John Henry Newman, Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, born in London on 21 February 1801, Founder of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri in Birmingham; where he died in on 11 August 1890.”

The former Anglican priest who was hugely influential in both the Church of England and the Catholic Church in the 19th century

“It is remarkable that his writings, first as an Anglican and then as a Roman Catholic, but considered as one entire corpus of written work, have led to him being declared a Doctor of the Church.” said the Archbishop of Birmingham.

 

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION

Friday: 9.20- 9.45am

Saturday: 6pm to 6.20pm and at call

 

COLLECTIONS

26/27July: £290.70

 

Thank you as always for your generosity.

This week, Team C.

 

STEWARDS (2/3Aug)

Saturday: M Hesketh, J Whatmough, B Whatmough

Sunday: D Hibbert, C Timoney, B Rogers

 

STAY CONNECTED

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see John Hesketh for details or posts.

Contact Pauline (07841712971) to join the parish WhatsApp group.

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FUTURE EDITIONS

Any notices to: alex.rowen@live.com

 

SRCDT Reg. Charity no. 25003 www.dioceseofsalford.org.uk

Holy Family Church  

Luxor Grove

Danebank

M34 2NR

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