St Peter’s Catholic Church London Road, Gloucester GL1 3EX

Tel: 01452 523603 Email: info@stpetersgloucester.org.uk

Parish website: www.stpetersgloucester.org.uk Diocesan website: www.cliftondiocese.com

Diocese of Clifton Registered Charity No. 233977

Parish Priest: Monsignor Liam Slattery VG liam@stpetersgloucester.org.uk Assistant Priest: Fr Gerry Walsh gerry.walsh@cliftondiocese.com Deacons: Rev Colm Robinson, Rev Tim Meadows Parish Secretary: Mrs Thérèse English secretary@stpetersgloucester.org.uk Parish Office: Tuesday - Friday 9.30am-1.30pm

Sunday Mass Times 6.00pm (Sat), 9.00am, 10.30am, 2.15pm (Polish), 5.30pm

Reconciliation/Confessions Saturday: 10.30am-11.30am & 5.15pm – 5.45pm

Schools St Peter’s Catholic Primary School. Tel: 01452 524792. Web: www.st-peters-pri.gloucs.sch.uk St Peter’s Catholic High School & Sixth Form Centre. Tel: 01452 520594. Web: www.st-petershigh.gloucs.sch.uk

19th October 2014 – 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Mass Text Responsorial Psalm: Give the Lord glory and power. Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia! You will shine in the world like bright stars because you are offering it the word of life. Alleluia! Preface: Sundays in Ordinary Time IV. Eucharistic Prayer: I.

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LAST WEEKEND: Mass Count – 765. Offertory - £1272.97 MASS TIMES & INTENTIONS THIS WEEK: 6.00pm (Sat) (Henrietta Dolan RIP). Sunday 9.00am (Prince Alwin RIP). 10.30am (Simon Murphy RIP). 2.15pm - Polish Mass. 5.30pm (Brendan Noonan RIP). Monday 9.30am (Mary Coote RIP). Tuesday 9.30am (Wellington Manikan RIP). Wednesday 12.00pm (Paul Montanaro RIP). Thursday 9.00am (Gleeson, Buckley & Ellis Families). Friday 9.30am (Angela Jayatilleke RIP). Saturday 10.00am (Ints of Frank & Wendy Ashcroft). 6.00pm (Teresa Staley RIP). Please note mass on Thursday is at 9.00am. THIS WEEK: Psalter (Prayer of the Church) – Week 1. EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT: Wednesday at 11.30am and Friday at 8.30am. WORLD MISSION SUNDAY: Today The Holy Father invites all Catholics to contribute to a special collection for Missio, his official charity for overseas mission. World Mission Sunday is a special day that unites Catholics all over the world in prayer, celebration and care for the mission of the Church. Thanks to the sacrifice and witness of missionaries, the Catholic Church is growing and many Churches can now take care of themselves. However, four out of every ten parishes worldwide still need your help to survive. By supporting World Mission Sunday you are directly helping over 1,000 dioceses bring hope and new life to people yearning to hear of God’s love for them. You will be able to Gift Aid all donations by using envelopes provided by Missio, please make any cheques payable to St Peter’s Church. Thank you. PRAYERS FOR THOSE WHO ARE ILL: Andrea Brushneen, Alison Blake, Hilda Lawrence, Sarah Anderson, Marie Cunningham, Jessie Hall, Cheryl Loy, Norah King, Charlie Slade, Deacon Tim Meadows, Edmundo Padilla, Daryl Paris, Christopher Browne, Clifford Browne. RETIREMENT CLUB: Please note our next meeting is on 22nd October after the midday mass in the Social Centre Hall. Talk by Dick Sheppard. We will also be collecting payment and menu selections for our Christmas Meal on 8th December at The Bells Hotel, Coleford. Deposit of £10 or full payment of £21 per person. INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIAN MEDITATION: On Saturday 13th December 10.30am-3.30pm at Marist Convent, Nympsfield, Stonehouse GL10 3TZ. £10 please bring a packed lunch, tea/coffee provided. Please see noticeboard or contact Barbara Jones: bar_demi@hotmail.co.uk 01452 855814/07957945421 BAPTISMS: We welcome into the family of church Lillian Holek, Ella and Zachary Emmerson and Lewil Janagap baptised this weekend.

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CONFIRMATION: Confirmation 2014 takes place on Friday 31st October at 7.00pm. Any candidates who are not able to attend please notify the parish office and an alternative date will be arranged. For all candidates there is no meeting this evening, the next meeting is on Sunday 26th October at 6.30pm please notify the parish office if you are unable to attend. For those being confirmend on 31st October there is a rehearsal in church on Wednesday 29th October at 7.00pm and sponsors should attend if possible. Remember candidates must have chosen a saint’s name to be used at Confirmation and sponsors must be confirmed Roman Catholic. A photographer has been arranged. PARISH CELEBRATION: There will be a Mass of Thanksgiving in church followed by a buffet reception with musical entertainment in the hall on Wednesday November 12th at 7.00pm. This celebration is in acknowledgement of the gratitude we have towards the many parishioners who do so many things in so many different ways to support the life of our parish community. All welcome. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS: Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is calling on people to pray ACN’s Novena to Our Lady, Help of Christians on the last nine days of October (23rd to 31st) for the Christians and others people caught up in the ongoing crisis in Iraq and Syria. Copies of the Novena are available at the back of the church or on www.acnuk.org/iraqupdate ANNUAL NOVEMBER MASS: At the Irish Club will take place at 8.00pm on Thursday November 13th. All welcome. PHANTOM OF THE OPERA: St. Peter's High School are performing the musical Phantom of the Opera from Wednesday 22nd to Friday 24th October in the school hall. Due to a high demand for tickets, Friday night is already sold out. Thursday night is also selling fast. Tickets are available from School reception 01452 520594, Adults £8, under 16 are £5. RECEPTION ADMISSIONS FOR SEPTEMBER 2015 FOR ST. PETER’S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL: Now is the time to enrol your child for next September’s intake. If your child will have their 5th birthday during the period between 1st September 2015 and 31st August 2016 they are entitled to start in the Autumn Term of 2015. The closing date for applications with the Local Authority is 15th January 2015. If you would like your child to be considered for enrolment to St Peter’s please phone or ask at the school office for an Information Pack. If you would like to view the school and attend a talk by the Headteacher, we have two open day sessions; 9.30am on Monday 3rd November and 2pm on Tuesday 4th November. Contact the school on 524792 to confirm your attendance so that we have an indication of numbers for each session.

PARISH MEETINGS THIS WEEK: Parish Finance Committee on Monday at 7.00pm in the presbytery. SVP on Tuesday at 7.00pm in the sacristy. Parish Pastoral Council on Wednesday at 7.30pm in the sacristy. PARISH CHRISTMAS FAYER: On Saturday November 29th at 10.30am in the Social Centre Hall. Help is needed to run the various stalls. Please see list at the back of the church. REPOSITORY: Large selection of Christmas Cards, Calendars, Diaries, Nativity Scenes, Advent Calendars and Candle Sets now in stock. Please support your repository, all profit going to the upkeep of our church. FINALLY: In our catechesis on the Church, we now consider the object of our Christian hope, the fulfilment of God’s promises in the coming of Christ at the end of time. Saint John speaks of this joyful encounter between the Lord and his people using the image of “the new Jerusalem, coming down from heaven, prepared as a bride adorned to meet her husband” (cf. Rev 21:2). This spousal imagery contains a profound truth: by taking on our flesh, Jesus united humanity to himself, and at his coming we will see the consummation of this mystic marriage in the wedding feast of heaven. The vision of the new Jerusalem also reminds us that the Church is meant in God’s plan to be a City in which all men and women live at last in harmony and blessed peace. Christian hope, then, is our joyful expectation of the Lord’s coming and the fulfilment of his saving plan for the human family. In every generation the Church holds high the lamp of this hope before the world. Today let us ask whether our own lamps are alight with the oil of faith, and to what extent we live as credible and joy-filled witnesses to our hope in God’s promises FINALLY:

Next Sunday – 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Exodus 22:20-26. Thessalonians 1:5:10. Matthew 22:34-40.

Vocation Matters 19th October – 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time “We know, brothers, that God loves you and that you have been chosen” Companies use lots of different selection techniques in order to recruit personnel. These may range from the traditional interview right through to a full-blown assessment centre. In this process employers want to choose the right people for their business venture. From a Christian point of view, we must always remember that we have been chosen not because of any skills or good interview techniques that we might have mastered. We have been chosen simply because we were in the mind of God from before all time. With that loving message being constantly reinforced, we can move forward in hope to discern how we can explicitly live this out through our vocation.