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BENEDICTS R C CHURCH

Dates for your Diary

Invitation from Archbishop Bernard Longley to young Catholics of the
Archdiocese - The Archbishop would like to invite you to join him on
pilgrimage to World Youth Day, Krakow, Poland in July 2015.
Birmingham Catholic Youth Service will be organising this pilgrimage, which
takes place between 19th July - 2nd August 2015. Age range - 16-35 years.
For more information and to download your application form, see the
website: www.go2wyd.co.uk .
Summer Retreat - July 24-26th at Hilton, Nr. Lichfield (Non-Residential) in a
country setting. There are brochures in the porch and a Poster on the
noticeboard.

Letter from Paul to the Benedictines (2nd series)

Greetings to you all! It seems entirely appropriate and strangely

coincidental that I should be writing this first note to you on the eve
of the Feast of St Beneidct! I wish you all a happy Feast Day. I feel
that we are all under the power of his intercessory prayer.

Well, two weeks have almost gone by since I left Atherstone for the
Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. I had the surgery on
Monday 29th June (for 5 hours apparently). I then spent a couple of
days in the Intensive Care Unit. They were keeping an eye on me
because I had rather low blood pressure and diculty with breathing.
I went back to the Ward then and spent a few days being filled with
drugs to get the pain under some control.

On Sunday I was discharged and came back to St Joseph's Nursing

Home in Harborne in the afternoon. I am now settling in to the
routine of the Home - although today I had to go back to the Hospital
for another chest X-Ray, because my breathing is still not right. I
imagine that I should continue making progress now.

I can relax into the final days of Wimbledon and also face the
delightful prospect of the season of Test Cricket and winning the
Ashes! Perhaps many of you are getting ready for holidays. I do hope
that they will be relaxing and refreshing.

You are in my thoughts and prayers,

God bless
Fr Paul.

We extend a warm welcome to everyone worshipping here this

weekend, refreshments are served in the Church Hall after 9.30am
Mass, please come and join us, ALL ARE WELCOME.

OWEN STREET, ATHERSTONE,

WARWICKSHIRE, CV9 1DG
Tel: 01827 713177,
Website: st-benedicts-atherstone.org
Parish Priest: Mgr. Paul Watson

Finance Secretary: Jo Howe 01827 750214

Newsletter: Brian Ingram 01827 704858

15th Sunday of the Year (B)

Sat 11th July

4.00 pm

Vigil of Sunday

Sun 12th July

9:30 am

15th Sunday

Mon 13th July

Tues 14th July

7.00 pm Prayer Mtg

Wed 15th July

Benedict
For the Parish

Meet in Church, all

welcome
Saint Bonaventure
Our Lady of Mount

Thurs 16th July

Friday 17th July

Feast of Saint

Carmel
10.00 am

Service of Holy
Communion

Sat 18th July

4.00 pm

Vigil Mass

Sun 19th July

9:30am

16th Sunday of the year

Parishioners

The Liturgy & the of the Church

Readers this week:
Readers next week:

Sat: M. Henney
Sun: N. Osborne
Sat: M. Bourne

Sun: D. Dickens

Offertory Procession this week: J & S Major

Eucharistic Ministers
D. Leaper
D. Dickens
Next Week
T. Wright
M. Reed
Church Cleaning - ------------------Altar Society -------------------

The Sick and their Carers

Please pray for Father Andrew, Pat & Maureen Burke, Bridie Symmons,
Ada Russell, Winifred Jones, Charlotte Smith, Kath Ford, Ursula Cope,
Patricia Carter, Christina Chetwynd, Olive Fortune, Victor John Zeslawski
and Father Paul. Please remember our housebound parishioners in your
prayers: Marion Burrows and Marie Aherne .

Anniversaries
We pray for all our deceased relatives and friends especially those
who's anniversaries fall at this time, Joan Airey, Mary Hardy, Mary Ann
Jarvis, Florence Thompson, Pauline Catherine Hughes, Anthony Jarofz.
May they Rest in Peace.

Money Matters
Collections last week: 1st - 288:65
153:10 - thank you!
This week 27/28th - Second Collection for Peter's Pence
July 11/12th - Second Collection for the Apostleship of the Seas (special
envelopes will be available).
TOTE: 05/07/2015. Winning Nos 14 - 16. Rollover
Snowball this week 20
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PRAYER GROUP - The prayer will take the basic format of Evening
Prayer of the Church with the opportunity to extend the various elements
of the Prayer (Praise and adoration, listening to Scripture readings and
Intercession for our various needs). To give you a sense of how long the
meeting might last - last week we prayed together for about half an hour!

"That in all things God may be glorified St. Benedict

Called to be Holy
We all have some share in the priesthood of Christ by
virtue of our common baptism. This invokes in us, a
sense of belonging yes, belonging to the body of
Christ. This is sometimes referred to as the priesthood
of the faithful. St. Peter tells us that: through Baptism
and the anointing of the Holy Spirit are reborn and
consecrated as a spiritual temple and a holy
priesthood. By living the Christian life, they offer up
spiritual sacrifices and proclaim the prodigious deeds
of Him who called them from darkness into his own
wonderful light (1 Peter 2, 4-10). This is the sense in
which we are invited to be Holy as our heavenly father
is Holy (1 Peter 1: 15).
The prophet Amos was sent by God to the land of
Judah. In the same way, we are called and sent to our
families, our communities, our friend, bringing alive
once again the message of salvation. Like the
apostles, the Lord is asking us to be his hands of
compassion, the voice of mercy and forgiveness,
healing and love. But then, we must be transformed
ourselves before we can bring it to others. Today, we
ask the Lord transform us into true copies of Himself in
order to bring the good news to others. Amen.
Fr. Raphael Imoni