Dates for your Diary

Summer Fete Saturday 27th June

Many thanks to all who have helped in any way.

ST. BENEDICTS R C CHURCH

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

More news to follow next week, hopefully we will get the results soon.
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 .

Finance Secretary: Jo Howe 01827 750214

Newsletter: Brian Ingram 01827 704858

13th Sunday of the Year (B)

Bible Alive - the July Issue is available - please feel free to take a copy.
Fr. Peter Gallagher: Many thanks to all those who worked so hard
preparing the Church and the hall ready for Fr. Peter's Requiem.
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

Sat 27th June

4.00 pm

Sun 28th June

9:30 am

Mon 29th June

Tues 30th June

Weeding around the Church - Would anyone be willing to give an hour to
tackling the weeds around the Church and Car Park wall & Hall. To gain
access through the gate, please contact Brian Ingram on 01827 704858.

Vigil of Sunday

For the Parishioners

13th Sunday of the

Year
Saints Peter and Paul
Apostles
7.00 pm Prayer Mtg

Meet in Church, all

welcome

Wed 1st July

Thurs 2nd July

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.

Service of Holy

Friday 3rd July

10.00 am

Sat 4th July

4.00 pm

Vigil Mass

Sun 5th July

9:30am

14th Sunday of the year

Communion

St. Thomas. Apostle

St. Elizabeth of
Portugal
Parishioners

The Liturgy & the of the Church

Readers this week:
Readers next week:

Sat: C. Ruskin
Sun: D. Furlong
Sat:
Sun: St. Benedict's Children

Offertory Procession this week: J. Taylor & Family

Eucharistic Ministers T. Wright. M. Heath
Next Week
M. Bourne T. Willmott
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 and Father Paul.
Please remember our housebound parishioners in your prayers: Marion
Burrows and Marie Aherne , Ada Russell.

Anniversaries
We pray for all our deceased relatives and friends especially those
who's anniversaries fall at this time, Irene Charles, Agnes Pool, Mark
Gerraghty, Annie Everett, Kathleen Garrett, Howard Galletly, David
Margetts, John Plunkett, Sylwester Wiktor; May they Rest in Peace.

Money Matters
Collections last week: 1st - 176:69
91:94 - 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: 21/06/2015. Winning Nos 05 - 32. Payout 36:36. 1 Winner
Snowball this week 18
Tea & Coffee. 37:10
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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

Touched by the Lord

We experience the manifestation of the Lords presence in our lives
whenever we dispose ourselves to him. The Eucharist is the centre of our
lives during which we encounter the Lord and of course in our daily prayer
life.
The experiences of the two people who encountered the Lords healing in
our readings of today is something very extraordinary. It could only mean
one thing that desperate situations attract desperate actions and the
throwing of all caution to the wind. These persons could not care less about
the crowd, rather than defile Jesus by touch (Lv. 15: 25-33), it was Jesus
who brought healing to the haemorrhaging woman and life to the dead.
Our relationship with the Lord depends on the extent to which our faith
prompts and lifts us. For without faith it is impossible to please
God (Hebrews 11: 6). This same faith prompts us to acknowledge our
human limitations and weaknesses trailed by sin. Perhaps we need to make
a leap of faith and reach out to Jesus for healing in our various
circumstances of life. This is what we notice in todays Gospel reading. The
personalities in the narrative sought the Lord and with determination they
achieved their desires. Wether by haemorrhage or other physical ailments,
or even spiritual ailments, it is important for us to take a step and ask the
lord for intervention. Today Jesus extends this invitation: Come to me all
you who labour and overburdened !

Fr. Raphael Imoni