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Responsorial Psalm:
Let the Lord enter!
He is the King of Glory!
Gospel Acclamation:
Alleluia, alleluia!
The virgin will conceive and give
birth to a son and they will call
him Emmanuel, a name which
means God-is-with-us.
Eglwys Catholig Dewi Sant, Yr Wyddgrug
St.David’s Catholic Church, Mold
Terry McManus, Alfredo Fecci, Michael
Jones, Anne Jones, Jim Hughes, Margaret Carr, Margaret Evans, Fred Battersby, Gwen Jones,Joe Goggin,, Debra Ann
Roberts,Tricia Twizell, Rosa Maria, Joan
Lawrence, Moira Catherall, Lea Hill,
Anne Turner, Mary Rowe, Jenny Mansley, Jennifer Rowley, Nancy Wilson, Joe
& Luisa Desena, Shelagh Fulham, Margaret Stubbs, Philomena Lamano, and
Leo McManus.
We remember in our prayers
Parish Priest: Fr. Pius Mathew CMI,
St.David’s Presbytery, St.David’s Lane, Mold. CH7 1LH
Email: piuscmi@gmail.com
Tele: 01352 752087
Deacon David Joy:01352 754722 LSUConvent:01352 700121
Website: www.stdavidsmold.org
www.wrexhamdiocese.org.uk http://www.cmi.org.in
18th December 2016
Those whose anniversaries
Occur this week
Alleluia!
Today :
Collection for Flowers
For Christmas
Christmas 2016
Christmas Eve
24th December Saturday
Mass :5.30pm &
Mass: 9pm
(Carols from 8.30pm)
Christmas Day: Sunday
Mass : 11am
Church Cleaning
Can you help?
In preparation for the
Christmas, the church
cleaned on Friday 23rd
ber after the Mass, at
Let us pray for the Sick
feast of
will be
Decem9.45am.
(There is no Eucharistic adoration)
If you can spare a half an hour or so
then this would be appreciated.
Sisters Eva and Helen wish
all at St. David’s a very happy
and blessed Christmas.
(17th Dec) Thomas Hughes, Maria Lommano,
John Faulkner (18th Dec) Maria Jones,
Thomas Joseph Jones, Theresa Jones, Eileen
Lewis (19th Dec) Catherine Jones (20th Dec)
Ann Jones, Margaret Clarke,Eleri Polakowski
(21st Dec) Bridget Jennings, John Murphy (22
Dec) James Parker, Helen Jones, Ellen Kain
(23rd Dec) John Molyneux, Mary McLoughlin,
John Murphy, Ann McCarten, Esther Bryan
A call for help!
At the Offertory procession the “work of
our hands” is brought to the altar in
bread, wine, and the collection. To do
this with efficiency and dignity, we are
introducing extra collection points, so
that we can reduce delay.
Therefore we seek the help of more people to take the collection – we need five
at each Mass. If enough will volunteer
we can ensure a ‘rota’, so that it is
shared out. Please consider offering
your service to the parish in this way.
There is no restriction by age or gender!
Please give your name to Fr Pius, Deacon David, or to Tony Gent (Saturday) or
Peter Carberry (Sunday).
The collection begins immediately after
the Bidding Prayers.
4th Sunday of Advent
Year A
LITURGY OF THE WEEK: Psalter Week IV
17th December Saturday
Mass 5.30pm
Maureen Mullally RIP
(Gerry O’Brien)
18th December Sunday
Mass 11am
For People of the Parish
Monday :
19th Dec
Liturgy of the day
Mass 9.15am
Int. Rita Fragassi (Joanne Butterworth)
Tuesday:
20th Dec
Funeral of Mrs. Kathleen Taylor RIP
Requiem Mass 1.45PM
Wednesday: Liturgy of the day
21st Dec
Mass 9.15am
Deceased Members of the Moran Family
(Angela Green)
Thursday:
22nd Dec
Funeral of Mrs. Kathleen Davies RIP
Friday:
23rd Dec
Liturgy of the day
Mass 9.15am
Teresa King RIP (Mary McCarry)
Requiem Mass 10.30am
24th December Saturday
Mass at 5.30pm
Int. Mrs. Bea Towey
9pm: Pauline Carberry RIP
(Peter Carberry)
Eucharistic
Adoration
with
Rosary and
Benediction
Every Friday
following the
morning Mass
at 9.15am
Sacrament of
Reconciliation
(Confessions)
Saturdays
10.30am to
11.30am
& Before the Vigil
Mass
25th December Sunday
(4.45-5.20pm)
Mass 11am
Sundays before
the Mass
For People of the Parish
(10.30-10.50am)
FAITH IN FOCUS:
B
A
PERFECT CHRISTMAS?
y now you’re probably fed up with all
the adverts to get you to
spend your money in order
to have “the Christmas you
and your family deserve”.
But is there such a thing as
a perfect Christmas?
I
t might not have
seemed so for
Mary. She had every
reason to dread that
first Christmas. A
young teenage girl,
she now finds herself
having a baby and is
unmarried. What will
her family say? How’s
she going to explain
things to Joseph? And
what about the neighbours? There’ll be tongues
wagging all over the place
and she’ll probably being
living under a cloud for
years to come. Only she
and God would ever really
understand. And she didn’t
understand much.
him out as the husband
who’d been the last to
know. They’d wonder why
he didn’t simply ditch Mary.
And he probably had a nagging feeling that all these
strange dreams were storing up trouble for the future.
J
G
od could have chooseph and Mary are
sen some ideal scegood examples of the nario into which to be born.
But he chose one that
was profoundly human
instead. It was all so
fragile: Mary had to
trust the angel; Joseph
had to trust Mary; God
had to trust them both.
C
untidiness of human existence, of how things rarely
go according to plan. It’s
strange, isn’t it, that God
couldn’t find some perfect
parents for his only Son?
He ends up with these two.
probably wasn’t M
J oseph’s
looking forward to that
first Christmas either. For
him it didn’t look too promising. People would point
private lives, into a world
where achievements never
seem to match up to yearnings, into the higgledypiggledy days of our existence…the infant God is
born.
aybe that’s what
Christmas is about.
Perhaps one of its jobs is to
remind us that into our
“screwed up” planet, into
the bleak complexity of our
hristmas is almost upon us
and we’re surely not
on top of things; in
fact, we’re probably
dreading some.
But if this week we were
able to realise that the child
Jesus offers to keep being
born into the jumble of our
human lives, no matter how
untidy they are, then we
would have experienced a
great truth. And despite all
the stress and strain we
would have had a perfect
Christmas into the bargain.
200 CLUB WINNERS
OCTOBER
First prize Maura Edney 133
Second prize Margaret Joy 139
Third prize Michael Carter 149
NOVEMBER
First prize Patricia Southall 175
Second prize P Wilson 128
Third prize Sr Eva 105
DECEMBER
First prize Mary Katerega 18
Second prize Humphries c/o 170
Third prize Teresa Nickson 31
So that ends this year’s draws. Thank
you to everyone who supported our 200
club, this year you have raised £585 for
our church funds, and for that I can't
thank you enough.
We will be starting our renewals in early
January and of course we will welcome
with open arms any new members who
wish to join our merry band.
Have a happy and holy Christmas
Tony Gent
Mrs. Kathleen Taylor RIP
The funeral Mass for Kathleen Taylor
will take place here on 20th December this Tuesday at 1.45pm.
May she rest in peace and rise in glory!
Mrs. Kathleen Davies RIP
The Funeral Mass for Kathleen Davies will take place here this Thursday 22nd December at 10.30am.
May she rest in peace and rise in glory!
Missio Red Boxes
Your red boxes have been emptied and
they are ready for collection at the back
of the church. And Missio 2017 calendars are available for anyone to take.
Thank you for your support. Tricia Hurd
I am going to think a lot about Joseph during Advent, in the hope that the thinking
will remind me that God asks nothing of me
that he didn’t ask of Joseph: simply to do
the best I can, each day. On many days,
that doesn’t seem to be nearly enough. But
that awareness reminds me that God
doesn’t really expect me to accomplish
anything. He simply wants me to give him
permission, as Mother Teresa used to put
it, to accomplish through me what only he
can accomplish. That is a humbling but
immensely encouraging reminder. It seems
to me to be what Joseph did, even though
it made this extraordinary man look quite
ordinary--and thereby be able to be imitated by ordinary people like me.
John O’Connor
Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes 2017
22nd May Monday– 27th May Saturday
The Posters and Booking forms are available in the Porch. There is a £10 discount
if you do the booking online:
www.joewalshtours.co.uk
Pilgrimage to Medjugorie 27th May to
3rd June 2017: Contact : Geraldine Downing: 01978 357367.
Year Books 2017
There are a few copies available in
the porch. Price £3.50
Money Matters :
Offertory Collection last weekend
£748.43 of which £476.20 was Gift Aided
Gift Aid: If you are a Tax Payer, please
consider filling out the Gift Aid form which
is in the church porch to receive a box of
weekly envelopes for your offertory donation or for a one-off donation then
please use the Green envelopes. Please
remember to write your name, address,
and date the green envelope.
Thank you for supporting our Parish.