Responsorial Psalm:

Tate and see that the Lord is good.

Gospel Acclamation:

Alleluia, Alleluia!

Your words are spirit Lord and they are life; you have the message

of eternal life.

Alleluia!

Money Matters Offertory Collection last weekend:

£645.25 of which £407.50 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, sign and date the

green envelope.

Thank you for supporting our Parish.

Let us pray for the Sick

Moira Catherall, Lea Hill, Fred Battersby, Anne Turner, Monica Mannion, Mary Rowe, Rose Bry-an, Jenny Mansley, Jennifer Rowley, Nancy Wil-son, Joe Goggin, Joe & Luisa Desena, Peggy Edwards, Shelagh Fulham, Margaret Stubbs, Philomena Lamano, and Leo McManus.

We remember in our prayers Those whose anniversaries

occur this week (22nd Aug) Thomas Larkin, Fritz Rohnstock, Winefride Irene Jones, Michael Weston, Patricia Appleton, (23rd Aug) Ann McHugh, Deirdre Jackson, Mary Peal (24th Aug) John O’Neill, Edwin Jones, Florence Muriel Price, William Godwin, Stephen Deponio (25th Aug) Michael George Byrne, Canon Thomas Eadsforth, Mar-garet Durkin, Stephen Foster (26th Aug) Julia Elliott, Sarah Shannon, Mary Barbara Davies (27th Aug) John Edwin Bryan, William Joseph Pearce (28th Aug) Mildred Teresa Lewis

Assist us to Live, Not Die.

There is a very important debate taking place in the House of Commons on 11th September 2015 on a Private Members Bill to legalise as-sisted suicide.

Legalising assisted suicide sends the message that if you are terminally ill, suicide is something that you might consider. We are a country which responds to terminal illness with care and com-passion, not by enabling people to commit sui-cide. Let us keep it that way.

There are postcards in the Porch which we can send to our local MP David Hanson to re-quest him to vote against The Assisted Dying Bill on 11th September.

Eglwys Catholig Dewi Sant, Yr Wyddgrug St.David’s Catholic Church, Mold

Parish Priest: Fr. Pius Mathew CMI, St.David’s Presbytery, St.David’s Lane, Mold. CH7 1LH

Email: piuscmi@gmail.com 01352 752087

Deacon David Joy:01352 754722 LSUConvent:01352 700121 http://www.stdavidsmold.org.uk/

22nd August Saturday Mass 5.30pm

Sr.Benedict Marie RIP (Dea and Eddie Saul)

23rd August Sunday Mass 10am

For People of the Parish

Monday : Feast: St. Bertholomew, Apostle 24th Aug Mass 9.15am Brendan Towey RIP (Bea Towey) Tuesday: Liturgy of the day

25th Aug Mass 7pm Theresa Williamson RIP (Anne Aitken) Wednesday: Liturgy of the day 26th Aug Mass 9.15am Ellen McGowen RIP (Pat & Patrick Madigan) Thursday Mem. St. Monica 27th Aug Mass 9.15am Theresa Williamson RIP (Val German) Friday Mem. St. Augustine 28th Aug Mass 9.15am Theresa Williamson RIP (Anne Cheetham)

LITURGY OF THE WEEK: Psalter Week I

Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confessions)

Saturdays 10.30am to

11.30am & Before the Vigil

Mass (4.45-5.20pm)

Sundays before the Mass

(9.30-9.50am)

And at any time on request

23rd August 2015 21st Sunday Year B

30th August Sunday Mass at 10am

Int. Kathy Jones (Simon Hughes)

29th August Saturday Mass 5.30pm

For People of the Parish

Eucharistic Adoration with

Rosary and Benediction

Every Sunday At 4pm.

Everyone is Welcome

L ife’s full of choic-es. Some are not

earth-shattering, like the colour of the shoes you decide to put on in the morning or the filling for

your sandwich at lunchtime. Others have a lasting if not perma-nent effect, like the per-son you ask to spend the rest of your life with or the career you make up your mind to embark up-on.

In a spiritually rest-less society Joshua puts a blunt choice before the people of Israel. If they won’t serve the Lord then who are they going to follow? They decide to follow the Lord their God.

W hen Jesus be-gan to lose his

followers as they defect-ed elsewhere, he too

offered the twelve apos-tles the same choice. “What about you, do you want to go away too?” He realised that his teaching on the bread of life was something that many could not stom-ach. It gave them indi-gestion and they pre-ferred to take a less spicy diet.

It was Peter who spoke up for them all. There was no point in going anywhere else when Je-sus had the message of eternal life. Their choice was for Jesus, the Holy One of God.

E very Christian has made the

choice for Jesus. But this choice isn’t some-thing that’s in the past. It’s not something that we once made and can now sit back and be re-

laxed about. Because life has no script we have to face a new sce-ne with each passing day. Choices face us every day of the week, some big, others small. We show our commit-ment to Christ by contin-uing to make the choice. Most of us have made a fundamental option for Christ that we are un-likely to turn our backs on lightly. But we still have to keep that prefer-ence alive. We have to remind ourselves who it is who motivates us in our thinking and acting. We have to answer Je-

sus’ question each day: Do you want to go away too?

W hen we gather

together to cele-brate the Eucharist we give our reply to Jesus’ question.

The Christian communi-ty comes to the table of the Lord to eat and drink the food of life and thereby ratifies its une-quivocal choice for Christ. After all, as Peter said, where else would we think of going?

DAILY CHOICE FAITH IN FOCUS:

Need more food for the soul? Please try these: http://www.wednesdayword.org/ www.pray-as-you-go.org http://www.usccb.org/bible/reflections http://www.2u.ie/ https://wau.org/meditations/current

A Note from L’Arche Flintshire

L’Arche Flintshire have been offered the use of a shop in Holywell for 2 weeks 1st-12th September. We would be grateful for saleable items eg. Clothes, brick a brack..etc. Items can be left at the back of the Church and will be removed each day. Larger items can be taken to the shop.

Thank you Many Thanks to everyone who supported the Coffee Morning in the Church Hall on Tuesday 18th August. We raised £750 for Father John Kirwan’s work in the Congo. He was delighted to meet the Mold parishioners and very grateful for your generosity.

Margaret O’Hara &Jane Kay

Bits of trivia for you to take a look at! And decide, True or False? After the Wedding Have you noticed how when you go to church for a wedding there’s no mention of the honeymoon? Eve-rything else gets talked about except what the couple are about to do next. Thousands of years ago it was the accepted practice in the East that for a month after the wedding, the bride’s father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. The couple didn’t go off to another place; they just stayed at home and drank the mead. Now, mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon. True or false? Church Magic Hocus pocus is a phrase used to describe something that is rather fishy, something that is a trick or an attempt at magic. Like the word abracadabra it is used by magicians as a stage patter, a catchphrase pretending to be a spell, a piece of nonsense. But its origins are far more serious than the magician’s spell. The words of Jesus at the Last Supper, “This is my body”, were said in Latin by Catholic priests at Mass at the time of the Reformation. Opponents of Catholicism ridiculed the words and actions of the priest, which they saw as some sort of magic, and they came up with the phrase “hocus pocus”, a parody of the Latin words “Hoc est (enim) corpus”. And so hocus pocus became a term of derision as well as an accusation of jiggery-pokery. True or false? On the Cards Whenever you play cards you are shuffling one of the characters from the bible. This is because the four kings in a pack of cards are actually fashioned after four real kings. The king of diamonds is none other than Julius Caesar; the king of hearts is the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne; the king of clubs is the famous warrior king Alexander the Great; and the one from the bible is the king of spades, David who was king of the Jews. True or false?

Collection for Flowers for the Altar

Next Weekend

Poor Parishes Fund

This weekend there is a Retiring collection in every parish of the diocese towards the Diocesan Poor Parishes Fund. As you know, to reduce the number of collections at the door, we don’t take a special col-lection here at St.David’s but we make the contribution (£668 this year, through the Diocesan Levies) from our Offertory Col-lection. So if you are happy to make a contribution to this fund, please make it through the offertory collection today .