Responsorial Psalm:

Lord, make me know your ways.

Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia, Alleluia!

The Kingdom of God is close at hand;

believe the good news.

Money Matters Offertory Collection last weekend:

£530.00 of which £317.00 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

Mary Rowe, Rose Bryan, Mary Hughes, Jenny Mansley, Jennifer Row-ley, Nancy Wilson, Joe Goggin, Joe & Luisa De-sena, Peggy Edwards, Sheelagh Fulham, Mar-

garet Stubbs, Philomena Lamano, Maureen Edwards, Frances and Leo McManus, and for those who care for them.

We remember in our prayers Those whose anniversaries

occur this week (24h Jan) Walter Doyle, Elizabeth Cooper, James Oswald Wilson, Luigi Vena, (25th Jan) Joan Kenny (26th Jan) James Wilson, James Jones, Ernest Williams, Teresa Cain (27th Jan) Patrick Daly, Elizabeth Hughes, Doreen Clegg (28th Jan) Mary Dorset, Winefride Kyte, Helen Taylor(29h Jan) Franciscus Bellis (30th Jan) Ann Walsh, Elizabeth Molynenx, Agnes Williams, Frederick Garwood.

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

Website: http://www.stdavidsmold.org.uk/

24th January Saturday

Mass 5.30pm For People of the Parish

25th January Sunday

Mass 10am Int. Mary Rowe

(Mrs. Judith Rowe)

Monday : Ss.Timothy&Titus, Bishops

26th Jan Mass 9.15am Ron Hughes RIP (Angela&Margaret Carr)

Tuesday: Liturgy of the day

27th Jan Mass 9.15am

Int.Noel O’Callaghan

Wednesday: Mem. St.Thomas Aquinas DOC

28th Jan Mass 9.15am

Int.Mona Breen (Bea Towey)

Thursday Liturgy of the day

29th Jan Mass 9.15am

Tony,Erica&Patrick WalshRIP (Maureen & Rolland Allman)

Friday Liturgy of the day

30th Jan Mass 9.15am

John Faulkner RIP (J&V Brown)

LITURGY OF THE WEEK: Psalter Week III

Eucharistic Adoration with

Rosary and Benediction

Every Sunday At 4pm.

Everyone is Welcome

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

25th January 2015 3rd Sunday Ordinary Time YearB

1st February Sunday

Mass 10am For People of the Parish

31st January Saturday

Mass 5.30pm

Int.Fr.Bill OSM, Ruby Ordi-nation (Dea &Eddie Saul)

T he very first words of Jesus recorded

by St Mark are “The time has come and the kingdom of God is close at hand. Repent and believe the Good News.”

Jesus’ whole life would turn out to be an invitation to enter G o d ’ s k i n g d o m through repentance. And the Good News was precisely that: we have a God who does not want to lose us but wants us to be happy with him now and forever.

O ur first problem is usually in believ-

ing that God really means what he says. We live in a society that encourages litigation. We are urged on to get our rightful due, to press for what we are enti-tled to and to live in a com-pensation world. Yet God laughs in the face of this. Who could claim the all-time record payout when it comes to compensation?

God, of course! Yet God’s time is not spent getting his own back but looking of ways to forgive.

But God’s forgiveness is not automatic; it demands repentance. Repentance originally meant regret. But

it’s not enough to regret our sins; we need also to take action to ensure that they don’t happen again.

In the Old Testament, re-pentance included a physi-cal action. The Hebrew word “shuv” means to turn. Repentance for the Jewish people was like doing a U-turn and deciding to go in a different direction. In the New Testament, the Greek word used is “metanoia”

which means having a change of mind and decid-ing that we have to start looking with a fresh outlook on the way we behave. Lat-er the Romans would use the Latin word “conversio” from which we get our word conversion. But conversion

wasn’t just a religious word. It meant to turn around, to transform and to return.

W h a t e v e r way we choose to

think about repentance, it is at the heart of the Christian gospel and it forms the basis of Christ’s preaching. Re-

pentance means changing our mind about the way we behave and turning our lives around. If, like the people of Nineveh in the days of Jonah, we want to experience God’s for-giveness then we need to repent. For repentance is the hallmark of being a Christian. It’s something that never ends. We need to show it now. And tomor-row. And the next day.

REPENTANCE FAITH IN FOCUS:

BBC Broadcasts: BBC Wales will be recording two Celebration programmes here on this Tuesday.

4pm: Recording ‘Speech’. 6.30pm : Music

Prayers of the Faithful

We all pray to God -so why not share the prayers with the parish? It's easier than you fear! What are we praying for -and what are we asking for? The parish would like you to volunteer to write the prayers for a month (or even share a month) so that they ARE the prayers of the Parish. There are notes to help you, on the noticeboard where you can put your name. Please sign up to share in the liturgy and life of the parish. New names will be very welcome!! Fr Pius, or Carole/Mark Philpot will willingly help!

A note to Readers -

"In our Bidding Prayers on the first weekend of the month, we shall offer the private petitions placed in the basket. The prayer is attached to the lectern. For both Masses on that weekend, please place the basket on the lectern shelf, and add the prayer with the moment of silence, hold-ing the basket for the con-gregation to see."

Holocaust Memorial Day

This falls on Tuesday of this week (27th January). By re-membering and praying about this, we are helping to ensure that such a horror will never happen again in the future.

Our new Directory & Year Book 2015: Available

from the porch @ £2.60

WANTED Old sewing machines (electrical or hand) for the Beehive Tailoring School in Malawi. For more de-tails please see the notice at the back of church. Many thanks, Mena Kerslake

On Sunday 8th February the SVP is hosting an Afternoon Tea Party in the hall from 3 till

5 pm on behalf of 'Contact The Elderly' (a charity which organises monthly afternoon teas for people aged 75 and over). If anyone wishes to go to this event SVP will provide transport. Please ring Sue Cocker on 01352 759072 for more details. Brian Cullen

Looking Ahead

3rd Feb: Parents Meet-ing at 6pm, School Hall (First Holy Communion)

7th Feb: Mass for the Sick, Cathedral, 12 noon.

14th Feb: Mass for Mar-riage, Cathedral, 12 noon. (Any significant wedding anniversary? Please let

me or the diocesan office know)

18th Feb: Ash Wednesday

5th April: Easter

27th May-1st June: Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes. £10 discount if you book online). Www.joewalshtours.co.uk

White Flower Appeal 2015

Support the Glasgow Midwives Defend Unborn Children.

(Materials and Envelopes in the Porch)

A portion of today’s offertory collec-tion will be sent to support SPUC. So if you would like to support SPUC, please add your donation to the Offertory collection.

‘Genetic Modification of Babies’

You may have heard of the Govern-ment ‘s plan to ‘legalise the produc-tion of human beings’. There is a petition to our parliament against this assault on the sanctity and dignity of human life and the manipulation and trivialisation of human life.

Please sign the petition in the porch which will be handed over to David Hanson, our local MP.