ST THOMAS MORE PARISH This parish is part of the Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham Registered Charity No. 234216

112 Knoll Drive, Stivichall, Coventry CV3 5DE 024 7641 1900 E-MAIL: stmcov@gmail.com

WEB: www.stmcov.org and on TWITTER: @StThosMore A Parish of the Coventry Catholic Deanery

WEB: www.coventry-catholicdeanery.org.uk LIVESTREAM WEBCAM www.mcnmedia.tv/camera/st-thomas-morecoventry/

MASS TIMES & INTENTIONS

SUNDAY 17th 24th Sunday

Sung Mass Reception of Anthony Dodd Mass

9.00am 5.30pm 6.00pm

Elaine Valente (RIP) Tony Armstrong (RIP)

Monday 18th Feria

Funeral Mass Holy Hour of Exposition

12 noon 7.00pm

Anthony Dodd RIP

Tuesday 19th Feria

Mass 7.00pm Mrs Margaret Murphy (Mem Mass)

Wednesday 20th St Andrew Kim Tae-gon

Mass 9.15am Elizabeth Wang (RIP)

Thursday 21st

St Matthew Eucharistic Service 9.00am ~

Friday 22nd Feria

Mass 9.00am Mary Coyne (RIP)

Saturday 23rd St Pio of Pietrelcina

Mass & Anointing of the Sick Confession

11.00am 9.40-10.20

The Sick of the Parish

SUNDAY 24th 25th Sunday

Sung Mass Confession Mass

9.00am 5.30pm 6.00pm

Sr Joan Elizabeth DHS (Anne Marie Davies)

Tony & Sheila Colby (Anniv)

17th September 2017 Mass p7, readings p128 of the Parish Mass Book. There is a loop hearing system in church.

PARISH CONTACTS PARISH PRIEST: Rev Fr Stephen Day Tel: 024 7641 1900 stmcov@gmail.com PARISH DEACONS: Rev Mr Pat Jeary Tel: 024 7641 2564 Rev Mr Leo Poole Tel: 024 7641 9731 PRIMARY SCHOOL HEAD: Mr Morgan Williams Tel: 024 7684 9910 www.st-thomasmore.coventry.sch.uk SAFEGUARDING REPS: Claire Rutter Tel: 024 7641 2535 Alison Cullinane Tel: 024 7644 1436 GIFT AID CO-ORDINATOR: Tony Curristan Tel: 024 7641 1280 PARISH ADMINISTRATOR & Amanda Kelly Tel: 024 7641 4473 ROOM BOOKINGS: email: amandafriswells@btconnect.com

September: Month of the Holy Cross… Faithful Cross above all others, one and only noble tree,

Sweetest wood and sweetest iron, sweetest Weight is hung on thee...

This Weekend

• 24th Sunday of the Year TODAY We welcome Clare Scully, from the Sion Mission Community visiting the parish to speak at the Sunday Masses. This is the very first stage of preparation for the Mis-sion. Please pray for its success.

• Children’s Liturgy

• TODAY Annual Inter-cultural Mass at St John Fisher 2.30pm

• Blessing of Graves at Canley Cemetery, 3.00pm

• Refreshments available after both Sun-day Masses. You are invited after 9am or 6pm Mass for tea, coffee and conversation.

This Week

• Tuesday: Tuesday Society— Millionaire Quiz. All wel-come 2.00 p.m.—4.00 p.m. in the MRR.

• Wednesday: Adoration Prayer Group 1.30pm in the chapel. Refreshments follow. Stepping Stones Parent & Toddler Group—2.00pm in the school Community Room

• Thursday: Extend Gentle Exercise—starts 5th Oct

• Friday 1.30pm Bp Ullathorne School Mass Yrs 7 & 6

• Saturday: Mass for the Sick with Anointing 11am. Everyone is welcome to come and pray for the sick and housebound and all who are suffering from a mental or physical problem may receive the sacrament of anointing. Lunch follows. Please book your place to as-sist with cratering and organising lifts, via the clergy or Eucharistic ministers.

Next Weekend

• 25th Sunday of the Year 9am Mass will include a marking of the new school year with participation from the school.

Coming Soon

• Blessing of Graves 2017 The local cemeteries will be blessed as we pray for departed friends and families on these dates this year - Canley 17th Sept 3.00 p.m. Lenton’s Lane 24th Sept 3.00 p.m. London Road 1st Oct 3.00 p.m.

• Parish Finance Committee Wednesday 27th September 7.00pm in MRR

• Sat 30th Sept ARYPT Mass on the Mount. For details contact Rob Ridley at rob@robertridley.co.uk. and raise money for underprivileged children. Please sign up on the lists at the back of church if you have not already contacted Rob.

• Tue 17th Oct Catechists’ Meeting All Souls

Readers Rota This week... 9.00 a.m. Clive Robinson & Noreen Thornhill 6.00 p.m. Caitlin McBride & Janet Ward Next Week... 9.00 a.m Readers from School 6.00 p.m. Hannah McBride & John Burns

FINANCE…Thank you for all that you give in time, money or effort. First Collection last week: £935.15 Parish Development Fund: £704.62 SECOND COLLECTION: This week: Catholic Evangelisation NEXT SUNDAY: Father Hudson’s Society In 2015 it cost £1,510 a week to run the parish. (In 2014 £1,966)

CONFIRMATION 2018 Bishop Kenney is coming on Feb 9th to cele-brate the sacrament of confirmation. Catholic children in the parish school who wish to be confirmed will be prepared through the school. School parents’ meeting on 22nd Sept 7pm. Catholic children not attending a Catholic school will be prepared in the parish as usual. There will be a meeting for their parents on 11th Oct 7pm in MRR. For children in year 6.

PREPARING FOR THE MISSION

PARISH CENSUS FORMS If you are a member of the parish or a regular wor-shipper here please help us update the parish cen-sus by completing a census card and putting it in the boxes at the back of church. Visiting will be a big part of the Mission and beyond that it is important that we have accurate records. All information is kept secure and is not passed

on outside the parish.

PARISH JUBILEE YEAR CALENDAR Available THIS WEEK celebratory calen-dar marking 2018, detailing events and the liturgical year will be available for sale. A practical way to be informed and support the parish as we celebrate 2018.

FIRST COMMUNION 2018 Children in Catholic schools will receive their catechesis there. For Catholic children in yr3 who are not in Catholic schools, preparation will of course take place at sessions in church with an introductory meeting Sun 8th Oct. MRR First Communion Masses are Sat 28th April

Sunday’s Readings…

T oday’s readings con-

centrate on loving for-

giveness. Both the Old Tes-

tament reading and the Gos-

pel speak of both our need for God’s mercy

and the need to be merciful to others. How

can we hope in a forgiving God if we show

no forgiveness ourselves? Jesus parable is a

powerful statement of this, and a graphic

reminder of our need to pray “forgive us

our trespasses as we forgive those who tres-

pass against us”. As Jesus says, “Blessed are

the merciful for they shall obtain mercy”.

Mercy is God’s greatest

gift; and we must not

refuse it simply for our-

selves just because we

can’t be forgiving to

others. “Father, forgive

them...”

2018

JUBILEE EVENTS ARRANGED

SO FAR - there will be others too!

• Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God,

Monday 1st January 11am

• Parish Mission: 17th Feb-4th Mar 2018. This is a big event and will need us to

provide much support to the Mission

Team. Please God He will bless our par-

ish through this time of prayer and work,

that people might return to the faith or

come to it anew and that we might all

be encouraged and affirmed in disciple-

ship. Pray for its success!

• St Thomas More’s Day Mass & Flower

Festival: Friday 22nd June 2018.

• Thanksgiving Mass with the Arch-

bishop: Friday July 20th 2018.

• Pilgrimage to Rome: Week begin-

ning 15th October 2018 Final details still

to be arranged, note the date now. De-

tails will follow.

• Parish Jubilee Dinner: evening of Fri-

day 9th November at the Village Ho-

tel.

RADIANT STITCH - Exhibition and sale of textile art by Debbie Colby, 16th-23rd Sept at SewArty, War-wick House, Station Rd, Kenilworth, CV8 1JF. (Opposite Waitrose car park) Open Mon-Sat 9.30-5.

NEW CHAPLAIN AT BISHOP ULLATHORNE The Archbishop has appointed Fr Stephen the new school chaplain in succession to Fr Andrew Franklyn who is moving to Whitnash. Fr Stephen will be in school on Tuesday mornings, so evening Mass here.

LIFT NEEDED TO 6PM MASS Can anyone help by bringing a parishioner from

Quinton Park to 6pm Mass? See Fr Stephen

Macmillan Fundraising Day Friday 29th September

at 192 Kenpas Highway 10a.m. onwards. All welcome.

DEANERY CATECHISTS’ MEETING Tues 17 October 7pm All Souls

This meeting will focus on Baptism Prepa-ration. Deanery Catechists decided to meet regularly following the ‘Sowing the Seeds’ course.

TWITTER @StThosMore

INTERESTED IN BECOMING A CATHOLIC? OR JUST WANT TO

KNOW MORE? Classes will begin in the autumn. See Fr Stephen. No obligation—come and see!

MARY’S DOWRY England is to be formally dedicated once again to its traditional title of ‘Mary's Dowry’ as part of devo-tion to Our Lady of Walsingham.

St Joseph the Worker Parish Mission In two weeks, St Joseph’s will be having a week’s mission led by the Sion Community, as ours will be. Please pray for it that it may be a source of blessings for St Joseph's.

ARRANGING A WEDDING

Congratulations on your engage-ment! Please speak to one of the clergy in the first place to make ar-rangements for your wedding. You will need a meeting with the Parish Priest to go through all that needs to be done. About six months’ notice at least is desirable: but it’s never too soon.

ARRANGING A BAPTISM

(CHRISTENING) for BABIES & YOUNG CHILDREN

Congratulations on the birth of your child! Baptism is arranged by ap-pointment. It usually happens at 12.15 p.m. on a Sunday or at either Sunday Mass. Parents should collect a form after Sunday Mass. For the baptism of children over four and of adults see the parish priest.

MAKING YOUR CONFESSION

Confession, the sacrament of recon-ciliation, is available on Saturday mornings 9.40 a.m.-10.20 a.m., on Sundays before 6 p.m. Mass and by arrangement with the parish priest. Our God is a God of mercy!

ADORING THE LORD EXPOSITION

There are regular opportunities each week to pray before the Blessed Sac-rament exposed on the altar. Satur-days from 9.30 a.m. (following Mass) and Mondays 7.00 p.m.

If you need to ask anything that can wait until Sunday—we guaran-

tee you can catch the clergy in church then! Otherwise contact de-tails are on the front of this sheet

For Your Prayers... SICK & SUFFERING: Anne Kenny, Patricia Hugenin, John Magee, Cynthia Walton, Ivor Sanders, Steve Foster, John Walker, Hildegard Atherton, Tom Ashley, Jim Slattery, Betty Carr, Norman Rowe, Roy Haslam, Caroline Fitzpatrick “Fitz”, Suzanne Martin, Diane Tay-lor, Liam Mee, Rev Gerry O’Reilly, Peter Brookes, John & Helen McDonnell, Margaret Young, James Young, Teresa Mellon, Cecil & Margaret Dowson, Madge Vowles, Carl Smith, Peter David, Mary Morris, Vera Lee, Ron Ham-ilton, Beatrice Upham, Diane Sharpe, Bill Brennan, Christopher, Ben Green, Felix Rooney, John & Jeanne Gould, Charlie Addi-son, Joanne Bazen, Sadie Fulton, Jerry Casey, Maisie Taylor, William Begley, Imogen Jones, Tommy Carberry, Thomas Ryan, Julie Burke, John Nugent, Natalie Molloy, Bill Molloy, Sean Craig, Marie Lynch, Ken Stone, Caroline Cun-ningham, Sylvester & Kitty Budkiewjez, David Warr, Pam Brown, Bill McGiven, Heidi O’Neil, Mary Walsh, Lily Bailey, Mike Campbell. Our Lady of Lourdes, health of the sick: Pray for us! IMPORTANT: The list of the sick will be renewed in a week or so. Please give names to be included to one of

the clergy (by email if possible). RECENTLY DEPARTED: Deacon David McCarroll, Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, Anthony Dodd, Josephine Cotrell, Roman Matuszak ANNIVERSARIES: Joseph Killeen, Anne Kennedy, Anne Kelly, Tainja Skendrovic, Lech Rakowski, Maria Cairns, Mary Donnelly, Jo-seph Murtagh, Hilda Matthews, Margaret Mur-phy, John Brennan, William Errington, Thom-as Scrimshire, Mary Graham, Catherine Ford, Samuel Devlin, Frances Pearce, Marjorie Kelly, John Harrison, Lauren Cook-Robinson, Wilfred Cole, Joan Keenan, George Broughton, Ruth Waters Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon them

• All who work for peace, for peace in our hearts, homes and world

• That mercy may be as much offered as asked for

• The victims of the Mexican earth-quake, the south east Asian floods and the hurricanes in the Caribbean

• The Parish Mission next Lent