Parish newsletter · 7 January 2024

This is a historical edition. Dates, notices, service times and contact details are reproduced as published at the time. Please consult the latest newsletter for current information.

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A D 2 024: The Corby Catholic Parishes of Our Lady of Walsingham and St John Ogilvie

7th January Diocese of Northampton Registered charity No. 234091 / Pastoral Area of St Luke, North Northants

Parish Priest: Fr Christopher Perry, Episcopal Vicar
Assistant Priest: Fr Prasad Kasireddy
Priest in Residence: Fr Wayne Coughlin

Parish Secretary: Mrs Maggie Cleary

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Parish Office: 01536 203121

Email: parish.ourladyofwalsingham@northamptondiocese.org

Website: www.ourladyofwalsinghamcorby.org

Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday:
9:00am to 12:30pm Not Bank Holidays

Parish Safeguarding Representatives:
Our Lady of Walsingham: Caroline - 07947485935
St John Ogilvie: Kirsty - 07956363869

Diocese of Northampton Safeguarding Office:
Danielle Dixon 01604 723514

The Birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem:

NEW: “…She gave birth to her first-born son and wrapped him
in swaddling cloths, and laid him in a manger, because there
was no room for them in the inn” (Luke 2:6ff). Let us begin our
exegesis with the concluding words of this passage: there was
no room for them in the inn. Prayerful reflection over these
words has highlighted an inner parallel between this saying and
the profoundly moving verse from Saint John’s Prologue: “He
came to his own home, and his own people received him not”
(1:11). For the Saviour of the world, for him in whom all things
were created (cf, Colossians 1:16), there was no room. “Foxes
have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man
has nowhere to lay his head” (Matthew 8:20). … “Mary
wrapped the child in swaddling cloths.” Without yielding to
sentimentality, we may imagine with what great love Mary
approached her hour and prepared for the birth of her child.

Pope Benedict XVI

January is dedicated to the Most Holy Name of Jesus

Liturgies this Week

Saturday 6th January

Don’t miss the opportunity to participate in

this powerful and rarely celebrated liturgy:

4:45pm (OLW) Blessing of the Epiphany Water and Chalk

SUNDAY: THE EPIPHANY 7th January
Parish Mass Book: Page 115 or 118 for OLW / Page 48 for SJO
5:30pm (OLW) VIGIL MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Lilly Connachie, RIP
Intention - Priest 2: Nora Harrington, RIP (Anniv.)
8:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Margaret Diddams (Intention)
Intention - Priest 2: Gilbert Sullivan (Intention)
10:00am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Jim Platt, RIP (Anniv.)
Intention - Priest 2: Maureen Kitson, RIP
5:00pm (SJO) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Shirley Loughlin, RIP (1st Anniv.)
Intention - Priest 2: Eilish and John Mulvenna (Intention)

8th January

Monday: The Final Day of Christmastide

Feast of the Baptism of the Lord

9:15am (OLW) Renewal of our Baptismal Promises
Parish Mass Book: Page 63 & 248
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Parish Mass Book: Pages 119
Intention - Priest 1: Poinsettia Sponsorship - our departed loved ones
Intention - Priest 2: Jim Treacy, RIP (3rd Anniv.)
11:00am (OLW) MASS for OLW Catholic School
Intention: All pupils, teachers and staff of OLW Primary School

Tuesday Feria: The First Week of Ordinary Time 9th January
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Helene Fairburn, RIP
Intention - Priest 2: Charles Finch, RIP
11:00am (OLW) Funeral of Paul Anthony O’Neill, RIP

Wednesday Memoria: The Most Holy Name of Jesus 10th January
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention: James and Margaret McCahill, RIP (Anniv.)

Thursday Feria: The First Week of Ordinary Time 11th January
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Frances McDevitt, RIP (1st Anniv.)
Intention - Priest 2: Pro Populo - Transferred from the Epiphany

Friday Memoria: St Aelred of Rievaulx 12th January
9:30am (SJO) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Mary and Rod (Intentions)
Intention - Priest 2: John Callaghan (Intention)
10:00am (SJO) Sacrament of Confession (Reconciliation)

Saturday Votive: Our Lady of Walsingham 13th January
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention: Josephine, John and Laurence McCahill, RIP
10:00am (OLW) Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
10:00am (OLW) Sacrament of Confession (Reconciliation)

SUNDAY: SECOND WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 14th January
Parish Mass Book: Page 127 for OLW / Page 55 for SJO
5:30pm (OLW) VIGIL MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Sadie Bayley, RIP
Intention - Priest 2: Margaret and James McCahill, RIP
8:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Jim Reilly, RIP
Intention - Priest 2: John Hannon (Intention)
10:00am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Catherine Duncan, RIP (Anniv.)
Intention - Priest 2: Frank Maguire, RIP (Anniv.)
5:00pm (SJO) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Bill Price, RIP (2nd Anniv.)
Intention - Priest 2: Phil Downey (Intention)

OLW: Our Lady of Walsingham Church
SJO: St John Ogilvie Church

The Epiphany Pro Populo Mass to be celebrated on 11/01/24.
O rdinary Two Pro Populo Mass to be celebrated on 15/01/24.

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Requiescant in Pace

Please pray for the repose of the soul of:

Paul Anthony O’Neill whose Funeral is at OLW Church, on
Tuesday, 9th January AD 2024 at 11:00am.

Mary Mack whose Funeral is at OLW Church, on Thursday, 18th
January at 10:00am. The Reception of the Body into Church
will take place on Wednesday, 17th January at 4:30pm.

May Christ, who called you, take you to Himself;
may angels lead you to Abraham’s side.
Receive their souls and present them to God the Most High.

When England goes back to Walsingham, Our Lady
will come back to England”. Pope Leo XIII, 1897

Thank you

to all who participated in the solemn Blessing
of Epiphany Water! Epiphany Water is the most potent form
of Holy Water and is sought after by exorcists. Epiphany Water
can only be blessed at the Vigil of the Epiphany and with the
permission of the diocesan Bishop. The Epiphany Water (and a
special card) can be found at the Crib Scene in OLW Church.

Thank you to all who joined us for Holy Mass and the other
liturgies on the great “Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of
God” and thus prayed for our parishes in this New Year 2024.

Thank you

to everyone who donated a poinsettia to either
Church in memory of a departed loved one; Mass will be offered
for these departed souls on Monday, 8th January (see calendar).

To support those in the Holy Land who are most in need any

financial offering made at the Christmas Cribs will be given to:

→ The Renewal of our Baptismal Promises will take
place on Monday, 8th January (i.e. the final day of Christmastide)
at 9:15am in OLW as we celebrate Jesus’ Baptism. Do join us!

Perhaps those who took the free photographs of the statue
of Our Lady of Walsingham and of the Wilton Diptych on New
Years Day might use these as an aid to prayer for our parishes?

Next weekend - SPUC: “The Society for the Protection of
Unborn Children” will be holding its White Flower Appeal.
This year’s appeal calls for the Government to close its pills-by-
post abortion policy; as well as ending the lives of precious
babies this lacks safeguards against illegal late term abortions
and puts mothers at great physical and psychological risk.

Our Lady of Walsingham and St John Ogilvie: Pray for us
this Christmastide and in this New Year of Our Lord 2024!

With our prayers as we celebrate the Nativity of Jesus Christ,

Fr Christopher, Fr Prasad & Fr Wayne

The lamp in the Chapel of Our Lady of Walsingham Church burns in thanksgiving for the work of the:

Union of Catholic Mothers - UCM

Some members of our local Indian community after Mass
on Christmas Day; Mass was offered by Fr Prasad in Telugu.

Blessed chalk

will be available after each Epiphany Mass
so that we might mark the year (20 24), the initials of the Magi
(C M B), whose names are Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar, plus
the Lord’s Cross (+) on our home as a blessing. This gentle act
of witness to Jesus Christ often draws questions from visitors
to our home. The initials of the Magi also represent the Latin:
“Christus mansionem benedicat” = “Christ bless this house”.

Prayers for the Epiphany House Blessing:

The leader makes the Sign of the Cross ✠ and all reply: Amen.

The leader greets those present in the following words:
Let us praise God, who fills our hearts and homes with peace.
Blessed be God forever. Blessed be God forever.

The Word became flesh and made His dwelling place among
us. It is Christ who enlightens our hearts and homes with His
love. May all who enter this home find Christ’s light and love.
Blessed be God forever. Blessed be God forever.

Reader:
When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of
King Herod, behold, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem,
saying, “Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw his
star at its rising and have come to do him homage.” After
their audience with the king they set out. And behold, the
star that they had seen at its rising preceded them, until it
came and stopped over the place where the child was. They
were overjoyed at seeing the star, and on entering the house
they saw the child with Mary his mother. They prostrated
themselves and did him homage. Then they opened their
treasures and offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and
myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to return to
Herod, they departed for their country by another way.
The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

The leader uses blessed chalk to inscribe above the front door:

20 + C + M + B + 24

As the leader inscribes the above text this can be said: “Christus
Mansionem Benedicat” / “May Christ bless this house”. After
which Holy or Epiphany Water can be sprinkled on the door.

The leader concludes this short liturgy by making the Sign of
the Cross upon themself (and others do the same) and saying:
May Christ Jesus ✠ dwell with us, keep us from all harm, and
make us one in mind and heart, now and forever. Amen.

The observance of the Epiphany and the Baptism of the Lord
remind us of our own Holy Baptism; thus, it is suggested by the
Diocese that we have a stoup at the main door of our home so
that we might sign ourselves with Holy Water as we enter and
leave. The Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy, # 118.