Parish newsletter · 17 March 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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20 The Corby Catholic Parishes of

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C + M + B

Our Lady of Walsingham + and St John Ogilvie

24
Diocese of Northampton
2024: 17th Registered charity No. 234091
March Pastoral Area of St Lu ke, 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

Parish Office: 01536 203121
71 Occupation Road, NN17 1EE
Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Not Bank Holidays and Friday - 9:00am to 12:30pm

Email: parish.ourladyofwalsingham@northamptondiocese.org
Website: www.ourladyofwalsinghamcorby.org

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

Please ring if you have any concerns

Diocese of Northampton Safeguarding Office:
Danielle Dixon 01604 723514

March is dedicated to St Joseph

Stations of the Cross on Good Friday: See overleaf for details.

On Friday, 22nd March there will be extra liturgies in SJO: →
6:30pm to 7:30pm Sacrament of Confession (with two Priests)
7:00pm to 7:30pm Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

The Parish Lent Course is each Friday of Lent at 6:00pm in:
St John Ogilvie Church: 22nd March
Our Lady of Walsingham Church: 29th March (Good Friday)

The Stations of the Cross are prayed on Wednesday in
OLW Church and Friday in SJO Ch urch following the 9:30am
Mass and additionally on Friday, 22nd March at 6:30pm in SJO.

Join our Priests for Morning Prayer at 9:00am in OLW on:
18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 23rd, 25th, 26th & 27th March.

The green sanctuary lamp at the statue of St Joseph in the Church of Our Lady of Walsingham burns in prayer for:

Annie and Jimmy Graham, Intention

The blue sanctuary lamp in the Chapel of Our Lady of Walsingham Church burns in prayer for:

Kate Skinner, Intention

Liturgies this Week

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

SUNDAY: THE FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT 17th March
Parish Mass Book: Page 173 for OLW / Page 79 for SJO
5:30pm (OLW) VIGIL MASS
Intention: Margaret and James McCahill, RIP
8:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Tony Godfrey, RIP (Anniv) & Pat Atkins, RIP (Anniv)
Intention - Priest 2: Pro Populo
10:00am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Neil Gallagher, RIP (Anniv.)
Intention - Priest 2: Patrick and Eileen McKeown, RIP (Anniv.)
5:00pm (SJO) MASS
Intention:

Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent 18th March
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Eamonn Carr, RIP
Intention - Priest 2: Private Intention

Tuesday: Solemnity of St Joseph 19th March
9:30am (OLW) MASS and Green Scapular Investiture
Intention - Priest 1: Caroline Richards (Intention)
Intention - Priest 2: Bishop David Oakley: Ordination Anniversary
11:00am MASS at Seagrave House

Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent 20th March
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Joe and Kathleen Owens, RIP
Intention - Priest 2: Private Intention
10:00am (OLW) Stations (Way) of the Cross

Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent 21st March
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Laurence and Josephine McCahill, RIP (Anniv.)
Intention - Priest 2: Private Intention

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Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent 22nd March
9:10am (SJO) Holy Rosary
9:30am (SJO) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Available to sponsor
Intention - Priest 2: Private Intention
10:00am (SJO) Sacrament of Confession (Reconciliation)
10:00am (SJO) Stations (Way) of the Cross
6:00pm (SJO) Angelus and Parish Lent Course
6:30pm (SJO) Stations (Way) of the Cross
6:30pm (SJO) Sacrament of Confession (until 7:30pm)
7:00pm (SJO) Eucharistic Exposition (until 7:30pm)

Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent 23rd March
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Fiona Cusack, RIP
Intention - Priest 2: Private Intention
10:00am (OLW) Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Rosary
10:00am (OLW) Sacrament of Confession (Reconciliation)

PALM SUNDAY 24th March
Parish Mass Book: Page 180 for OLW / Page 81 for SJO
5:30pm (OLW) VIGIL MASS
Intention: Esta King, RIP
8:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Jim and Mary Griffen, RIP
Intention - Priest 2: Pro Populo
10:00am (OLW) MASS
Intention: Eugene (“Jean”) Larkin, RIP (Anniv.)
5:00pm (SJO) MASS
Intention:

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Requiescant in Pace

Please pray for the repose of the soul of:

Tom Fullerton, RIP. Funeral details to follow.

Thank you to all who have thus far sponsored the: Sacred
Heart, OLW, Our Lady of Grace and St Joseph sanctuary lamps.

Life in the Spirit Seminars: OLW Church & Northampton
Cathedral at 6:30pm on April: 16th, 23rd and 30th plus May: 7th and
21st. The retreat is on 18th May at 2pm in the Cathedral. Details:
https://northamptondiocese.org/life-in-the-spirit-seminars-2024/

Some forthcoming Special Collections:
Aid to the Church in Need: Holy Thursday, 28th March
Holy Places of Palestine: Good Friday, 29th March
Easter Offering for the Clergy: Easter, 30th and 31st March

Bishop David will preside at our Lent Station Mass in St Brendan’s
Church on Thursday, 21st March at 7:00pm and all are welcome.

It is not possible to use the OLW School Playground as a car
park for Mass as it is being used for a temporary swimming pool.

If you would like to sponsor the following sanctuary lamps,
for a donation of £5.00, please contact the Parish Office ASAP:
• June: a white lamp at the statue of the Sacred Heart in OLW.
• July: a red lamp at the exposed Relic of the Holy Cross as we
celebrate the month of the Precious Blood of Jesus.

St Joseph is associated with the
colour green as this symbolises his
faithfulness to God’s will for him.

The Litany of St Joseph will
be offered after the 8:30am Mass
on Sunday, after Mass on Monday
and at the start of Mass on Tuesday.
✝ Thank you to everyone who has
participated in this litany to date.

← Photographs of this stained-glass
window will be available for free in
OLW on St Joseph’s Day: 19th March.

Updated: Our green scapular investitures will
take place at the 9:30am Mass on St Joseph’s
Day: 19th March; please contact the Parish Office
before 12:30pm on Monday if you want to be
enrolled. Scapular cost in OLW Repository: 75p.

St Joseph - A Papal Saint: If we look closely at the Holy
Father’s coat of arms, we see that St Joseph is represented by the
“spikenard” flower; from which is derived both a
fragrant oil (which links us to Jesus’ burial) and
incense (a reminder of Christ’s divinity).
St Joseph, chaste and just: Pray for us.
St Joseph, prudent and brave: Pray for us.
St Joseph, obedient and loyal: Pray for us.
St Joseph, pillar of family life: Pray for us.
St Joseph, hope of the sick: Pray for us.
St Joseph, patron of the dying: Pray for us.
St Joseph, patron of the Church: Pray for us.
St Joseph, Husband of the Mother of God: Pray for us.
St Joseph, Guardian of the Virgin: Pray for us.

Had today not been a Sunday in Lent we
would be celebrating (the Feast of):

SAINT PATRICK’S DAY

We especially assure our Irish and Nigerian
parishioners and all with such ancestry of our
prayers on this day. We also pray today for
the parish of St Patrick, Corby. Born in AD
385, most likely in Wales, and given the
name Maewyn Succat, he changed his name
to Pātricius (Patrick) on his Ordination as a
Priest. Maewyn was captured by Irish pirates
at the age of sixteen and was sold as a slave.
At the age of twenty-two Maewyn escaped
his bondage and returned to Britain; he subsequently returned to
Ireland with the permission of Pope Celestine and there built on
the missionary work of Palladius. The oldest depictions of Patrick
show him clothed in blue vestments. St Patrick: Pray for us.

Mass will be offered at Seagrave House at 11:00am on
Tuesday, 19th March; all are welcome to participate in this.

Blessing of Easter Baskets - Święconka

This will take place at 12:00noon on Holy Saturday (30th March) in
OLW Church and all are very welcome to participate in this. The
various traditional items in the baskets have a symbolic meaning:
• Bread: recalls Christ’s institution of the Mass.
• Lamb: represents Jesus’ sacrifice as the Lamb of God.
• Salt: symbolises our need to be “the salt of the earth”.
• Horseradish: symbolic of Jesus’ bitter Passion and Death.
• Wine: represents the Blood of Christ shed at Calvary.
• Decorated hardboiled eggs: symbolise Jesus’ resurrection.
• Ham: symbolic of the abundance of grace in Eastertide.
• Candle: represents Christ as the “Light of the World”.
The basket is covered in a cloth to symbolise the shroud in which
Christ was wrapped after His death and in which He was buried.

SACRED TRIDUUM LITURGIES in Our Lady of Walsingham Church
Maundy Thursday: 28th March
7:30pm HOLY MASS of the Lord’s Supper
Good Friday: 29th March
3:00pm Celebration of the Lord’s Passion
6:00pm Parish Lent Course: Lent as a pilgrimage
6:30pm Stations (Way) of the Cross
Holy Saturday: 30th March
10:00am Sacrament of Confession (Reconciliation)
12:00noon Blessing of Easter Baskets - Święconka
7:30pm The Easter Vigil
Easter Sunday: 31st March
8:30am & 10:00am HOLY MASS

The Altar Servers rehearsal for the above celebrations
will take place an hour before the start of the Mass/liturgy.

SACRED TRIDUUM LITURGIES in St John Ogilvie Church
Maundy Thursday: 28th March
7:00pm HOLY MASS of the Lord’s Supper
Good Friday: 29th March
3:00pm Celebration of the Lord’s Passion
7:00pm Stations (Way) of the Cross
Holy Saturday: 30th March
7:00pm The Easter Vigil
Easter Sunday: 31st March
10:30am HOLY MASS

With every Lenten blessing, Fr Christopher, Fr Prasad & Fr Wayne