Parish newsletter · 21 April 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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The Corby Catholic Parishes of Our Lady of Walsingham and St John Ogilvie

Diocese of Northampton

Registered charity No. 234091

Pastoral Area of St Luke, North Northants

2024: 21st April ✝ Allelu ia. Christ is risen! Alleluia.

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

Parish Secretary: Mrs Maggie Cleary
Parish Office Tel.: 01536 203121
Email: parish.ourladyofwalsingham@northamptondiocese.org
Parish Office Address: 71 Occupation Road, NN17 1EE
Office Open: Monday, Tu esday, Wednesday

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and Friday from 9:00am to 12:30pm

Parish Website: www.ourladyofwalsinghamcorby.org

Please ring if you have any safeguarding concerns
Parish Safeguarding Representatives:
Our Lady of Walsingha m: Caroline - 07947485935
St John Ogilvie: Kirsty - 07956363869
Diocese of Northampton Safeguarding Office:
Danielle Dixon: 01604 723514

In Hospital? Please note: 24/7 emergency sacramental
provision continues at Kettering General Hospital. Please
ask the ward staff to contact the on-call Catholic Priest.

New Parish Registration and Communication Tool:

We are now using a new
computer system to help
us manage our parishes
better. It starts with us
making sure that we
have up to date contact
information for all our
parishioners; we would
therefore be grateful if
you could complete the
appropriate registration
form by clicking on the

← RELEVANT QR CODE

opposite or by typing the
link for your parish into
an internet browser. If
you do not have an email
address, please contact
the Parish Office and
Maggie will be able to
complete the form on
your behalf. Thank you!

Liturgies this Week

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

FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER 21st April
Parish Mass Book: Page 265 for OLW / Page 132 for SJO
5:30pm (OLW) VIGIL MASS OF SUNDAY
Intention: John Fox, RIP
8:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Annie and Jimmy Graham, RIP (Anniv.)
Intention - Priest 2: pro populo
10:00am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Margaret Coleman, RIP
Intention - Priest 2: Jane Carr, RIP (Anniv.)
5:00pm (SJO) MASS
Intention: To be announced

Monday of the Fourth Week of Eastertide 22nd April
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Tom Fullerton, RIP

TUESDAY: Solemnity of St George, Patron of England 23rd April

9:00am (OLW) Morning Prayer and Reflection
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Hugh McAteer, RIP & Benny Savage, RIP
Intention - Priest 2: The Catholic Church in England
12:00pm (OLW) Funeral Liturgy of Susan (“Suzy”) Bennett, RIP

Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Eastertide 24th April
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention: Pat McLoughlin, RIP (Anniv.)

Thursday Feast of St Mark, Evangelist 25th April
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: David Gollogly, RIP (Anniv.)
Intention - Priest 2: Gordon Muldownie, RIP (Anniv.)

Friday of the Fourth Week of Eastertide 26th April
9:10am (SJO) Holy Rosary
9:30am (SJO) MASS
Intention: To be announced
10:00am (SJO) Sacrament of Confession (Reconciliation)

Saturday of the Fourth Week of Eastertide 27th April
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Martyn Garvey, RIP
Intention - Priest 2: Private Intention
10:00am (OLW) Eucharistic Exposition and the Holy Rosary
10:00am (OLW) Sacrament of Confession (Reconciliation)

FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER 28th April
Parish Mass Book: Page 268 for OLW / Page 134 for SJO
5:30pm (OLW) VIGIL MASS OF SUNDAY
Intention: Billy Graham, RIP (Anniv.)
8:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Mary Mack, RIP
Intention - Priest 2: pro populo
10:00am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Willie Kitson (Birthday Intention)
Intention - Priest 2: Joe Moone, RIP (Anniv.)
5:00pm (SJO) MASS
Intention: To be announced

As April is dedicated to the Third Person of the Holy Trinity
let us pray each day this we ek: Come, Holy Spirit, fill the
hearts of Thy faithful and kindle in them the fire of Thy love.

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Requiescat in Pace

Please pray for the repose of the soul of:

Susan (“Suzy”) Bennett, whose Funeral Liturgy is on Tuesday,
23rd April at 12:00noon in Our Lady of Walsingham Church.

The miniature St Joseph’s Cincture
sacramental will be celebrated on
Wednesday, 1st May at Holy Mass:
The Memorial of St Joseph the Worker

The St Joseph’s Cincture is likened to the
cincture worn by a Priest, by monks and
nuns plus Consecrated Virgins as a sign of
their call to chastity. → The miniature St
Joseph’s Cincture is carried in a pocket or
placed before a statue of St Joseph at home. To undertake this
devotion a person must daily offer one “Glory be…” on each of
the ‘knots’ of the cincture while pondering St Joseph’s seven:
Sorrows: 1: The doubt of Saint Joseph - Matthew 1:19.
2: The poverty of Jesus’ birth - Luke 2:7.
3: The Circumcision - Luke 2:21.
4: Simeon’s prophecy that many would be lost - Luke 2:34.
5: The flight into Egypt - Matthew 2:14.
6: The return from Egypt - Matthew 2:22.
7: The loss of the Child Jesus - Luke 2:45.
Joys: 1: The Message of the Angel - Matthew 1:20.
2: The Birth of Jesus - Luke 2:7.
3: The Most Holy Name of Jesus - Matthew 1:25.
4: Simeon’s prophecy that many would be rise - Luke 2:34.
5: The Overthrow of idols Isaiah - 19:1.
6: Life with Mary and Jesus - Luke 2:39.
7: Finding Jesus in the Temple - Luke 2:46.
Specially commissioned miniature St Joseph’s Cinctures will be
available for a £4.50 donation; you can reserve one by contacting
Maggie at the Parish Office and payment can be made after Mass
on 1st May (when they will be blessed using the official formula).
On 1st May at 9:00am in OLW the St Joseph Cincture devotion will
be offered in the context of the Holy Rosary; all are welcome!

On this

World Day of Prayer

✝ for ✝

Vocations

we fulfil Jesus’
instruction to:

“Pray to the Lord of the harvest to send laborers into his harvest.”

(Luke 10:2)

As a climax to the prayer that is continually offered by the Church
for an increase in all forms of lay and ordained vocations, today
the Church focuses her prayer efforts on vocations to the Sacred
Priesthood, Diaconate and the Consecrated Life (male and female
religious, societies of apostolic life and consecrated virginity).
There will be a second collection this weekend to support such
‘vocations work’ in our Diocese in the three main areas of priestly
life: ongoing formation, seminary training and priestly vocations
promotion. Please pray for all Priests, Deacons and Religious.

The red seven-day lamp at the relics of the saints in
the OLW Sacred Heart Chapel burns in prayer for:
New vocations to the Sacred Priesthood and
Consecrated Life (especially in our Diocese)

Mary’s Meals

invites you to collect an
envelope from the back
of the Church, to take
this home and to put
your foreign coins and
notes into; this can be
returned to the special
collection box in the
Church. Do also talk to
your friends, neighbours
and work colleagues as
perhaps they have spare
foreign coins and/or notes as well?! Mary’s Meals is a no-frills
charity which is committed to spending 93p in every £1 received
on its activities. This wonderful charity feeds young people in
more than eighteen countries and hence offers over 2.4 million
children one good meal every day in their place of education.
*UK coins and notes that are not legal tender are also welcome.

Life in the Spirit Seminars

will be held in-person at the
Cathedral in Northampton and live-streamed to the Catholic Club
(“KK”), Corby. Each gathering starts with refreshments at 6:30pm
and the seminar starts at 7:00pm prompt. The next session is on
Tuesday, 23rd April with Dr Maria Heath: all are very welcome.

If you would like to sponsor these seven-day lamps in OLW
for a suggested donation of £5, please contact the Parish Office:
• Red at the holy relics of the saints in the Chapel of the Most
Sacred Heart during Eastertide. NB: A new laminated sheet is
available in this Chapel to help us identify each specific relic.
• Blue in August for the month of Our Lady Immaculate at the
statue of Our Lady of Grace in the sanctuary.
• Blue in the “Holy House” Marian Chapel throughout the year.

Tuesday is ST GEORGE’S DAY!

We assure people from the following of
our prayers as we honour our national
patron saint: England, Venice, Portugal,
Ethiopia, Georgia, etc.! St George is the
patron saint of Lebanese, Syrian and
Palestinian Christians plus he is also
honoured by Latin and Syro-Malabar
Catholics in Kerala. George was born to
a Christian family in Cappadocia around
280 and after moving to Palestine he
joined the army of Diocletian. When in
303 the Emperor of Rome issued the edict of persecution against
Christians, St George gave his belongings to the poor and in front
of Diocletian tore the document apart and professed his faith in
Jesus; for this he suffered terrible torture and was beheaded.
After his death, a basilica was erected over the place of his burial
and his relics are still visible to this today. St George: Pray for us.

→ Morning Prayer

will be offered on the Solemnity of
St George (23rd April) at 9:00am in OLW Church: all are welcome.

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

The blue seven-day lamp in the Marian Chapel of
Our Lady of Walsingham Church burns in prayer for:

Martha & Sean Turbett, RIP