Parish newsletter · 7 July 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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Corby Catholic Parishes

Our Lady of Walsingham St John Ogilvie

and

Northampton Diocese

Charity number: 234091

St Luke Pastoral Area, North Northants

AD 2024 ✝ 7th July

Parish Priest:

Fr Christopher Perry, Episcopal Vicar
Priest in Residence: Fr Wayne Coughlin

Parish Email: parish.ourladyofwalsingham@northamptondiocese.org
Parish Website: www.ourladyofwalsinghamcorby.org\ Parish Secretary: Mrs Maggie Cleary
Parish Office Tel.: 01536 203121
Parish Office: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
& Friday from 9:00am to 12:30pm

If you have any safeguarding concerns ring:

Our Lady of Walsingham Parish: Caroline - 07947485935
St John Ogilvie Parish: Kirsty - 07956363869
Diocesan Safeguarding Office: Danielle - 01604 723514

Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic Primary School:

Head: Mrs M. Hayes Tel.: 01536 203805
Email: office@olw.cor.olicatschool.org

Liturgies this Week

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

6th - 8th July

ST THOMAS BECKET

Parish Festival

SUNDAY: PATRONAGE OF ST THOMAS BECKET 7th July

→ Private prayer at the relic and icon of St Thomas Becket
Parish Mass Book: Page 103 for OLW / Page 50 for SJO
5:30pm (OLW) VIGIL MASS OF SUNDAY
Intention - Priest 1: Bill Currie, RIP (Anniv.)
Intention - Priest 2: St Thomas Becket petition slip intentions
8:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Maisie Bates, RIP
Intention - Priest 2: pro populo
10:00am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Patrick Kennedy, RIP (Anniv.)
Intention - Priest 2: Damian Reilly (Intention)
5:00pm (SJO) MASS
Intention: To be announced

Monday: Votive of St Thoma s Becket 8th July

9:00am (OLW) → St Thomas of Canterbury Devotions
9:30am (OLW) VOTIVE MASS
RI ntention - Priest 1: William Wilson, RIP
Intention - Priest 2: St Thomas Becket petition slip intentions
10:00am (OLW) → Reposition of the St Thomas Becket Relic

Tuesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time 9th July
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Elaine Wymant, RIP
Intention - Priest 2: Eamon McAteer (Intention)

Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time 10th July
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Maisie Bates, RIP
Intention - Priest 2: Thanksgiving for St Thomas Becket Festivals

Thursday: St Benedict, Abbot & Co-Patron of Europe 11th July
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Thanksgiving: Thursday Ladies Group (Fr Prasad)
Intention - Priest 2: Fr Prasad and parishes of Shefford & Biggleswade

Friday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time 12th July
9:10am (SJO) Holy Rosary
9:30pm (SJO) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Norma Ferguson: Healing intention
Intention - Priest 2: The newly Confirmed of OLW & SJO
10:00am (SJO) Litany of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
10:00am (SJO) Sacrament of Confession (Reconciliation)
11:00am (OLW) Funeral Liturgy of Sharon Muir, RIP

Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary 13th July
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Pat Kennedy, RIP
Intention - Priest 2: Private Intention
10:00am (OLW) Eucharistic Exposition and Devotions
10:00am (OLW) Sacrament of Confession (Reconciliation)

FIFTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 14th July
Parish Mass Book: Page 106 for OLW / Page 52 for SJO
5:30pm (OLW) VIGIL MASS OF SUNDAY
Intention: Kay Priest (Birthday intention)
8:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Recently bereaved
Intention - Priest 2: pro populo
10:00am (OLW) MASS
Intention: Alan Murphy
5:00pm (SJO) MASS
Intention: To be announced

JULY IS DEDICATED TO THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS

Precious Blood of Christ, poured out on the Holy Cross: Save us!

Mary’s Meals thanks everyone for their great generosity in
responding to its “Foreign Currency” initiative which raised
£359! This means eighteen children can be given one meal
each school day for a whole year. Please pray for the work of
Mary’s Meals and for the children it serves across the world.

We thank “Rafferty’s Chippy” on Occupation Road for
supplying Bishop David and the team with free fish and
chips following the Confirmation Mass last Thursday!

We assure the recently Confirmed of our prayers and
congratulations plus of our welcome as they now join us
for Mass every Sunday as “full members” of the Church.

Holy Land Wood Carvings

will be on sale in OLW
& SJO on 13th/14th July to support the Christian community
in that place; please be as generous as you possibly can be.

Those parents of children who undertook sacramental
preparation with Emma are asked to collect their “yellow”
First Holy Communion books after any Sunday Mass ASAP.

With our prayers for you at the Relic of St Thomas Becket,
Fr Christopher & Fr Wayne

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Requiescant in Pace:

Owen Welles-Johnson, details of whose Funeral are to follow.
Pat Mackenzie, whose Funeral Mass is on 11th July in Dumfries.
Sharon Muir, whose Funeral Liturgy is on Friday, 12th July at
11:00am in Our Lady of Walsingham Church.
John Donnelly, whose Funeral Liturgy is on Tuesday, 16th July at
12:00pm (noon) in Our Lady of Walsingham Church.
Elaine Green, whose Funeral Liturgy is on Friday, 19th July at
1:00pm in Kettering Crematorium.

✝ Please note that this article will be different each week ✝
Carlo’s Acutis 5-Step Plan to Holiness
2: Eucharistic Adoration. Carlo Acutis’
relationship with Jesus in the Eucharist
was deepened in Eucharistic Adoration:
when Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is
placed in a monstrance and displayed
upon the Altar. Carlo would spend time
before and after each Mass gazing upon
the Eucharistic Jesus. He would seek to
attend Eucharistic Exposition as often as
possible. This is what helped Carlo to
become a saint on earth. Pondering this, how often do we arrive
late for Mass, or leave early from Mass or engage in conversation
during moments of silence? In each of these ways we forget that
Jesus is truly present in the tabernacle. Carlo, like St Francis of
Assisi (whom he greatly admired), was passionate about the Real
Presence of Jesus in Holy Communion. Carlo knew that time
spent adoring the Blessed Sacrament is an intimately personal
meeting with Jesus: “We can find God, with his Body, his Soul and
his Divinity, present in all the tabernacles of the world! If we
think about it, we are more fortunate than those who lived two
thousand years ago in contact with Jesus, because we have God
‘really and substantially’ present with us always. It’s enough to
visit the closest church! We have Jerusalem on our doorsteps.
Jerusalem is in every church!” Carlo frequently dedicated at least
thirty minutes of his time before the Blessed Sacrament praying
for the Holy Souls in Purgatory. In his time before the Blessed
Sacrament Carlo said he liked to: “speak to Jesus about all that I
am living and feeling”. Carlo said of Jesus Christ in the Blessed
Sacrament: “To him I can always confide something, I can also
complain, question him about his silence and tell him what I do
not understand”. Praying to Jesus Christ in the Most Blessed
Sacrament was fundamental to Carlo’s growth in holiness: “By
standing before the eucharistic Christ, we become holy”. Carlo
wrote in his journal: “Sadness is the gaze turned towards oneself;
happiness is the gaze turned towards God. Conversion is nothing
more than lifting your gaze upwards from low to high: just a
simple movement of the eyes”. Blessed Carlo Acutis: Pray for us!

Children’s Liturgy of the Word

This Sunday our children are learning about
St Thomas of Canterbury by focusing on his:\

1. Birth and early life in London.\
2. Life as Archbishop of Canterbury.\
3. Trial in Northampton & his martyrdom.\
4. Shrine in Canterbury and Meppershall.\
5. Declaration as a saint by the Pope.\
6. Temporary shrine in OLW Church.
   → In thanksgiving for St Thomas Becket’s connection with our
   Diocese, the children are making medieval-style “pilgrim badges”!

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

Bridie Logue, RIP

Please pray for God’s blessing on the Cathedral and Parish
St Thomas Becket Festivals; may they both stir our hearts.

St Thomas Becket Cathedral Festival:

• Details of this 6th to 7th July celebration
are on our website and on the poster.

✝ The Relic of St Thomas Becket

will be on display between 6th and 8th July
in OLW Church for prayer and veneration.
• 6th and 8th July: Petition slips can be left
at the relic & icon of St Thomas Becket.
• Additional petition slips are available at
the relic and icon of St Thomas Becket.
• 8th July: Devotions - 9:00am / MASS -
9:30am / Reposition of Relic - 10:00am.

St Thomas Becket Wine: We hope everyone who took home
a mini bottle of wine after the liturgies on Saturday enjoyed it!
The St Thomas Becket prayer card affixed to this newsletter
will be used after the Intercessions; more of these are available at
the relic if you want one for a sick family member or a friend.
The St Thomas Becket prayer slips can be deposited in the
petitions box at the relic of St Thomas Becket in OLW (or left in
SJO); Mass will be offered for all these intentions on 7th & 8th July.

St Thomas Becket: The life of a sinner, a saint & a martyr

• c. 1120 - Becket is born in London on St Thomas’ Day: 21st
December; the son of Gilbert (textile merchant) and Matilda.
• 1143 - Becket works as an accountant for Osbert Huitdeniers.
• 1145 - Becket becomes assistant to Theobald, Archbishop
Canterbury: a powerful position with travel across Europe.
• 1154 - Becket is made Archdeacon of Canterbury and enters
the service of Henry Il as Chancellor; he is trusted by the King.
• 1162 - Becket becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1163 - Becket falls out with Henry Il after asserting the rights
and independence of the Church.
• 1164 - Becket is put on trial at Northampton Castle.
• 1164 - Becket takes shelter with the Gilbertine monks and
nuns at Chicksands Priory, Bedfordshire.
• 1164 - Becket goes into exile in France at Pontigny Abbey.
• 1170 - Becket returns to England opposing Henry II’s actions.
• 1170 - Becket is killed in his Cathedral on 29th December.
• 1173 - Becket is declared a saint by Pope Alexander III.
• c. 1175 - Becket is honoured with a papal Chapel dedicated
to him as “the Martyr” in Meppershall, Bedfordshire.
• 1220 - Becket’s relics are distributed across Europe.
• 1291 - The Chapel of St Thomas, Meppershall in Bedfordshire
is known to be graced with a special papal indulgence.
• 1538 - Henry VIII has Becket’s shrine in Canterbury destroyed.
• 1984 - Pope John Paul II prays at Becket’s Shrine, Canterbury.
• 2023 - Northampton Diocese institutes the annual: “Feast of
The Translation of the Relics” for the Saturday nearest 7th July.
• 2024 - OLW & SJO parishes given permission by Bishop David
to observe the “Patronage of St Thomas Becket” on 7th July.

Readers and Extra-Ordinary Ministers of Holy Communion

are asked to attend any one of the following gatherings:

∙ Friday, 13th September at SJO from 10:30am to 12:00noon
∙ Saturday, 14th September at OLW from 11:00am to 12:30pm
∙ Monday, 16th September at OLW from 7:00pm to 8:30pm
∙ Tuesday, 17th September at SJO from 7:00pm to 8:30pm

The seven-day lamp at the icon of St Thomas Becket in
Our Lady of Walsingham Church burns in prayer for:
Mary Mack, RIP