Parish newsletter · 14 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

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St John Ogilvie

Northampton Diocese

Charity number: 234091

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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
Website: www.ourladys.co.uk

Charles Whitehead has been involved in Catholic Charismatic

Renewal for forty plus years and served as president of the

International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Council for eleven

years. Sue Whitehead, an Anglican, has a wealth of experience
as a speaker in many different religious and cultural contexts.

JULY: DEDICATED TO THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS

Liturgies this Week Please seek to arrive before the start of any Mass or liturgy

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

15TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME: Sea Sunday 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 RIP
5:00pm (SJO) MASS
Intention: Stephen Melvin, RIP (Anniv.)

Monday: St Bonaventure 15th July
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Patsy and William Currie, RIP
Intention - Priest 2: Eileen Box, Intention

Tuesday: Our Lady of Mount Carmel 16th July
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Eddy Feely, RIP
Intention - Priest 2: Betty McIlveney, Intention
12:00am (OLW) Funeral Liturgy of John Donnelly, RIP

Wednesday: Votive of the Precious Blood 17th July
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Frank Reilly, RIP
Intention - Priest 2: John Donnelly, RIP

Thursday: St Edburga of Bicester, Religious 18th July
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Maisie Bates, RIP
Intention - Priest 2: Eamon McAteer, Intention

Friday: Votive of the Precious Blood 19th July
9:10am (SJO) Holy Rosary
9:30pm (SJO) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Petula Gomm: Get well intention
Intention - Priest 2: Yvonne, Nathaniel, Naomi and Noah (Bedford)
10:00am (SJO) Litany of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
10:00am (SJO) Sacrament of Confession (Reconciliation)

Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary 20th July
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Agnes Reilly and Family, Intention
Intention - Priest 2: For all suffering with anxiety and/or depression
10:00am (OLW) Eucharistic Exposition and Devotions
10:00am (OLW) Sacrament of Confession (Reconciliation)

SIXTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 21st July
Parish Mass Book: Page 109 for OLW / Page 54 for SJO
5:30pm (OLW) VIGIL MASS OF SUNDAY
Intention - Priest 1: Special Intention
Intention - Priest 2: Pauline Kelleghan, Intention
8:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Marie Rice, RIP (Anniv.)
Intention - Priest 2: pro populo
10:00am (OLW) MASS
Intention: Anne McCluskey, RIP (Anniv.)
5:00pm (SJO) MASS
Intention: To be announced

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Requiescant in Pace

Please pray for the repose of the soul of:
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.
Owen Wells-Johnson, whose Funeral Liturgy is on Thursday,
25th July at 2:30pm in Huntingdon Crematorium.

Mass and Rosary in Chinese on Wednesday, 24th July in St
Edward the Confessor, Milton Keynes with Bishop Joseph Ha at
6:00pm. Details: mk.chinese.catholic@gmail.com / 0739582776.

✝ Please note that this article will be different each week ✝
Carlo’s Acutis 5-Step Plan to Holiness
3: Devotion to Our Lady and the Saints.
Carlo had a strong devotion to Our Lady
and the saints from a very young age: “I
never fail to keep the most gracious
appointment of the day - recitation of
the Holy Rosary”. Carlo felt Mary was
close to him, just as he felt close to
Jesus in the Eucharist. For Carlo, Our
Lady loved him as a mother, and he
wanted to return that love. At four
years old, Carlo took flowers to place before statues of Mary. He
wanted his whole family to kneel before the miraculous image of
Our Lady of the Rosary at the Sanctuary of Pompeii. At the grotto
in Lourdes, he made the promise to be faithful in reciting the Holy
Rosary. Carlo was especially struck by Our Lady’s apparitions in
1917 to three children, Lucia, Jacinta and Francesco, in Portugal;
the children were of a similar age to him, and he wondered what
Blessed Mary’s message at Fatima personally meant for him. We
know that Lucia, Jacinta and Francesco were each asked to make
reparation for offences committed against Christ in the Eucharist
and perhaps this is what Carlo took to heart. Carlo’s prayers and
the offering of his sufferings for the Pope were a direct response
to the call of Our Lady of Fatima to offer penances and sacrifices
for the Successor of St Peter: the Pope. Carlo truly believed that
the Mass and Our Lady were foundation stones on which every
Christian should build their life. In addition to Our Lady, Carlo
had a great love for the saints, including St Clare, St Francis and St
John the Apostle; thus, he read the Sacred Scriptures each day
and articles about the lives of the saints. Carlo had a particular
fondness for saints who, like him, were young! Carlo admired St
Anthony of Padua for his love of the Mass and for being a true
missionary. He was struck by St Paul’s passion in preaching the
Gospel, even to his martyrdom. Carlo was moved by the tireless
activity of St John Bosco and his words made a deep impression
upon him: “Idleness…is the father of all vices. Keeping occupied
fights it and conquers everything”. Carlo also meditated on the
words spoken by Our Lady in 1858 to St Bernadette Soubirous at
the grotto of Massabielle in Lourdes: “I do not promise to make
you happy in this world, but in the next”. Ultimately, Carlo made
his own the phrase of Sacred Scripture that motivated St Francis
Xavier to bring Jesus to the farthest corners of the world: “What
does it profit a person if they gain the whole world and loses their
soul?” (Luke 9:25). Our Lady and the Saints were Carlo’s friends.
Let us ponder the words of Carlo: “God has written for each one
of us a unique and unrepeatable story, but he has left us the
freedom to write the ending”. Blessed Carlo Acutis: Pray for us!

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

Jane and John Hennessy, Intention

Today Holy Land Wood Carvings

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

Free wine?! Those not at the special liturgies for St Thomas
Becket have been asking why bottles of wine were given away for
free! In 1245 a city-wide underground freshwater system known
as “The Great Conduit” was built in London; this ran from Tyburn
(the site, in later centuries, of the martyrdom of many Catholics)
to Cheapside: the birthplace of St Thomas Becket. People would
thus collect fresh water from the former Becket family home, to
which had been added a Church, a hospital and the headquarters
of the Knights of St Thomas. This collection of buildings was to
become the religious and civic centre of London and on occasions
of real importance “The Great Conduit” would run with red wine!
The wine was, of course, symbolic of the blood St Thomas shed at
his martyrdom. All who took part in the liturgies for St Thomas
were given a mini bottle of red wine with commemorative tag:
thus, helping to restore an ancient Catholic tradition of this land!

You might like to know that:

• Some of the graphics used in the St Thomas Becket petition
cards, hand-flags, large flags, etc. are those of the renowned
Victorian architect A.W. Pugin; over the coming weeks such
imagery will be used on the top of the newsletter (as today).
• The chant/music recently played during the distribution of
Holy Communion at Mass were the sacred texts that would
have been sung by the monks at Vespers (Evening Prayer)
during which St Thomas Becket was murdered in AD 1170.
• A large number of positive comments were received about
our Parish Festival of St Thomas Becket; we thus offer our
appreciation to everyone involved in making this happen.
• The former Gilbertine convent in Chicksands and the now
disused papal chapel at Meppershall (both in Bedfordshire)
are close to Shefford, where Fr Prasad is Parish Priest.
• Mass and the rosary will be offered for the one hundred and
more petitions that were left at the St Thomas Becket relic.

During August a petitions box will be placed in the Holy House
chapel at OLW and petition slips will be available next to the box.
The Holy Rosary will be offered for the intentions, including each
Saturday at Eucharistic Exposition, and privately by a parishioner.

Mass for people with disabilities and their families:

Sunday, 21st July at 3:00pm in Sacred Heart Church, Stopsley in
Luton, LU2 9AY. Refreshments available. All are very welcome.

Today there is a Retiring Collection for Stella Marris.

Seafarers and fishers play a vital role in our lives, but they often
work in difficult and hazardous conditions. “Sea Sunday” is when
the Church earnestly prays for all those who live and work at sea.

With the assurance of our prayers,
Fr Christopher & Fr Wayne

Readers & Extra-Ordinary Ministers of Holy Communion (and
those interested) are asked to attend one of the following:
∙ 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 image of Jesus, the Mystic
Lamb in OLW Church burns in prayer for:
Margaret Duncan, RIP

Day of Renewal

Northampton Diocese CCR · 27 July · 10.30am–3pm

Theme: “Walk the Walk” — A Missionary Disciple.

Charles Whitehead has been involved in Catholic Charismatic Renewal for forty plus years and served as president of the International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Council for eleven years. Sue Whitehead, an Anglican, has a wealth of experience as a speaker in many different religious and cultural contexts.

Adoration, Holy Mass, Praise & Worship, Prayer Ministry.

Our Lady of Lourdes Church, St Paul’s School, Leadenhall, Milton Keynes, MK6 5NA.

For more information: cdscnorthampton@gmail.com. Text: 07725200866.