Parish newsletter · 21 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

AD 2024 ✝ 21st July

JULY IS DEDICATED TO THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS

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.

Liturgies this Week

Please seek to arrive before the start of Mass

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

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: Bill Price, RIP - Birthday Intention

Monday: St Mary Magdalen 22nd July
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Joan Currie, Intention
Intention - Priest 2: Maisie Short, RIP

Tuesday: St Bridget of Sweden, Patroness of Europe 23rd July
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: James Noone, RIP (Anniv.)
Intention - Priest 2: Helena, Intention

Wednesday: Votive of the Precious Blood 24th July
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention: John Francis Guerin & Brian Barney Guerin, RIP (Anniv.)
11:00am (OLW) MASS for OLW Catholic Primary School
Intention: Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic Primary School

Thursday: St James, Apostle 25th July
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Dave McArthur, RIP (1st Anniv.)
Intention - Priest 2: Frank Scahill, RIP (Anniv.)

Friday: Ss Joachim and Anne, Parents of the BVM 26th July
9:05am (SJO) Holy Rosary
9:30am (SJO) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Noreen, Get well intention
Intention - Priest 2: Grandparents and the elderly
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 27th July
9:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: John Donnelly, RIP
Intention - Priest 2: “Johnny” Richie, RIP / Anne & Frank Burns, Int.
10:00am (OLW) Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Novena
10:00am (OLW) Eucharistic Exposition and Devotions
10:00am (OLW) Sacrament of Confession (Reconciliation)

SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 28th July
✝ World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly
Parish Mass Book: Page 112 for OLW / Page 56 for SJO
5:30pm (OLW) VIGIL MASS OF SUNDAY
Intention: Cath and Joe Reilly, RIP
8:30am (OLW) MASS
Intention - Priest 1: Masie Bates, RIP
Intention - Priest 2: pro populo
10:00am (OLW) MASS
Intention: Stacey Charles, Intention
5:00pm (SJO) MASS
Intention: To be announced

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Requiescant in Pace

Please pray for the repose of the soul of:
Alfred (“Alf”) Sene, whose Funeral Liturgy is on Monday, 22nd
July at 9:00am in Warren Hill Crematorium, Kettering.
Owen Wells-Johnson, whose Funeral Liturgy is on Thursday,
25th July at 2:30pm in Huntingdon Crematorium.
William (“Bill”) Lupton, whose Funeral Mass is on Tuesday, 30th
July at 11:00am in Our Lady of Walsingham Church. The Rite
Reception into OLW will take place on 29th July at 4:30pm.

✝ Please note that this article will be different each week ✝
Carlo’s Acutis 5-Step Plan to Holiness
4: Confession and Spiritual Guidance.
Carlo’s desire for holiness was clearly
demonstrated by his desire to regularly
celebrate the Sacrament of Confession
and to have a Spiritual Director. “If only
I had had a spiritual director from the
beginning” wrote St Faustina Kowalska
“then I would not have wasted so many
of God’s graces”. Every month Carlo
would make a journey of between 135
miles and 160 miles, thus taking several hours, to see his Spiritual
Director. Carlo knew that to grow in holiness and to become a
saint in the next life requires discipline, prayer, humility, our free
cooperation with the grace we receive from the Sacraments and
by reading the Sacred Scriptures and through acts of charity (the
Corporal Works of Mercy). As Carlo would say: “Only the one
who does the will of God will be truly free”. Toward the end of
each meeting with his Spiritual Director Carlo would request to
celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation; as Carlo would say:
“The only thing that we must really fear is sin”. Carlo celebrated
the Sacrament of Confession every week and thus profoundly
asked: “Why do people worry so much about the beauty of their
own body and not about the beauty of their soul?” Carlo was
not afraid to confront his own sins and faults, be that gluttony,
distraction in prayer, daydreaming in school, etc. Carlo truly
trusted in God’s infinite mercy. In his bedroom, he kept an image
of the Divine Mercy Jesus and a small statue of the Infant Jesus of
Prague. He lived through the Great Jubilee Year of 2000 and thus
Carlo involved his parents in praying the Novena of Mercy that
was given by Jesus Himself to St Faustina Kowalska. As Blessed
Carlo taught: “In order to rise up high, a hot air balloon needs to
shed weight, just like the soul, which, in order to raise itself up to
heaven, needs to remove those small weights, called venial sins.
If by chance, there is a mortal sin, the soul falls to the ground.
Confession is like the fire underneath the balloon, enabling the
soul to rise again…It is important to go to confession often,
because the soul is very complex”. Blessed Carlo: Pray for us!

Job Vacancies: Several new posts are being advertised on the
diocesan website; details: https://northamptondiocese.org/jobs

The Litany of Our Lady will be prayed after Mass each Friday
in St John Ogilvie Church during the Marian month of August.

Mass and Rosary in Chinese on 24th July in St Edward the
Confessor Church, Milton Keynes at 6pm with Bishop Joseph Ha.

During August petition slips and a petitions box will be in
the OLW Holy House Chapel; the Rosary will be offered for these
intentions each Saturday (but not announced) and privately.

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

Bridie Donaghy & Family, Intention

“There is a difference between being intimate with Jesus
and being casual with Jesus.” Fr David Michael Moses

The Northampton Nigerian community invites you to Mass on
Sunday, 18th August at 1:30pm in Ss Francis and Therese Catholic
Church, East Hunsbury. Refreshments available. All welcome.

Attached to this newsletter are two petition slips; these will form
part of the homily and can be returned at Mass next weekend.

2024/2025 - Sacramental Preparation: Places on our parish
First Confession with First Holy Communion and Confirmation
preparation courses will be offered to those families who are
already participating in a Sunday Mass in OLW/SJO. Parents are
asked to introduce themselves to the Priest after a Sunday Mass.

The fourth “World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly” is
on Sunday, 28th July. In 2021 Pope Francis declared that this day
is a celebration of the witness of the elderly of their “friendship
with God”. This year’s theme, chosen by the Holy Father, is “Do
not cast me off in my old age” (Psalm 71:9) and is aimed at calling
attention to the fact that loneliness is the experienced by many
elderly people. ✝ We encourage all grandparents to invite their
children and grandchildren to a Sunday Mass next weekend when
a special prayer will be offered for them. For information about
this day visit: http://www.catholicgrandparentsassociation.org\ Ss Joachim and Anne: Pray for all grandparents and the elderly!

Thank you to everyone who last weekend supported:

• The Retiring Collection for Stella Maris which provides aid
and pastoral support to seafarers & fishers across the world.
• The Bethlehem Nativity Group by buying olive wood items;
this raised £3063.20 for Christian families in the Holy Land.

Our Lady to Richeldis de Faverches in 1061: “All who are in any
way distressed, or in need, let them seek me there in that little
house you have made at Walsingham. To all that seek me there
shall be given succour.” Our Lady appeared to Richeldis on three
occasions, confirming her request on every successive visit, that a
little Nazareth, a little Holy House, should be built in Walsingham.

Saturday, 3rd August: Walsingham
Pilgrimage of Reparation and
Prayer for the Sanctity of Life
with Bishop David Oakley

The need for prayer to protect the
sanctity of life has been great since
the passing of the 1967 Abortion Act.
Prayer and reparation are now vital given
the current campaigns for abortion up to
birth and assisted suicide. See the poster
in the Church porch for details about this
important pilgrimage to Walsingham.

With our prayers in this month of the Precious Blood of Jesus,
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:

Flurendo Ritualo Sr & Jesusa Ritualo

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.