FIFTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME – Year C
“Put out into the deep and pay out your nets for a catch”
At a gathering of young priest with their bishop, they debated the meaning of the Gospel reading. Jesus was asking fishermen to do something apparently pointless. Fishermen work mostly at night and this stranger, a preacher not a fisherman, was telling them to go out in daylight, to deeper waters. Jesus, it seemed it seemed to the priests, sometimes asks us to do things for him which we might expect to work, but if He wants it will. So one young priest asked the rest, what ‘putting out into the deep’ might mean for us in the diocese. All but the bishop replied!
You are now asked: what do you thing ‘putting out into the deep’ could mean for us? The first response to the question is this: we can only put out into the deep and pay out our nets for a catch if we have the Lord on board. We all have to make priorities in our lives. We do it every day. God, Jesus, our faith must be given first place. Concretely, this means prayer every day and if we can make it, joining in the greatest prayer of all which is the Mass, the Prayer of Jesus to his Father, made present daily in the churches dedicated to his saints. In the moment of this intimate encounter with God, we will be able to make a prayer from the heart, the prayer for every baptised Christian, “Hear I am, send me”.
The lord will then point out the waters in which he wants us to pay out our nets. The result will be work of grace and may surprise us!
TODAY’S LITURGY
First Reading: Isaiah 6: 1-8 In the most sacred part of the Temple in Jerusalem, God reveals himself to the prophet in his holiness and majesty. The seraphs sing a hymn of praise to God, the hymn we have taken for use at Mass for the same purpose, the “Holy, Holy, Holy!.
Second Reading: First Letter of St Paul to the Corinthians 15: 1-11 St Paul exhorts the new converts to hold firm to the truths he has taught them, the “Gospel” or “Good News”. There was no written New Testament at this stage: the “Gospel” took the form of an oral tradition. He emphasises his own unworthiness but is still able to insist that the grace God gave him “has not been fruitless”. Though we too are unworthy, God’s grace we receive in this Mass need not be fruitless, if we co-operate with what God give us.
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FEASTS THIS WEEK
Monday: St Jerome Emiliani 1486-1537 Born in Venice, at first he was a soldier but later left this life so as to consecrate himself to helping the poor; he gave them all his worldly goods. He founded the Order of Clerks Regular called the Somaschi for the purpose of helping orphan children and the poor. He died at Somascha near Bergamo. Wednesday: St Scholastica 6th c. she was the twin sister of St Benedict. She founded the women’s Benedictine Order. She is surely an icon for Christian women: the highest, most beautiful and blessed life for a woman in the Church is the consecrated life. Thursday: Our Lady of Lourdes We remember the appearance of ‘a pretty young girl with a rosary over her arm’ to Bernadette on this day in 1858 and the many graces that God has given to that place to countless sick pilgrims since then. They are a continuation of Jesus’ healing miracles recorded in the gospels, now performed at the intercession of his Mother.
Pastoral Visit to West Hull Parishes of Bishop Terence Drainey
The bishop will visit the parish on the 12th, 13th and 14th February.
He will visit St Thomas More School and say Mass in our three Churches.
CAFOD HAITI EARTHQUAKE APPEAL - many thanks for the very generous donations from you all, we shall be sending £942.44 to CAFOD.
MASS TIMES & INTENTIONS FOR THIS WEEK
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Saturday for Sunday |
5.00pm |
Corpus Christi |
Holy Souls |
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Sunday |
9.30am 11.00am 5.00pm |
St Wilfrid’s St Joseph’s St Wilfrid’s (Polish) |
Paul William Wood People of the Parish
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Monday |
10.00am |
St Wilfrid’s |
November Dead |
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Tuesday |
10.00am |
Corpus Christi |
Kath Gray |
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Wednesday |
7.00pm |
St Joseph’s |
November Dead |
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Thursday |
10.00am |
St Wilfrid’s |
November Dead |
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Friday |
10.00am |
Corpus Christi |
Kath Gray |
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Saturday for Sunday |
5.00pm |
Corpus Christi |
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Sunday |
9.30am 11.00am |
St Wilfrid’s St Joseph’s |
People of the Parish Kitty Moody |
If you would like to have Mass offered for a particular intention, you are invited to fill in an envelope from the back of church and make an offering
WEST HULL PARISHES
CONFESSIONS:
First Saturday of the month St Joseph’s - 11am-11.30am -
Second Saturday of the month Corpus Christi - 11am-11.30am – 13th February
Third Saturday of the month St Wilfrid’s – 11am-11.30am – 20th February
West Hull Parish Youth – on Friday 12th February at St Joseph’s. Please contact Michelle for more details.
West Hull Parishes ‘100 Plus Club’ Winners: Week No:
New members are welcome to join the WHP 100 Plus Club. Existing members may increase the number of their shares, up to a maximum of 4. Please contact Sandra 653522 or John 650415 for more information. Subs are now due. Cost per share £14.56 per year + 10p admin costs. May be paid weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly.
Say a Prayer & light a candle – St Wilfrid’s on Monday 8th February at 10.30am-2.30pm and Corpus Christi on Friday 12th February 10.30am to 1.00pm. More volunteers are needed please sign up at the back of church.
EWTN – February programme is now available at the back of church.
Liturgy Planning Meeting – the next one is on Monday 8th February at St Joseph’s at 7pm. This meeting will be to discuss hymns and Liturgy for Lent. Open to all involved with liturgy, i.e. Ministers, Musicians and children’s liturgy co-ordinators or anyone interested in developing our liturgy.
Malayalam Mass on Saturday 13th February at St Joseph’s at 7.00pm
Hull Lourdes Sick Fund Rally on Sunday 7th February at Our Lady of Lourdes & St Peter Chanel, Mass at 2pm followed by the rally in the Hall. Donations to raffle, Tombola, cake stall. See notice at back of church. Everyone welcome.
Chrism Mass at Middlesbrough Cathedral on 30th March 2010. There will be list up next weekend for those who wish to go. Costs £10 per person £5 per child, if we have a full coach. Deposits of £5 required please.
Eucharistic Ministers Meeting – on Monday 15th February at 7.30pm at St Joseph’s this meeting is for all commissioned Ministers and those who have said they are willing to be ministers and commissioned in May.
Lourdes – Fr William is hoping to get a coach to Lourdes starting in Scarborough and picking up in Hull. Leaving on Friday 28th May and returning on Thursday
3rd June. Cost is £360 full board and includes one trip, single supplement £100.
If you are interested please contact Sandra Beach 653522 or 07900673780
Lenten Day of Reflection – an opportunity for peace and time out with guided reflection on The Jesus we meet in Lent ‘Say but the Word’. Encouragement and healing for living out our faith in ordinary everyday life! Led by Caroline Dollard –
on Saturday 20th February at St Joseph’s 10.00-2.30. Bring a sandwich. Hot drinks provide. Bookings/Enquires Fr John 351012 or Caroline Dollard: 01347 868340 01347 868340 .
Music Practice at St Wilfrid’s on the third Saturday of each month 11am-12noon.
Learn some new music. Everyone welcome.
CORPUS CHRISTI
Many thanks for last Sunday’s collection £212.29
Thank you for the collection for KISS Uganda £46.00
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament from 9.15am on Fridays.
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ST WILFRID’S
Many thanks for last Sunday’s collection £268.92
Next weekend there will be a second collection for CAFOD Water Appeal
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament from 9.15am on Thursdays
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ST JOSEPH’S
Many thanks for last Sunday’s collection £309.80
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament from 6.30pm on Wednesdays
For Hall bookings contact: Colin Bainbridge
A new contact is needed to take Hall bookings, can you help please?
Spring Cleaning- will take place at St Joseph’s on Saturday 13th February at 1pm. please come and help keep your church clean. ‘Many hands make light work’.
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Children’s Liturgy – Leaders and helpers are desperately needed at St Joseph’s and St Wilfrid’s. Please help to bring the Liturgy of the Word to our children. If you have never done this before, help is available. |
