St. James the
Great
Fr. Paul Hughes
St. James’ Presbytery
40 Underwood Rd.
Hattersley, Hyde.
SK14 3DH
Tel 0161 368 3618
Maccpaul@aol.com
In St. Anselm’s Local Pastoral Area
Parish Newsletter
The Body and Blood of Christ - Year C
2nd June 2013
First Reading Genesis 14:18-20 Melchizedek, King of Salem, Priest of God Most High
blesses Abraham and offers him bread and wine, an act which prefigures the Eucharist.
Melchizedek is seen as the forerunner of the eternal priesthood of Jesus.
Second Reading 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 The earliest account of the Institution of the
Eucharist: This is my body … This cup is the new covenant in my blood …. do this as a
memorial of me. At every Mass we are obeying Jesus’ command to: do this …
Gospel Luke 9:11-17 This feeding miracle pointing to the institution of the Eucharist at the
Last Supper. In a lonely place the Twelve recognise the crowd’s need for food, but they
have only five loaves and two fish. Jesus took the five loaves and two fish …. said the
blessing over them, then he broke them … and the scraps filled twelve baskets. As this
food supplied the people’s physical needs, so the Sacred Eucharist supplies our spiritual
needs. We should all strive to ensure that we partake of this heavenly banquet as often as
possible. It’s a gift beyond price.
We pray for all of our sick especially Fr. Fred Robinson, Carol Bennett, Michael Boucher,
Anthony Brownridge, Lily Chappell, Sharon Cilgram, Ann & Bernard Clarke, Mary Collins,
Hannah Corbishley, Kath Courtney, Kath Coyne, Hilda Donald, Jill Doyle, Bridget Duffy,
Pat Edwards, Beryl Evans, Mary Fletcher, Margaret Flood, John Ford, Stephen Farrell, Paul
Flaherty, Frank Higgins, Louisa Johnston, Linda Jones, Doris Maley, Frances Martin, Mary
McCabe, Wendy McLoughlan, Lucy Morrow, Gerard Ormsby, Michael O’Reilly, Peter
Riley, Stephen Singleton, Veronica Singleton, June Smith, Linda Summers, Pat Tarrant,
Clara Walker, and Arthur Woodhouse, and all in nursing homes and hospitals. We pray also
for doctors, nurses and all who care for the sick.
Let us pray for those who have died, especially Mary Balfe who died recently, may our
risen Lord welcome them to Paradise.
This week’s saints: Mon St. Charles Lwanga & Companions martyred 1885-1887. A
servant of the King of Uganda, baptised Nov 1885, following June burnt alive. Companions
were 21 other young men aged 13-30 cruelly martyred. Wed St. Boniface 680-754. Apostle of
Germany. Born Crediton in Devon entered a monastery aged 5. Ordained priest, missionary
to Germany, ordained bishop & archbishop. Founded monasteries & convents with schools.
Frid Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Sat `feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Vocations: If you think God is calling you to serve his Church as a priest, a deacon or a
religious brother or sister think and pray seriously about it, then talk to Fr. Paul.
Sick & housebound parishioners: if you know of any sick or housebound parishioner
who is unable to attend Mass & not, at present, receiving Holy Communion at home but
would like to do so, please let Fr. Paul know as soon as possible.
Masses for the sick, infirm & housebound in 2013, 22 June, 21 Sept, and 7 Dec.
Note: No Mass at 12.00 noon on these days.
Money for nothing! If you pay income tax on wages, pension etc then signing a Gift Aid
Declaration allows the parish to reclaim the tax you have paid on your Church collection –
if given through the offertory envelopes. This is worth an extra 25p for £1 donated; £5
would generate a further £1.25. Forms available in porch, or ask Father or Maureen
Children’s Liturgy: we are all very grateful to those who organise and run our Sunday
Children’s Liturgy – very many thanks!
Scripture study group: 7.30 p.m. every Wednesday in presbytery, everybody welcome,
why not join us and understand the scriptures more fully.
50th Anniversary of the Parish: this year we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of our parish.
Bishop Mark has agreed to come to St. James on Sunday 21 July for our anniversary
celebration. On 21 July our parish Mass will be at 3.00 p.m. (No morning Mass that day)
please make a note of this in your diary. Watch this space for further information
Sponsor the Sanctuary Lamp: £10 a week. Fill in form, & give it with £10 to Fr. Paul.
Parish Bonus Ball: 29th May. No 14 – winner: Betty ford
Parish weekly raffle: Please support this venture by buying tickets and providing prizes.
Parish Prayer Intention Board: We are all asked to pray for these intentions.
Tues 11 June 7.30 pm: Healing Mass for families affected by mental health issues & those
working in this area at Our Lady & St Christopher’s, Barrack Hill, Romiley. Sacrament of
the Sick will be administered; all welcome. Afterwards, opportunity to find out about
support groups for both those that suffer and their carers.
Please check the parish notice board each weekend so you are fully up to date with what
is happening in the parish and the diocese.
Hattersley Food Store: still needs food donations. See list of foods needed in porch.
The Body and Blood of Christ
The only-begotten Son of God, wishing to enable us to share in his divinity, assumed our
nature, so that by becoming man he might make men gods.
Moreover, he turned the whole of our nature, which he assumed, to our salvation. For he
offered his body to God the Father on the altar of the cross as a sacrifice for our
reconciliation ; and he shed his blood for our ransom and our cleansing, so that we might
be redeemed from wretched captivity and cleansed from all sins.
Now in order that we might always keep the memory of this great act of love, he left his
body as food and his blood as drink, to be received by the faithful under the appearances of
bread and wine. How precious and wonderful is this banquet, which brings us salvation and
is full of all delight! What could be more precious? It is not the meat of calves or kids that
is offered, as happened under the Old Law; at this meal Christ, the true God, is set before
us for us to ea. What could be more wonderful than this sacrament?
No sacrament contributes more to our salvation than this; for it purges away our sins,
increases our virtues, and nourishes our minds with an abundance of all the spiritual gifts.
It is offered in the Church for the living and the dead, so that it may be beneficial to all, as
it was instituted for: the salvation of all.
Finally, no one is capable of expressing the delight of this sacrament, through which the
sweetness of the Spirit is tasted at its source, and the memory is celebrated of that
surpassing love which Christ showed in his passion.
So, in order to imprint the immensity of this love more deeply in the hearts of the faithful,
at the Last Supper, when the Lord had celebrated the Pasch with his disciples & was about
to pass from this world to his Father, he instituted this sacrament as a perpetual memorial
of his passion. It fulfilled the types of the Old Law; & was the greatest miracle he worked;
and he left it as a unique consolation to those who were desolate at his departure.
Prayers after Holy Communion
Act of Faith: O Jesus, I believe that I have received your Flesh to eat and your Blood to
drink, because you have said it, and your word is true. All that I have and all that I am are
your gift and now you have given me yourself.
Act of Adoration: O Jesus, my God, my Creator, I adore you, because from your hands I
came and with you I am to be happy for ever.
Act of Humility: O Jesus, 1 am not worthy to receive you, and yet you have come to me
that my poor heart may learn of you to be meek and humble.
Act of Love: Jesus, I love you; I love you with all my heart. You know that I love you, and
wish to love you daily more and more.
Act of Thanksgiving: My good Jesus, I thank you with all my heart. How good, how kind
you are to me. Blessed be Jesus in the most holy Sacrament of the Altar.
Act of Offering: O Jesus, receive my poor offering. Jesus, you have given yourself to me,
and now let me give myself to you: I give you my body, that I may be chaste and pure. I
give you my soul, that I may be free from sin. I give you my heart, that I may always love
you. I give you every breath that I shall breathe, and especially my last, I give you myself
in life and in death, that I may be yours for ever and ever.
O Lord Jesus Christ,
You who have given us Your precious Body and Blood to be our meat and drink,
grant that through frequent reception of You in the Holy Eucharist,
I may be strengthened in mind and body to do Your holy will.
Mass Times and Intentions
The Body and Blood of Christ
2 June
Monday 3
Ss. Charles Lwanga
and Companions
Tuesday 4
Wednesday 5
11.00 a.m.
St. Boniface
Thursday 6
Friday 7
The Sacred Heart of Jesus
Parishioners
10.30 a.m.
Requiem Mary Balfe
9.15 a.m.
9.30 a.m.
9.15 a.m.
9.30 a.m.
9.15 a.m.
9.30 a.m.
9.15 a.m.
9.30 a.m.
12.00 noon
11.00 a.m.
Morning Prayer
Mary Ann Robinson
Morning Prayer
Doris Maley
Morning Prayer
Sidney Hughes
Morning Prayer
Thomas Balfe
Robinson & Cooke families
Parishioners
Saturday 8
Immaculate Heart of Mary
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
9 June
Sacrament of individual Reconciliation (Confession)
Prayer of the Church: 1
Sunday 10.45 a.m. – 10.55 a.m.
Mass attendance last weekend 47
MONEY MATTERS
Church collection £155.05, Raffle £13.00, Bonus Ball £23.00.Retired Priest’s fund £5.00
Thank you for your consistent generosity.
The Diocese of Shrewsbury is a Registered Charity No. 234025
Opening Prayer for the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
(Corpus Christi)
God, who in this wonderful Sacrament
have left us a memorial of your Passion, grant us, we pray,
so to revere the sacred mysteries of your Body and Blood
that we may always experience in ourselves
the fruits of your redemption.
Who live and reign with God the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Magnificat
My soul glorifies the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God, my Saviour.
He looks on his servant in her lowliness; henceforth all ages will call me blessed.
The Almighty works marvels for me. Holy his name!
His mercy is from age to age, on those who fear him.
He puts forth his arm in strength and scatters the proud-hearted.
He casts the mighty from their thrones and raises the lowly.
He fills the starving with good things, sends the rich away empty.
He protects Israel, his servant remembering his mercy,
the mercy promised to our fathers, to Abraham and his sons for ever.