Bishop John completed his 15 MILE WALK through the Peak District. If you sponsored him, please give the money as soon as possible in an en velope marked ‘Bishop’s Walk’. Post it through the presbytery letterbox and indicate you have paid on the sponsor form. Please make any cheques payable to ‘St. Wilfrid’s Residential’.
ACTIVITY SHEFFIELD – OVER 50’S. Chairobics & Games at St
Columba Church on Thursdays until 13 noon . Cost £2. th December from 11am to 12
SCRIPTURE NOTE - The Book of Genesis has two accounts of the institution of marriage. The first sees marriage as a means of procreation. The second [today’s1 st Reading] sees marriage as meeting the human need for companionship and equality. On the basis of
Deuteronomy 24:1-4, the Pharisees allowed a husband to divorce his wife because of ‘an indecency in her’. Appealing to Genesis 1:27;2:24,
Jesus stressed the unity created by marriage, which would forbid breaking the marriage bond, so that remarriage after a divorce would constitute adultery. Jesus leaves no doubt as to what the ideal marriage ought to be. But this doesn’t mean that he wasn’t aware of, and sympathetic towards, the problems that can arise in living out that ideal.
REFLECTION - Youth and age
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years; people grow old only by deserting their ideals. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair, these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. So long as your heart receives messages of beauty, cheer, courage, grandeur and power from the earth, from man, from the infinite, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then I am grown old indeed, and may you, Lord, have mercy on my soul.
PRAYER FOR A NEW BISHOP
All knowing and ever loving God, hear our prayer and grace your Church of Hallam with a new bishop. Draw near and send your Spirit upon those who are given the responsibility of discerning your will, and inspire our prayer for the one you will choose for us. We are all called to be ministers of truth and to proclaim your word of life: give us a new bishop to shepherd us, so that together, as your Church, we may know your glory. We make this prayer through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Adapted from prayer of Gregory Nazianzen, 4 th Century.
Church of St. Francis of Assisi
277 Sandygate Road, Sheffield S10 5SD
Telephone 0114 263 0383
Email: stfrancis@frkevin.f9.co.uk
parishcouncil26@yahoo.co.uk
Website: www.stfrancisrc-sheffield.org.uk
Registered Charity No 512021
Parish Priest: Fr Kevin Thornton
YEAR B - PSALTER WEEK 3
This Mass is not printed in the mass book
Eucharistic Prayer III pg 27. Preface not in mass book
Sunday
Friday
7 th 10:00 am (People of the parish)
Monday 8 th 10:00 am (Stuart Kimmont)
Tuesday 9 th 7:30 pm Bl. John Henry Newman (Teresa
Kenyon)
Wednesday 10 th 10:00 am St Paulinus of York (Deceased members of lunch group)
Thursday 11 th 10:00 am (Stephen Ross)
12 th 10:00 am St Wilfred of York ()
3 - 6 pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
Saturday 13 th 11.15-11.45 Sacrament of Reconciliation
Thank you for l ast week’s OFFERTORY COLLECTION .
PLEASE PRAY for Irene Bell, KC, Bill Donlon, ED, JTD, Rachel Grace,
Alice Green, Marion Green, Derek Grist, Fr. Antony Hayne, Margaret
Higgins, Ruth Hill, Bill Hunt, Carole H, MH, Roger Kemp, Teresa
Kenyon, Karen Kilbride, May Leonard, Benjamin Lewis, Antonia Martel,
Clive Miller, Tony Mulchrone, Audrey O’Halloran, Margaret Paget, Fr.
Roy Pannell, David Skinner, David Thomas, Peggy Vaughan, George
Windsor, Alan, Alexander, Alison and Leonora who are sick, for Stuart
Kinmont, lately dead and for all whose anniversaries occur about this time.
Thank you for the TEA, COFFEE AND SUGAR donated for St. Wilfrid’s.

Mass today will be followed by coffee and a SHORT AGM to summarise parish council activity for the year, answer any questions and elect new
Parish Council members. You can read the parish report and accounts on the website. After the AGM, there will be a shared lunch and an
ARTS AND CRAFTS SHOW for you to browse.
We need a number of new MEMBERS FOR THE PARISH COUNCIL .
Being a Parish Councillor involves attending a meeting every six weeks and being responsible for overseeing one aspect of parish life along with one or two other people. If you are interested, please speak to any
Parish Councillor or Fr. Kevin.
CALLING ALL STITCHERS.
Are you interested in helping to stitch kneelers for use on the altar? If you are an experienced stitcher and would like to work on a fun group project, then, please contact Clare
Byrne at clare_byrne@o2.co.uk
or sign up on the list in the Narthex.
Clare, along with the design for the kneelers, will be available at the Arts and Craft Show to answer any questions.
THE APOSTLESHIP OF PRAYER LEAFLETS FOR OCTOBER are on the trolley with the hymn and Mass books.
CAFOD HARVEST FAST DAY Friday October 5 th . Please put your gift for CAFOD in the basket in the narthex.
Pope Benedict has declared a ‘YEAR OF FAITH’ from Thursday 11 th
October 2012 to Sunday 24 th November 2013. He writes: ‘Knowledge of faith opens a door into the fullness of the saving mystery revealed by
God. The giving of assent implies that, when we believe, we freely accept the whole mystery of faith, because the guarantor of its truth is
God, who reveals himself and allows us to know his mystery of love.
’
The Year of Faith starts on the 50th anniversary of the II Vatican
Council, and the 20th anniversary of the publication of the ‘Catechism of the Catholic Church’.
During October a PLENARY INDULGENCE is granted to those who pray the Rosary in church, in the family, or in a community. A partial indulgence is granted when the Rosary is prayed in other circumstances.
GARTH HEWITT , founder of the Amos Trust will be performing at St.
Columba's Church on Thursday 15 th November at 7.30pm. Garth will be singing songs and telling stories from his new album, Justice like a
River. An evening with Garth is an evening of entertainment, encouragement and challenge to make the world a better place. Tickets from St Columba's Church Office (267 0006):
£7, or £4.50 concessions.
NEW PARISHIONERS are warmly invited to fill in a welcome card at the back of the Narthex. Members from the Parish visiting team will be available to welcome you in person with information about 'What's On' at
St Francis'. If you have joined us in the last 12 months and have not yet received a visit, but would like to, please let Fr Kevin know.
Many thanks to Susanne and Tim Baron who have been providing a
MARRIAGE PREPARATION COURSE in the Parish for five years.
They would like to step down from this role in the new year and we are looking a couple to take over. If you would be interested, please speak to Father Kevin or contact parishcouncil26@yahoo.co.uk
.
Members of Hallam Cursillo are presenting a course entitled 'KNOWING
GOD BETTER
’ at Mother of God Church starting on Wednesday 3 rd
October and running for seven weeks. The presentation commences in the parish hall after the 7pm Mass. If you wish to attend, please contact
Terry Mortimer at terry.mortimer2011@btinternet.com
.
POVERTY PILGRIMAGE IN HEELEY AND GLEADLESS VALLEY .
Church Action on Poverty in Sheffield are holding their fourth annual pilgrimage on Saturday 6 th October, starting from Mother of God church and visiting churches along the way to learn about the work of food banks, advice centres and other initiatives within the city. More details on the notice board or from Sarah Baker at sarahbaker17@live.co.uk
.
There will be a ‘REFLECTION DAY’ at St. Wilfrid’s Centre on Saturday
13 th October (10.30am - 4pm) led by Sr. Brenda and Sr. Theresa of the
Vincentian Spirituality Group. See poster and booking form in narthex.
Suggested offering £12.50 per person.
The Deanery committee on spirituality and liturgy has arranged a halfday of reflection for MINISTERS OF COMMUNION on Saturday 20 th
October from 9.30am to 1pm at St. Vincent's Church, Crookes. Fr. Andy
Grayson and Fr. Peter McGuire will speak about developing spirituality through this ministry and taking Communion to the sick. There will be opportunities to meet ministers from other parishes and to pose questions to a panel. The session will end with exposition. For more information, contact Jenny King or Kevin Exell.
PRAYER GROUP.
As a result of the Inspir week of guided prayer a small group has developed and is meeting for three sessions on
Mondays during Advent, between 10am and 12 noon. The dates are 3 rd ,
10 th and 17 th December. If you would be interested in coming along please phone Jacinta Campbell for more details.