Greeting from Fr Bryan Cunningham July 2018

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1 Greeting from Fr Bryan Cunningham July 2018 Dear Schoenstatt Family and Friends, The month of the Sacred heart has brought us good weather and a chance to deepen our love for the Jesus who gave all there is to give for our sake. In our Covenant Mass we celebrated our Covenant of Love with Jesus who loved us first and teaches us how to love God in serving our neighbour. In our MTA Magazine for June we read the moving account from Brian Stocks written by his dad. It is a great loss for Louise and Brian and Paul and for the Schoenstatt Family and so many of wee Brian s friends. We also had the burial of the ashes of Paul Barnes and celebrated his life with the Barnes family, with Clare and the girls Paul s life with many of the Schoenstatt family. Many remarked that we had the atmosphere we have during family week. Who could forget Sheil s presentation of Paul s gift to her for her birthday. We pray for Brian and Paul and for their families who grieve their loss. In the coming weeks we look forward to preparing for the World Meeting of Families in Dublin and join with our Holy Father Pope Francis in praying that the proclamation of the Gospel go the Family should be a transforming joy for our world which gives us hope in the future. We also look forward to the Celebration of the 50th Jubilee of the Celebration of the First Holy Mass in St John Fisher s Church. The first Mass was celebrated on Sunday 13th September 1968 and we will celebrate the weekend remembering this great occasion. Our women s group want to find ways to encourage people to take part in our daily adoration in the Shrine and you are invited to take part in the Eucharistic Congress on the weekend of the 8th and 9th September in Liverpool. We have Taste and See Family Mass at 3.30pm on Sunday, 7th July and look forward to seeing you. A report of the Into my Vineyard from Thursday 21 st June is available online. The next quarterly MTA Magazine will be published for the Covenant Mass on the 18th September United in Christ and his Blessed Mother, Fr. Bryan Cunningham Movement Director and Rector of the Shrine

2 Masses Regular Mass Schedule Holy Mass every Sunday at 9:30 am in St John Fisher s Hall Holy Mass in the Shrine: Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday at 9 am. Thursday at 7:30 pm and Saturday at 12:00 noon Adoration in the Shrine every Saturday at 11:00 am and Sunday at 12:00 noon Shrine is open daily for visitors from 9:00 am - 6:00 pm and the praying of the Angelus is at 12:00 noon and 6 pm daily accompanied by the ringing of the bell. Groups welcome, to schedule go to Special Masses Early Bird Holy Mass for men 7.00am on the first Saturday of each month (Shrine) Taste and See Mass: Sunday, July 8 th at 3.30pm Covenant Mass: Wednesday, July 18 th, 7.30pm Reconciliation Every Saturday from 11:00am to 12:00 noon Upcoming Celebrations World Meeting of Families in Dublin: August, 2018 Pope Francis has chosen DUBLIN to host the largest international gathering of families in the world. The World Meeting of Families will take place this summer in Dublin 21st- 26th August.Pope Francis invites us to Dublin for the World Meeting of Families, which is an international congress on The Gospel of the Family: Joy for the World with many speakers from overseas. Saturday will be the Festival of Families and on Sunday Pope Francis will celebrate the final Mass. The Diocese of Salford is organising a party to go to Dublin and you can join in this group if you are interested in going. For further information or to book/express an interest, formation@dioceseofsalford.org.uk or contact Fr Paul Daly on or at Cathedral Centre, 3 Ford St, Salford, M3 6DP We look forward to welcome families and pilgrims visiting our Shrine in their way to DUBLIN. Especially those visitors from across Europe, from the shrine in Austin, Texas, USA and members of the youth branch from the Shrine in Queretaro, Mexico.

3 Life at the Shrine Young Adults Evening Is Jesus the Centre of our Life? Join us at our Young Adults Evening on 21 st July 2018 at 5 pm. Please extend this invitation to any young adults in your families. More information, contact the UK Youth Branch: Michael Weichselbaumer or Ignacio Melecio, Stain Glass Window to commemorate 50 years since the celebration of the First Holy Mass in St John Fisher's Kearsley Ian Hall, Paul Cooper and the group in the Parish have taken an initiative to look a stain glass window to mark the 50 th Jubilee of the first Holy Mass at St John Fisher s. We now have an estimated of the cost of the window should we go ahead with our Jubilee Project? You are invited to make a donation towards costs. We are looking for possibilities to raise money for this? Do you have any ideas? Could you help?

4 One way would be to make a donation in the name of a loved one and this will be recorded in our Golden Jubilee Book. An Annual Mass could be offered for all those who helped realise this wonderful project. Shrine Painting Having painted the inside and front of the Shrine last September in readiness for October s Crowning, this first week of July, taking advantage of the continuing dry weather, Stephen Bromley and Paul Cooper painted the rest of the outside of the Shrine. It looks stunning!!!

5 Stop Press By Stephen Bromley On Friday evening there is a TV programme starring Jane McDonald. It s a travelogue; each week she is on a cruise in a different part of the world. On the last week of June she visited Punta Arenas, Argentina and went to a place where people place signs indicating miles/km to their home towns. One of them says Schoenstatt!!! What are the chances?!!!!! Save the date MTA Magazine The next quarterly MTA Magazine will be published for the Covenant Mass on the 18 th September 2018 Family Week in August 2018 Our Family Branch invites you to the Family Week at Whitby from Monday 6 th - Friday 10 th August Pilgrim Mother Rally The Rally will take place on the 13 th October St John Fisher s Jubilee The 50 th Jubilee will be celebrated from the September 2018.

6 Friends of the Cottage Barbecue in August

7 Schoenstatt Family Grand Auction

8 Year of Fr. Kentenich July Meditation with Fr Josef Kentenich Mother Mary, In your life we see that it is worth trusting God completely! In you we find the strength to unite our lives with Him and one another. Our covenant with you encourages us to give our all: My Queen, my Mother, I give myself entirely to you, And to show my devotion to you, I consecrate to you this day My eyes, my ears, my mouth, my heart, My entire self without reserve. As I am your own, my good Mother, Guard me and defend me As your property and possession. Amen. This letter from the Schoenstatt Movement is prepared by our editing team, Avril de Mink and Juan Ignacio Melecio in association with the editor of our quarterly magazine MTA, Patty Ganley and many contributors.)