Christmas Mass Times

Tuesday - Christmas Eve

Mossley Carols 11:45 am – Mass 12.15pm

 Uppermill Carols at 5:30 pm - Mass @ 6pm

Wednesday - Christmas Day

Uppermill Carols 9:00 am - Mass 9:30 am

Mossley Carols 10:30 am - Mass 11.00 am

Christmas Blessings

On behalf of Fr. Peter and myself, I take this opportunity to wish you and your loved ones all the blessing of this most Holy Season.  May the arrival of the newborn king remind us how much God loves us.

100 Club Winning Numbers  

Mossley 100 Club Winning Numbers     

1    80 Ona McGladdery

2      14 Maureen Fitzpatrick

3      28Jacinta Murray

Thanks for your support.

The assisted suicide/ dying Bill is now going to committee stage where further scrutiny and amendments will take place. It is expected to be about April before it goes to report stage where MPs have the chance to suggest further amendments and then to 3rd Reading usually straight after. There was such a small majority that it is hoped that the vote can be swung against it at 3rd Reading but we need to once again  make a concerted effort to inform our MP of our views and the dangers.. In the New Year there will be more information.  Please do continue to help to defeat this bill. Look out for more information in 2025  and in the mean time, thank you for all your efforts in promoting a culture of life because they are not  in vain. May you all have a wonderful Christmas time. Mary

ASSISTED SUICIDE BILL.

I received this letter this week from The Rt Hon Jonathan Reynolds MP
Member of Parliament for Stalybridge and Hyde
Secretary of State for Business and Trade
President of the Board of Trade

Dear Fr. Jim ,

Thank you for your email about  the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill and my apologies that it has taken a while to respond. I have received over 500 emails relating to this vote and had many conversations with people inside and outside of the constituency with a wide range of experiences. Thank you for sharing your views on assisted dying. 

I recognise that people can have very strong reason to want the ability to end their own life in future, and many of the emails I received did make this argument. But many more expressed doubt about the acceptability of the Bill. One of the key questions for me has been: under a situation where a person does qualify to end their own life under what is being proposed, but wants to do so because they feel a burden to their family rather than they are in acute pain, are we comfortable with that? Would the very existence of such a right risk creating an expectation that it should be exercised? Do we feel vulnerable people could definitely be protected? I feel in this instance the precautionary principle should apply.
Alongside that do we feel as a country we have the right level of palliative care, social care, hospice provision and other services to give people the right framework to make this decision? I agree that dying people need better, but much of that has to be ensuring we have better palliative care. 
Finally, what is being proposed is a very significant change for the NHS. The details in the Bill of how people would physically end their own lives leave me with a lot of questions, including how health services would be configured to provide the lethal drugs necessary to provide it?
Taking all of this onboard, I did not feel able to support the Bill. It is also important to say that the Second Reading of the Bill does not mean it has become law - like any Bill it must now pass through all stages, including the House of Lords.
Thank you for your email on an issue of such fundamental significance. If there is any other issue you would like to raise, please do get in touch.
 
Best wishes
Jonathan

PLEASE keep the pressure on our MP’s, this is too important to let it slip through!

For your information

Funerals as follows

Gordon Matthews (Uppermill)

Funeral Service 10:15am Wednesday 8th January 2025.

 Diocesan Pilgrimage to Walsingham 2025
Our diocesan pilgrimage office is now taking bookings for its next annual pilgrimage to Walsingham. Next year's pilgrimage will take place on Saturday 3 May 2025, with an option to extend your visit by staying overnight on Friday 2 May. For more information, prices, and details on how to book, please visit https://dioceseofsalford.org.uk/walsingham-pilgrimage-2025 or call 0161 817 2209.

Teresa's Christmas Cakes

(Fruit Cake)

These are now available, please pick them up from the parish meeting room.   All proceeds to the Good Life Orphanage.

World Youth Day Rome 2025      Are you aged 16-35? Are you looking for an unforgettable opportunity to share your faith with other young Catholics? Pope Francis has announced a special World Youth Day in Rome next summer to celebrate the Church’s Year of Jubilee and our diocesan Youth Ministry team invites you to be part of thisonce-in-a-25-year event! The pilgrimage will take place between 28 July and 3 August. For more information and to register your interest, please email youth@dioceseofsalford.org.uk

  Uppermill – Collection envelopes.

The new envelopes are now available at the back of church.  There are only three months worth of envelopes in the boxes.  This is because it is going to take a while for all the financial business between Salford and Leeds to be completed.  Please keep using the envelopes that are in the boxed for now, and we will issue new ones when all is completed.  Thanks for your understanding.

Christmas Masses

Veronica Timperley   John Clarke   Kathleen Clarke   Mary Rose Maloney

Johanna Friedrich   Michael Friedrich    Jeremiah O’Driscoll   Jack O’Driscoll

Ian Hollingsworth    The Mason Family    The Boyd Family    The Akerley Family

The Miller Family    Loraine Ackerley    Judith Suddaby

Mass times this week

TAKE SPECIAL NOTICE AS TIMES HAVE CHANGED

Masses this week

Monday No Mass

Tuesday No Morning Mass see above

Wednesday See above

Thursday 9:30 exposition 10am Mass

Friday MASS in Uppermill 10am

Saturday 12:15am Mossley

Saturday 6pm Uppermill

Sunday 9:30 am Uppermill

Sunday  11.00 am Mossley

Baptisms by appointment

Weddings – the church requires sis months’ notice of your intent to marry

Coffee is served after Mass on a Sunday morning, please join us if you are able.