The Parish Church of The Most Holy Trinity, Blackley

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FeriaMass 10am
10/06/2026

Feria
Mass 10am

07/06/2026

Corpus Christi at MHT

Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ11.15am Parish Mass, Procession of the Host & Benediction Guest Preac...
07/06/2026

Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
11.15am Parish Mass, Procession of the Host & Benediction
Guest Preacher Fr Graeme Rowlands

Preparations are in order for Sunday as we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, also known...
04/06/2026

Preparations are in order for Sunday as we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, also known as Corpus Christi.

Fr Ben has been busy preparing for the occasion in which we hope our young people will carry sacrament sticks during the procession.

Please pray for good weather! 🙏

Don’t forget to come along and join the celebration!

☀️🌼 The Most Holy Trinity Summer Market 🌼☀️Join us for an afternoon of fun, community, and fundraising at our Summer Mar...
03/06/2026

☀️🌼 The Most Holy Trinity Summer Market 🌼☀️

Join us for an afternoon of fun, community, and fundraising at our Summer Market!

📅 Sunday 26th July 2026
🕧 12:30PM
📍 Parish Hall, Goodman Street, Blackley. M9 4DB

Enjoy:
🎟️ Tombola & raffles
🍰 Delicious cakes and refreshments
🎉 Fun stalls and activities
✨ And much more!

Bring your family and friends, whilst helping to support your local church.

We look forward to seeing you there!

St Charles Lwanga & CompanionsMass 10amLwangaCharles Lwanga (1 January 1860 – 3 June 1886) was a Ugandan convert to the ...
03/06/2026

St Charles Lwanga & Companions
Mass 10am
Lwanga
Charles Lwanga (1 January 1860 – 3 June 1886) was a Ugandan convert to the Catholic Church who was martyred with a group of his peers and is revered as a saint.Lwanga was born in the Kingdom of Buganda, the central and southern part of modern Uganda, and served as chief of the royal pages and later major-domo in the court of King Mwanga II of Buganda. He was baptised by Pere Giraud on 15 November 1885.In fear of losing the overbearing power he had on his subjects to a Christian worldview, King Mwanga II insisted that Christian converts abandon their new faith and executed many Anglicans and Catholics between 1885 and 1887, including Lwanga and other officials in the royal court.ReflectionReflection written by Jane Onoo, parishioner of the Nigerian Catholic Chaplaincy England & Wales. I am indeed glad and grateful to be talking about the life of one of the great Saints of Africa. St. Charles Lwanga was one of the 22 Uganda Martyrs killed between the years (1887-1889) AD. Most people referred to him as prefect or a leader of the 22 Martyrs. He was a great leader who led from the front. St. Charles Lwanga was a page boy who was working at the King’s palace of the kingdom of Buganda (KABAKA) when the French first catholic missionaries arrived in Uganda in 1879. He was the first to be Baptised and after baptism, because he could read and write, he became a Catechist and started giving instructions to the young boys in the palace. Thus, even when the king was told the new ways was becoming a threat to his power, St. Charles refused to give up and was really willing to die for the sake of the gospel. Fulfilling his life purpose mattered to him more than death, what a great Shepard, death never threatens the man who discovered his life purpose. St. Charles Lwanga surrendered himself to God when he was burned alive while singing and praising God. The life of St. Charles inspires courage and challenges us in many ways. We should walk in the footsteps of St. Charles and serve God and humanity in the vineyard of the Lord without looking back and be ready to surrender our self to the will of God. Each one of us is called to holiness. All the Baptised are called to share in the work of the mission meaning a venture that required all the members of the church. The love of Christ which was so much in him was demonstrated by sharing with his colleagues through the gospel. The life of St. Charles LWANGA teaches us everyday to live our lives with dedication, we should be an inspiration to others. Me as a mother should lead by example to my children and those around me. I should remain ordinarily faithful in my everyday life. The gift that God gave me should be translated in doing what can benefit others while I remain simple, humble, and deep in faith. To walk in the footsteps of St. Charles Lwanga, I love to quote this powerful African proverb: He who follows the track of an elephant never gets wet from the dew on the bushes. St. Charles is one of the many elephants who have gone before us. The blood of the martyrs is like a mustard seed when planted it produced and yield so much fruits and the Catholic church in Uganda are the fruit of the martyrs. Unless a grain of wheat shall fall upon the ground and die it remains but a single grain with no life, John 12:24. St. Charles has lit a candle in the Catholic church which has never stopped burning in Uganda and throughout the world. He touched so many lives with his example. People can learn true spirit of love, humility, and service to the people from his good example.

St Justin Mass 7pmHe was born at the beginning of the second century in Nablus, in Samaria, of a pagan Greek family. He ...
01/06/2026

St Justin
Mass 7pm
He was born at the beginning of the second century in Nablus, in Samaria, of a pagan Greek family. He was an earnest seeker after truth, and studied many systems of philosophy before being led, through Platonism, to Christianity. While remaining a layman, he accepted the duty of making the truth known, and travelled from place to place proclaiming the gospel. In 151 he travelled from Ephesus to Rome, where he opened a school of philosophy and wrote defences and expositions of Christianity, which have survived to this day and are the earliest known writings of their kind. In the persecution of 165, in the reign of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, he was denounced as a Christian, arrested and beheaded. The transcript of his trial by the prefect of Rome, Rusticus, has also survived: it can be found in today’s Office of Readings.
Justin treats the Greek philosophy that he studied as mostly true, but incomplete. In contrast to the Hebrew tendency to view God as making revelations to them and to no-one else, he follows the parable of the Sower, and sees God as sowing the seed of wisdom throughout the world, to grow wherever the soil would receive it. When we dispute with people who disagree with us, we would do well to assume that they too are seeking wisdom and have found truth of a kind. Since there is only one God and one Truth, it is our task not to contradict or belittle their achievement, but to show them how their strivings and searches are ultimately fulfilled in Christ. This is harder to do – not least, because we have to take the trouble to understand our own faith thoroughly – but it is ultimately more worthwhile.

31/05/2026

MHT Trinity Sunday

Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Feast of Title Parish Mass 11.15am followed by refreshments
31/05/2026

Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
Feast of Title
Parish Mass 11.15am followed by refreshments

St Augustine of Canterbury Mass 10amChristianity in Britain started early, but was largely submerged by the pagan Anglo-...
27/05/2026

St Augustine of Canterbury
Mass 10am
Christianity in Britain started early, but was largely submerged by the pagan Anglo-Saxon invasions of the fifth and sixth centuries. It remained alive only in the far west, which remained British because it was too remote and inaccessible for the invaders to attack.
It is said that Pope Gregory the Great saw some fair-haired Anglo-Saxon slaves exposed for sale in a market in Rome. He asked where they were from, and when he was told, replied non Angli, sed angeli – “not Angles, but angels,” and determined to secure their evangelization.
Whatever the truth of that story, it is certain that Gregory did organise a party of thirty monks to travel to south-eastern England and spread the Gospel there, and chose as their leader Augustine, prior of the monastery of St Andrew in Rome. They landed in 597, and were welcomed by the king of Kent, Ethelbert, who became a Christian along with many of his subjects. A second wave of missionaries arrived in 601. Augustine went to Arles, in France, where he was consecrated archbishop of the English, and then returned to Canterbury to set up his see. The mission prospered, and he founded two more sees, at London and at Rochester in Kent.
The evangelization of the country was planned in close agreement with Pope Gregory, and took care to respect existing traditions. Pagan temples and holy places were not to be destroyed, but to be converted to Christian use; and pagan feasts were to be superseded by Christian ones. This is consistent with the pattern of evangelization throughout the first millennium, which saw Christianity as a fulfilment of what went before, rather than a contradiction of it. Even in Rome itself, temples of Juno had a tendency to become churches dedicated to Our Lady. (It is only with the Spanish colonial evangelizations of the mid-second millennium that the policy of making a clean break with the past began: a policy that works faster but whose effects are not always permanent).
In the far west of Britain, where British bishops had survived the pagan invasions – or where they had fled to escape them – Augustine was less successful in establishing his authority. The traditions of the Celtic church were different from the Roman ones, and bishops who had guided their people for generations were not about to submit to a jumped-up missionary from overseas. It took several generations for the whole of Great Britain to become Christian and for the English and British liturgical traditions to be reconciled.
Augustine died at Canterbury on 26 May 604 or 605.

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Manchester
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Wednesday 11am - 12pm
Sunday 11:15am - 12:15pm

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