Our Lady's R.C. Church, Aspull

31/05/2026

WALKING DAY
Sunday 7th June. Meet 1:30pm for a 2:00pm start. Short service and free refreshments at the Methodist Chapel afterwards.

A wonderful opportunity to support our ecumenical community and uphold a tradition that’s been going for over 100 years.

30/05/2026

THOUGHTS
From the Source Book for Sundays and Seasons.

The Spirit of Easter echoes down two more Sundays, this weekend’s celebration of the Trinity and next weekend’s Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, although we are now in Ordinary Time until the Feast of Christ the King in November.

Because of this we retain a strong sense of celebration. The purpose of this day is to celebrate our belief in the revelation of God’s very nature in the Holy and Blessed Trinity.

Now that we have witnessed the full activity of God in the Death and Resurrection of Jesus and the sending of the Holy Spirit, the first Christian Pentecost, fifty days after Passover, we look back over the previous season and celebrate now the feast of God’s Unity, Trinity, Creation, Redemption and Love.

The interplay of Father, Son and Holy Spirit are evident in the Scripture Readings for today. Moses in the First Reading from the Book of Exodus affirms his belief in a merciful God. Jesus explains in John’s Gospel God’s saving will by sending the Son into the world.

In the Second Reading from St Paul’s Second Epistle to the Christians in Corinth, the conclusion includes a Trinitarian Formula known in Christian tradition as The Grace…”The Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ…”

30/05/2026

CAFOD
Many of the world’s poorest countries are in a deepening debt crisis, forced to pay ever higher interest rates to wealthy lenders. Money that should be spent on healthcare, education and coping with climate crisis is flowing out of countries that can least afford it.

Cafod is calling for urgent action from the UK Government. Follow this link to read more about this and sign a petition.

We are facing the most acute global debt crisis in history and it's the world's poorest countries who are the worst affected. Urgent action is needed to stop its devastating effects.

29/05/2026

ONLINE MASS
There will be no live stream or online Mass this Sunday 31st May.

25/05/2026

NEXT WEEKEND
We celebrate Trinity Sunday

24/05/2026

Mass for the Pentecost Sunday Year A from Our Lady's Haigh

23/05/2026

THOUGHTS
Coming from the Greek word for fifty, Pentecost originally began as a Jewish Celebration in thanksgiving for the ‘First Fruits’ when winter grain and spring vegetables were harvested, enjoyed and offered to God.

For us Christians we celebrate the Birthday of the Church. For us, Jesus is the ‘First Fruits’ of those who have died and his Resurrection heralds our own at the end of time. But for now we live as Christians in the world empowered by his Spirit of peace and forgiveness.

While Pentecost concludes the Easter Season, the Gift of the Holy Spirit, celebrated today, compels us to resound again with Easter joy.

In March or April each year the Jewish Community celebrates the Feast of Passover as indeed at the same time Christians celebrate Easter. They call to mind how God used Moses to lead the people from slavery in Egypt and then fifty days later in May or June is held the Jewish Feast of Pentecost (Shavuot in Hebrew). It calls to mind that God gave the Law, the Ten Commandments, to Moses.

The Ten Commandments can be phrased in this way.

Give God the first place in your life.
Don’t love anything more than you love God.
Show respect to everything that is holy, particularly God’s name.
You need one day of the week for rest and for worshipping God.
Respect your parents and all who care for you.
Do not kill anyone.
Sexual love is special. Keep it for the person you are married to.
Don’t take what isn’t yours.
Don’t do people down by spreading lies about them.
Don’t be jealous of what others have.

The Ten Commandments reflect a basic, common sense way of living. They can guide us in the short term and long term choices that we need to make for a good and happy life.

From Society of St Gregory and Nicholas Hutchinson.

20/05/2026

BANK HOLIDAY MASS
Monday 25th May 10am Our Lady’s.

17/05/2026

Mass for the Seventh Sunday of Easter Year A from Our Lady's Haigh

16/05/2026

THOUGHTS
From the Source Book for Sundays and Seasons 2002 for the Seventh Sunday of Easter.

The Death, Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus must have felt like loss to those who loved him most. Left to themselves they each must have experienced the personal emptiness that comes from the loss of a person loved and admired. Even so they did not feel loss just as individuals; they felt it as a community.

When Jesus left them stranded at the place of the Ascension they sought out more familiar surroundings; they returned to Jerusalem. They went back to the upper room of the place they called home. They went as a group. Together they kept a kind of wake. Together they prayed.

We know there is more to this story. We know the Holy Spirit will find them there and the adventure will begin anew. Their “wake” was really a vigil preparing for the gift of the Holy Spirit, but at this moment there was silence, sorrow and fear. It was hard and even in a group they must have felt alone.

When we are in the presence of mourners we want to reassure them with a promise of hope. We want to hold them and help them. In their loss they cannot recognise the world around them. They need the comfort of familiar places and faces.

It is in the community that individuals find hope. It is in community that individuals find the gift of the Holy Spirit.