This Week’s Events
Tues 26th May
10am-12pm Foodbank – We are the
only student-run Foodbank in the
Country; serving the local community
in crisis (also Weds & Fri 10am-12pm).
Father Ian celebrated his
75th Birthday last
weekend! Thanks to all
who came!
Sat 29th May
7pm Music Group – If you would like to
join the music group for our Mass and
rehearse with us at 3pm every
Saturday in the Chaplaincy email:
[email protected]
Sun 30th May
6pm End of Year BBQ – The Chaplaincy
and the Foodbank are co-hosting a
yummy BBQ for you all to celebrate
another successful academic year –
there’s been some fantastic fundraising
activities and events for wonderful
causes and we want to thank you for all
of your support and donations by
inviting you to join us for the evening!
This week the Foodbank has fed a
total of 62 people
We provided emergency relief for
44 adults and 18 children in crisis.
To help us continue our work
please email:
[email protected]
COMING UP
Harlech by the Sea, Wales
Pray as You Go is looking for a
new producer. If you are
interested in applying for the
role please speak to Fr Tim. You
can see the full job spec at the
following link:
http://jobs.theguardian.com/job/60828
20/producer-pray-as-you-go/
We still have places available for
our end of year trip to Harlech! If
you would like to join us from Sun
7th-Sun 14th June or for a few days
during the week please let Greg
know ASAP: [email protected]
Cost: £20 per night inc. food +
return travel by train from
Manchester to Harlech. We hope
you can join us!
Meet the last of our RCIA candidates who will be received into the
Church today by Bishop John at our 7pm Mass…
…Read Daniela and Kinga’s
stories on the back page
I am a Masters
student. I have always
had the desire to join
RCIA and this has
been one of the most
enriching experiences
in my life. The weekly
the meetings always served as a reminder of
how blessed I am to get an opportunity to
understand the unconditional love God has for
mankind and experience His grace in
abundance in all aspects of my life. Ultimately,
having to go through this journey with 16 other
students who had the burning desire to have a
relationship with God made this journey worth
it and I could not trade it for anything.
Juliana
I am studying biology, but
have come to realise the
need for the spiritual as
well as the scientific.
Christ gives us the model
of perfection to follow and
His sacraments are the
guarantee of grace for our
journey. I began with
aesthetic and intellectual
interest, but RCIA has also exposed me to the
human communion I am to be initiated into.
Luke
I am from Nigeria and I’m
completing a Masters degree
in International Business and
Commercial Law.: I joined the
RCIA programme for the
Sacrament of Confirmation.
Although I have been a
Catholic all my life I never got
the
opportunity
to
be
confirmed. I got the
opportunity now and decided to commit to
it. Being confirmed means that I am now fully and
wholly committed and connected to my faith as a
Catholic. By reaffirming my baptismal vows as an
adult by myself it helps me to be more aware to
live my life as a better Christian.
DeeDee (Chimdimma)
I come from China. To
become a Catholic in China is
not so normal, but for me,
becoming a Catholic is
because having a Faith is
quite vital in someone's life,
GOD will guide us to let us
know right and wrong, to
make us different. To join
RCIA is the starting point of
the new life, to know what GOD means to us, to
get closer to GOD, to prepare to have a life and
long journey that will never be lonely, to light a
candle in our heart, and to expel darkness.
.
Vincent
I'm 20 years old and I'm from Hong Kong. I want to be baptized because I want to
change. My life has been a mess and I wish wholeheartedly for a chance to
change, to make a new start. The Catholic journey of faith in is the solution. I
joined RCIA hoping to find the right starting point for the journey. The people I met
in RCIA and the retreat we spent together have become the most precious
moments of my life. I feel blessed to have found "a place" in this modern world
where a weird girl like me can feel like I belong!
Joanne
Confirmation stories continued…
I was born in Colombia but
grew up in Spain. I am
finishing
my
MSc
in
Organisational Psychology. I
have grown up in a Catholic
family, I was Baptised and
made my First Communion;
however, I did not feel ready
to be confirmed until this year
when I joint the RCIA. I think
growth is vital to human life,
so for me the Sacrament of Confirmation is the
supernatural equivalent of the growth process on
the natural level. It builds on what was begun in
Baptism and what was nourished in the Holy
Eucharist. It completes the process of initiation
into the Christian Community and it matures the
soul for the work ahead. Now I feel like I am all
ready to accept the responsibility of my faith and
destiny.
Daniela
I
am
a
UoM
student going into my
second
year
of
architecture. I've been
bought up as a Catholic
however confirmation
was something that I
always let slide due to
the lack of time. This
year after coming to the
Holy Name to view the architectural
drawings of the church for my course and
speaking to Father William I knew instantly
that I needed to re connect with my faith.
My confirmation will allow me to fully
accept the Holy Spirit and participate in the
life of church like I used to when I was
younger. I have met many amazing people
during this experience and will always be
grateful for that as well as everything I have
learned.
Kinga
This Week’s Saints
Monday – Pope St Gregory VII came from humble stock but raised the papacy to a level
of a great power at the end of the 11th century. He famously forced the Holy Roman
Emperor to do penance in the snow outside the papal apartments at Canossa.
On this day we remember also the Venerable Bede, an 8th-century monk who wrote the
Ecclesiastical History of the English People and thereby preserved many sources for later
historians.
Tuesday – St Philip Neri experienced many mystical graces but above all he devoted
himself to apostolic work in the streets of 16th-century Rome. He founded the Oratory
of Divine Love and we remember with gratitude the Oratorians who ministered at Holy
Name Church from 1992 to 2012.
Wednesday – We turn to the English church again as we honour St Augustine of
Canterbury, the 7th-century apostle to the Anglo-Saxon territories in England. Roman
by birth, he eventually became the first Archbishop of Canterbury from where he
oversaw the Christianisation of southern England, (the north having long been
evangelised by Celtic missionaries from Ireland). He was a Benedictine monk.
Our candidates have been preparing for their Baptisms & Confirmations
Manchester Universities Catholic Chaplaincy
Chaplaincy News – Sunday 24th May 2015
0161 273 1456 | [email protected]
The Chaplaincy will be closed during the
day on MON 25TH MAY for the Bank
Holiday – open for mass & adoration
from 5.30pm. All evening events will take
place as usual.
Pentecost Today the universal
Church remembers the feast of
Pentecost – when the Holy Spirit
came down upon the apostles. It
Con
is a honour that at the 7pm mass
we have 18 students, some being
baptised, all being confirmed as
Bishop John Arnold will lay his
hands over them and pray that
they are ‘sealed by the gift of the
Spirit’. Also we remember the 6
postgrad students who are leading
a week of guided prayer in Gorton
- a first in the UK! Well Done.
Today two Salvadorean Students
offer a traditionally painted wooden
cross with the image of Archbishop
Romero, who was shot dead for
defending the poor. He was finally
beatified in an emotional ceremony
attened by millions yesterday in San
Salvador
Our group with Bishop Brain at the Marian Procession
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