SACRED HEART RC CHURCH

SUNDAY Masses: Vigil Mass – Saturday 6pm, Sunday 9.30am and 11am. Weekday: Monday to Friday 9.30am; Saturday noon. Saturday, October 11, Mass for start of Pilgrimage at 7.15am, there won’t be a noon Mass that day.

Reconciliation: Saturday before the noon and 6pm Masses.

Baptisms and weddings by appointment with Fr. O’Kane.

Special collection for CAR at this weekend Masses of Saturday, and Sunday, following last Friday’s Family Fast Day.

Fatima Final Meeting is tomorrow, Sunday, at 7pm when all travel documents will be available. Our pilgrimage commences next Saturday, October 11, with Mass at 7.15am and ends on Wednesday, October 15.

The Procession and Crowning of Our Lady’s Statue followed by Benediction will be on Tuesday, at 7.30pm.

October Devotions are each Tuesday – except October 14 – at 7.30pm.

An exhibition of family statues, wall plaques, icons and pictures of Our Lady will be held in the parish centre on Sunday October 26, at 3pm.

Robert Burns has volunteered to help keep everything tidy in the church grounds. Sunday, our Bible Hour will ask the important question: “What really happens when we die?”

In Psalm 6:5, David says that there is “no remembrance” of God in death, making it clear that people do not live on in some form immediately after death. However, other verses from the Bible explain more, offering us a wonderful hope – Job tells us “I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth” – Job 19:25. This redeemer is Jesus Christ, and the Bible tells us that He will return to Earth and that true believers who have died in faith will be raised to eternal life.

This talk will take place at the Christadelphian Hall, 310 Yorkshire Street, OL16 2EF. Our Bible Class will be at the same venue, at 7.45pm on Tuesday, October 7, and will be about Sodom and Gomorrah.

Visit www.thisisyour bible.com/rochdale.