+ Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church
Catlow Hall Street, Oswaldtwistle
Lancashire
BB5 3EZ
Parish Priest: Rev. Fr. S D O'Brien
Parish Administrator: Ciara Kelly
Tel: 01254-232433
Email: stmarysoswaldtwistle@dioceseofsalford.org.uk
Sunday 10th August 2025
19th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Masses & Liturgies for the following week ...
5pm – 5:45pm Adoration of Blessed Sacrament
6pm Mass, Saint Dominic, Priest (Memoria)
St. Dominic, born in 1170 in Spain, Dominic became a priest and after strenuous preaching against the Albigensians he founded the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) to continue his work. He died in 1221.
Saturday 9th August
10am Mass, Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Virgin & Martyr, Patron of Europe (Feast)
St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was born in Germany in 1891. She was killed with her sister Rosa in the gas chamber of Auschwitz in 1942. A convert from Judaism, she became a Discalced Carmelite and embraced in her life the cross of Christ.
6pm The Holy Rosary for Peace in the World
6:30pm Vigil Mass for the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sunday 10th August
9:30am The Holy Rosary for Peace in the World
10am Mass for the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Monday 11th August
10am Requiem Mass for Geoffrey Cronshaw RIP
Tuesday 12th August
5pm – 5:50pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
6pm Weekday Mass, (Feria)
Wednesday 13th August
9:15am – 9:50am Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
10am Weekday Mass, (Feria)
Thursday 14th August
9:15am – 9:50am Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
10am Mass, Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe, Priest & Martyr (Memoria)
St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe was born in Poland in 1894. He became a Franciscan in 1910. Arrested by the invading German forces in 1939 and sentenced to heavy labour in the extermination camp at Auschwitz. When a married man was chosen to be executed, Maximilian volunteered to take his place. He was killed by lethal injection on 14th August 1941. He was canonised in 1982 in the presence of the man whose life he saved.
Friday 15th August
Holy Day of Obligation
'It was fitting that she, who had kept her virginity in childbirth, should keep her own body free from all corruption even after death. It was fitting that she, who had carried the Creator as a child at her breast, should dwell in the divine tabernacles… it was fitting that God's Mother should possess what belongs to her Son and that she should be honoured by every creature as the Mother and the Handmaid of God." - St John Damascene
9:30am The Holy Rosary
10am Mass
5pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
6pm Mass
Saturday 16th August
9am – 9:50am Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
10am Votive Mass of Our Lady (In the Lady Chapel)
6pm The Holy Rosary for Peace in the World
6:30pm Vigil Mass for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sunday 17th August
9:30am The Holy Rosary for Peace in the World
10am Mass for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sanctuary Lamp
This week (9th August – 15th August), the Sanctuary Lamp is for Margaret & Maureen Westwell.
Our Lady's Lamp
This week (9th August – 15th August), Our Lady's Lamp is for Heather Kelly.
Last Week's Offertory Collection
£476.36. Thank you for your kind generosity.
Welcome Fr. Adam
Prayer Visitor Description
A Prayer Visitor (PV) is a parishioner, in good standing with the Church, who has gone through the appropriate safeguarding checks (DBS & Salford Diocesan Volunteer Registration) and has had some initial formation from the parish priest.
The parish priest will direct the PV to an individual within the parish who would find a lot of support and encouragement through having other believers pray with them. A PV would attend a person that the parish priest has first met and assessed, and they would visit with another PV - always in twos never on their own.
A PV is not a social worker, a home help service or a messenger. The sole task of two PV's visiting is simply to pray with another person within the parish boundaries.
"For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them." Mathew. 18:20
If you would like to be considered as a Prayer Visitor, then please make contact with Fr. O'Brien via the parish office – stmarysoswaldtwistle@dioceseofsalford.org.uk
The Feast of Saint Monica
This Feast of St. Monica this year falls on Wednesday 27th August. As we know, St. Monica was a devoted wife and mother who earnestly prayed for her family to return to the Church. Her prayers were expressed in words and tears that came straight from the heart, asking Our Lord to bring her family, especially her son Augustine, back to the Faith. As Brandon Vogt comments:
"St. Monica exemplifies the power of a praying parent. She wasn't able to convince Augustine with words, and in fact, whenever she tried to talk to him about religion, he brushed her away. But through her daily, committed intercession, over more than fifteen years, Augustine was able to journey into the Church."
We all know people, especially loved ones, family and friends, who struggle with the Faith and who have lapsed for all kinds of reasons. Let's come together on Wednesday 27th August to ask St. Monica's intercession to bring them home to the Lord. The Holy Mass will be celebrated at 7pm followed by the opportunity to venerate a relic of St. Monica and invoke her aid. Her statue, placed on the sanctuary, will have a prayer box in front of it where people are invited to write the names of family and friends and place them in the box asking for St. Monica's intercession. All are welcome and do spread the word so that others may know and come.
Date for you Diaries…
St. Mary's Parish Feast & Celebration, Friday 5th September – Monday 8th September 2025.
Friday 5th September: Day of Healing 6pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and Confessions. 7pm Healing Mass, with the Sacrament of the Sick and a Eucharist Healing Procession.
Saturday 6th September: Day of Intercession 9am – 9:50am Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and Confessions, 10am Votive Mass of Our Lady, 6pm The Holy Rosary, 6:30pm the Vigil Mass followed by a Torchlight Procession to the Grotto
Sunday 7th September: Day of Resurrection 9:30am The Holy Rosary, 10am Mass beginning with the procession of the statue of Our Lady of Oswaldtwistle around the church,
Monday 8th September: Day of Celebration 9:30am The Holy Rosary, 10am Feast Day Mass, 1pm Celebratory Afternoon Tea (More details to follow), 6pm Feast Day Mass
If any parishioners would like to volunteer their time and facilitate an event, especially on the Sunday afternoon, they are more than welcome to. Please see Fr. O'Brien to share what you would like to do. Our Lady of Oswaldtwistle, pray for us.
Marriage Support & Healing
Ecological Rosary at the Laudato Si' Centre
Jubilee of Youth
Job Vacancies