Sacred Heart Online: July 2006

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Notices for the week beginning 6th August 2006

Are you interested in joining the Sacred Heart Union of Catholic Mothers? (You don’t have to be a mother!) Launch Meeting, John Paul II Room (in Church) 7.30pm Tuesday 15th August (after Mass). Refreshments too!

Bells Appeal There will be a raffle once each month to help make the final push to pay for the bells. Excellent prizes to be won (Traidcraft Voucher, Bottle of Whisky, Footstool). Tickets from the Traidcraft stall.

Are you a tax payer? The parish could receive a tax refund of 28p for every £1 that you give. Donations can be by weekly envelope, standing order or occasional donation. If you pay tax please speak to Jim Ward (the organist).

Day Pilgrimage to Harvington Hall Sunday September 10th. To book a seat on the coach contact Fr. Peter or Fr Philip Griffin tel. 616483. Adults £8 children £5. See poster for more details.

The Social Centre is available for hire. It is an ideal venue for family functions, birthdays, baptisms etc. Ring the Club 204507 (when the Club is not open you can leave a message).

Visitation. Bishop David will be making a formal visitation of the parish on the weekend of October 16th/17th. More details later.

Station Mass for the beatification of Cardinal Newman at Sacred Heart, Silverdale this Thursday August 10th at 7.30pm. Father Peter will be preaching, and you are all welcome. Light refreshments afterwards.

Altar Servers are invited to attend and possibly serve and read at a special Mass at St. Chad's Cathedral on September 23rd. The Archbishop will preside and preach at the Mass. Refreshments will be provided. Coach leaves Church at 12 noon and returns about 5pm. £8 each all welcome Servers travel free (under 16s must be accompanied). To come along see Fr Peter or sign the list in the Sacristy.

Traidcraft Stall open after Mass every Sun. Please stay and enjoy a coffee or tea and a chat.
Catechists Meeting on Wednesday 9th, 7pm at the Presbytery.

Financial Report
Collection £330.32 (including standing orders) of which £221 was Gift Aided, giving a tax refund of £61.88 Collection for Cafod Middle East Appeal £199.61 Bottle £8.10 Building Fund £37.13, Donations £25 Jumble Sale £204!
Thank You!

Parish Calendar (with Mass intentions)

Praying Together

… for our Parish and all its people
...for the sick of the Parish
… for my nieces who are unhappy in their relationships
… for Clare who is due to have a major operation
… for James who is suffering with depression and addiction
… for David Ciccotti, ill in hospital and making progress; for his family and friends
… for an aunties father who has cancer and is dying
…for a friends Dad who has gone to Iraq
… for Abbie, aged 10, with cancer
… for a daughter to find peace
… for the soul of Bill McLaughlin who died on the 30th June
… for a granddad who has died
… for Rose, that she may soon be well
… for Noreen in respite care
… for a friend who is undergoing Radiotherapy
...for John going to Mexico.
..for my Nan, Maisie Wood that she may recover from her illness.
...for Mgr. Ryall still very ill in hospital
...for someone with Epilepsy
Please pray. If you would like a prayer included in 'Welcome' please write it in the silver book by Our Lady's Chapel.

Contact Fr. Peter Weatherby

Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Jasper Street,
Hanley
Stoke-on-Trent

Priest: Fr Peter Weatherby

Contact Us

telephone: 01782 215217
mobile: 07766 335591
fax: 08701 380646
email: hanley@northstaffsdeanery.org.uk

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Day Pilgrimage to Harvingon Hall Sunday September 10th. To book a seat on the coach contact Fr. Peter or Fr Philip Griffin tel. 616483. Adults £8 children £5. See poster for more details.

Gap Year Volunteers If you are 18+ and have an enthusiasm to work with young people on a GAP Year placement. For further details tel. 01538 703224 or email paul@altoncastle.co.uk

The Social Centre is available for hire. It is an ideal venue for family functions, birthdays, baptisms etc. Contact Fr Peter or ring the club 204507

We were sad to hear the news of the death of Fr Plunkett Shannon in St Mary’s Home, Stone. Fr Plunkett was about the celebrate his 90th birthday. Funeral Mass is at Clayton at 11.30am on Tuesday (body into Church 4.30pm Monday). May he rest in peace. Fr Peter will be attending Fr Shannon’s funeral, so there will be no exposition or confessions on Tuesday. Fr Krzystof will be saying Mass.

Red Boxes A big thank you to all who helped to raise the £408 total! Special thanks to Maureen Hall for the work that she does for the Charity.

Are you interested in joining the Sacred Heart branch of the Union of Catholic Mothers? (You don’t have to be a mother to join) for more information please speak to Shirley Weatherby.

Birmingham Catholic Charismatic Renewal Conference (Behold I stand and knock at the Door)10th August-14August at the Paragon Hotel. For details see Fr. Peter.

Youth Worker £18000 -£24000 dependant on experience and qualifications. Key responsibilities will include: Delivery and support of the retreat programmes, Developing new initiatives, Pastoral care of the GAP year team, Leadership and management responsibilities. For a recruitment pack Tel: 01538 703224., or email philip@altoncastle.co.ok

Altar Servers are invited to attend and possibly serve and read at a special Mass at St. Chad's Cathedral on September 23rd. The Archbishop will preside and preach at the Mass. Refreshments will be provided afterwards and a coach will be available. We hope you will represent Sacred Heart on this important occasion. For more information speak to Fr. Peter.

Financial ReportCollection £367.06 (including standing orders) of which £243.50 was Gift Aided, giving a tax refund of £68.18 Second Collection for Parish Levy £117.86 Bottle £5.96 Building Fund £31.12. Donations £137.53Thank You!

Directions

Directions to Sacred Heart Church
and to Sacred Heart Pastoral Centre

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Sacred Heart Church is in Jasper Street, Hanley, (the City Centre) a short walk from the Victoria Hall, the Potteries Museum and Library, and the Hanley Bus Station.
Sacred Heart Pastoral Centre (the Parish Hall) is at 44 Jasper Street

From outside the Potteries conurbation (most directions), approach the area by the M6 and A500. Leave the A500 for the A50 (signposted Uttoxeter, Derby) by the incinerator and the Brittannia Stadium. Leave the A50 at the first exit, and follow the signs for City Centre (A50).

From the east (Uttoxeter, Derby) approach the city by the A50. Leave the A50 just before the junction with the A500 and the Brittannia Stadium at the exit marked City Centre (A50).

From other directions, head for City Centre/Hanley.

Jasper Street is near the junction of the A50 (Lichfield Street) and A5008 Hanley Inner ring road / Potteries Way, and the Church is clearly visible from this junction. (However, the junction with the A50 is blocked, so you need to travel a short distance along the dual carriage way inner ring road, then turn left to come back on yourself.

Approaching this junction from the south, turn left at the roundabout, then left at the first set of lights, then left again into Jasper Street. The Pastoral Centre is immediately on your left, the Church is at the end of Jasper Street.

Parking (pay and display) is limited in the streets around Jasper Street. There are ample parking spaces nearby, by the Victoria Hall, and in the Hinde Street Car Park (just beyond the Fire Station). Parking for the day costs typically about £3.

History of Sacred Heart

After being ordered by the bishop during the visitation of 1854, to concentrate his efforts on the opening of a mission in Hanley, Thomas Leith, the priest at Cobridge, set about collecting money and, in 1857, was able to buy ground between Marsh Street and Lower Foundry Street - 'in the centre of the poor Catholics' as he put it. In his pastoral letter of November that year Bishop Ullathorne stated:

'The Rev. Mr. Leith of Cobridge after having by his sole exertions established a mission at Tunstall has now secured land in the important town of Hanley. All the funds have to be provided for that work, and we commend to the co-operation of the faithful the aiding in a work which that zealous clergyman so bravely begun.'

In 1858, a day school and Sunday school were opened in a building erected on the land, and although there were still no services held there a mission was given in the school building by a Passionist father in Lent that year. It is said, however, that about this time Thomas Leith occasionally said Mass in a loft in Lower Foundry Street over Bath and Poole's carriage works and foundry. Finally, in February, 1860, William Molloy came from Madeley, Shropshire, to be resident priest at Hanley, staying first with John Emery and his wife Susannah. Thomas Leith noted that with the establishment of this new parish 'nearly two-thirds of the congregation and support were severed from the old mother church... With Hanley went also Shelton, Bucknall, Milton, Far Green, Northwood and their outskirts.'

Already there was £600 in hand, and William Molloy was able to open the church of St. Mary and St. Patrick in Lower Foundry Street in 1860. It was designed and built by Messrs. Ward of Hanley and had seating for 400 people. The presbytery, however, was built on three quarters of an acre of ground between Regent Road and Jasper Street where it still stands, for it was intended from the first that a church should be built there. But the congregation was very poor - the poorest in the Potteries, it was said, except for the congregations at Tunstall and Goldenhill - so it was some years before the church could be started and, in the meantime, William Molloy grew vegetables and kept pigs on the land.

Finally, in July 1889 the foundation stone of the new church, the Sacred Heart, was laid by Bishop Ilsley. William Molloy died in 1890 so the completion of the church fell to his successor, James Keating. The opening ceremony was performed on 22nd September, 1891, by Bishop Ilsley assisted by Henry Vaughan, the Bishop of Salford and soon to be Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster. The organ, the pulpit, and many of the fittings were donated, but even so the debt on the new church was large. Building costs had been much heavier than expected, for the site of the church was found to be pitted with old coal working and many tons of concrete had to be poured into the great holes before the foundations could be made secure.

This work alone absorbed all the available funds, and to help towards the meeting of the debt one of the two assistant priests, Matthias O'Rourke - later to be rector - went on a fund-raising tour of the United States of America in 1890, which produced well over £1,000 after expenses had been covered. Despite the poverty of the parish, the debt was eventually paid off, and in 1911, the church was consecrated.

A brick building in the Gothic style with 700 sittings, it was originally designed by H V Krolow of St Helens and Liverpool; after his resignation as architect, the work was taken over by Robert Scrivener and Sons. With the opening of the new church, St. Mary and St. Patrick's was closed for a period. Services were subsequently held there again at various times until its sale during the Second World War.

It was originally intended that there should be a convent to the east of the Sacred Heart Church, but infact, the only convent so far established in the parish was that opened at Druid's Hall, Albion Street, along with a home for the aged by the Little Sisters of the Poor in 1890. Their stay was brief, however, for after two years they moved to Cobridge House, in St. Peter's parish (Taken from the Centenary Brochure)

Priests who have served the Hanley Parish are:
1869 - 1890 William Molloy
1890 - 1899 James Keating
1899 - 1924 Matthias O'Rourke
1924 - 1935 Alfred Mulligan
1935 - 1952 Charles Barnes
1952 - 1981 Guy Colman
1982 - 1987 James Dutton
1987 - 1990 John F. Molyneux
1990 - 1992 Sean O'Brien
1992 - 1995 Michael A Power
1995 - 2004 David Goodwin
2004 Peter J Weatherby

We invite you to become a part of the church today and a piece of its history tomorrow

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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Notices for the week beginning 6th August 2006

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