Calendar of Services for the month
ORDINARY TIME: green altar frontal and vestments SUNDAY READINGS: Year C - Year of Luke
ALL WEEKDAY SERVICES take place in St. Mary's, Hay,
unless otherwise indicated.
SUNDAY, 1 AUGUST: TRINITY IX (Week 18)
9.30 a.m. PARISH MASS (LLANIGON)
11. a.m. PARISH MASS (ST. MARY'S)
2.30 p.m. PARISH MASS (CAPEL-Y-FFIN)
Tuesday, 3 August: St. German of Auxerre:
7. p.m. HEALING SERVICE: MASS WITH SACRAMENT OF THE SICK (laying-on of hands and anointing with oil)
Wednesday, 4 August: St. John Vianney, Cure d'Ars: 10 a.m. Mass and 6. 15 p.m. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
Thursday, 5 August: Dedication of St. Mary: this feast commemorates the title MOTHER OF GOD given to the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Council of Ephesus 431 A..D. and the linked dedication at Rome of the oldest church in the west to be called ST. MARY'S. (Also St. Oswald, King and Martyr) 10 a.m.. Mass in St. John's Chapel near Buttermarket
Friday, 6 August: Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord: 12 noon Mass
Saturday, 7 August: St. Sixtus and Companions, Martyrs: 12 noon Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary
SUNDAY, 8 AUGUST: TRINITY X (Week 19)
9.30 a.m. PARISH MASS (LLANIGON)
11. a.m. PARISH MASS (ST. MARY'S)
Monday, 9 August: Feast of St. Teresa Benedicta, Carmelite Nun, Martyr at Auschwitz on account of her Jewish race, and member of team PATRON SAINTS OF EUROPE (also Mary Sumner, Foundress of Mothers' Union)
Tuesday, 10 August: Feast of St. Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr: 7 p.m. Mass
Wednesday, 11 August: St. Clare of Assisi, Foundress of Poor Clares: 10 a.m. Mass and 6. 15p.m. Benediction
Thursday, 12 August: St Jane Frances, Foundress of Visitation Nuns (also Ann Griffiths of Dolwar Fach, Methodist Hymn writer): 10 a.m. Mass in St. John's Chapel
Saturday, 14 August: St. Maximilian Kolbe, Polish Franciscan and Martyr at Auschwitz: 12 noon Mass BVM
SUNDAY, 15 AUGUST: GLORIOUS ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY - PATRONAL FEAST OF HAY AND CAPEL-Y-FFIN (Week 20) 9.30 a.m. PARISH MASS (LLANIGON)
11 a.m. PARISH MASS (HAY) - PREACHER: FR. STEPHEN
2.30 p.m. EVENSONG (CAPEL-Y-FFIN)
Tuesday, 17 August: 7 p.m. Mass
Wednesday, 18 August: St. Helena, Mother of Emperor Constantine and Pilgrim to the Holy Places: 10 a.m. Mass and 6.15 p.m. Benediction
Thursday, 19 August: 10 a.m. Mass in St. John's Chapel Saturday, 21 August: 12 noon Mass BVM
SUNDAY, 22 AUGUST: TRINITY XII (Week 21)
9.30 a.m. PARISH MASS (LLANIGON)
11 a.m. PARISH MASS (ST. MARY'S)
Tuesday, 24 August: Feast of St. Bartholomew, Apostle: 7 p.m Mass
Wednesday, 25 August: St. Louis, King of France and Crusader: 10 a.m. Mass and 6. 15 p.m. Benediction
Thursday, 26 August: St. David Lewis, Jesuit Priest and Martyr at Usk: 10 a.m. Mass in St. John's Chapel
Saturday, 28 August: St. Augustine of Hippo: 12 noon Mass BVM
SUNDAY, 29 AUGUST: TRINITY XIII (Week 22)
11. 15 a.m. JOINT PARISH MASS AT CAPEL-Y-FFIN FOLLOWED BY PARISH PICNIC
MONDAY, 30 AUGUST: FEAST OF OUR LADY OF LLANTHONY: 12 NOON: MASS AT CAPEL-Y- FFIN
Tuesday, 31 August: St. Aidan of Lindisfarne: 7 p.m. Mass
Evening Prayer is said daily at six o'clock - followed on Wednesdays by Benediction.
SACRAMENTS: Baptism, Confirmation, Confession, First Communion, Marriage and Anointing the Sick - please arrange with Father Richard