Introduction: As we gather here to celebrate the Eucharist together, let us offer Jesus our love and our commitment.

First Reading: Wisdom 9:13-18

No human being can know God’s mind; it is hard enough to work out what is on earth. God’s wisdom has taught human beings those things that it pleases God for us to know.

Second Reading: Philemon 9-10. 12-17

St Paul writes a plea to Philemon. The letter accompanies a freed slave, Onesimus. Paul doesn’t just ask for mercy for Onesimus; he requests that Philemon welcomes him as a brother in Christ.

Gospel: Luke 14:25-33

Jesus addresses the crowds and tells them that in order to follow him they must reject their families and take up their cross. He asks which of them wouldn’t plan properly before going into battle or building a tower.

Please pray for Father Patrick Doyle and Father Leo Kelly, lately dead and for all whose anniversaries occur about this time:

 6^th September    –   Joseph Mercer, Lionel Dutton

 8^th September    –   Jack Basley

 10^th September  –   Margaret Bury, Ethel Bannister, Una Worrall

Attendance:   St Andrew’s 165,         St Mary’s 40

Collection:     St Andrew’s £382.21,  St Mary’s £123.90

Special Collection: Catholic Trust for England & Wales

 St Andrew’s £111.19,  St Mary’s £23.50