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MASS TIMES Sunday 2nd October 27th Sunday of the Year C
5:00pm (Sat 1st) Mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel
5.00pm (Sat 1st) Mass at Ss Richard & Hubert, Hadzor
8:15am, 9:45am (Polish) 11:15am Masses at Our Lady of Mount Carmel
9:45am Mass at St Mary, Alvechurch
10:15am Mass at Ss John Fisher & Thomas More, Feckenham
6:00pm Mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel
The Parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is part of the Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham, England, and is served from the historic Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.  Covering a large area, the parish stretches from Worcester in the south-west to Alvechurch in the north-east and serves three Mass centres in Alvechurch, Feckenham and Hadzor.

PARISH CENSUS

In order to update our records, we are beginning to undertake a census of the Parish.  Please CLICK HERE to complete the online form.  Thank you.
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Redditch Carmelite Spirituality Group CLICK HERE for more.
Next Mtg: 15th Oct 
 ALL WELCOME.

YEAR OF MERCY

Pope Francis has declared a Year of Mercy.  The reason for it is to get to know God better through Jesus Christ.  This is because to have seen Jesus is to have seen the Father (John 14:9).  God's Mercy is alive and visible and tangible in the person of Jesus of Nazareth.  God does not show Himself through power by punishing or destroying.  Instead God lowers Himself to raise us up.  How does He raise us up?  Through mercy!  Every person knows deep down inside they want mercy—they long to be accepted just as the person they are.  In other words they desire to be loved unconditionally.  Human love and mercy always puts conditions, or powerful constraints on mercy.  People say “I will only forgive you if you do this or are like that”.  God does not do this.  He gives His whole self in His Son to us so that we can be forgiven and changed and raised up to be what we are meant to be.  Jesus says on the Cross:  "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34). For those who accept God’s mercy they  are transformed—just ask Saint Mary Magdala, Saint Peter, Saint Paul, Saint Francis.

This is Christian Good News: God loves us unconditionally and wants to give us His mercy.
The logo "Merciful Like the Father" by the Jesuit Father Marko I. Rupnik presents a small summary of the theme of Mercy. Jesus takes upon his shoulders the lost soul.  The logo has been designed to express the way in which the Good Shepherd touches the flesh of humanity and does so with a love with the power to change one’s life. The Good Shepherd, in his great mercy, takes humanity upon himself, such that his eyes are merged with those of man. Christ sees with the eyes of Adam, and Adam with the eyes of Christ. Every person discovers in Christ, the new Adam, one’s own humanity and the future that lies ahead, contemplating, in his gaze, the love of the Father.  
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The scene is captured within the so called mandorla (the shape of an almond), a figure quite important in early and medieval iconography, for it calls to mind the two natures of Christ, divine and human. The three concentric ovals, with colors progressively lighter as we move outward, suggest the movement of Christ who carries humanity out of the night of sin and death. Conversely, the depth of the darker color suggests the impenetrability of the love of the Father who forgives all.