Almshouse Vacancy
A vacancy has arisen at the Sir William Petre’s Almshouses in Ingatestone for someone over 50 who is in need of accommodation. The cottage, which is one of a group of twelve with a chapel, is small – it has a living room, bedroom, fitted kitchen and bathroom. It is suitable for a single person who can live independently, as there is no warden care available. Because of the listed nature of the building we cannot make major adaptations for someone with a disability. Please note that priority may be given to Roman Catholics. For more information, and for an application form, please contact Homes & Watson Partnership (who manage the properties) on Tel no 01277 355200 by Friday 15th July 2016.
Social News
A big thanks to all who supported our Fish and Chips Supper Quiz on
25th June, which raised £170; this has now been donated to the Church. Thanks also to Phyliis Sadowski and Marion Long in helping Darrell on the organisation. We will look at future events soon so ideas and helpers very welcome!
The Margueriteville Country Music Club celebrated its seventh birthday in July and £500 has now been donated to the church from funds raised. The club next meets at St James’s in Elmsleigh Drive on 27th August with the excellent Dane Stevens as our artiste.
Sea of Voices choir. The choir will continue to meet up to 20th July after which it will take a summer break and then start to meet again in early September. The steering committee will be meeting soon to make important arrangements for the ensuing year ahead and a July newsletter for interested parishioners and choir members will be made available on email and hard copy at the back of the church.
Contact Darrell 07825 686249 or leave a message at the Parish Office for anything to do with the social committee, Margueriteville and choir. Thank you!
Social News
A big thanks to all who supported our Fish and Chips Supper Quiz on
25th June, which raised £170; this has now been donated to the Church. Thanks also to Phyliis Sadowski and Marion Long in helping Darrell on the organisation. We will look at future events soon so ideas and helpers very welcome!
The Margueriteville Country Music Club celebrated its seventh birthday in July and £500 has now been donated to the church from funds raised. The club next meets at St James’s in Elmsleigh Drive on 27th August with the excellent Dane Stevens as our artiste.
Sea of Voices choir. The choir will continue to meet up to 20th July after which it will take a summer break and then start to meet again in early September. The steering committee will be meeting soon to make important arrangements for the ensuing year ahead and a July newsletter for interested parishioners and choir members will be made available on email and hard copy at the back of the church.
Contact Darrell 07825 686249 or leave a message at the Parish Office for anything to do with the social committee, Margueriteville and choir. Thank you!
Serving the Homeless
Thanks to all the parishioners who attended our recent Afternoon Tea which raised £425.20. This will be used for our local homelessness projects.
The number of single young homeless, aged 16 to 25, has significantly
risen over the past six months. In order to help both HARP and the YMCA
we will be holding the following throughout the summer:
Summer Raffle - with 24 prizes - costing £1 per ticket, or £5 for a
book.
Treasure Trail - a great activity for the summer holiday with prizes -
£5 per entry.
Both of these will be on sale after the Masses on the weekends of 16th/17th and 23rd/24th July. Alternatively please ring Linda Wall 558217, Nina Bridgeman 472536 or Jo Ronan 474062 for tickets or entry forms.
Repository
Sincere apologies that the Repository has not been open lately, due to family illness & subsequent bereavement. As it would close soon anyway for the annual summer break, it will re-open on SUNDAY, 11th SEPTEMBER, 2016. Meanwhile, Mass cards are available from the Parish Office.
Pat O’Connell
Scripture Group
Fr Con Joyce’s Scripture Group will next meet in the Parish Centre 8pm-9pm on Thursday, 14th July. These meetings are held to give us a better understanding of the Bible, to encourage us to read it and so help us to come closer to Jesus in our daily lives as Christians. All welcome. Please note this will be the last meeting until the recommencement again in the autumn, date to be advised.
Counters & Folders
Counters: Mary Cook & Sheila West.
Newsletter Folders: Linda Wall & Bob Hall.
Catholic Women’s League
The next business meeting is on Monday, 11 July at 2pm in the Newman Room. Please feel welcome to join us.
Pilgrimage to Knock Shrine, Ireland
Pilgrimage to Knock Shrine, Ireland, 3rd October 2016 from Stansted. £599 per person sharing. Price includes return airport transfer from parish, flights with 15kg checked in bag, all taxes, luxury transfers, 5 nights’ in newly refurbished Knock House Hotel, situated in the Shrine grounds, beside the newly refurbished Basilica, with full Irish Breakfast each morning and 4 Course Dinner each evening. All entertainment, heritage excursions and guided tours in Co. Mayo included. Full assistance from your Go Trouvaille representative. Wheelchair accessible rooms in the hotel. Limited single rooms available at a supplement of £60. Groups and Individual bookings welcome. Contact Patricia anytime for all dates and availability on 01702 561757 - Mobile 07715 667 896 or email patricia@gotrouvaille.com. Go Trouvaille is an agent of Travel Assistance International – ATOL 4634.
Pilgrimage to Knock Shrine, Ireland
Pilgrimage to Knock Shrine, Ireland, 3rd October 2016 from Stansted. £599 per person sharing. Price includes return airport transfer from parish, flights with 15kg checked in bag, all taxes, luxury transfers, 5 nights’ in newly refurbished Knock House Hotel, situated in the Shrine grounds, beside the newly refurbished Basilica, with full Irish Breakfast each morning and 4 Course Dinner each evening. All entertainment, heritage excursions and guided tours in Co. Mayo included. Full assistance from your Go Trouvaille representative. Wheelchair accessible rooms in the hotel. Limited single rooms available at a supplement of £60. Groups and Individual bookings welcome. Contact Patricia anytime for all dates and availability on 01702 561757 - Mobile 07715 667 896 or email patricia@gotrouvaille.com. Go Trouvaille is an agent of Travel Assistance International – ATOL 4634.
Director of Parish Evangelisation
The Diocese of Brentwood seeks to appoint a full time Director of Parish Evangelisation for a three-year fixed period from September. During this time the Diocese will be going through a process of discernment, decision making and change management, as we seek to make best use of our resources to promote the spread of the Gospel.
The Diocese’s “Stewards of the Gospel” initiative has seen the appointment of a body of talented lay people who will work within every parish to develop and implement a plan for evangelisation.
The Director of Parish Evangelisation, having considerable experience and expertise in evangelisation for the Catholic Church, will be responsible for the creation and promotion of a robust, de-centralised plan for evangelisation, tailored to the individual needs and opportunities in each parish of the Diocese (taking into account, where applicable, developing plans for changes to parish boundaries).
Salary £35,000 - £40,000 depending on experience.
Closing date for applications 31 July.
For more information contact: Mrs Adele Angel, adeleangel@dioceseofbrentwood.org
Director of Parish Evangelisation
The Diocese of Brentwood seeks to appoint a full time Director of Parish Evangelisation for a three-year fixed period from September. During this time the Diocese will be going through a process of discernment, decision making and change management, as we seek to make best use of our resources to promote the spread of the Gospel.
The Diocese’s “Stewards of the Gospel” initiative has seen the appointment of a body of talented lay people who will work within every parish to develop and implement a plan for evangelisation.
The Director of Parish Evangelisation, having considerable experience and expertise in evangelisation for the Catholic Church, will be responsible for the creation and promotion of a robust, de-centralised plan for evangelisation, tailored to the individual needs and opportunities in each parish of the Diocese (taking into account, where applicable, developing plans for changes to parish boundaries).
Salary £35,000 - £40,000 depending on experience.
Closing date for applications 31 July.
For more information contact: Mrs Adele Angel, adeleangel@dioceseofbrentwood.org
Pray for the Dead
Please pray for our dead on their anniversaries:
Fr Walter Walsh, Fr John Watson, Canon Daniel Harnett, William O’Neill, Selwyn Lewis, Ita McCullough, Joan Gendall, Felix Keenan, Annie Harriet Briggs, Maria Chadun, Mary Bray, Irene Harvey, Margaret O’Callaghan, Elsie Maczka, Stanislaws Dulewicz, Michael O’Connell, Betty Gray, Dorothy May Cole, Kathleen Scaife, Margaret Simpson, Monica Gray, Josephine Russell, Ronald Gibson, Robert Wright, Margarita Ekers, Mary James Andrew Wardle & Hope Bailey-Pillow.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
Fourteenth Sunday of the Year
Dear friends in Christ
The Readings at Mass this Sunday call to mind some memorable words of Pope Francis that, we must be missionary disciples of Jesus Christ. As Christ sent out the Apostles to preach the Gospel of salvation, so we too are asked to go out into the harvest and bring souls to Him. The world into which we go is, as Jesus warned them at the beginning, a hostile one. Even amongst Christians we find attitudes antipathetic to the Truth of the Gospel and teachings of the Church. Perhaps given the wide-spread confusion and disunity in our world, this should not surprise us. However, the Church exists as a family, and in any family there can be elements and members that cause discord. Whenever we find someone who is sick or where there is dysfunction in a family, the instinctive reaction of the other members is to surround them with love and compassion. When we act like this we are being Christ-like. Only from the starting point can we even think about how we may be better missionary disciples of Jesus Christ.
This Sunday evening we shall have our Parish Annual Meeting followed by the Garden Party which begins at 6.30pm in the Parish Centre. All Parishioners are cordially invited to this evening which is the annual way to celebrate the life of the Parish over the last year, look forward with hope to some new initiatives (like the Stewards of the Gospel project) and for me to express my gratitude for all of the prayerful support and help I receive. God bless you all!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Fourteenth Sunday of the Year
Dear friends in Christ
The Readings at Mass this Sunday call to mind some memorable words of Pope Francis that, we must be missionary disciples of Jesus Christ. As Christ sent out the Apostles to preach the Gospel of salvation, so we too are asked to go out into the harvest and bring souls to Him. The world into which we go is, as Jesus warned them at the beginning, a hostile one. Even amongst Christians we find attitudes antipathetic to the Truth of the Gospel and teachings of the Church. Perhaps given the wide-spread confusion and disunity in our world, this should not surprise us. However, the Church exists as a family, and in any family there can be elements and members that cause discord. Whenever we find someone who is sick or where there is dysfunction in a family, the instinctive reaction of the other members is to surround them with love and compassion. When we act like this we are being Christ-like. Only from the starting point can we even think about how we may be better missionary disciples of Jesus Christ.
This Sunday evening we shall have our Parish Annual Meeting followed by the Garden Party which begins at 6.30pm in the Parish Centre. All Parishioners are cordially invited to this evening which is the annual way to celebrate the life of the Parish over the last year, look forward with hope to some new initiatives (like the Stewards of the Gospel project) and for me to express my gratitude for all of the prayerful support and help I receive. God bless you all!
Msgr Kevin Hale
St Patrick’s Missionary Appeal 9th/10th July
Next weekend there will be an Appeal on behalf of St Patrick’s Missionary Society (Kiltegan Fathers) led by Fr John Garry, who has worked in Kenya and the Sudan. The Society was founded to support the missionary work of proclaiming the Good News in Nigeria and they now have missionaries in Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, South Sudan, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Brazil & Grenada. They concentrate on building up the local church through the establishment of small Christian communities. Please give generously.
Table Sale - Saturday 30th July - 1.30pm
The Live Simply group are organising a Table Sale as above. Please put the date in your diaries to support the event. The cost of hiring a table is £10 and if you would like to book one please contact any of the following members: Cathy - 340405, Fran - 330178 or Monica 07941 682136
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Saturday 2nd July
5.30pm Vigil Mass Jim Kelly, RIP
Sunday 3rd
8am Mass Frank Clancy, RIP
9.30am Mass Patrick Murphy, RIP
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
4.00pm Mass Deceased members of the Fegan Family - Extraordinary Form
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
6.30pm Parish AGM
Monday 4th St Elizabeth of Portugal
9.00am Mass Intentions of Vivian Clancy
Tuesday 5th St Anthony Zaccaria, Pr
9am Mass Alf & Mary Johnson, RIP (Anniv)
Wednesday 6th St Maria Goretti, V, M
9.30am Mass Fr John Caden, RIP
Thursday 7th Feria
9am Mass Catherine Pauley, RIP
Friday 8th Feria
12Noon Mass Intentions of the Major Family
Saturday 9th St Augustine Zhao Rong, Pr, & Comps, Mm
10.00am Mass Fionnghuala Quinlan
5.30pm Vigil Mass Anne Shaves, Albert Shaves & Tony Poulton, RIP
Sunday 10th - Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
8am Mass Gareth Lewis, RIP
9.30am Mass Nelius Galvin, RIP
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction