Counters & Folders
Counters: Linda Wall & Brian Mountier
Folders: Pauline Jordan & Maureen Ward
Dates for your Diary
Wednesday, 14th February Ash Wednesday
21st, 28th February ) Marriage Preparation
7th - 14th March )
12th & 19th May First Holy Communions
20th May Confirmation
Sacrament of Confirmation
Anyone who wishes to begin preparation for the Sacrament of Confirmation should send their name to Fr Kevin by the end of February together with an email address. Names need to be sent in BEFORE THE START OF LENT which is when the preparation begins. Applicants should have reached their fourteenth birthday by the end of August 2017.
St Vincent de Paul (SVP) – Request for transport
The SVP should appreciate it if someone would be willing to volunteer to give a lift on a regular basis to two parishioners (who live near each other) to either the 8am or 11.30am Mass on Sundays and home again. If you can help kindly contact the parish office (01702 478078).
Sister Elizabeth Mary (Mann)
Sister Elizabeth Mary celebrates her 25 years of Profession at the Monastery of Our Lady & St Bernard, Brownshill, Stroud, Glos GL6 8AL on 10 February 2018.
Journey of Faith
Roman Catholic Initiation of Adults
A series of informal talks, designed to give an insight into the teachings and traditions of the Catholic church, continues on Monday 5th February at 8pm in the Parish Centre with A walk through the Mass. You are welcome to attend some or all of these talks; if you would like more information please speak to Fr Kevin.
Pray for the Repose of the Souls
Kay Dodd† died recently
Thursday 15 February
3pm Requiem Mass
Barbara Sheaf† died on 24th January
Thursday 18th February
6.15pm Her body will be received into the Church
Friday 19th February
11am Requiem Mass
Pray for our sick
Anne Currid, David Gurney, Maureen Gooding, Paul Keane, Graham Addecott, Mabel Addecott, Christian Ryan, Arthur Mills, Mike Rubbert, Teresa O’Brien, Maureen Deekes, Noel Fagan, Patricia Abram, Tina Doveaston, Pat Lynch, Rose Craft, Addi Brady, Ben Wilson, Patricia Fleming, Nicky Wigmore, Brita Irons, Eileen Wilson, Patricia Spikin, Sandra Fagan, Edna Wallace, Beryl Dixon, Nan Carrit, Nick Evans, Vicky Jack, Lyn Gopee, Margaret Harrington, Mary Boyce, Kristin Hallenga, Anne O’Neill, Cheryl Shallis, Anthony McEvoy, Justin Stark, Sheila Netherton, David Blyth, Dympna Addecott, Janet Woods, Lynne Hilkene, Laura & Anne Breen, Breda Lynch, Roy Widdecombe, Johanna Lynch, Maria Clark, June Moncaster, Sheila McBrearty, Anthony King, Norma McCleverty, Belinda Balazsi, Edward Martin, Johnnie Pool, Joanna Luciani, Pauline Wilsher, Simon Marshall, Kriston Barnes, Josephine Griggs, Colleen Worley, Antonella McConalogue, Fr Jean Laurent Marie, Noel Kolb, Eddie McConalogue, Georgina Cornwell, Lorraine Hart, Dawn Deleigh, Wyn McCafferty, Linda Dean, Annie Holland, Martin Buckley, Chas Taylor, Martha Braun, John Lavery, Ivor & Joanne Knight, Brian Beresford, Rebecca Peake, David Clark, David Askew, Connor Bourke, Mattia Mollica, Sharon Levill, Bernadette Lane, David Kislingury, Maureen Ward, Jane Jowers, Irena Solecki, Doreen Troughton, Marguerite Harris, Andrew Exley, Rosemary Arscott, Lanto Bellis, Richard Collins, Niqui Denkmayer, Elizabeth McConalogue, Kean Smith and children Thomas Ball, Liam Davis, Albert Chambers, Fergus Grant, Lucy Price, Connie Price, Mary Isherwood, Frazer Gregory, baby Talia Emery and Hattie Seymour.
Pray for our Dead on their anniversaries
Fr Francis Richardson, Fr Alan Wilcox, Canon Bernard Manning, Pope Pius XI, Rev Francis Richardson, Rev William Smith, Mrs Winifred Wallen, John Young, Michael Shrapnel, Teresa O’Brien, Lilian Abbott, Elizabeth Judge, Modge Ditton, Margaret O’Connor, Robert Roberton, Margaret Pearson, John Hanna Manna, Victor Maguire, Joseph Ruggiero, Barbara Blaker, Henry Moores, Catherine Burn, Emma Oldham, Veronica Read, Peter Heritage, Alice Whitfield, Eugenie Ballard, Doris Wenninger, Edmund O’Sullivan, Patrick Jennett, Charles Oldham, John Armstrong, Victor Gosling, Carmen Ashley and Bernard Ward.
May their Souls & the Souls of all the Faithful Departed rest in peace.
4th Sunday Order of Service
Parish Mass Book page 132
First reading Deuteronomy 18:15-20
Second reading Corinthians 7:32-35
Psalm response 11.30am Mass
Gospel Mark 1:21-28
Eucharist Prayer 4 with Preface
4th Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Gospel of this Sunday tells of the cure of a man possessed by the devil. We have to remain on watch so that the wiles of the evil one do not mislead or enslave us. One of the worse forms of this entrapment is the attitude of apathy and lukewarmness; the overwhelming sense that it doesn’t matter, that there is no urgency, that we can make-do as we are.
Dear Friends in Christ
The agenda of the Readings which the Church gives us in these Sundays before Lent begins, relate various occasions of encounter and healing at the start of the public ministry of Our Lord. They give us, as I suggested last week, a programme for our own efforts in evangelisation. I wrote last week about some of the ways we want to implement this within our own Parish Family, and taking the Mission last October as the inspiration for this, we are starting to prepare for a vision of evangelisation that will equip us with the tools needed to firstly, be confident in our own faith and secondly to have the courage to reach out to others and show them the beauty of Christ and His Church. Lent would seem the natural time for the start of this process.
The Gospel of this Sunday tells of the cure of a man possessed by the devil. We have to remain on watch so that the wiles of the evil one do not mislead or enslave us. One of the worse forms of this entrapment is the attitude of apathy and lukewarmness; the overwhelming sense that it doesn’t matter, that there is no urgency, that we can make-do as we are. The devil always applies subtlety in his tactics to bring down the followers of Christ. Our vocation is to be faithful to Christ, His Church and the call to evangelise, as Pope Saint Pope John II said:
Deliver us Lord, from the evil one, lead us not into temptation. Grant in your infinite mercy that we should not give in to the infidelity to which the one who has been unfaithful from the beginning endeavours to seduce us.
God bless you and keep us all faithful in His service!
Msgr Kevin Hale
4th Week in Ordinary Time
4th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Saturday 27 January
5.30pm Vigil Mass Jack van der Ploeg†
6.30 Exposition & Confession
Sunday 28 January
8am Mass Barry Bevan†
9.30 Mass Marian Solecki† Anniversary
11.30 Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Feria
Monday 29
9am Mass John Kidney†
Feria
Tuesday 30
9am Mass Intentions of Margaret Holland
Saint John Bosco, Priest
Wednesday 31
9am Mass Peter Griffin†
10.30 Newman Room Mothers’ Prayers
Feria
Thursday 1 February
9am Mass John & Pat Moon† & Valerie Griggs†
7pm Contemplative Prayer silence, simplicity & stillness
Feast of the Presentation of the Lord
Friday 2
11.30am Blessing of the candles & procession
12noon Mass Intentions of the Catholic Women’s League
8pm Holy Hour & Benediction
9 Exposition until midnight for Vocations
Saint Anne Line, Martyr & Saint Blaise
Saturday 3
10am Mass Intentions of Maureen & Bernadette Ward
10.30 Exposition & Confession
5th Sunday in Ordinary Time
5.30pm Vigil Mass The People of the Parish
6.30 Exposition & Confession
Sunday 4 February
8am Mass Barrington Gray† Anniversary
9.30 Mass Rose & Charles D’Souza Wedding Anniversary - Thanksgiving
11.30 Mass Patricia Westoby 50th Wedding Anniversary
4pm Mass in Extraordinary Form Private Intention
5.30 Vespers & Benediction
Pray for our Dead on their anniversaries
Fr John (Jack) Clifford, Fr Joseph Burns, Fr Eric Bindloss Smith, Maud Darnell, Frank Russell, Edward Armitage, William Cooper, Robert Waller, Mark Solecki, Maureen Leyden, Gerard Tait, Andrew (Mel) Kenny, Bridget Carmel, Joyce Ellen Reilly, Noel Calnan, May Ferry, Canon John Byrne, Norah Kelly, Wyndham Richards, Mary Abel, Florence White, May Keane, William Moroney, Cissie Burnham, Elizabeth Ray, Peter Griffin, William Gannon, Patricia Robinson, Robert Jones, Kathleen Jennett, Francis Faulkner, Mary Quinn, Pamela Woolley, Myrtle Conridge, Edward Atherton, Florence Miller, James Kerr, Teresa Phelan, John Dickens & Bernard Pycroft.
May their Souls & the Souls of all the Faithful Departed rest in peace
Pray for our sick
Maureen Gooding, Paul Keane, Graham Addecott, Mabel Addecott, Christian Ryan, Arthur Mills, Mike Rubbert, Teresa O’Brien, Maureen Deekes, Noel Fagan, Patricia Abram, Tina Doveaston, Pat Lynch, Rose Craft, Addi Brady, Ben Wilson, Patricia Fleming, Nicky Wigmore, Brita Irons, Eileen Wilson, Patricia Spikin, Sandra Fagan, Edna Wallace, Beryl Dixon, Nan Carrit, Nick Evans, Vicky Jack, Lyn Gopee, Margaret Harrington, Mary Boyce, Kristin Hallenga, Anne O’Neill, Cheryl Shallis, Anthony McEvoy, Justin Stark, Sheila Netherton, David Blyth, Dympna Addecott, Janet Woods, Lynne Hilkene, Laura & Anne Breen, Breda Lynch, Roy Widdecombe, Johanna Lynch, Maria Clark, June Moncaster, Sheila McBrearty, Anthony King, Norma McCleverty, Belinda Balazsi, Edward Martin, Johnnie Pool, Joanna Luciani, Pauline Wilsher, Simon Marshall, Kriston Barnes, Josephine Griggs, Colleen Worley, Antonella McConalogue, Fr Jean Laurent Marie, Noel Kolb, Eddie McConalogue, Georgina Cornwell, Lorraine Hart, Dawn Deleigh, Wyn McCafferty, Linda Dean, Annie Holland, Martin Buckley, Chas Taylor, Martha Braun, John Lavery, Ivor & Joanne Knight, Brian Beresford, Rebecca Peake, David Clark, David Askew, Connor Bourke, Mattia Mollica, Sharon Levill, Bernadette Lane, David Kislingury, Maureen Ward, Jane Jowers, Irena Solecki, Doreen Troughton, Marguerite Harris, Andrew Exley, Rosemary Arscott, Lanto Bellis, Richard Collins, Niqui Denkmayer, Elizabeth McConalogue, Kean Smith and children Thomas Ball, Liam Davis, Albert Chambers, Fergus Grant, Lucy Price, Connie Price, Mary Isherwood, Frazer Gregory, baby Talia Emery and Hattie Seymour.
Pray for the Repose of the Souls
Barbara Sheaf† Died on 24 January
Frances Ryan† Monday 5 February 10.15am Requiem Mass
Adrian Dann† Wednesday 7 February 5pm body received into the Church, Thursday 8 10.15am Requiem Mass
Helen Cotton† Thursday 8 February 5pm body received into the Church, Friday 9 2.15pm Requiem Mass
Kay Dodd† Thursday 15 February 3pm Requiem Mass
Barbara Sheaf†
Died on 24 January
Frances Ryan†
Monday 5 February
10.15am Requiem Mass
Adrian Dann†
Wednesday 7 February
5pm body received into the Church
Thursday 8 February
10.15am Requiem Mass
Helen Cotton†
Thursday 8 February
5pm body received into the Church
Friday 9 February
2.15pm Requiem Mass
Kay Dodd†
Thursday 15 February
3pm Requiem Mass
Journey of Faith: The Eucharist
A series of informal talks for the Roman Catholic Initiation of Adults, designed to give an insight into the teachings and traditions of the Catholic church. You are welcome to attend some or all of these talks.
Monday 29 January 8pm
Parish Centre
A series of informal talks for the Roman Catholic Initiation of Adults, designed to give an insight into the teachings and traditions of the Catholic church. You are welcome to attend some or all of these talks.
If you would like more information please speak to Fr Kevin.
Sacrament of Confirmation
If you wish to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation, please send your name and email address to Fr Kevin by the end of February. You will start to prepare for the sacrament at the beginning of Lent.
If you wish to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation, please send your name and email address to Fr Kevin by the end of February. You will start to prepare for the sacrament at the beginning of Lent.
Applicants must be born before the end of August 2003.
Eucharistic Ministers
February Weekday rotas available at the back of the Church
February Weekday Eucharistic Ministers rotas available at the back of the Church