Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear friends in Christ
The question that Jesus puts to all His followers - and He asked it for the first time of the Apostles - is: Who am I?
Dear friends in Christ
The question that Jesus puts to all His followers - and He asked it for the first time of the Apostles - is: Who am I? If we can answer that question with the same certain faith of Saint Peter, then we belong to Him. From the beginning of Christianity, Peter - the Pope - has been given primacy amongst the followers of Jesus because of his role of being the centre and unity of our Faith. Throughout the Acts of the Apostles we read how Saint Peter was the one who was deferred to whenever there was an important question or matter to be settled. Right through to the present day, we see in the person of the Pope the personal presence of Jesus in His Church. Our veneration of the Pope has nothing to do with his human, intellectual or spiritual qualities. Our love of the Vicar of Christ comes from the fact that he has been chosen by God and set over the Church as the Universal Shepherd and as Servant of the Servants of God. We have come to expect so much of the Pope in modern times. The truth is that the Pope is not a CEO, statesman or superstar; not an expert on everything under the sun, nor a living saint The fact that the world has come to expect this of the Pope means that he comes under intense scrutiny like any person in the public eye. For a faithful Catholic, the Pope is simply Peter, the Rock on which Christ built His Church. We therefore pray daily for the Pope: in the Holy Mass and we should keep him foremost in our prayer intentions. Hearing the Gospel of Peter’s confession of faith in the Gospel of this Sunday, is a reminder to us: can I profess with Peter my utter faith and belief in Who Jesus is? As soon as I recognise with Peter, that Jesus is the Son of the Living God, then everything else falls into place.
God bless you!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
Saturday 22 August
5.30pm Vigil Mass Thomas Walsh, RIP (Anniversary) (MC)
6.30pm Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Confession available: Lady Chapel
Sunday 23
8am Mass Alex & Margaret McFarlane, RIP (Anniversary) (MW)
9.30am Mass Bob Kohle, RIP (COH)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 24
St Bartholomew, Ap
9am Mass Deceased members of the Moon Family (SM)
2pm Requiem Mass Richard Collins, RIP
Tuesday 25
St Louis
9am Mass Eugene Renehan, RIP (Anniversary) (MH)
Wednesday 26
Blessed Dominic of the Mother of God
9am Mass Basil Emmerson, RIP (Anniversary) (AE)
1.30pm Requiem Mass Richard Wallner, RIP
Thursday 27
St Monica
9am Mass William Pearson, RIP (SP)
Friday 28
St Augustine, Bp, D
12 noon Mass Marian Payne, RIP (Anniversary) (VP)
Saturday 29
The Passion of St John the Baptist
10am Mass John Hiscock, RIP (MH)
10.30-11.30am Exposition
Confession available: Lady Chapel
Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
5.30pm Vigil Mass The People of the Parish
6.30pm Holy Hour: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Confession available: Lady Chapel
Sunday 30
8am Mass Intentions of Ann Emmerson (AE)
9.30am Mass Norman Firminger, RIP (MR)
11.30am Mass Intentions of Christine challis & Catherine Harris (CH)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Contactless Giving
Many of us no longer carry cash. Contactless paying is becoming increasingly popular and is more hygienic. From the first weekend in September it will be possible to make contactless offerings to the Church. This can be done in the usual manner and there will be a device at the back of church with a Steward to assist. Simply touch an amount shown on the screen (or enter another figure if you wish to give a particular amount) then tap your card or ‘phone to register payment. (The device will be sanitised by the Steward.) You should also Gift Aid amounts if you are a taxpayer (which adds an additional 25%). You need to enter your name and address on the first occasion and after that your details are remembered for future giving. The best way of making your weekly offering is by using the envelopes or standing order but the contactless facility will enable us to donate at anytime if we don’t have cash.
Pray for the Repose of the Souls
Richard Wallner, RIP.
Richard Collins, RIP.
Ronald Hall, RIP.
Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Canon Vincent Cameron, Fr Bernard Collings, Eileen Shears, Christopher Poulain, John Ryan, Valerie Griggs, Marian Hart, Dorothy Scott, Stephen Mcgough, Stephen Cornell, Margaret Acaster, Col Ernest G Oetter, Bernard Squires, John Lowndes, Louise Newman, Veronica Maguire, Alan Tate, Mary (Molly) Horn, Basil Emmerson, Stella Stanley, William Pearson, Peter James Scott, Kathleen Shanahan, Charles Capon, Nellie Aynsley, Marjorie Clarke, Sheila King, Marian Payne, Vivien Payne, Martin Payne, Vera Goldman, Margaret Knight, Antoni Byczynski & Campbell Coe.
We pray for our Sick
Margaret Owens, Russell Short, Paul Bloomberg, Marie Karaf, Christine Reid, Gilberte Cook, Garry Pearman, Anne Owen, Adrian Barclay, Patricia Ann Darroch, Peggy Larman, Sylvia Langley, Patricia Vanner, Amy Louise Fox, Sarah Savage, Bill O’Connell, Janet Weale, Charlotte O’Neil, Ella Williams, David Kislingbury, Mark Shepherd, Eileen Bines, Breege McCaffrey, Mark Hartley, Austin Butler, John Lavery, Paul Keane, Rosemary Bragard, Pat Lynch, Maureen Gooding, Dympna Addecott, Ben Wilson, Christian Ryan, Mike Rubbert, Tina Doveaston, Addi Brady, Patricia Fleming, Nicky Wigmore, Rose Craft, Nan Carrit, Eileen Wilson, Patricia Spikin, Sandra Fagan, Edna Wallace, Beryl Dixon, Nick Evans, Vicky Jack, Mary Boyce, Kristin Hallenga, Anne O’Neill, Cheryl Shallis, Anthony McEvoy, Justin Stark, Sheila Netherton, David Blyth, Janet Woods, Lynne Hilkene, June Moncaster, Laura & Anne Breen, Breda Lynch, Maria Clark, Roy Widdecombe, Johanna Lynch, Anthony King, Chas Taylor, Norma McCleverty, Belinda Balazsi, Johnnie Pool, Edward Martin, Joanna Luciani, Pauline Wilsher, Simon Marshall, Kriston Barnes, Hugh Isaacs, Josephine Griggs, Colleen Worley, Dawn Deleigh, Lorraine Hart, Linda Dean, Wyn McCafferty, Georgina Cornwell, Antonella McConalogue, Eddie McConalogue, Sharon Levill, Annie Holland, Ivor & Joanne Knight, Brian Beresford, Rebecca Peake, Connor Bourke, Mattia Mollica, Bernadette Lane, Irena Solecki, Ianto Bellis, Doreen Troughton, Marguerite Harris, Andrew Exley, Elizabeth McConalogue, Kean Smith, Keith Maliff & children, Thomas Ball, Liam Davis, Connie Price, Albert Chambers, Fergus Grant, Mary Isherwood, Lucy Price & Frazer Gregory.
Missio Red Boxes
If you have a box that needs emptying please leave it in the office or give it to me personally if you see me. I have received the Summer magazines but cannot leave them at the back of the church so I will put them with the empty boxes which I will leave at the back of the church on the ledge by the exit door. Please remember to collect them.
Thank you. Joan Caunce, Secretary.
Reception of Holy Communion
When you come up for Holy communion, unloop your mask before taking the Host, move to the side, consume it, and replace your mask before returning to your seat.
Parish Fundraising
Thank you to everyone who supports the 200 Club. The results of the July draw are as follows:
1st prize £150 (108) - Mr & Mrs M Mapson
2nd Prize £100 (84) - Mrs E Hall
3rd Prize £75 (23) - Mrs A Burry
4th Prize £50 (37) - Mrs P Playle
5th Prize £25 (57) - Mrs S Phillips
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Dear friends in Christ
This year we have the privilege of being able to celebration Mary's Assumption into Heaven on a Sunday: the feast is transferred from 15th.
Dear friends in Christ
This year we have the privilege of being able to celebrate Mary's Assumption into Heaven on a Sunday: the feast is transferred from 15th. What we celebrate on this Day each year is summarised by Pope Pius XII when in 1950 he made definitive this doctrine that had been held unofficially by Catholics from the beginning: So then, the great Mother of God, so mysteriously united to Jesus Christ from all eternity by the same decree of predestination, immaculately conceived, an intact virgin throughout her divine motherhood, a noble associate of our Redeemer as he defeated sin and its consequences, received, as it were, the final crowning privilege of being preserved from the corruption of the grave and, following her Son in his victory over death, was brought, body and soul, to the highest glory of heaven, to shine as Queen at the right hand of that same Son, the immortal King of Ages.
If we ask the reason for this highest of privileges accorded to Mary, we look to the early Saints of the Church. In their sermons and speeches on the feast day of the Assumption of the Mother of God, the holy Fathers and the great Doctors of the Church were speaking of something that the faithful already knew and accepted: all they did was to bring it out into the open, to explain its meaning and substance in other terms. Above all, they made it most clear that this feast commemorated not merely the fact that the blessed Virgin Mary did not experience bodily decay, but also her triumph over death and her heavenly glory, following the example of her only Son, Jesus Christ. All that the holy Fathers say refers ultimately to Scripture as a foundation, which gives us the vivid image of the great Mother of God as being closely attached to her divine Son and always sharing His lot.
This weekend we resume the full and normal schedule of Masses and Services in the church which have been suspended or partly suspended, since March. We will only be able to maintain this timetable if there are sufficient volunteers to steward and clean the church at each Mass; also, that there is a full complement of reservations for each of the Sunday Masses. We are very grateful to those who have been consistently generous with their help, but some more Parishioners might be good enough to offer help too.
On this Solemnity of Mary’s Assumption, we ask her prayers, her motherly intercession and protection upon us as individuals and as Parish Family. God bless you, together with His Holy Mother!
Msgr Kevin Hale
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Saturday 15 August
5.30pm Vigil Mass Frank Mann, RIP (RM)
6.30pm Holy Hour: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Sunday 16
8am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Ernie & Cass Sansom, RIP
11.30am Mass Raymond de Chantilly, RIP (Anniversary) (LC)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 17
Feria
9am Mass Bernadette Perry, RIP (Anniversary)
10.30am Funeral Service Noel Auger, RIP
Tuesday 18
St Helena, Widow
9am Mass Vivien Clancy, RIP (AE)
Wednesday 19
St John Eudes, Pr
9am Mass Rev Fr Andrew Hurley & Canon Vincent Hurley, RIP (Anniversaries) (JH)
Thursday 20
Ss Bernard, Ab, D
9am Mass Veronica Walker, RIP (MG)
10.30am Requiem Mass Dorothy Pogue, RIP
Friday 21
St Pius X, P
12 noon Mass John Watkins, RIP & Susan Conibeer, RIP (JW)
Saturday 22
The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary
10am Mass Fr Charles Roots, RIP (Anniversary) (SR)
Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
5.30pm Vigil Mass Thomas Walsh, RIP (Anniversary) (MC)
6.30pm Holy Hour: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Sunday 23
8am Mass Alex & Margaret McFarlane, RIP (Anniversary) (MW)
9.30am Mass Bob Kohle, RIP (COH)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Rev Michael Barwick
Our prayerful good wishes to Michael Barwick who was ordained a Deacon in our church this Saturday.
Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Canon Peter Prendergast, Canon Vincent Hurley, Fr Andrew Hurley, Fr George Gresley, Fr Sean Sheils, Fr Arthur Ryan, Hugh Palmer, Helen Enright, Dr Anna (Reggie) Kemmerling, Carmen Georges, Bridie Corrigan, Francis Bartley, Mary Attersley, Bernadette Perry, Andre Lince, Raymond Vaulbert de Chantilly, Annie Gallacher, John Walmsley, Margaret McFarlane, John Power, Edwin Martin, Catherine McGowan, Noreen Selet, Edward Chavner, Charles Roots, Mary Johnson, Denise Gianelli, Rocco Forgione, Agnes Harding, Dainie Seebold, Edith Seymour, Mary Saegar, Rhoda Addecott, Doreen Spaul, Teresa Griffiths, Anne McCarthy & Ronald Abnett.
We Pray for our Sick
Margaret Owens, Russell Short, Paul Bloomberg, Marie Karaf, Christine Reid, Gilberte Cook, Garry Pearman, Anne Owen, Adrian Barclay, Patricia Ann Darroch, Peggy Larman, Sylvia Langley, Patricia Vanner, Amy Louise Fox, Sarah Savage, Bill O’Connell, Janet Weale, Charlotte O’Neil, Ella Williams, David Kislingbury, Mark Shepherd, Eileen Bines, Breege McCaffrey, Mark Hartley, Austin Butler, John Lavery, Paul Keane, Rosemary Bragard, Pat Lynch, Maureen Gooding, Dympna Addecott, Ben Wilson, Christian Ryan, Mike Rubbert, Tina Doveaston, Addi Brady, Patricia Fleming, Nicky Wigmore, Rose Craft, Nan Carrit, Eileen Wilson, Patricia Spikin, Sandra Fagan, Edna Wallace, Beryl Dixon, Nick Evans, Vicky Jack, Mary Boyce, Kristin Hallenga, Anne O’Neill, Cheryl Shallis, Anthony McEvoy, Justin Stark, Sheila Netherton, David Blyth, Janet Woods, Lynne Hilkene, June Moncaster, Laura & Anne Breen, Breda Lynch, Maria Clark, Roy Widdecombe, Johanna Lynch, Anthony King, Chas Taylor, Norma McCleverty, Belinda Balazsi, Johnnie Pool, Edward Martin, Joanna Luciani, Pauline Wilsher, Simon Marshall, Kriston Barnes, Hugh Isaacs, Josephine Griggs, Colleen Worley, Dawn Deleigh, Lorraine Hart, Linda Dean, Wyn McCafferty, Georgina Cornwell, Antonella McConalogue, Eddie McConalogue, Sharon Levill, Annie Holland, Ivor & Joanne Knight, Brian Beresford, Rebecca Peake, Connor Bourke, Mattia Mollica, Bernadette Lane, Irena Solecki, Ianto Bellis, Doreen Troughton, Marguerite Harris, Andrew Exley, Elizabeth McConalogue, Kean Smith, Keith Maliff & children, Thomas Ball, Liam Davis, Connie Price, Albert Chambers, Fergus Grant, Mary Isherwood, Lucy Price & Frazer Gregory.
Missio Red Boxes
If you have a box that needs emptying please leave it in the office or give it to me personally if you see me. I have received the Summer magazines but cannot leave them at the back of the church so I will put them with the empty boxes which I will leave at the back of the church on the ledge by the exit door. Please remember to collect them.
Thank you. Joan Caunce, Secretary.
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear friends in Christ
Over and above all else, the Readings for this Sunday exhort us to faith and trust in Jesus Christ our only Saviour.
Dear friends in Christ
Over and above all else, the Readings for this Sunday exhort us to faith and trust in Jesus Christ our only Saviour. This was the experience of St Peter, who for his faint faith, began to sink when he took his eyes off Jesus. The Prophet Elijah experienced God in the very disguised and unexpected form of the gentle breeze. With the eyes of faith, we will see Jesus whenever he comes close to us and, with trust, stretch our hands out to him when we feel the storms of life threatening to engulf us.
This coming Saturday, 15th August, one of our seminarians - Michael Barwick - will be Ordained a Deacon in our church. Sadly, because of the limit on numbers for such ceremonies at the present time, only his family and a few friends are able to attend. I assure him of our prayers as he enters Holy Orders and in this coming year, please God, prepares for Priestly Ordination. There will not be the usual morning Mass this Saturday nor Confessions because of the Ordination.
Next weekend we shall be celebrating the Solemnity of Mary’s Assumption into Heaven. As we approach this great and crowning glory of her life, we ask her prayers: that we may aim for Heaven each day and live in the hope of eternal life there with Jesus who brought her to His side in glory.
God bless you!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Saturday 8 August
5.30pm Vigil Mass Diana Underwood, RIP (Anniversary) (RB)
6.30pm Holy Hour: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament livestreamed
Sunday 9
8am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Vincent Glauda, RIP (Anniversary) (KC)
5.30pm Holy Hour: Vespers & Benediction livestreamed
Monday 10
St Lawrence, Deacon, M
9am Mass Lily de Lobel, RIP (Anniversary) (VC)
11.15am Requiem Mass Michael Regan, RIP
Tuesday 11
St Clare, V
9am Mass Fr John Seabrook, RIP (KH)
Wednesday 12
St Jane Frances de Chantal, Rel
9am Mass Liam Armstrong, RIP (Anniversary) (JA)
Thursday 13
Ss Pontian, P, and Hippolytus, Pr, Mm
9am Mass James Rourke, RIP (A&CR)
Friday 14
St Maximilian Kolbe, Pr, M
12 noon Mass Nora Egodawela, RIP (NE) Memorial Mass
Saturday 15
Saturday Memorial of BVM
No morning Mass or Confessions
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
5.30pm Vigil Mass Frank Mann, RIP (RM)
6.30pm Holy Hour: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Sunday 16
8am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Ernie & Cass Sansom, RIP
11.30am Mass Raymond de Chantilly, RIP (Anniversary) (LC)
5.30pm Holy Hour: Vespers & Benediction
Magnificat
The September edition of the Magnificat is now available at the back of Church. Please put the money in the box.