Parish Fundraising
Thank you to everyone who supports the 200 Club. The results of the June draw are as follows:
1st prize £150 200 Mrs S Griffin
2nd Prise £100 149 Mr D Lesley
3rd Prize £75 85 Mrs E Gurney
4th Prize £25 186 Dr A Bullock
We are still looking for new members. The subscription is £5 per month, either by cash, cheque or direct debit. If you would like to join, please fill in a form which can be found at the back of the church or ring Linda Wall on 01702 558217.
The Good Counsel Network
The 12th Annual GK Chesterton Pilgrimage will take place this year on the hundredth anniversary of GKC being received into the Catholic Church, Saturday 30th July. Please send any prayer requests to; CatholicGKCSociety@yahoo.co.uk or text them to 07795205114. Details of the many different ways in which you can be involved on the day as well as printable GKC prayer cards can be found on our website, www.CatholicGKChestertonSociety.co.uk.
Sharing the Church's Story Conference
This Conference aims to bring people together for an experience of profound personal renewal and to be equipped for mission. With world-class speakers, including Bishop Robert Barron, panels, and moments of powerful prayer and worship, we are excited for what God will do through this event. The Conference takes place on Saturday 17th September in London, to find out more about this important conference and to book go to www.sharingthechurchsstory.com
Flower Festival - 10th September 2022
It is time to be creative again! Thank you to all those who have already said that they want to take part.
The theme of the Flower and Arts & Crafts festival this year is Christian Feasts and Festivals. Like last year we would like people to create a flower arrangement, or tapestries, paintings, photographs (or any type of craft work) on the theme chosen.
The main topics will be: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Holy Family, Lent, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Christ the King, Pentecost, Ascension Day, Corpus Christi, All Saints & All Souls Day, St Peter & Paul.
There are of course other special feast days you can choose. In Anglican churches Harvest festivals are prominent whilst there are several special feast days for Our Lady in the Catholic church.
Many people who visit during the festival have no religious background and we want to present a powerful and prayerful message about Christianity.
Please let me know which theme or themes you will be doing and in what medium. (mcronan@btinternet.com)
Thanks, Jo Ronan
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear friends in Christ
The Gospel of the Mass this Sunday recounts the arrival of Jesus and his disciples at the house of their friends Martha, Mary and Lazarus in Bethany.
Dear friends in Christ
The Gospel of the Mass this Sunday recounts the arrival of Jesus and his disciples at the house of their friends Martha, Mary and Lazarus in Bethany. They welcomed Him very warmly and it is clear that this was a place where He felt quite at home. Understandably, Martha wanted to welcome the Lord in the best way possible. We know that at a certain point she lost her composure and became frustrated with the situation because she felt her sister was not helping as she should be. Martha was distracted with all the preparations. Saint Augustine comments on this scenario: in her eagerness to get the meal ready for the Lord, Martha becomes preoccupied by 1 million little details. Her sister Mary prefers instead to devote herself to the guest.
She forgets about a sister and sits before him, doing nothing else but listen to his word. There has often been a mistake in insisting on the supposed inconsistency between work and prayer; action and the interior life. However, it is in the midst of our daily work and by means of it, not in spite of it, that God calls most Christians to live lives of holiness. We can make the world holy and sanctify ourselves with a life of prayer that gives meaning to everything we do. In order to keep the presence of God about us while we work we need to have simple reminders, little things that will help us to remember that all work can be for God. There is nothing that we do in this world that cannot have a supernatural meaning, and contribute to our eternal salvation, provided it is offered to God. This is the meaning of the Morning Offering that we should make at the start of every day, so that all our works, actions, sufferings and joys, can be used for the glory of God. We ask the Blessed Virgin Mary each day, to give us the diligence of Martha as well as the recollection of her sister, Mary.
God bless you all in the week ahead!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sunday 17th July
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
MONTH OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST
Liturgy:
Readings of Year C
The Nicene Creed
Preface of Sunday 4
5.30pm Mass Fidelis & Lourdes Mary Pallis, RIP (D&JL)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass Tom O'Callaghan, RIP (CO’B)
9.30am Mass Intentions of Mary Clark (MM)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 18
Feria
9am Mass Intentions of Blake Mackay (SD)
Tuesday 19
Feria
9am Mass Bridget Comey, RIP (Anniv) (MC)
Wednesday 20
St Apollinaris, Bp, M
9am Mass Tom O’Callaghan, RIP (LC)
Thursday 21
St Lawrence of Brindisi, Pr, D
9am Mass Canon Francis Gilbert, RIP (FM)
Friday 22
St Mary Magdalene
12Noon Mass Fr Antony Brunning, RIP (KH)
Saturday 23
St Bridget of Sweden, Rel
10am Mass Intentions of Larry Delahunty (LH)
10.30-11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 24
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
5.30pm Mass Charles & Margaret Kelly, RIP (MS)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass Samuel Patchai, RIP (Anniv) (RP)
9.30am Mass Valerie Tisi, RIP (CC)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Fr Edmund Dobson, Fr Patrick Taylor, Fr James McEvoy, Fr Godfrey Anstruther OP, Deacon David Balmer, Madeleine Bullock-Jarman, Joan Slattery, Norah Jordan, Donald Joyce, Ellen Gardner, Joseph Ketterer, James Dawson, Andrew Regan, Mabel Buckley, Michael Regan, Bill Prior, Margaret May Orme, David Finnigan, Reginald Copley, Caroline Hardy, Kathleen Bull, Jane Bickmore, Charles Fletcher, Jane Mawdsley, Alice Collins, Aislinn Lane, Elsie Witty, Irene Huggett, Frank McEvoy, Pamela Johnson, Francis Howard Kenney, Geraldine Hayter, Joan Farmer, Winifred Martin, Marian Bukowski, Leonard Betts, Arthur Koch, William Rhodes & David Hall.
We Pray for our Sick
David Lesley, Tony Tisi, Ann Owen, Kenneth Biebuyck, Zach Stokes, Andrew Stokes, Noel Conroy, Marjorie Jay, Paul Sutton, John Murphy, Mary Monaghan, Jennifer Biebuyck, Moira Scott, Jill Yates, Leonora Maguire, Brian Mountier, Renata Butler, Margaret Bartle, Tony Downey, Kristy Monferrari, Fred Ring, Ian Irwin, Russell Short, Marie Karaf, Garry Pearman, Patricia Ann Darroch, 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, John Lavery, Paul Keane, Rosemary Bragard, Pat Lynch, Maureen Gooding, Ben Wilson, Christian Ryan, Tina Doveaston, Addi Brady, Patricia Fleming, Nicky Wigmore, Rose Craft, Patricia Spikin, Sandra Fagan, Edna Wallace, Beryl Dixon, Nick Evans, Vicky Jack, Mary Boyce, Kristin Hallenga, Anne O’Neill, Cheryl Shallis, 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, Norma McCleverty, Belinda Balazsi, Johnnie Pool, Edward Martin, Joanna Luciani, Pauline Wilsher, Simon Marshall, Kriston Barnes, Hugh Isaacs, Josephine Griggs, Dawn Deleigh, Lorraine Hart, Linda Dean, Georgina Cornwell, Antonella McConalogue, Sharon Levill, Annie Holland, Ivor & Joanne Knight, Brian Beresford, Rebecca Peake, Connor Bourke, Mattia Mollica, Bernadette Lane, Irena Solecki, Ianto Bellis, Marguerite Harris, Andrew Exley, Elizabeth McConalogue, Kean Smith, Keith Maliff, German Morfin, Bradley & children: Thomas Ball, Liam Davis, Connie Price, Albert Chambers, Fergus Grant, Mary Isherwood, Lucy Price, Frazer Gregory & baby Forest Gallagher.
We Pray for the Repose of the Soul of
DAVID DILLEY, RIP who died recently.
Requiescat in pace
Sanctuary Lamp
The Sanctuary Lamp burns for the intentions of Msgr Kevin Hale and the deceased members of the Hippard Family.
Sharing the Church's Story Conference
This Conference aims to bring people together for an experience of profound personal renewal and to be equipped for mission. With world-class speakers, including Bishop Robert Barron, panels, and moments of powerful prayer and worship, we are excited for what God will do through this event. The Conference takes place on Saturday 17th September in London, to find out more about this important conference and to book go to www.sharingthechurchsstory.com
Bereavement Support Group
The Bereavement Support Group meets every third Tuesday of each month. Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, 19th July.
The Group is open to all men and women who have experienced loss and bereavement and are welcome to join us in a warm, friendly and confidential environment. We will meet in the Bernadette room, Parish Centre, and sessions begin promptly at 2pm. Refreshments are available.
If further information is required please contact: Cynthia on 01702 477384.
Flower Festival - 10th September 2022
It is time to be creative again! Thank you to all those who have already said that they want to take part.
The theme of the Flower and Arts & Crafts festival this year is Christian Feasts and Festivals. Like last year we would like people to create a flower arrangement, or tapestries, paintings, photographs (or any type of craft work) on the theme chosen.
The main topics will be: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Holy Family, Lent, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Christ the King, Pentecost, Ascension Day, Corpus Christi, All Saints & All Souls Day, St Peter & Paul.
There are of course other special feast days you can choose. In Anglican churches Harvest festivals are prominent whilst there are several special feast days for Our Lady in the Catholic church.
Many people who visit during the festival have no religious background and we want to present a powerful and prayerful message about Christianity.
Please let me know which theme or themes you will be doing and in what medium. (mcronan@btinternet.com)
Thanks, Jo Ronan
Lourdes Ladies Group
Our next Meeting is on Thursday 21st July in the Parish Centre. As always, all ladies in the Parish are very welcome.
We are delighted to welcome two very talented young men from our Parish: Rory and Niall Windass who many of us know due to their wonderful musical talents. Rory and Niall are well known for their musical contributions at various Masses throughout the year and next week they will be sharing some of their reportoire and achievements. We are very grateful that these talented and young Parishioners have agreed to come along and entertain us so do please come along and show your support.
This is our final Meeting before our summer break and until we meet again in September. To celebrate our “end of term” we will be enjoying Prosecco, cakes and cream scones, plus a really super Raffle. As ever subs are only £1.00 plus a small donation for a raffle ticket. See you all there for what promises to be a great morning!!!
The Good Counsel Network
The 12th Annual GK Chesterton Pilgrimage will take place this year on the hundredth anniversary of GKC being received into the Catholic Church, Saturday 30th July. Please send any prayer requests to; CatholicGKCSociety@yahoo.co.uk or text them to 07795205114. Details of the many different ways in which you can be involved on the day as well as printable GKC prayer cards can be found on our website, www.CatholicGKChestertonSociety.co.uk.
Music at 11.30am Mass on Sunday
Prelude: Elevation (Messe pour les couvents) - François Couperin (1668-1733)
Response to Psalm
Postlude: Allein Gott in de Höh sei Erh - Georg Böhm (1661-1733)
Fifteenth Sunday in ordinary Time
Dear friends in Christ
In the Gospel of the Mass this Sunday, Jesus is asked by a Doctor of the Law: who is my neighbour? He responds by giving us the Parable of the Good Samaritan.
Dear friends in Christ
In the Gospel of the Mass this Sunday, Jesus is asked by a Doctor of the Law: who is my neighbour? He responds by giving us the Parable of the Good Samaritan. We know that in the course of life we come across people who have been wounded or injured and left half-dead in body or in spirit. Concern to help these souls rises-up from our relationship with Jesus Christ. He is the one who opens our hearts and broadens our horizons so that we see beyond our own selfishness and prejudices. We encounter people around us who are often the victims of misunderstanding or loneliness, those deprived of the most basic human needs; those humiliated by their circumstances or robbed of the basic necessities; and in the present climate, many who are not able to provide themselves with what is necessary because of economic factors outside of their control. As members of the Body of Christ, we cannot pass-by on the other side of the road, however repulsed we may feel by the plight of those less fortunate. At the end of the Parable Our Lord exhorts us to be like the Good Samaritan: Go and do the same! Go and be compassionate and understanding; go and bandage the wounds of the ones we see left half-dead; go and bring those souls destitute—in body or spirit—to the source of healing. For as Jesus says in another Parable: As you did it to one of the least of these, you did it to me!
God bless you!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sunday 10th July
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
MONTH OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST
Liturgy:
Readings of Year C
The Nicene Creed
Preface of Sunday 3
5.30pm Mass Michael Foy, RIP (MS)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Intentions of Susan Griffin (PL)
11.30am Mass Intentions of Pat Short (CH)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 11
St Benedict, Ab
9am Mass Jim and Lilian Fegan, RIP (JC)
10.30am Funeral Mass Michelle Disney, RIP
Tuesday 12
Feria
9am Mass Dominic de Souza, RIP (J&CO’B)
Wednesday 13
St Henry II, Roman Emperor
9am Mass Tom O'Callaghan, RIP (CB)
Thursday 14
St Camillus de Lellis, Pr
9am Mass Patricia Armstrong, RIP (JA)
Friday 15
St Bonaventure, Bp, D
12Noon Mass Intentions of Renata Butler-90th Birthday (LS)
Saturday 16
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
10am Mass Intentions of David & Josephine Brown-50th Wedding Anniv (ED)
10.30-11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 17
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
5.30pm Mass Fidelis & Lourdes Mary Pallis, RIP (D&JL)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass Tom O'Callaghan, RIP (CO’B)
9.30am Mass Intentions of Mary Clark (MM)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Fr Walter Walsh, Fr John Watson, Canon Daniel Harnett, Fr 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, Stanislaus Dulewicz, Michael O’Connell, Betty Gray, Dorothy May Cole, Kathleen Scaife, Margaret Simpson, Monica Gray, Patricia Armstrong, Josephine Russell, Ronald Gibson, Robert Wright, Margakita Ekers, Mary James, Andrew Wardle & Hope Bailey-Pillow.