Kevin Hale
Seventh Sunday of Easter

Dear friends in Christ

The days between the Ascension and Pentecost were spent by Mary and the Apostles in prayer and expectation: this is the origin of nine days of prayer (a Novena) in expectation of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit which would mark the birth of the Church.

Seventh Sunday of Easter
Sheila West
Sixth Sunday of Easter

Dear friends in Christ

During this forty-day period between Easter and the Ascension of Our Lord, the Church asks us to keep our eyes on Heaven, our eternal homeland.

Sixth Sunday of Easter
Kevin Hale
Fifth Sunday of Easter

Dear friends in Christ

In the Gospel of this Sunday St John paints another beautiful icon for us of Jesus as The Vine.

Fifth Sunday of Easter
Kevin Hale
Fourth Sunday of Easter

I am the Good Shepherd.

Fourth Sunday of Easter
Kevin Hale
Third Sunday of Easter

Dear friends in Christ

In an early text by Saint Justin, Martyr, c.150 AD we read: On Sundays there is an assembly of all who live in towns or in the country... This is the first day, on which God transformed darkness and matter and made the world; the day on which Jesus Christ our Saviour rose from the dead.

Third Sunday of Easter

Please Pray for the Dead on their anniversaries

Fr Charles Johnson Fr Conrad Smith, Fr Theophilus Borer, FR JOHN Bergin, Deacon Arthur Woods, Abp George Andrew Beck, Canon James Hemming, Fr Louis HESTON, Mary Cope, Winifred Gansen, Joseph Manton, William Allen, Jim Hayes, Peter Green, Elsie Ivett, Anne Brooks, Mary Manton, William Wheaton, Kathleen Matthews, Eliza Moore, Mary Wright, Wilfred Sawyer, Joyce Wager, Kathleen McGowan, Anne McCarthy, Veronica Maguire, Patricia Lawrence, Kathleen Horning, Bill Jarrett, Ann Dodd, Marie Browne, Jack Abbott, David Peretti, Philomela Conley, Bernard Wiltshire, eileen McCarthy, Percival DeAth, Bridget Finnegan, Sylvia Jones, Dot Tooley, Anne Gibson, Frances Spriggs & Joseph Hayes.

May their Souls & the Souls of all the Faithful Departed rest in peace.

Twenty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Dear Friends in Christ

This week ninety of us - Priests, Deacons and Seminarians - will be travelling with our Bishop to Ars in France. (For reasons of security we will go on two separate flights; the Bishop on one and the Vicar General on another, just in case!) Ars is the village where St John Vianney was the reluctant Parish Priest between the years 1818-1859. Our Bishop will lead us in days of spiritual recollection in this, our Centenary Year. It is the first time such a pilgrimage has been undertaken by the Clergy of our Diocese. Our hope is that, close to the Curé of Ars, we will absorb the spirit of his priestly life especially in his devotion to the Mass and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament; his dedication to the Sacrament of Penance (he spent many hours each day in the Confessional) and his tireless preaching and teaching of his people as he led them along the path to Heaven. Please pray for us, that we may be filled in these days with that same fervour!

Twenty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sunday 3rd September 

Saturday 5.30pm Vigil Mary De Souza, RIP(VD)
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession

8.00am Mass Thomas Stock, RIP (JD)
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Intentions of Mick Toomey (II)
4.00pm Mass Helen Hiscock, RIP (M) - Extraordinary form
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction

Monday 4 St Cuthbert, Bp
9.00am Mass Intentions of Joan & Michael Caunce - Wedding Anniversary (JC)

Tuesday 5 St Teresa of Calcutta, Rel
9.00am Mass Dette Nolan, RIP (First Anniversary) (AM)

Wednesday 6 Feria
9.00am Mass Intentions of Jane & Gavin Allard - Diamond Wedding Anniversary (J&GA)

Thursday 7 Feria
9.00am Mass John Kidney, RIP (G&RD)

Friday 8 THE NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
12Noon Mass Denis Hippard, RIP (SH)

Saturday 9 St Peter Claver
10.00am Mass Joan Gooding, RIP (MI)

The Holy Rosary is prayed after morning Mass during the week

Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sunday 10th September 

Saturday 5.30pm Vigil Bill Pearson, RIP (Anniv) (SP)
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession

8.00am Mass Frank & Ann Ryan, RIP (Anniv), (JL)
9.30am Mass June White, RIP (IS) 
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction

The Sacrament of Penance is available on request

Live Simply Group

You are invited to join the Live Simply group each Monday from 10.15am to 11.45am in the Parish Centre to discuss the Sunday Gospel and how it applies to our everyday life, using material from CAFOD and Laudate Si.  

The next meeting is on Monday 4th September.  Many thanks to all those who supported the art sale in July.  Over £3000 was raised for The Kenyan Orphans Fund.

St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP)Awareness Month

 Welcome the Stranger

“The SVP provides an extended family in which we, as brothers and sisters in Christ, can respond to the many and varied problems being faced within our communities”  SVP Patron, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, on how the SVP cares like a family cares.  Our Annual Appeal will be held next weekend as your financial support enables us to fulfil our commitments.

Serving the Homeless

The committee of Serving the Homeless are organising an Indian buffet meal at The Shagor Restaurant in Hamlet Court Road on Thursday 14th September at 

7.30 pm. Tickets cost £15 and are available from Jo Ronan, Linda Wall, Theresa Whitaker or Pat Short. Alternatively, you can ring Linda on 01702 558217.  Raffle tickets are still available from any committee member for the big draw that will take place on Monday 4th September.

Dinner & Dance in aid of Nazareth House

This is a Knights of Saint Columba Event.  Saturday 23rd September at Nazareth House Main Hall – Doors open 6.30pm for 7pm start. Delicious Fish 'N' Chips, wonderful live music and the opportunity to choose your partner and take to the dance floor.  All profits go to the Sisters of Nazareth to aid them in the wonderful work they do with the elderly, in many cases our loved ones.  The evening will conclude at 9.30pm so as not to disturb the residents.  Ticket price £10 available from Liam Rand 07952 954833, Damian Dillon 07887 678741 or email: liam.rand@btopenworld.com.  Please inform us when booking if you have specific dietary requirements.

We Pray for our Sick

Renata Butler, Mike Rubbert, Teresa O’Brien, Derek Timothy, John Jarvis, Maureen Deekes, Carol Halldenby, Noel Fagan, Leanor Fairbanks, Patricia Abram, Christine Noden, 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, Monica Neate, Janet Woods,Laura & Anne Breen, Roy Widdecombe, Lynne Hilkene, Johanna Lynch, Thomas Corrigan, June Moncaster, Breda Lynch, Sheila McBrearty, Anthony King, Norma McCleverty, Belinda Balazsi, Edward Martin, Johnnie Pool, Joanna Luciani, Pauline Wilsher, Simon Marshall, Kriston Barnes, Barbara Sheaf, Maria Clark, 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, Fr 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.