Today we celebrate the great sacramental  mystery at the heart of our Catholic Faith – the real presence of Jesus in the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist. 

We do not receive the sacraments as common food, but as a real and substantial reality, and this is why we should always approach Holy Communion with great reverence and why we should acknowledge that presence by genuflecting to the tabernacle when we enter a Catholic church.

It is also why we should be very still and silent in church, especially when Mass is being celebrated.

“Therefore, we before Him bending this great sacrament revere. Types and shadows have their ending, for the newer rite is here.  Faith our outward sense befriending makes the inward vision clear.” 

........by St. Thomas Aquinas 1227-74

Welcome to Mass today.

We welcome through Holy Baptism (Sat. 4pm), Caitlyn Jessica Synnott, her parents Myles and Jane and godparents Jacqueline, Derek and Cheryl.

Yesterday we celebrated the marriage of Helen Turner and Andrew Cliffe. We wish them a long and happy married life.

Notices
Today 6/6/10	4pm - Petts Wood Residents Association Service in the Memorial Hall – with the Christ Church orchestra.  Please come along if possible.
Monday 7/6/10	Craft and Skills afternoon 1.25pm-3.15pm. Do have you a craft or skill you can share or would like to learn?  You are also welcome to just come in for a chat and a cup of tea.  Contact Sheila Simon for more information on 0208 467-9385.  8.30pm - Evangelium – the sacraments of Marriage and Holy Orders
Tuesday 8/6/10	Mass at 7.15pm 8pm - Justice and Peace Group in the social centre
Thursday 10/6/10	Installation of Archbishop Peter Smith as Archbishop of Southwark – St George’s Cathedral 12noon.
Saturday 12/6/10	10.30am - First Communion Mass- please pray for the  31 children making their First Communion and we will print their names next week.
Sunday 13/6/10	Second collection for the Catholic Trust for England and Wales
Wednesday 16/6/10	8pm- meeting in the social centre for those who would like to get involved and help with the Autumn Festival (2/10/10). Contact Sue David on 020 8467 0643.

Saturday 19/6/10

4.30pm - Baptism of  Finlay James Rothon 7pm-9pm Newcomers Evening – about 50 families have been invited – if we have missed you out – apologies! Please feel welcome to come.

Life Style

Deny yourself, but first

Establish who you are.

He surely did not mean

We must deny our gifts,

Make ourselves nothing.

Premature self-denial

Ends in stunted growth:

What’s needed is not

Self-negation, but, springing from

Self- awareness, generous

Giving, not up, but out.

..................A poem by Ann Lewin

Every blessing, Fr. Bryan

Mass attendances last Sunday were 574

Mass Intentions for Sunday  6^th June  – Corpus Christi
Sunday	6pm	Olwen Gilroy RIP (C & D Hairs)
	10am	Kenneth Jackson RIP (M Jackson)
	11.30am	Frank Boyle RIP 1^st Anniversary (G Day)

Monday   Feria	9.30am	Fred Brennan RIP (the Barradell family)
Tuesday Feria	9.30am	Kitty O’Riordan RIP (Ned)
	7.15pm	Bernard Ellis RIP (M & B Wynne)
Wednesday Feria	9:30am	Fr. Louis Fitzmaurice RIP (Found)
Thursday Feria	9.30am	Ann Hulse RIP (B & M Morley)
Friday The Sacred Heart of Jesus	9.30am	Claire Cecilia Popham RIP (A Denham)

Mass Intentions for Sunday  13^th June - 11^th Sunday in Ordinary time (C)
Sunday	6pm	People of the Parish
	10am	Sheila Gleeson RIP (C & D English)
	11.30am	Fausto Suzzara RIP (D Delf)

Morning Prayer:- Monday - Friday at 9.10am

Weekday Masses:- Monday- Friday at 9.30am and Tuesday 7.15pm  

Confessions are heard:- Saturday at 5.30-6pm and Monday at 10-10.30am

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament:- Mondays at 10-10.30am

Don’t forget to visit our parish website:  www. stjamespettswood.org

Please make sure you are registered with the parish! (forms In porch) and that our current info is up to date.