Today the fourth Sunday of Easter, Good Shepherd Sunday, is the day chosen as the World Day of Prayer for Vocations to the priesthood and the Consecrated Life.
Pope Benedict has written to us this year on the theme “Proposing Vocations in the Local Church”. He reminds families, parishes and associations of their responsibility to help children and young people “grow into a genuine and affectionate friendship with the Lord”.
Might you have a vocation to be a priest, a permanent deacon (who can of course be married), a nun or a monk? I feel there are some people in our congregation who could respond. Do have a word with me in complete confidence. It is great that one of our number is considering her call to the Religious Life. Do have a look at www.invocation.org.uk.
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Mass attendances last Sunday were 843. |
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Sunday 15/5/11 |
We welcome through Holy Baptism (Sat. 4.30pm) Kayin Shittu (13mths), his parents Ibukun and Jeanine and godparents Nana, Emma, Prince Opuku and Andrew.
6pm – Martin O’Connor RIP (Ned)
9.15am- Eileen Haselwood RIP (the Griffiths family)
11am - People of the Parish
Second collection for Ecclesiastical Education.
Please also take a Gift Aid envelope for the Maintenance Refurbishment) Fund collection which will start on 22nd May. |
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Monday 16/5/11 |
St Simon Stock
9.30am- Edith Mary George RIP ( the George family)
1-30-3.30 pm - craft/card games/tea and chat in the hall. Everyone very welcome! |
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Tuesday 17/5/11 |
Feria
9.30am-Kath Bentley RIP (Jo Bromage & family)
7.15pm- Michael Ellis RIP |
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Wednesday 18/5/11 |
Feria
9.30am – Charlie Rogers RIP (Ned) |
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Thursday 19/5/11 |
St Dunstan
9.30am – Our home communicants |
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Friday 20/5//11 |
Feria
9.30am –Merna Wakefield RIP (M. & P. Cantopher) |
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Sunday 22/5/11 |
5th Sunday of Easter (A)
6pm – People of the Parish
9.15am- Matthew J. Minogue RIP (Michelle Norman- Brown)
11am - Daniel Carrigan RIP (Mrs Gwen Carrigan and Jackie)
Second collection for the Maintenance Fund |
May CWL meeting – will now be held on 23rd (not 30th) May at 8pm for members. There will be a talk about trading standards by a member of the Bromley Council team at 8.30pm (parishioners welcome.)
Cabrini Children’s Society Southwark Good Shepherd Liturgy will be taking place on Thursday 26th May starting at 11.30am at Aylesford Priory, Kent. All most welcome. Contact Ann Hoggan 0208 668 2181
Congratulations to Nick Babb who was commissioned by Bishop John Hine last Saturday at Aylesford as an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion, and we welcome him to the parish team.
Mass for the Sick with Anointing – Sunday July 17th at 3pm. We urgently need drivers to transport the sick to and from church –can you please help? (List in porch.)
Please remember the sick in your prayers: Gerald Colman, Gloria Calnan, Joshua Canning (11 yrs.), Florence Angel, Christopher Drew, Ernest Field, and Bishop Michael Evans (East Anglia).
Visit to Streatham Synagogue – Sat. May 28th. Details and sign-up sheet in porch. This will be a really good outing.
Gloria Calnan, one of our home communicants, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last November. Her family inc. daughter Belinda and son-in-law Andrew (who was received here on Easter day) are planning to run in the BUPA Run for Pancreatic Cancer Research, at the end of May.
Please support this grossly under-funded research! www.justgiving.com/calnan, or sponsor form in porch. And thank you
Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes- August 22nd-27th (5 nights). We have found an alternative flight from London City Airport (Anam Cara Travel, based in Dublin)- £650- all-in. We can link up with Southwark pilgrimage. Please let me know in next day or so as places are only held until this coming Friday.
Every blessing, Fr Bryan.