Thank you for your offerings last week of £1592

Thank you for your offerings last week of £1592. Second Collection £636. Mass attendance 639.

Sunday 18^th June

(Saturday Vigil)

The Most Holy Body And Blood Of Christ

6pm William Ashton RIP (K Griffin)

9.15am Francesca M Sio RIP (J&LSio)

11am Bridget & Stanley Simmons RIP (Simmons Family)

Monday 19^th June

Feria

9.30am Tom & Irene Toomey RIP (Irene Webb & Family)

Tuesday 20^th June

St Alban

9.30am Terry Devlin RIP (K Mooney)

Wednesday 21st June

St Aloysius Gonzaga

9.30am Maurice G Ingledew RIP (M Ingledew)

10.45am Eucharistic Adoration

Thursday 22nd June

St John Fisher

9.30am Otavio Araujo RIP (M Holloway)

Friday 23rd June

The Most Sacred Heart Of Jesus

9.30am Denis Nelligan RIP (Howell Family)

Sunday 25th June

(Saturday Vigil)

Twelfth Sunday

6pm Ron Thompson RIP (M Thompson)

9.15am Francesca M Sio RIP (J&LSio)

11am Kathleen Foley RIP (Roche Family)

Confessions heard Saturday 5.00-5.45pm or by appointment.

Morning Prayer: Takes place Monday – Friday at 9.10am. All are welcome to attend.

Pondering the Word (Lectio Divina)

A quiet reflective look at the following Sunday’s Gospel. Mondays 11am - 12 noon, except for Bank Holidays, here in the Church. All welcome.

Offertory collections

This week’s second collection will be for the Parish Maintenance Fund. Next week’s second collection is the ‘4-in-1’ Racial Justice, Day for Life, Apostleship of the sea and Catholic Education service.

Fr David writes…

At the moment BBC1 is showing a very thought provoking series called Broken. It tells the story of Fr Michael Kerrigan, a Catholic priest in Northern England who is battling his own secret struggles while at the same time being a confidant, counsellor and confessor to a community that is struggling to balance faith with the harsh realities of their daily lives. As always the director Jimmy McGovern is edgy and portrays the raw reality of the human condition in the context of faith. The drama we are enticed to watch every week is sometimes difficult to watch. The celebration of the Eucharist is not portrayed as a sentimental pious experience but it both nourishes and challenges both the priest himself and also those who partake in it as parishioners. The celebration of the Eucharist is not divorced from their everyday struggle and reality. It actually speaks to it. This week, a young policeman, with his own young family, was struggling with his conscience either to collude with an institutional lie or speak the truth. And he seeks Fr Michael for advice. After he decides that to be true to his own conscience, he was ready to state the truth of what had happened in the murder of a young black boy with the consequence of being targeted by his colleagues, he changes his mind “to keep the roof on his daughter’s head” he tells Fr Michael. The disappointed Fr Michael then saw the young policeman coming up to receive communion. Fr Michael seemed shocked at this and when he had the opportunity to ask him, why he came up for communion, the young man said “I have never needed it so badly”.

The priest could empathise with this statement as he is struggling himself with his own past demons. He seems to be experiencing the passion in his own being every time he consecrates the body and blood of Christ. He seems to be identifying with the Crucified One. Fr Michael seems to portray a priest whom according to Pope Francis is someone “who smells of the odour of sheep”. He does not spiritualise to his flock. He meets them where they are at. The Eucharist is not portrayed as being the prize for the self-righteous and holy. It is not about power and control. The Eucharist is portrayed as being food for those who are struggling in their lives. Nourishment for the weak and the broken. Fr Michael has a pastoral heart for his people. He struggles with them. He becomes a voice for the disenfranchised. And in all of this, he is also the broken. That transforms itself as gift and his way of connection with his flock.

Today we are celebrating the solemnity of the feast of Corpus Christi. The body and blood of Christ. Every week hundreds of pilgrims/parishioners come through the doors of our parish church. Every week, we do not know what they are carrying in their lives. Some are struggling with big burdens – emotionally, psychologically, physically and spiritually. Every week they come to be nourished – to be given a word of encouragement. To be nourished by the word of God. They yearn to be quenched by the presence of the community and the bread and wine. The Eucharist does not make sense if it is given only to the strong and those whose lives are unblemished. The Eucharist is there to be shared with those who hunger and thirst. Those are the ones who feel that they need it most. The Eucharist can become a sign of division between those whose lives are lived externally by the laws and regulations of the church and so they can partake and those whose lives for one reason or another had provided challenges on their paths. The Eucharist is there for the sick and not for the healthy. Eucharist is food for our journey.

Every week we ALL come together acknowledging our need for mercy and healing as we evaluate our lives at the beginning of Mass. We ALL stop and listen to God’s word for us and, through the priest’s sermon, we try to make meaning of what is happening in our lives. We come to pray together for our own needs and for the needs of all. We also come together to offer ourselves and the gifts and blessings which come from God. We come to nourish ourselves with the body and blood of Christ which leads us to go out refreshed and nourished to continue the journey with hope.

Next year the Catholic Church in England and Wales is organising a National Eucharistic Pilgrimage and Congress called “Adoremus” in Liverpool from the 7^th – 9^th September 2018. We are in process of coming up with a Diocesan programme on how we, as Southwark are going to celebrate it. I wish to ask you to keep this initiative in your prayers. For Parish and School, may it be a time of deepening our faith and love for the Eucharist both in our gatherings and also in Silent Adoration. Maybe it will give us a chance to re-evaluate and enhance the experience of the Eucharist for all ages within our parish and school.

“Drop-In” – Evening Surgery

The next Drop-in Surgery will take place on Tuesday 20th June between 5pm – 7pm. Please call at 281a Crescent Drive. No appointments are necessary.

Liturgy Pillar

Eucharist Adoration

takes place for an hour each Wednesday shortly after the morning Mass starting at 10.45 am and finishing at 11.45 am. This Devotion to the Eucharist is a time of silent prayer and quiet music. Everyone is welcome for all or part of this time of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament.

First Friday of Month - Eucharist Adoration also takes place on the 1^st Friday of each month from 7.30 pm – 9pm and concludes with Benediction. Everyone is welcome for all or part of this time of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament.

Children’s Liturgy Cancelled on 25th June

We apologise there will not be a children’s liturgy session on 25^th June due to the Community Centre being used for setting up for the Holy Communion breakfast.

First Holy Communion

This weekend the following children will be receiving their First Holy Communion. Please keep them and their families in your prayers.

Ted Blighton

Dominic Cernauskas

Aidan Coles

Emilia Doyle

Katie Frizzell

Austin Fulton

Phoebe Harrison

Leo Jayasekara

Florence Lall

George McDermott

Thomas Molloy

Annabelle Neal

Roisin Norman-Brown

Daniel Olatunji

Aaron Ruber

Luke Samuels

Luke Smith

Christopher Welch

Austin Williams

Silver Jubilee & St James’ Feast

Celebrations

Garden Party & Fun Run

9^th July

After 11am Mass

Music, Drinks, Cakes – Fun for the whole family!

Pastoral Care Pillar

Service of Remembrance for Bereaved Parents

Losing a baby or child is one of the most painful experiences anyone may ever have to face. On Sunday 25th June you are warmly invited to a Service of Remembrance for Bereaved Parents. It will take place at 4pm in St James' Community Centre and family and friends are also very welcome. The service will be a time of music, prayer, poetry and reflection. We do hope you will be able to stay afterwards for refreshments.

Youth Pillar

Cheese & Wine Event for all Youth Ministers - Tuesday 27th June at 8pm

If you are interested in youth ministry and are already involved in your parish or would simply like to find out more, you are warmly invited to attend our Cheese & Wine event at St James’ the Great Church in Petts Wood on Tuesday 27th June at 8pm. Take this opportunity to get to know other youth ministers in Bromley parishes, share your experiences and discover the programme of exciting activities and projects we have in store to engage young people in their faith for the coming year. To reserve your place, RSVP: susan.longhurst@bromleydeanery.org by 20th June 2017. We look forward to seeing you there!

Post-Confirmation Retreat 29th September – 1st October 2017.

In collaboration with Southwark Catholic Youth Service, we are offering all young people who have made their Confirmation the opportunity to attend a Post-Confirmation retreat which promises both fun and faith exploration under the experienced guidance of the youth team in Whitstable (Costs tbc) For more information and to register your interest please contact the parish office by 20^th July 2017.

Parish Life……

The Parish AGM on Thursday 22nd June

You will have seen over the last few weeks that the Parish AGM is scheduled to be held on Thursday 22nd June at 8pm in the Community Centre. Fr David has invited parish groups to make a presentation so this should be a really interesting evening! All parishioners are invited to attend and will be most welcome. So please do try and come to the meeting on Thursday.

200 Club

Congratulations to this month’s winners. Next draw on 9th July First prize £500!

£100 Nigel Pereira Number 3

£50 Sarah May Number 7

£25 Ken Evans Number 8

£25 Suzanne Horner Number 90

CWL Teddy Bears’ Picnic

If you go down to St James’ today, you’re sure of a big surprise…

Teddy Bear’s Picnic

Friday 30^th June 3:00pm

Parish Garden*, St James’ RC Church, Petts Wood

£3 adults (includes a drink and a cake)

£1 child (please bring your teddy); Teddy Bears free!

Raising money for CWL Charities

* If the weather is poor the event will be held in the Community Centre

Justice & Peace Group

Bromley Foodbank requests

The list of priority foods and household goods is: toilet rolls, tinned tomatoes, long life fruit juice, tinned potatoes, desserts (sponge puddings, jellies, instant whips), UHT milk, men's razors and shaving foam. Please make sure milk and juices are long life. Thank you to all those who continue to respond so generously. If you shop at a Tesco store in Bromley Borough please look out for the tokens given at the checkout desk. Tesco makes a donation to local charities from the proceeds of their plastic bag sales. Please vote for the Foodbank by putting your token in that box.

Parish Peru Project

The second collection on the weekend of 1-2 July will be for St Helen's parish in Peru. We normally look to support an overseas cause for two years and as we have now been supporting St Helen's for about two years this will be the final collection for St Helen's.

So far £10,387 has been raised which has helped to fund the building of a chapel, called the Adoration Chapel, at the Family Centre in St Helen's parish and to fund the cost of buying tables and chairs, a projector and screen and a sound system in a small hall in the Family Centre.

Fr Alex the parish priest has expressed his gratitude for the generous help St James’ has given him.

The Justice and Peace Group is looking at a new overseas project to replace the Peru project to propose to the parish.

Communications Pillar

Mass Intentions

Please note that, due to high demand, mass intentions for services up to and including August 2017 are fully booked. Please bear this in mind when filing your mass intentions, and try to give the office as much lead in time as possible to help ensure you get the dates you would like.

Seeing a Chaplain if You Are Admitted to Hospital

Protecting personal information (data protection) is really important when you become an inpatient in hospital.

So please specifically ask hospital staff to pass on your details to the hospital’s Roman Catholic chaplain as soon as you are admitted if you would like a Chaplain to visit you.

Fr David would always be very happy to visit you too, so please ask a relative or friend to let him know about your admission. You or they can email Fr David on father.david@stjamespettswood.org, or phone the parish office on 01689 827100.

Weekend Rotas: Thank you for helping.

Wednesday Coffee	21 June T Forde, E Cushman
Cleaning the Church	Saturday 24th June S Lams, L Monsah, D Generowicz, K Salter, M Gallagher

Mass 25^th June	Saturday 6pm (Vigil)	Sunday 9.15am	Sunday 11am
Welcomers	L Ruber	D Hairs C Hairs	S Barradell P Benson
Readers	K Lams L Rusmini	Children’s Mass	M Ingledew N D’Silva
Ministers of Holy Communion	J Bajorek H Rothon M Cahill C Cahill J Callinan	T Forde M Smith M Howell S Cotta A Ward	Z Bajorek T Troy B Bridle A Bunnage P Murray
Coffee		D Delf F Curran E Aletta	C D’Arcy T Lowe
Bar	N Long B Meehan