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Thank you for your offerings last week of £1,186.36. Mass attendance 457.
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Sunday 20th August
(Saturday Vigil) |
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
6pm People Of The Parish
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9.15am Alice Barradell RIP (Barradell Family) Francesca M Sio RIP (J&L Sio)
11am Dolores & John Ash
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Monday 21st August |
Saint Pius
9.30am Susan O’Kane RIP (Bunnage Family)
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Tuesday 22nd August |
The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary
9.30am Noreen Alford Smith RIP
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Wednesday 23rd August |
Feria
9.30am Ellen Cushman |
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10.45am Eucharistic Adoration
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Thursday 24th August |
Saint Bartholomew
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9.30am Luis Furnell
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Friday 25th August |
Feria
9.30am Deirdre Corner (M & D Bird)
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Sunday 27th August
(Saturday Vigil) |
Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
6pm O’Connor Family RIP
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9.15am Francesca M Sio RIP (J&LSio)
11am Mary Casertelli
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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.
After spending a few minutes considering this week’s Gospel, continue by reading Fr Henry Wansbrough’s reflection.
This is an especially significant scene in two ways. Mark’s Gospel was the first to be written, and Matthew edits and expands it, using other sources as well. In Mark this scene is the only explicit encounter between Jesus and a gentile – and a woman at that!
At first Jesus is reluctant to do anything for her, for his mission was primarily to Israel. He puts her off, and is really quite brusque to her. However, she wins through by her persistence and her determined confidence in his power. The disciples get fed up with her shrieking after them, and ask Jesus to cure her daughter, which he does. We need to be persistent in our prayers and in our efforts.
God does not grant a casual request. Secondly, this passage reveals a lot about Jesus’ relationship to women and about his sense of humour: Jesus and the woman seem to tease each other with their repartee. There is the same repartee in the account of Jesus’ meeting with the Samaritan woman in the Gospel of John: she stands up to him with her cheeky responses. Jesus and the woman are both obviously enjoying this playful scene. It suggests that not everything is solemn and serious in heaven, and there is room for a sense of humour!
Is Jesus rude to the Canaanite woman, or is he merely challenging her? How does Jesus challenge you?
(Fr David will be on holiday until 25th August)
“Drop-In” – Evening Surgeries
There will be no drop-in evening surgeries until further notice. So if you would like to see Fr David, please email him or phone the parish office for an appointment. Thank you.
One Parish Weekend
Our Autumn Festival on 30th September from 12noon to 4.00pm
We hope you have added the date for this year’s Autumn Festival to your diaries and calendars - and the raffle tickets are on sale now too!
We would really like to encourage all nationalities in our parish to participate in our plans for the ‘all nation’s kitchen’ and national stalls. What could you cook or make? (We’d love to find out!)
We’re also planning stalls with parish groups, dancing displays, a children’s national dress competition, crafts and games, a BBQ, and sweet and bottle tombolas too.
If you would like to join us in planning for, and celebrating, our parish in this way, please come to our meeting on Thursday August 31st at 8pm in the Community Centre, fill in the ‘sign up’ forms on the tables in the church porch, or email the parish office at parish.office@stjamespettswood.org or Pam at pam.lundy@stjamespettswood.org.
Joining in is easy - just come along and say you’d like to!
200 Club winners!
£100 No. 41 Mark Hutchins
£50 No. 140 Michael Hutchinson
£25 No. 132 Angela Bunnage
£25 No. 128 Heather Fleeman.
Congratulations to our winners. There are still places available for any new parishioners or late comers. Please contact Ken Evans for details.
Justice & Peace Group
Foodbank current needs
There are still two weeks to go making up the school meals replacement packs. NONE of the following items remain in the storage units: Custard, cold meat, (e.g. tins of ham, spam etc.), tinned fruit and biscuits. All of these are urgently needed!
Also still needed are: jars of pasta sauce, tinned vegetables, 'hot meat' (i.e. tinned meat that can form the basis of a hot meal), rice pudding, tomatoes, squash and UHT milk.
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 1st 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.
Youth Pillar
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). Please contact the parish office by 24th July 2017 to register your interest.
Pastoral Care Pillar
Peace Candle in Our Lady’s Chapel
A quiet space is available in Our Lady’s Chapel, and a book is available for anyone who wishes to write a prayer for peace or for their own personal intentions.
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.
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Saturday 26th August |
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Cleaning the Church |
O Clutton, M Mathews, R Blanco, R Mwansa |
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27th August |
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Mass |
Saturday 6pm (Vigil) |
Sunday 9.15am |
Sunday 11am |
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Welcomers |
A Huntington |
J-P Samuels L Foster |
L McDonald S May
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Readers |
K Salter M O’Mahony |
R Lim C D’Souza |
Z Bajorek R Del Guercio
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Ministers of Holy Communion |
A Guyton R Wright H Rothon M Cahill C Cahill |
B Cotta S Cotta A Ward A Hawkins D Hairs |
T Troy B Bridle A Bunnage P Murray V Terry |
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Tellers |
L Lynch, M Ardron |