Thank you so much for your generosity last weekend. You gave £790 to the St. Barnabas Society, and you also gave enough food to the Orpington Foodbank to feed 20 people for a week!
I occasionally hear of people in the parish who are in need of various kinds. Never hesitate to contact me (in complete confidence)- we may be able help. As the Body of Christ, we are called to support one another in all kinds of ways (my family and I were grateful for the help of the St. Barnabas Society when I became a Catholic).
Today- 2nd collection for Maintenance and Refurbishment Fund. We’re nearly there! - please keep giving generously (Gift Aid please!!) so that we can re-roof the Social Centre in August.
Coach Fayre to Whitstable - confirmation parents - can I please have this (£15) TODAY please – thank you.
This evening at 5pm we have our monthly Taizé service (about 40 mins). This consists of the lovely Taizé music, silence, prayer and reflection. Do come – it is a lovely spiritual ‘oasis’ at the end of a Sunday.
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Mass attendances last Sunday were 650.
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Sunday 22/4/12 |
Third Sunday of Easter (B) 6pm – Tony Huntington RIP (Howell Family) 9.15am – George & Irene Hilborne RIP (The Huntingtons) 11am – People of the Parish
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Monday 23/4/12 |
St George 9.30am – Ernest & Rosina Simmonds RIP (F & S Simon)
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Tuesday 24/4/12 |
Feria 11am – Requiem Mass for Walter Gregory
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Wednesday 25/4/12 |
St Mark 9.30am – Jenny Sullivan RIP (Hugh & Teresa Forde)
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Thursday 26/4/12 |
Feria 9.30am – Maurice Cantopher RIP (Mrs P Cantopher)
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Friday 27/4/12 |
Feria 9.30am – Ron Smith RIP (A. Lane)
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Sunday 29/4/12 |
Fourth Sunday of Easter (B) 6pm – People of the Parish 9.15am – Kenneth Jackson (M. Jackson) 11am – Helen Alcock RIP (Miriam & Colin Travers) |
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Monday: New Eucharistic ministers - training session in the meeting room 7pm - 8pm Readers meeting- Social Centre – 8pm- 9pm.
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Tuesday: Requiem Mass for Walter Gregory at 11.am. (NO 9.30 Mass, benediction or confessions). Our prayers and sympathy are with Mary, Peter and all the family. May he rest in peace. Followed by burial at Bromley Hill cemetery. Journey in Faith at 8pm (for those received on Easter Day).
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Thursday: Project Board (hall development) at 8pm in the meeting room
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Saturday: First communion session – 4.30pm.
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Advance Notice CWL (regular meeting) on Monday 30th April- 7.30pm-8.30pm-followed by a speaker on Religious Rights in the Workplace to which ALL are welcome. This is such an important (and current) topic- do support! (especially J and P) !
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Wedding Anniversary Mass in the Cathedral (1st, 10th, 25th, 40th, 50th, 60th plus) on June 16th. It is good to see names appearing. (Teresa and I are hoping to go as we celebrate our 40th this year.)
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Thanks to all parishioners who have been involved in parish activities over the past week. Every blessing for this coming week, Fr Bryan |
‘Unless a seed dies’
A poem for Eastertide by Ann Lewin.
Christ is in me, the life
Within the seed-case of my self.
Waiting to be set free.
Light growing in darkness,
In secret, patiently
Pushing against self-will.
Christ is the secret that
I cannot keep, he will
Break through entombing
Fearfulness; my seed-case
Broken open will release
His life, his image
Forming my maturity.