“The Times They Are A-changing....”

Archbishop Peter has now approved our parish decision to change our Sunday Mass times.

So from January 2^nd 2011, the 10am Mass will be at 9.15am, and the 11.30am Mass will be at 11am (so Children’s Liturgy will be at the 9.15am Mass.) Please note this in your diaries because Christmas and the New Year have a habit of creeping up on us!

Please note also that Christmas Day will be on Saturday December 25^th and that both this and the next day (Sunday 26^th) are Holy Days of Obligation when all Catholics should be at Mass.  I thought you would like this advance reminder.

Full details of all services and events from November – January will be available soon.

This week
Mass attendances last Sunday were 601.
Sunday 24/10/10	World Mission Day 6pm – Elsie Gaffney RIP (Paula McCabe) 10am –  Patrick Moon RIP (Kevin & Kerry Moon) 11.30am –Ivy, Dorothy & Arthur Fry RIP (Barbara Bridle)
Monday 25/10/10 Feria	9.30am – CWL 8pm - CWL meeting – social centre
Tuesday 26/10/10 Feria	9.30am – Frances Raymond RIP 7.15pm – Joshua Canning (M Howell) Fr. Bryan at Poverest - Baptist Church 2.15pm Evangelium - 8pm
Wednesday 27/10/10 Feria	9.30am –Tessie O’Connor RIP (Margaret Copley)
Thursday 28/10/10 Feria	9.30am – Al Menicocci  (M & P Cantopher)
Friday 29/1010 Feria	9.30am – Reginald Smith RIP (Sue & Jack Ingle)
Sunday 31/10/ 10	All Saints 6pm- Eileen Keane RIP (Pat Farrant) 10am- Bob Macey RIP (Maureen Jackson) 11.30am –People of the Parish

All Eucharistic Ministers and Readers – day of recollection with Bishop Pat and Canon Tom McHugh at Bishop Thomas Grant School Streatham- Saturday November 13th -10.30am – 4pm. Theme “Ministry of Presence”.  Please take your own letter from porch and return as indicated and please tick your name on porch list- thanks. I do hope most of you will be able to go.

"All Readers - important date for your diary - a meeting on Monday 30th November at 8 pm in the church. This is to clarify and in some cases make changes in present practices, and we do need all Readers to be there.

Penitential Service – Our Advent Penitential Service will be at 7pm on Wednesday December 1^st with priests from our Deanery hearing confessions. I do encourage everyone – especially younger families with children – to receive this wonderful sacrament of God’s grace.

There will be material available in the next few weeks to help us all prepare our Advent confession. It is a really important preparation for Christmas and today’s gospel is a graphic illustration of the Sacrament of Reconciliation (confession.)

Please pray for the sick: Joshua Canning, Ernest Field,  Gerald Colman and all who we know to be unwell at the moment.

The Leaves Are Ageing

The leaves are ageing:

some rust

others seep yellow

through green

a few resist

this brittle change-

charge me with love

that I may fan

amber, red, crimson

into flame

then fall, light

as the skin of a chrysalis

a poem by Mary Palmer

Have a good week everyone and I hope all parents and young people will enjoy the half term break.  

 Fr. Bryan