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Sunday 27/7/14 |
17th Sunday in Ordinary TIme 6pm – Mary Casartelli (Get well) 9.15am – People of the Parish 11am – Anna and Denis Deasy, RIP (Deasy family)
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Monday 28/7/14 |
Feria 9.30am – Fr. Bryan and Teresa (CWL)
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Tuesday 29/7/14 |
St Martha 9.30am – Staff and Children at St James’ Pre School
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Wednesday 30/7/14 |
Feria 9.30am – Mrs Alma Gray, RIP (Deasy family)
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Thursday 31/7/14 |
St Ignatius of Loyola, priest 9.30am – The Wells family (M. Howell)
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Friday 1/8/14 |
St Alphonsus Mary de’Liguori 9.30am – Herbert and Margaret Winn, RIP (F and S Simon)
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Saturday 2/8/14 |
Feria 9.30am – NO MASS TODAY
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Sunday 3/8/14 |
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time 6pm – In loving memory of Alex Canning (Anniversary) (Canning family) 9.15am – Michael Hutchinson, RIP (Mary Hutchinson) 11am – People of the Parish
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Today (Sun.) 2nd collection for our Seminary Fund (St John’s, Wonersh, near Guildford (where I was trained). Please give generously to support the training priests and deacons.
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Next Saturday (2nd) Wedding of Ruth Cahill and Ashley Nicholas. We wish the couple every happiness in their married life together.
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We welcome through Holy Baptism (today 11am), Rachele Lois Stifano (2 years) and Lucas Samuel Stifano (10 months). We welcome their parents Rosmalia and Luis and godparents Angelo and Gema and Juan and Ivania. On the 3rd August we welcome (at 11am); Mia Isabelle Colonnese (6 months), her parents Louise and Paul and godparents Claire and Andrew.
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Sheila Simon’s Funeral will be here on Monday August 11th at 11 am, followed by burial at St Martin’s, Brasted (near Westerham). I know many will wish to be present. There will be no 9.30am Mass on that day.
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Next Sunday – Bromley Foodbank URGENT. Over the summer many families in the borough will be struggling without free school meals. Many school s have nominated families. Could you please bring in some of the following next week: Tinned meat/vegetables; peas and carrots, small bottles of squash, pasta sauce (without the pasta!), instant custard (tinned/packets), potatoes, rice pudding.
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Flavio Iorio writes “Sponsored money for the bike ride amounted to £735 - £588 to RNLI and St Michael’s Hospice and £147 for the Knights of St Columba. Many thanks to all parishioners who supported this!”
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Rainbows need two leaders from Jan. 2015 Please contact Suzanne Horner for details (no obligation) and full training given.
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Fr. Tom Cooper will start his ministry here as parish priest next Saturday (2nd) at the 6pm Mass (confession at 5.30pm). We warmly welcome him and wish him many happy years in this parish!
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Monday 28th July CWL Meeting. All ladies of the Parish are warmly invited to the CWL July meeting in the Church Hall at 8pm.
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Advance notice On Monday 8th September the CWL will be meeting at 1.30pm in the Church Hall to prepare Christmas shoe boxes with presents for the children of the Romanian orphanage supported by the Biggin Hill Romania Group. More details to be found on the CWL notice board.
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Firm Believers inter-church fun and fitness group welcome new members from Tuesday Sept. 2nd, 7-7.45pm in the hall.
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Be kind to our planet We’ve won the parish LiveSimply award but mustn’t give up our promise to be more environmentally friendly. This week it’s a simple practical action which also saves money: If you have a garden, dry clothes out there and not in a tumble dryer
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The past few weeks in the parish have been truly celebratory and memorable - the Archbishop’s visit on our 75th Anniversary on the 13th, the Live Simply Award, the presentation of the Diocesan Medal to Sheila Simon (RIP 17-7-14), (and how great it was that Sheila was in church to receive it from the Archbishop), the blessing of the LiveSimply Garden; and then the wonderful celebration last Sunday (20th), following our Fun Run. We were blessed with glorious weather for both events, - and the Teddy Bears’ Picnic was also really enjoyed on the 21st.
Teresa and I thank all of you for your great generosity and for your kind wishes. We have received so many cards and gifts from individuals and groups in the parish, and we are profoundly grateful. In particular the book ‘Memories’ is a wonderful photographic compilation of the past eight years, produced by Audrey Wright and will remind us of many of the major events of that time- there will also be a copy for parishioners to peruse in church. Thank you, Audrey, for all your hard work and commitment to this.
But also the water colour of St James’ Church, by Rachel (Pam Lundy’s daughter), which will have a place of honour in our new home. Thank you so much, Rachel. It is displayed this weekend in front of the altar- a painting full of life, which has really ‘captured the essence.’
Thank you also for your ‘jar of messages’, and for the many kind things you said. In addition we had messages from every child in St James’ School - many thanks children, (and teachers) for those!
Profound thanks to the many people who work to keep the parish in motion, week by week, year by year. A priest simply could not function without them and I have been blessed by the help of so many gifted and committed parishioners. It has all been greatly appreciated and I am sure you will continue with my successor.
It has been a privilege to minister as a priest here. St James’ is a strong Catholic community and Fr. Tom is looking forward to starting and getting to know you all. Please fully support him and each other – and please be receptive to new ideas and insights. I also hope that many of the things we have established over the past eight years will continue to grow and develop, and take the parish forward into the next phase of its life.
We leave a simple St James statue with you, marking the 75th year of the parish, and there is also a bookmark to take with the parish mission statement on, together with a reminder of our patron saint, James the Great - ‘brother of the Lord.’ What a lovely title. If we try to do God’s will in our lives, Jesus tells us that we are all his brothers, sisters, etc.
We shall miss you all but I think you know we shall be in Orpington and so we are not disappearing completely!
Please pray for us, as we shall for you. This community will always have a deep and special place in our hearts.
Every blessing. Fr Bryan.