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Thank
you for your offerings last week of £1,365.
Mass attendance 675. |
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26th May (Saturday Vigil) |
The Most Holy Trinity 6pm Robert G H Powell RIP (McGinley Family) |
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Sunday 27th May |
9.15am People of The Parish 11am Peggie & Mai Linehan |
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Monday 28th May |
Feria 9.30am Confirmation Candidates (CWL) |
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Tuesday 29th May |
Feria 9.30am Betty & Tom Cotter |
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Wednesday 30th May |
Feria 9.30am Luise Furnell |
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10.45am Eucharistic Adoration |
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Thursday
31st May |
The Visitation of the
Blessed Virgin Mary |
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9.30am Bill O’Riordan |
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Friday 1st June |
Saint Justin 9.30am Fr David Camilleri 7.30pm Eucharistic Adoration |
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2nd June (Saturday Vigil) |
The Most Holy Body and
Blood of Christ 6pm Inge Gattel
RIP (Benson
Family) Cecil Cardoza Celebrating his
90th Birthday (Cardoza Family) |
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Sunday 3rd June |
9.15am People of The Parish 11am Cecil Almeida RIP (N Pereira) |
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Monday 4th June |
Feria 9.30am Barbara Bridle (Bridle Family) |
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Tuesday 5th June |
Saint Boniface 9.30am Katie Turton RIP (Howell Family) |
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Wednesday 6th June |
Feria 9.30 Maurice Cantopher
RIP (P
Cantopher & Family) Charles Raymond RIP (P Lundy) |
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Thursday 7th June |
Feria 9.30 Eunice Woods RIP (M&J Lehane) |
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Friday 8th June |
The Most Sacred Heart
of Jesus 9.30am Marjorie Ingledew
RIP
(M Ingledew) |
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9th June (Saturday Vigil) Sunday 10th June |
Tenth Sunday 6pm Fr Louis Fitzmaurice 9.15am Tom Hughes RIP (P Cantopher) 11am John Mulvey RIP (M Mulvey) Anthony Olivelle
RIP
(M Olivelle) |
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.
Rosary
Every day after Mass there
is rosary. All are welcome.
Sunday Mornings in the Community Centre
Every Sunday coffee and tea
are served after the 9.15am and 11am Masses.
Please join us for a while and get to know each other over a cuppa!
Second Collection
This week’s second
collection will be for the Maintenance Fund
Fr David writes…
Initially we are swept
by infatuation in every romantic relationship.
Something of the other awakens something very powerful within us. It’s not rational. It’s a feeling. We feel alive in the other’s presence. We feel the need to be in constant contact
with the other. We cannot stop thinking
of the other. The other absorbs our
energy and attention. Initially we
idolise the person. We don’t see them,
we see what we project on them. The
beauty of the initial stages of any relationship is that we are open to learn
who the other is. We are mesmerised and
curious! These are the best ingredients
to open ourselves to the mystery of the other.
However thankfully this intensity does not last forever. In time we start realising that we are in
relationship with another mortal like us.
Some of us feel relieved by this, others experience disappointment and
sometimes hurt.
As life takes over,
especially when children come into the equation and life becomes so pressured,
it is easier to stop being curious about the other and start pigeonholing the
other. The other stops being a mystery. When this happens unfortunately we start
taking each other for granted. A
relationship needs to remain fresh if the couple works at it. One needs to work at keeping the spark alive. Some couples do this by keeping an evening
every week to go out and do something as a couple either a restaurant, or a
movie. Every couple needs to find their
own way to keep the connection going between them. Apart from being a couple, they need to like being alone together.
Otherwise I hear of older couples whose children leave home and once
they do so, they find themselves living with a stranger or worse living with
someone they do not even like. Some
older couples tell me – but we have been together for forty years now, there is
nothing that we do not know about each other.
Maybe that’s true. But still this
is your time as a couple to do things together which before you were unable to
do for various reasons. Explore your own individual hobbies but take
time to be and do things together. This
might come in the form of travelling, going out for theatre, nice meals. Be adventurous! Unless we settle for stereotypes,
understanding other people is a lifetime task.
It is hardly surprising
therefore, that when it comes to understanding God we can become paralysed by
the sheer magnitude of the Mystery. Every
year, Trinity Sunday calls us to reflect on the life of God. It frightens me when I meet people and they
tend to believe that they “get” God completely.
I usually say to myself – Really? Is your need to have everything under control
so strong that you have also got God under your control? How big is your God to have him wrapped up in
a beautifully wrapped up parcel? On the
other hand we cannot say that God is completely incomprehensible. As Christians our principle entrance into the
mystery of God is the person of Jesus. He
is the image of the invisible God, the first born of all creation, the Word
made flesh among us. In the person of
Jesus, the mystery of God has a face, a voice, a language, a love, a life. In the pages of the gospels we meet Jesus’
friends and enemies, his enthusiasms and dislikes, we are caught up with the
struggle for what is right. We are
challenged to keep alive the values that he cherished. In the three years of his public ministry,
the light from light shone amongst us.
The feast of Pentecost
last week reminded us that we cannot begin to understand the truth of God
unless we are gifted with the power of the Spirit. Even the disciples could not recognise the
full truth about Jesus they knew and loved, without the gift of the Holy Spirit. The same is true for us. To understand Jesus we need the Spirit. So it is the mystery of the Trinity that is
at the heart of the Christian life of faith.
Which is why we begin and end everything in the name of the Father and
of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. The
Spirit always surprises us and disturbs us in regards our understanding of God. Also faith in God needs to remain fresh and
this can happen only if we have an alive relationship with our God through
Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Our Christian
spirituality is about relationship. Relationship
with God and others.
For me personally one
of the ways that keeps my relationship with God alive and fresh is to have daily
moments of silent prayer with Him. For
me contemplative prayer helps my soul to enter the depth of God’s presence. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is one of
the places of my encounter with my God. It
is my time to receive – just receive. Celebrating
Eucharist with you daily and on the weekends, helps me to experience God’s
Presence in our midst. These precious
moments empower me to reach out to others.
Without these precious moments, my ministry amongst you would be very
shallow. It would become just a job. Life must be much more than just a chore. I pray that today’s feast would encourage us
to continue to develop our relationship with God and others with humility and
awe. Believe me this love within makes
all the difference
“Drop-In”
Evening Surgeries
Please note that the
next surgery will be on Wednesday the 6th June 2018. Fr David will be available at 281A Crescent
Drive from 5.00-7.00pm and no appointment is necessary.
Pastoral Pillar
Healing Mass
This will take place on Sunday 27th
May at 2.30pm, followed by refreshments in the Community Centre. Should you require a
lift to and from the Healing Mass please contact the parish office giving your
name, telephone number and address. A
member of the SVP will then contact you to make the necessary arrangements.
Helplines and Counselling Services
As part of our care for the community a list of helplines and counselling
services has now been added to the parish website and placed in the porch. The purpose of this is to give contact
details of various organisations which can provide help in difficult times
thereby enabling people to seek privately the information and support they may
need.
Liturgy Pillar
Eucharist Adoration
This 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 7.30–9.00pm and concludes
with Benediction. The next one will take
place on 1st June. Everyone is welcome
for all or part of this time of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament.
Youth Pillar
Confirmation Mass
The
collection made at the Confirmation Mass raised £324.77. All donations will be going to the St Catherine’s in the Philippines. Thank you for your support and generosity.
Justice & Peace
Pots for sale
A number of used garden pots have been donated. Have a look at the photos at the back of the
church and if would like one contact the parish office to reserve it. All donations will be going to the St
Catherine’s in the Philippines.
Foodbank
The current list of needs is: tinned potatoes,
tinned tomatoes, tinned soup, long life fruit juice, jam, rice, shampoo,
toothbrushes, baby wipes, washing up liquid and washing powder. Thank you for continuing to donate these
much-needed supplies.
Diocesan Justice &
Peace Commission
Spring Assembly 2018 entitled Laudato Si!
Responding
to the call of Pope Francis, the Spring Assembly will be held at St Mary’s
Church, 70 Wellesley Rd, Croydon, CR0 2AR, on Saturday 2nd June from 10.30am to
4.00pm. It will be preceded by Mass at 10.00am
celebrated by Bishop Lynch. The keynote
speaker will be Ellen Teague. This is a
free event, and everyone is most welcome to attend. Please bring a packed lunch, but tea and
coffee will be provided. See the poster
on our church entrance notice board.
Share the Journey
This year, the Holy Father urges us to reach
out to our brothers and sisters who are forced to flee their homes. This new campaign is called Share the Journey. You can Share the Journey by joining us on a
walk. This is not just any walk, this is
a walk around the world. Schools,
parishes, and local communities across England and Wales, including our own,
will be walking to show solidarity with people on the move. Together, we are aiming for 24,900 miles –
the distance around the whole world. CAFOD will use this shared journey to deliver
a powerful message to world leaders, who meet in September 2018 to agree two
global agreements on refugees and migration.
There are two
great opportunities to get involved in this campaign with walks taking place on
Tuesday 29th May and Wednesday 6th June 2018.
Take
a look on the noticeboard in the porch or email nick.babb@stjamespettswood.org
Social Pillar
Film Night
Our next Film Night
will be held on Saturday 9th June at 7.30pm.
We will be showing “La Vie en Rose”, an OSCAR/BAFTA, Golden Globe
winning French film about the life of Édith Piaf. The running time is 140 minutes. There will be a 15-minute interval and on
this occasion any donations raised will be for the Foodbank. We look forward to seeing you!
Note for your diaries. The subsequent Film Club will be held on
Saturday, 14th July. Details to follow
in due course.
Senior
Citizens Summer lunch Sunday 10th June
The
SVP Senior Citizens’ Summer lunch will take place at 1.00pm. This was a very popular enjoyable and
sociable event last year so keep this date free in your diary. Signup sheets are now available at the back
of the church. Should
you require a lift to and from the lunch please contact the parish office
giving your name, telephone number and address.
A member of the SVP will then contact you to make the necessary
arrangements.
Save The Date
St
James’
Garden
Party & Fun Run
8th
July
After 11am Mass
Music, Drinks, Cakes – Fun for the whole
family!
If
you would like to get involved, please contact either parish.office@stjamespettswood.org
or
Mary O’Mahony at mary.omahony@stjamespettswood.org
Seeking Job
We have a parishioner who is an experienced
domestic cleaner looking for work, housekeeping, ironing, cooking and cleaning. She has references. Please contact the parish office for more
details.
Polite Reminder
The Parish
disabled parking spaces are for Blue Badge holders only.
Seeing a Chaplain if
You Are Admitted to Hospital
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Protecting personal information (data protection) is really
important when you become an inpatient in hospital.
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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.
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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 2nd June 2018 |
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Cleaning the Church |
P
Driscoll, J Rogerson, M Mitrovic (Tuesday team –
5th June) |
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Wednesday Coffee 30th May |
B
D’Arcy |
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3rd June 2018 |
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Mass |
Saturday 6pm (Vigil) |
Sunday 9.15am |
Sunday 11am |
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Welcomers |
M Walters |
F Mace M Howell |
S Ingle J Ingle |
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Readers |
M O’Mahony K Salter |
H Denham A Coughlan |
R Del Guercio M Ingledew |
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Ministers of Holy
Communion |
T Babb B Babb R Wright A Guyton J Gribben |
W David B D’Arcy T Forde M Smith M Howell |
T Willard R Mwansa P May S Ingle R Del Guercio |
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Bar |
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M Smith N Longhurst |
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Coffee |
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G Brookes D Brookes |
M Harrington S Paris R Scott |
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Altar Servers |
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V Marcolina P Marshall |
D&A Poulton |
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Tellers |
A Barradell, S
Barradell |