Attendance last week was 644 . This Sunday: Second Collection for our Maintenance Fund.
Sunday  27/10/13	30th Sunday in Ordinary Time 6pm (Sat) – People of the Parish 9.15am – Ellen Nelligan, RIP (Ardron family) 11am – Dorothy and Arthur Fry, RIP (Barbara Bridle)
Monday 28/10/13	No Monday Mass
Tuesday 29/10/13	Feria 9.30am – Welfare of Ranjana Chauhan (M and D Kelly)
Wednesday 30/10/13	Feria 9.30am – Vocations to the priesthood and religious life (CWL)
Thursday 31/10/13	Feria 11am – Requiem for David Kelly, RIP 8pm – Vigil Mass of All Saints  (Ben White, RIP)
Friday 1/11/13	All Saints 9.30am – Mass for All Saints Eileen Keane, RIP (P. Farrant)
Saturday 2/11/13	Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed 9.30am – Margaret Campbell, RIP (M and S O’Mahony)
Sunday  3/11/13	31st Sunday in Ordinary Time 6pm (Sat)  - Ben and Jo White, RIP 9.15am – Daniel Carrigan, RIP (G and J Carrigan) 11am – People of the Parish

Friday is the Solemnity of All Saints – a Holy Day of Obligation when all Catholics should be at Mass.  Masses here on Thursday evening at 8pm and on Friday at 9.30am.

Today’s gospel reminds us that the root and foundation of holiness is true humility and this is what characterizes a true saint. All of us who are baptized are called to holiness of life; we must allow God’s grace to shine in and through us so that we ‘light up the sky.’

All Saints usually occurs in term time. I do hope that the church will be full for both the Masses  -and especially with families and children on Friday morning.

‘As a net’

a poem about the communion  (=community) of saints. 

By Jean Murdoch.

O Lord,

Help us to realize that we are all part of each other,

Part of the whole world,

Intertwined as a net.

Broaden our thinking,

Stretch our imagination;

Make us aware

That, in both giving and taking,

We are part of the whole.

In our hands is the ability to destroy or to build up.

Help us to make our choices wisely.  Amen.

THIS WEEK

Today: 2^nd collection for our Maintenance Fund. Please Gift Aid if possible.  Thank you.

Refreshments are served after 9.15 and 11 in the adjoining hall; do come in and chat for a short while.....We warmly welcome any visitors to Mass this weekend.

Ministers and Readers- please tick your name (main porch board) TODAY (no later) for the Day of Recollection on Saturday Nov.16^th in Streatham. I hope most of you can go- it is a really important part of on-going formation. Bishop Pat will be presiding. Programme on board.

Please sign lists (porch table) for Mass for departed loved ones (Sunday 17^th November at 3pm) and for the Senior Citizens Lunch (Sunday 15^th December at 1pm).

Monday:

Craft Group at 1.30pm. 

CWL meeting at 8pm- all welcome.

Thursday:

Requiem for David Kelly RIP at 11 am.  Our prayers are with Mary, and with Claire and David and the whole family, who would appreciate the presence of parishioners.  David was a home communicant for many years and had a deep and devout faith. May he rest in peace.

Vigil Mass of All Saints at 8pm.

NEXT SUNDAY we shall have a second collection for the Diocesan Seminary Fund (St. John’s, Wonersh, Nr Guildford)  where I and many of our diocesan priests were trained.

Eco tip of the week

Household cleaning – the LiveSimply way

If you have a bloodstain on clothes, remove and soak in salt water straight away. Then wring out and wash in the normal way.

This coming week (for some schools two weeks) is half-term.  And many of our parish groups are taking a well-earned break.  A time to take stock, to reflect on our lives and our faith, perhaps.  To remember our dead, to celebrate our saints (who may of course be the same people) and to strengthen our resolve to follow our Lord within the fellowship of his holy, catholic church.

Every blessing, Fr Bryan.