EASTER SUNDAY

Readings: Acts:10;34.37-43 Psalm 117, Colossians 3:1:4, John 20:1-9  

 

SERVICES FOR WEEK 3^rd – 11^h April 2021 

Sat      3 Apr        20.00                  Easter Vigil For the Parish

Sun  4 April     EASTER SUNDAY

                              08.30                 Fiona Boome RIP (Howie)         

                                    10.30                  Dorothy Speed & Tony Speed RIP (Choir)

    Web – available anytime  https://youtu.be/19f_slV6L4I

 

Bob & Margaret Morris (Frake)

Mon   5 Apr                                                     PKM

Tues   6 Apr         09.30                  Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                            10.00                   Vincent Jeyaseelan RIP (Keefe)

Weds  7 Apr         09.30                  Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                            10.00                  Seamus McDonagh RIP (Haylett)

Fri     9 Apr           09.30                  Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                             10.00                  Eida Family (Eida/Connolly)       

Sat   10 Apr          11.00                  Confessions

                            18.00                   Foundation Mass Fr Tom Power                          

Sun 11 Apr      SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER (Divine Mercy)                        

    08.30                      Margaret Bates RIP (Haylett)

                            10.30                         Rommel Bernarte RIP (Bernarte)

    Web – available anytime   For the Parish 

EASTER SUNDAY MASS ON THE WEBSITE

 

FINANCES – 

Please note the slight change in our bank account name.    .

Direct Bank Payments to RCAS St John Fisher – Bexley, Sort code 51 70 14, Account 01831763

Please put your name and if you use envelopes, your envelope number, as the code

 

Easter Offering: This Collection is your personal gift to your Parish Priest                         

       

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Dear Parishioners,

Happy Easter, Everyone!

 

What a joy it is, this year to celebrate Easter in Church. There have been several features of our liturgies that have had to be curtailed because of Covid, but we have been able to journey with the Lord on the Way that led for him through suffering and death to joy and new life, but which also describes our path and our calling through difficulties, through suffering and yes, even through death to joys and to new life.

 

Let me be the first to thank everyone involved: The stewards, the readers, the cleaners, the altar servers, the sacristans, those who have led the Stations of the Cross and the catechists who led them for the children, those in the music ministry, the filmer and producer of the liturgies for the website, and of course those responsible for the wonderful celebration of Easter through the floral display.

I also offer my personal thanks for your Easter offering, your gift to your priest.

 

Talking of being the first, who was the first to witness and pass on the Good News of Christ’s resurrection? It was Mary of Magdala, and I share a few verses from a poem that takes its title from her name:

 

“I am sending you from this garden of graves,

as the first witness of my power to save,

to heal wounds, defeat death, take sin away

and transform deepest night into radiant day.

Risen and redeeming,

I will be with you always in a new life of grace,

no longer in a human body, limited by time and place,

but alive in the Spirit, God’s gift from above,

who will guide and inspire you in this new way of love.”

 

So Mary of Magdala, faithful and true,

persistent and passionate through and through

arose and dried her eyes,

then leaving behind grief and pain,

she set out as the first to proclaim:

“May heaven be praised,

may God be adored.

Everything is changed 

for I have seen the Lord!”

 

She may well have been the first to say such words but today the challenge is for all of us to be able to say them, as well. 

 

God Bless,             Fr Doug

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