Newsletter

SUNDAY 26^th March 2023, 

FIFTH SUNDAY of LENT, YEAR A 

Readings:Ezekiel 37:12-14, Psalm 129, Romans 8:8-11, Gospel: John 11:1-45

 

Sat    25^th Mar    17.30         Confessions

                           18.00                             Marie Lenergan RIP (Staden) 

 

Sun  26^th Mar   FIFTH SUNDAY of LENT 

                          08.30                                     For the Parish

                          10.30                             Madeline Grainger (Choir)

 

Mon  27^th Mar    09.15                                     Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                           10.00                                    Joe Nazareth RIP (Almeida)

 

Tues  28^th Mar   09.15                                     Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                          10.00                             Marie Sullivan (Sullivan)

 

Wed  29^th  Mar   09.15                                     Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                           10.00                                     Pam Sarton RIP (Fitzpatrick) 

 

Thurs   30^th Mar  08.00                                     Priest’s intention

 

Fri   31^st Mar       09.15                                    Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                           10.00                                 Wedding Anniv:John & Margaret Bird RIP (Bird)

                           10.30                                     Stations of the Cross

 

Sat    1^st Apr       17.30                                    Confessions

                           18.00                                     David Watkins RIP (Morris)

 

Sun  2^nd Apr     PALM SUNDAY                  

                           08.30                                    Juliet Benedict RIP (Jeyaseelan)

                           10.30                                     John Larkin RIP (Larkin)

                               

LIVE STREAMING OF MASSES ON THE WEBSITE

All masses are streamed live and can be viewed via the link.

Recordings are available. The Sunday sermon is also on the website in printed form.

 

FINANCES       

Many thanks for your offertory collection last week    Incl. S.O.s £907.40

Last week: Poor Parishes                                                          £135.11

 

 

Direct Bank Payments to RCAS Bexley, Sort code 51 70 14, Account 01831763

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

Card Payment Machine – located in the porch, is easy to use. Select a donation amount by pressing one of the amounts.  The screen will read “Please Tap”, and you tap your card or phone on the card reader.  

Gift Aid Please join the GIFT AID scheme – Forms are at the back of the Church. For every £1.00 donated the Parish will receive 25p from the Tax Office. Standing Orders are best for us. Thank you.

 

OUR PARISH HALL

Our hall is available for hire. Please email bexley@rcaos.org.uk at ANY time for enquiries and our hall secretary will get back to you. 

 

Please join us in the Hall for refreshments after the 10.30 mass

 

Newsletter: Please copy notices to Fr Doug by previous Wednesday

 

Dear Parishioners,

In celebration of the Feast of the Annunciation, Pope Francis asks us to renew the act of consecration to Our Lady that took on March 25 last year. Here are the key words of the consecration which we will use in masses this weekend:

 

Mother of God and our Mother, to your Immaculate Heart we solemnly entrust and consecrate ourselves, the Church and all humanity, especially Russia and Ukraine.   Grant that war may end and peace spread throughout the world.  We trust that, through your heart, peace will dawn once more.  To you we consecrate the future of the whole human family, the needs and expectations of every people, and the hopes of the world.                                             God Bless,                   Fr Doug 

 

DIOCESAN LENTEN RETREAT: “Renewed in Hope”

It is coming to am end now but feel free to join in any session remaining

Mondays, 1.30 – 3.00 St. John Fisher Hall. 

Tuesdays 10.30 – 12.00 URC 

Wednesdays 7.30 p.m. – 9.00 p.m. St John’s Church

 

MAUNDY THURSDAY

We remind you that we hope to be able to resume receiving Holy Communion “under both kinds” if we wish to, starting at The Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Maundy Thursday. It will depend of course on there being sufficient numbers of our Eucharistic Ministers being happy to administer the Chalice. Let us be clear that no one is obliged to receive Holy Communion from the shared chalice and that Jesus Christ is received sacramentally, whole, and entire, under one kind.  The totality of the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of the Lord is received in either or both species. 

 

DAVID WATKINS RIP

Please pray for the soul of David Watkins. His funeral will be in church at 11.00 on April 4^th

 

PAT LIDDIARD RIP

Please pray for the soul of Pat Liddiard who has died

 

PLANNED GIVING ENVELOPES 

Boxes of Planned Giving Envelopes are now available in the foyer.

Please take your box for the year 2023/2024. Thank you. Edna Fernandes, Gift Aid Organiser

 

LOST PROPERTY

Ear ring found in Church on 18/19 March. 

Please see Fr Doug if it is yours

 

ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY  

We can be contacted by leaving a message with the Parish Office, a note through the Presbytery Door or using the Parish email address as above.

 

WORLD YOUTH DAY LISBON –

31st July to 7th August 2023 The Archdiocese of Southwark is taking a group of pilgrims (aged 18-35) to World Youth Day. For info visit https://bit.kinsly/WYDSouthwark and www.lisboa2023.org/en/.