Newsletter

SUNDAY 9th April 2023

 EASTER SUNDAY, YEAR A 

Readings: Acts 10:34, 37-43 Psalm 117, Colossians 3:1-4, Gospel: John 20:1-9

 

Sat     8^th Apr      20.00  Easter Vigil      Thanksgiving: Jackie Kilcullen (Kilcullen) 

 

Sun     9^th Apr     EASTER SUNDAY              

                          08.30                             For the Parish

                          10.30                              Michael Brown (Botterill)

 

Mon  10^th Apr     09.15          Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                          10.00                        Foundation: Fr Tom Power RIP

 

Tues  11^th Apr    09.15  St Stanislaus     Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                          10.00                              Pat Liddiard RIP (Watson)

 

Wed  12^th Apr    09.15           Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                          10.00                              David Watkins RIP (Fitzpatrick)

 

Thurs 13^th Apr    08.00                              Priest’s Intention

 

Fri      14^th Apr     09.15          Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                           10.00                               Dennis Saville RIP (Cannon)

 

Sat     15^th Apr    17.30            Confessions

                           18.00                                Pat & Marie (Sullivan) 

 

Sun    16^th Apr     2nd SUNDAY of EASTER             

                           08.30                                 KSC

                           10.30                                 Rommel Bernarte RIP (Bernarte)

 

At weekend masses Holy Communion is available through receiving the sacred host and also through the shared chalice containing the precious blood of Christ.

 

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      £1171.78

This week: The Collection is your personal gift to your parish priest.                                      

 

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.  

Gift Aid Please join the GIFT AID scheme – Forms are at the back of the Church. For every £1.00 donated the Parish receives 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

 

Happy Easter, Everyone! 

May heaven be praised, may God be adored.

Everything is changed for I have seen the Lord!

 First of all, a big welcome to any visitors to the Church today to celebrate this great event of Easter. Everything is indeed changed, particularly our understanding of ourselves and of our future.

 

What a joy it has been – so far(!) – to celebrate Easter here at St. John Fisher. We have been able to journey with the Lord on a Way that led him through suffering and death to joy and new life. That journey also describes our path and our calling through difficulties, through suffering and yes, through death to joys and to new life. We place therefore with Him.

 Let me thank everyone involved: The stewards, the readers, the cleaners, the altar servers, the sacristans, those who have led the Stations of the Cross, those in the music ministry, the person who produced our Easter Garden, and of course those responsible for the wonderful floral display.

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

 In case you weren’t here last week let me repeat my notice about the card we received from King Charles. When Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth died we compiled a Book of Sympathy and sent it to Buckingham Palace. We got a reply from King Charles last week. He writes: 

It was so very kind of you to send such a wonderfully generous message following the death of my beloved mother. Your most thoughtful words are enormously comforting, and I cannot tell you how deeply they are appreciated at this time of immense sorrow. Charles R

The card is on the sanctuary if you’d like to see it, next to the Easter Garden.                                                                             God Bless,           Fr Doug       

 

 

PAT LIDDIARD RIP 

Please pray for the soul of Pat Liddiard. Her funeral will be in church at 1.00 on April 18^th

 

SHEILA JONES RIP

Please also pray for the repose of the soul of Sheila Jones. Her funeral arrangements will notified in due course.

 

COFFEE AFTER MASS

Coffee and tea are served in the hall every week following the 10.30 Mass and all are welcome.  We are looking for 2 more people to join the Coffee Rota – this would mean once every 6 weeks. Do please consider joining the Rota to help the existing volunteers – please contact Anne Rayer.  (07855 785331)

 

GIFT AIDERS’ TAX LETTERS

Please fill in the form at the back of the Church with your Name and Gift Aid Number if you require a ‘Certificate of Tax’ letter.