Newsletter

SUNDAY 24th September 2023 

TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY,YEAR A, 

Readings: Isaiah: 55:6-9 Psalm 144 Philippians 1:20-24, 27 Gospel: Matthew 20:1-16

 

Sat   23^rd Sep       17.30      Confessions

  18.00                       Noreen Collyer RIP

 

Sun  24^th Sep        TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY             

                              08.30                       Margaret Hagen RIP 

  10.30                        Lance Grainger RIP (Hewitt/Grainger)

 

Mon    25^th Sep       09.15    Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

   10.00                       For the Parish

 

Tues   26^th Sep        09.15    Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                                10.00  Ss Cosmas+Damian    Margaret Gallagher (East)

 

Wed    27^th Sep        09.15    Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                                10.00  St Vincent de Paul    The Homeless (Saturday Friends + SVP)    

 

Thurs  28^th Sep        08.00                      Priest’s Intention

 

Fri       29^th Sep        09.15     Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                                10.00  Archangels       Private Intention 

 

Sat      30^th Sep       17.30     Confessions

    18.00                        Anne Frances Burton-Bowen RIP (Wood)

 

Sun      1^st Oct           TWENTY-SIXTH SUNDAY 

     08.30                       Priest’s Intention

                                10.30                        Rex Wheatley RIP (Wheatley)

 

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            £1097.85

Last week: Evangelii Gaudium Sunday                                                                  £62.70

This week: Libya Relief Fund

                                                                        

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 the previous Wednesday

Dear Parishioners,

Next weekend sees the start of October, traditionally a month of devotion to Our Lady. We will, as is our custom, use the hail Holy Queen in our bidding prayers instead of the Hail Mary. The words can be found on page 219 of the Parish Mass Book.

Also, for the 4 Saturdays in the month, we will offer an opportunity to pray the Rosary together with commentaries on the scriptural refences to the mysteries. Check it out: 

We are calling it “A Doorway Into Prayer”. 

We begin on Saturday 7^th October at 10.00 with the joyful mysteries. All are welcome.

 

Also, I am away next weekend. Be nice for Fr Peter!

God Bless,                        Fr Doug

 

PETER HAMMOND

Please pray for Peter who died last Sunday. May he rest in peace and rise in glory.

His funeral will be on October 6^th at 10.30 

 

THE HARVEST & CAFOD FAMILY FAST

Friday 6^th October is Family Fast Day. You are invited to fast on the day and offer the money saved to the work of CAFOD. We will have a retiring collection on Sunday 8^th to harvest your savings and to give everyone the chance to contribute. Also, on that Sunday we will celebrate at 10.30 mass Our Harvest Festival. We will be collecting food donations (non-perishable only please) and other essential items for the Manna Day Centre at London Bridge. For a list of most needed items please visit the Manna Society website: http://www.mannasociety.org.uk.  So please bring in your food items (nothing fresh that can go “out of date”) from next Sunday onwards and place them on the sanctuary. Harvest Festival gifts provide the Manna Centre with 70% of their foodstuffs for the year and are therefore critically important to them.  Please give if you are able.

HARVEST CAKE SALE

Following our Harvest Festival Service, the Children’s Liturgy Group we will be holding a cake sale in the parish center.  All money raised will be donated to CAFOD’s Harvest Appeal.  Please come along and support us. All donations welcome.  Thank you

 

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION 2024

Application forms are now available for the First Holy Communion programme 2024. Baptised children in year 3 or above are eligible to apply.  Forms can be collected from the entrance porch or please speak to Father Doug or Angela Underwood after mass.  Completed application forms must be returned by 1st December 2023.  The programme will commence in January 2024. 

 

FAITH AWARDS

Bexley Interfaith Forum and L. B. Bexley invite submissions of any project that has a positive impact on residents of the borough, for a FAITH AWARD. The presentation evening will be in the Civic Offices on Wed 15^th Nov at 7 p.m. Submissions to bexleyinterfaith@gmail.com by 1^st Oct. 

 

ALL READERS AND SPECIAL MINISTERS

Called to Pray: A Formation Day for Ministers of the Word of God and Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion There are two sessions – 14 October in Welling or 21 October in Streatham.

Please let Fr Doug know, if you wish to attend.