SUNDAY 16th June 2024
ELEVENTH SUNDAY, YEAR B
Readings: Ezekiel 17:22-24, Psalm 91, 2 Corinthians 5:6-10, Mark 4:26-34.
Sat 15th June 17.30 Confession
18.00 Alfred & Diamond D’Mello (Fernandes)
Sun 16th June ELEVENTH SUNDAY (B)
08.30 Bernard Gillespie (J. Gillespie)
10.30 Fr Doug & Fr Peter (Anderson)
Mon 17th June 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
10.00 Priti Patel (Bhalla)
Tues 18th June No service today
Wed 19th June 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
John Rigby 10.00 John Rigby Gloria Bowden (Hughes)
Fri 21st June 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Aloysius Gonzaga 10.00 Maureen Fitzpatrick (Wheatley)
Sat 22nd June 17.30 Confessions
John Fisher & Thomas More 18.00 For the Parish
Sun 23rd June ***ST. JOHN FISHER***
08.30 Patricia McQuaid (Anderson)
10.30 Enzo D’Auria RIP (McCarthy)
LIVE STREAMING OF MASSES ON THE WEBSITE
All masses are streamed 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: £1158.38
Retiring Collections This week: Day for Life
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 foyer.
Gift Aid Please join the GIFT AID scheme – Forms available in the foyer.
OUR PARISH HALL
Our hall is available for hire. Please email bexley@rcaos.org.uk at ANY time and our secretary will get back to you. Prices: £35 per hour weekdays, £40 per hour weekends
Please join us in the Hall for refreshments after the 10.30 mass
Dear Parishioners,
At mass last Sunday all these children started to receive Holy Communion: Sidney Adams, Leo Bailey, Mila Bailey, Maria Benedict, Ralph Blood, Teddy Do, Diana Erihri, Pippa Hackett, Niamh Lynch, Dwayne Monteiro, Lily Stokes, Magdalene Yau & Scholastica Yau. It was a joyous occasion for us all. Please remember them in your prayers. On behalf of the whole parish let me thank and congratulate our catechists who supported their families in bringing the children to this moment.
This coming week Archbishop John has asked all the priests in the South East Area of the diocese to go with him on conference to a retreat centre in Merville in France. Most of us will be there. Fr Peter is also away at the moment so there aren’t many priests around! However, one of the Franciscan brothers at Erith has agreed to say mass here on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Please note that there will be no mass on Tuesday.
Next weekend at all our masses we will be celebrating our own Feast of St. John Fisher. (The readings and prayers are not recorded in our mass book. READERS beware!!) We will of course be having a party on Sunday starting at 12 noon. We really will need your help and support to make as great a success of it as we have done in the past. See below.
The carpark (- and alleyway from 12.00 onwards -) will be closed ALL Sunday, but there is plenty of parking along the road and also in the club next door (with permission, for which we are grateful)
God Bless, Fr Doug
PARISH FEASTDAY BBQ – NEXT Sunday!!!
We will be celebrating with our BBQ party, starting at 12 noon. There will be a singer providing entertainment for the adults and there will be a face painter and a bouncy castle for children.
We do need everyone to chip in a little help though. Volunteers needed for providing salads and sweets, for setting up and clearing up, for supervising the children’s activities etc. Lists in the foyer.
Ticket holders (£8 and £4 for children) will enjoy a fulsome meal and all the entertainment.
HOLY YEAR 2025.
The whole church will celebrate a “Holy Year” in 2025. Pope Francis has asked us firstly to prepare with Prayer and Reflection on the Churches Renewal launched at the end of the second Vatican Council in the 1960s, and also on the Our Father.
Archbishop John has published: “Pondering and Praying Vatican II” £9.99. (St Paul’s bookshop)
In the parish Fr. Eugene Curran C.M. can enlighten us with:
“What happened at Vatican II” on Friday, 5th July 7-9.30. in the parish hall.
A parish programme on praying the Our Father will be delivered in the autumn.
AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED
It was suggested at the AGM that we could and should support this organisation. If we are to do so we will need a parish promoter. If anyone already has any relationship with them, please let Fr Doug know or if you think you might be able to help, again talk to Fr Doug.
QUIET DAYS AT SANCTUARY (in Swanley Village)
FIRST FRIDAYS of every month: The garden is open for you 10 – 4. Wander in, find a place to sit, bring your prayer book and enjoy some reflection time. tkilcullen@live.co.uk or 07977 978536
ST CATHERINE’S CATHOLIC SCHOOL – Senior Citizens Summer Tea Party
We warmly invite you to join us for the Senior Citizens Summer Tea Party on Thursday July 4th, election day at 1.30pm-3.00pm RSVP 01322 556333 or dcunningham@stccg.co.uk
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