Newsletter

SUNDAY 23rd June 2024

SAINT JOHN FISHER. (instead of 12^th Sunday)

Readings: Maccabees 6:18-31, Psalm 30, 1 Peter 4:12-19, Matt 24:4-13. 

 

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)

Mon  24th June   09.15         Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

Birth of John  the Baptist  10.00         John & Eileen Stanton (Anderson)

 

Tues  25^th June    09.15    Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                            10.00                        Raman Patel (Bhalla)

Wed   26^th June   09.15      Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 

                            10.00                         Kate Dunning RIP (Wheatley)

 

Fri     28th June    09.15        Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 

  Irenaeus             10.00                         For the Parish 

 

Sat   29th June     17.30          Confessions

                             18.00                         For the Parish in TG (Kilcullen family)

 

Sun  30th June SAINTS PETER AND PAUL  

                            08.30                          Private Intention (Jeyaseelan)   

                            10.30                           Lesley Sarton (Fitzpatrick)

                            

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:                          £1026.28

         Retiring Collections                         Day for Life:                         £ 141.40

                                                                 Next Week                           Peter’s Pence 

                                                                                               

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

 

Newsletter: Please copy notices to Fr Doug by the previous Wednesday

 

Dear Parishioners,

Today is our Day! Let’s remember the cost that St. John Fisher paid, and let’s celebrate the freedom he won for us. I hope we all have a wonderful feast.

 

God Bless,                                  Fr Doug 

 

PARISH FEASTDAY BBQ 

Please come along Tickets available at the gate

Ticket holders (£8 and £4 for children) will enjoy a fulsome meal and all the entertainment. 

 

PETER’S PENCE

This fund enables St Peter’s successor, Pope Francis, to support and develop the church and particular groups in need, in many different parts of the world.

 

HOLY YEAR 2025. 

The whole church will celebrate a “Holy Year”. 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 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, 5^th July 7-9.30. in the parish hall.

 

A parish programme on praying the Our Father will be delivered in the autumn.

 

CHURCH CLEANING   

We are very grateful that a new group of parishioners have volunteered to help with the church cleaning.  We now have 6 groups therefore each group will clean every 12 weeks.  The revised rota from 8 July is now available for collection from the cupboard.

 

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 07977978536 

 

SOUTHWARK ARCHDIOCESAN LOURDES PILGRIMAGE 

Archbishop John warmly invites you to join him as he leads the diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes, from 23^rd to 30^th August 2024. Details of this can be found on the Archdiocesan website: rcaos.org.uk. Experience the unique spirituality of Lourdes, along with people from parishes around the Archdiocese.

Direct link: https://rcaos.org.uk/news-events/news/archbishop-john-to-lead-pilgrimage-to-lourdes/