SUNDAY 3rd November 2024
THIRTY FIRST SUNDAY YEAR B
Readings: Deuteronomy 6:2-6, Psalm 17, Hebrews :23-28, Mark 12:28-34. Page 152
Sat 2nd Nov 17.30 Confessions
18.00 Margaret Leech RIP (Staden)
Sun 3rd Nov THIRTY FIRST SUNDAY YEAR B
08.30 Geoff Murkin RIP (Fogarty)
10.30 John Hughes RIP (Hughes)
Mon 4th Nov 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacramen
10.00 All Souls (Benedicte)
Tues 5th Nov 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
10.00 For the Parish
Wed 6th Nov 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
10.00 Dave Watson RIP (Hughes)
Fri 8th Nov 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
10.00 Holy Souls in Purgatory (Gillespie)
Sat 9th Nov 17.30 Confessions
18.00 Marie Sullivan RIP (Stobart/Connolly)
Sun 10th Nov THIRTY SECOND SUNDAY YEAR B
08.30 Kathleen Horan (O’Donnell)
10.30 Jim Henry RIP (Henry Family)
Please join us in the Hall for refreshments after the 10.30 mass.
LIVE STREAMING OF MASSES ON THE WEBSITE
All masses are streamed via the link:
Recordings are available. The Sunday sermon is also in print on the website.
FINANCES
Many thanks for your offertory collection Last Week: £920.41 incl S.O.
Next Week: Archbishop’s Appeal Fund
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
Newsletter: Please copy notices to Fr Doug by the previous Wednesday
Dear Parishioners,
As we enter November, we in the Catholic Church traditionally try to remember the faithful departed.
Our Book of Remembrance will be available throughout the month for you to once again prayerfully enter the names of your own deceased family members. The book of names will be brought up in the offertory procession of each Sunday Mass.
Remembrance Sunday November 10th We will solemnly remember those who have lost their lives in war.
Sunday, November10th, will also be the day we pray for the parishioners who have died in the course of the past year and whose funerals were hosted here in church. We will be reading out each of their names and lighting a candle for them on the sanctuary, We have tried to contact their families and invite them along. Please make them welcome if they come to mass that weekend. We will also be lighting one large candle for everyone else that we want to remember.
The Blessing of Graves is as follows:
St. Paulinus Nov 3rd 12.30
Kemnal Park Nov 3rd 2.00
Hillview Nov 9th 12.00
Sidcup Nov 10 1.00
Bexleyheath Nov 10 2.30
Erith – Brook St. Nov 10 3.00
FR PETER STODART
Due to his increasing fragility and need for greater daily support, Father Peter has now moved to St Peter’s Residence in Vauxhall. From his sister, Ursula: “We, his family, wish to thank the parish for all the friendship, kindness and support he has been given during his time in Bexley.”
In St Peter’s he will enjoy personal and nursing care.
This is made possible by the diocesan fund for sick and retired priests which many of you generously support. We wish Fr Peter a long and happy second phase to his retirement.
God Bless, Fr Doug
THE VOTE ON ASSISTED SUICIDE
Kim Leadbeater MP is introducing a bill to introduce assisted suicide, which will be voted on by MPs on the 29 November. If you are opposed to it, please contact your MP to express your view by visiting www.livesworthliving.org.uk It is straightforward. Even I could do it!
Watch actor and disability rights advocate Liz Carr’s BBC documentary on assisted suicide, Better Off Dead? where she examines the impact of one of the assisted suicide laws in Canada. Watch for free online (you do not need a TV licence): righttolife.org.uk/betteroffdead
PRAYING THE OUR FATHER
The next in our series of presentations on the Lord’s prayer will be on this Friday Nov 15th
Then, 22nd. 7p.m. for 7.30.- 8.30. in the hall.
ST. CATHERINE’S SCHOOL
There are 2 vacancies: a SENDCo and a Learning Support Assistant. Please go to info@stccg.co.uk
FIRST HOLY COMMUNION 2025
Application forms are now available for the 2025First Holy Communion programme. Baptised children in year 3 or above can apply. Forms are available in the church foyer. Completed forms must be returned by 31st December 2024. The programme will commence in January 2025.
THE UNION OF CATHOLIC MOTHERS, OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY, BLACKFEN
Are holding a St. Martins day lunch & cake sale on Friday 8th November 12.30 to 2 pm.
Soup, fish, desert, tea/coffee for £13.00 or soup & bread £3.00
stjohnfisherbexley.org 
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