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SUNDAY 19th Jan 2025

SECOND SUNDAY YEAR C – Peace Sunday

Readings: Isaiah 62:1-5, Psalm 96,1 Cor 12:4-11, John 2:1-11.

 

Sat      18th Jan          17.30        Confessions

      18.00          Cath Fitzpatrick RIP (O’Brien) 

 

Sun     19th Jan         SECOND SUNDAY YEAR C – Peace Sunday 

                                  08.30          Anne Maxted RIP (Wilkes)

                                  10.30          John Hughes RIP (Hughes)

 

Mon    20th Jan         09.15    Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                                 10.00  FUNERAL MASS Cath Fitzpatrick RIP

 

Tues   21st Jan         09.15  Agnes      Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                                 10.00          For the Parish

Wed    22nd Jan       09.15  Vincent  Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament  

                                 10.00          Eileen Wheatley (Hughes)

                                       

Fri       24th Jan        09.15 Francis de Sales      Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 

                                 10.00          Danny Lyons RIP (Lyons)

 

Sat      25th Jan        17.30   Confessions

                                 18.00          Matthew Bhalla (Bhalla) 

 

Sun     26th Jan         THIRD SUNDAY YEAR C 

                                 08.30          Molly Henebry RIP (Wilkes)

                                 10.30          Antony Moffat RIP (Moffat)

 

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:        £ 887.84 incl S.O.

                                                                            Crib                    £ 554.97

                  Retiring Collection   This Week:    Pax Christi

 

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. Very easy to use!

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 on weekdays, £40 per hour at weekends

 

Dear Parishioners, 

 Help Shape the Future of Our Archdiocese

The Archbishop invites you to play a vital role in shaping the future of our Archdiocese. In today’s pastoral letter, he encourages everyone to reflect on the themes in a Called to Bear Fruit booklet which is to be available for everyone. Ours have not yet arrived so we can’t really plan anything! The idea WILL be though, to participate in small group discussions. Without sight of the booklet we cannot formulate strategies but the Archbishop’s intention is that we form small groups suitable to discuss the 6 themes that are being put forward. Any group reflections can then be submitted to the diocese.

We will return to this after we get sight of the booklets!

                                 God Bless,                                                Fr Doug 

 

 CRIB COLLECTION

Friends of the Holy Land would like to thank all parishioners who raised £1554.97 for Christians in the Holy Land. Conditions continue to be extremely challenging. Please continue to remember FHL and those we support in your prayers.’ Now, more than ever, the small Christian community in the Holy Land needs our help to bring them hope and healing. The focus of our work is providing practical help directly to the most needy and vulnerable of our Christian brothers and sisters through a balance of funding immediate relief of emergency needs and practical small projects to help create a sustainable future.  

 

WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY – 18-25 January.  Churches Together in Old Bexley invite you to a service on Sunday 26 January at 3pm at United Reformed Church, Hurst Road.  We are all invited to celebrate, draw encouragement and strength from the gift of our shared faith. In these turbulent times, we can take heart from the endurance of that faith.       Kathy Fogarty, Parish Unity Contact k.fogarty@ntlworld.com 

 

MAUREEN WATKINS, CATHERINE FITZPATRICK, LESLEY DOYLE, FR PADDY CANNON RIP

May they rest in peace and rise in glory.

Cath’s funeral will be in church at 10.00 on Monday 20^th January

Lesley’s funeral will be at Eltham Crematorium at 1.00 on Wednesday 22^nd January 

No news yet of Fr Paddy Cannon’s funeral.

 

CAR PARK PERMITS:  It is time to renew car park permits. Please take a form from the foyer.  The income is valued by the parish and the facility is great value for car owners!

 

THE ROMERO ROSARY a new book written by Archbishop John Wilson 

With introductory chapters about St Oscar Romero and the rosary, this beautiful and creative new book contains reflections on the traditional mysteries of the rosary (Joy, Light, Sorrow & Glory) and the NEW Romero Mysteries (Charity, Compassion and Mercy, & Justice and Peace) – all illumined for reflection and prayer by the words of St Oscar Romero. The book is available from Pauline Bookshops and online at www.paulineuk.org. The Archbishops warmly invites everyone to the BOOK LAUNCH on Wednesday 12 February 2025 at 6.00 for 6.30pm at Amigo Hall, adjacent St George’s Cathedral, Southwark, South London. SE1 7HY.

  

BUILDING A BETTER MARRIAGE: A fulfilling and enjoyable day for married couples. 25th January at St Stephen’s, Welling. The day is hosted by the Marriage and Family Life Team. To celebrate this Jubilee year, why not take the opportunity to explore how blessed you are in your marriage – not to mention how blessed the Church is with your dedicated love to one another. These days are popular and fill up quickly so please book your place. Please contact Carole on 07983 524 727 or email mflkent@rcaos.org.uk