Newsletter

SUNDAY 2nd February 2025

PRESENTATION OF THE LORD

Readings: Malachai 3:1-4, Psalm 24,1 Hebrews 2:14-18, Luke 2:22-32, Page 306

 

Sat      1^st Feb            17.30      Confessions

                                   18.00                             Holy Souls (Jeyaseelan) 

 

Sun     2nd Feb         PRESENTATION OF THE LORD 

                                   08.30                            Maureen Oram RIP (Oram)

                                   10.30                            Ken Crump RIP (Crump)

 

Mon    3rd Feb            09.15 Laurence of       Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                                   10.00  Canterbury            Colette Hunt RIP (Sheehan)

 

Tues   4th Feb            09.15                       Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                                   10.00                            Peggy Lawlor (Kilcullen)

 

Wed    5th Feb           09.15  Agatha Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 

                                  10.00                            Margaret Gillis (Hughes)

 

 Fri       7th Feb          09.15                        Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament  

                                  10.00                           Sylvie and Victor Jeyaseelan (Jeyaseelan)

 

Sat      8th Feb          17.30       Confessions

                                 18.00                            Catherine Fitzpatrick (Norton) 

 

Sun     9th Feb          FIFTH SUNDAY Year C 

                                 08.30                            Dr Sheila Santamaria RIP (Santamaria)

                                 10.30                            Maureen Fitzpatrick (Hughes)

 

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  the website.

 

FINANCES   

Many thanks for your offertory collection           Last Week:                           £ 1003.03 incl S.O.

                                                                                                                                    

 

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

 

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

 

Dear Parishioners, 

Help Shape the Future of Our Archdiocese

The Archbishop invites you to reflect on the 6 themes in the Called to Bear Fruit booklet. He suggests that you try and meet up in small discussion groups. 

Use any groups you are in OR form your own groups OR form groups by signing your details on the sheet in the foyer, indicating whether you’d like to meet in the morning, afternoon, evening or on “zoom”. If you can host such a meeting please say so. If the hall is available at times that suit you, feel free to book it. Respond to as many or as few of the themes as you want. Any group reflections should then be submitted to the diocese. The deadline is currently April 6^th. 

OR as individuals or couples use the booklets at home and offer any reflections to the parish council, c/o parish office, by March 23^rd and these will be collated and submitted as if from a discussion group! 

                             God Bless,                                                Fr Doug 

LENTEN REFLECTIONS

We invite you to take part in reflections each week during lent. We will focus on the Sunday Gospel so it will be a great way to prepare for each Sunday mass, devoting time to the Word of the Lord in this way.

Meetings will be on Monday evenings 6.30-7.30

            March 10, 17, 24, 31, April 7

And also Tuesday lunchtimes 1.00-2.30

            March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 8

Each reflection will be guided by members of our spirituality committee.

 

“LIVE SIMPLY” … so that others simply, may live

Our other big Lenten project will be to try and commit to the Cafod campaign to live simply, sustainably and in solidarity with the poor and marginalized. More information will follow.

 

A YEAR OF HOPE: INTRODUCTION TO THE JUBILEE YEAR

How can we respond to Pope Francis’ call to be “tangible signs of hope” in this Jubilee Year? Find out by watching this inspirational event at cafod.org.uk/jubilee). Discover how we can act in faith and in love as pilgrims of hope this Holy Year. 

 

PAUL GRUBER, MAUREEN WATKINS, JOHN KILNER, FR PADDY CANNON RIP

May they rest in peace and rise in glory.

Paul Gruber’s funeral will be on Tuesday 18^th February at 12.00

Maureen Watkins’s funeral will be on Monday 24^th February at 10.30.

No news yet of the other funerals.

 

CAR PARK PERMITS

It is time to renew car park permits. Please take a form from the foyer. 

Thanks to all those who have responded already.

 

WELCOME

To Benjamin McCarthy who will be baptised at 6.00 mass this weekend.

 

SWANLEY AND DISTRICT FOODBANK 

Swanley and District Foodbank are looking for people to join the team of trustees, particularly with skills in Secretarial Work, Finance including payroll, Health & Safety or Safeguarding. Contacts: Manager Emma on 07798872 573, or Chair John Kahan – John.Kahan@hotmail.co.uk 

 

THE ROMERO ROSARY – a new book by Archbishop John Wilson 

Reflections on the traditional mysteries of the rosary (Joy, Light, Sorrow & Glory) and the NEW Romero Mysteries (Charity, Compassion and Mercy, & Justice and Peace) 

It is available from Pauline Bookshops and online at www.paulineuk.org. 

BOOK LAUNCH Wed 12 Feb 2025 at 6.00 at Amigo Hall, St George’s Cathedral, SE1 7HY.