Newsletter

SUNDAY 16th February 2025

SIXTH SUNDAY Year C

Readings: Jeremiah 17:5-8, Psalm 1,1 Corinthians 15:12-20, Luke 6:17-26

 

Sat   15th Feb       17.30      Confessions

                             18.00           Tony Creasy RIP (SVP/Friends) 

 

Sun  16th Feb        SIXTH SUNDAY Year C 

                              08.30                   Nuala Dunn (Kilcullen) 

                             10.30                    Peggy Collins (Osborne)

 

Mon  17th Feb     09.15       Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

10.00                    For the Parish 

 

Tues 18th Feb    12.00 PAUL GRUBER RIP FUNERAL MASS

 

Wed  19th Feb    09.15        Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 

                           10.00                    Maureen Watkins RIP (Hughes)

                                       

Fri     21st Feb     09.15 Robert Southwell   Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 

10.00                    Christine Hand RIP (Foundation)

 

Sat   22nd Feb    17.30           Confessions

18.00               Pat Liddiard RIP (Watson) 

 

Sun   23rd Feb        SEVENTH SUNDAY Year C 

                           08.30                     Ben Watson 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:         £ 805.89 incl S.O

                                                               Next Week:                   Clergy Support 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. 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, 

Emergency Lighting

You will be pleased to know that we have installed emergency lighting in the Church and in the Foyer.  Should there for any reason be a power cut, these lights will come on so that we can evacuate the areas more easily. You will also see that the security lighting round the church has been upgraded.

 

In this Jubilee Year we are encouraged to make at least one pilgrimage, but it does not have to be an expensive one to Rome or abroad, clocking up air miles. The Archbishop has designated our church and also St. John Vianney in Bexleyheath so that we can join with the other parishes of our Bexley Deanery, making our way from each of our churches on foot (or by bus) to SJV for a concluding Jubilee service together. SAT JULY 5^TH – See below

God Bless,                                                Fr Doug 

Make some dates in your diaries:

LENTEN REFLECTIONS

We invite you to take part in reflections each week during lent, focusing on the Sunday Gospel so as to prepare extra specially well for each Sunday of Lent.

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.

 

JUBILEE YEAR PILGRIMAGES

Diocesan Pilgrimage to Aylesford             Saturday 7^th June

Diocesan Pilgrimage to Walsingham        Saturday 28^th June

Deanery Pilgrimage to St. John Vianney Saturday 5^th July

 

SAINT PAUL – His Life, Faith and Legacy

A presentation by Brian Purfield on Sat 22^nd February, 10-3 in the Hall – Bring a packed lunch

Voluntary donation on leaving.

 

“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. Commit to the rest of the world!

 

Paul Gruber, Maureen Watkins, John Kilner, Fr Paddy Cannon, Maureen Fitzpatrick

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.

Fr Paddy’s funeral will be at St. Augustine’s, Tunbridge Wells TN1 2LY on Fri 28^th Feb at 11.30.

John Kilner’s funeral will be on Wednesday 12^th March at 11.00

Maureen Fitzpatrick’s funeral will be on Monday 17^th March at 11.00

 

MARRIAGE HELP:  Retrouvaille is a program dedicated to healing and renewing marriages. Help is available. If you are both committed to making your marriage work, we invite you to give this programme a try. Places available now Go to www.Retrouvaille.org.uk for info & to book or tel. 07887 296983.

 

CLERGY SUPPORT FUND:  Next week’s retiring collection is to help care for the clergy in their retirement, old age and at any time of ill-health. The diocese aims to provide dignity in retirement, usually after the age of 75.

 

THRIFTY THREADS:  Sat 22^nd Feb 7 pm –  a social evening at St. John Vianney, Heathfield Road with the opportunity to grab a few bargains and make some new friends. Monies raised goes towards Age Exchange.