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SUNDAY 23rd February 2025,

SEVENTH SUNDAY Year C

Readings:1 Samuel 26: 2-23, Psalm 102,1 Cor 15: 45-49, Luke 6:27-38.

 

WE CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS WHO IS SERIOUSLY ILL

 

       Sat   22nd Feb     17.30          Confessions

                                   18.00                     Pat Liddiard RIP (Watson) 

 

Sun  23^rd Feb    SEVENTH SUNDAY Year C 

                                    08.30                    Ben Robson RIP (Wilkes) 

                                    10.30                     Antony Moffat RIP (Moffat)

 

Mon  24th Feb   10.30        FUNERAL MASS MAUREEN WATKINS RIP 

 

Tues   25th Feb           NO SERVICE TODAY 

 

Wed   26th Feb   09.15        Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 

                           10.00              John O’Donnell (O’Donnell)

 

Fri     28th Feb    09.15         Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 

10.00                Lisa Field (Hollis)

 

Sat   1^st March    17.30        Confessions

18.00                   Holy Souls (Jeyaseelan) 

 

Sun  2^nd March EIGHTH SUNDAY Year C 

                                     08.30                   Juliet Benedict (Foundation)

                                    10.30                    David Watkins (Aspeek)

 

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:                         £ 998.46 incl S.O

                                                                 Retiring Collection: 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, 

I shall be away next week. Back for Ash Wednesday!

Yes, Lent is just around the corner. I commend the Gospel reflections listed below, as a worthwhile commitment during lent 2025. But also…

 

“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. We will invite you to make individual pledges and these will be hung on our re-cycled tree on the sanctuary. We will have suggestions for you but you might like to write your own – simple, doable measures that you might take on during Lent (- and beyond!), which won’t make world headlines but will make a difference.

                          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

 

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

Maureen Watkins’s funeral will be on this 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

 

CHURCHES TOGETHER IN OLD BEXLEY’S LENT COURSE will be held on Tuesday mornings from 11th March and Thursday evenings from 13th March – Five Images for Lent – all are welcome to one or every session – see poster in porch for full details.  Kathy Fogarty, Parish Unity Contact k.fogarty@ntlworld.com  

 

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

This 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.

 

YOUTH FESTIVAL MEDJUGORJE PILGRIMAGE 2025. 

4th-11th August 2025 led by Fr. Innocent Ezeonyeasi. The full cost of the pilgrimage is £770 incl flight from Gatwick, half board accommodation. £150 deposit. Contact Noeleen on  0203 808 5156 or Adamma Oguh 07957 211056 or adanmaoguh@gmail.com