SUNDAY 20th April 2025,
EASTER SUNDAY Year C
Readings: Acts 10:34-43, Psalm 117, Colossians 3:1-4, John 20:1-9,
Click on the photo to see all the church flowers this Easter
Sat 19th April EASTER NIGHT – THE VIGIL AND FIRST MASS OF EASTER
20.00 John Robins RIP (Robins)
Sun 20th April EASTER SUNDAY Year C
08.30 Margaret McQuaid RIP (McQuaid)
10.30 William Laverty RIP (Howie)
Mon 21st April 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
10.00 Balogh & Szendroi Families (Balogh)
Tues 22nd April 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
10.00 Maureen Fitzpatrick RIP (Bennett)
Wed 23rd April 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
10.00 John Larkin & Eileen O’Connor RIP (Larkin)
Fri 25th April 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
10.00 Maureen Fitzpatrick RIP (Puddy)
Sat 26th April 17.30 Confessions
18.00 Special Intention (Cottle)
Sun 27th April SECOND SUNDAY of EASTER Year C (Divine mercy)
08.30 Maureen Fitzpatrick RIP (King)
10.30 Anthony 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: £948.69 incl S.O
Good Friday: Holy Places in Palestine
Easter Masses: Fr Doug’s Personal Gift
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
Happy Easter, Everyone!
May heaven be praised, may God be adored.
Everything is changed for I have seen the Lord!
First of all, a big welcome to any visitors to the Church today to celebrate this great event of Easter. In a world where at the moment, so much seems to be going wrong, Easter can and does change things. The resurrection brings HOPE to us all. We may not see a way forward – who did on Good Friday? But Jesus shows us that, as Julian of Norwich once put it; “All shall be well”.
What a joy it has been – so far(!) – to celebrate Easter here at St. John Fisher. We have been able to journey with the Lord on a Way that led him through suffering and death to joy and new life. That journey also describes our path and our calling through difficulties, through suffering and yes, through death to joys and to new life. We place all our hope therefore with Him.
Let me thank everyone involved: The stewards, the readers, the cleaners, the altar servers, the sacristans, those who have led the Stations of the Cross, those in the music ministry, those who produced our Easter Garden, and of course those responsible for the wonderful floral display.
I also offer my personal thanks for your Easter offering, your gift to me.
If you are a visitor, you might wonder why there is a re-used Christmas Tree on our sanctuary. It is for us, an “Easter Tree” and bears the weight of hundreds of promised to live a better life by living more Simply, Sustainably and in Solidarity with others in our world. Makes sense, doesn’t it? Take (and use) a prayer card from the foyer – Simply, Sustainably and in Solidarity
God Bless, Fr Doug
WELCOME INTO THE CHURCH
Congratulations to Lois Medley and Adam Graimes, who are received into full communion with the Church here this Easter.
MARY IN MAY – PRAYING THE MAGNIFICAT
We like to mark the month of May by paying some special attention to the place of Mary in the history of the world and especially in our lives, particularly in our prayer lives.
Saturday May 17 10.00 – 1.00 in our parish hall. Fr Doug will lead the presentations.
MODERN SLAVERY AND ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Seminar hosted by Caritas Southwark and the Santa Marta Group
Wednesday 30th April at St Stephen’s Church in Welling 6.30-8.30PM.
The realities facing victims of trafficking and how the Church is responding.
JUBILEE YEAR PILGRIMAGES
Pope Francis encourages us all to make some kind of a pilgrimage in this Jubilee Year of Hope. A plenary indulgence will be gained by any who take part in any of the following:
Deanery Pilgrimage for ALL to St. John Vianney Saturday 5th July PLEASE MAKE A NOTE
Diocesan Pilgrimages to Aylesford on Sat 7th June and Walsingham on Sat 28th June
Augustine Camino: Rochester Cathedral to Minster Abbey – for Mary’s Meals Mon 1 – Sun 8 Sep
MASS IN CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE July 12th, at St George’s Cathedral
If you are celebrating your 1st/10th/25th/40th/50th/60th + wedding anniversary this year, please let us know as soon as possible, and no later than the middle of May, providing the following details: your names, your home address, your parish, and the anniversary you are celebrating, so you can receive an invitation from the Archbishop. Spaces are limited. Contact us at mflse@rcaos.org.uk
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