Sunday 4th October
TWENTY SEVENTH SUNDAY – Year A
Readings: Isaiah 5:1-7 Psalm 79, Philippians 4:6-9 Matthew 21: 33-43
Sat 3rd Oct 18.00 Holy Souls (Jeyaseelan)
Sun 4th Oct TWENTY SEVENTH SUNDAY ROSARY SUNDAY
08.30 Thanksgiving (Teresa & Ray)
10.30 Tess & Les Trueman RIP (Trueman family)
Mon 5th Oct 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
10:00 Patrick McQuaid RIP (Jeyaseelan)
Tues 6th Oct No Mass Today
Wed 7th Oct 09.15 Our Lady of the Rosary Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
10.00 Dan & Julia Harrington RIP, Mary & Patrick Sheehan RIP (Sheehan)
Meeting Place closed today.
Fri 9th Oct 09:15 John Henry Newman Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
10:00 Harrington Family RIP (Sheehan)
Sat 10th Oct 18.00 Ivor John Burton-Bowen RIP (Wood)
Sun 11th Oct TWENTY EIGHTH SUNDAY
08.30 Thanksgiving (Cannon)
10.30 Rex Wheatley RIP (Wheatey)
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.
MASS INTENTIONS: Do have masses said for your intentions. Use the envelopes in the foyer to name the intention and to enclose an offering. Give them to Fr Doug or post them through the presbytery door.
FINANCES
Many thanks for your offertory collection £1018.30
Retiring collection: Today for CAFOD
Bank Payments details available on request
Card Payment: Machine located in the foyer.
Gift Aid Please join the GIFT AID scheme – Forms available in the foyer.
OUR PARISH HALL is available for hire. Please email bexley@rcaos.org.uk 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,
IN OCTOBER, as usual, at Sunday masses during the month, we will say the “Hail Holy Queen” instead of the “Hail Mary” in our prayers of intercession. Also, on Friday mornings after mass we will pray the Romero Rosary’s Mysteries of Charity. There will be a short scripture reading to help us meditate on God’s love for us, a brief reflection and then those present will pray a decade of the rosary. We invite those joining livestream to accompany us and everyone else to pray a decade sometime during the day in solidarity with us.
God Bless, Fr Doug
MARLENE BURT RIP: Marlene’s funeral will be on Friday October 30th at 10.00. May she rest in peace and rise in glory.
CAFOD: Please donate to our Family Fast Day parish collection. Use the CAFOD envelopes or donate online at cafod.org.uk/envelope or call 0303 303 3030.
HARVEST FESTIVAL: Our Harvest Festival is at 10.30 mass. We are collecting non-perishable food and other essential items listed in the foyer for the Manna Day Centre Please place items on the sanctuary.
HARVEST CAKE SALE: The Children’s Liturgy Group we will be holding a cake sale in the parish centre on Sunday 18th October after 10.30 mass. All money raised (cash please) will be donated to Cafod’s Harvest appeal. Please come along and support us. All home baked/ shop bought donations welcome.
“HOW DO WE PRAY?”: An experiential programme called Teach Me to Pray facilitated by Southwark Diocesan Spirituality Commission. It will be online on Tuesdays, starting 6th October from 7pm to 8.15pm. After 4 online sessions there is an invitation to an in- person Reflection Day in a diocesan Retreat Centre on 5th or 12th December. There is no commitment to attend all sessions – join us whenever you can. For details/ to sign up see https://aecsouthwark.churchsuite.com/events/tnpn4hqd
or email for further information spirituality@rcaos.org.uk
ADOREMUS 2026 EUCHARISTIC CONGRESSa; It begins at St George’s Cathedral with Mass at 12 noon, Sat 10 Oct followed by a eucharistic procession to Westminster Cathedral. Places at Mass and in the procession are for pre-booked diocesan representatives only. Others can watch & join Benediction at Westminster Cathedral.
YOUNG ADULTS ADOREMUS VIGIL TO THE EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS
Fri 9 Oct at Most Holy Trinity, Dockhead SE1 2BS 7.00–9.00pm. Nearest tube: Bermondsey Eucharistic Adoration, worship and prayer, talk from Fr Emmanuel Mansford, reflection and Benediction led by Bishop Gerard Bradley. Music will be led by One Hope Project.
THE NEWMAN LECTURE 2026: MEDIA BEYOND THE MOMENT: Friday 9 Oct at 7.00pm in St Patrick’s Catholic Church, Soho Square, London W1D 4NR
Br Alexander Bailey, CO for the Guild of Our Lady of Ransom will give the lecture:
How can Catholics engage well with the media? Book: guild-ransom.co.uk/events
THE JUBILEE YEAR OF ST. FRANCIS: As we celebrate the 800th Anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi, we invite you to Our Lady of the Angels, Erith from 26th Sept – 10th Oct for: An Exhibition of the Eucharistic Miracles designed by St Carlo Acutis & The Relics of the Franciscan Saints
APF/ MISSIO (RED BOXES) There will be a retiring collection for Missio on 17/18th Oct. If you have a red box, please empty it and put in that collection. Susan Mantle suejmantle@hotmail.com
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