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SUNDAY 4th May 2025

THIRD SUNDAY of EASTER Year C

Readings: Acts 5:27-41, Psalm 29, Apocalypse 5:11-14, John 21:1-19

Sat 3rd May 17.30 Confessions

18.00 Holy Souls (Jeyaseelan)

Sun 4th May THIRD SUNDAY of EASTER Year C

08.30 Maureen Fitzpatrick RIP (Bennett)

10.30 Josie Brown (Sarton)

Mon 5th May 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Sacrament

10.00 Sonny Sheehan RIP (Laws)

Tues 6th May NO SERVICE TODAY

Wed 7^th May 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

10.00 Maureen Fitzpatrick RIP (Wheatley)

Fri 9th May 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

10.00 Thanksgiving (Bosser)

Sat 10th May 17.30 Confessions

18.00 Special Intention (Cottle)

Sun 11th May FOURTH SUNDAY of EASTER Year C – Good Shepherd

08.30 Maureen Fitzpatrick RIP (Puddy)

10.30 Dec Relatives & Friends of Lyons Family (Lyons)

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 £849.81 Retiring Collections: Last Week: St. George’s Cathedral £107.87

This week: Missionary Society of St. Paul

Next Week: Priest Training 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,

We welcome Fr Jude MSP, who will be saying our Sunday masses and making an appeal for his missionary society.

As we begin the month of May, we honour Our Lady by praying the Hail Holy Queen at Sunday masses and we also offer the opportunity to reflect on and with her wonderful prayer, the Magnificat – see below.

God Bless, Fr Doug

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.

DOROTHY CIMA, PATRICK O’BRIEN RIP

The Requiem Mass for Dorothy Cima will on 16^th May at 2.00

The funeral Service for Patrick O’Brien will be on Friday 23^rd May at 11.00

JUBILEE YEAR PILGRIMAGES: Pope Francis encouraged us all to make some kind of a pilgrimage in this Jubilee Year of Hope

Deanery Pilgrimage for ALL to St. John Vianney Saturday 5^th July PLEASE MAKE A NOTE

Diocesan Pilgrimages to Aylesford on Sat 7^th June and Walsingham on Sat 28^th June

Augustine Camino: Rochester Cathedral to Minster Abbey – for Mary’s Meals Mon 1 – Sun 8Sep

PRIEST TRAINING FUND: Next week our retiring collection is to support the training of priests for our diocese. It is a very costly business spread out over many years. It is a good time to pray for vocations to the priesthood.

SANCTUARY REFLECTION DAYS

Up in Hope – 24th May 11am to 3pm – offers time for personal reflection, space and peace as we consider the HOPE offered each of us through Christ’s Ascension.

Filled with the Spirit – 14th June 11am to 3pm – offers an invitation this Pentecost, to cooperate with the Spirit in reflecting on the need for HOPE in our time.

For more information or booking: email sanctuaryakwaaba@gmail.com or call/ text 07977 978536

PILGRIMAGE TO PENTECOST

Starting Friday 2nd May 2025 at 7pm at St Thomas More Church Hall Long Lane, Bexleyheath, DA7 5JW. There will be short filmed presentations with discussion and prayer

MASS IN CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE

July 12th, at St George’s Cathedral

If you are celebrating your 1^st/10^th/25^th/40^th/50^th/60^th + wedding anniversary this year, let us know by May 15, providing: your names, home address, parish, which anniversary you are celebrating, and you will receive an invitation from the Archbishop. Contact us at mflse@rcaos.org.uk

VE DAY – 80th Anniversary

Thurs 8 May, 7pm, St John the Evangelist, Parkhill Road: Service with North Cray & District British Legion, followed by a celebration at Old Bexley Ex-Servicemen’s Club, High Street,

Sunday 11 May 3pm to 4.30pm. Bexley URC, Hurst Road, (opposite the War Memorial) – Free concert. All welcome to enjoy singing and refreshments. Donations will be going to British Legion.

FRIENDS OF THE HOLY LAND

Invitation to a Service in Temple Church and simultaneously in Jerusalem on Tues 20th May 2025 at: 12.00 (noon), Temple Church, Temple, London EC4Y 7BB or on livestream at http://www.friendsoftheholyland.org.uk/temple25..

A reminder that the collection at our Easter Garden is for friends of the Holy Land.

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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 30^th 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 5^th July PLEASE MAKE A NOTE

Diocesan Pilgrimages to Aylesford on Sat 7^th June and Walsingham on Sat 28^th June

Augustine Camino: Rochester Cathedral to Minster Abbey – for Mary’s Meals Mon 1 – Sun 8Sep

MASS IN CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE July 12th, at St George’s Cathedral

If you are celebrating your 1^st/10^th/25^th/40^th/50^th/60^th + 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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SUNDAY 13th April 2025

PALM SUNDAY Year C

Readings: Luke 19:28-40 Isaiah 50:4-7, Psalm 21, Philipps 2:6-11, Luke 22:14-23:36

Sat 12th April 17.30 Confessions

18.00 Special Intention (Cottle)

Sun 13th April PALM SUNDAY of the PASSION of the LORD Year C

08.30 Sonny Sheehan RIP (Sheehan)

10.30 Fiona Boome RIP (Howie)

Mon 14^th April 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

10.00 Fernando Rodrigues (Coutinho)

19.30 PENITENTIAL SERVICE

Tues 15th April 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

10.00 Colette Hunt RIP (Sheehan)

Wed 16th April 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

10.00 Margaret Gillis (Wheatley)

11.00 Chrism Mass at St. George’s Cathedral

THE EASTER TRIDUUM

Thurs 17^th April HOLY THURSDAY – Mass of the Last Supper

20.00 Vladimir Somino RIP (Long)

Fri 18th April GOOD FRIDAY – Solemn Celebration of the Lord’s Passion

15.00 Solemn Commemoration (No mass today!!)

Collection for the Holy Places of Palestine

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 Patrick McQuaid RIP (McQuaid)

10.30 William Laverty RIP (Howie)

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: £576.11 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

Dear Parishioners,

Congratulations to all those who have been undertaking even slight changes in lifestyle to live MORE simply, sustainably and in solidarity with people in parts of the world less blessed than ourselves.

Thanks to those who are taking up our offer to take your unwanted electric items to the recycling centre rather than putting them in the landfill (green) bins. Also, thanks to those who are using our offer to bring food items to the foodbank. This is really for those having home delivery. What we collect we will bring to local supermarket foodbank collection points. Indeed, if anyone can bring a bag or 2 to a supermarket they frequent, it would be much appreciated! We are not in competition with the supermarkets!

If you have guests joining you at Easter, please take a little time to explain to them why we have a used Christmas tree on our sanctuary, covered in pledges. If you see strangers looking a touch confused, then likewise, take the opportunity to help them see how we can affect the dreadful course of our planet just a little bit. We’ve got used to it. The bafflement in others may give a chance to open an important conversation.

EASTER IS COMING. Easter Sunday is great but why not try and join the Lord on a little bit of his journey through death, into resurrection and beyond! The Easter Triduum services are: HOLY THURSDAY 8 p.m.Join the Mass of the Lord’s Supper with the washing of feet. After Mass Watching in Gethsemane till 10 p.m.

GOOD FRIDAY 3 p.m. Solemn Commemoration of the Death of the Lord

EASTER VIGIL 8 p.m. Fire – Light – Resurrection – Vigil of Readings –

Baptism – Confirmation – New Life for All

Masses on easter Sunday are as usual, 8.30 and 10.30

God Bless, Fr Doug

WELCOME INTO THE CHURCH

It is a wonderful joy in so many ways that there will be 2 people accepting full membership of the Catholic Church here on Easter night at our Vigil. They are Lois Medley and Adam Graimes. They will be received with their Confirmation names of Francis and Paul

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:

Diocesan Pilgrimages to Aylesford on Sat 7^th June and Walsingham on Sat 28^th June

Deanery Pilgrimage to St. John Vianney Saturday 5^th July PLEASE MAKE A NOTE

Augustine Camino: Rochester Cathedral to Minster Abbey – for Mary’s Meals Mon 1 – Sun 8Sep

LONDON MARATHON

Liam Morgan is running for charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY). If you would like to learn more and sponsor him, go to his just giving page https://www.justgiving.com/page/liam-morgan-lm25?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL or sign his sponsor form after mass.

MASS IN CELEBRATION OF OF MARRIAGE July 12th, at St George’s Cathedral