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SUNDAY 29th September 2024
TWENTY SIXTH SUNDAY YEAR B
Readings: Numbers 11:25-29, Psalm 18, James 5:1-6, Mark 9:38-48.
Sat 28th Sep 17.30 Confessions
18.00 Frogley Family (Frogley)
Sun 29th Sep TWENTY SIXTH SUNDAY YEAR B – Mission Appeal
08.30 Priest’s Intention
10.30 Tess & Les Truman RIP (Truman)
Mon 30th Sep 09.15 Jerome Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
10.00 Giuseppe Nucera RIP (Highland)
Tues 1st Oct NO SERVICE TODAY
Wed 2nd Oct 09.15 Guardian Angels Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
10.00 Bernie King (Fitzpatrick)
Fri 4th Oct 09.15 Francis of Assisi Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
10.00 For the Parish
Sat 5th Oct 17.30 Rosary (& Confessions)
18.00 Kevin & Nichola Harper – TG 30th anniversary
Sun 6th Oct TWENTY SEVENTH SUNDAY YEAR B – Harvest
08.30 TG Gillespie Family
10.30 Ron Aspeek RIP (Aspeek/Buhl)
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: £948.25
This Week Spiritans
Next Week CAFOD
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.
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 weekdays, £40 per hour weekends
Newsletter: Please copy notices to Fr Doug by the previous Wednesday
Dear Parishioners,
Greetings from Spain! My thoughts are about you, not with you. I will be back by Friday.
God Bless, Fr Doug
SEASON OF CREATION & COP 29
The Jesuit Missions Team invite you to send a clear message to our government about the climate crisis. A presentation of cards is to be made in Downing Street. Cards and PRE-PAID envelopes are available in the foyer. Your card needs to arrive by October 1st.
REFLECTION DAY – “Love Changes Everything”
Saturday 5th October – 11am to 3pm, led by Fr Doug Bull and Trudy Kilcullen.
Sanctuary, 8 Hotham Close, Swanley Village. Bring a packed lunch. Donations welcome.
For more information or to book – please email tkilcullen@live.co.uk or call 07977978536
OCTOBER, a month to consider praying the Rosary.
1) As usual, at Sunday masses during the month, we will say the “Hail Holy Queen” instead of the “Hail Mary” during our prayers of intercession.
2) We want to invite those who are not used to praying the rosary to try it out as a Way into Prayer. Join us in Church at 5.30 each Saturday evening in October – or go it alone at home!
CAFOD FAMILY FAST DAY
Friday 4th October is Family Fast Day. You are invited to fast on the day and offer the money saved to the work of CAFOD. There will be a retiring collection on Sunday 6th October to harvest your savings and to give everyone the chance to contribute.
HARVEST FESTIVAL
Sunday 6th October at 10.30 mass we will celebrate the Harvest. We are collecting food donations (non-perishable only please) and other essential items for the Manna Day Centre at London Bridge. For a list of most needed items please refer to the list on the notice board in the foyer. Please bring in items and place them on the sanctuary. Harvest Festival gifts provide the Manna Centre with 70% of their foodstuffs for the year. Please give if you are able.
PRAYING THE OUR FATHER
Our next opportunity to participate in this year of preparation for the 2025 Jubilee Year will be a series of presentations on the Lord’s own prayer in our parish hall.
Friday Oct. 11th – Fr Doug opens the series with “Our” and “Father”
Then, Oct 18th, 25th, Nov. 15th, 22nd. 7p.m. for 7.30.- 9.00. Come to one session or all.
SPIRITANS (HOLY GHOST FATHERS)
Fr Martin Goba is here this weekend to make the appeal. Cheques can be made to “The Spiritans”. Bank transfers to Sort Code 01 03 46, A/c 83279806
PATRICK DENEHY RIP
Patrick’s funeral will be on Friday October 25th. May he rest in peace and rise in glory.
A DAY WITH MARY
A Day with Mary is taking place at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday 12 October (9.45am to 5.00pm). Further information is available at https://www.adaywithmary.org/ or https://eventcatholic.com/
Newsletter
SUNDAY 22nd September 2024,
TWENTY FIFTH SUNDAY YEAR B
Readings: Wisdom 2:12-20, Psalm 53, James 3:16-4:3, Mark 9:30-37.
Sat 21st Sep 17.30 Confessions
18.00 Mary Connolly RIP (Eida/Connolly)
Sun 22nd Sep TWENTY FIFTH SUNDAY YEAR B
08.30 TG & for a special blessing (Ray & Teresa)
10.30 Olga Bowman RIP (Bowman)
Mon 23rd Sep 09.15 Pius (Padre Pio) Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
10.00 For the Parish
Tues 24th Sep 09.15 Our Lady of Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
10.00 Walsingham Vincent Kelly RIP (Staden)
Wed 25th Sep 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
10.00 Ron Anderson (Anderson)
Fri 27th Sep 09.15 Vincent de Paul Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
10.00 The Homeless (Saturday Friends & SVP)
Sat 28th Sep 17.30 Confessions
18.00 Frogley Family (Frogley)
Sun 29th Sep TWENTY SIXTH SUNDAY YEAR B – Mission Appeal
08.30 Priest’s Intention
10.30 Tess & Les Truman RIP (Truman)
Please join us in the Hall for refreshments after the 10.30 mass.
LIVE STREAMING OF MASSES ON THE WEBSITE
All masses are streamed and can be viewed 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: £1041.51
Last Week C A S E £120.72
Next Week Spiritans (aka Holy Ghost Fathers)
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.
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 weekdays, £40 per hour weekends
Newsletter: Please copy notices to Fr Doug by the previous Wednesday
Dear Parishioners,
This week on Tuesday we celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham, which is really about the national shrine there in Norfolk. It’s said that in 1061 the lady of the manor was instructed in a vision of Our Lady to build a replica of the house in Nazareth. The replica house was destroyed at the Reformation but pilgrimages revived in the 19th and 20th centuries for both Catholics and Anglicans, giving it national significance. There is now a special mass for the day.
I am on a short holiday from Wednesday onwards. Back next week.
God Bless, Fr Doug
BEXLEY INTERFAITH FORUM – SUMMER OF DISCONTENT?
How can faith communities build cohesion in the wake of the August riots?
Tuesday 24th September at 7.30pm at Geddes Place United Reformed Church, Geddes Place, Bexleyheath DA6 7DJ. – One minute walk from the bus stops by the Clock Tower in Bexleyheath.
The meeting will feature a Panel discussion with faith leaders of various faiths in Bexley – with the opportunity for Q&A
SEASON OF CREATION & COP 29
The Jesuit Missions Team invite you to send a clear message to our government about the climate crisis. A presentation of cards is to be made in Downing Street. Cards and envelopes are available in the foyer. Your card needs to arrive by October 1st.
REFLECTION DAY – “Love Changes Everything”
Saturday 5th October – 11am to 3pm, led by Fr Doug Bull and Trudy Kilcullen.
The day will offer plenty of space for quiet, prayer and reflection on God’s love in your life, and what, if anything might need to change.
Sanctuary, 8 Hotham Close, Swanley Village. Bring a packed lunch. Donations welcome.
For more information or to book – please email tkilcullen@live.co.uk or call 07977978536
CAFOD FAMILY FAST DAY
Friday 4th October is Family Fast Day. You are invited to fast on the day and offer the money saved to the work of CAFOD. There’ll be a retiring collection on Sunday 6th October to harvest (!) your savings and to give everyone the chance to contribute.
HARVEST FESTIVAL
Sunday 6th October at 10.30 mass we will celebrate the Harvest. In addition to our collection for CAFOD, we are collecting food donations (non-perishable) and other essential items for the Manna Day Centre at London Bridge. For a list of most needed items please refer to the list on the board in the foyer. Please bring in items and place them on the sanctuary. Harvest Festival gifts provide the Manna Centre with 70% of their foodstuffs for the year. Please give if you are able.
YEAR OF PRAYER 2024
Our next opportunity to participate in this year of preparation for the 2025 Jubilee Year will be a series of presentations on the Lord’s own prayer in our parish hall.
Friday Oct. 11th, 18th, 25th, Nov. 15th, 22nd. 7p.m. for 7.30.- 9.00. Come to one session or all.
SPIRITANS (aka HOLY GHOST FATHERS)
Fr Martin Goba will be here next weekend to make the appeal. Any cheques will need to be made out to “The Spiritans”. Bank transfers to Sort Code 01 03 46, A/c 83279806
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