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SUNDAY 23rd June 2024

SAINT JOHN FISHER. (instead of 12^th Sunday)

Readings: Maccabees 6:18-31, Psalm 30, 1 Peter 4:12-19, Matt 24:4-13.

Sat 22nd June 17.30 Confessions

John Fisher & Thomas More 18.00 For the Parish

Sun 23rd June ST. JOHN FISHER

08.30 Patricia McQuaid (Anderson)

10.30 Enzo D’Auria RIP (McCarthy)

Mon 24th June 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

Birth of John the Baptist 10.00 John & Eileen Stanton (Anderson)

Tues 25^th June 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

10.00 Raman Patel (Bhalla)

Wed 26^th June 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

10.00 Kate Dunning RIP (Wheatley)

Fri 28th June 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

Irenaeus 10.00 For the Parish

Sat 29th June 17.30 Confessions

18.00 For the Parish in TG (Kilcullen family)

Sun 30th June SAINTS PETER AND PAUL

08.30 Private Intention (Jeyaseelan)

10.30 Lesley Sarton (Fitzpatrick)

LIVE STREAMING OF MASSES ON THE WEBSITE

All masses are streamed via the link:

Recordings are available. The Sunday sermon is also on the website in printed form.

FINANCES

Many thanks for your offertory collection Last week: £1026.28

Retiring Collections Day for Life: £ 141.40

Next Week Peter’s Pence

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

Please join us in the Hall for refreshments after the 10.30 mass

Newsletter: Please copy notices to Fr Doug by the previous Wednesday

Dear Parishioners,

Today is our Day! Let’s remember the cost that St. John Fisher paid, and let’s celebrate the freedom he won for us. I hope we all have a wonderful feast.

God Bless, Fr Doug

PARISH FEASTDAY BBQ

Please come along Tickets available at the gate

Ticket holders (£8 and £4 for children) will enjoy a fulsome meal and all the entertainment.

PETER’S PENCE

This fund enables St Peter’s successor, Pope Francis, to support and develop the church and particular groups in need, in many different parts of the world.

HOLY YEAR 2025.

The whole church will celebrate a “Holy Year”. Pope Francis has asked us firstly to prepare with Prayer and Reflection on the Churches Renewal launched at the end of the second Vatican Council in the 1960s, and on the Our Father.

Archbishop John has published: “Pondering and Praying Vatican II” £9.99. (St Paul’s bookshop)

In the parish Fr. Eugene Curran C.M. can enlighten us with:

“What happened at Vatican II” on Friday, 5^th July 7-9.30. in the parish hall.

A parish programme on praying the Our Father will be delivered in the autumn.

CHURCH CLEANING

We are very grateful that a new group of parishioners have volunteered to help with the church cleaning. We now have 6 groups therefore each group will clean every 12 weeks. The revised rota from 8 July is now available for collection from the cupboard.

AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED

It was suggested at the AGM that we could and should support this organisation. If we are to do so we will need a parish promoter. If anyone already has any relationship with them, please let Fr Doug know or if you think you might be able to help, again talk to Fr Doug.

QUIET DAYS AT SANCTUARY (in Swanley Village)

FIRST FRIDAYS of every month: The garden is open for you 10 – 4. Wander in, find a place to sit, bring your prayer book and enjoy some reflection time. tkilcullen@live.co.uk or 07977978536

SOUTHWARK ARCHDIOCESAN LOURDES PILGRIMAGE

Archbishop John warmly invites you to join him as he leads the diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes, from 23^rd to 30^th August 2024. Details of this can be found on the Archdiocesan website: rcaos.org.uk. Experience the unique spirituality of Lourdes, along with people from parishes around the Archdiocese.

Direct link: https://rcaos.org.uk/news-events/news/archbishop-john-to-lead-pilgrimage-to-lourdes/

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SUNDAY 16th June 2024

ELEVENTH SUNDAY, YEAR B

Readings: Ezekiel 17:22-24, Psalm 91, 2 Corinthians 5:6-10, Mark 4:26-34.

Sat 15^th June 17.30 Confession

18.00 Alfred & Diamond D’Mello (Fernandes)

Sun 16th June ELEVENTH SUNDAY (B)

08.30 Bernard Gillespie (J. Gillespie)

10.30 Fr Doug & Fr Peter (Anderson)

Mon 17th June 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

10.00 Priti Patel (Bhalla)

Tues 18^th June No service today

Wed 19^th June 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

John Rigby 10.00 John Rigby Gloria Bowden (Hughes)

Fri 21st June 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

Aloysius Gonzaga 10.00 Maureen Fitzpatrick (Wheatley)

Sat 22nd June 17.30 Confessions

John Fisher & Thomas More 18.00 For the Parish

Sun 23rd June ***ST. JOHN FISHER***

08.30 Patricia McQuaid (Anderson)

10.30 Enzo D’Auria RIP (McCarthy)

LIVE STREAMING OF MASSES ON THE WEBSITE

All masses are streamed via the link:

Recordings are available. The Sunday sermon is also on the website in printed form.

FINANCES

Many thanks for your offertory collection Last week: £1158.38

Retiring Collections This week: Day for Life

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

Please join us in the Hall for refreshments after the 10.30 mass

Dear Parishioners,

At mass last Sunday all these children started to receive Holy Communion: Sidney Adams, Leo Bailey, Mila Bailey, Maria Benedict, Ralph Blood, Teddy Do, Diana Erihri, Pippa Hackett, Niamh Lynch, Dwayne Monteiro, Lily Stokes, Magdalene Yau & Scholastica Yau. It was a joyous occasion for us all. Please remember them in your prayers. On behalf of the whole parish let me thank and congratulate our catechists who supported their families in bringing the children to this moment.

This coming week Archbishop John has asked all the priests in the South East Area of the diocese to go with him on conference to a retreat centre in Merville in France. Most of us will be there. Fr Peter is also away at the moment so there aren’t many priests around! However, one of the Franciscan brothers at Erith has agreed to say mass here on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Please note that there will be no mass on Tuesday.

Next weekend at all our masses we will be celebrating our own Feast of St. John Fisher. (The readings and prayers are not recorded in our mass book. READERS beware!!) We will of course be having a party on Sunday starting at 12 noon. We really will need your help and support to make as great a success of it as we have done in the past. See below.

The carpark (- and alleyway from 12.00 onwards -) will be closed ALL Sunday, but there is plenty of parking along the road and also in the club next door (with permission, for which we are grateful)

God Bless, Fr Doug

PARISH FEASTDAY BBQ – NEXT Sunday!!!

We will be celebrating with our BBQ party, starting at 12 noon. There will be a singer providing entertainment for the adults and there will be a face painter and a bouncy castle for children.

We do need everyone to chip in a little help though. Volunteers needed for providing salads and sweets, for setting up and clearing up, for supervising the children’s activities etc. Lists in the foyer.

Ticket holders (£8 and £4 for children) will enjoy a fulsome meal and all the entertainment.

HOLY YEAR 2025.

The whole church will celebrate a “Holy Year” in 2025. Pope Francis has asked us firstly to prepare with Prayer and Reflection on the Churches Renewal launched at the end of the second Vatican Council in the 1960s, and also on the Our Father.

Archbishop John has published: “Pondering and Praying Vatican II” £9.99. (St Paul’s bookshop)

In the parish Fr. Eugene Curran C.M. can enlighten us with:

“What happened at Vatican II” on Friday, 5^th July 7-9.30. in the parish hall.

A parish programme on praying the Our Father will be delivered in the autumn.

AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED

QUIET DAYS AT SANCTUARY (in Swanley Village)

FIRST FRIDAYS of every month: The garden is open for you 10 – 4. Wander in, find a place to sit, bring your prayer book and enjoy some reflection time. tkilcullen@live.co.uk or 07977 978536

ST CATHERINE’S CATHOLIC SCHOOL – Senior Citizens Summer Tea Party

We warmly invite you to join us for the Senior Citizens Summer Tea Party on Thursday July 4^th, election day at 1.30pm-3.00pm RSVP 01322 556333 or dcunningham@stccg.co.uk

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SUNDAY 9th June 2024

TENTH SUNDAY, YEAR B

Readings: Genesis 3:9-15, Psalm 129, 2 Corinthians 4:13 – 5:1, Mark 3:20-35.

Sat 8^th June 17.30 Confessions

18.00 For the Parish

Sun 9th June TENTH SUNDAY (B)

08.30 Anton Jeyaseelan (Foundation)

10.30 1st Holy Communion Okyere family (Asaam)

Mon 10th June 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

10.00 Maureen Watkins (Wheatley)

Tues 11^th June 09.15 St. Barnabas Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

10.00 Chandrawati Patel (Bhalla)

Wed 12^th June 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

10.00 Sharon Anderson (Anderson)

Fri 14th June 09.15 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

10.00 Pet Kilcullen RIP & family (Crump)

Sat 15^th June 17.30 Confessions

18.00 Alfred & Diamond D’Mello (Fernandes)

Sun 16th June TENTH SUNDAY (B)

08.30 Bernard Gillespie (J. Gillespie)

10.30 Fr Doug & Fr Peter (Anderson)

LIVE STREAMING OF MASSES ON THE WEBSITE

All masses are streamed via the link:

Recordings are available. The Sunday sermon is also on the website in printed form.

FINANCES

Many thanks for your offertory collection Last week: £959.31

Retiring Collections SVP £282.92

Next week: Day for Life

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

Please join us in the Hall for refreshments after the 10.30 mass

Newsletter: Please copy notices to Fr Doug by the previous Wednesday

Dear Parishioners,

I am thrilled that 13 children will start receiving Holy Communion this weekend. A warm welcome to all the guests – theirs AND ours – who are here today. Today they deepen their participation in the family of God the Father, in the Body of Christ and in the temple of God’s Holy Spirit. It is a wonderful moment for them and a great time for us as the wider family. We will become closer to them through our communion with them and of course they will become closer to God in that same Communion. We wish them and their families a very happy day and a very special celebration. Find their names below.

God Bless, Fr Doug

AGM 2024

Last Sunday we had our Annual General Meeting of the parish. The various committees (listed in the foyer above their own section of the notice boards) reported on what they have been doing in this past year and what plans there are for the year ahead. Minutes are in the foyer.

Thanks to all those who work in leadership roles on the Parish Council. Thanks also to all those who attended. It was very clear that the parish of St. John Fisher, Bexley is alive and well!

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION

Our parish First Holy Communion Mass is this Sunday at 10.30am.

Our communicants this year are:

Sidney Adams, Leo Bailey, Mila Bailey, Maria Benedict, Ralph Blood, Teddy Do, Diana Erihri, Pippa Hackett, Niamh Lynch, Dwayne Monteiro, Lily Stokes, Magdalene Yau & Scholastica Yau.

Please remember them in your prayers.

PARISH FEASTDAY BBQ

The Feast of St. John Fisher is June 22^nd so we will feast on the Sunday 23^rd June at our BBQ

There will be a singer providing entertainment for the adults and there will be a face painter and a bouncy castle for children.

We do need everyone to chip in a little help though. Volunteers needed for:

Sharing salads and sweets

Setting up

Clearing up

Supervising the children’s activities etc. Signing up lists are in the foyer.

Ticket holders (£8 and £4 for children) will enjoy a fulsome meal and all the entertainment.

QUIET DAYS AT SANCTUARY (in Swanley Village)

It helps if you let me know you are coming. email: tkilcullen@live.co.uk or phone 07977978536

FIRST FRIDAYS – The garden is open and free for you between 10am and 4pm on the first Friday of the month. Wander in, find a place to sit, bring your prayer book and enjoy some reflection time.

AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED

SOUTHWARK ARCHDIOCESAN LOURDES PILGRIMAGE

Direct link: https://rcaos.org.uk/news-events/news/archbishop-john-to-lead-pilgrimage-to-lourdes/