Rosary Sunday

 

Christ Obedient unto Death

 

We celebrate Christ who obeyed his Father’s will not only in word but also in deed. And Christ assures us that it is not too late to turn to God and to do his will.

MASS INTENTIONS  FOR WEEK  30 Sept – 8 Oct 2017

Sat 30 Sep   9am  Kayisha Jestina Gordon (SVP Bexley)
                      6pm Tony Sullivan (Marie & Family)

Sun 1 Oct     8.30am         Parishioners
                      10.30am       David & Mona Shaw (Lynn Cayford)

Mon 2 Oct   9am       Nora Connolly RIP (Eida/Connolly family)

Tues 3 Oct   7pm      In Gratitude for the love and life given to her family
                                     by Kay Gillespie (Gillespie Family)
   Followed by Adoration and Our Lady & St Pio’s Prayer Group

Wed 4 Oct   10am             Kathleen Bowman: Birthday (Tim Bowman)

Thu 5 Oct     9am               Eucharistic Service

Fri 6 Oct      9am               Holy Souls
                      First Friday Adoration at 9.30am for 1 hour.

Sat 7 Oct      9am               Terry Frogley RIP (Eileen & John Stanton)
                      6pm               Eileen & John Meade RIP (Marie Sullivan)

Sun 8 Oct    8.30am         Parishioners
                      10.30am       Mandy Madden RIP (Dolly Madden)

Sick
Christine White, Kevin Harper, Ed Jones, John Bird, Gail Noel, Chris Neal, John Edwards, Tony Speed, Elvira Vaz, Geoffrey Hildebrand, John Underwood, Mary Stubbs, John Harrington, Norma Brooker, Nina Szredski, Angela Gillespie, Ann McDonald, Eileen Weald, Maureen Fitzpatrick, Eric May, Wendy Bowman, Gracie Maddox, Anne Hastings, Tom Barrett, Joann Mackintosh, Timmy Lenihan

Anniversaries
Alan Hyde, Mary Connolly, Patricia Bridget Desmond, Anthony Gray, Robert Mantle, Ruth Smith, Olga Bowman

Feast Days: Monday The Holy Guardian Angels Wednesday: Memorial St Francis of Assisi Saturday: Our Lady of the Rosary

ROTAS For w/c 2/10  Readers: Sat 6pm Kathy Fogarty,  Sun 8.30am Bridie Haylett , Sun 10.30am Paul Gannaway .   Copying of Newsletter: Mollie Hobson.   Newsletter Typist: Venus Bernarte.    Collection for 8.30am Mass: Mrs M Lee.    Parishioner Attending To Front of Church on Saturdays: Paul Rowlands.    Eucharistic Ministers: Saturday 6 pm  Mary Sun 8.30am Peter Hammond  10.30am Paul (5) Kathy (6) Carole (7) John (8) Molly (9). Washing of Purificators:  Molly Robins.    Flower Arranging Mary J

OFFERTORY COLLECTION w/e 24 Sept

1st Collection                 Gift Aid:  £342.70   Loose:   £166.44     Total: £509.14

2nd Collection(SVP)    Gift Aid:    £27.00    Loose:   £158.56     Total: £185.56

This week: There will be a CAFOD speaker. (2nd collection for CAFOD can be taken over 2 weeks 1/10/17 and 8/10/17).

HARVEST FESTIVAL:   Please bring your offerings for The Manna Centre helping the homeless in London. Please see list in church porch for most needed items.

APF RED BOXES – Missio/Missions   Would anyone who has a red box or who would like to give to the missions please put money or cheque paid to St John Fisher in an envelope in the collection with your name on it (for our records and APF). Any problems about APF please contact Sue Mantle on 01322 558965 or email suemantle@hotmail.com

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION 2018:  Application forms are now available for the First Holy Communion Programme 2018.Children eligible for First Communion must be in Year 3 or above and should attend mass regularly at St John Fisher Bexley. Application forms can be collected from the back of the Church or please see Angela Underwood. If you are a new parishioner and/or do not attend mass at this parish but wish your child to join the programme, please speak to Father Christian. Completed application forms must be returned no later than  31st December 2017. The programme will commence in January 2018.Full details of the programme and a list of all the relevant dates including parent’s meetings will follow soon. Please look out for future notices in the parish newsletter.

HEALTH AND WELLBEING DAY Saturday 14 October 10.30 am – 3.30pm Baldwyns Park Baptist Church, Dartford Road, Bexley DA5 2AY – Free NHS Health Check for 40-74 year olds, Slimming World, Bexley art group, talks and activities, light refreshments, free entry and goody bag – everyone welcome. Thank you. Kathy Fogarty, Parish Unity Contact.

PARISH EVENTS TEAM INFORMATION  Upcoming events for your diary:-.

• Friday Fun Nights 7.30pm – 10.30pmish. Beginners Bridge lessons and bring your own games for young and old. Convivial Bar. These are becoming more popular, though we do not yet have a big enough turnout (20+). If you think this weekly social event is desirable then do join us. Either for beginner’s bridge or just a chat and a drink. Please note we will be closed on October 13th.
• Meeting Place continues Wednesdays 9.30am – 1.30pm.

OUR LADY’S FILM EVENING: Wed 11 Oct: 2nd part of a deeply inspiring movie on the incredible life of St Padre Pio, The Capuchin Friar who had such great spiritual gifts as mystical prayer, bilocation, reading souls and the stigmata. Film reveals the amazing details and events in his life as a boy and throughout his 50 years as a monk. Bar open, charity stall, all welcome 7pm for 7.30pm start.

A QUESTIONNAIRE  from the Parish Events Team is being handed out this weekend.  Please do your best to complete and put in the suggestion box in the porch. Thank you. Anne Rayer.

PARISH EVENTS YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE

The Events Team would like the views and ideas of all parishioners as to what they would like organised in terms of social events.  Parish events are important to strengthen our community and for parishioners, new and old, to meet in a social atmosphere.

Please complete this form and place in the SUGGESTIONS box which is in the porch.  We should be grateful if this could be done as soon as possible and the box will be available for the next four Sundays.  You may also email us via stjfisher@tiscali.co.uk marked “EVENTS TEAM”.

EVENT                                                                       PLEASE TICK

Dinner Dance                                                  ……………………..

Quiz Night                                                                  ……………………..

Variety Night                                                  ……………………..

Summer BBQ                                                 ………………………

St John Fisher Saints Day                               ……………………….

60/70’s Night – circle which ones                   ……………………….

Friday Night Bridge etc.                                              ………………………..

OTHER –        ……………………………………………………………………………..

 

TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR

The Generous Love of God

The love of God cannot be measured by any human standard. It is incalculable. By human reckoning it must even appear foolish. What sensible employer would behave like the man in the Gospel parable? We see reflection of that love in St Paul’s dilemma. He loved so much that he could not decide whether it was better to live or die.

MASS INTENTIONS FOR WEEK 23 Sept – 1 Oct 2017

Saturday 23 Sept    9.00am   Simon & Helen and baby Poppy
                                                  (Anderson/Connolly Family)
                                 6.00pm Sonny Sheehan RIP (Eileen & Family)

Sunday 24 Sept     8.30am Parishioners
                                    10.30am Ruth Smith (Ray & Family)

Monday 25 Sept     9.00am Olga Bowman: 1st Anniversary (Tim)

Tuesday 26 Sept     7.00pm Repose of the Soul of Kay Gillespie
                                   (Gillespie Family)
   Followed by Adoration and Our Lady & St Pio’s Prayer Group

Wed 27 Sept     10.00am Ruth Smith RIP (Ray & Family)

Thursday 28 Sept     No Eucharistic Service
                                  11.30am Funeral Mass for Terry Frogley

Friday 29 Sept     9.00am Holy Souls

Saturday 30 Sept     9.00am Kayisha Jestina Gordon RIP (SVP Bexley)
                                   6.00pm Tony Sullivan RIP (Marie & Family)

Sunday 1 Oct     8.30am Parishioners
                                  10.30am David & Mona Shaw RIP (Lynn Cayford)

Feast Days:  Sat: St Pius of Pietrelcina, Priest Sun: Our Lady of Walsingham Tue: St Cosmas & Damian, Martyrs Wed: St Vincent de Paul, Priest, Memorial Thurs: St Wenceslaus, Martyr. St Lawrence Ruiz & Companions, Martyrs Tue: St Michael, Gabriel & Raphael, Archangels.

Sick:  Christine White, Kevin Harper, Ed Jones, John Bird, Gail Noel, Chris Neal, John Edwards, Tony Speed, Elvira Vaz, Geoffrey Hildebrand, John Underwood, Mary Stubbs, John Harrington, Norma Brooker, Nina Szredski, Angela Gillespie, Ann McDonald, Eileen Weald, Maureen Fitzpatrick, Eric May, Wendy Bowman, Gracie Maddox, Anne Hastings, Tom Barrett, Joann Mackintosh, Timmy Lenihan

Anniversaries:  Robert Joseph Gilby, Eusebio Vaz, Danny Flanagan

ROTAS:  Readers: Saturday 6pm Christine Hand, Sunday 8.30am Larissa O’Halloran, 10.30am Ryan Bernarte.   Copying of Newsletter: John Stanton.   Newsletter Typist: Ruth Powers.   Collection for 8.30am Mass:  Mr T Lee.   Parishioner Attending to Front of Church on Saturdays: Ken Crump. Eucharistic Ministers:  Saturday 6 pm (1) Ivan Sun 8.30am (2) Peter Whiffen Sun 10.30am (3) Kathy (4) Eileen (5) Patricia (6) Dorothy (7) Rob.   Washing of Purificators: Kathy Connolly.  Flower Arranging: Mary Kevan & Lynn Cayford

OFFERTORY COLLECTION: Sunday 17th September 2017
1st Collection: Gift Aid: £465.81 Loose: £145.40 TOTAL: £611.21
2nd Collection: Gift Aid: £9.70 Loose: £133.06 TOTAL: £142.76

This week’s 2nd Collection is for the SVP.

HARVEST FESTIVAL – Sunday 8th October 2017: Please bring your offerings for The Manna Centre helping the homeless in London. Please see list in church porch for most needed items. NO CLOTHES PLEASE.

SVP AWARENESS MONTH:  “The stranger is often the hand of God. Not the drainer of resources, but the donator of gifts.” “What you often find is that people find it hard to make a life in the country they move to. That comes from the collapse of hope in making a new life – to get work, to begin again, to get a normal family life.” (Sarah Teather, Director of the Jesuit Refugee Service)

APF RED BOXES – Missio/Missions:  Would anyone who has a red box or who would like to give to the missions, please put money or cheque paid to St John Fisher in an envelope in the collection with your name on it (for our records and APF). Any problems about APF contact Sue Mantle on 01322558965 or email suemantle@hotmail.com

A DAY WITH MARY:  Saturday 7th October 2017, Westminster Cathedral. Please see poster in porch for more details.

33rd ANNUAL NATIONAL ROSARY CRUSADE OF REPARATION:  Sunday 14th October 2017. 1:45pm outside Westminster Cathedral (Ambrosden Avenue). See details on noticeboard in porch.

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION 2018:  Application forms are now available for the First Holy Communion Programme 2018.  Children eligible for First Communion must be in Year 3 or above and should attend mass regularly at St John Fisher Bexley. Application forms can be collected from the back of the Church or please see Angela Underwood. If you are a new parishioner and/or do not attend mass at this parish but wish your child to join the programme, please speak to Father Christian. Completed application forms must be returned no later than the 31st December 2017. The programme will commence in January 2018.  Full details of the programme and a list of all the relevant dates including parent’s meetings will follow soon.  Please look out for future notices in the parish newsletter.

 

OUR LADY’S FILM EVENING – Wednesday 27th September: Part 1 of a 2-part movie on the incredible life of St Padre Pio, the Capuchin friar who had such great spiritual gifts as a mystical prayer, bilocation, reading souls and stigmata. The film reveals the amazing details and events in his life as boy and throughout his 50 years as a monk, the frequent attacks of the Devil and the persecution he suffered at the hands of people, including those in the Church. Second part (including a recap) on Wednesday 11th October – watch either or both parts. Bar open, charity stall, all welcome, 7.00pm for 7.30pm start.

 

BEXLEY MUSIC SOCIETY – LIVE PERFORMANCES BY INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS: RECITAL – Miho Hakamata (Violin) and Alan Brown (Piano) on Wednesday 4th October 2017 at the Townley Theatre at 7.30pm. Townley Grammar School, Townley Road, Bexleyheath DA6 7AB. Annual membership £40, Single entry £10 (tickets at the door), Students and Children £5. For further information, contact Geoff Birch 02083062152 or Peter Green 02083112314.

FRIDAY NIGHT FUN:  Open 7.30pm every Friday for Bridge and bring your own games for young and old. Convivial Bar.

MEETING PLACE:  Open Wednesdays 9.30am – 1.30pm

TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

CHRIST WHO WELCOMES SINNERS

The Christ we celebrate in this Mass is the second Moses who interceded for sinners, who came into the world to save them, who loves them and welcomes them.

MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK:
Saturday 16 September     9.00am Edna & Brian Fernandes: Wedding Anniversary
                                             6.00pm Dannie Harrington RIP (Eileen Sheehan & Family)

Sunday 17 September     8.30am Parishioners
                                             10.30am Robert Joseph Gilby (Teresa)

Monday 18 September     9.00am Tony Allan RIP (Tim Bowman)

Tuesday 19 September     7.00pm Derek Maynard RIP: 40th Anniversary
                                             (Marie Sullivan & Family)
   Followed by Adoration & Our Lady & St Pio’s Prayer Group

Wednesday 20 September     10.00am Ruth Smith RIP (Ray & Family)

Thursday 21 September     9.00am Eucharistic Service

Friday 22 September     9.00am Olga Bowman RIP: Anniversary – (Tim)

Saturday 23 September     9.00am Simon & Helen and baby Poppy
                                             (Anderson/Connelly Family)
                                             6.00pm Sonny Sheehan RIP (Eileen Sheehan & Family)

Sunday 24 September     8.30am Parishioners
                                             10.30am Ruth Smith RIP (Ray & Family)

Feast Days:  Saturday: Saints Cornelius, Pope and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs. Sunday: Saint Robert Bellarmine, Bishop. Monday: Saint Edith of Kemsing. Tuesday: Saint Theodore of Canterbury. Wednesday: Saints Andrew Kim Tae-gon, Priest. Thursday: Saint Matthew, Apostle, Feast. Saturday: Saint Pius of Pietrelcna (Padre Pio), Priest.

Sick:  Christine White, Kevin Harper, Ed Jones, John Bird, Gail Noel, Chris Neal, John Edwards, Tony Speed, Elvira Vaz, Geoffrey Hildebrand, John Underwood, Mary Stubbs, John Harrington, Norma Brooker, Nina Szredski, Angela Gillespie, Ann McDonald, Eileen Weald, Maureen Fitzpatrick, Eric May, Wendy Bowman, Gracie Maddox, Anne Hastings, Tom Barrett, Joann Mackintosh.

Anniversaries:  John Fitzpatrick, Margaret Roberts, Margaret Bacon, Donal Carpenter.

ROTAS:  Readers: Saturday 6pm Peter Harris.   Sunday 8.30am Ann Wilkes,  10.30am Lota Emeka-Onah.   Photocopying of Newsletter: Emma Fox.   Newsletter Typist: Venus Bernarte.   Collection for 8.30  Mass Mr V Jeyaseelan.   Parishioner Attending To Front of Church on Saturdays: Giovanni Aletta.   Flower Arranging: Graziella & Teresa.   Eucharistic Ministers:  Saturday 6 pm Kathy;  Sun 8.30am Peter Hammond;   Sun 10.30am John (5) Mary (6) Carole (7) Molly (8) Margaret (9).   Washing of Purificators: Norma Brooker.

OFFERTORY COLLECTION: 10/09/17:
1st Collection: Gift Aid: £ 332.20 Loose: £ 186.52 TOTAL: £ 518.82
2nd Collection: Gift Aid: £ 25.50 Loose: £ 140.04 Total: £ 165.54

BEXLEY DEANERY DEVELOPING WORLD GROUP:  Thank you for your kind donation of £102.74 on Sunday 3rd September. Please contact our Parish Representative, Maria Ward, on 01322 555 553 if you have any queries.

SVP AWARENESS MONTH:  Social isolation is the main poverty of our time. When combined with any other kind of poverty, social isolation makes any kind of difficulty much bigger. “Let us allow ourselves to be evangelised by the poor.” This is the very strong message of the Pope, which we consider is the core of our Vincentian commitment, (Bertrand Ousset, former National President of SVO France).

A DAY WITH MARY:  Saturday 7th October 2017, Westminster Cathedral. Please see poster in porch for more details.

33rd ANNUAL NATIONAL ROSARY CRUSADE OF REPARATION:  Sunday 14th October 2017. 1.45pm outside Westminster Cathedral (Ambrosden Avenue). See details on noticeboard in porch.

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION 2018:  Application forms are now available for the First Holy Communion Programme 2018. Children eligible for First Communion must be in Year 3 or above and should attend mass regularly at St John Fisher Bexley. Application forms can be collected from the back of the Church or please see Angela Underwood. If you are a new parishioner and/or do not attend mass at this parish but wish your child to join the programme please speak to Father Christian. Completed application forms must be returned no later than the 31st December 2017. The programme will commence in January 2018. Full details of the programme and a list of all the relevant dates including parents meetings will follow soon. Please look out for future notices in the parish newsletter.

OUR LADY’S FILM EVENING: Wednesday September 27th. Part 1 of a 2 part movie on the incredible life of St Padre Pio, the Capuchin friar who had such great spiritual gifts as mystical prayer, bilocation, reading souls and the stigmata. Film reveals the amazing details and events in his life as a boy and throughout his 50 years as a monk. Second part including a recap) on Wednesday 11th October – watch either or both parts. Bar open, charity stall, all welcome. 7pm for 7.30pm start.

FRIDAY NIGHT FUN:  We re-open on Friday 22nd September. Welcome back Tony!

THE MEETING PLACE:  Open Wednesdays 9.30 am – 1.30pm in the church hall.