Category: Weekly Newsletter

SUNDAY 9th April 2023

 EASTER SUNDAY, YEAR A 

Readings: Acts 10:34, 37-43 Psalm 117, Colossians 3:1-4, Gospel: John 20:1-9

 

Sat     8^th Apr      20.00  Easter Vigil      Thanksgiving: Jackie Kilcullen (Kilcullen) 

 

Sun     9^th Apr     EASTER SUNDAY              

                          08.30                             For the Parish

                          10.30                              Michael Brown (Botterill)

 

Mon  10^th Apr     09.15          Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                          10.00                        Foundation: Fr Tom Power RIP

 

Tues  11^th Apr    09.15  St Stanislaus     Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                          10.00                              Pat Liddiard RIP (Watson)

 

Wed  12^th Apr    09.15           Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                          10.00                              David Watkins RIP (Fitzpatrick)

 

Thurs 13^th Apr    08.00                              Priest’s Intention

 

Fri      14^th Apr     09.15          Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                           10.00                               Dennis Saville RIP (Cannon)

 

Sat     15^th Apr    17.30            Confessions

                           18.00                                Pat & Marie (Sullivan) 

 

Sun    16^th Apr     2nd SUNDAY of EASTER             

                           08.30                                 KSC

                           10.30                                 Rommel Bernarte RIP (Bernarte)

 

At weekend masses Holy Communion is available through receiving the sacred host and also through the shared chalice containing the precious blood of Christ.

 

LIVE STREAMING OF MASSES ON THE WEBSITE

All masses are streamed live and can be viewed 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       Incl. S.O.s      £1171.78

This week: The Collection is your personal gift to your parish priest.                                      

 

Direct 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 porch, is easy to use.  

Gift Aid Please join the GIFT AID scheme – Forms are at the back of the Church. For every £1.00 donated the Parish receives 25p from the Tax Office. Standing Orders are best for us. Thank you.

 

OUR PARISH HALL

Our hall is available for hire. Please email bexley@rcaos.org.uk at ANY time for enquiries and our hall secretary will get back to you. 

 

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

 

Newsletter: Please copy notices to Fr Doug by 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. Everything is indeed changed, particularly our understanding of ourselves and of our future.

 

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 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, the person 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.

 In case you weren’t here last week let me repeat my notice about the card we received from King Charles. When Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth died we compiled a Book of Sympathy and sent it to Buckingham Palace. We got a reply from King Charles last week. He writes: 

It was so very kind of you to send such a wonderfully generous message following the death of my beloved mother. Your most thoughtful words are enormously comforting, and I cannot tell you how deeply they are appreciated at this time of immense sorrow. Charles R

The card is on the sanctuary if you’d like to see it, next to the Easter Garden.                                                                             God Bless,           Fr Doug       

 

 

PAT LIDDIARD RIP 

Please pray for the soul of Pat Liddiard. Her funeral will be in church at 1.00 on April 18^th

 

SHEILA JONES RIP

Please also pray for the repose of the soul of Sheila Jones. Her funeral arrangements will notified in due course.

 

COFFEE AFTER MASS

Coffee and tea are served in the hall every week following the 10.30 Mass and all are welcome.  We are looking for 2 more people to join the Coffee Rota – this would mean once every 6 weeks. Do please consider joining the Rota to help the existing volunteers – please contact Anne Rayer.  (07855 785331)

 

GIFT AIDERS’ TAX LETTERS

Please fill in the form at the back of the Church with your Name and Gift Aid Number if you require a ‘Certificate of Tax’ letter.

 

SUNDAY 2^nd April 2023

 PALM SUNDAY, YEAR A

Readings: Isiah 50: 4-7, Psalm 21, Philippians 2:6-11, Gospel: Matthew 26:14-27:66

 

Sat       1^st Apr            17.30  Confessions

                                   18.00                               David Watkins RIP (Morris) 

 

Sun      2^nd Apr          PALM SUNDAY       

                                    08.30                              Juliet Benedict RIP (Jeyaseelan)

                                    10.30                              John Larkin RIP (Larkin)

 

Mon    3^rd Apr              09.15          Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                                    10.00                               For the Parish

                                    19.30       Penitential Service

 

Tues    4^th Apr             11.00       Funeral Mass for David Watkins RIP

 

Wed    5^th Apr            09.00                                 Fiona Boome RIP (Howie)

                                  11.30          Chrism Mass at St George’s Cathedral 

 

Thurs  6^th Apr            20.00   Mass of Last Supper Ray Sparkes (Li)

 

Fri        7^th Apr           15.00  Good Friday         Solemn Liturgy

 

Sat       8^th Apr           20.00  Easter Vigil     Thanksgiving: Jackie Kilcullen (Kilcullen) 

 

Sun      9^th Apr           EASTER SUNDAY              

                                    08.30                         For the Parish

                                    10.30                         Michael Brown (Botterill)

 

Please note the earlier mass time on Wednesday morning.

                                       

LIVE STREAMING OF MASSES ON THE WEBSITE

All masses are streamed live and can be viewed 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                               Incl. S.O.s      £1007.12

Next week: The Collection is your personal gift to your parish priest.                                      

 

Direct 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 porch, is easy to use. Select a donation amount by pressing one of the amounts.  The screen will read “Please Tap”, and you tap your card or phone on the card reader.  

Gift Aid Please join the GIFT AID scheme – Forms are at the back of the Church. For every £1.00 donated the Parish receives 25p from the Tax Office. Standing Orders are best for us. Thank you.

 

OUR PARISH HALL

Our hall is available for hire. Please email bexley@rcaos.org.uk at ANY time for enquiries and our hall secretary will get back to you. 

 

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

 

Newsletter: Please copy notices to Fr Doug by previous Wednesday

 

Dear Parishioners,

Welcome to the start of Holy Week. Next Sunday will be Easter Sunday of course.

It is very easy to jump from Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem (today) to his Resurrection (next Sunday), without, as it were, stopping at the stations in between. It is much better to travel the journey with Our Lord, if possible, by participating in some of the liturgies that take place here in church. (See below)

 

Do you remember when Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth died? We compiled a Book of Sympathy and sent it to Buckingham Palace. We received this reply from King Charles this week:

The card is on the sanctuary if you’d like to see it.                                                       

                                                    God Bless,                                   Fr Doug       

 

DIOCESAN LENTEN RETREAT:

You can catch up on the reflection and prayers for Palm Sunday, if you missed the session in our hall on Monday. They will be at:  

Tuesday 10.30 – 12.00 URC 

Wednesday 7.30 p.m. – 9.00 p.m. St John’s Church

             

MAUNDY THURSDAY

We remind you that we hope to be able to resume receiving Holy Communion “under both kinds” if we wish to, starting at The Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Maundy Thursday. It will depend on there being sufficient numbers of our Eucharistic Ministers being happy to administer the Chalice. Let us be clear that no one is obliged to receive Holy Communion from the shared chalice and that Jesus Christ is received sacramentally, whole, and entire, under one kind.  The totality of the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of the Lord is received in either or both species. 

 

QUIET MORNINGS FOR HOLY WEEK AT SANCTUARY: 

To aid space for quiet prayer and reflection 2 quiet mornings are on offer from 10.30 to noon on 

Good Friday 7^th April and Holy Saturday 8^th April. The format is very simple – time to reflect on the readings of the day, with prayer spaces around the house and garden for your own reflection. for info/to book please email tkilcullen@live.co.uk / 077977978536

 

DAVID WATKINS RIP

Please pray for the soul of David Watkins. His funeral will be in church at 11.00 on April 4^th

 

PAT LIDDIARD RIP

Please pray for the soul of Pat Liddiard. Her funeral will be in church at 1.00 on April 18^th

 

LOST PROPERTY

Earring found in Church on 18/19 March. Please see Fr Doug if it is yours

 

ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY  

We can be contacted by leaving a message with the Parish Office, a note through the Presbytery Door or using the Parish email address as above

SUNDAY 26^th March 2023, 

FIFTH SUNDAY of LENT, YEAR A 

Readings:Ezekiel 37:12-14, Psalm 129, Romans 8:8-11, Gospel: John 11:1-45

 

Sat    25^th Mar    17.30         Confessions

                           18.00                             Marie Lenergan RIP (Staden) 

 

Sun  26^th Mar   FIFTH SUNDAY of LENT 

                          08.30                                     For the Parish

                          10.30                             Madeline Grainger (Choir)

 

Mon  27^th Mar    09.15                                     Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                           10.00                                    Joe Nazareth RIP (Almeida)

 

Tues  28^th Mar   09.15                                     Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                          10.00                             Marie Sullivan (Sullivan)

 

Wed  29^th  Mar   09.15                                     Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                           10.00                                     Pam Sarton RIP (Fitzpatrick) 

 

Thurs   30^th Mar  08.00                                     Priest’s intention

 

Fri   31^st Mar       09.15                                    Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                           10.00                                 Wedding Anniv:John & Margaret Bird RIP (Bird)

                           10.30                                     Stations of the Cross

 

Sat    1^st Apr       17.30                                    Confessions

                           18.00                                     David Watkins RIP (Morris)

 

Sun  2^nd Apr     PALM SUNDAY                  

                           08.30                                    Juliet Benedict RIP (Jeyaseelan)

                           10.30                                     John Larkin RIP (Larkin)

                               

LIVE STREAMING OF MASSES ON THE WEBSITE

All masses are streamed live and can be viewed 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    Incl. S.O.s £907.40

Last week: Poor Parishes                                                          £135.11

 

 

Direct 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 porch, is easy to use. Select a donation amount by pressing one of the amounts.  The screen will read “Please Tap”, and you tap your card or phone on the card reader.  

Gift Aid Please join the GIFT AID scheme – Forms are at the back of the Church. For every £1.00 donated the Parish will receive 25p from the Tax Office. Standing Orders are best for us. Thank you.

 

OUR PARISH HALL

Our hall is available for hire. Please email bexley@rcaos.org.uk at ANY time for enquiries and our hall secretary will get back to you. 

 

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

 

Newsletter: Please copy notices to Fr Doug by previous Wednesday

 

Dear Parishioners,

In celebration of the Feast of the Annunciation, Pope Francis asks us to renew the act of consecration to Our Lady that took on March 25 last year. Here are the key words of the consecration which we will use in masses this weekend:

 

Mother of God and our Mother, to your Immaculate Heart we solemnly entrust and consecrate ourselves, the Church and all humanity, especially Russia and Ukraine.   Grant that war may end and peace spread throughout the world.  We trust that, through your heart, peace will dawn once more.  To you we consecrate the future of the whole human family, the needs and expectations of every people, and the hopes of the world.                                             God Bless,                   Fr Doug 

 

DIOCESAN LENTEN RETREAT: “Renewed in Hope”

It is coming to am end now but feel free to join in any session remaining

Mondays, 1.30 – 3.00 St. John Fisher Hall. 

Tuesdays 10.30 – 12.00 URC 

Wednesdays 7.30 p.m. – 9.00 p.m. St John’s Church

 

MAUNDY THURSDAY

We remind you that we hope to be able to resume receiving Holy Communion “under both kinds” if we wish to, starting at The Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Maundy Thursday. It will depend of course on there being sufficient numbers of our Eucharistic Ministers being happy to administer the Chalice. Let us be clear that no one is obliged to receive Holy Communion from the shared chalice and that Jesus Christ is received sacramentally, whole, and entire, under one kind.  The totality of the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of the Lord is received in either or both species. 

 

DAVID WATKINS RIP

Please pray for the soul of David Watkins. His funeral will be in church at 11.00 on April 4^th

 

PAT LIDDIARD RIP

Please pray for the soul of Pat Liddiard who has died

 

PLANNED GIVING ENVELOPES 

Boxes of Planned Giving Envelopes are now available in the foyer.

Please take your box for the year 2023/2024. Thank you. Edna Fernandes, Gift Aid Organiser

 

LOST PROPERTY

Ear ring found in Church on 18/19 March. 

Please see Fr Doug if it is yours

 

ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY  

We can be contacted by leaving a message with the Parish Office, a note through the Presbytery Door or using the Parish email address as above.

 

WORLD YOUTH DAY LISBON –

31st July to 7th August 2023 The Archdiocese of Southwark is taking a group of pilgrims (aged 18-35) to World Youth Day. For info visit https://bit.kinsly/WYDSouthwark and www.lisboa2023.org/en/.