Category: Weekly Newsletter

SUNDAY 10^th October 2021

28th SUNDAY (B) 

Readings: Wisdom: 7:7-11,  Psalm 89, Hebrews 4:12-13, Mark 10:17-30.

 

SERVICES FOR WEEK  9^th – 17^th October 2021  

Sat      9^th Oct                                          No Confessions

                            18.00                            The Homeless (AIC)   

Sun    10^th Oct    28^th SUNDAY (B)                 

                          08.30                               Priest’s Personal Intention 

                          10.30                               Rex Wheatley RIP (Wheatley family)

Mon     11^th Oct 09.15         St John XXIII, Pope     Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                         10.00                                 Tony Moffat RIP (Hughes)

Tue      12^th Oct  NO MASS

Weds   13^th Oct    09.15         St Edward the Confessor    Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                            10.00                              Patsy Goodman RIP (SVP Friends)

Fri      15^th  Oct   09.15         St Teresa of Jesus (Avila)    Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament           

                            10.00                              David Latimer RIP (Latimer family)

Sat    16^th  Oct     11.00                              Confessions

                            18.00                              Calihan Circuitt (Bowman)

Sun    17^th  Oct   29^th SUNDAY (B)                 

                            08.30                              Mrs. J White RIP (C.Fitzpatrick) 

                           10.30                               Richard Fox (Berry)

                                                                           

LIVE STREAMING OF MASSES ON THE WEBSITE

All masses are now streamed live and can be viewed on the website via this link.

Recordings will also be available there for a week or so. The weekly sermon is also on the website in printed form.

 

FINANCES          

Direct Bank Payments to RCAS St John Fisher – Bexley, Sort code 51 70 14, Account 01831763

Please put your name and if you use envelopes, your envelope number, as the code.

 

Many thanks for your collection last week:         £948.31 including standing orders    

Special Collections  Last week:   672.60 CAFOD

Next Week:                

                                      

CATHOLIC NEWSPAPERS

The Herald by subscription: Ring 0207 448 3607 or go to http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/subscribe

 

COVID PROCEDURES

In church please:

•           Continue to cleanse your hands on entry.

•           Continue to wear masks on Sundays unless you are in space or are exempt. 

•           At weekday masses you only need to wear masks if you are close to someone else. 

•           Socially distance 1metre. In other words, keep a space between yourself and anyone else.

•           Continue to make your Offertory Contribution on entry. 

 

 

I am on silent retreat and so I can’t talk to you!  Pray for me as I do for you.

                               God bless.

                                                 

 

CHILDREN’S LITURGY GROUP

It was wonderful to welcome children back to the Children’s Liturgy of the word last Sunday, 4th October during the 10.30am mass. Initially meetings will be held once a month on the first Sunday. We are always looking for new volunteers to help with Children’s Liturgy.  If you would like to join our small but dedicated team please speak to Father Doug or Angela Underwood.

 

CAFOD HARVEST FAST DAY

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to the CAFOD Harvest Fast Day.

 

READERS

A new rota covering the end of the year is now available in the sacristy.  Please collect one as soon as possible

 

CHRISTIAN UNITY – ON LINE EVENT IN OCTOBER

Zoom event Tuesday, 19 October at 6.00pm regarding the recent publication by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. See website christianunitycommission.rcaos.org.uk or email christianunitycommission@rcaos.org.uk

 

MEETING PLACE 

We are now open in the Hall on Wednesdays from 9.30 till 1.30 with a lunchtime menu available.   All are welcome; spread the word. 

WE NEED HELP with putting up tables and taking them down again. We would want to establish a rota for this. Please ring Anne Rayer for more details.

 

SUNDAY COFFEE MORNING – after 10.30 mass

This provides a wonderful opportunity for growth in our parish as a community.  We are most grateful to those who have run the coffee bar over the past few years as well as to Noel who opens up the bar! We now need others to assist. Can you help on an occasional basis?  Please contact Anne Rayer (01322 523499) or Carol Anderson (07913 698912). 

 

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO COLLECT FOR THE PASSAGE – Tuesday, 19 October

Please contact Andrew Hollingsworth on 020 7592 1886 (07928703131) if you are able to help with their annual public collection on the streets of the City of Westminster between 7.00 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. in support of The Passage, the Catholic Charity helping homeless people.

 

NEWSLETTER DEADLINE – Noon Wednesday and please email if possible.

 

HALL FOR HIRE – £30 per hour weekdays, £35 per hour at weekends.  Bookings can be made via the Parish Secretary, preferably only by email to the office – bexley@rcaos.org.uk

 

HYMN BOOKS – Please return your hymn books to the table in the porch after 10.30 am Mass.

 

FUNERAL MASS FOR BARBARA DONOVAN 

A Funeral Service will take place at St. Lawrence’s Church, Sidcup – at 11 a.m. on 28^th October.  Parishioners who remember Barbara are welcome to attend.  Rosy Hickman (nee Donovan).

 

SUNDAY 3^rd October 2021

 27th SUNDAY (B) 

Readings: Genesis 2:18-24, Psalm 127, Hebrews 2:9-11, Mark 10:2-16

 

SERVICES FOR WEEK  2^nd – 10^th October 2021

Sat      2^nd Oct             11.00                Confessions

                                   18.00                  James Picolo RIP (Wood)            

Sun    3^rd Oct      27^th SUNDAY (B)                 

                                   08.30                   For the Parish 

                                   10.30                  Fabian & Florencia Delfinado RIP (Bernarte)

Mon     4^th Oct            09.15         St Francis of Assisi     Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                                   10.00                  Kathleen Bowman RIP (Bowman)       

Weds    6^th Oct           09.15                  Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                                  10.00                  Iris Keefe RIP (Stanton)

Fri      8^th  Oct           09.15                  Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament           

                                 10.00                  Beth & Mick Minihan RIP (Sheehan)

Sat    9^th  Oct           11.00                  No Confessions

                                18.00                  The Homeless (AIC)

Sun    10^th  Oct   28^th SUNDAY (B)                 

                                08.30                  Priest’s Personal Intention 

                              10.30                  Rex Wheatley RIP (Wheatley)

 

                                                                           

LIVE STREAMING OF MASSES ON THE WEBSITE

All masses are now streamed live and can be viewed here on the website,  via this link:

Recordings will also be available there for a week or so. The weekly sermon is also on the website in printed form.

 

FINANCES          

Direct Bank Payments to RCAS St John Fisher – Bexley, Sort code 51 70 14, Account 01831763

Please put your name and if you use envelopes, your envelope number, as the code.

 

Many thanks for your collection last week:         £ 967.57 including standing orders    

Special Collections         This week:     CAFOD

                                      

CATHOLIC NEWSPAPERS

The Herald by subscription: Ring 0207 448 3607 or go to http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/subscribe

 

COVID PROCEDURES

In church please:

         Continue to cleanse your hands on entry.

      Continue to wear masks on Sundays unless you are in space or are exempt. 

         At weekday masses you only need to wear masks if you are close to someone

            else.

         Socially distance 1metre. In other words, keep a space between yourself and 

            anyone else.

         Continue to make your Offertory Contribution on entry. 

 

The readings this week seem to demand that we focus on marriage, but we are also celebrating a theme of “Thanksgiving for the Harvest”. On the edge of London, as we are, we can look one way to see farmland, and feel a connection with the land. But if we look the other way we only see an urban environment with no pastoral or arable land. Also, with many foods imported throughout the year we are barely aware of seasonal variation, and so it really can be a stretch to connect to Harvest in the way people once did. Nevertheless, it is important to try to do so and to thank God for the harvest of food that sustains us physically throughout the year. The shortage of truck drivers has reminded us how much we depend on many other people for our daily bread. Let us take no one for granted and pray this year with sincerity: Father, give us this day our daily bread.

                                 

 

ALTAR SERVING

We are proud of our team of altar servers who add great dignity to our masses and there is room for more!  If anyone would like to have a look at what it might entail then please come to a meeting on Saturday morning, 16^th October from 10 am till 11 in Church.  You need to be receiving Holy Communion – (over the age of First Holy Communion).  Please drag a parent along with you!

 

CHILDREN’S LITURGY GROUP

We welcome back our Children’s Liturgy of the Word Group this Sunday during the 10.30am mass. We meet on the first Sunday of each month. We are looking for new helpers.  If you could join our  team please speak to Fr Doug or Angela Underwood.

 

GARDENING VOLUNTEERS NEEDED – SAT. OCTOBER 9^th

Please come along at 10 am to clear the church and presbytery gardens of weeds and trim bushes.  Please bring forks, spades and secateurs if you have them. Carole Hughes. 

 

CAFOD HARVEST FAST DAY

The CAFOD harvest fast day was on Friday and the retiring collection at Masses on this weekend is to receive your savings.  Envelopes are available. We should also have a card machine available. This Family Fast Day aims to support people around the world working to protect God’s creation, and to help the poorest people adapt to climate change.”

 

OPEN EVENING – ST. CATHERINE’S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS 

THURSDAY, 7^th OCTOBER, 2021 – 5PM TO 8PM – An open evening for Year 6 students to visit St. Catherine’s Catholic School.  There will be a presentation by Head Teacher Mrs. Thompson at 6.30 pm.  For further information contact 01322 556333 or visit http://www.stccg.co.uk/

 

READERS

A new rota covering the end of the year is now available in the sacristy. 

 

CHRISTIAN UNITY – ON LINE EVENT IN OCTOBER

Zoom event Tuesday,19 October at 6.00pm regarding the recent publication by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. See website christianunitycommission.rcaos.org.uk or email christianunitycommission@rcaos.org.uk

 

MEETING PLACE 

We are now open in the Hall on Wednesdays from 9.30 till 1.30 with a lunchtime menu available.   All are welcome. WE NEED HELP with putting up tables and taking them down again. Please ring Anne Rayer for more details.

 

BARBARA DONOVAN RIP.

My mother, Barbara has died She occasionally attended St John Fisher in the 1960s -1990s. Some parishioners may remember her. A burial service will take place at Sidcup Cemetery in mid-October. Rosy Hickman (nee Donovan)  

SUNDAY 26^th September 2021 

26th SUNDAY (B) 

Readings: Numbers 11:25-29,  Psalm 18, James 5:1-6, Mark 9:38-43. 45. 47-48

 

SERVICES FOR WEEK  25^th September – 4^th October 2021

 

Sat     25^th Sep     11.00         Confessions

                           18.00         Dympna Cox RIP (Wood)               

 

Sun    26^th Sep    26^th SUNDAY (B)         

08.30         David Latimer RIP (Wilkes) 

                           10.30         Christiana Anim RIP (Asaam)

 

Mon   27^th Sep     09.15 St Vincent de Paul Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                           10.00         Work of St Vincent (SVP + AIC Groups)

 

 

Tues  28^th Sep     09.15 Ss Wenceslaus Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                           10.00         Tony Sullivan RIP (Sullivan)

 

Weds 29^th Sep     09.15 Archangels     Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                           10.00         Jim Taylor RIP (Eida/Connolly family)

 

Fri      1^st Oct        09.15         Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament               

                    10.00 St Therese of Child Jesus Tess Truman: Birthday (Fitzpatrick)

 

Sat    2^nd Oct        11.00          Confessions

                           18.00         James Picolo RIP (Wood)

 

Sun    3^rd Oct       27^th SUNDAY (B)          

         08.30         For the Parish 

                           10.30         Fabian & Florencia Delfinado RIP (Bernarte)

                                                                        

 

LIVE STREAMING OF MASSES ON THE WEBSITE

All masses are now streamed live and can be viewed via this link. 

Recordings will also be available there for a week or so. The weekly sermon is also on the website in printed form.

 

FINANCES: Direct Bank Payments to RCAS St John Fisher – Bexley, Sort code 51 70 14,Account 01831763.   Please put your name and, if you use envelopes, your envelope number as the code. 

Many thanks for your collection last week:       £ 890.32 incl standing orders      

Special Collections  Last week:      £ 119.72 Catholic Agency for Evangelisation

                               Next Week:      Cafod 

                                     

CATHOLIC NEWSPAPERS:   The Herald by subscription: Ring 0207 448 3607 or go to http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/subscribe

 

COVID PROCEDURES

In church please:

• Continue to cleanse your hands on entry.
• Continue to wear masks on Sundays unless you are in space or are exempt.

 

Dear Parishioners,

 

As we enter October we take on board two great Catholic traditions: First, October as a month of Our Lady when many will make extra efforts to pray the Rosary. We at St John Fisher will be saying a prayer to Mary (The Hail Mary) at the end of our Prayers of Intercession even though they are addressed to God, Our Father. October is also the month when we are asked to consider the World Mission of the Church, so we will be praying for the work of Cafod and all those acting in the name of the Church to spread the Gospel.  

                                         Fr Doug 

 

CHILDREN’S LITURGY GROUP:   We are happy to announce that Children’s Liturgy of the word will resume on Sunday 4th October during the 10.30am mass. Initially meetings will be held once a month on the first Sunday.

We are always looking for new volunteers to help with Children’s Liturgy.  If you would like to join our small but dedicated team please speak to Father Doug or Angela Underwood.

 

GARDENING VOLUNTEERS NEEDED – SAT. OCTOBER 9^th:   Please come along at 10 am to clear the church and presbytery gardens of weeds and trim bushes.  Please bring forks, spades and secateurs if you have them. Carole Hughes.  

CAFOD HARVEST FAST DAY:  The CAFOD harvest fast day is on Friday 1 October and the second collection next week will be for that. Envelopes will be available to pick up at the Masses this weekend. The thrust of this Family Fast Day is to support people around the world working to protect God’s creation, and to help the poorest people adapt to climate change.

 

OPEN EVENING – ST. CATHERINE’S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS:  THURSDAY, 7^th OCTOBER, 2021 – 5PM TO 8PM – An open evening for Year 6 students to visit St. Catherine’s Catholic School.  There will be a presentation by Head Teacher Mrs. Thompson at 6.30 pm.  For further information contact 01322 556333 or visit http://www.stccg.co.uk/

 

READERS:   A new rota covering the end of the year is now available in the sacristy.  Please collect one as soon as possible

 

CHRISTIAN UNITY – ONLINE EVENT IN OCTOBER:   Zoom event Tuesday, 19 October at 6.00pm regarding the recent publication by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. See website christianunitycommission.rcaos.org.uk or email christianunitycommission@rcaos.org.uk

 

MEETING PLACE:   We are now open in the Hall on Wednesdays from 9.30 till 1.30 with a lunchtime menu available.   All are welcome; spread the word. 

WE NEED HELP with putting up tables a