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SUNDAY 5^th November 2023

 THIRTY-FIRST SUNDAY, YEAR A

Readings: Malachi 1:14-2:2, 8-10 Psalm 130 1 Thessalonian 2:7-9, 13 Gospel: Matthew 23:1-12

 

Sat  4^th Nov         17.30  Confessions

 18.00                     Shirley Hildebrand RIP (Morris)

 

Sun  5^th Nov          THIRTY-FIRST SUNDAY   

                            08.30                     Peter Hammond RIP (Cannon) 

10.30                     Dunning & Wheatley families RIP (Wheatley)

 

Mon  6^th Nov        09.15       Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                            10.00                     For the Parish

 

Tues 7^th Nov        09.15  Dedication of St George’s  Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                            10.00                     Niall Mulvihill RIP & family (Wheatley) 

 

Wed  8^th Nov       09.15       Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                            10.00                     Ann Hyde (Wheatley)   

 

Thurs  9^th Nov      08.00  Dedication LateranBasilica   Priest’s Intention

 

Fri    10^th Nov       09.15  St Leo  Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                            10.00                      Nina Szredski RIP (Anderson)

 

Sat   11^th Nov      17.30  Confessions

18.00                      In Thanksgiving (Kevan)

 

Sun      12^th Nov        THIRTY-SECOND SUNDAY   

08.30                     The Ahlers Family (Nicholson) 

                            10.30                     Flordeliza Valdez RIP (Bernarte)

 

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         £959.54

Last week:     Missio                                                                                                 £285.52         

Next week:    Archbishop’s Appeal

                                                                        

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 the previous Wednesday

Dear Parishioners,

As we enter November, we in the Catholic Church traditionally try to remember the faithful departed. 

Our Book of Remembrance will be available throughout the month for you to once again prayerfully enter the names of your own deceased family members. The book of names will be brought up in the offertory procession of each Sunday Mass.

Next Sunday is of course, Remembrance Sunday and we will solemnly remember those who have lost their lives in war.

The following Sunday, 19^th November, will be the day we pray for the 15 parishioners who have died in the course of the year past, and whose funerals were hosted here in our parish church. We will be prayerfully reading out each of their names and lighting a candle for them on the sanctuary, We have endeavoured to contact their families and invite them along. Please make them welcome if they come to mass that weekend. We will also be lighting one large candle for everyone else that we want to remember.

The blessing of graves during November is detailed separately below.

 Meanwhile we continue to pray for the innocent citizens in Gaza who are being bombed and killed. The Church condemns this action in Gaza, just as it condemns the taking of innocent hostages in Israel. 

               God Bless,                        Fr Doug

 

ARCHBISHOP’S APPEAL

This retiring collection next week funds three key mission areas: Youth and Evangelisation, Our Faith In Action and Clergy care and formation. 

 

QUIZ NIGHT 

11th November. Please do make every effort to attend. You do not need to be a team before the event. Everyone coming along will be able to join a team. The bar will be open and feel free to bring your own nibbles. Quiz + Raffle. Tickets will be on sale after mass. 

 

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION 2024

Application forms are now available for our First Holy Communion programme. Baptised children in year 3 or above can join.  Forms can be collected from the foyer after mass.  Completed forms must be returned by 1st December 2023.  The programme will commence in January 2024. 

 

BLESSING OF GRAVES

Hillview Cemetery                Sun. 5^th Nov. at 1 pm

Kemnal Park                         Sat 11^th Nov at 1pm 

Bexleyheath Cemetery       Sun 12 Nov. at 12.30 pm 

Sidcup Cemetery                 Sun 12 Nov. At 1 pm

 

AFTERNOON GET-TOGETHER; MUSIC AMONG FRIENDS

A fun afternoon for all, on Sunday 12^th Nov, 2.30 – 4.30 at St Thomas More, 420a Long Lane, Bexleyheath. RSVP Elisa at elisapuzzolo@gmail.com 07565 613867. A Focolare Event 

 

SAVE THE DATE 

The Parish events committee will be hosting the following events in the upcoming year. 

1) 11th Nov 23                      Quiz Night 

2) 29th Dec 23                      Festive party

3) 13th April 24                     Spring Cinema Singalong 

4) 22nd June 24                   Summer Garden Party

SUNDAY 29^th October 2023

 THIRTIETH SUNDAY, YEAR A

Readings: Exodus: 22: 20-26 Psalm 17 Thessalonians 1:5-10 Gospel: Matthew 22:34-40

 

Sat    28^th Oct     17.30  Confessions

     18.00                                      Jack Bowen RIP (Wood)

 

Sun   29^th Oct         THIRTIETH SUNDAY         

                            08.30                                      Sheila Cakebread RIP (Cannon) 

      10.30                                      Fr Paul Rout (Cayford)

 

Mon  30^th Oct     11.15                                      Funeral Mass for Ronnie Aspeek RIP

 

Tues  31^st Oct     09.15                                      Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                            10.00                                      For the Parish

 

Wed   1^st Nov      09.15                                    Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                             10.00  All Saints HDO          Nina Szredski RIP (Hughes)

                             19.30                                      Paul Smith RIP (Cannon)   

 

Thurs 2^nd Nov     10.00  All Souls                      For the Parish

 

Fri      3^rd Nov        09.15                                    Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                              10.00                                      Margaret Morris (Stanton) 

                

Sat    4^th Nov         17.30                                      Confessions

         18.00                                      Shirley Hildebrand RIP (Morris)

 

Sun    5^th Nov          THIRTY-FIRST SUNDAY   

          08.30                                     Peter Hammond RIP (Cannon)

                               10.30                                      Dunning & Wheatley families RIP (Wheatley)

 

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         £909.69

Last week:     Mission Appeal                                                                                 £586.69         

This week:     Missio

Next Week:   Archbishop’s Appeal

                                                                        

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 the previous Wednesday

 

Many have fasted and prayed this week in solidarity with millions around the world, begging for the inspiration needed for peace and for justice in Gaza and Israel. It seems a long way off but that just means we must pray all the harder. 

              God Bless,                     

                                           

 

COLLECTION FOR MISSION SUNDAY 

Deferred from 22^nd October till this weekend

If you have a Red Box, please empty it and put the collection in an envelope with your name on it.  If you do Gift Aid you can use a Gift Aid envelope. It will be submitted along with the retiring collection for APF today. Any problems please contact Sue Mantle 07955416185

 

ARCHBISHOP’S APPEAL:  This retiring collection next week funds three key mission areas: Youth and Evangelisation, Our Faith In Action and Clergy care and formation.

 

QUIZ NIGHT:  11th November. Please do make every effort to attend. You do not need to be a team before the event. Everyone coming along will be able to join a team. The bar will be open and feel free to bring your own nibbles. Quiz + Raffle. Tickets will be on sale after mass. 

 

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION 2024

Application forms are now available for the First Holy Communion programme 2024. Baptised children in year 3 or above are eligible to apply.  Forms can be collected from the entrance porch or please speak to Father Doug or Angela Underwood after mass.  Completed application forms must be returned by 1st December 2023.  The programme will commence in January 2024. 

 

RONNIE ASPEEK RIP

Please pray for the soul of Ronnie Aspeek. His funeral will be here on Monday 30^th October at           11:15am. May he rest in peace and rise in Glory.

 

BLESSING OF GRAVES

Hillview Cemetery                Sun. 5^th Nov. at 1 pm

Kemnal Park                         Sat 11^th Nov at 1pm 

Bexleyheath Cemetery       Sun 12 Nov. at 12.30 pm 

Sidcup Cemetery                 Sun 12 Nov. At 1 pm

 

THE KNIGHTS OF ST COLUMBA SOUTHWARD PROVINCE 12 

Are having their Annual Memorial Mass for Deceased Brothers of their Order on Saturday 11th Nov 2023 at 2:00pm in Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Church  Bexley Road, Erith. DA8 1DN.

 

SAVE THE DATE 

The Parish events committee will be hosting the following events in the upcoming year. Details of the November event to follow in the coming weeks. 

1) 11th Nov 23                      Quiz Night 

2) 29th Dec 23                      Festive party

3) 13th April 24                     Spring Cinema Singalong 

4) 22nd June 24                   Summer Garden Party

SUNDAY 22^nd October 2023

TWENTY-NINTH SUNDAY, YEAR A

Readings: Isaiah: 45:1, 4-6 Psalm 95 1 Thessalonians 1:1-5 Gospel: Matthew 22:15-21

 

Sat    21^st Oct      17.30  Confessions

18.00                           Frogley Family (Frogley)

 

Sun   22^nd Oct       TWENTY-NINTH SUNDAY            

                            08.30                          For the Parish 

10.30                           Carmel O’Leary RIP (Lyons)

 

Mon   23^rd Oct    09.30     Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

*********               10.30                           Ellen Gilligan RIP (Staden)

 

Tues  24^th Oct      09.15    Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                            10.00                          Sam Ahlers RIP (Nicolson)

 

Wed   25^th Oct     09.15     Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                            10.00  Forty Martyrs       Sister John Bowman RIP (Bowman)   

 

Thurs 26^th Oct      08.00  ss Chad + Cedd     Priest’s Intention

 

Fri      27^th Oct      09.15     Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

                             10.00                          Barney O’Neill RIP (O’Neill) 

 

Sat     28^th Oct      10.00      Rosary 

                             17.30      Confessions

                             18.00                         Jack Bowen RIP (Wood)

 

Sun    29^th Oct         THIRTIETH SUNDAY   

  08.30                        Sheila Cakebread RIP (Cannon)

                             10.30                        Fr Paul Rout (Cayford)

 

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          £1004.26

Last week: Harvest & Cafod family fast                                                               £783.85

This week: SMA Mission Appeal

Next week: Mission Sunday (Missio)

                                                                        

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 the previous Wednesday

 

Dear Parishioners,

We welcome Fr Henry Soma SMA to our parish He will be making an appeal for the Society of African Missionaries.

OUR HOLY FATHER POPE FRANCIS announced another day of prayer and fasting for an end to the Israel-Hamas war, to be observed on Friday 27 October. The Holy Father went on to say, it will be “a day of penance to which I invite sisters and brothers of the various Christian denominations, those belonging to other religions, and all those who have at heart the cause of peace in the world, to join in as they see fit,”.

There is one more week of “A DOORWAY INTO PRAYER”: The Rosary: The Glorious Mysteries. An opportunity on Saturday morning at 10.00, to pray the rosary together. There is an emphasis on the scriptural background to the mysteries. All are welcome.

                        God Bless,                        Fr Doug

 

COLLECTION FOR MISSION SUNDAY 

Deferred from 22^nd October till 29^th October.

If you have a Red Box, please empty it and put the collection in an envelope with your name on.  If you do Gift Aid you can use a Gift Aid envelope. It will be submitted along with the retiring collection for APF on 29^th October. Any problems please contact Sue Mantle 07955416185

 

QUIZ NIGHT 

11th November. This is the first event to be held by the new events committee so please do make every effort to attend. The bar will be open and feel free to bring your own nibbles. Quiz + Raffle and more. Tickets will be on sale after mass. 

 

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION 2024

Application forms are now available for the First Holy Communion programme 2024. Baptised children in year 3 or above are eligible to apply.  Forms can be collected from the entrance porch or please speak to Father Doug or Angela Underwood after mass.  Completed application forms must be returned by 1st December 2023.  The programme will commence in January 2024. 

 

RONNIE ASPEEK RIP

Please pray for the soul of Ronnie Aspeek. His funeral will be here on Monday 30^th October at 11:15am. May he rest in peace and rise in Glory.

 

BLESSING OF GRAVES

Hillview Cemetery                Sun. 5^th Nov. at 1 pm

Kemnal Park                         Sat 11^th Nov at 1pm 

Bexleyheath Cemetery       Sun 12 Nov. at 12.30 pm 

Sidcup Cemetery                 Sun 12 Nov. At 1 pm

 

SAVE THE DATE 

The Parish events committee will be hosting the following events in the upcoming year. Details of the November event to follow in the coming weeks. 

1) 11th Nov 23                      Quiz Night 

2) 29th December 23          Festive party

3) 13th April 24                     Spring Cinema Singalong 

4) 22nd June 24                   Summer Garden Party