NEWSLETTER- SUNDAY May 2nd 2021 – Fifth Sunday of Eastertide

Unless there is an exemption FACE MASKS should be worn

Please be willing to participate in the ‘TRACK AND TRACE’ system.

 Down load the app (https://www.covid19.nhs.uk/)

The Bishops have made clear that in these emergency circumstances, and for as long as they last, the obligation to attend Mass on Sundays and Holy Days is removed.

Except for specific reasons: it is anticipated that Holy Communion will be given in the hand.

Recent changes: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/covid-19-coronavirus-restrictions-what-you-can-and-cannot-do#april-whats-changed

Sunday:  

Holy Mass

9.30am                                 Int: Anna Otiti Onefeta (RIP)

10.30am                               Int:

11.30am                               Int: for the parish

Monday : St. Philip and St. James (BANK HOLIDAY)

Holy Mass:

9.30am                                Int:

Tuesday :            

Wednesday :

Holy Mass                                                          

12.00                                     Int: The Holy Souls (RIP)

Thursday:

First Friday:  

Holy Mass

6.00pm (Latin)                     Int: Bill Tomlinson (RIP)

Saturday:

Confessions: 10.30am

Holy Mass

10.00am                        Int:  

6.00pm                          Int: Lawrence Newis (RIP)

 

Sixth Sunday in Eastertide:

Holy Mass

9.30am                                 Int: Tiffany and Glen (int)

10.30am                               Int: for the parish

11.30am                               Int: 

NEWSLETTER- SUNDAY APRIL 25th 2021 – Fourth Sunday of Eastertide (Rogation Day)

Unless there is an exemption FACE MASKS should be worn

Please be willing to participate in the ‘TRACK AND TRACE’ system.

 Down load the app (https://www.covid19.nhs.uk/)

The Bishops have made clear that in these emergency circumstances, and for as long as they last, the obligation to attend Mass on Sundays and Holy Days is removed.

Except for specific reasons: it is anticipated that Holy Communion will be given in the hand.

Recent changes: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/covid-19-coronavirus-restrictions-what-you-can-and-cannot-do#april-whats-changed

 

Sunday:  

Holy Mass

9.30am                                 Int: for the parish

10.30am                               Int:

11.30am                               Int:

Monday :

Reception of the Body of Sr. Nuala followed by a Requiem Mass in the Convent (under the present restrictions)

Tuesday :

The Funeral of Sr. Nuala McGinley RSC in the Convent (under the present restrictions) followed by Burial at St. Patrick’s Cemetery         

Wednesday :

Holy Mass                                                          

12.00                                     Int:

Thursday:  S. Catherine of Sienna

Holy Mass

9.30am                                 Int:  Corazon Nacionales (RIP)                 

FRIDAY:  S. Pius V

 

Saturday: S Joseph the Worker

Confessions: 10.30am

Holy Mass

10.00am                              Int:  James (int)

6.00pm                                Int: Steph (int)

 

Fifth Sunday in Eastertide:

Holy Mass

9.30am                                 Int:

10.30am                               Int:

11.30am                               Int: for the parish 

NEWSLETTER- SUNDAY APRIL 18th 2021 – Third Sunday of Eastertide

 

Unless there is an exemption FACE MASKS should be worn

Please be willing to participate in the ‘TRACK AND TRACE’ system.

 Down load the app (https://www.covid19.nhs.uk/)

The Bishops have made clear that in these emergency circumstances, and for as long as they last, the obligation to attend Mass on Sundays and Holy Days is removed.

Except for specific reasons: it is anticipated that Holy Communion will be given in the hand.

Recent changes: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/covid-19-coronavirus-restrictions-what-you-can-and-cannot-do#april-whats-changed

Sunday:  

Holy Mass

9.30am                                 Int: Catherine Murphy (RIP)

10.30am                            Int: for the parish

11.30am                               Int: The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (RIP)

Monday : S. Alphage

Holy Mass

9.30am                             Int:

Tuesday :

Holy Mass

12.00                                 Int: Valintin Amplayo (RIP)

               

Wednesday : S. Amselm

Holy Mass                                                          

9.30am                                 Int: Renato Ancillo (RIP)

 

                   

FRIDAY:  S. George, Patron of England

Holy Mass

6.00pm (Latin)                   Int: HM The Queen

 

Saturday:

Confessions: 10.30am

Holy Mass

10.00am                        int:

6.00pm                          Int:

 

Fourth Sunday in Eastertide:

Holy Mass

9.30am                                 Int: for the parish

10.30am                               Int:

11.30am                               Int:

 

NEWSLETTER- SUNDAY APRIL 11th 2021 – Low Sunday of the Divine Mercy

Unless there is an exemption FACE MASKS should be worn

Please be willing to participate in the ‘TRACK AND TRACE’ system.

 Down load the app (https://www.covid19.nhs.uk/)

The Bishops have made clear that in these emergency circumstances, and for as long as they last, the obligation to attend Mass on Sundays and Holy Days is removed.

Except for specific reasons: it is anticipated that Holy Communion will be given in the hand.

 

Low Sunday:  

Holy Mass

9.30am                                 Int: Anna Otiti Onefeta (RIP)

10.30am                            Int:

11.30am                               Int: for the parish

Monday :

 

Tuesday :

Holy Mass

12.00                                 Int: Henry Otigbah (RIP)

               

Wednesday :

Holy Mass                                                          

9.30am                                 Int:

 

Thursday:

Holy Mass

12.00                                Int:

                   

Friday:  

Holy Mass

6.00pm (Latin)                   Int:

 

Saturday:

Confessions: 10.30am

Holy Mass

10.00am                        int: Anthony Conlon (Pr) (RIP)

6.00pm                          Int: Francesca Forrest (RIP) and Luceff Etan (int)

 

Third Sunday in Eastertide:

Holy Mass

9.30am                                 Int: Catherine Murphy (RIP)

10.30am                               Int: for the Parish

11.30am                               Int: 

NEWSLETTER: EASTER SUNDAY 4th March 2021

 

Unless there is an exemption FACE MASKS should be worn

Please be willing to participate in the ‘TRACK AND TRACE’ system.

 Down load the app (https://www.covid19.nhs.uk/)

The Bishops have made clear that in these emergency circumstances, and for as long as they last, the obligation to attend Mass on Sundays and Holy Days is removed.

Except for specific reasons: it is anticipated that Holy Communion will be given in the hand.

 

Easter Sunday:  

Holy Mass

9.30am                                 Int:

10.30am                            Int:

11.30am                               Int:

Easter Monday  to Easter Thursday

Holy Mass:

9.30am                                  

 

EASTER FRIDAY:  

Holy Mass: (Latin)

6.00pm

 

Easter Saturday:

Holy Mass:

6.00pm

 

 Low Sunday of the Divine Mercy:

Holy Mass

9.30am                                 Int:

10.30am                               Int:

11.30am                               Int:

MAUNDY THURSDAY 2021 (repost)

 Of the glorious body telling, O my tongue, its mysteries sing,

And the blood, all price excelling, Which the world’s eternal King,

In a noble womb once dwelling, Shed for this world’s ransoming.

Everything that is Divine in Christ Jesus is of GOD, everything that is human is of Mary. That ‘glorious body’ – of the GOD-MAN begins the final moments for our redemption, Mary, who had held that body for the shepherds and the Wise Men to worship, joins with us, for us to do the same. May Mary pray for us.



Given for us, for us descending, Of a virgin to proceed,

Man with man in converse blending, Scattered he the gospel seed,

Till his sojourn drew to ending, Which he closed in wondrous deed.

From the moment of his birth, St. Joseph watched over, protected and helped nurture the Lord. He helped the Lord in his skills to offer to the world the means of repentance and ‘converse blending’ to ‘scatter the gospel seed’. May St. Joseph pray for us.



At the last great supper lying Circled by his chosen band,

Duly with the law complying, First he finished its command,

Then, immortal food supplying, Gave himself by his own hand.

In accordance with the existing covenant of Moses and the Prophets, the Lord fulfils the requirements of that covenant….the Passover is prepared and he ‘finished its commend’. ‘with the law (of Moses and the Prophets) complying’ the Lord now prepares himself to be that final and new Passover –with ‘immortal food’



Word-made-flesh, by word he maketh Bread his very flesh to be;

Man in wine Christ’s blood partaketh: And if senses fail to see,

Faith alone the true heart waketh To behold the mystery.

This ‘immortal food’, bread and wine, by the words spoken by the ‘Word-made-flesh’ become the Body and Blood of what will be the New covenant. For if our ‘senses fail’ to recognise this ‘immortal food’ be ‘the glorious body’: our heart of faith tells us to recognise ‘the world’s eternal king’ who will be the NEW PASSOVER in the ‘wondrous deed’ of the Cross



Therefore we, before him bending, This great sacrament revere:

Types and shadows have their ending, For the newer rite is here;

Faith, our outward sense befriending, Makes the inward vision clear.

As the curtain of the Temple is torn in two, the Lord ‘finished the command’ the ‘newer rite is here’ which replaces the sacrifices of that Temple. The ‘types and shadows’ are revealed (through the open curtain) ‘to behold  the mystery’ – the mystery of the Sacrifice of the Lord ‘ given for us, for us descending’ ‘shed for this word’s ransoming’. The ‘newer rite’ of ‘wondrous deed’ on the Cross foreseen in the ‘great sacrament’ given ‘himself by his own hand’



Glory let us give and blessing To the Father and the Son,

Honour, might and praise addressing, While eternal ages run;

Ever too his love confessing, Who, from both, with both is one. Amen.

"Was ever another command so obeyed? For century after century, spreading slowly to every continent and country and among every race on earth, this action has been done, in every conceivable human circumstance, for every conceivable human need from infancy and before it to extreme old age and after it, from the pinnacle of earthly greatness to the refuge of fugitives in the caves and dens of the earth. Men have found no better thing than this to do for kings at their crowning and for criminals going to the scaffold; for armies in triumph or for a bride and bridegroom in a little country church; for the proclamation of a dogma or for a good crop of wheat; for the wisdom of the Parliament of a mighty nation or for a sick old woman afraid to die; for a schoolboy sitting an examination or for Columbus setting out to discover America; for the famine of whole provinces or for the soul of a dead lover; in thankfulness because my father did not die of pneumonia; for a village headman much tempted to return to fetich because the yams had failed; because the Turk was at the gates of Vienna; for the repentance of Margaret; for the settlement of a strike; for a son for a barren woman; for Captain so-and-so wounded and prisoner of war; while the lions roared in the nearby amphitheatre; on the beach at Dunkirk; while the hiss of scythes in the thick June grass came faintly through the windows of the church; tremulously, by an old monk on the fiftieth anniversary of his vows; furtively, by an exiled bishop who had hewn timber all day in a prison camp near Murmansk; gorgeously, for the canonisation of S. Joan of Arc—one could fill many pages with the reasons why men have done this, and not tell a hundredth part of them. And best of all, week by week and month by month, on a hundred thousand successive Sundays, faithfully, unfailingly, across all the parishes of Christendom, the pastors have done this just to make the plebs sancta Dei—the holy common people of God." (Dom Gregory Dix)

ALL THIS TO THE PRAISE OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY.