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.

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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.

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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.

NEWSLETTER- SUNDAY 28th March 2021 – PALM SUNDAY of the PASSION OF THE LORD

 

Unless there is an exemption FACE MASKS should be worn

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

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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.

Palm Sunday:  

Holy Mass

9.30am                                 Int: for the parish

11.30am                               Int: Thanksgiving

Monday in Holy Week:

Holy Mass:

9.30am                                 Int: Claude Brown (RIP)

Confessions after Mass

 

Tuesday in Holy week:

The Mass of Chrism in Westminster Cathedral (online)

               

Wednesday in Holy Week:

Holy Mass                                                          

12.00                                     Int: Steph (int)

Confessions after Mass

 

Maundy Thursday:

Confessions: 12.00

The Mass of the Last Supper

7.00pm 

Followed by PRIVATE PRAYER in the Church Hall till 9.00pm                       

 

GOOD FRIDAY:  

Confessions: 10.00am

The Solemn Service of the Passion

2.00pm

4.00pm

 

Holy Saturday:

Confessions: 10.00am

The Easter Vigil:

7.00pm

 

Easter Sunday:

Holy Mass

9.30am                                 Int: James (int)

10.30am                               Int: for the Parish

11.30am                               Int:

NEWSLETTER- SUNDAY 21st March 2021 – The Fifth Sunday in Lent – Passion Sunday

 

Unless there is an exemption FACE MASKS should be worn

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

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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.

So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple. (John 8:59)

 

Passion Sunday:  Fifth Sunday in Lent

Holy Mass

9.30am                                 Int: for the parish

10.30am                               Int:

11.30am                               Int: Tracey Regan (int)

 

Tuesday:

Holy Mass

12.00                                     Int: Pablito Alocillo (RIP)

               

Wednesday:

Holy Mass                                                          

12.00                                     Int: Yolanda Sumera (RIP)

 

Thursday: The Annunciation of Our Lord

Holy Mass

9.30am                            Int:

 

Friday:  Our Lady of Sorrows

Holy Mass (Latin)

6.00pm                                 Int:

(Confessions: 5.15pm)

 

 

Saturday:

Holy Mass

10.00am                               Int:

6.00pm                                 Int:

(Confessions: 10.30am)

BRITISH SUMMER TIME BEGINS: CLOCK GO FORWARD ONE HOUR

Palm Sunday of the Passion of Our Lord :

Holy Mass

9.30am                                 Int: for the parish

There is NO 10.30am Mass

11.30am                               Int: Thanksgiving

NEWSLETTER- SUNDAY 14th March 2021 – The Fourth Sunday in Lent – Mothering Sunday

 

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.

 

Mothering Sunday:  Fourth Sunday in Lent-Laetare Sunday

Holy Mass

9.30am                                 Int: Anna Otiti Onefeta (RIP)

10.30am                               Int: for the parish

11.30am                               Int: Sandra Amato (int)

 

Tuesday:

Holy Mass

12.00                                     Int:

(Confessions: 12.30pm)               

Wednesday: St. Patrick

Holy Mass                                                          

9.30am                                 Int: Private Intention

 

Friday:  St Joseph

Holy Mass (Latin)

6.00pm                                 Int:

(Confessions: 5.15pm)

 

 

Saturday:

Holy Mass

10.00am                               Int:

6.00pm                                 Int: Maureen Coleman (RIP)

(Confessions: 10.30am)

Passion Sunday: The Fifth Sunday in Lent

Holy Mass

9.30am                                 Int: for the parish

10.30am                               Int:

11.30am                               Int: Tracy Regan (int)

NEWSLETTER- SUNDAY 7th March 2021 – The Third Sunday In Lent

 

Unless there is an exemption FACE MASKS should be worn

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

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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.

 

Sunday:  Third Sunday in Lent

Holy Mass

9.30am                                 Int: Odubu Onefeta ans Sr. Veronica Onefeta (RIP)

10.30am                               Int: for the parish

11.30am                               Int:

 

Tuesday:

Holy Mass

12.00                                     Int:

(Confessions: 12.30pm)               

Wednesday:

Holy Mass                                                          

9.30am                                 Int:

Thursday:

Holy Mass

9.30am                                 Int:

 

Friday:  

Holy Mass (Latin)

6.00pm                                 Int:

(Confessions: 5.15pm)

 

 

Saturday:

Holy Mass

10.00am                               Int:

6.00pm                                 Int: Billy Lanigan (RIP)

(Confessions: 10.30am)

Sunday: The Fourth Sunday in Lent – Mothering Sunday

Holy Mass

9.30am                                 Int: Anna Otiti Onefeta (RIP)

10.30am                               Int: for the Parish

11.30am                               Int: Sandra Amato (int)