Newsletters for Week starting on Sunday 02nd February 2020 : Presentation of the Lord
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH
208 Sangley Road, Catford, London SE6 2JS
Fr Antony Megalan Sellam [Parish Priest] – 02086983672
Website: www.holycross-catford.org.uk
18thJan / 19th Jan 2020 [2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time]
Parish Contacts
Parish Office - Open Wed & Fri [10am -3pm]
020 8698 3672
Josepha Flahive [secretary]
Lisa O’Hara [volunteer]
Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate
Holy Cross Bookshop, 020 3441 8240
Holy Cross School
[020 8698 2675]
Miss Mary Collins & Miss Giovanna Finaldi
www.holycross.lewisham.sch.uk
Repository:
To buy gifts and cards, the church shop is open after all weekend Masses.
St Vincent De Paul [SVP] 07835 188411
Safeguarding Line 07598 524024
Third Thursday Time TTT
Email: [email protected]
Hartley Hall [Angela Allen]
Culverley Road, SE6 2LD
Email: [email protected]
Finance: £699.54; SO £503
Candlemas This weekend we celebrate Candlemas, also
called Presentation of the Lord, a Christian festival reminding us of the occasion when Mary and Joseph went to the temple in
Jerusalem to be purified and to present their son Jesus to God. This was in accordance with Jewish law and
occurred 40 days after Jesus’s birth.
By faith we too embraced Christ, the salvation of God the Father, as he came to us from Bethlehem. Gentiles before, we have now become the people of God. Our eyes have seen God incarnate, and because we have seen him present among us and have mentally received him into our arms, we are called the new Israel. Never shall we forget this presence; every year we keep a feast in his honour.”
Parish Pastoral Council
The next
meeting is on Tuesday 4th February at 8pm in Hartley Hall.
Prayers of the Faithful this month:
Mary Baldwin [02/02]; Ossie Folkes [09/02];
Margaret Folkes [16/02]; Rachelle Thevathas [23/02]; Ash Wednesday – Francisca
Dunbar [26/02]
If you are sick at home
and would like Holy Communion brought to you,
please give your name, address
and telephone number to Fr. Antony or Lesley Allen and a Eucharistic Minister
will get in touch with you. Also, if you are aware of a parishioner who is
housebound or ill please let us know. If you are in hospital and wish to speak to a priest, please
ask the staff to contact the Catholic Chaplain.
Racial
Justice Sunday is next
Sunday.
There will be a second
collection then (8/9th February) to raise funds to support the works
of the Catholic church to promote racial justice in our schools, parishes and
wider society. The theme this year is “You are at the heart of the Church” and
will celebrate the contribution of the travelling communities.
Pray for the sick:
Let us pray for the sick including Pat
Doyle, Gloria Israel, Mariam Philomin, Rose Calver, Charlie Hyam, Joan Laughnane, Agatha Lewis, Myra Hannon, Elizabeth
Goba, Florence Nosgobie, Gala Lobo and Ann
Whitington.
Our
Lady of Grace RC Primary School, Charlton
is looking to appoint a
Deputy Headteacher and a KS1 Class Teacher – both posts to start in September
2020. Please see the posters at the back
of the church or contact Anna Sully at [email protected] for
further information and an application form.
St Peter’s Catholic Primary School [Crescent
Road, Woolwich, London,SE18 3BN] Headteacher required September 2020. For more
information, email; [email protected] or call 0208 295 0028.
Please feel free to view school website on; http://www.stpeters.greenwich.sch.uk
Remember to save the date, 27th
June, for Archbishop John Wilson’s special diocesan gathering in Aylesford.
Please join: Rosary: Mon
Tues Thurs 9.40am / Wed 8.50am, Chaplet
of Divine Mercy: Wed 9.40am,
Confessions: Sat 6pm, Church cleaning and Decoration: Thurs 10am
Building & Maintenance Committee
The first meeting of our newly formed committee will
be on Wednesday 5th February at 6pm in the priest house. If
you are interested in the building and maintenance of our church and hall, you
are most welcome to join the first meeting.
We are hoping to refurbish Hartley Hall and the Sacristy. If you have any suggestions, please let us
know before the first meeting – email: [email protected]
Holy Cross Parish
Food/Household Items Bank – Second Sundays
A reminder that next weekend, 8/9th February,
a trolley will be in each Church porch during 6.30pm vigil Mass and before 10am
Mass, and in Hartley Hall Library during the YSVP coffee morning after 10am
Mass, for donations of food and household items and Parishioners who may be
finding it hard to make ends meet to take what they need. Parish
organisations have suggested examples of possible donations, including
breakfast cereals, coffee, tea, washing powder, toilet rolls, sanitary towels,
washing up liquid, tinned goods, biscuits etc. Carrier bags are also welcome. Any items remaining at the
end of the coffee morning will be given to people in need known to SVP or for
Parish groups or local organisations to use. Ideas, suggestions,
offers of help to [email protected]
Thank you.
Holy Hour in Holy Cross:
from the
first week of February 2020, Holy Hour is celebrated every Friday 7pm to 8pm. “When you look at the Crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you
then. When you look a t the Sacred Host you understand how much Jesus loves you
now,”- Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Meet
Fr Antony
without an appointment on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 9.45am to 11.45am.
Please pray for Alven Jovaz Salema and Pierre Aaron Boga who will be baptised at Holy Cross this month. May they and their
families always be blessed with God’s everlasting love
Funerals:
Please
pray for the peaceful repose of the souls of Barbara Cottle, whose funeral will
be on Friday 7th February at 12 noon and John Taylor, whose funeral
will be on Monday 17th February at 12.30pm. We also pray for their families, some are
coming from abroad. We pray they have a
safe trip and all are blessed with much strength at this difficult time.