Newsletter for Week starting on Sunday 15th December 2019 :03rd Sunday of Advent
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH
208 Sangley Road, Catford, London SE6 2JS
Fr Antony Megalan Sellam [Parish Priest] – 02086983672
Website: www.holycross-catford.org.uk
14thDec / 15th Dec 2019 [03rd Sunday of Advent]
Parish Contacts
Parish Office - Open Wed & Fri [10am -3pm]
Josepha Flahive [secretary]
Lisa O’Hara [volunteer]
020 8698 3672
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: £631.90; SO £503
fancy hair,
gold jewelry, or fine clothes that should make you beautiful. No, your beauty
should come from within you- the beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit. This
beauty will never disappear and it is worth very much to God.” 1 Peter 3:3-4
The Third Week of Advent Prayer
Lord God, may
we, your people, who look forward to the birthday of Christ experience the joy
of salvation and celebrate that feast with love and thanksgiving. We ask this
through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Reflection: From the loneliness
of his prison cell John the Baptist asks of Jesus: “Are you the one who is to
come, or should we look for another?” The weeks before Christmas offer much to
be joyous about, celebrating with family and friends, the glitter of seasonal
decorations, the excitement of gift giving and receiving. But in our midst
there are the lonely and neglected, the poor, the hospitalized, the wayward, the
shut-ins. There are those who feel that they have no hope. To whom should they
look? Discipleship in the Lord includes being good stewards of others. Are
there those in our family, our neighbourhood, our community to whom we can
reach out to show them a sign of Christ’s presence in their midst?
Readers and Extraordinary
Ministers - Christmas Rota: Please volunteer to cover one of the slots on the
Christmas Rota. Go to the Welcome desk and offer to fill one of the slots.
Thank you. If you would like to do a
reading at one of the Christmas services, please make sure you provide an email
address so that we can send you the reading.
You will be expected to attend a practice session (details will be in
your email).
Altar Servers: Christmas Masses
2019: Please sign up for ONE Christmas Mass on the sheet in the sacristy
and arrive at least ten minutes before the Mass to pray and give thanks for
God's greatest gift. Thank you!
Christmas
Mass Times
5pm – Family Mass
7pm – Vigil Mass
11.15pm – Carols
12 midnight –
Festive Mass
Christmas Day
10am and 11.30am
Welcome Corner: the welcoming
ministers after weekend Masses help you to find the following: Parish
registration Form, Baptism Aplication Form, Baptism Certificate Request Form,
Altar Servers Application Form, New Readers Application Form, Standing Order
Form, Gift Aid Form, New Volunteers Form, SVP Referal Form, Third Thursday Time
Application Form and so on. You may also find the Holy Mass request Form there.
Kindly use it.
Requiem Mass: Please
pray for the peaceful repose of the soul of Marilyn Williams who will have her
Funeral Mass at Holy Cross on Wednesday 18th December at 12.30 pm.
We pray for her family at this difficult time.
Please also pray for the repose of the soul of Anthony Sullivan who
passed away recently.
Pray for the sick: Let us pray for the sick
including Pat Doyle, Gloria Israel, Mariam Philomin, Rose Calver, Charlie Hyam, Anthony Sullivan, Agatha
Lewis, Myra Hannon, Elizabeth Goba, Florence Nosgobie, Gala Lobo and Ann Whitington.
Third
Thursday Time: This Thursday, 19th, 5.30-8.30, Christmas
Party with Motown Tai Chi session, paper bag star making, entertainment and
party food. All welcome, please drop in and bring your friends and neighbours!
Sacrament of Reconcilliation
Friday 20th
from 6.30pm
Baptisms in December: Please pray
for Angelica C Ofoegbu and Aniya Chloe Faith Bethel who will be baptised at
Holy Cross during the month of December.
May they and their families always be blessed with God’s everlasting
love.
Please
note between Christmas and
New Year, morning Masses will be at 10.00am.
Christmas
Tree and Crib We thank the Filipino community for putting up
the lovely Christmas tree and decorating the church so beautifully. And thank you to Tony and Marian Early for
once again putting together the Nativity crib.
NEW YEAR
MASS IN HOLY CROSS
Adoration and
Benediction from 11pm
New Year Mass
begins at midnight
Holy Mass in
Tamil - 7.30am
New Year Day
Mass – 10.00am
Altar
Servers Christmas Party - Saturday 21 December 2019
3-5pm in Hartley Hall.
Please add your name
to the list in the sacristy for catering purposes.
Father Tomas (Tom) Creagh-Fuller, a
former parish priest of St William of York Church,
Forest Hill, died on Tuesday 5th November 2019. His Requiem Mass will be at St
William of York Church, Forest Hill, on Tuesday 17th December at 7pm. His Funeral Mass will be Wednesday 18th
at 12 noon in St Edmund of Canterbury Church, Beckenham. May he rest in peace.
Have a safe journey: If you are making a journey to your native
land to celebrate Christmas, please be assured of our prayers for you and your
family. Though we will miss you here in these days, we wish you have a blessed
and joyful time with your family members and friends. Kindly remember Psalm
91:11 when you travel: “For
he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways…”. Have a
safe journey and we wish you a Happy Christmas.
The Holiday Season: Many people will be going away on holiday. If
you are a reader or Lay Minister of Communion, please remember to plan ahead
and arrange a substitute for your absence. Many thanks.
Meet our Parish Priest without an appointment on Monday and Tuesday from 10am to 12 noon.
Please join: U Mon Tue Thu ● Rosary ●
9.40am / Wed ● 8.50am U Wed ● Divine Mercy
Chaplet ● 9.40am U
