Newsletter for Week starting on the 07 October 2018 :27th Sunday in Ordinary Time
HOLY CROSS CHURCH
208
Sangley Road
Catford,
London, SE6 2JS
Tel: 020 8698 3672
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.holycross-catford.org.uk
Part of RC Archdiocese of Southwark
Registered charity number: 1173050
Parish
Priest: Fr Antony Magelan Sellam
MASS TIMES
Monday-Thursday:
9.15am
Friday
8pm
Saturday: 6.30pm Vigil Mass
Sunday:
10.00am & 11.30am
Reconciliation:
Saturday 6pm
HARTLEY HALL
PARISH
COMMUNITY CENTRE
Culverley
Road, SE6 2LD
Tel:
020 8698 3672
Email: [email protected]
PARISH ADMINISTRATOR:
Mrs Mary Baldwin
Tel:
020 8698 3672
Email: [email protected]
HOLY CROSS SCHOOL
Headteacher:
Miss Mary Collins
Tel:
020 8698 2675 Fax: 020 8697 7137
Email :
[email protected]
Website : www.holycross.lewisham.sch.uk
St Vincent De Paul Number
07835188411
Safeguarding
Line
07598524024
Special Ministers of Holy Communion
This weekend 1st
Sunday (6th/7th Oct )
6.30pm Lesley Allen, Pat Monaghan, Neville
Fernandes
1) Malcolm
Jones 2) Eunice Conroy P) Pat Barber
10am Iotha Lorde, Marigold
Okor, Kathleen O’Sullivan, Shirine Sukran, Rafel Skrzyp
1) Amos Kong
2) Ben Travers P) Rob Dunbar
11.30am
Jude Ibe,
Anne Mellis, Cynthia Myers, Emanuele Vitale, Franck Anguibi
1)
Ngozi Adedj, 2) Lisa O’Hara 3) Vacant
Next weekend 2nd Sunday (13th/14th Oct )
6.30pm Myra Hannon, Mariam Philomin, Prema Louth.
1) UCM, 2) UCM, P) UCM
10am Joe Baptiste, Caroline
Cleary, Ossie Folkes, Cyril Mbaeri, Ray Williams.
1) Kimberley
Kong, 2) Ashley Lench P)Christina S
11.30 Jerome, Adedji, Mary
Lewis, Vincent Okonji, John Walsh, Rosa Candita Simpkins.
1) Elsa Pascal, 2) Frank Afful, P) Mitchelle Mbaeri
FINANCE £ 1193.06 Many Thanks
Sat 6.30 Jim Foley RIP (Cleary)
Sun 27th
Sunday of the Year (6th/7th
Oct )
Rosary Sunday
10.00 Mary Monaghan RIP
11.30 People of the Parish
Mon 9.15 Anna Marie Doyle RIP (Monaghan)
9.40
Rosary
Tue
9.15 Theresa Green RIP (Hubbard)
9.40
Rosary
Wed 8.50
Rosary
9.15 Pivate Intention
9.40
Divine Mercy
Thur
9.15 Thierry Gnankumar RIP
9.40
Rosary
Fri 12.30
Funeral Mass for Josephine Patterson
Sat 6.30 Teresa O’Reilly (UCM)
Sun 28th
Sunday of Ordinary Time
(13th/14th
Oct)
10.00 Agnes Mahoney RIP (Cleary)
11.30 People of the Parish
Please pray for those whom our Ministers visit
with HOLY COMMUNION:
Clifford Aristide,
James Barlow, Mary Barry, Rose Calver, Margaret
Doherty, Bridget Doyle, Ellesdene Edwards,
Elizabeth Marie Forde, Eileen
Embury, Audrey Fitzsimmons, Elizabeth
Goba, Theresa Harney, Peter Hughes, William Keogh, Agatha Lewis, Gala Lobo Anthony
Marshall, Ivy Mulroney, Susan Murphy, Florence Nosegbe, Eleanor Martin, Mabel
Martin, Charity Oparaji, Josephine Patterson, Rex Phillips, Anthony Renouf, Casimar Santhiapillai, Jean Scott, Irene Stone, Bridget Sullivan,
Genevieve Stanislaus, Vera Pollock, Sheila Tagg, Patricia Vesey, Ann
Whitington,
FAREWELL
…to Fr Doug who
will be here for the last time this evening. (Saturday 6th October
2018)
DECEASED
Please pray for
the repose of the soul of Josephine Patterson.
The funeral
will be here on Friday 12th October at 12.30pm and her family have
asked that as many of her friends or anybody who knew her please join them.
PLEASE NOTE
There are no
services on Friday evening (12th Oct)
WELCOME
…to Fr Antony
Megalan Sellam who will arrive
In time for
next weekend’s Masses.
October is the month of the Rosary
THE FRIENDS OF AHOTOKHURUM
…wish to express their
gratitude for the £225.41 plus 40 Euro that was donated after the service of
thanksgiving last week.
FIRST HOLY COMMUNION
PREPARATION
The
next session is next Saturday (13th October) at 10am sharp in
Hartley Hall.
YSVP
This group will meet in the UPPER room in
Hartley Hall on Monday 8th Oct from 7pm-8pm.
MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING
…in
Hartley Hall on Friday 12th October 9am-11am.
LEWISHAM DEANERY SPIRITUAL PILGRIMAGE
The
theme of the next leg of our Spiritual Pilgrimage is Mary the Signpost to
Jesus, on
Thursday 11th October 7.30pm-8.30pm at Holy Cross Church
Sangley Road Catford.
We
invite you to bring an image/statue of Mary that has a special meaning for you,
which we can display during our Prayer Service. After the Prayer Service please
join with other members of the Deanery for refreshments in Hartley Hall.
CONFIRMATION 2019
If
you are in year 9 or above and wish to be confirmed in May 2019 YOU need to
write a letter to the Parish Priest, Fr Antony, explaining your reasons why you
wish to be confirmed.
Your
letter should reach the Parish Office by Monday 23rd October at the
latest.
Sessions
will begin on Friday 2nd November.
BAPTISM PREPARATION
If
you wish to have your baby baptised then please complete an application form
for the preparation course and attach a COPY of the child’s BIRTH CERT and a
COPY of your own Baptism certificate and submit it to the parish office.
DAY OF RECOLLECTION FOR READERS AND SPECIAL
MINISTERS
This annual
day of recollection will take place at Bishop Thomas Grant on Saturday 17th
November.
Bishop
Patrick Lynch and Fr Saju Pinakattu OFM.CAP will talk on the theme of the
journey in St Luke’s Gospel.
The day
begins at 10.30am and finishes with Mass at 3pm. Please bring a packed lunch.
Please contact the parish office on [email protected] by 4th
November
"TIRED, SAD OR DEPRESSED?" BY ADRIAN
TRELOAR
· Talk: 20th October 2018, 2pm - 4pm (Centre
for Catholic Formation, SW17 8BS):
Depression is a very
serious illness and a very common one, and is often accompanied by the
exhaustion and trials of motherhood and parenthood.
This talk will cover
what depression is, and how we manage it: how we support people who are
depressed, what mistakes we make and how we can do better.
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/catholicmothers/177374/
SEATED YOGA
…for
the more mature, Thursday 2-3.30 in Hartley hall to help Balance and posture
and improve wellbeing. £3 including refreshments.
PRE CHRISTMAS
GETAWAY
a opportunity to go away on an overnight supported trip by coach
22-23 December to see the Thursford Christmas spectacular show in Norfolk.
£175 includes, coach, hotel with evening meal and breakfast, the show Saturday evening and a Christmas shopping trip in Norwich.
To book your place contact Lesley Allen on O7729785843.
£175 includes, coach, hotel with evening meal and breakfast, the show Saturday evening and a Christmas shopping trip in Norwich.
To book your place contact Lesley Allen on O7729785843.
Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Weekend of October 6-7, 2018
In today’s
Gospel Jesus teaches us about the sacredness
of marriage; a covenant that is a gift from God. Our relationships with our spouses, family, friends, co-workers, and those in our community of faith are all gifts from
God. Jesus reminds us today that it is the hardened heart that damages or breaks up relationships. Good stewards understand the holiness of relationships and pray for the love, patience, understanding and kindness necessary to sustain those relationships. Take time out to prayerfully reflect on your relationships this week. Is your stewardship of these relationships as God intended? What relationships need to be healed and reconciled?
of marriage; a covenant that is a gift from God. Our relationships with our spouses, family, friends, co-workers, and those in our community of faith are all gifts from
God. Jesus reminds us today that it is the hardened heart that damages or breaks up relationships. Good stewards understand the holiness of relationships and pray for the love, patience, understanding and kindness necessary to sustain those relationships. Take time out to prayerfully reflect on your relationships this week. Is your stewardship of these relationships as God intended? What relationships need to be healed and reconciled?
STEWARDS –Mass Count