Week starting on Easter Sunday
HOLY CROSS CHURCH
208
Sangley Road
Catford,
London, SE6 2JS
Tel: 020 8698 3672
Email:
parish@holycross-catford.org.uk
Website: www.holycross-catford.org.uk
Part of RC Archdiocese of Southwark
Registered charity number: 1173050
Parish
Priest: Fr Doug Bull
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]
TWINNING PROJECTS
Our Lady, help of Christians,
Beulieu, Grenada
The Community of Ahotokurom, Ghana.
www.ahoto.org
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 (April 1st )
10am Iotha Lorde, Marigold Okor, Kathleen
O’Sullivan, Shirine Sukran, Shirley Lench,
1) Amos Kong 2) Ben Travers P) Kesia Palmer
11.30am Jude Ibe, Anne Mellis, Cynthia Myers, Emanuele
Vitale, Errol Palmer
1) Ngozi Adedj, 2) Vacant 3) Vacant
Next weekend 2nd Sunday (8th/9th April
)
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) Mase Okor
11.30 Jerome, Adedji, Mary Lewis, Vincent Okonji,
John Walsh, Rosa Candita Simpkins.
1) Lisa O’Hara
2)Frank Afful, P) Mitchelle Mbaeri Easter Vigil (starts in playground)
8pm Theresa Nalliah RIP (Stella)
Sun Easter Sunday (31st March/ April
1st)
10.00 Jim Foley RIP (Cleary)
11.30 Bernadette Gnanapragasm
Mon Easter
Monday
10am Victoria Okor RIP
(Okor)
Tue
9.15 Teresa Quirke RIP (Hannon)
9.40
Rosary
Wed 8.50
Rosary
9.15 Carmel
Buckingham RIP (Cleary)
9.40 Divine Mercy
Thur
9.15 Felix Rajan Tharasingham RIP
9.40 Rosary
Fri 7.30
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
8pm Jean Bullough RIP (Kilcullen)
Sat 6.30 Thayan & Sharanga wedding TG
Sun 2nd Sunday of Easter (April 8th/9th)
10.00 Angela Allen (Williams)
11.30 Patrick Hanlon RIP (Hanlon)
11.30 Welcome Goan Ritz
12.30
Baptism Goan Ritz
Please pray for those whom our Ministers visit
with HOLY COMMUNION:
Clifford Aristide,
James Barlow, Mary Barry, Jean Briggs, Rose Calver, Ellesdene Edwards, Elizabeth Marie Forde, Eileen Embury, Elizabeth Goba, Theresa Harney, Peter Hughes,
William Keogh, Agatha Lewis, Gala Lobo
Anthony Marshall, Ivy Mulroney, Susan
Murphy, Florence Nosegbe, Celia
Ndeley, Calvin & Eleanor Martin,
Mabel Martin, Charity Oparaji, Josephine Patterson, Rex Phillips, Anthony Renouf, Casimar Santhiapillai, Viveca
Simmons, Irene Stone, Bridget Sullivan, Genevieve Stanislaus, Vera Pollock,
Sheila Tagg, Patricia Vesey, Ann Whitington, Dennis Williams
DECEASED
Please pray for the
repose of the soul of Dr Musu Goba who has died. May he rest in peace.
EASTER VIGIL
When you have
extinguished your candle, Please keep them out of reach of children and return
them to the box at the back of the church at the end of Mass. Please consider
staying behind to assist in tidying up by returning hymn books, newsletters and
perhaps offering to vacuum so it is tidy for Easter Sunday. Many Thanks.
EASTER
LITUGIES
A
big THANK YOU to everyone who helped make our Easter celebration so special:
Those who cleared, prepared and decorated our Church so beautifully, those who
constructed the Easter Garden, those who put together all the resources and
equipment we needed, including the school playground, all involved in the music
ministry, the huge number of readers, the Eucharistic ministers, the
hard-working altar servers (and those who laundered their albs) and most especially all of you who came along to participate in our journey through
Easter
Don’t forget to say ‘Alleluia Alleluia’ at the
end of Mass!
EASTER
OFFERING
The Easter Day offering collection is your
personal gift to Fr Doug. Please put your offerings in the offertory basket at
Easter OR dropped in at any time to the presbytery. If you wish to GIFT AID
your offering then please write on the envelope
1) I wish to Gift Aid the enclosed
donations
2) Sign it and write
your name and address
CONGRATULATIONS
TO OUR NEW CATHOLICS
With
great joy we welcomed into the worshipping Community of Holy Cross members of
our RCIA group at the Easter Vigil, the great Feast of the Church’s year. They
have attended weekly sessions on their Journey in Faith, since last October. To
our Catechumen John Fish who was baptised and received the
Sacraments of Confirmation and Eucharist and our Candidates Tameka Arnold who was received into the
Church, received the Sacraments of Confirmation and Eucharist, and Vanessa Pinnock who is already a
baptized Catholic who received the sacrament of confirmation.
Thank
you to all our RCIA group- the catechists and accompaniers who supported our
new Catholics this year.
BAPTISMAL
PREPARATION COURSE
If you would like to attend the next course
Please complete an application form and attach a copy
of your own baptismal certificate and birth certificate and submit to the
parish office. The office is open from 9am-11am Mon-Fri. The contact number is
0208 698 3672
FIRST HOLY
COMMUNION PREPARATION
The next session is on Saturday 14th April at 10am sharp.
PRAYERFUL WALK
If anyone wishes to
join the prayerful walk, visiting the parish housebound on Tuesday the 3 April
we will be meeting for Mass at 9.15 and going straight from there. Finish by
2pm.
The Rosary On The Coast
The aim of this prayer initiative is to seek the intercession of our
Blessed Lady by reciting the Rosary for a renewal of faith and respect for
human life, and for peace in our
country.
The inspiration comes
from the people of Poland who conceived the idea of surrounding their country
around the coasts and borders with a concerted barrage of prayer. Last year
this was taken up by Ireland and now it is our turn.
We are very aware of
the increasing secularism and moral decline in society. It is fifty years since
the passing of the Abortion Act which came into effect on 27 April 1968
resulting in the destruction of nearly nine million children. We have
experienced terrorist attacks and natural disasters and face an uncertain
future. We need Divine assistance. God has assured us that:
If
my people who bear my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my presence and
turn from their wicked ways,
I myself will hear from heaven and forgive their sins
and restore their land. 2 Chron 7:14.
The Rosary has been given to us as a powerful weapon to
fight the darkness of our times and to pray for Peace in our world. The saints
have called Our Lady ‘the terror of the demons’ and Jesus, Our Lord and
Saviour, has entrusted each of us and our world to Her Motherly care. Our faith
teaches us that it is through the supernatural movement of grace and prayer,
invoking the powerful intercession of Our Lady, that evil is brought down with
goodness and peace being restored.
Let us then take this opportunity to surround our nation
with prayer at 3.0 pm on Sunday 29 April. Many will go to the coast to do so. A
tidal river such as the Thames as it flows though London may be seen as an
extension of the coast. For those who are far from the coast might consider
meeting in the parish church, the
housebound can join in as well
See: www.rosaryonthecoast.co.uk
If you are already planning a
group trip make yourselves known so that others can join you.
TEACHING
VACANCIES
See information noticeboard in Sangley Rd porch.
DATES TO NOTE
First Holy
Communion weekends
12th/13th May 19th/20th May
Confirmation
11.30am Saturday 19th May
PLEASE NOTE
The Parish office will be closed until 9th April.