Week starting on the 17th December 2017
HOLY CROSS CHURCH
208
Sangley Road
Catford,
London, SE6 2JS
Tel: 020 8698 3672
Email:
parish@holycross-catford.org.uk
Website: https://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 3rd Sunday (16th/17th Dec )
6.30pm Pat Healy, Bridgette Laing , Chris Joyce
1) Jenushan
Justin 2) Daniell Evan P) Maureen
Gabriel
10am Gwen Williams, Marian
Perez, Francisca Dunbar, Elena Travers, Marco Munoz.
1st
Gillian Yip, 2nd
Rob Dunbar, P Bina Augustin
11.30am
Debo
Akinbode, Pat Ellis ,Barbara Heathcote, Phil Loughnane, Vacant.
1)
Vacant 2nd Merlyn Clark, P Mitchelle Mbaeri
Next weekend 4th Sunday ( 24th/25th )
6.30pm Denise Coutino, Beatrice
Orodje, Prexy Rajendram
1) Vacant 2)
Vacant P) Margaret Folkes
10am Dilys Grant , Shirley
Lench Phil Umerah Victor Santhiapillai, Wendy Abiola.
1) Millie Lemonius, 2)Brendan
Downton P Scouts / Cath Sanderson
11.30 John Ogunbadawa, Kate
Middleton, Frank Afful, Vera Onongaya
1) Petrina Douglas2) Rosa Candita Simpkins
P) Vacant
FINANCE £1384.10 Grenada £84.10 Many Thanks
Sat 6.30 Christopher & Christina
Rajendram
Sun 3rd Sunday of Advent (16th/17th Dec)
10.00 Ann-Marie Doyle RIP (Doyle)
11.30 Dilys & Bill Meadow RIP (Lewis)
Mon
9.15 Theresa Green RIP (Hubbard)
9.40
Rosary
Tue 9.15 Jim Gallagher RIP (Gallagher)
9.40
Rosary
Wed 8.50 Rosary
9.15 Myra Hannon TG (Allen)
9.40
Divine Mercy
7pm
Penitential Service
Thur
9.15 Mina Bernardi RIP
9.40
Rosary
Fri 7.30pm Exposition of the Blessed
Sacrament
8pm Michael Herlihy RIP (F)
Sat 6.30 Francesca Candita Simpkins RIP
Sun 4th Sunday of Advent (24th
/25th)
10.00 Theresa Green RIP (Hubbard)
11.30 Private Intention (Baldwin)
Christmas Eve (24th
Dec)
6.30pm TG Our Lady (Rajendram)
Midnight Mass Joe Czanowski
(O’Connell)
The Nativity of our
Lord (25th Dec)
10am
Matt Cleary RIP (Cleary)
11.30am Mary Monaghan RIP
COFFEE MORNING
There
will be no coffee morning this Sunday in order to the hall for our charity
Christmas concert at 4pm.
IT’S FINALLY HERE
Our
Ghana fundraising nativity and concert is on this Sunday, 17th December at 4
pm.
Cost
£5 adults and £1 children.
Tickets
obtained from stewards after masses A chance to share in the nativity with
Carols and readings and more delivered by our talented parishioners. Children
welcome to dress up as their favourite nativity character. Seasonal
refreshments available on Hartley Hall after the concert. If you can’t make the
concert you can still support the event by buying a raffle ticket.
Top
prize is a luxury Christmas hamper. £1 for a strip of tickets.
IT’S A BUSY TIME
Next
weekend it is the usual Sunday services and goes straight into Christmas
with
the usual Christmas services also beginning on Sunday evening. Please take away
one of the sheets to stick on your fridge.
Please
note there is NO Mass on St Stephen’s Day this year.
CHRISTMAS OFFERING
The Christmas Day offering collection is
your personal gift to Fr Doug. Please put your offerings in the offertory
basket at Christmas OR drop it 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
READERS AND SPECIAL MINISTERS
Please write
your names down for Christmas services. Lists are in the Sacristy.
THE CATFORD PARISH
SVP GROUP
Wish to thank staff, pupils and
parents of Holy Cross School for their generous donations to Christmas hampers
for local people, and Mini Vinnies for preparing them so beautifully. Thanks
also to pupils at Christ the King College for their kind donations, which are
very much appreciated.
FLOWERS FOR CHRISTMAS
If
you would like to contribute towards the flowers for Christmas there is a box
in the wall next to the Sangley Rd porch. Your generosity is appreciated.
BAPTISMAL PREPARATION
CLASSES
The
next one will be in January. Please complete an application form (these are
situated at the back of the church). Attach a COPY of the long version of your
child’s BIRTH certificate and a copy of your own baptism certificate and submit
it to the parish office.
READERS DAY LEE.
Advance notice:- Lewisham Deanery is holding a
Formation Day for Readers on Saturday 27th January 2018, 9.30am
-1 2.30pm at Our Lady of Lourdes Lee, both experienced and those thinking
about taking on this important Ministry are warmly invited. More information
and booking details closer to the time.
DAY OF PRAYER AND RECOLLECTION
Save the date, 7th July 2018 Convent
of St Andrews Belmont Hill (Very Advanced notice, more details closer to the
time.)
STEWARDSHIP
REFLECTION
In today’s second reading Paul
concludes his letter to the Christian community at Thessalonica by providing it
with actions to take as they wait for the return of the
Lord. The first action is to rejoice
always and give thanks in all circumstances. This sounds easy but it’s not. The
two words that make this task difficult are “always” and
“all”. This means giving thanks and
rejoicing even when our circumstances are not always moments of joy and
thanksgiving, or when we are confronted with a broken
world. Prayerful stewards rejoice and
give thanks in all circumstances because they are people of hope. A good
refection this week would be how the season of Advent can give you reason to
hope.
DURING ADVENT
…Father may use the ‘I
confess’ and the words are here…
I confess to almighty
God
And to you, my brothers
and sisters,
That I have greatly
sinned,
In my thoughts and in
my words,
In what I have done and
what I have failed to do,
And, striking
their breast, they say
through
my fault, through my fault,
through
my most grievous fault;
Then they
continue:
Therefore
I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin,
All the
Angels and Saints,
And you,
my brothers and sisters,
To pray for
me to the Lord or God.
PENITENTIAL SERVICE
Please
note, the penitential service will be here at 7pm on WEDNESDAY 20th December at 7pm NOT Tuesday as advertised
in last week’s newsletter.