Week starting on the 14th January 2018

Published by AFAN in News · 12 January 2018

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: 235468

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 2^nd Sunday (13^th/14^th Jan)

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) Pat O’Sullivan

11.30 Jerome, Adedji, Mary Lewis, Vincent Okonji, John Walsh, Rosa Candita Simpkins.

2) Frank Afful, P) Mitchelle Mbaeri

Next weekend 3^rd Sunday ( 20^th/21^st Jan )

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.

1^st Gillian Yip, 2^nd Rob Dunbar, P Bina Augustin

11.30am Debo Akinbode, Pat Ellis, Barbara Heathcote, Phil Loughnane, Vacant

FINANCE £ 1448.00 Crib £190.11 Many Thanks

Sat 6.30 Peggy Jones RIP (UCM)

Sun 2^ndSunday of Ordinary Time (13^th/14^th Jan)

10.00 Joseph Family TG (Joseph)

10am Welcome Emmanuel Franklin Miller

11.30 Thomas & Brendan Kilcoyne RIP

11.30 Welcome Isabelle Ayomide Njoku-Okiji

12.30 Baptism Isabelle Ayomide Njoku-Okiji

Mon 9.15 Patrick Foley RIP (Cleary)

9.40 Rosary

Tue 9.15 Phyllis Cahill (Allen)

9.40 Rosary

Wed St Anthony Abbot

8.50 Rosary

9.15 Deceased members of Kenny Family

(Maton)

9.40 Divine Mercy

Thur 9.15 Patrick Shaugnessy (McLaughlin)

9.40 Rosary

Fri 7.30 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

8pm Bridget Cleary RIP (Cleary)

Sat 6.30 Thanksgiving (Philomin)

Sun 3^rd Sunday of Ordinary Time (20^th/21^st Jan )

10.00 Kay Gray (Cleary)

11.30 Mina Bernardi RIP

12.30 Baptism Emmanuel Franklin Miller

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, Dr Musu Goba, 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

The Reception of Margaret (Peggy) Jones RIP into Holy Cross Church will be at on Thursday 1^st February at 7pm. The funeral Mass will be on Friday 2^nd February at 12.30pm.

Please keep the Jones family in your prayers.

BAPTISMAL PREPARATION COURSE

The next course is in March.

PLEASE NOTE

The Parish office will be closed from 24^th January and will re - open on Monday 5^th February

CONFIRMATION CANDIDATES 2018

Please keep the candidates in your prayers as they continue on their faith journey:

Sarah Umerah, Michaela Konan, Ronal Jeyachandra, Joy Olisa, Beatrice Simpkins, Daniella Beldia, Joshua Muiruri, Michael Gamilde, Adetola Ijiyode, Lauryn Williams-Lewis, Oba Kwokori, Grace Downton, Jessica Erangey, Hannah Forde, Sean O’Sullivan, Jean-Yoann Miezan, Vanessa Pinnock, Renzo Mayomi

Rahel Jeul ,Robert Goulbourne, Ruth Johnson ,Ertan Nurcin

CAN YOU HELP?

Our church care team are in need of some more helpers to keep the church looking lovely.

If you have some time to spare on a Thursday morning and are handy with a duster or a hoover then the group start their work at approx. 10am. Just come along.

There are also some more skilled roles we would appreciate support with especially during busy feasts and volunteer breaks and holidays such as flower arranging, laundering, ironing the various cloths and albs etc. also ordering candles and polishing the brass.

There is a lot to be done so you will never be bored.

Is the Lord calling you to give your time and talent to any of these roles?

RCIA RITE OF WELCOME

Please continue to keep the RCIA Group

In your prayers John, Joy, Tameka and Vanessa as they journey towards the Easter Vigil and Reception into the Catholic Church.

NEW FOR 2018

Join a new ten week programme of Chair based Yoga classes that will help build strength, Stability and flexibility in both mind and body. Suitable for all levels.

Commencing Thursday the 25^th January 2-3.30 in Hartley Hall. Cost £1.50

The session will end with tea and talk time, hosted by the Diamond Club.

For more information contact Lesley Allen on 07729785843 or [email protected]

PARISH PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES

If you are still thinking about whether or not to join our parish pilgrimage in September don’t wait too long because there are only a few places left.

If you would like more information please ring Lesley Allen on O7729785843.

LIFE, GENDER, RELATIONSHIPS:

CATHOLIC ETHICS AND TODAY’S SOCIETY

Our speaker: Dr. Anthony McCarthy is an bio- ethicist and Education Director at SPUC. He lectures in moral philosophy both in the UK and internationally. His work entitled Ethical Sex: Sexual Choices and Their Nature and Meaning was published in 2016.

Date: 16 January, 2018

Location: Our Lady of Victories Parish Hall, Kensington High Street W8 6SA

Time: Doors will open at 6:45 pm and the lecture will begin at 7 pm. Refreshments and Q&A will follow.

Admission: £5 at the door

Registration: [email protected]

LEWISHAM DEANERY FORMATION AND TRAINING EVENT FOR READERS.

Saturday 27^th January Our Lady of Lourdes,

45b Burnt Ash Hill, SE12 OAE.

Timetable

9.30-10.15 Welcome

10.15-10.35 Refreshments

10.35-10.50 Quiz

10.50-11.50 Speaker followed by discussion

11.50-12.10 What makes an effective reader at Mass (Fr Tom Creagh - Fuller).

12.10 – 12.30 Questions & Closing Liturgy

This event has been planned to support all those who currently read at Mass and any new or prospective readers.

It will also provide an insight into the personal spiritual development this ministry offers.

In order to have an idea of numbers it would be helpful if you could please contact the Forest Hill Parish office on 0208 690 4549.

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

We should not build towers without foundations, for the Lord looks not so much on the magnitude of the work but rather on the love with which it was done.

St Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Church