Newsletter for Week starting on the 01st September 2019 :22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH
208 Sangley Road, Catford, London SE6 2JS
Fr Antony Megalan Sellam [Parish Priest] – 02086983672
Website: www.holycross-catford.org.uk
31st August /01st September 2019 [22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time]
Parish Contacts
Parish Office: Lisa O’Hara , Josepha Flahive [02086983672]
Hartley Hall [Angela Allen]
Culverley Road, SE6 2LD
Email: [email protected]
Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate
Holy Cross Bookshop [02034418240]
4 Brownhill Road, Catford
www.holycrossbooks.co.uk
Holy Cross School [020 8698 2675]
Executive Headteacher: Miss Mary Collins
Head of School: Miss Giovanna Finaldi
www.holycross.lewisham.sch.uk
St Vincent De Paul 07835 188411
Safeguarding Line 07598 524024
Third Thursday Time TTT
Email [email protected]
Finance: Loose £565.10 SO: £483.00
Holy Hour: It being the First Friday [6 Sept],
we shall celebrate the Holy Hour from 7pm to 8pm. Come and encounter our Lord
Jesus Christ in prayer. St. Pius
X says: “The devotion to the Eucharist is the most
noble because it has God as its object; it is the most profitable for
salvation, because It gives us the Author of Grace; it is the sweetest, because
the Lord is Sweetness Itself,”
First Holy
Communion 2020:
Application forms for preparation of the First Reconciliation and Holy
Communion are now available at the back of the church, or on the parish
website. Closing date 9th September 2019
Want to become a Catholic or to
find more about our faith?
The RCIA Programme (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults),
starts on 30th September at 7.30pm in Hartley Hall. Please come and see if this
is for you. If you are a parishioner, be brave, invite
friends, family members and acquaintances to take
the opportunity to look at their lives and maybe find some answers to
the big questions. Come and see!
If you are interested please speak to Fr Antony, look at the parish website to find out more about the RCIA and download the application form or contact [email protected]
If you are interested please speak to Fr Antony, look at the parish website to find out more about the RCIA and download the application form or contact [email protected]
Pray for the sick: Let us pray for the sick including Mariam
Philomin, Charlie Hyam, Rose
Calver, Agatha Lewis, Elizabeth Goba, Florence Nosgobie, Gala Lobo and Ann Whitington. To
include anyone’s name kindly contact Lesley Allen: [email protected]
Diocesan Day for
Catechists: At St George’s Cathedral Southwark on Saturday 28th September. This
Day is for all the Catechists of the diocese, including
those involved in Children’s Liturgy of the Word and the RCIA
process. The Day runs from Coffee and arrival at 10.30am until the
Commissioning Mass which starts at 4pm. If you have never been
to a Catechists Day take the opportunity to be commissioned by his
Grace Archbishop John Wilson, our newly installed archbishop.
Sandwich lunch provided. Please see Fr Antony or Ossie Folkes if you
are interested.
Holiday
at Home: Thanks
to all the parish for supporting our holiday at home family fun days with
either your time or the generous donations of money or food items, all four
were well supported with the first having 92 people and the highlight being the
trip to the seaside, we look forward to more in the future.
The Diamond club looks forward to resuming on the 10 th September and the Tai chi, cha, Cha, cha seated dance classes resume on the 19th and 26th Sept as well as the 3 rd October 2-3.30 in Hartley hall culminating in an exhibition day of older people’s talents on the 5 th October as part of Lewisham's festival of creative ageing and Catford Arts trail. For more info contact Lesley on 07729785843 or [email protected]
Parish Feast Day Choir: We
will be practising the music to celebrate the occasion on 12th September at
7.30pm, in the church. Please come and join us.
Parish Mass Books will be
introduced in our parish from December. This book contains the Order of the
Holy Mass, many prayers and all readings of the Holy Week liturgy, Christmas
and important feasts. Any suggestions, kindly bring it to Fr Antony.
School
Refereces: kindly submit your applications to the parish office any time, or post
them in the presbytery. You may collect the completed forms the following
week on either Tuesdays between 10am and 12 noon.
Want to Baptise your child?
1. Complete
the Baptism Application Form (either collect it from the Grotto Corner of the
church or download it from the parish website)
2. Make
an appointment with Fr Antony and submit the completed form with evidence of
Parents’ and God Parents’ religion. The evidence can be either their
Baptism/Confirmation CertificateS, certificate of marriage in the Catholic
Church or a letter from their parish priest.
3. Participate in the Baptism Preparation Course.
4. Fix
a date for the celebration of the sacrament of Baptism.
5. Receive
Baptism Certificate in any one of the following Sunday Mass.
Live Streaming: Our parish will routinely provide live
streaming of Mass, especially the 11.30am Mass on Sundays, from 15th
September. For the time being, only the sanctuary will be seen in the
streaming. This can be zoomed out to the first pew when we celebrate weddings,
Baptism, funerals and so on. This will be a great help for those housebound,
parishioners now living in other parts of the world and fo those family members
whose beloved ones’ sacraments are celebrated here in Holy Cross. To access
this, kindly log on to our parish website or click: http://www.holycross-catford.org.uk/livestreaming.php
R.I.
P: Kindly pray for the peaceful repose of the
soul of Thomas Egan whose funeral
service will be at Hither Green
Crematorium on Tuesday 3 September at
1.45pm, and for Ellen
Deborah Parsons whose funeral Mass will be on on Friday 11th
September at 1.45pm. Also pray for March London whose funeral mass will
be on the 26th September at 11.30pm. May they rest in peace.
Fr John Mulligan Memorial Stained Glass Window: We fondly remember and pray for Fr John Mulligam
as we offer Mass on the 1st Anniversary of his death next Saturday [7th
september] in our parish, we bless and dedicate a stained glass window in the
front porch in memory of him after the 6.30pm Mass.