Newsletter for Week starting on the 06 January 2019 : Epiphany
HOLY CROSS CHURCH
Date 5th/6th January
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 Megalan
MASS TIMES
Monday-Friday:
9.15am
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 (5th/6th January)
6.30pm Lesley Allen, Pat Monaghan, Vacant
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) Frances Travers P)Rob Dunbar
11.30am
Jude Ibe,
Anne Mellis, Cynthia Myers, Franck Anguibi
1)
Ngozi Adedj, 2) Lisa O’Hara 3) Vacant
Next weekend 2nd
Sunday (12th/13th January)
6.30pm Myra Hannon, 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 Savanmutti
11.30 Jerome, Adedji, Mary
Lewis, Vincent Okonji, John Walsh, Rosa Candita Simpkins.
1) Elsa Pascal, 2) Frank Afful, P) Mitchelle Mbaeri
FINANCE £ 530.81 Standing orders £503
Crib £274.03 Many Thanks
Sat 6.30 People of the Parish
Sun Epiphany
of the Lord
10.00 Ann Nelligan
11.30 Gino & Rita Biasi
Mon 9.15 Mr J.P Paul RIP
9.40
Rosary
Tue
9.15 David Champ RIP (Baldwin)
9.40
Rosary
Wed 8.50 Rosary
9.15 Virginia Soromenho
9.40
Divine Mercy
Thur
9.15 Irene Marston RIP
9.40
Rosary
Fri 8pm Thierry Gnanakumar RIP
Followed
by Exposition & Benediction
Sat 6.30 Eileen Kelly RIP (UCM)
Sun The
Baptism of the Lord
The end
of the season of Christmas
10.00 Larry Doyle RIP
11.30 Tom & Brendan Kilcoyne RIP
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,
MEMORIAL MASS FOR FR JOHN MULLIGAN
In order to
prepare for this mass to be celebrated in a meaningful way the date originally
set for 27th January will be re-arranged.
FIRST HOLY COMMUNION SESSION
The next
First Holy Communion session is on Saturday 12th January at 10am in
Hartley Hall.
BAPTISM PREPARATION COURSE
If you wish to apply for the
January Course please do so this weekend.
We need an application form,
the child’s birth certificate and your own Baptism certificate to proceed. Any
incomplete applications will go on to the waiting list for the next course due
in March.
Bible Verse to Remember: "Arise,
shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you
[Isaiah 60:1].
MASS INTENTIONS FOR 2019
There are brown envelopes
available in the church to request for Masses for the coming year for your
loved ones anniversaries, birthdays, get well wishes, exam success and
thanksgiving.
Please write clearly on the
envelope and ensure they go through the parish office EITHER via Fr Antony or
Mary.
YSVP COFFEE MORNING
..after the 10am Mass on
Sunday 13th January 4, 2019 Everybody most welcome. Please come and
support!
The next YSVP meeting will
be in the Upper room in Hartley Hall on Monday 14th January 2019.
REFLECTION
In today’s
second reading we hear Saint Paul teach the community at Ephesus that God’s
revelation had come, not just to their community, but to others as well; that a
broader community of believers was being allowed to exercise stewardship over
the Good News. Good stewards recognize that it is in our life together as a
Eucharistic community that we find ever new vistas and insights into God’s vast
universe of love and mercy. If we take time to listen to one another, we
discover stories of faith beyond our own. Pause this week to converse with
others, listen to their prayers, and observe acts of kindness and generosity.
See if you can gain an understanding of God and the world that you have not
experienced or known before.
Glorious Manifestation of the Lord Dei
Verbum 2-4
In His goodness and wisdom God chose to reveal
Himself and to make known to us the hidden purpose of His will (see Eph. 1:9)
by which through Christ, the Word made flesh, man might in the Holy Spirit have
access to the Father and come to share in the divine nature (see Eph. 2:18; 2
Peter 1:4). Through this revelation, therefore, the invisible God (see Col.
1;15, 1 Tim. 1:17) out of the abundance of His love speaks to men as friends
(see Ex. 33:11; John 15:14-15) and lives among them (see Bar. 3:38), so that He
may invite and take them into fellowship with Himself. This plan of revelation
is realized by deeds and words having an inner unity: the deeds wrought by God
in the history of salvation manifest and confirm the teaching and realities
signified by the words, while the words proclaim the deeds and clarify the
mystery contained in them. By this revelation then, the deepest truth about God
and the salvation of man shines out for our sake in Christ, who is both the
mediator and the fullness of all revelation. (2)
God, who through the Word creates all things
(see John 1:3) and keeps them in existence, gives men an enduring witness to
Himself in created realities (see Rom. 1:19-20). Planning to make known the way
of heavenly salvation, He went further and from the start manifested Himself to
our first parents. Then after their fall His promise of redemption aroused in
them the hope of being saved (see Gen. 3:15) and from that time on He
ceaselessly kept the human race in His care, to give eternal life to those who
perseveringly do good in search of salvation (see Rom. 2:6-7). Then, at the
time He had appointed He called Abraham in order to make of him a great nation
(see Gen. 12:2). Through the patriarchs, and after them through Moses and the
prophets, He taught this people to acknowledge Himself the one living and true
God, provident father and just judge, and to wait for the Saviour promised by
Him, and in this manner prepared the way for the Gospel down through the
centuries.
Then, after speaking in many and varied ways
through the prophets, "now at last in these days God has spoken to us in
His Son" (Heb. 1:1-2). For He sent His Son, the eternal Word, who
enlightens all men, so that He might dwell among men and tell them of the
innermost being of God (see John 1:1-18) …He "speaks the words of
God" (John 3;34), and completes the work of salvation which His Father
gave Him to do (see John 5:36; John 17:4). To see Jesus is to see His Father
(John 14:9). For this reason, Jesus perfected revelation by fulfilling it
through his whole work of making Himself present and manifesting Himself:
through His words and deeds, His signs and wonders, but especially through His
death and glorious resurrection from the dead and final sending of the Spirit
of truth. Moreover He confirmed with divine testimony what revelation
proclaimed, that God is with us to free us from the darkness of sin and death,
and to raise us up to life eternal.
… we now await no further
new public revelation before the glorious manifestation of our Lord Jesus
Christ (see 1 Tim. 6:14 and Tit. 2:13).