SCARBOROUGH CATHOLIC PARISHES CHURCHES OF ST PETER, ST JOSEPH, ST EDWARD THE CONFESSOR Part of the Middlesbrough Diocesan Trust: Reg. Charity No. 233748 Parish Priest: Canon Edmond Gubbins (St Peter's)

St Joseph’s Presbytery St Peter’s Rectory St Edward The Confessor 1 Greylands Park Grove, YO12 6HT Castle Road, YO11 1TH Avenue Victoria, YO11 2QS Enquiries to St Peter’s Tel: 01723 360358 Enquiries to St Peter’s Website: www.scarboroughcatholicparishes.org.uk  Email: [email protected]

WEEK COMMENCING 13 OCTOBER 2019 TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME - YEAR C PRISONS WEEK Divine Office: Week 4

LIFE & LEGACY OF SAINT 1801- 1890 John Henry Newman will this Sunday 13 October be canonised - declared by our Holy Father, , worthy of veneration as an example, and heavenly intercessor of the . He will become the first post-17th century English person officially recognised as a saint by the Church. He was proclaimed Venerable in 1991 by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and was beatified (made blessed) by Pope Benedict XVI on 19 September 2010 at an open-air Mass at Cofton Park, Birmingham, which was attended by over 40 from our parishes. EARLY LIFE AND DISCOVERY OF FAITH: Born the eldest of six in London in 1801 to a city banker, John Henry Newman had a middle-class upbringing. His family were practising members of the Church of England and, at an early age, Newman became an avid reader of the Bible. When only 15, he had a religious experience so strong it would change his life. Around this time, Newman was exposed to Evangelicalism, a growing movement now referred to as the Wesleyan revival. Newman converted to Evangelicalism. After graduating from Trinity College, Oxford, he was elected to a fellowship at Oriel College, the then leading university college. Oxford and Cambridge Universities were then part of the Anglican ‘Establishment’, and provided for the formation of Anglican clergy. Desiring to be a ‘minister of Christ’ Newman pursued Anglican orders as a way of dedicating his life to . He was ordained an Anglican priest in Christ Church Cathedral in 1825 and became curate of St Clement's Church, Oxford. During this time, he became known for visiting all his parishioners, especially the sick and the poor. Newman became a tutor and lecturer at Oriel college where he took it his religious duty to guide his young students. However, he was accused of having favourites and refused students from 1830. This gave him additional time for study and he discovered the Church Fathers, the teachers of early Christianity. Through his studies, the Catholic (meaning universal) nature of the Faith, and the line of apostolic succession which had preserved and transmitted it through history became clear to him. He preached at the official Church of the University, St Mary the Virgin. His message and method of preaching captivated congregations. He was said to have “laid his finger gently, yet how powerfully, on some inner place in the hearer’s heart, and told him things about himself he had never known till then”. He preached with a great understanding of the human condition whilst also commanding a great knowledge of Scripture. People began to travel far to hear him and he quickly became the most influential preacher in the country. From these beginnings, a movement would be born -The Oxford Movement REFORMATION ATTEMPTS: In 1833 Newman became seriously ill and was close to death. In his fever, he repeated phrases, one of which was “I have a work to do in England”. On recovery, he considered this another great conversion as it led him to surrender himself even more to God and awoke a deep desire to bring a renewal to the English Church he so loved. He grouped his friends John Keble and Edward Pusey, among others, who had an equal desire for renewal, despairing that the Church of England cared more for its good relationship with the than for being true to its origins, and that it had been warped by its political history. To bring about what Newman called a ‘better Reformation’ Newman and associates embarked upon what would become known as the 'Oxford Movement', spreading their views through pamphlets entitled 'Tracts for the Times', in which they challenged the status quo of the English Church. Designed to provoke and educate, the tracts were published as the work of a nameless 'Presbyter', although about a third were authored by Newman. 90 Tracts were published between 1833–41 and gained the movement a second name ‘The Tractarian Movement.’ The movement created a lot of excitement around the country, though Newman’s sermons and public lectures remained best method of reaching the people. As Newman continued to study and teach Christian history, and especially apostolic succession, he began to reconsider his own hostility towards Catholicism. Catholics had been reviled and persecuted in England for centuries after the Reformation, but times were changing, especially with the passing of the of the Roman Catholic Relief Act in 1829. In Tract 90 (1841), Newman argued that defining doctrines of the Church of England were fundamentally more Catholic than Protestant. At the university, many felt that Newman had gone too far. The Bishop of Oxford called for an end to the Tracts. Newman left Oxford and St Mary’s Church completely, and moved to Littlemore, three miles outside Oxford, to live a quasi-monastic life with friends. INTO CATHOLICISM: At Littlemore, Newman continued to devote himself to ever deeper study, fasting and prayer. He became increasingly convinced that the Church of Rome, the Catholic Church, was the church nearest to the spirit of early Christianity, though he still had difficulty with certain Catholic teachings which the Anglican Church held to be corruptions not found in early Christian history or in Scripture (eg. purgatory and papal supremacy). Newman wanted to probe these teachings further to see if they were legitimate. CONTINUED ON BACK PAGE MASS TIMES WEEK COMMENCING 13 OCTOBER 2019 - note new Mass times 28TH SUNDAY

SATURDAY VIGIL 12 6.30pm St Edward’s SUNDAY 13 9.30am St Peter’s (Polish) St Edward the Confessor For Mass Intentions 10am St Joseph’s see printed copy 11.30am St Peter’s (LIVE STREAM) 5pm St Peter’s (LIVE STEAM) Monday 14 10am Filey (but please check) St Callistus Tuesday 15 5.30pm St Edward’s St Teresa of (of Avila) Wednesday 16 11.30am St Peter’s (LIVE STREAM) St Hedwig / St

Thursday 17 9.30am St Joseph’s St Ignatius of Antioch Friday 18 11.30am St Peter’s (LIVE STREAM) HEALING MASS / ANOINTING Feast of St Luke Saturday 19 9.30am St Peter’s (LIVE STREAM) St Paul of the Cross SYRO-MALABAR MASS: normally 3rd Sunday of the month at 4pm at St Edward’s Church Avenue Victoria SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT: (CONFESSION TIMES): Tuesdays St Edward’s 5pm - 5.30pm Saturdays St Edward’s 5.45pm - 6.15pm Wednesdays St Peter’s 10am - 5pm Sundays St Joseph’s 9.15am - 9.45am Thursdays St Joseph’s 8.30am - 9.30am Saturdays St Peter’s 10am - 10.30am Saturdays St Peter’s 10am - 10.30am OFFERTORY COLLECTION (3 churches) Envelopes £443; Loose plate £738, Av, Standing Orders £524; Polish: £30; Total £1,735. thank you parishioners for your continued financial support each week. MASS ATTENDANCE St Peter’s (2 Masses) 189; St Joseph’s 169; St Edward’s 71; Polish 100 (est); Total: 529 MASSES RECEIVED see printed copy RECENTLY DEAD Sean McEvey, Ann Marie McNeilly-Pulford, Maureen Bird, Mgt. Crowley (Sr. Dymphnas’ sister)Brian Murphy,Sheila Johnson ANNIVERSARIES: Robbie McQueen, Giedraitiene Ramune, Mike Gubbins (Bristol), Danielle Davey (9th anniv) SANCTUARY LAMP DEDICATIONS : see printed copy 300 CLUB WINNERS: No.161 - £100. Contact the parish office to join LIST OF REGULAR PARISH GROUPS can be viewed on noticeboards in each church and on the parish website. We will now only include this list in the newsletter from time to time. Keep us informed any changes to your group.

MISSION BOX: READIN ESS FOR MISSION - WEEK 4 OF 4 Mission was the final command of Jesus to His disciples who had gathered with Him when He ascended to the glory of His Father. He ordered them to “GO MAKE DISCIPLES” to the whole world and bring others to Him, their Lord and Saviour. Each week, this panel in the newsletter entitled ‘Mission Box’ is dedicated to readiness for Mission. Please read this carefully and try to apply the ideas to your own life. There is a suggested prayer on the back page that we pray this month. READ : (SEE) Pope Francis wants every local church to have a missionary option, “so that the Church’s customs, ways of doing things, times and schedules, language and structures can be suitably channelled for the evangelisation of today’s world rather than THE JOY OF THE GOSPEL for self-preservation.”

REFLECT: (JUDGE) In what ways is YOUR local church missionary in outlook? In what ways can YOU become involved? Can you identify ways in which your local church works for self-preservation? EVANGELISE has the word Angel in it. ie to be a messenger of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, etc ACTION: What can YOU do to help channel this energy into evangelisation? ------EVANGELII GAUDIUM - THE JOY OF THE GOSPEL written by Pope Francis: Each one of you is encouraged, if you have not already done so, to read Pope Francis’ inspiring document. Available free to download at: http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione- ap_ 20131124_evangelii-gaudium.html ------Note on Extraordinary Month of Mission: October has been designated as an Extraordinary Month of Mission whose motto is ‘Baptised and Sent’, a reminder that every member of the Church is called to share in the mission of Jesus. Do YOU feel equipped to do this? If not, what do you need to do about it? To evangelise is to spread the Good News; the Good News is a person, Jesus. Do you know Him? Can you speak about Him in a sincere and heartfelt way if you don’t know Him? How will you come to know Him? CANONISATION OF BLESSED JOHN HENRY NEWMAN: SUNDAY 13 OCTOBER 9AM ON EWTN OR SATELITE Mass from St Peter’s Square together with 4 others: Indian Sr Mankidiyan (founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family); Italian Sr Giuseppina Vannini (born Giuditta Adelaide Agata - founder of the Daughters of Saint Camillus); Brazilian Sr Dulce Lopes Pontes (born Maria Rita – (of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the of the Mother of God); Marguerite Bays of (virgin of the Third Order of Saint ). Prince Charles will be there in Rome for it. The Canonisation will be preceded with a celebratory Symposium on Newman’s life and legacy at the Angelicum University, and a Vigil of Prayer on the evening of Saturday 12 October at the Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham will preside, and the service will also include representatives of the Confederation of the Oratory of St Philip Neri and of the Church of England. Melissa Villalobos, subject of Newman’s second miracle, will also attend. On the following day there will be a Pontifical Thanksgiving Mass in the Saint John Lateran Basilica presided by His Eminence Cardinal Vincent Nichols. There will be a Choral Concert at Santa Maria Maggiore . EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network) will be broadcasting the Canonisation live on Sky channel 588 (channel may differ, depending on your equipment).EWTN Live on a computer, laptop at www.ewtn.com/tv/watch-live .. He wrote 3 famous hymns: Praise to the Holiest in the Height, Lead Kindly Light, Firmly I Believe and Truly. REQUIEM MASS of Mr Brian Murphy aged 94 of Holbeck Mews, Filey Road: 10am on Tues 22 Oct at St Peters. BAPTISM PREPARATION COURSE No 3 starts Wednesday 23 October at 7-8pm in St Peter’s Parish Centre (4 weeks). 7 names so far. Speak to Fr Gubbins if you would like your child baptised Try to get a baby sitter for home when attending the meetings. Godparents are also encouraged to attend these meetings where possible. FIRST CONFESSION / FIRST HOLY COMMUNION 2020 Catechists Meeting to plan ahead 6.30pm Tuesday 5 November St Edwards Hall. Dates for 1st Holy Communion Sunday 14 June 2020 (1st Cohort) and Sunday 21 June 2020 (2nd Cohort). This will help parents to plan their diary. 31 children eligible from Year 4. Any child in non- catholic school aged 9years +. Parents now get in touch if you wish your child to be prepared outside of school in the Parish Centre by our team of catechists. It’s time to start bring your child to regular weekend Sunday Mass. INSTRUCTION FOR CONVERTS Weekly meetings resume in January. We have 5 adults on the Journey in Faith. HEALING AND ANOINTING MASS at St Peters Church Friday 18 October 11.30am. (Feast Of St Luke)All welcome PRISONERS WEEK 13-19 October. We pray for prisoners and their families and victims of crime. There are 83,000 in prison in England and Wales. There are 118 prisons. About 3,000 in prison for motoring offences, 35 for not paying TV license. LEST WE FORGET!! BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE AND GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE FOR SCARBOROUGH PARISHES. Preparations continue. Special Cards & Envelope available in porch to write the concise details for entry in the BOOK. Name/ date of birth/ date of death. and a Contact tel. no. suggested donation of £10 for every entry. All donations towards the £85,000 restoration costs of St Peters windows. CELTIC PRIDE - KEVIN O CONNOR‘S SCHOOL OF IRISH DANCING CONCERT (30th Anniversary) 7pm Friday 25 October in THE YMCA THEATRE. Tickets £7. Tel YMCA 01723 506750. See Poster. ST EDWARD THE CONFESSOR FEAST Sunday 13 October (He was born 1003, died 1066 and buried in Westminster Abbey. He was a wise and just King of deep faith). St Edwards Church dedicated in his honour is 105 years old this year. SCARBOROUGH PARISHES AUTUMN FAYRE Sat 16 Nov at St Peters School 10am -12noon. Tombola/Crafts/Piety / Cake Stall. Donations for Tombola please and leave in box in porch. Contact Pam Grundy if you can help in any way PARISH LUNCH Wed 16 October in Parish Centre after 11.30am Mass. Contact Maureen Murray to book. WORLD MISSION SUNDAY next Sunday 20 October. Empty your APF RED MISSION BOXES and bring money to church to your rep. See Bob Stankiste or Deb Clapham if anyone new wants an APF Red Mission Box to put your loose change. THE RAINBOW CENTRE wishes to thank all who gave to the Harvest Thanksgiving Mass last weekend. Thanks to the Children’s Liturgy group leaders and kids for the wonderful Offertory Procession of the harvest gifts. OCTOBER MONTH OF THE HOLY The Parish Legion of Mary are willing to come to any family home with the statue of Our Lady and Fatima to pray the Rosary. Contact Cleo on 07572 181513. Families that pray together stay together. 25 YEARS OF FAIRTRADE To celebrate the Silver Anniversary of the Fairtrade. A free raffle of a Fairtrade Hamper for each church will be held. Tickets available after Mass this week 12/13 October. Donations welcome. Winners announced next week UCM MEETING note new time 6.30pm Tuesday 15 October in St Peter’s Parish Centre. Talk by Elaine on the history of Boyes Department Store, plus Bring & Buy stall. Proceeds to Mary’s Meals Porridge Project. All welcome. OPEN MASS AT MADONNA HOUSE ROBIN HOODS BAY 2pm on Fri 18 October by Fr Michael Keogh STUDY DAY FOR MINISTERS OF THE WORD & HOLY COMMUNION Sat 23 November at The Spa, Scarborough. Guest speaker Sr Gemma Simmonds of Margaret Beaufort Institute, Cambridge: 9.30am registration. Finishes 3pm approx. Cost £27 will be covered by the parish, includes lunch. LIST IN THE SACRISTY TO SIGN IF YOU INTEND ATTENDING. Don’t commit unless you can go otherwise we the parish cannot claim back the monies paid on your behalf. Deadline Monday 4 November. HOLY SOULS Envelopes and lists available for Holy Souls Masses, Write names and offering on the sheet and place in the envelope . ROSARY FOR THE UNBORN AND WORLD PEACE Wed 23 Oct. 11am @ St Peters Church before Blessed Sacrament. GRAND CHRISTMAS RAFFLE on sale 1st Prize £100 Cash 2nd Prize £50 cash 3rd £25. Book of 5 tickets £5 each. ST PETERS CHURCH CLEANING 10am on Fri 18 October. ST EDWARDS CLEANING Help needed. See Jenny Eyre SCARBOROUGH PARISHES AUTUMN FAIR – 10am-12pm Sat 16 NOV at St Peter’s school. Tombola, Crafts, Piety, Cake stalls etc. Donations for Tombola would be appreciated and can be left in box at back of St Joseph’s Church. DEFIBULATORS FOR CHURCHES. THE DIOCESE ARE GIVING TRAINING & DEFIBILULATORS TO OUR CHURCHES WEAR A CHRISTIAN SYMBOL ON YOUR LAPEL. Choose your FREE symbol from a selection sheet, & add your name and Symbol number to list. Cross or symbol – but only if you commit to wearing it on your lapel. Last chance this weekend, then we order. Sunday Smile: When fleeing temptation don’t leave a forwarding address PRAYER FOR THE Continued from front page… EXTRAORDINARY Newman’s extensive historical studies broke new theological ground. In 1845 he published one MISSIONARY MONTH of his greatest contributions to Christian thought, the ‘Essay on the Development of Christian OF OCTOBER Doctrine’. In this, Newman explores the paradoxical idea that for an idea to remain truly itself, Heavenly Father, when it must be able to develop. Fundamentally, Newman came to realise that ideas and doctrines your only begotten Son are 'living'; they should not be considered purely intellectual beliefs or moral rules, but should Jesus Christ rose from the vitalise the hearts of Christians and the body of the Church, just as Christ himself does. dead, he commissioned his Newman had now come to realise that the Anglican Church could never be the church he desired. followers to “go and make On 8 October 1845 Newman was received into the Catholic Church. disciples of all nations” Newman’s conversion to the Catholic Church had huge personal consequences. He lost most of and you remind us that his former friends, his family rejected him and he could no longer be a fellow at Oxford. He through our Baptism we would later describe how the trials of this period moved him to more completely surrender his are made sharers in the life to God. “He knows what He is about. He may take away my friends, He may throw me in mission of the Church. among strangers, He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide the future from me Empower us by the gifts of – still He knows what He is about”. (Meditations and Devotions, pp. 301-302). Despite all this, the Holy Spirit to be Newman’s conversion was accompanied by a great sense of interior peace. He wrote: “I had not courageous and zealous in more fervour; but it was like coming into port after a rough sea”. (Apologia, p. 238) bearing witness to the In 1946 Newman was sent to Rome where he was ordained a Catholic priest. There, he also Gospel, so that the mission discovered the model of community life pursued by the Oratorians of St Philip Neri, a 16th entrusted to the Church, century saint. Theirs was a charism of a spirituality of everyday life. In 1848, with the approval which is still far from of Pope Pius IX, Newman established the first Oratory of St Philip Neri in the English-speaking completion, may find new world, in Birmingham. The following year he founded a second in London, with Frederick and efficacious expressions William Faber. that bring life and light to the world. Help us to make UNIVERSITY YEARS: In 1852, Newman was invited to Dublin to give a series of lectures it possible for all peoples to on the principles and benefits of university education. These lectures went on to become the first experience the saving love parts of his next great work, ‘The Idea of a University.’ In it Newman countered the growing and mercy of Jesus Christ, notion that being educated and cultured was enough to form the moral conscience. In 1854, who lives and reigns with Newman was appointed Rector of the new Catholic University of Ireland, now University you in the unity of the Holy College Dublin, where he served as University Rector for four years. There, he came to feel Spirit, One God, forever under-supported and misunderstood by the Irish Bishops who had asked him to found the and ever. Amen. university. Concerned by the huge demand of the position, and the lack of time he was giving to his fledgling Oratory in Birmingham he resigned 1858 and returned to his beloved community ST EDWARD at the Birmingham Oratory. THE CONFESSOR CONTROVERSY: The next 2 decades of Newman’s life brought several controversies. Firstly,

as editor of the Rambler (a Catholic periodical) he was attacked by fellow Churchmen for an editorial stance seen as critical of Pope Pius IX, and for advocating that the faithful be consulted on the definition of dogmas. Despite attempts to clarify himself, he began to be seen in the Church as problematic. Having been disowned by the Church of England for his conversion, he was now mistrusted by the Catholic Church, the church he had sacrificed so much to join. This brought Newman to a bitter place. However, another personal trial became the catalyst for Newman's most personal work yet, his autobiography, ‘Apologia pro vita sua’ meaning ‘A Defence of my life’. He felt that he had to “give the true key to my whole life; I must show what I am, that it may been seen what I am not, and that the phantom may be extinguished”. (Apologia pro vita sua, pp xxii-ii). The honesty and candidness of Newman's work led even his critics to FEAST DAY 13 OCTOBER admire his integrity. Its publication did much to restore his reputation in England, among Detail from the Wilton Diptych Anglicans and Catholics alike. In subsequent years, Newman published further works, among

St Edward’s dying words: them 'A Grammar of Assent', a deep philosophical exploration of how the human person “I shall not die, but shall reaches convictions. Newman was asked to serve as expert theological adviser to the First live. Departing from the Vatican Council, called in 1868, but turned it down in order to complete his Grammar of Assent. land of the dying, I hope In 1874, Newman felt drawn to respond to an attack made on Catholics by the Prime Minister to see the good things of William Gladstone, who was outraged by the Vatican Council's affirmation of papal infallibility, the Lord in the land of the and asserted that, owing to their allegiance to the Pope, Catholics could never be loyal subjects living.” to the Queen, nor have any ‘mental freedom’. Newman penned an open letter, writing that Catholics “do not deserve this injurious reproach that we are captives and slaves of the Pope”. In 1877 Newman returned to his beloved Oxford. Pope Pius IX’s successor, Pope Leo XIII, who admired Newman’s fierce religious orthodoxy, appointed him as a Cardinal in 1879. This news came as a conclusive vindication of his loyalty to the Catholic Church. He himself declared “the cloud is lifted for ever”. Newman chose as his cardinal’s motto the words ‘Cor ad cor loquitur’, in English, ‘heart speaks to heart’ (the motto used at Newman’s 2010). Newman specifically requested not to be consecrated as a bishop, and asked that he be allowed to remain in Birmingham. Both requests were granted and he continued to live as a cardinal at the Birmingham Oratory. Newman died aged 89 on 11 August 1890. Tens of thousands lined the streets of Birmingham for the passing of his funeral cortege. He was buried in the Oratory’s cemetery. An inscription on a plaque in the Oratory reads ‘out of shadows and symbols unto the truth’. Newman’s journey towards the truth was complete.