Mass Intentions Sun 31 4th in () Racial Justice Day 10.00 Kazimierz Milc RIP (B & L Sharon) The Catholic Parish and Ordinariate The People of the Parish 17.00 Church of S. John Vianney, Clayhall Angela Banwell RIP (4th anniversary) (B & L Sharon) Mon 1 Weekday in Ordinary Time Parish Priest: Fr Rob Page No 1 Stoneleigh Rd Clayhall, Ilford, Essex IG5 0JB Tue 2 The Presentation of the Lord Feast tel 020 8550 4540 email [email protected] 9.00 Giulia Vuoto RIP (Antonio Vuoto & Lina Caracina) www.sjv-clayhall.uk Wed 3 S. Anne Line, Martyr Diocesan Brentwood Diocesan Trust charity no 234092 Ordinariate charity no 1141536 9.00 Rita Correia RIP (Mrs J Alvares) Thu 4 Weekday in Ordinary Time 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Septuagesima) s 9.00 Nora Corry & family (Siobhan Maguire) Fri 5 S. Agatha, Virgin, Martyr Racial Justice Day – 31 January 2021 9.00 Mrs Kitty O’Neill & family (Marie O’Connor) Responsorial Psalm First Reading Gospel Sat 6 S. Paul Miki & Companions, Martyrs 10am & 5pm: O that today you would Deuteronomy 18:15-20 Mark 1:21-28 9.00 Dominic Cheah – thanksgiving (Mr & Mrs Cheah) listen to his voice! Harden not your hearts. Second Reading Sun 7 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Sexagesima) 1 Corinthians 7:32-35

World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life 10.00 Somto Joshua Nwaoha – God’s blessings (Hannah & Charles Nwaoha) What is the origin of the beautiful traditional names 17.00 The People of the Parish and especially the Mensah Family Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and for the

Sundays before ? Stewards’ rota for this week 10.00 – 10.45 Anita Lewis, Antoinette Loroy, Yvonne Obi I thought the following article may be of some interest in giving an account of the traditional Sunday 31 January names and liturgical practices of the “pre-Lent season”. These special three weeks lost their 17.00 – 17.45 Pauline Brooke, Marilyn Butler character with the reforms of the which gave us the Novus Ordo Tuesday 2 January 9.00 – 9.30 Anita Lewis Mass of Pope S. Paul VI. In both the Traditional (now known as the Extra- Wednesday 3 January 9.00 – 9.30 Jennifer Alvares Ordinary form of the Roman Rite) and the Divine Worship Missal produced by Rome for the Ordinariates these three Sundays still exist and are celebrated. Thursday 4 January 9.00 – 9.30 Marilyn Butler Therefore here at SJV, while the Mass today at 10am will be for the Fourth Week in Friday 5 January 9.00 – 9.30 Jennifer Alvares Ordinary Time, the 5pm Mass will Saturday 6 January 9.00 – 9.30 Marilyn Butler, Michael Josef be of Septuagesima, hence the 10.00 – 10.45 Anita Lewis, Antoinette Loroy, Jennifer Alvares liturgical colour will be purple and Sunday 7 January 17.00 – 17.45 Pauline Brooke, Marilyn Butler the Gloria and Alleluia will be omitted. However, the readings Flowers next Saturday Lily Sarpong are the same. The names were probably established by about the seventh century. The name Quadra- gesima was given to the first Remember, you must not socialise after Mass with anyone outside your Sunday in the 40-day fast of Lent. household or bubble. Please leave the church and grounds/carpark Quinquagesima was given its promptly after Mass. name, by analogy, because it is exactly 50 days before . The Sundays Sexagesima and Septuagesima, although lying 57 and 64 days respectively before Easter, were similarly given their names representing 60 and 70

Continued next page Parish Finance Our Lady’s Lamp £ Our Lady’s blue lamp burns this Income (offertory, standing orders, coming week for persecuted Christians 17 February 2021 Mass stipends, candles etc,) 851.61 worldwide. Mass with Imposition of Ashes Average weekly expenditure 1,535.00 If you would like the lamp to burn for an 9am and 8pm Shortfall 683.39 intention of yours, please fill in one of the envelopes in the narthex. days. In the Western Church, these Sundays Offertory were a preparation for Lent: “alleluia” was Sunday “the sorrows of death surrounded me Please place your offertory donations in the Understandably, many people do not want forbidden in service time, and the Alleluia in the … and in my tribulation I will call upon the basket near the church entrance/exit doors. to handle cash these days. So instead, you mass was replaced by the Tract, usually verses Lord”, and, exactly 70 days later on Saturday in can give our parish much-needed financial from the Psalms. Purple vestments were worn. Easter Week: “the Lord brought out his people You can also donate online at www.diocese support online at www.dioceseofbrentwood. Practically, the three Sundays represented an with joy and his chosen one with gladness”, to ofbrentwood.net/donations?parish=clayhall. net/donations?parish=clayhall. extension to Lent, and the longer period was embrace a true Septuagesimal experience. The Crib donations We thank you for your generosity. often called “the Greater Lent”. same idea finds expression in the medieval The proceeds of the Crib Collection are The Second Vatican Council revised the hymn Alleluia, dulce carmen, which used to be the Holy Rosary, Meditation by Clergy, donated each year to the Brentwood Catholic Calendar and Missal. Lent started on Ash sung in the week before Septuagesima and has Reparation Prayers and an Act of Children’s Society to support those children and Wednesday; the “-gesima” Sundays became the line: “By Babylon’s sad waters, mourning Consecration. families who need their help. part of Ordinary Time, not a pre-penitential exiles now are we”. Zoom ID: 765-115-5221. season. NHS Test and Trace In your prayers Retrouvaille: A Programme for Couples It may be that the names were simply chosen 100,000 deaths. Do please continue to pray If you use the NHS COVID-19 app to scan the Struggling in their Marriages as a numerical series in line with what had and offer Masses for the end of the present QR code, you do not need to give us your Rediscover Your Marriage – Retrouvaille become the established Quadragesima of the pandemic. Pray especially for those who have contact details. offers the chance to rediscover yourself, your 40 days’ Lent in the calendar of the Western died or lost loved ones, for those who lives spouse and a loving relationship in your Church. But there are more ways than one of have been ripped apart. Pray for medical staff Repository marriage. Tens of thousands of couples headed counting the days to Easter, and in the earlier and all involved in the treatment and care of Our repository is too small to enable social for divorce have successfully saved their centuries this was done in the different rules by Covid patients, pray for those rolling out the distancing. However we do have a selection of marriages by attending and using the tools which the pre-Paschal fast was organised. vaccination, for those who are hesitant about cards, gifts and other items. If you wish to buy provided. It is suggested by many competent liturgical accepting vaccination and also for all of those something, please ask any of the usual authorities that Septuagesima, Sexagesima, spreading fake news and information on social repository volunteers, or Barbara Cheah or For confidential information about ‘Retrouvaille’ and Quinquagesima at one time reckoned the media. Sonia. or to register for the next programme commencing with a virtual weekend on 25 to 28 respective dates on which some churches – or The Mensah Family. Please hold John, Emelia Mass intentions February 2021, call or text 07887 296983 or maybe groups – began the 40 days of their and their family in your prayers. Their son Sam 07973 380443 – or email Lent, excluding not only Sundays, but also has died tragically aged 35 whilst on a visit to If you would like a Mass offered, please [email protected] – or visit Thursdays and Saturdays as fast-free days. Ghana. complete a Mass request envelope, place the www.retrouvaille.org.uk. Under those circumstances, it would have been stipend inside and put it in the parish letter box necessary to make the beginning of Lent Fr Rob or give it to Sonia. several weeks earlier in order to fit in 40 days of You must wear a face covering in fasting. Notices and News Redbridge Foodbank church unless you are exempt. This would explain the origin of Septuagesima Sacrament of Reconciliation (confession) Redbridge Foodbank continues to need our PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN. as the 70th day before Easter. It was only when support to help local families in crisis. Your gifts Please make sure your phone is off the Latin titles were given to the three Sundays Confession is available on Saturday mornings of non-perishable foods, toiletries and baby before our Ash Wednesday that they became between 10am and 10.30am and at other times nappies are greatly appreciated. More or totally silent during Mass. by arrangement with Fr Rob. inaccurate computations. information at redbridge.foodbank.org.uk. Some spiritual writers latched on to Reading at Mass Live streaming Septuagesima and found mystical meaning in Forthcoming events its 70th reference. This was imagined to If you wish to read at any Sunday or Our weekday and Sunday Masses World Apostolate of Fatima represent the seventy years of the Babylonian Mass, please ask Sonia before the Mass starts are live-streamed and available on England and Wales Captivity, and applied to Christians, exiled until or during the previous week. YouTube afterwards. If you have any their restoration at Easter. Amalarius of Metz Readers must sanitise their hands before and First Saturday Devotion of Reparation on concerns, please speak to Fr Rob. after reading. (780-850) quoted the Introits: on Septuagesima Saturday 6 February, 8.00pm – 9.00pm with