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Our Lady of Grace & St Edward’s Chiswick with St Dunstan’s Gunnersbury 020 8994 2877 www.ourladyofgracechiswick.org [email protected] Latest parish news For even more regular news on parish life and activities, check the Latest News page on the parish website at http://www.ourladyofgracechiswick.org/read-me-1/ or follow the parish on Twitter @ourladychiswick or Facebook at Our Lady of Grace & St Edward, Chiswick, London W4 PALM SUNDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD + Fr. Michael Dunne Parish Priest Assistant Priest NEXT SUNDAY’S READINGS: Fr. Andrew Chamiec st Administrator 1 Reading: Acts 10:34, 37-43 Sharon Bowden Psalm: 117:1-2, 16-17, 22-23 response v 24 James Lewis Seminarian 2nd Reading: Colossians 3:1-4 Gospel: John 20:1-9 Fr Michael writeswrites::::---- All viewable at: http://www.universalis.com/mass When did this journey begin? Where and when will it end? Jesus sends His disciples to collect the donkey from a village within At all Masses: RESPONSES: Page 7 SUNDAY MASS: READINGS: Page 176 sight of the Mount of Olives. It wouldn’t have taken very long for them to return to Him ready for His messianic procession into LET US PRAY Jerusalem. So did this journey begin on the Mount of Olives? Yes, For those who are sick : Sandra Bocca, Claudio Boggi, Marie O’Keeffe, in one sense. But as the Gospel tells us, this entry into the city on a Rose Murphy, Baby Charlie Gard, Patsy Lynch, Michael O’Brennon, donkey fulfils the prophesies in scripture from the Prophet Mary Hymes, Gerry Duffy, Ian Docherty, Lennie Thomas, Paul Foster, Patricia Riding, Andy Cronin, Dr. Brinsley Sheridan, Fin O’Toole Zechariah, “Look, your king comes to you: he is humble, he rides For those recently deceased : Derek Abbott, Margaret O’Donnell, on a donkey.” And the Prophet Zechariah lived six hundred years Roula Keigher, Patrick Hayes, Felicity Lunn-Rockliffe before Christ, so really in another sense we can say that this For those whose anniversaries are at this time : Tom Carney, Una journey began then, foreseen by the prophets because inspired by Kelly, Hector Paredes, Gerry Twomey God. And as for what Jesus suffers in Jerusalem, He is clearly to be seen in the prophesy of Isaiah, our First Reading, from eight THIS WEEK – PALM SUNDAY hundred years before Christ, and, very chillingly, in the psalm Sat 8/4 which describes so accurately what happens to Jesus on Calvary 6.30pm Vigil Mass Private Intentions INT even though the psalm was written a thousand years before the Sun 9/4 PALM SUNDAY 8.30am Helen Taylor RIP events it describes. Throughout the Passion read today, there is 9.45am People of the Parish INT reference after reference to the events of that week fulfilling the 10.00am Gunnersbury Breda O’Neill SICK scriptures of old. So when did this journey begin? Foreseeing from 11.00am Tom Carney ANN eternity humanity’s fall into sin, God had, in the truest sense, 12.30pm Bernie Looney RD always begun in His Son this journey of our rescue. This is why we 6.30pm Maria Bielska SICK Mon 10 /4 MONDAY OF commemorate and live in this Holy Week the most momentous 10.00am HOLY WEEK Una Kelly ANN week of human history to date. When will this journey end? It will 12.30pm Hector Paredes ANN end definitively and climactically when the Son’s entry into Tues 11 /4 TUESDAY OF Jerusalem to effect the events of human salvation, bears, on 10.00am HOLY WEEK Nigel & Jill Livingstone RIP Judgement Day, the fruits of that salvation, bringing to heaven 12.30pm NO MASS those destined for the fullness of life. We can be sure of our place 12 Noon Chrism Mass Westminster Cathedral in that life if we now accompany Him on His journey through the Wed 12 /4 WEDNESDAY season of our lives, willing, as St Paul says, “in my own body to 7.30am OF HOLY WEEK Margaret Norris RIP make up all the suffering that still has to be undergone by Christ 10.00am Maura & Sandy Kinnear RIP for the sake of his body the Church” (Col.1:24). By this means we Thurs 13 /4 MAUNDY not only journey with Jesus and He with us, but we participate in 8.00pm THURSDAY Mass of the Lord’s Supper ‘journey’s end’ so to speak, the salvation of the world. A rich Followed by watching at the Altar of Repose until midnight expression of this communion is being agents of God’s mercy, as Fri 14 /4 GOOD FRIDAY Pope Francis encourages us on the attached flyer from Aid to the 11.00am Children’s Liturgy of Stations Church in Need. “I invite all of you, together with ACN , to do and Veneration of the Cross everywhere in the world a work of mercy. Mercy is God’s tender 3.00pm Celebration of the Lord’s touch.” The 60,000 homeless who escaped with nothing but their Passion lives from ISIS and for whom ACN are providing shelter and food, 7.30pm Prayer around the Cross Sat 15 /4 HOLY are not only Christians, of course, but other minorities, such as the 11-12pm SATURDAY Confessions Yazidis and Shabaks. But it is a Christian, the ‘survivor’ on the 3-4pm Confessions back page, who does appeal to us: “We ask Christians in the West 9.00pm Solemn Easter Vigil in the to pray for us and to help us to live. Even a small thing from you Holy Night will make a big difference to us – it will help us to live.” What better way to deepen our journeying with the Lord than by journeying too with those in whom Christ is still suffering all that EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT IN HOLY WEEK: has to be undergone for His body the Church? She asks us for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 3.00pm to 4.00pm, not Thurs or Fri CONFESSIONS: Monday & Wednesday 10.30am, Saturday 11.00am to prayer and alms. Thank you to those who have already given 12.00noon & 3.00pm to 4.00pm generously to our parish Lenten project. Let us do what we can. OFFICE OF READINGS AND MORNING PRAYER: Fri & Sat 9.00am HOLY WEEK Principal Celebrations: MONDAY EVENING PRAYER AND GUNNERSBURY NOTES PRAISE, COMBONI CENTRE 7.00PM – CHRISM MASS – Tues 11 th April MASS THIS WEEK Join Srs Natalia and Graca for 30 minutes This Mass takes place in Westminster Palm Sunday - 10.00am prayer to unwind from work and deepen Maundy Thursday – 9.30am Cathedral at 12.00noon, and is faith. In their chapel at 2 Chiswick Lane. celebrated by the Cardinal, Bishops and Good Friday – 3.00pm Please note: No Evening Prayer on 17th Easter Sunday – 10.00am priests of the Diocese. At this Mass the Bank Holiday Monday or 24th April. oils of Chrism, Catechumens and the TUSEDAY TEA & COFFEE MORNINGS Sick, are blessed and consecrated for NIGHT SHELTER The normal jollity in the St Edward’s use in the parishes in the coming year. The night shelters closed at the end of Room after 10.00am Mass on Tuesday is March. Thank you to all who have th th SPY WEDNESDAY NOT taking place either on 11 or 18 supported the shelters by your efforts, th 7.30pm: Tenebrae, will be sung by the April. It will resume on 25 April. choir Cantores Missae. Tomas Luis de donations prayers and goodwill. Some Victoria’s Responsories will be sung, with twenty five guests had come onto the BERNIE LOONEY RIP - The family of English translations provided and project and stayed in the shelters. Eight recently deceased, Bernie Looney wish to interspersed with reflective readings. others were put up in severe weather. thank all those who attended her funeral, Ideal for a prayerful and reflective entry More than a dozen other men were fed. sent sympathy and Mass cards and for into the Sacred Triduum. Some guests have been housed and your kind wishes and prayers. Also, many have found work. There were a MAUNDY THURSDAY thank you for your generous donations to dozen guests still on the project at the the charity of her choice. A Mass will be 8.00pm: Mass of the Lord’s Supper end of the shelters. Our coordinator and celebrated by Cardinal Cormac, also with said for your intentions. St Mungo’s are continuing to work with the washing of the feet. After Mass there the guests throughout April. We are SYRIAN RELIEF CONCERT - Magdalen is Watching at the Altar of Repose until hopeful that several more will soon be College Choir are performing on Weds midnight. housed. We will be packing up the 12th April, 7.30pm at Holy Ghost and St GOOD FRIDAY bedding at the Parish Centre from Steven's Church in aid of both Aid to the 9.00am: Office of Readings and Morning 10:00am on Tuesday 18 April and taking Church in Need and Singing for Prayer. it to storage. If you could help please let Syrians. Refreshments included in the 11.00am: Children’s Liturgy of the us know. There will be a thanksgiving price of the ticket, which is £10. Stations and Veneration of the Cross. service at 7:30pm on Tuesday 2nd May Introducing Vintage Swing Dancing at 3.00pm: Celebration of the Lord’s at Brentford Free Church, Boston Manor the Catholic Centre (‘Swing dancing’ is a Passion. Road, Brentford TW8 8DW. Everyone term applied to the dancing styles of 7.30pm: Prayer around the Cross.