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Holy Cross & St Patrick Parish Served by the Society of the Divine Saviour – The Salvatorians Parish Priest: Father Auson Kamugisha, SDS Assistant Priest: Father Dieudonné Zeng, SDS Pastoral Assistants: Deacons Oluwole Alayo & Tony Wentworth The Priests House & Chapel, 1a Conway Road, , SE18 1AQ St Patrick’s Church, Hector Street, Plumstead, SE18 1QT Holy Cross, 27 The Slade, , SE18 2NB Tel: 020 3722 7573, [email protected] www.stpatricksholycross.org.uk St Patrick’s Primary School, Griffin Road, Plumstead, SE18 7QG Head Teacher: Miss Mary Murphy Tel: 0208 854 3881 www.stpatricksprimary.org.uk Salvatorian Trustees Registered Charity No 231410/ Archdiocese of Southwark is a Registered Charity: 235468 Priest’s surgery – Wednesdays 5pm – 6pm Parish Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 8.30 – 1pm Friday: 8.30 – 12.30

If you are new to the parish, please introduce yourself to the Priests and other parishioners

st rd (page 157) 31 Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) Ps3 3 November 2019 TheThe WOW WOW factor!

Stop awhile and ponder this: we are but tiny parts of the Universe, and the Universe is but a tiny part of God, yet GOD L O V E S US.

His infinite love is manifested in his infinite compassion because only the truly powerful can afford to show mercy. Just as the Jews wrongly thought they were the only chosen ones, so we, too, should understand that God loves all He has created. It is in this spirit of universal inclusivity that Jesus reaches out to Zacchaeus, a sinner, recognising his greater need for salvation. Should we not, in our turn, reach out to others in the same non-judgemental way? Standing in awe of God’s wonderful creation, how do we praise Him in our every day lives, realising that, when we praise Him in everything we do, we become channels for God’s salvation to all His children?

Weekly devotions : Holy Cross – Daily Rosary at 9.30; Divine Mercy & Benediction every first Friday; Benediciton & Confessions Saturdays 5 – 5.20 St Patrick’s – Vespers, Rosary & Benediction Sundays 5pm. Divine Mercy Fridays Bible Study Wednesdays 2-3pm (term time)

Holy MASS INTENTIONS St.

Cross Patrick Sat. 2nd November All souls’ day 17.30 Mona Pinto 31st Sunday (C) 10.00 Those buried in Plumstead Sun. 3rd November 10.15 Mary-Jane thanksgiving 8.45 Rose Ibeme RIP (EG) 31st Sunday (C) 18.00 Thanksgiving to St Patrick 10.00 Rosemary & Patrick Okogwu – Mon. 4th November 9.00 Statia O’Leary RIP 30 years wedding anniversary St Charles Borromeo, Bishop Tues. 5th November NO MASSES NO MASSES Feria 10.00 Rev Thomas Travers RIP Wed. 6th November 9.00 Rev Thomas Travers RIP Parish priest Feria Parish priest Thur. 7th November St Martin Class Mass 10.00 Recovery of Paola Gamberoni Dedication of St George’s 9.00 Rachel & Michael Meade RIP Cathedral Fri. 8th November 9.00 Welfare of Patricia Millar 10.00 Gretta Costelloe RIP Feria Sat. 9th November Dedication of Lateran Basilica 17.30 Dan O’Mahoney RIP 32nd Sunday (C) 10.00 Welfare of Patrick Cosgrave Sun. 10th November 10.15 Those who died in WW1 & WW2 8.45 Noreen McBrearty 33rd Sunday (C) 18.00 John Wishart RIP Remembrance Sunday Holy Father’s Prayer Intention for November: Dialogue and Reconciliation in the Near East - that a spirit of dialogue, encounter and reconciliation emerge in the Near East, where diverse religious communities share their lives together.

Offertory collections 20th October: £931.58 Mass attendance: 363 Thank you 10th November: Archbishop’s Administration Fund th St Patrick’s Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist: 24 November: Catholic Youth Service 3rd Nov: Bernadine D’Costa, Shiroma Peiris, Mary Ania,

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Quinta Perera, Mary Ofori

Mon. 4th November 12.30 – Funeral Mass for 10th Nov: Pat Dike, Margaret Koomson, Mary Peiris, Archbishop Michael Bowen, St George’s Cathedral Cecilia Unah, Stella Nwozuzu Sun. 10th November – Cemetery Visits: see below Readers Thurs. 14th November 8pm – Mass for deceased KSC 3rd Nov: 10.15 J Ansong, N Ekenediki 18.00 N Brown Sat. 16th November – Day of recollection for Readers 10th Nov: 10.15 B Desouza, O Dike 18.00 M Olofinbinu and Extraordinary Ministers, Bishop Thomas Grant, Belltrees Grove, SW16 2HY 11-4pm The Sanctuary Lamp will burn for Tom Mulholland RIP th Sun. 24 November – Youth Sunday at Holy Cross and Ann Olofinbinu birthday thanksgiving at St Patrick’s Cemetery Visits Sunday 10th November 1.30 – Lodge Hill entrance 2.30 Cemetery – Southland Road #RedWednesday

NOVEMBER HOLY SOULS LIST 27th November – for details of Christmas You are invited to write the names of your deceased events see: relatives and friends in the special envelopes at the catalogue out www.acnuk.org/redwednesday back of the church and place these in the box now provided. Mass will be offered for all the deceased of the FIRST HOLY COMMUNION 2020 Parish during November Lessons will begin in January - Please note arrangements for Holy Cross and St Patrick FOOD BANK https://greenwich.foodbank.org.uk/about HOLY CROSS ST PATRICK Please remember to bring tinned and packet foods Lessons will take place Lessons will take place for those who rely on the Food Bank. Thank you on Saturday mornings. on Sundays after Application forms for 10.15 Mass. Forms

Archbishops’s The UCM were not able children in Year 3 or will be given to children in Year 3 at St Administration Fund to have their annual above are available through St Patrick’s Patrick’s School and collection next Sunday – charity collection last this helps to meet the School and in church. are available in the weekend. They will costs of the central Forms should be Sacristy for children administration of the hold it this weekend returned by Sunday, attending other Diocese. instead. 8th December. Please schools. Forms should th see notice in church. be returned by 6 CHRIST THE KING OPEN DAYS December. For students transferring to 6th Form in 2020. Please see noticeboard for details of sites and visit times. E–MAIL ALERT Watch out for this spam e-mail address: MASS INTENTIONS [email protected] Whilst we will do our best to celebrate a Mass for a specific DO NOT REPLY OR OPEN ANY LINKS date, we cannot always guarantee that date is available. If Block it and report it as phishing to your e- you are requesting a specific date, especially at weekends, please try to give at least one month’s notice. It would be mail provider. helpful if you include a contact number in case of a query. Stay safe online.

Please Pray for those who are sick, especially Trevor Brown, Kevin Murphy, Valerie Pape, Helen Moore, Dolores Sheanon, Susannnah Brown, Maria Gordon, Ruby McCleod, Anne Ghilèse César, May Stapleton, Teresa Shortall, Ken Brown, John Colacco, Miroslav Krejca, Henry Agbadamusi, Dave Orrell, Stephen Brown, Maureen Coleman & Mona Pinto. For those who have died and those whose anniversaries are at this time: William Hughes, Tom Mulholland, Lily Irwin, Rhoda Selwyn, Norman O’Reilly, Josephine Payne, Denis O’Brien, Doris Stokes, Babs Proctor