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Advent Inclusive Mass – St Gregory’s, Union Throughout the year we organise St, Barnet Sunday, 22 December meet 5pm for social events here at St Joseph’s. 6.30pm Mass Newsletter Social Parish Clubs These include: www.stjoseph.org.uk100 YEARS YOUNG! Saturday Clubs 3.00-5.00pm Continue in Valentine Disco— Enfield, Church End, New Southgate & • 13 February 2020 Our dear and amazing Ron Palmer turned 100 years Whetstone St Patrick’s Disco—19 March 2020 old in June. He has been volunteering at St Joseph’s • Every Monday, 7.00-9.00pm Church of the • Annunciation, • Sponsored Walk——May TBC 100for 34 years yearsand probably the longest serving volunteer Every last Tuesday of the month, • BBQ—June/July TBC in the diocese! An afternoon tea was organised to cele- • 7.00-9,00pm St B’s Club, Abbey, Ealing • 10K Run— brate this which he greatly enjoyed • Every first Saturday of the month, 5th July 2020 young 2.00-4.00pmSt Peter in Chains RC School Looking for Our dear and amazing Ron Palmer turned Hall, Stroud Green runners! LOURDES PILGRIMAGE 100 years old in June. He has been • Third Saturday of the month, 1pm-3pm 30 of us joined the Diocese of West- Our Lady & St Joseph ChurchM Hall, Kingsland And many others yet to be confirmed. W volunteering at St Joseph’sM for 34 years and W Our Horticulture My Fitness Routine minster’s annual pilgrimage to For moreE info please contactO SueMusical Pratt at ShowtimeFor more details of events and Yogadates contact E probably the longestO serving volunteer in [email protected] Thushari at [email protected] D Lourdes in July. A full programme of What will I do?N What will I do? the diocese! An afternoonN tea was organised N What will I do? 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A light of the week was our Mass at St St Joseph’sY in their workAM with people with Y AM Joseph’s Chapel celebrated by intellectual disabilities Symbols of faith AM AM Bishop Nicholas Hudson and our I would like to donate Caritas St Joseph’sChaplain, facilitates Workshops Fr Michael that Daley. We also £10 £25 £50 £100 £200 train individuals inhad the preparationexcursions of people to the with Lac de Other amount of £ learning disabilitiesLourdes for the sacraments, and a ride using on the Funicular symbolic catechesis with adaptable, flexible and Please choose your payment method Please complete your details up the mountain with great views I’ve enclosed a cheque/postal order/charity Title: First Name: appropriate materials. Who is it for? voucher made payable to Caritas St Joseph’s over Lourdes! Enjoyed by all despite Who is it for? Surname: Anyone who wants to improve their fitness and enjoys This year Workshops I’d like to pay by Credit/Debit Card Anyone who wants to work outside (in the St Joseph’s sport and active games and group activities. SYMBOLS OF FAITH have taken placethe heat! Visa MasterCardgardens and Maestro allotment) and be part of a supportedAddress: team. Lourdes pilgrimage What will I get out of it? Who is it for? in South , A personal exercise plan tailored over time. Signed: Postcode: Anyone regardless of age or fitness level can30 ofenjoy us andjoined the Diocese of ’s , Hitchin, What will I get out ofWho it? is it for? Plenty of encouragement to take part in activities and Caritas St Joseph’s facilitates Workshops that Foundation skills in horticulture (raking, digging, weeding, achieve goals. benefit. annual pilgrimage to Lourdes in July. To make your donation worth a quarter more please Rickmansworth, Bow, Card number: potting up, planting seedlings).Anyone The opportunitywho enjoys to musichave andMonitoring is happy of tofitness share goals. their Increased gifts self esteem. New trainA full programme individuals of events in the included preparation Mass of people with your skills recognised by Citywith and others Guilds asLevel welltick 1 Award,as the those box atwho the want end of to the learn. statement. St Charles Square I wish Caritas St waysJoseph’s to exercise to treat all and donations enjoy it.I have made in Certificate, and Diploma in Practical(Maestro Horticulture . What will I get out of it? at the Grotto and Cite St Pierre, Torchlight only) the past 4 years,Be and part any of future a team. donations I make from now on, as Gift Aid donations. learning disabilities for the sacraments,and using New Southgate. 26 I am a UK taxpayer and understand that if I pay less Income Tax and/or Capital Gains 27 Sec2:25 Flexibility, strength, coordination, concentrationprocession and and many more. The high-light Expiry date: _ What will I getTax than out the amountof it? of Gift Aid claimed on all my donations in that tax year it is my responsibility to pay any difference. body awareness. It also promotes confidencesymbolicof the andweek self- was catechesis our Mass at Stwith Joseph’s adaptable, flexibleWorkshops and in the _ Confidence(Maestro building from the therapeutic benefits of➡ music esteem and encourages calmness, breath awareness, Valid from: Issue no: Please remember to notify us if you want to cancel this declaration, change your name New Year are planned - pleasure,only) energy and fun. cooperation and compassion. You could alsoappropriateChapel develop celebrated a materials. by Bishop Nicholas or address, or if you no longer pay sufficient tax on your income and/or capital gains. for Up-per Thames If your name, address or tax circumstances change please letpersonal us know. programme to practice at home. Hudson and our Chaplain, Fr Michael Daley. Please return this completed donation form to: deanery, Northwood, St Joseph’s Pastoral Centre, St8 Joseph’s Grove, The Burroughs, Hendon, London, NW4 4TY ThisWe also year had excursions Workshops9 to the Lac have de taken place in South Lourdes and a ride on the Funicular up the and Hemel Hempstead. Protecting your privacy - Diocese of Westminster – Registered Charity Number 233699. Your personal details and donations Ruislip, Hendon, Hitchin, Rickmansworth, Bow, mountain with great views over Lourdes! will be stored securely on the Diocese of Westminster’s database. We comply with data protection regulation and the St Charles Square and New Southgate.For more information please contact Sue at Fundraising Regulator’s code of practice. We will never sell your data to third parties. We will use your details to administer Enjoyed by all despite the heat! [email protected] your gifts, occasionally send you news on our work, and give you the opportunity to support appeals. 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St Joseph's Newsletter Winter 2019.indd 1-2 For more information please contact Sue at 12/12/2019 13:40 [email protected] Driving forward Our Orchard WINTER NEWSLETTER 2019 At last we have found a suitable minibus for Over the last few years we have been DNA Caritas St Joseph’s. Our testing the trees in the ancient orchard of St lovely nearly new vehicle Joseph’s Hendon to find out their names. would not have been One of the pear trees came back possible without 2 very unmatched and we have requested Welcome100 YEARS to our Caritas YOUNG! St Joseph’s Winter generous donations. that it be called Saint Kasper, NewsletterOur dear 2019! and We amazing have been Ron a yearPalmer in turned 100 years London Irish Vintage Club after the foundress of the Poor producingold in June. this as He we has have been had sovolunteering many at St Joseph’s who gave us £15000.00 when we were one of their Handmaids of Jesus Christ, changes in 2019. Our work has become broader charities of the year in 2017 and an anonymous donor St Mary Katherine Kasper. for 34 years and probably the longest serving volunteer and we are supporting more and more people; gave us £10000.00. About 5000 samples from 19 notin just the here diocese! at the CentreAn afternoon but in parishes tea was too. organised to cele- We are looking forward to taking our students and the different countries have been tested. brate this which he greatly enjoyed wonderful things they make to different shows all over As we enter the season of Advent, our season of support we are very blessed to have. We demonstrate the South of in 2020. waiting and hope, we are again renewed by the this practically by supporting parishes to hold inclusive We are also looking for a volunteer mini bus driver to Spirit to take on the challenges that our work and masses, where everyoneLOURDES is welcome and PILGRIMAGE the gifts help us to take our students out and about more, if “Start by doing what’s necessary; relationships sometimes present. We remember that and talents of all people are celebrated. None of this you fit please contact [email protected] the Christ child lived and 30wonderful of us work joined would the be possible Diocese of West- then do what’s possible; and for more details. worked as we do amongst all minsterwithout the’s true annual dedication pilgrimage of our to suddenly you are doing the people. He taught us that what Lourdesstaff and volunteers in July. and A wefull are programme of impossible.” Francis of Assisi we need to live as community is eventstruly grateful included for all of them, Mass both at the GrottoConnect @ Centres relationship with our neighbour. andon-site Cite in Hendon St Pierre, and throughout Torchlight pro- the parishes In our Connect @ Centres in , and Recently we took some apples from our Orchard We are doing this at the Centre cession and many more. The high-North Harrow we have a variety of fun, educational at Caritas St Joseph’s along to Feltham, and the at Hendon through our courses It also would not be possible light of the week was our Mass at Stand inclusive activities. Currently running are Art participants of the Cookery such as Living and Giving and without the generosity of all of mixed media classes, Cookery, Movement and class in Connect @ made Enriching my Life which are Josephyou, who ’buys Chapel our goods celebrated and by Dance for All. We also have a social club on the first some spiced apple com pote based on the Catholic Social Teaching principles that Christmas cards (availableBishop from Nicholas the reception) Hudson and and our Friday of the month in North Harrow (St John Fisher and meringue. Absolutely everyone has a place. We also achieve this through also donate to us through our Christmas appeal, Chaplain, Fr Michael Daley. We alsochurch hall), with live music, games, snooker, raffle delicious with plain yogurt or training catechists and teachers symbolic catechesis which is on the back of this Newsletter. So many had excursions to the Lac de and tuck shop. homemade crumble! using our Symbols of Faith training resource, this is thanks to all of you.Lourdes and a ride on the Funicular done in conjunction with Caritas Westminster, whose up the mountain with great views over Lourdes! Enjoyed by all despite Caritas Westminster Other projects supported by Caritas Westminster include our safe house for women who have the heat! SYMBOLS OF FAITH Caritas Westminster continues to go from escaped from slavery or who have been strength to strength with a number of new staff trafficked. This is called Bakhita House, after St Caritas St Joseph’s facilitates Workshops that members starting in the past few months. We now Josephine Bakhita, who was herself a freed slave. Achievement Day have a full complement of Development Workers This year four former residents, who continued train individuals in the preparation of people with across seven “hubs” in the diocese, supporting to be supported by Bakhita House were given In July we celebrated our students and their hard work on learning disabilities for the sacraments, using parishes to run social outreach projects. five years leave to remain in the UK by the Home Achievement Day. Bishop Paul McAleenan presented each symbolic catechesis with adaptable, flexible and Projects supported by the “hubs” include Office. This is a great step forward for them, student with a medal and certificate. giving them the stability they need to begin to appropriate materials. Feed Up Warm Up – a drop in centre for • homeless in Stevenage rebuild their lives. Women are also supported The symbol on the medals and certifi-cates represents to work with the police and CPS to bring their This year Workshops have taken place in South Promotion of Knife Bins to get knives off the a globe held by hands of different nationalities. abusers and traffickers to justice, and recently • streets in areas where knife-crime is rife. Ruislip, Hendon, Hitchin,Each Rickmansworth, student was pictured Bow, with their certificate and three people in East London were convicted of A food bank in Borehamwood St Charles Square and Newwere Southgate. offered strawberries and cream and cake • trafficking offences after one of the residents of Collecting Christmas gifts for around 1000 donated by a student’s sister. • Bakhita House spent three days giving evidence Workshops in the New Year are planned for Up- children of prisoners. at Snaresbrook Crown Court. per Thames deanery, Northwood, and Hemel Hempstead.

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