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THE CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS & SAINT JOSEPH, WARE, sg12 7ej

e.mail: [email protected] Parish Priest: Fr. John Gray website: www.sacredheartware.com Parish Deacon: Rev. Adrian Cullen telephone: 01920 462140 Pastoral Assistant: Mary Hallett Parish Secretary: Tracy Moloney 30th October 2016

31st Sunday in Ordinary Time

TIMES OF SERVICES & GROUP MEETINGS THIS WEEK MONDAY 11.00 a.m. MASS or Liturgy of the Word at Carmel 31st

TUESDAY 10.00 a.m. MASS 1st November 2.00 p.m. Mass at Sacred Heart School 7.30 p.m. MASS – (Holy Souls 1) All Saints WEDNESDAY 10.00 a.m. MASS – (Holy Souls 2) 2nd 2.00 p.m. UCM in the Presbytery 7.30 p.m. MASS All Souls THURSDAY 10.00 a.m. MASS with Morning Prayer 3rd 7.30 p.m. FHC Parents – Talk on Reconciliation in the new Parish Centre St Martin de Porres FRIDAY 11.30 a.m. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 4th 12.00 noon MASS (Holy Souls 3) with anointing of the Sick St Charles 7.30 p.m. Quiz Night in our new Parish Centre Borromeo SATURDAY 10.30 a.m.-12.30 p.m. ‘Looking Ahead’ Meeting in our new 5th Parish Centre 11.00 a.m.-11.30 a.m. Confessions 1.00 p.m. Baptism: George Chivers 5.30 p.m.-6.00 p.m. Confessions 6.30 p.m. FIRST MASS OF SUNDAY

SUNDAY 8.30 a.m. MASS 6th 10.30 a.m. MASS 2.00 p.m. Ware Cemetery – Blessing of Graves 32nd Sunday in 7.30 p.m. Youth Group Ordinary Time Mass Book Page 157 Response to today’s Psalm “I will bless your name for ever, O God my King.”

READINGS NEXT WEEK 2 Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-14, Psalm 16: 1, 5-6, 8, 15 response v 15, 2 Thessalonians 2:16-3:5, Gospel Luke 20: 27-38 MONEY COUNTING TEAM NO 3 THIS WEEK

CHURCH CLEANING This week Tina & Angelo Cipolla, thank you.

QUIZ EVENING

Friday 4th November in our new parish centre beginning at 7.30 p.m. Tickets are £8 each including a Ploughman’s supper, teams of 6-8 and are on sale after Masses this weekend. All funds raised in aid of the parish centre. ______

NOVEMBER – the Month of the Holy Souls

During the month of November Masses will be celebrated for the repose of the souls of the people whose names are included in our ‘November deceased list/Book of Life’. Please take a purple sheet of paper and an envelope from the table at the back of the church and put on it the names of the people you wish to be prayed for and return it through the Presbytery letterbox.

FUNDRAISING IDEAS for 2017

On Friday 18th November from 7.00 p.m. onwards in the Parish Centre. An invitation to all the Parish to come along with ideas for 2017 and enjoy some cheese & wine. We hope you are able to join us. ______

CONFIRMATION 2017

Bishop Paul McAleenan will be coming to Confirm our young people on Friday 21st April 2017 at 7.30 p.m. Young people who will be in at least Year 9 from September 2016 are invited to give some thought to registering for Confirmation in 2017. If you attend Mass here in Ware regularly then please see Fr. John to talk about registering for the next preparation and to collect a registration form. ______

DICKENSIAN EVENING

Ware Dickensian Evening is on Friday 2nd December and our parish will be having a Bottle Tombola Stall which raises funds to reduce the debt on our new Parish Centre. There will be boxes placed in the porch for you to donate any ‘bottles’ for the stall - unopened and in date please! Helpers are needed to run the stall; people only need to offer an hour of their time to help, please sign up on the sheet at the back of the Church. Your continuing generosity to this Parish Fund Raiser is always appreciated and it's a great way to be part of this community event. ______

Eucharist Ministers Rota 5 th November 2016 to 15 th January 2017

Please will you pick up your copy of the new rota from the back of the church. Unfortunately, Richard Hayman has had IT problems and has lost nearly all of the contacts from his email system, so if you normally receive your copy via email you will need to take your copy from the back of the church. Would you please email Richard on [email protected] so that he can re setup his database. For those who normally receive a printed copy can you please also consider sending Richard your email address so that your future copies can be emailed to you. If you provide an email address I can assure you it will not be disclosed to other Eucharist Ministers. It makes distribution much easier. ______

GO-CART

Go-Cart to give away for a small donation to the Parish Centre fund. Hand crafted, quite large & manual operation. Please phone Patrick Kimber 01920 220642. ______

THANKING GSK

GSK have a scheme where they donate £500 when an employee of theirs gives 8 hours of work to a chosen charity. One of our parishioners made this application after completing her 8 hours volunteering – by designing posters for and helping on the day of the Parish BBQ. GSK paid £500 into the Parish Hall Fundraising account. This is excellent news for anyone else within the Parish who works at GSK and wants to help raise funds for the new Parish Hall. On the 18th November there is a meeting about fundraising. There are lots of jobs that can be done in the parish and once you have logged 8 hours you too can make the application to GSK. What a great company to have in Ware. They give so much back to the community. ______

HOW DO I BECOME A CATHOLIC?

If you would like to know more about the Catholic faith then you may be interested in joining the RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults). If any of the following applies to you will be very welcome:

1. Adults who wish to be baptised 2. Adults who are already baptised in another Christian denomination and who now wish to become members of the Roman Catholic Church 3. Adults who were baptised in the Catholic Church, and who might not yet have either been confirmed or made their First Holy Communion 4. Any adult who wishes to learn about the Catholic Faith 5. Any Catholic who wants to find out more or deepen their Catholic Faith

Each week we start by looking at the previous Sunday’s readings and then discuss related areas of Catholic teaching and their relevance to living the Christian life.

If you would like to come along or are interested in knowing more please speak to Fr. John or Mary Hallett. ______

SMALL FAITH SHARING GROUP - EXPERIENCE “LIVING JESUS” THIS AUTUMN

Living Jesus is comprised of six sessions, each of which includes prayers, Scripture, a reflection and questions plus a work of art, included as a key feature of each session. Each session stands alone, so there is no problem in missing sessions. Living Jesus will look at the themes of holiness, discipleship and vocation and will, as in previous booklets, contain art, prayers, scripture and reflections.

Day Time Starting Day Location Leader Phone No Tuesday 10.00 am 8th Nov. 12 Presdales Drive Patrick Kimber 420642 Wednesday 7.30 pm 9th Nov. 22 Milton Road Jan Woodford 420785 Thursday 10.30 am 10th Nov. Presbytery Alan Chapman 485614

Thursday 8.00 pm 10th Nov. 1 Ware Park Cottages Noreen McAllen 466642

Youth Group 1st Sunday of the month at 7.30 p.m. in Andrew Cernicky 07484242610 Presbytery or Parish Centre. Contact Andrew [email protected]

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NEWSLETTER ITEMS NEED TO BE AT THE PRESBYTERY IN WRITING OR E-MAIL BY 9.00 AM THURSDAY WITH YOUR NAME & PHONE NO. —NEW PARISHIONERS Please take a parish membership form from the porch. The completed forms should be posted through the presbytery letterbox, thank you.