THE CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS & SAINT JOSEPH, WARE
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
10th August 2014 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time
TIMES OF SERVICES THIS WEEK
MONDAY 9.45 a.m. Morning Prayer 11th 10.00 a.m. MASS 12.00 noon Funeral of Joseph Drummy R.I.P. at St Clare Hoddesdon Cemetery Chapel 8.00 p.m. Prayer Group in the Hall
TUESDAY 9.45 a.m. Morning Prayer 12th 10.00 a.m. MASS
St Jane Frances de Chantal WEDNESDAY 9.45 a.m. Morning Prayer 13th 10.00 a.m. MASS
Sts Pontian & Hippolytus THURSDAY 8.00 a.m. MASS at Carmel 14th
St Maximilian Kolbe FRIDAY HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION 15th 10.00 a.m. MASS The Assumption of 7.30 p.m. MASS the Blessed Virgin SATURDAY NO 8.00 a.m. Mass at Carmel today 16th 6.30 p.m. FIRST MASS OF SUNDAY
St Stephen of Hungary SUNDAY 8.30 a.m. MASS 17th 10.30 a.m. MASS
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Mass Book Page 114 Response to today’s Psalm “Let us see, O Lord, your mercy and give us your saving help.”
READINGS NEXT WEEK Isaiah 56:1, 6-7, Psalm 66, Romans 11:13-1, 29-32, Gospel Matthew 15:21-28 MONEY COUNTING TEAM NO 2 THIS WEEK
CHURCH CLEANING
This week Kate Corcoran & Colleen Guiver, thank you.
MASS AT CARMEL There will not be Mass at Carmel on Saturday 16th August 2014. ______
100 CLUB LOTTERY – AUGUST WINNERS
1st £50 Michele Finn 2nd £30 Silvana Milton 3rd £10 Teresa Pearson 4th £5 Lisa Hough 5th £5 Marion Forte Many thanks to all of you who take part in this fund raising activity and to Tom Stapleton, who organises it. ______
100 CLUB LOTTERY MONTHLY DRAW For the Church/Hall Extension Fund
How can you help? By taking an application from the table at the back of Church and returning the completed form to the Presbytery together with your cheque of £26 for 6 months or £50 for 12 months subscription. Please make the cheque payable to Ware Catholic Church.
Prizes 1st £50 2nd £30 3rd £10 4th £5 5th £5. ______
HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION
Friday 15th August is a Holy Day of Obligation for the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and all Catholics are urged to attend Mass. There will be Mass at 10.00 a.m. and 7.30 p.m., and there is no Friday abstinence. ______TOWELS
A couple of weeks ago a bag of towels were left in the Church porch – perhaps whilst someone paid a visit to Church. The bag is still in the Sacristy and no one has claimed it. Is it yours? If so please contact us as soon as possible, otherwise they will be disposed of. Thank you. ______
GAZA CRISIS APPEAL
We have all watched the conflict in Gaza escalate in recent weeks, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without food, water, shelter or medical care. Thousands have been killed and injured.
CAFOD’s response
CAFOD are working with their longstanding partners on the ground in Gaza, Caritas Jerusalem, Catholic Relief Services and Islamic Relief Palestine, who are working round the clock to get food, water, medicine, hygiene kits and emergency supplies to thousands of people, often at great personal risk. The really pressing need is for aid to get through to the most vulnerable families. Their partners’ humanitarian aid workers can’t reach some of the worst hit areas without both Israeli and Palestinian authorities agreeing to allow humanitarian access to those in need of aid. But aid alone is not a sustainable solution to this crisis. So as well as immediate relief, CAFOD is committed to working for long term peace and justice for the region. This is why CAFOD are primarily asking parishes to call on the UK government to show stronger support for a comprehensive and permanent ceasefire, humanitarian access, and a long term solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
What our parish can do
Please help stop the violence in Gaza and get aid to families in great need. You can ask the Foreign Secretary to push for peace; there is a petition at the table at the back of the Church, if you can please sign it, or to donate to CAFOD’s humanitarian aid on the ground. Go to http://www.cafod.org.uk/Gaza ______
DEERFIELD’S TEA PARTY
You are invited to Deerfield’s tea party in aid of people with learning difficulties. On Wednesday 3rd September 12.30 p.m. - 2.30 p.m. A selection of sandwiches, scones and cake with a pot of tea will be available for £4.00p. Please RSVP to Kym Tilley 01920 427060 or [email protected]
______FIRST RECONCILIATION/HOLY COMMUNION 2014/2015
Parents of children who will be Year 3 and above from September 2014 are reminded to register their children for First Holy Communion preparation, beginning after the summer break. We need to know our final numbers for the relevant books to be ordered. There is a lot of work to plan the programme for next year and the cooperation of parents with our timetable is essential. Thank you.
CHILDREN IN NON-CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
PRE FIRST COMMUNION YEAR This course is for Children who will be in Year 2 or above in a Non-Catholic School in September 2014. Please ask Fr. John for a Registration Form for this Course which will also start after the Summer Holidays. ______
IF YOU GO IN TO HOSPITAL Catholics in hospital are unlikely to receive an automatic visit from the Catholic Chaplain, as this information is now systematically withheld from Chaplains. If someone is sick in hospital, please let us know here at the presbytery, and/or ask the staff on the ward, so that your loved one can be visited whilst in hospital, and receive Holy Communion and any other Sacraments from the Chaplain. The Chaplains are: QE II & Lister, Jacqueline Humphreys 01438-285518 or 07884-187463; Princess Alexandra, Fr Sławek Jedrych 01279-426017
I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD 79. Q. Did Jesus have a soul, a mind and a body just as we do?
A. Yes. Jesus “worked with human hands, he thought with a human mind. He acted with a human will and with a human heart he loved” (Second Vatican Council, GS 22,2). The humanity of Jesus is complete and includes also the fact that Jesus possessed a soul and developed psychologically and spiritually. In this soul dwelled his human identity and his special self-consciousness. Jesus knew about his unity with his heavenly Father in the Holy Spirit, by whom he allowed himself to be guided in every situation of his life.