HEART TO HEART The Newsletter of the Sacred Heart Parish 148 Ashcroft Road, Stopsley, Luton LU2 9AY Fr Chris Whitehouse (Parish Priest) ( 723099 Rev James Bannan (Deacon) Diana Enstone (Parish Secretary) Jenny Dowsett (Pastoral area Rep) Margaret Berry, Pat Abela (Safeguarding) Hospital Chaplain: Fr Michael Patey ( 663706 Hospice Chaplain: Fr Tony Brennan ( 502400 Sacred Heart School: ( 730781 Cardinal Newman School: ( 597125 Web site: sacredheartluton.org email: [email protected] th TH 11 Sunday of the Year Psalter Week 3 14 June 2015 Charity Number: 234091 Part of the Diocese of Northampton, Province of Westminster & Deanery of St Alban Saturday: 6.30pm Ann Daly RIP First Mass of Sunday Sunday: 9.00am People of our Parish 11.00am John Ballinger RIP Monday: 9.30am Alice Reynold’s intentions Feria Tuesday: 9.30am Gerry & Della Conroy intentions Feria Wednesday 9.30am Eucharistic Service Feria Thursday 9.30am Hugh Garahee RIP Feria Friday 9.30am Baby Olivia Broderick RIP Dedication of the Cathedral 7.30pm Deanery Mass of St Alban at Holy Ghost Parish Saturday 2.00pm First Holy Communion Mass (II) ST ALBAN, Protomartyr of England Entrance O LORD, HEAR MY VOICE, FOR I HAVE CALLED TO YOU; BE MY HELP. Antiphon: DO NOT ABANDON OR FORSAKE ME, O GOD, MY SAVIOUR! Psalm Response IT IS GOOD TO GIVE YOU THANKS, O LORD. Gospel Alleluia, alleluia! I CALL YOU FRIENDS, SAYS THE LORD, BECAUSE I HAVE MADE Acclamation: KNOWN TO YOU EVERYTHING I HAVE LEARNT FROM MY FATHER. Alleluia Communion THERE IS ONE THING I ASK OF THE LORD, ONLY THIS DO I SEEK: Antiphon: TO LIVE IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE. CONFESSIONS: Saturdays 10.00 - 10.25 (with exposition) & 6.00 - 6.15pm ROSARY is prayed twenty minutes before weekday Masses. MORNING PRAYER of the church is prayed each weekday at 8.50am.
Collection: The plate collection last week was £1,069.31 Thank you. 9.00am & 11.00am Entrance 782 We plough the fields Gloria - Feeley Offertory 106 Christ be beside me Communion 713 The seed is Christ’s Recessional 351 Lead us heavenly Father Sunday 6.30pm & 11.00am COG Lounge 12.00 noon Parish Coffee Gathering Hall Monday 9.15am Parents & Tots Hall 8.00pm Legion of Mary Sacristy Wednesday 10.00am Church cleaning (all welcome) Church Thursday 2.00pm Thursday Club Hall Friday 8.00pm Prayer Group Sacristy
APF RED BOXES: Peter & Theresa Crawley will be collecting the red boxes in this weekend. The money is used in a huge variety of ways to the church’s missions overseas. Please make sure your name is on the box so it can be returned. If you would like a box, please ask them. FIRST HOLY COMMUNION The Rehearsal for the second celebration Mass is on Friday at 2.00pm in church. The First Holy Communion Mass is on Saturday at 2pm. Please pray for our first communicants and their future as members of the community of faith. Many thanks indeed to Mrs Cullen, teachers and staff at Sacred Heart school for all their support and to Valerie Dawson, Ann & Dermot Collon and Mary Dobbs for all their work at the Saturday classes. ANNUAL DEANERY MASS for the feast of our Patron, St Alban is to be held this year on Friday 19th June at 7.30pm in the church of the Holy Ghost. Refreshments afterwards. All welcome. ACT OF WITNESS: in support of life and against abortion outside the Luton & Dunstable hospital on Saturday 20th June from 1pm to 2pm. There continues to be hundreds of unborn children from this area, and thousands nationwide, who do not come to birth. Please come to give them a voice, and to pray for all those involved. Refreshments available afterwards. COUNCIL OF COUNCILS: the annual meeting of parish councils is to take place again on Saturday 27th June at Holy Ghost, 10am -1pm. Mgr Paul Donovan former Vicar General of the Royal Navy is to be the speaker.
ALTAR SERVERS: training session for current servers on Saturday 27th June, 10.45am to 12.00pm. NEW SERVERS (especially from our first communicants) also welcome.
ANNUAL NORES LECTURE: on 3rd July 2015, 7.30pm, RE Centre, Holy Ghost Parish: Celebrate the past with joy, live the present with passion, look to the future with hope. Given by Sister Raymunda, OP for the Year of Consecrated Life. All are very welcome to this free lecture which is followed by evening prayer and refreshments. NEWMAN 6TH FORM: thank everyone who contributed to their appeal to help them work at an orphanage in Morocco. £729.45 was collected. FOOD BANK: thank you for your ongoing support. Food donations can be left in the church porch under the table. Many thanks. CONFIRMATION LEADERS: are invited to a meeting at the Presbytery on Wednesday 24th June, 7.30pm to review the preparation course. ST COLUMBA’S COLLEGE: all former/present students, former/present parents and friends of the college are cordially invited to our Jubilee Mass and celebrations on Sunday 28th June at 11.00am at the college. Cardinal Nichols will preside at the Mass followed by a BBQ and afternoon tea to mark 75th year of the foundation of the college by Mr Philip O’Neil in 1939 and the 60th year of the coming of the brothers of the Sacred Heart from America in 1955. RSVP Mrs Nuala McLeod at [email protected] or 01727 892076.
MAYO ASSOCIATION: a fund raising dance at St Joseph’s on Friday 19th June 8pm-late. Music by Eugene Doonan. Tickets: contact 07973 883395 LEITRIM ASSSOCIATION: fund raising dance at St Joseph’s on Saturday 27th June 8pm-late. Music by Country Sounds. Tickets £2.50. LEAGRAVE COMHALTAS: are hosting a concert and session on Sunday 5 July 2015, at St Josephs Parish Centre. Featuring musicians from Douglas, Co Cork. All welcome to attend from 3.00pm. BINGO NIGHT by popular request, the Knights of St Columba are holding another Bingo night on Friday 26th June, 8.00pm in the Sacred Heart Centre. Bring your own eats and drinks. No entrance fee. Book of tickets £5. ANNIVERSARIES: Please pray for those whose anniversaries occur at this time, John Reynolds 1991, Isadora Suarez-Vega 1997, Inacinho Fernandes 2012, William O’Neill 1981, Ellen Smith 2006, Ann Marie Daly 2013, Larry Edward Balfe 2014, Bridget Hickmott 1966, Teresa Habershon 1981, Mary Smyth 1989, Margaret Canny 1994, Marie McGarry 1997, Frederick Collard 1995, Dorothy Joan Tasker 1997, Matilda St Rose 2000, Gordon Stewart 2009, Mary Ellen Browne 2009, Timothy Murray 1971, Patrick Newton 1973, Eleanor Dawtrey 1998, Tony Quigley 2007, Justin Lobo 2007, Moira Hamill 2008, Louise Columba McGuire 2013, baby Olivia Hope Broderick 2014, Roy Hart-Davies 1966, Bernard Hill 2006, Cleston Mascarenhas 2007, Agnes Diggin 2014, Bela Sianto 1981, James Lawler 1987, Loi Fat Chan 2003 & Patrick Higgins 2004 X May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen