Parish of St Boniface s2

PARISH OF ST. BONIFACE, SOUTHAMPTON MAY 18th., 2014 FIFTH SUNDAY of EASTERTIDE [A]

“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”

Presbytery: St. Boniface House, 413 Shirley Road Southampton SO15 3JD Tel: 023 80771231 Parish Priest: Father David Sillince Safeguarding Officer: Diana Agacy 023 80907128 Chair of Parish Pastoral Council: Mike Wood 023 80630396 Parish Secretary: Eileen B. Aylett Parish Office opening hours Monday Thursday and Friday 9.00am to 12.30pm Newsletter deadline 9.00pm on Tuesday for inclusion on following Sunday, space permitting. Parish Website: www.st-boniface.org.uk Parish Office e mail: [email protected] This Parish is within the Pastoral Area of Southampton Central & West. RC Diocese of Portsmouth Regd. Charity 246871 The Church is normally open on weekdays 8am-5pm, Saturdays 8am-7.45pm, Sundays 7.30am-5pm

CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK We pray especially for:- (Divine Office week 1) Saturday May 17 ] 6.30pm Mass Irene Andrews, RIP Sunday May 18 ] FIFTH SUNDAY of EASTERTIDE [A] 8.30am Mass Holy Souls First Holy Communion Mass at 3pm 10.30am Mass Father Paolo Molinari SJ, RIP 3.00pm Mass Parish First Communicants Monday May 19 Feast of the DEDICATION of St. JOHN’s 10.00am Mass Eve Croucher, RIP CATHEDRAL, PORTSMOUTH Fourth Station of Light Tuesday May 20 of Easter 5 [St. Bernardine of Siena, Franciscan 10.00am Mass Llywellyn & Teresa Wynne, RIP †L’Aquila 1444] Fifth Station Wednesday May 21 of Easter 5 [St. Christopher Magallanes & 10.00am Mass Tom Lyon, RIP Companions, Martyrs of the Mexican Revolution †1927] Sixth Station Thursday May 22 of Easter 5 [St. Rita of Cascia, Religious †1457] 10.00am Mass Soris Fernando, RIP Seventh Station Friday May 23 of Easter 5 Eighth 10.00am Mass Sidney & Herbert Braby, RIP Station Saturday May 24 of Easter 5 Ninth 10.00am Mass Spanpinato family deceased Station 6.30pm Mass is of 6th. Sunday of Eastertide Confessions Saturdays after 10am Mass and from 5.45pm to 6.15pm PARISH PRAYER GROUP: Fridays 11am-12noon in the Hall, all welcome. REFRESHMENTS in the Hall every Sunday after 10.30am Mass, also Fridays after 10am Mass (for our Parish charity) Please pray for the repose of £1503.27. ‘Connect2Ethiopia’ charity Please pray for those who are sick the soul of Bernard Weaver who died £72.25 (£7849.67 Ethiopia total so far / especially: Colette Morfett, Jane recently, and for those with £31462.66 Ethiopia + previous Willcox, Sheila White, Kathy White, anniversaries at this time: Pat Kainmari ‘Connect’]. Many thanks for Edward Standley, Aileen Lynn, Finnegan, Pat Roberts, Martin these kind contributions. Geoffrey Milford, Gabrielle Loney, Mulvihill, Patrick Sinnett.. Sidney Dugdale, Mary Hoskins, This weekend: Clergy Training fund. Katie Smith. Linda Atkinson, Beryl COLLECTION: Lyons. May 11: Loose £466.97, Envelopes THIS SUNDAY IS FIRST HOLY £536.30. Apportionment: Bankers’ COMMUNION DAY: The Mass is at Orders £320.00, Gift Aid £180.00. Total 3pm and parishioners are welcome to for a ‘New Evangelisation’. There is a actuose, that is, ’attentively’, as attend this if they wish. visitation by the Bishop in December explained in a recent Newsletter. Please pray for our children on this and he will be seeking to know how joyful day: Emily Blackhurst, Kyle we are faring. The evangelisation is DETAILS of the Requiem Mass for Fontiveros, Joseph Jojoe, Holly ‘new’ in the sense that the Church Bernard Weaver RIP had not been Leadbitter, Roberta Millard, must always be renewing itself; the finalised when this Newsletter went to Naimah Mwale, Edera Nandingna, principles are not revolutionary. They print, but will be announced. Daniel Neira-Kershaw, Martin are:- EXPLORING THE LABYRINTH: A Prostak, Kyne Romelo, Charlotte Informing and developing one’s Retreat Association training day at Vado, Deanah Wheeler, Philip Wilk. faith so as to be able to present Wisdom House, Romsey, Saturday Also for their parents and families, and Christ more confidently to the world. June 14, 10am-4pm; suggested our parish catechists: Carole Olding, Represent one’s faith by action offering £30 incl. lunch. Pat Crook, Micheline Brady, Diana and Seek opportunities to lead [email protected] Agacy, Regina Marszal, Bozena others to the faith, or to return to it if or 01794 830206. Szram and Angela Wood. they have fallen away. During the Mass Jessica Carmen All these three things according to “ CALLED & GIFTED”: three part Nandingna will be baptised, while one’s abilities, personality and state of programme to help Catholics discern Heidi Abane Conduct will be life. It is not expected that everybody their gifts; leader: Sherry Weddell. At baptised at the 10.30am Mass. should become a theologian like St. Botleigh Grange Hotel, Hedge End, May the Lord grant them long lives, Thomas Aquinas or a mystic like St. Friday June 27, 7-9pm & Saturday and many days to enjoy their Hildegard of Bingen. June 28. 9-5pm. Costs paid by prosperity. These are the areas of focus for the diocese (not including overnight hotel meeting. It is not a meeting about stay). Full details and booking: First Holy Communion party in the ‘nuts and bolts’ which would only portsmouthdiocese.org.uk/calledandgi Hall this Wednesday, May 21, at 6pm. waste valuable time. fted.

REGINA CAELI SOUTHAMPTON COUNCIL OF SIGNIFICANT WEDDING Queen of Heaven, rejoice, alleluia, FAITHS Annual Open meeting this ANNIVERSARIES: this annual Mass For he whom you were worthy to Sunday at Medina Mosque, 2.30-4pm. and Reception will be celebrated by bear, alleluia. Guest speaker John Denham MP. Bishop Philip at St. Bede’s, Has risen, as he said, alleluia; Basingstoke, on Saturday June 28, at Pray for us to God, alleluia. UCM talk “End of Life Care – how to 11am. Those celebrating 25th., 40th., Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary, give emotional support to those 50th., 60th. or 60th+ anniversaries are alleluia, affected”. In the Hall, this Wednesday invited to apply (either to Fr. David or For the Lord is risen indeed, May 21, 8-9pm. Speaker: Tina Quinn, via the online form on the diocesan alleluia. Pastoral Assistant. All are welcome. website Further information tel. 07827 810457. (www.portsmouthdiocese.org.uk, click [replacing the ‘Hail Mary’ throughout on ‘Significant Wedding Anniversaries Eastertide] NEXT SUNG MASS with “CANTORES Mass’ or e-mail: MICHAELIS”: [email protected] Diocesan PRAYER INTENTIONS: Su: Friday June 13 at 7.30pm; St. .uk St. John the Evangelist, Lee-on-Solent; Anthony of Padua’s day. M: Dioceses of the Province; Canons Byrd: Mass for five voices GREAT SOUTH RUN with CAFOD of the Cathedral Chapter; Parish of St. Palestrina: Iustus ut palma against global poverty, Sunday John’s Cathedral, Portsmouth; T: St. Bruckner: Os iusti October 26 (mini- and junior run Saviour, Totland Bay; W: St. Mary, Stanford: Beati quorum via Saturday October 25). Would you like Ryde; Th: Parish Prayer Groups; F: Byrd: Ave verum corpus to run in ‘Team CAFOD’? Cold Ash Centre, Thatcham; S: Our Gregorian Chant for the day. Information/registration 01252 Lady Help of Christians, Farnborough. 329285 or [email protected]. Remember that worship by prayerfully ‘receiving’ a text sung on one’s behalf Ginni Hartley would like to thank by others (a practice which long pre- everyone for their love and support PARISH MEETING organised by the dates Christianity) does not constitute after the recent death of her mother, Pastoral Council (green leaflets still in a ‘concert’, as some unwisely say. It Eve. Your kind thoughts have been the church) Tuesday May 27, 7-8pm corresponds to one of the different passed on to her brothers Gavan and in the Hall. This meeting revolves forms of participating in worship round the parish response to the call Richard. Please accept this as a personal thank you, as messages of Lego (which Paul didn’t know about) support are too numerous to reply to rather than flesh, bone, nerves and individually. Any donations to the sinews. For Paul “soul” meant the family’s nominated charity, the British proper, vigorous animation of the Heart Foundation, can be made via human body as a body, while “spirit” R.C.Payne and Co. (opposite the meant ourselves fully living as God Presbytery). intends, that it to say in Christ. He compares the “soul-life” of Adam with YOUTH CLUBS: Junior [‘Frogz’] for the “spirit-life” of Jesus Christ, and says ages 8-10, first & third Fridays of the that it is this latter which is now open to month during termtime, 6-7.15pm. us. Next meeting: June 6. It is the equivalent of what Jesus means Senior [‘Fanning the Flame’] for ages when he says “I have come that we may 12-18 Fridays weekly, 7.15-9pm. have life, and have it to the full”, or St. Come and Join us for a shared meal Irenaeus in his famous much-quoted next Friday May 23. remark “the glory of God is man (and Both in the Hall, all welcome. Details woman) fully alive”. and dates from Angela Wood (023) Notice it’s not a question of our 8063 0396. dividing our life into compartments. I asked a parishioner if I could quote them (anonymously, of course) when SORRY about the hole in the car park. they said: “I don’t feel I have a proper No, we didn’t know it was going to spiritual life”, to which I replied: “there’s happen, either. Nor that they’d go no such thing. There’s just life”. away leaving it half done. Add it to An exasperated priest wrote recently the many other current digging-up that he was approached by someone calamities in town... who said: “I am spiritual but not religious” (the sort of remark which THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: goes with “You don’t need to go to “ Body, soul and spirit”. Those are church to believe in God”) and replied: words we readily associate with the “Well, I’m religious but not spiritual”. Christian faith, but though they may trip Which was said slightly tongue in off the tongue, are we happy about cheek, but made the important point what they mean? that there is no separate individual “Body” may seem clear enough, though component known as “spirituality”; this a body is a body whether it is living or derives from our Western mania for dead, and there is a great difference categorising things. between those two, obviously. “Soul” Of course we are called to a holy life we often think about as some vague (that is a vital emphasis of Vatican II) component (place?) located in us but that means a life steeped in Jesus maybe like an air bubble which is Christ. A most influential text of the released when we die. “Spirit” we Orthodox Church is called “The life in probably associate with “Holy Spirit”, Christ”, just that. but find it difficult to see what the So stop worrying, and go on living! difference is between “spirit” and “soul”. Especially as in ordinary speech we talk about putting ourselves “heart and soul” into something, meaning with full commitment, while in music the words con spirit – “with spirit” – simply mean “lively”. It’s not helped by the fact that Paul uses these terms at the end of his first Letter to the Corinthians rather differently. For Paul “body” is more or less what we would expect, except that he sees it as a framework, a structure, not animated in itself, which might as well be made of