St Francis de Sales Church Warren Lodge, Warren Road, Wash Common, Newbury RG14 6NH Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Priory Road, Hungerford, RG17 0AF Web Site: www.stfrancisdesales.org.uk Registered Charity Number 246871 Parish Priest: Revd Zbigniew Budyn telephone: 01635 40332 Email: [email protected]
Mass Times and Intentions St F – St Francis; OLOL – Our Lady of Lourdes TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME – Year B Date Time Place Feast of the Day Mass Intention Sat Aug 28 6:00 pm St F Sunday Mass Sun Aug 29 9:00 am OLOL Rita & Kevin Monaghan 11:00 am St F People of the Parish Mon Aug 30 Tues Aug 31
Wed Sept 1 9:30 am - OLOL Adoration & Reconciliation Wendy Simmonds RIP 10:00 am Mass 10:00 am -
10:30 Thurs Sept 2 9:30 am - St F Mass 10:00 am Adoration & Reconciliation 10:00 am -
10:30
Fri Sept 3 ST GREGORY THE GREAT, Pope. Doctor of the Church TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME - Year B Sat Aug 4 6:00 pm St F Sunday Mass Sun Aug 5 9:00 am OLOL Bernadette Wilkie RIP
11:00 am St F
Pope’s Intention August 2021 If you would like to be included in the Parish Sick List, The Church please contact the Parish Office. Please pray for Courtney Andrews, Ann Bowyer, Lily Brooke, Bronek (father Let us pray for the Church, that she may receive from of Anna Brooks), Christopher & Robert Brown, Tim Burke- the Holy Spirit the grace and strength to reform Gaffney, Lucy Curtis, Mary Dykes, Emma, Joe Emery, Sam herself in the light of the Gospel. Hearn, June & Jo Howard, Victoria Kilkenny, Evelyn Lavers, Noreen McCann, Deidre McNair Wilson, Shomila Malik, Please help us to continue God's work by supporting Joseph Marletta, Marie O’Sullivan, Daryl Pike, Mary Russell, us financially Elizabeth Sage & Linda Verner, David Kennedy, Arthur Mitchell, Serafino Vagnarelli & Peter who ask for our Lloyds Bank 30 93 04 a/c number 00882993 prayers. Please let the Parish Office know of any changes. PRCDTR Newbury St Francis de Sales
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Mark 7:1-8,14-15,21-23
After a lengthy detour over the past six weeks into the HELPING HANDS gospel of John with its focus on Jesus as the Bread of Life We have a small group of people who will pray each day for and the Bread of Wisdom, we return to Mark’s gospel and a the needs of our parish. legal dispute about ritual purity. The parties to the dispute We can really make a difference by turning to God with all are Jesus, the Pharisees, and some of the scribes or of our hopes, joys and sufferings, encouraging each other by teachers of the law. our prayers, knowing that others are standing with us. At issue for the scribes and Pharisees in the story is the failure of Jesus’ disciples to respect their oral tradition, in HELP this instance to perform ritual washings before eating. From So far, we have had these requests sent in. A family their perspective, the disciples are not “walking” according situation; A sick child: For employment: In thanksgiving; to the tradition of the elders. For the Markan Jesus, “the For mental health and well-being. For a Family under command of God” is paramount, not some distorted extreme stress. Thanksgiving for miracles in a family. For interpretation of it. He offers a hard-hitting counter- broken marriage. For strengthening faith in our family. And critique of their attitude to law. He calls them “hypocrites” thanksgiving for all love we receive from our Lord daily.’ and informs them that the condemnation of the prophet God made the impossible possible. All requests are Isaiah was intended for them. They have so distorted God’s anonymous. law, substituting their own observances for the “commandment of God” that their prayer amounts to nothing If you would like to join us, just send your email to the more than lip-service, their hearts are far from God, and parish office entitled HELPING HANDS. their worship is worthless! For Jesus, there are criteria If you have, a request send it to the parish office entitled other than such observances for determining who is clean or HELP. unclean. He has already declared the leper clean (Mk 1:41- 45). For Jesus, the “heart” is the locus of purity and impurity. For him as for all his people, the heart was the seat of the intellect and of morality as well as of the emotions. In the kin-dom of God, therefore, one’s thoughts, desires, and intentions render one clean or unclean, not one’s attention to hygiene. The latter is important of course, but CAFOD responding to multiple emergencies is peripheral in the grand scheme of things. It is worth across the world applying the criteria provided at the end of the passage to discover whether or not our “hearts” are near or distant CAFOD is responding to significant crises across from our God. -Veronica Lawson RSM the world this week. We are working with local Church organisations in Haiti to deliver
emergency aid to people affected by the An Act of Spiritual Communion: catastrophic earthquake and tropical storm. In My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Most the tragic situation in Afghanistan, we are Holy Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I working to ensure the safety of our local desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot at partners and their communities. We are this moment receive You sacramentally, come at least supporting local aid workers to deliver urgent spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were food and water supplies to hundreds of already there and unite myself wholly to You. Never thousands of people facing extreme hunger in permit me to be separated from You. Amen Tigray in Ethiopia, South Sudan and north-east Nigeria. You can read more about how we can all express solidarity with our sisters and brothers Parish Administrator: Yvonne Eaton affected by these emergencies on the CAFOD The Parish Office is open on Tuesday, Thursday website: and Friday from 10am to 4pm https://cafod.org.uk/News/Emergencies-news. Your compassion, generosity and prayers have helped us to stand together and enable us to "SAFEGUARDING: Should you have any continue to support communities in these safeguarding concerns about a child or vulnerable difficult times. Thank you. adult, please contact the parish safeguarding team (Jemma Polland and Mike Pyne): [email protected]" Virtual Landline Number: 03301334514
COVID-19 Route Map: Step 4 Proposals
1. Background Following guidance from the Catholic Bishops’ Conference we have examined and revised our arrangements which will apply from the week end of 14/15th August. The general principles for creating a safe environment in our church remain in place so that you can continue to feel confident and safe when attending Mass.
2. Mitigation Hand sanitation to continue to be used at entrance and exit to Church and Hall Face coverings/masks to continue to be worn when in church Cleaning to continue as at present
3. Social Distancing and Church Capacity Vigil Mass – to continue as at present with reduced capacity and with social distancing. (Capacity 65) Sunday Mass- i) Transept to continue with reduced capacity and social distancing. (Capacity 16) ii) Main Aisle and Hall to revert to normal spacing. (Capacity 160) ii) Simple card ‘Please leave a space’ to be available at entry to be used if space is desired for social distancing.
4. Acts of Worship Congregational singing now permitted but phased in gently Registration and signing in to continue with the online booking system adapted to revised capacities. No longer needing a one way system Stewards to adapt to be welcomers Holy Water stoups to remain empty Holy Communion to continue to be offered as The Body of Christ by the Priest. It is planned for an Extraordinary Minister to help for the transept. Physical Sign of Peace remains suspended The offertory collection can be resumed with baskets at the exits.