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Recently died Parish Contacts Please keep the deceased and their families The Priory 67 Talbot St. Canton, Cardiff Holy Family & St Mary of the Angels tel: (029) 20 230 492 in your prayers at this particularly distressing Parishes of St. Mary’s and Holy Family Keyston Rd, Fairwater CF5 3NP Kings Rd, Canton CF11 9BX time. new email address is: [email protected] Miss Patricia Russell: The funeral will be held Canon Peter Collins 30th August-6th September 2020 22nd Sunday of the Year Cycle A e-mail: [email protected] on Tuesday 1st September at 11.45am Fr Nick Williams Holy Family Masses Mr Glyn Jones: The funeral will be held on e-mail: [email protected] Deacon Professor Maurice Scanlon THE SUNDAY READINGS ARE OF TODAY’S FEAST. Thursday 3rd September at 12pm e-mail: [email protected] Sunday: 22nd Sunday of the Year (30th August) tel (029) 2021 2651 Jeremiah 20:7-9. Mrs Jheremay Dalet: The funeral will be held Website: cardiffwestcatholics.org.uk On more than one occasion, Jeremiah frankly expresses his re- 6pm Vigil Mass For the Parishioners of Holy Family on Friday 4th September at 10.15am 11am Welfare of Merwyn Clifford’s Family Bank details for standing orders, which are directly linked luctance and frustration in the face of what the Lord God is ask- Mrs Stella Beaverstock: The funeral will be ing him to undertake. There is a refreshing honesty displayed to the respective parish accounts are as follows: when the prophet declares that the Lord had ‘seduced’ or Sunday: 23rd Sunday of the Year (6th September) held at 1pm on Friday 4th September ‘overpowered’ him. Jeremiah highlights the cost of his ministry Account name: Archdiocese of Cardiff in service to the Lord. Whenever he speaks in accordance with 6pm Vigil Mass Brian, Michael & Sandra Parsons Mr William Huntley: The funeral will be held Sort code: 20-18-23 (for both) the Lord’s command, there is nothing but ‘violence and ruin’. 11am Monica & Eddie Brown on Monday 7th September at 2pm St Mary’s Acc No: 03285375 Jeremiah then says that he will neither think about the Lord nor Holy Family Acc No: 63656861 will he speak in his name any more. Despite this declaration, the St Mary’s Masses Mrs Jane O’Keefe: The funeral will be held on prophet then reveals that the Lord has embedded a ‘fire burning St Mary’s SVP contact number 07731847622. in the heart’ that impels his service and ministry. Our engage- Sunday: 22nd Sunday of the Year (30th August) Wednesday 9th September, exact time TBA ment with the Lord God is never straightforward. We all display Mr Edward Brown: Funeral details to follow Parish Safeguarding Reps a certain reluctance to follow where the Lord is leading us. How- 10am People of the Parish Mrs Ellery Hennessy (Holy Family) ever, the Lord is persistent and insistent. He demands that we 12pm Sister Marietta RIP Mr Jack Meggett (St Mary of the Angels) confront our own rebellion. The tensions of our life are built 6pm John Y.K. Chau Eternal rest grant unto them Primary Headteachers: upon a resistance to the will of God. In the company of Jeremi- Monday of Week 22 in Ordinary Time (31st August) ah, let us be honest with ourselves and learn how to resist the O Lord and let perpetual Holy Family temptations to isolate ourselves within a denial of our responsi- 9.30am Kevin O’Sullivan light shine upon them. May Mrs Louise Mills Tel: 20565354 bilities. 12.15pm Marjorie Belt they rest in peace St. Mary’s Tuesday of Week 22 in Ordinary Time (1st Sept.) Romans 12:1-2. Miss Claire Russell Tel: 2022 5680 9.30am Dominic O’Keefe Secondary Headteachers: “Do not model yourselves on the behaviour of the world around 12.15pm Godfrey & Currie Families Corpus Christi you.” This Pauline declaration does not constitute a denial of the 7-8pm Adoration & Benediction fact that atheists or humanists can be good people. However, Wednesday of Week 22 in Ordinary Time (2nd Sept.) Mr Patrick Brunnock Tel: 20761893 even though an atheistic or humanistic ethical system can seem Mary Immaculate comprehensive, such systems will always lack a secure anchor. 9.30am Holy Souls Mr Huw Powell Tel: 2059 3465 Without reference to God, all human systems will be subject to 12.15pm Mary Y.L.Cheung REMEMBRANCE OF OUR PARISHION- the relativism of circumstance. Truth is gradually yet inexorably Thursday: St Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of ERS WHO ARE MOST ISOLATED AND St David’s 6th Form College Mr Mark Leighfield Tel: 20498555 diminished. ‘Thinking beings’ are called to embrace what is per- the Church (3rd September) VULNERABLE fect, nothing less will do. The Christian faith, with its ethical im- 9.30am Julia Butler plications, is the unique ingredient in human experience that 12.15pm Bernard Belt enables us to embrace, without calculation, a confident and sta- I ask all parishioners to keep contact with those 7-8pm Adoration & Benediction you know to be on their own during this peri- ble selflessness. Did you know we have a c h a n - Friday: St Cuthbert, Bishop (4th September) od. If you know of anyone who is in any kind nel; St Mary of the Angels & Holy Family, Matthew 16:21-27. 9.30am Intention of the Holy Father of need then please contact the Priory directly. Cardiff on which we regularly post videos Last Sunday we heard Peter’s acknowledgement of Jesus’ identi- 12.15pm In Thanksgiving (Lee) Let us help one another to stay safe and well. explaining points from the catechism, tours ty as Son of God and his role as Messiah. As Messiah, Jesus now Saturday of Week 22 in Ordinary Time (5th Sept.) of the church or discuss Saints’ feast days? makes clear that he will suffer grievously, be put to death and 12.15pm Holy Souls only then be raised up on the third day. Having previously been inspired by God the Father to offer his proclamation of faith, Sunday: 23rd Sunday of the Year (6th September) Peter so very quickly falls victim to the influence of Satan. In 10am Michael Maher Pray for the Sick remonstrating against Jesus’ prophecy concerning suffering and 12pm Philip Capel sacrifice, Peter reveals his own future denials and represents the 6pm People of the Parish Holy Family: David Rogers, Catherine Driscoll, Kay & Paul Parris, Sheila Ferriter, Collette denial of all humanity. Too easily and repeatedly do we strive to Griffin, Bernard Perry, Vivian Miller, Valentine, Henry & Tony Fernandez, Gary Sutton, Mary Bodman, Brian manipulate God. We are inclined to resist the teaching of Jesus The Angelus and Prayer During the Day live- Webster, Martin, Susanna, Chris Collins, Hanna Marenghi, Louise Macpherson. when he says, “If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him streamed at 12pm daily. renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me.” Honesty St. Mary’s: Fr Christopher Delaney, Bethan Williams, Jean Allen, Madison Lane, John & Marian Lamb, Jean Evening Prayer live-streamed at 7pm daily except demands that we acknowledge how challenging it is to accept Sundays. Hayman, Will Johnson, Laurence Tobin, Nadasiri Ifada, Cecily Hughes, James Church, Margaret Griffiths, this teaching. What will we gain if we win the whole world and Tuesday & Thursday 7-8pm Adoration & Benedic- Anthony Jackson, Tom Hopkins, Joanne Coakley, Helen Ward, Doreen Utley, Maria Sullivan, Carina Foster, ruin our very life? tion (including Evening Prayer) Thomas Hyde (now living in Canada), Ivan Sadka, Mary D’Alp A Parish of the Archdiocese of Cardiff, registered charity No 242380 FEASTS OF THE WEEK MY FIRST ANNIVERSARY AS PARISH PRIEST It was on Saturday 31st August 2019 that I took up residence at the Priory and assumed my responsibil- Thursday 3rd September – Memoria of St.Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church. ities as Parish Priest of St.Mary of the Angels and Holy Family. Who could have predicted the course St.Gregory was born at Rome around 540, the son of a wealthy senator. In his adulthood, he would of events? The first six months proceeded as predicted, with the inevitable issues of transition and the first enter the service of the state but in 573 he renounced his not insignificant fortune and founded struggle to familiarise oneself with names and practicalities. There was the progress towards Christmas six monasteries in Sicily with a seventh in Rome. The Roman monastery was dedicated to Saint An- and then preparations for Lent and Easter. The events of March brought us all to an abrupt halt. The drew. Gregory entered the monastic life at Saint Andrew’s. He soon embraced a severe austerity speculation and tension built up over the first two weeks of the month and then we entered the long which would leave a lasting mark on his health. Pope Benedict I called Gregory to leave the confines silence. of the monastery to become one of the seven deacons of Rome. Benedict’s successor, Pelagius II, appointed Gregory as his ambassador to Byzantium. Six years later, Gregory returned to Rome to be- Our capacity to live-stream our celebrations at St.Mary’s proved to be a great blessing. I arrived with a come Abbot of his former monastery. Gregory had been impressed by the bearing and behaviour of certain amount of scepticism regarding the prospect of being constantly live-streamed, however, some Anglo-Saxon slaves he had encountered in Rome and had hoped to lead a delegation of mis- Fr.Nicholas and myself soon adapted to celebrating without a congregation being physically present.