Feasts/Memorials Our Lady of Mount Carmel Newsletter May 2017 28 May 2017 – The Ascension of the Lord Monday 29 – Easter Feria – 7th Week of Easter Tuesday 30 – Easter Feria The Lord is present in our Christian Communities Wednesday 31 – THE VISITATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY - Feast The three readings dovetail together admirably today to give us an excellent June 2017 theology and spirituality of the Ascension. All three readings stress the worshipful Thursday 01 – St Justin, Martyr - Memorial attitude due to the Lord and stress the early Church’s faith that Jesus had come from Friday 02 – Sts.Marcellinus and Peter, Martyrs – Memorial God and returned to God an affirmation of faith in the divinity of the Lord. All three Saturday 03 - St Charles Lwanga & Companions, Martyrs readings also relate the Ascension to the challenges for the Church, especially on the Sunday 04 - Pentecost Sunday level of ministry. Finally all readings imply the conviction that Jesus is now present in new ways that lead to joy, confidence, and praise. Holy Hour/ Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament The Ascension accounts address a common crisis in the early Church due to the Our Holy Hour with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament takes place each continued absence of Jesus and the fact that he did not return as many thought he Friday after the 6pm Mass, for Vocations to the Discalced and to would. (‘It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set’) (1:7). Congregations of Sisters represented in our Parish. All are welcome. Luke tells us that Jesus ascends to the Father so that he can be present to the Church in new ways: in his Word, name, miracles, ministers, rituals, and people. He also points out to his community that the Ascension leads to new challenges for them to spread the Eucharistic Celebration & Healing Service with word throughout the known world, and to do this in the power of the Holy Spirit. Fr Fernando Suarez, MMMP The Responsorial Psalm speaks of the kingship of God over all the earth. It On Thursday 15 June at 2pm, as part of his London Schedule, Fr Fernando reminds us of Moses who went up on Mount Sinai to receive, and bring, the Ten Commandments to guide the lives of the Chosen People. Jesus, too, ascends on high Surez, MMMP, will celebrate a Healing Mass here in our Carmelite Church. to the father’s side to receive and give to the new Chosen People the gift of the Holy All are invited. See details on our Church notice-boards. Contact: Annie Spirit as the new guide of their lives. Cruz: 07960-642677 The Ephesian letter presents the cosmic Christ, head of the one, holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. The author prays that all readers may receive true wisdom and discernment, be enlightened and hope-filled, and reminds them that not only the Weekday Masses: 8.00am, 12.15pm, 6.00pm Church but all creation finds its fulfilment in Christ. Saturday Masses: 8.00am, 12.15pm, 6.00pm (Vigil with Organ/Singer) Matthew is a wonderful pastoral leader who does not want his people to feel Sunday Masses: 8.30am, 10.00am (with Choir), 11.00am (Latin Choir) abandoned but rather urges them to appreciate that Jesus is Emmanuel, always with 12.15pm, 6.00pm (with Choir) them. But he also shows us one of the practical consequences of Jesus’ Ascension. He Holy Day Masses 8.00am, 12.15pm, 6.00pm tells his community what he thinks Jesus would say to them in the changed Bank Holiday Masses: 9.00am, 12.15pm (no 6.00pm Mass) circumstances of their lives: ‘Go therefore and make disciples of all nations’ (20:19). Weekday Confessions: 5.40-6.00pm – Monday-Friday The mission to the Gentiles, such a radical idea in the early Church, is not likely to Saturday Confessions: 10.30-11.30am, 5.00-6.00pm have come from Jesus – in fact in Matthew he advises against it – but it shows us the Carmelite Priory, 41 Kensington Church St., London W8 4BB Church interpreting Jesus’ teaching in the changed circumstances that arose after the Tel: 020-7937-9866 Ascension. Internet: www.carmelitechurch.org The Ascension calls us to deepen our faith in Jesus’ new presence among us. It urges Registered Charity No: 253645 us to abandon any clinging to false expectations about the Lord immediately returning You can keep up-to-date with our Choir via www.carmelitechoir.com to resolve our world’s problems. It recalls to our minds that we must work together to Simon Lloyd, Organist & Director of Music, Carmelite Priory, Kensington. achieve the plans that the Lord gives us. It stresses that it is as the Church community that we now experience the Lord’s continued presence among us. It urges us to courageously interpret Jesus’ teachings for our own changed societies. Today is truly the celebration of the call to maturity as Church (Article by Leonard Doohan).

Bishop Anders Arborelius, OCD to be made Cardinal Corpus Christi Procession on the Streets of London once again Bishop Anders Arborelius, OCD, was born in 1949 in Sorengo, For the fourth year running there will be a Corpus Christi Switzerland, of Swedish parents. He grew up in in Southern Procession through the streets of Central London on Sunday 18 , and he converted to Catholicism at the age of 20. At the age of June, beginning, as last year, at the Church of the Assumption, 22 he entered the in Norraby. He studied in Bruges Warwick Street (behind Regent Street) at approximately 5.30pm. and , and made his Solemn Profession in 1977, and was ordained a Please be at the Church no later than 5.15pm. The Procession will Priest in Malmo in 1979. While in Rome, he obtained a Licentiate in start at the Church of the Assumption, going via Regent Street and Theology. St. Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Stockholm on Oxford Street to St James’s, Spanish Place. Some First Holy 17 November 1998, and he was ordained Bishop on 29 December 1998. He is only the second Catholic Bishop of Stockholm, and the first of Communion Children will lead the Procession. The event will Swedish origin since the . conclude at St James’s, Spanish Place with Benediction at around On 21 May 2017, announced that he will create Bishop 6.45pm, given by Cardinal Pell. All are encouraged to take part. Anders the first Swedish Cardinal on 28 June 2017. * * * * * * * * * * This appointment brings great joy to the whole Carmelite Order and we Carmelite 3-Yearly ‘Chapter’ – May 2017 congratulate and send our very best wishes and many Blessings to As is customary when major changes occur within the Carmelite Bishop Anders Arborelius Community here in Kensington, i.e. the three-yearly Chapter or transfers of Fathers etc., we advise our Parishioners accordingly, and in this An Evening of Catholic Q & A connection we give below results of the recent Chapter held in Dublin in Do you have a Question about the Catholic Faith that you’d like May 2017, and how it affects our Kensington Community. answered? If so, come and ask our crack team of experts at a relaxed Our present Prior, Fr Bob Davies, will shortly move to Gerrards evening of Catholic Q & A. Panel includes: Fr Gerard Sheehan of Opus Cross Carmelite Priory, and in turn we shall have: Fr Christopher Dei, a greatly-esteemed spiritual director; Fr Andrew Pinsent, Research Clarke, OCD, from St Teresa’s, Clarendon St, Dublin, Director, Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, Oxford; as Prior at Kensington, with Fr John Williamson as First Prof. Stephen Bullivant, Director, Benedict XVI Centre for Religion and Councillor. Society, Twickenham. Chaired by Victoria Seed, philosopher, mother and Additionally we shall have Fr.John McGowan, OCD, joining us author, from our Carmelite Monastery, Preston. Our existing three Fathers, Where: At Our Lady of Victories Church, 235a Kensington High St. Fr. Paul Vincent, Fr Luke Dominic and Fr Nathaniel, will When: Tuesday 13th June 2017, at 7.00pm. Cost: £5 entry continue in their present roles in Kensington for the present time, To send questions and to register: [email protected] (plus Fr Fabian OCD, now retired).

Afternoon Tea and Prayer with the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord/ Religious of Mary Immaculate, Saturday 3 June ‘17 World Communications Day Collection The Religious of Mary Immaculate, 15 Southwell Gardens, SW7 4RN Today Sunday, 28 May, Feast of the Ascension of the Lord, is also invite young women aged 18-30 years to Afternoon Tea at 4pm in the World Communications Day. There will be a Special Collection after garden (as above) and listen to a talk about Religious Life and other all Masses for Catholic Communications. Your kind generosity will be issues. This will be followed by a short prayer in the Chapel. Telephone: greatly appreciated. 020-7373-2738. .