AUTUMN SPIRITUALITY TALK: Conference Centre. House, Ingrave Road, Brentwood CM15 8AT on Saturday 15th September 2018 - 10.30 CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY AND ST HELEN a.m. - 12.00 noon. Topic: One Bread One Body. Speaker: Thomas McMahon, HOLY CROSS AND ALL SAINTS Emeritus of Brentwood. For further details: call 01277 265285 or email: [email protected]. Father Martin Boland Father Patrick Daly

BRENTWOOD URSULINE YEAR 7 OPEN EVENING Tuesday 25th Email: [email protected] September from 6.30 – 9.00 p.m. with Headteacher’s talks at 6.30 and 7.30 Website: www.cathedral-brentwood.org p.m. Open mornings will be held on Wednesday 26th and Thursday 27th Facebook: www.facebook.com/BrentwoodCathedral/ September (by appointment only) from 9.30 – 11.00 a.m. Twitter: cathedralb ROYAL SCHOOL OF CHURCH MUSIC AREA FESTIVAL Saturday 29th Clergy House: 01277 265235 September, Chelmsford Cathedral. A special one-day come and sing event for choirs and individual singers led by James Davy, Master of the Music, Deacon Paul: 01277 810321 Deacon Quentin: 01277 200925 Chelmsford Cathedral and featuring the music of Martin Shaw who died 60 years Deacon Simon: 01277 225237 ago in 1958. All choirs and individual singers are welcome. Registration 10 a.m. Festival Service 4 p.m. Registrations For more information, telephone TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (B) (answerphone) 01277 233302 or e-mail [email protected] or see the website www.rscm-eel.org.uk. Sunday 2nd September 2018

THE AND THE EUROPEAN PROJECT A study day on this theme will be held at the Church of Christ the Eternal High Priest, Gidea Park, RM2 6DH on Saturday 6th October. The speaker will be Fr Ashley Beck, In preparation for the Eucharistic Congress in Liverpool priest of the archdiocese of Southwark, and Senior Lecturer in Pastoral Ministry at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. The day begins at 11.00 a.m. and ends at 7-9th September 3.00 p.m. Admission is free and refreshments will be provided. Please bring your there will be a special own lunch. Please make your booking by email to [email protected].

BCYS YOUTH GATHER 20th - 21st October 2018, Outdoors, East Holy Hour Mersea. This event is open to those in school year 9 and above. One of our of prayer, silent meditation and adoration before the guest speakers for this Autumn will be the lively, humorous and engaging speaker Fr Paul Keane, Vice Rector of St Mary’s College, Oscott. The cost Blessed Sacrament includes lunch and dinner on Saturday 20th, breakfast and lunch on Sunday 21st, two Mersea activities, 2 BCYS workshops, and a night in a Mersea log in the Cathedral every weekday cabin – all of this for just £50. This price is thanks to National Youth Sunday parish collections, to help us subsidise such opportunities. Applications for this from 7.00-8.00 p.m. year’s Youth Gather on Mersea Island will open on the evening of 29th July, on our return from Lourdes. You can apply by creating an account at www.bcys.net beginning on Monday 3rd September. and applying on the Events page.

CALAIS LIGHT Calais and the plight of the migrants there is being forgotten. Come and rest in the presence of the living God. Would you like to join us to help prepare meals in Calais from 28th - 30

September? Our car convoy (23 of us) has only 1 space left so you’ll need to be quick and sign up: www.calaislight.com, our Facebook page or by emailing at Please ensure that you are aware of the position of [email protected]. The next trip will be 30 November – 2 December. all the emergency FIRE EXIT doors in the Cathedral The Brentwood Diocesan Trust – Registered Charity No. 234092 3) Being friendly. Taking time before Mass to say hello, to greet others (not CATHEDRAL PARISH NEWS just our friends but especially visitors and people we do not know), to offer Parish Office Hours: 8.30 a.m. – 4.00 p.m. Monday to Thursday a handshake of welcome and a friendly glance—these acts are an essential part of our participation. This should not be a full blown conversation (that How we can Participate More Actively in the can happen after Mass), but if you see someone sitting on their own, say “hello” to them. Like Christ who welcomed all who came to him—even Celebration of the Mass sinners – we are called to do the same.

Thank you for coming to Mass. Thank you for joining the community in this It’s not the priest’s “job” alone to welcome others especially in a community public worship of God. Thank you for coming into the presence of Christ and as large as our own and with so many visitors and new people each week. being a witness of Him to others. This is everyone’s “job”. There are those among us on Sunday who feel

But now that we are here as a community, how might we actively and fully isolated and alienated, so many hungry for a sign of welcome. We know participate in this celebration? How might we become participants and not that when we pray God listens, God has time for us. But not all of our mere spectators at this Holy sacrifice? How can we move from just passively brothers and sisters believe this; they need signs in order to believe. Every one of us should be a sign of God's hospitality. watching what is going to actively entering into these mysteries? 4) Being well located. Where do you sit? Do you find this is a place that Here are some practical ideas that might help: helps you to engage with the liturgy and the community? Or do you 1. We Come Together (especially if you have children) make for the back rows of the Cathedral, thinking that you cannot be seen or heard? Might it not be better to be 1) Being there. The first action required of us is being present. We need to nearer the front, where any children can better see what is going on and be here because of the importance of our presence as a sign of our faith to you are closer to a door so you can easily slip out if your child gets restless? the other members of the congregation. Christ is present in the Sacrifice of the Mass not only in the consecrated bread and wine but, also, in the 5) Being mindful that we are coming in to the presence of the living God proclamation of the Sacred Scriptures and in the assembly, our gathering and that we are here to worship and give thanks to Him. We do this by together. blessing ourselves with holy water which helps us to recall that we have been baptised into the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. At Sunday Mass we "make visible and manifest to others the mystery of Also, we should take proper time to settle our restless minds, to still our Christ's Body". When we gather together to form God's Holy People, we give active bodies and to pray that our hearts will be open to receiving God’s powerful witness to others of Christ’s real presence among us and, at the transforming life. same time, we help strengthen each other’s faith. 6) Being a responding and singing believer. Praying and taking part in the Your presence makes a real difference. Your presence is needed not to fulfil responses at Mass mean we are participating. A community where every an obligation but as a witness to the community that you care enough to member responds confidently and sings heartily is a participating come to Mass. Your presence says that you believe enough to plan your community. A community that murmurs the responses and prayer and that weekend so that you can be here with us to proclaim the death and does not sing cannot be said to be worshipping God with ay visible resurrection of the Lord. By being at Mass, you are making a very real and conviction or joy. By our body language, our words and by our singing visible declaration of your faith in Jesus. This sign, this witness, not only voices we give witness to what we believe. strengths and nourishes your faith but strengthens the faith of those who see it. Without your presence, our community is diminished and our witness If you do not have the greatest singing voice that does not matter. We to Christ is weakened. should all join in and reflect upon the words we are saying and singing. We can make the thoughts and feelings of the prayers, responses and hymns 2) Being prompt. Being on time and ahead of time says that we consider our own. None of us should stand tight lipped throughout Mass, but all of us what we are going to do to be important to us, more important than the have a duty to contribute to the community’s worship of God: Father, Son things that would keep us at home or any other distractions. and Holy Spirit. THANK YOU for the collection on the weekend of 25th/26th August: £3,360.99 MOTHERS PRAYERS are held fortnightly; the next meeting will be on of which £2,452.71 was Gift Aided. Thank you for your continued generosity and Wednesday 12th September at 10.00 a.m. in Clergy House. All are welcome. support of the parish. CHORAL VESPERS will recommence on Wednesday 12th September at 6.30 COFFEE AFTER 9.30 a.m. MASS today will be hosted by PACE Team; next p.m. and Friday 14th September at 6.15 p.m. week will be the turn of the Catenians. Why not join us for a cuppa and a chat? UPPER ROOM PRAYER GROUP The Upper Room Prayer Group will next meet THE PARISH ON YOUTUBE As part of the mission of the parish, we have just on Thursday 13th September in the Upper Room of the Cathedral from 8.00 – had a video produced that will give people a snapshot of our community. If you 9.15 p.m. A time of prayer, praise, reflection and intercession. For details, call want to see it, go to YouTube and search Parish. You 07974 702771 / 07817 515207 or email: [email protected]. will see lots of familiar faces at prayer and play! When someone asks you what parish you go, show them this video. NEXT SUNDAY’S READINGS: Isaiah 35:4-7, James 2:1-5 and Mark 7:31-37.

THE ANOINTING OF THE SICK is available to anyone who is gravely ill or FIRST RECONCILIATION AND FIRST HOLY COMMUNION PROGRAMME about to have an operation, so if you know someone who would like to receive 2018 - 2019: Please note that the registration form and details of all the this important sacrament then please speak to a member of the clergy or ring programme dates are available in the narthex and the porch of Holy Cross. the office on 265235. Please see Brentwood Cathedral website for more details. The deadline for the return of the registration form is next Sunday 9th September 2018. SICK AND HOUSEBOUND PARISHIONERS: If you know anyone who is unable to come to Mass but would still like to receive Holy Communion in their CONFIRMATION PROGRAMME 2018 - 19 Please note that the registration home, please contact Clergy House so we can put them on our Sick Communion forms and details of all the programme dates are available in the narthex and visits list. the porch of Holy Cross. There will be an additional Information Meeting held for those who have registered for the Confirmation Course on Sunday 7th October at 4.00 p.m. Please make a note of this in your diaries. The deadline for GENERAL NEWS return of the registration form is Sunday 16th September 2018. KERALA FLOODS: AN SVP APPEAL As you have probably seen in the media, JOURNEY IN FAITH PROGRAMME Are you an adult who is interested in terrible floods have been taking place in Kerala in southern India. Hundreds of finding our more about the Catholic Faith, perhaps, with a view to becoming a people have been killed and many more are missing; countless homes have Catholic? Have you been baptised a Catholic but have never been confirmed and been washed away, and the monsoon season is set to continue. Kerala is the have not received the fullness of the gifts of the Holy Spirit? If you are most Christian state in India – it has more churches than any other region. The interested in the course please contact the Parish Office to register your leading Catholic volunteering charity, the St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP), is interest. Please see Brentwood Cathedral website for more details. very active there and they are doing great work helping the victims of the flood in local communities. However, they desperately need funds. Please contribute DO YOU HAVE AN ENQUIRING MIND? Are you 18-35? Do you want to think to the SVP’s Kerala appeal. To donate visit www.svp.org.uk, call 020 7703 3030 more deeply about who God is and what the death and resurrection of Christ or send cheques made out to SVP (write ‘Kerala appeal’ on the back) to SVP, means? If so then An Intelligent Person's Guide to Catholicism course is for you Romero House, 55 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7JB. And please and begins on 19th September. More information is available on the Cathedral remember our sisters and brothers in Kerala in your prayers. website at www.cathedral-brentwood.org. A DAY FOR READERS Calling all who proclaim the Word of God at Mass. A CHAPTER OF CANONS MASS The next Canons Mass will take place in the day of reflection has been arranged to take place at The Becket Centre, Cathedral at 12 Noon next Monday 10th September. All are welcome to attend. Woodford Green on Saturday 20th October 10.00 am – 4.00 pm led by Dr Marian Tolley from Shrewsbury . Book by the Doodle link APOSTLESHIP OF THE SEA invites you to a Mass in the Cathedral in honour https://doodle.com/poll/h49mzkv7hxxqu8tw. For further information email of our patron Stella Maris, Our Lady Star of the Sea on Thursday 20th [email protected] or [email protected] or phone September at 9.15 a.m. Bishop will celebrate the Mass. 01206 385881. SERVICE TIMES, MASS INTENTIONS Saturday THE NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY 8 September 9.15 a.m. Cathedral Intentions of Ann and PARISH DIARY 11.00 a.m.–12 noon - Sacrament of Reconciliation BRENTWOOD CATHEDRAL and HOLY CROSS 6.30 p.m. Holy Cross Holy Souls in Purgatory

Saturday St Sebbi, King of the East Saxons Sunday TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (B) 1 September 9.15 a.m. Cathedral Bernie McMahon R.I.P. 9 September (Education Sunday) 11.00 a.m.–12 noon - Sacrament of Reconciliation 8.00 a.m. Cathedral Intentions of Hugh Collins 12.30 p.m. Cathedral Baptism of Phoebe O’Flynn-Lynch and 9.30 a.m. Cathedral Alan Wakely R.I.P. Charlotte and Rosie Christmas 10.00 a.m. Marillac Intentions of Pat and Lew Lynch 2.00 p.m. Cathedral Baptism of Violet De Looper and 11.30 a.m. Cathedral Bridget O’Connell R.I.P. Sienna Rontganger 1.00 p.m. Cathedral Baptism of John Hurley 6.30 p.m. Holy Cross Tony Cox R.I.P. 6.30 p.m. Cathedral People of the Parish

Sunday TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (B) PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR SICK:- Please pray for all our sick and housebound 2 September 8.00 a.m. Cathedral Leroy Chan R.I.P. parishioners and friends, including: Lawrence Allum, Hermine Bayley, Carmen Blackett, 9.30 a.m. Cathedral Colin Blacksley R.I.P. Sr Eileen Bolger, Stacey Bosley, Josephine Brooks, Toni Bryson, Beryl de Prazer, Charles 10.00 a.m. Marillac Philip Harris R.I.P. Carlton, Tom and Phil Carr, John Carroll, Michael Clifford, Sharon Cornell, David, Baby Arthur Fleming, Rebecca Florendo, Ron Fuhr, Concetta Hall, Tom Horan, Rita Hornsby, 11.30 a.m. Cathedral People of the Parish Ann Hurcumbe, Jess, Joseph, Annette Jones, Billy Jones, James Joseph, Brian Kelleher, 6.30 p.m. Cathedral Margaret Ray R.I.P. Veronica Kelleher, Marion Kelly, Ronald Lee, Tony Maule, Anita McDonald-Liggins,

Diarmaid McMahon, Betty McManimon, Baby Michael, Eliane Moss, Michael Murphy, Monday ST GREGORY THE GREAT, P, D Barney O’Driscoll, Phoebe O’Flynn-Lynch, Kathleen O’Harte, Siobhan O’Leary, Babs Page, 3 September 9.15 a.m. Cathedral Alphonse Apicella R.I.P. Mercedes Payne, Debbie and Brian Perrett, James Quilligan, Mary Robinson, Ted Rogers, 7.00 p.m. Cathedral Holy Hour Anne Rowe, Pat Shaw, Robin Shenton, Daisy Simpson, Bernard Slater, David Spring, Marie Stack, Sarah Storer, Patricia Swadling, TCT, Mark Thompson, Tim, Donald Walker, Tuesday Fr John Warrington, Maria Wallis, Celine Wells, Wendy, Louisa Whiteman, and all our sick 4 September 9.15 a.m. Cathedral Intentions of Jen and Declan Sharkey in Marillac, Mascalls, Brentwood Community, The Beeches, Queens, Nuffield and 7.00 p.m. Cathedral Holy Hour Hartswood Hospitals and St Francis Hospice.

Wednesday CATHEDRAL ANNIVERSARIES: Please remember the following, whose anniversaries 5 September 9.15 a.m. Cathedral John Buggle R.I.P. occur at this time: Esther Metcalfe, Carol Christine Spooner, Bill Dowling, Veronica Ball, 7.00 p.m. Cathedral Holy Hour Joyce Allen, Josie Scully, Valerie Barber, Wolfgang Sarasse, Frederick Howlett, Dorothy 8.00 p.m. Cathedral Youth Mass Norah Gregory, Mary O’Toole, Catherine Wild, Mary Towler, Kathleen Nugent, Bernard Gordon, Thomas Gilham, Sister Stephen OSU, Christopher McKeon, Edward Bohannon, Thursday Sheila Julia Weston, Ann Dimery, John and Mary Banks, Michael O’Sullivan, Giacomo 6 September 9.15 a.m. Cathedral Gina and Pierino Cavellini R.I.P. Panza, Toby Milburn, Thomas Flynn, Alfred Seager, Wilfred Pollard, Josephine Magorrian, 10.30 a.m. Cathedral Service for The Brentwood School Jack Permain, J Maurissen, Margaret Shepherd. Michael Maling, Hannah McDonnell, 2.00 p.m. Cathedral Service for The Brentwood School Caroline Avis, Dan Murphy, Gerry Shanley, Doris Lawlor, David Fairman, Bridget O’Carroll, Donald Clayton, Mary Caddell, Marie Maher, Peter Clarke, Arthur Willis, Teresa Lynch, 5.30 p.m. Grange Ted McCready R.I.P. Abby Julia Hart and Sarah Oliver. 7.00 p.m. Cathedral Holy Hour HOLY CROSS ANNIVERSARIES: Please remember the following, whose anniversaries Friday occur at this time: John Walsh, Norah Costello, Jessica West, Marjorie Raven, 7 September 9.15 a.m. Cathedral Margaret and John Pett R.I.P. John Brien, Edward Houghton, Sir Geoffrey Nightingale, Mary Towler, Daniel Kelly, Agnes 12 Noon Cathedral BUCHS Start of Year Assembly Galcius, Edmond Horgan, William Coles, Eddie Connor, Chris Williams, Rosina Williams, 2.10 p.m. Cathedral BUCHS Start of Year Assembly Jim Connor, Mary Guilfoyle and Edward Gahagan. 7.00 p.m. Cathedral Holy Hour