Bridport Catholic Parish serving Bridport, Beaminster & Chideock Part of Plymouth RC Diocese: Registered Charity 213277 Parish Priest: Monsignor Keith Mitchell, The Presbytery, 36 Victoria Grove, Bridport DT6 3AD Telephone 01308 424754 Email [email protected] Honorary Assistant Priest: Fr Cornelis Hooijmaijers SM. Deacon: Rev. Mark Brown 07530 710880 Parish Secretary: Faith Leborgne. Parish Office 01308 422594 e-mail: [email protected] Website www.bridportcatholics.org.uk Chideock website: www.chideockmartyrschurch.org.uk St Catherine’s Primary School, Pymore Road DT6 3TR Telephone 01308 423568 Head Teacher: Mrs Sarah Terrey www.stcatherinesbridport.dorset.sch.uk ______Second Sunday after the Nativity B: Sunday 3rd January 2021 Day Times Place Intention Saturday 2nd 9.00am Confessions St Bail the Great 9.30 am Mass Bridport Eric Lo RIP
2nd of Christmas 6pm Mass Beaminster For the Parish Sunday 3rd 10.00am Mass Bridport Jozef Taraszka RIP 2nd of Christmas Monday 4th 11.00am Funeral Liturgy Bridport Rosaleen White RIP Tuesday 5th 10am Mass Bridport
Wednesday 6th 10am Mass Beaminster Frank & Madeleine Epiphany of the Dougherty RIP Lord 6.00pm Mass Bridport For the parish Thursday 7th 9-10am Adoration Bridport
10am Mass Bridport
Friday 8th 10.00am Mass Chideock
Saturday 9th 9am Confessions Bridport 9.30am Mass Bridport Baptism of OL 6pm Mass Chideock Joe & Leon Stork RIP
Response: The word was made flesh and lived among us
Readings this Sunday – He lived among us.
Ecclesiasticus 24.1-2, 8-12 The wisdom of God has pitched her tent among us Ephesians 1.3-6,15-18 We are his adopted sons John 1.1-5,9-14 The word was made flesh and lived among us
mark the names of the three wise men over their doors, Caspar, Melchior and Baltasar, together with the letters of the new year in the following way: 20+C+M+B+21
A very happy New Year to all our Christus, Mansionem Benedicat readers. May the Lord bring you all Christ bless this home many graces and blessings in 2021. We will bless and distribute chalk on the feast day.
EPIPHANY OF THE LORD WEEKEND MASSES Saturday 6pm Vigil Mass of Sunday Sat Jan 2nd Beaminster Sat Jan 9th Chideock Sat Jan 16th Beaminster Sat Jan 23rd Chideock Sat Jan 30th Beaminster Sundays 10am Mass in Bridport
This Wednesday 6th January: Mass BRIDPORT PARISH 10.00am Beaminster Bridport is a Parish of the Roman 6.00pm Bridport* Catholic Diocese of Plymouth. *This Mass will be streamed Registered Charity No: 213227 Thank you to those who pay money The beautiful feast of the Epiphany is directly into our bank or by cheque. kept on the twelfth day of Christmas The banking details are as follows: and marks the coming of the wise men Account name: to worship the infant Christ, an event PRCDTR Bridport RC Parish which scripture suggests took place in Sort Code: 60-03-29 a “house” and not in the stable. The Account number: - 58653364 feast symbolises the truth that God as is he is in Jesus is for all people and for READINGS NEXT SUNDAY all time. Baptism of the Lord Isaiah 55.1-11Come to the water 1 John 5.1-9 The Spirit and water and blood It is traditional for priests to bless Mark 1.7-11 You are chalk for each family so that they may my Son, the Beloved Bethlehem. The Christmas tree is up in Manger Square but a million visitors IN YOUR PRAYERS are missing. The shutdown of the Our parish school; our tourist industry has left 80% of housebound, those Bethlehem residents with no income who are sick; for nine months now. The Friends are especially Mary Legg, asking for help in responding to the Janet Fry, Ann Fowler many people turning up at their office and Francis Conry; in Bethlehem for help, just to buy food those who have died recently, and medicines. What we give will be especially Rosaleen White and those gratefully accepted and used well. whose Anniversaries occur around this St John’s crib collection is for the Plymouth Diocese Children’s Society. time: Arthur Needhan, Philip Acton-
Bostock, Derek Brown, Mary Carter, SAFEGUARDING Anne Kidd, Sue Rorstad, Leslie Tress, Brian Baiey, Doreen Lucas, Eileen Our Safeguarding Representatives are Johnson, Harry Becket, Louise Sinden, Faith Leborgne 07970 532324 and Margaret Pearson, Muriel Recano, Jean-Paul Draper 07538 414017 Marie Glenton, Mary Reynolds-Grey, Pauline Lewis, Daisy Page, Christopher PARISH AUDIT Dickens, Teresa Warboys, Freda Tomlin,Evelyn Green, David Hodder, Joseph Kijewski, Ethel Legg, Elizabeth McKenna, Betram Cramp, Jo Howards, Mary Heighton, Francis de Silva, Edith Coleman, Clover Watts, Bridget Hayne, Kathleen Stuart, Christopher King, Sidney Foster, Francis Martelli & Arthur Broughton. You should have received an email CRIB OFFERINGS copy of the Parish Audit that we have been asked to complete by the Diocese. If you have not then please ask for one from the Parish Office. It would be really helpful if you could have a look at this and have a think about it. It looks as though we shall not be able to have a meeting about it, so your response to some of the This year at Bridport, these are for the questions would help to provide a basis Friends of the Holy Land. Christmas for a meeting when we can have one was different for all of us this year, but and in the meantime be able to make even more so for Christians in some initial respoonse to the Diocese. Please send responses to the Parish Sunday at Mass. Please remember Office or have them to Fr Keith. Many them, their families and our catechists thanks. in your prayers as they begin their ZOOM COFFEE preparation together. Catechesis is Join Zoom after Mass on Sunday one of the exemptions from the rule of six under Tier 2 & 3 restrictions. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/889361587 37?pwd=dTUwVGNuTUE0Q1pPYUhGO A PRAYER FOR THIS TIME HA4cTB2QT09 Keep us, good Lord, Meeting ID: 889 3615 8737 under the shadow of Passcode - 380738 your mercy in this time of uncertainty PREGNANCY SUPPORT and distress. Sustain and support the Ave Maria Crisis anxious and fearful, Pregnancy Support and lift up all who are brought low; has launched in the that we may rejoice in your comfort Plymouth Diocese to knowing that nothing can separate us offer a listening ear from your love in Christ Jesus our and support to those Lord. with an unexpected pregnancy, or to Amen. those worried about coping with another baby, or those who have been BECOMING A CATHOLIC confronted with a diagnosis of Perhaps you potential fatal foetal abnormality, as well as to women suffering after a have wondered miscarriage or experiencing regret or from time to remorse after an abortion or any other time about the similar situation. Their support line is Catholic Faith? open 7 days per week between Perhaps you 7.30pm – 9.30pm Tel: 01752 916076 have come to church for years FIRST HOLY COMMUNION with a Catholic partner? Perhaps At the you come to Mass from time to moment, it time with us? Perhaps your child looks as though we has been asking you questions or shall have wants to make their first Holy nine Communion? If for this or any candidates other reason, you would like to preparing for this sacrament this year. know more – without any There is a meeting for them and their obligation, then please have a parents this Thursday at 4.30pm in word with Fr Keith or Deacon church to give details of the programme. They will be enrolled next Mark and we can arrange some sessions on what it means to be a Catholic and what Catholics actually believe.