HeartStone: Sacred Heart & St John Stone, Ainsdale Living the Love of Christ: everyone welcome, everyone matters, everyone involved.

Sunday 13th June: Celebrating Christ’s Sacred Heart Church & Spirituality Virtual Church & Community Service & Community Sat 5.30 Mass in Church: Gerry Lovelady (B) Archdiocesan Week of Prayer Pat Pixton (A) **SH for Synod 2020 with First Holy Communion: Bobby

6.30 Holy Communion outside SH

SUN 10.30 Mass in Church: Thomas Wilde (RIP) SJS 10.30am Mass Zoomed from

Joe Byrne (A) People of Parish church (link within) 12.00 Baptism: Emily Jones SJS Fr Tony goes south to family Mon 9.30am Morning Prayer in Church daily SJS NO Mass today Tue NO Mass today Teresa Slingo Requiem ext

Wed 11-12.00 Private Prayer in church 10.45 SJS Gardens Development 12.00 Mass in church: People of Parish SJS 11-12 Place2Be SJS Hall 7.30 Sharing Scripture (John) 4.30-6 Impact Youth ext Thu No Mass Today 7.30pm John Sullivan’s Talk #3: 1-3pm Ainsdale Foodbank St Maximus the Confessor zoom Fri NO Mass Today Synod Prayer Vigil Sat Synod Saturday, 10.30–4pm via zoom Fr Tony’s 70th birthday

Sunday 20th June – 12th Sunday Ordinary Time - Synod Sunday Sat 5.30 Mass IN CHURCH: SJS

Private Intention (MC) 6.30 Holy Communion outside SH

SUN 10.30 Mass: People of Parish: SJS 10.30am Mass Zoomed Barbara Heaton (ILM) from church 11.15 Socialising on lawn at SJS 3.00 Synod Mass in Cathedral WE JOIN IN PRAYER TOGETHER Support for anyone struggling: Sean T, the unemployed (Find signposts for help at: heartstonerc.co.uk/“Wellbeing& Support”) All who are sick: Monica, Pat Kelly, JT, James. Please advise us of those needing prayers, or who have recovered For all who have died, Andrew Maher, John Skehens, 127,840 UK from Covid. Gina Steed leads a prayer chain: people praying with candles. Intercession intentions welcome via parish office Anne O’Callaghan continues her ministry of praying for HeartStone and our Vision. Parish Prayer - for Mission in our Time and Place God of the Universe, we give you thanks for all that we share, for the faith and community that sustains us. God of our lives, you are challenging us to follow you into the future, inviting us to new ventures, new challenges, new ways to care, new ways to touch the hearts of all. When we are fearful of the unknown, give us courage. When we worry that we are not up to the task, remind us that you would not call us if you did not believe in us. When we get tired or disappointed with the way things are going, remind us that you can bring change and hope out of the most difficult situations. Bless to us, O Lord the doors we open, the thresholds we cross, the roads that lie before us. Go with us as we go, sharing the journey! We are living the Next Chapter of Christianity on Planet Earth: Week #41 Glorifying God by our Lives. LIVING THE WORD AND THE LITURGY #1 Pentecostal Time continues this week, to celebrate The Sacred Heart. We are using the Feast Day’s liturgy for our Sunday in these unusual times. The love of God poured out for us is how we celebrate – the same as we do for the Spirit poured out upon us. The Devotion is famous from St Margaret Mary Alacoque and her visions around 1675, but before that, prayer to the sacrificing human Christ Jesus was already central to faith. Even back to the founding Fathers of the Church, the heart of Jesus as the source from which we share in the saving love of God was preached to the world. And this is the core of the devotion: the knowledge that the Father’s love created and sustains us, but in the humanity of Jesus, God’s Son, is that love shown to be shared in. “Behold this heart…..” says Jesus. It is a matter of having the eyes to see, that is, the heart to feel….as in My Fair Lady : “…don’t talk of love, SHOW ME!” The Heart Shown on the Outside of Jesus Body is the vision of what comes forth from within, from the heart, le couer, the core, centre. This showing is trying to extend to more and more people the realization that God’s love is real, for them, can be contacted, and this a picture of what it is like. The picture of the heart has flames – the warmth and passion of love; but also a crown of thorns and a pierced wound – love able to suffer and sacrifice for those he loves; and rays of golden light radiating out from the wounded, warm heart – the glory and light that survives death and is shared out to those who will accept. The ministry of St Margaret Mary and her followers is to work to let more KNOW this, SHARE IN this love. It is the sharing in that love that is the point of the showing of it….not even just the adoring of it! Thus, St Paul’s prayer in the Scriptures today is for us also: o that we be given the power through His Spirit for our hidden self to grow strong o bold enough to approach God in complete confidence, through our faith in him o so that Christ may live in our hearts through faith o so that we are planted in love and built on love….knowing the love of Christ o to be filled with the utter fullness of God. In 1899 Pope Leo XIII urged the world to be consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Our Next Chapter of Christian Mission on Planet Earth could do worse – this Era of Covid Christians could surely benefit from showing such love in the devotion, and in our devotedness to our HeartStone Vision: Living the Love of Christ: everyone welcome, everyone matters, everyone involved.

➢ LITURGY THIS WEEK: we offer a change of venue for this weekend only: ➢ Saturday Evening Covid Eucharist in Sacred Heart Church at 5.30pm ➢ Sunday Morning covid Eucharist in St John Stone Church, at 10.30am and this mass is shared with all who wish via a zoom link from church. Join with this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83681509911?pwd=UEh2YmNyTGZtSm1HcThkRjRkRGp2UT09 Meeting ID: 836 8150 9911 Passcode: 865215 ➢ HOLY COMMUNION: offered with a short prayer at 6.30pm on Saturdays outside Sacred Heart ➢ HOME COMMUNIONS can be requested, if you are able to come to your front door. ➢ VIRTUAL LITURGY: Click for links to Masses in England & Wales Prayer&Resources from the Archdiocese of Liverpool CAFOD resources and locally also at Birkdale Catholics.

OUR COVID CONTEXT: This Monday 14th we await the news! Will Step#4 go ahead on 21st? Will it be partial? When the government makes the announcement, we consult the Archbishop for our North West decisions, and Fr Tony will decide what changes. But be aware: all is conditional still……. Our Green Transitioning Time is served – hopefully – by the new look G7 having a fresh start, with the Queen and the leaders visiting the Eden Project, and the Christians making a vital input from Truro Cathedral on the Thursday night. The Church and State are both focused now on the lead up to Cop26 in Glasgow in November. A fresh start NATO has got to be a good digital advance as well in a post Brexit world. The Global increase of educating girls is another welcome fresh start.

HEARTSTONE’S VISION FOR THE FUTURE: Our Vision Statement and Priorities of Mission are now accepted and at work among us, and on Friday the new Parish Vision Team met with Fr Tony, looking ahead with collaboration in the 5 Facets of a Fully Funtioning Parish. Our parish Prayer is once more the one used since Pentecost 2016 and can be found on the website and above.

The Parish Open Forum on Thursday 24th June at 7.30pm in St John Stone’s Parish Centre Hall will enable us to discuss and devote ourselves to what emerges by then from the Covid context, the Archdiocesan Synod next weekend, and developments from our Fresh Start this Pentecost: • suggestions for the agenda welcome in writing to the parish office from now on • receiving updates is listed: eco life, time for youth, neighbouring, liturgy, looking towards September • we are planning this to be a hybrid event, enabling physical presence and virtual joining by zoom

The Archdiocesan Synod 2020 continues now with the Week of Prayer before the Synod Assembly next Saturday. Attached are the prayers we will be praying each day from the 13th until the 20th of June. Please do join us in prayer each day when you’re able to, or join us on our Synod Youtube or Facebook page at 12 noon where the prayers will be shared each day from different places around the Archdiocese. See also the attachment with this newsletter or find it here. You can also open the prayers here: https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/synod2020voting.appspot.com/o/60b647c304077-Synod+- +Week+of+Prayer.pdf?alt=media Father of love and compassion, with trust in your great mercy we place our Synod into your hands. Be with each member of our Synod and guide them with the help of Your Holy Spirit. Give us all the wisdom and the courage to respond in new ways to the challenges we face and to the needs of our brothers and sisters, so that we may become ever more closely the Church you are calling us to be. We make this prayer in the name of Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen. A Global Synod of the Universal Catholic Church has now been announced by Pope Francis and his Vision Team of Consultors. This will begin in Rome this Autumn and progress to a final assembly in autumn 2022.Watch this space next week…..

SOCIALISING o DANCE PARTY FRIDAY 25th JUNE AT SJS from 7.30pm: IF Boris says on Monday 14th that from 21st it is permissible, and we check ourselves to decide it is safe, then the Fresh Start includes our first return to dancing on this date, including celebrating Fr Tony’s 70th. • Leanne James is the entertainment for our opening party • the bar will be open, table service only on one way system, ventilation for safety (bring a pully?) • this is a free event, no tickets, and first drink on Fr Tony the 70 year old • our Covid secure capacity is 60, 10 tables of 6….. wait and see about dancing with masks off??? • attendance will be through reserved seats by phone, giving your name, contact number, names of others with you…..starting from Wed 16th June, when Donna will decide IF we are going ahead because….. PLAN B is having to cancel or modify if Boris doesn’t clear all restrictions on 21st!!!!! o OUR SOCIALISING TEAM have made a great start now, and they are Donna, Irene, June, Pat, Kerry and Rosanne when she can. They will meet next around Tuesday 22nd, and on their WhatsApp group. Other volunteers are needed and welcome now for other roles and activities eg the helping on the dance night and see below, and we will ensure Sacred Heart dates are co-ordinated in the parish calendar. o SJS PARISH CENTRE: In Step #4 Donna comes off furlough on 21st, the Club opens on 22nd evening. We have invested in security with outside lights, alarms and new high grade doors, wheel chair friendly and secure, into the parish hall. Hiring is open for bookings from 21st, as is Sacred Heart Hall also, and we are installing a new, improved yale lock on sacred heart’s door for added security. New keys will be distributed. o Socialising After Mass: from next Sunday after the 10.30am mass in SJS you are invited to bring your flask (what is in it can be secret!) and gather on the lawn, socially safe, and some chairs will be provided. We can begin with this and see how we can progress….any ideas? o Hospitality on Other Occasions: can we stretch to provide a welcome with hospitality at other events e.g.at the launch day of using the SJS Gardens. Tea or Coffee or Orange, scones or such….volunteers please contact Pat or Andrew Curtis or Fr Tony. Have a look below, and whatever time you can spare. o Coffee and Chat at Sacred Heart is hoping to return in July

NEIGHBOURING o “Woodvale & Ainsdale Volunteering Enterprise" – WAVE – is HeartStone’s service to the local community by providing this hub for networking of people and groups who want to help life around here. We are planning together with: • Churches Together in Ainsdale (CTiA), Improve Woodvale and Sefton CVS • Ainsdale Lunch and Leisure (ALL) and Woodvale and Ainsdale Community Association (WACA) • Our Place2Be, Woodvale Community Food Market, and the Foodbank (Trussel Trust) • Ainsdale in Bloom, Open Gardens in Ainsdale, Bridge Inn Community Farm and Edda Community Arts o Our padlet tells you more and asks for your views on developing service to people…feel free to add comments: St John Stone's Gardens .....Your Gardens - Your Say! (padlet.com) o At present we still meet by zoom, so the next zeet is on Thursday 22nd June at 7.00pm for those who request

o ST JOHN STONE GARDEN LAUNCH DAY: Saturday 26th June, 11am to 4.00pm • this is our next step by raising awareness of inviting neighbours to enjoy our gardens, consult with parishioners and local residents about ideas for how to use them, and attract and invite volunteers to help and serve in the activities • The Millennium Garden is open to browse through the various zones for wild flowers, bird houses, bug hotels, story- telling circle, den for socialising, vegetable growing patch, sitting and enjoying nature • other ideas are coming in for a fountain, a prayer tree, spot the red squirrel, grow your own • Other plans are the Bouncy Castle, Pop Up Soccer, BBQ around lunch time – tea and scones please with some parish volunteers for hospitality, advertising the Parish Centre and Club for future use. See the attachment to this newsletter

IT’S TIME FOR YOUTH o Our Parish is committed in the Fresh Start to serving as we can the needs of young people. As many as possible please think and feel, so we can discuss and pray, cultivate the best attitudes and find opportunities to serve the needs of the Covid Young, with alliances with others. We dedicate at the Liturgy of 27th June. • our core team began contacting time last Friday. Anne and Catherine, Steve and Fr Tony started in the Millennium Garden with a prayer and set out to talk to young people around the area. We are liaising with allies like Dennis and Clare in Christ the King School for contacts and service, and also with Tabz and Hetty from the School Workers Trust who announce now: • Confirmations: years 8, 9, 10 are prepared at school, and September’s year 8 will be also, for the sacrament to be celebrated with the Bishop in October and November as a deanery. Anyone from age 13 or older can ask to be confirmed on those dates. and registration must be entered now, by July 31st • IMPACT YOUTH is ready to meet face to face again, with outdoor sessions provided by Churches Together in Ainsdale, and Southport & Area Schools Worker Trust, for 11 to 18 year olds. Meet outside Liverpool Road Methodist Church each Wednesday until the summer hols, 4.30-6pm, to reconnect with young people of the area. To make sure we do so safely, those attending will need to provide contact details for parents/carers. Consent forms can be had on arrival - or downloaded from http://impact.safesp.uk ADULT FAITH FORMATION: Our lifelong learning is ably served again with John Sullivan’s 3rd talk in his series on Lights for the Journey: this Thursday at 7.30pm by zoom – Maximus the Confessor. All welcome, with a chance for q and a also. Elders and Youngsters: our Vision Team project led by Val Stroud continues to ask among ourselves and others, where have all the others gone? What has stopped people joining in parish life? How can we learn new ways?

OUR ALLIANCES Christian Unity has never been more important not had impetus to improve. As part of our Fresh Start we will review our progress at the next Covenant Committee meeting of Churches Together in Ainsdale (CTiA) on Monday 21st June at 7.30pm by zoom: what does unity/harmony look like these days? Are we progressing with our audit of who does what to serve local people? Can we invite OCTAVE to host a return concert? Remembrance Sunday 2021? Irenaeus: the Project for Spirituality is a valued asset, just down the road, with many great opportunities for learning, prayer, spiritual formation and service. See the website at www.irenaeus.co.uk. Catholic Southport: we are joined by ministry to Southport Hospital, Queenscourt Hospice and the new Henley Mental health facility. Synod Members with priests have been invited to join together in service of post Synod Southport on Friday July 2nd to make a good start SABBATICAL From Wednesday 30th June until August 12th Fr Tony will be making the first half of his sabbatical in a hermitage in the Carmel monastery in Holy Hill Sligo. Fr Richard Sloan will be serving our liturgy with Vision Team back up.