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Parish Team NEXT SUNDAY’S READINGS: Canon Anthony Dwyer Parish Priest 1st Reading: Proverbs 8:22-31 Fr. Andrew Chamiec Assistant Priest Psalm: 8:4-9 response v 2 nd Sharon Bowden Administrator 2 Reading: Romans 5:1-5

Gospel: John: 16:12-15

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Canon Anthony writes:-

Today we celebrate the great feast of Pentecost, the birth At all Masses: RESPONSES: Page 7 of the Church, of which we are all a part. The Church is SUNDAY MASS: READINGS: Page 294 comprised of ordinary men and women, very human LET US PRAY individuals. That humanity is obvious right from the For those who are sick: Eddie Boney, Rose Murphy, Thomas beginning, we see it in the disciples who were not a very O’Sullivan, Marie O’Keeffe, Claudio Boggi, Kathy Palmer, Marg Millard, brave group of people. Most of the disciples fled after Margaret King, Michael O’Brennan, Rose Hoaureau, Lucia Pillay, Nutris Jesus was arrested, and weren’t present for his For those recently deceased: Bella Herlihy, Margaret Black For those whose anniversaries are at this time: Rosie McManus, crucifixion. Judas had sold him for thirty pieces of silver. Sheila O’Shea, Antanas Raisys, Margaret Joseph, Major Dillys Davies, Peter, a man of impulse who had proclaimed him as the Ante Grbesa, Domingos Fernandes, Isis Guzman, Eckie O’Sullivan, Margaret Joseph

Christ and promised to follow him no matter what, denied

him three times. THIS WEEK – PENTECOST SUNDAY

Sat 14/5 So it was not surprising that three days after the 6.30pm Vigil Mass Rosie McManus ANN crucifixion of Jesus the disciples are found hiding in a Sun 15/5 PENTECOST 8.30am SUNDAY Claire O’Connor RD locked room for fear of the Jews, as we hear in today’s 9.45am Sheila O’Shea ANN Gospel. It was these weak human beings whom Jesus 10am Antanas Raisys ANN chose to be his witnesses. If our faith in people of 11am Margaret Joseph ANN 12.15pm People of the Parish INT positions of leadership is shaken, or if our personal 6.30pm Major Dillys Davies ANN weakness or doubt overwhelms us, we can surely identify Mon 16/5 FERIA 10.00am Ante Grbesa ANN with the disciples. 12.30pm Edith Hamill RD Tues 17/5 FERIA Into that room, into the midst of the disciples, Jesus goes. 10.00am Domingos Fernandes ANN He meets the disciples as they are, and through his 12.30pm NO MASS presence they are changed, they are transformed. He Wed 18/5 FERIA enables them to see who he is, and that he has risen as 10.00am Rosalind Leney RD he said he would. Jesus doesn’t condemn their weakness Thurs 19/5 FERIA and fear, rather he enables them to overcome it, by giving 10.00am Basil Smith RD them His Spirit, the Holy Spirit whom God continues to 12.30pm Eileen Culhane RIP pour out on His Church. Fri 20/5 FERIA 10.00am Sr. Veronica (Comboni) RIP 12.30pm Isis Guzman ANN The Holy Spirit comes down upon these men and women Sat 21/5 FERIA whose courage and belief had failed them in the past. 10.00am Joseph Pio & Holy Souls RIP 11-12noon Confessions The Spirit transforms them by igniting, setting alight, their & 5-6pm faith. And they are commissioned, given the task, to go 6.30pm Eckie O’Sullivan ANN

and spread the Good News of Jesus. CONFESSIONS: Saturday 11pm – 12pm & 5pm – 6pm (or by appt) MORNING PRAYER: Friday 9.40am Just as these weak and fearful people were transformed EXPOSITION: Monday – Friday 1pm – 5pm, (When 12.30pm Mass) into faithful witnesses so must we be transformed by the Saturday Holy Hour 5pm-6pm promise and presence of Jesus through the Holy Spirit. BENEDICTION; Saturday 6pm.

As individuals and as a community of the followers of

Jesus we too need to be open to the continuing presence of the Holy Spirit who is always available to us so that we too can be transformed into a dynamic faith community.

YEAR OF MERCY JOURNEY IN FAITH st GUNNERSBURY NOTES Next Saturday, 21 May, at SS Today at the 12.15pm Mass, we Michael and Martin Church, Bath shall be welcoming three new MASS THIS WEEK Road, Hounslow, as part of the ‘Year members into the family of the Sunday at 10.00am of Mercy’ Cardinal Church. They will be Received, Tuesday & Thursday at 9.30am. will give a “Catechesis on the Jubilee Confirmed and receive Holy of Consolation”, followed by an Communion for the first time. Please GREAT ORMOND STREET opportunity for questions, and then keep these people in your prayers as HOSPITAL CHILDREN’S CHARITY Exposition/Confessions. He will also they celebrate this special moment in PRESENTS ‘Night at the Races’ celebrate the 6.15pm parish Mass, their life of faith. Support a great and worthy cause and meet people afterwards in the in the Catholic Centre, Dukes Ave, ST parish centre for tea and coffee. The CHURCH SECURITY on SATURDAY 21 MAY 2016 timings are as follows: 3.00pm From time to time boxes are broken £10.00 Admission on the night Catechesis, 3.45pm Questions into in church, and other damage is Doors open 7pm first race 7.30pm. following catechesis, 4.30pm done. Of late there has been an CARITAS WESTMINSTER – Exposition, with opportunity for increase in such incidents. Although Invite you to their first ever Volunteer confession, 5.30pm Benediction, we have cctv we can’t monitor the Evening on Tuesday 7th June 6pm – 6.15pm Mass, Refreshments after church all of the time. So if you are in 8pm at The Centre for Youth Mass. Parishioners from all the church, or if you are passing by you Ministry, 20 Phoenix Road, Euston, parishes in Hounslow Deanery are might drop in, and if you see NW1 1TA. Volunteer Opportunities/ very welcome. anything suspicious please tell Training, Spiritual Enrichment/ someone in the parish office. Leadership - as they are launching LENTEN PROJECT their new Volunteer Service for the TEA & COFFEE AFTER 9.45am Today, the feast of Pentecost, so our Catholic Community. RSVP to MASS Tea & Coffee will be served in Lenten Project comes to an end for [email protected] by this year. To date £10,134.45 has the Catholic Centre, Duke's Avenue, Tuesday 31st May. been donated and this will assist the after the 9.45am Mass today. Come International Refugee Trust (IRT) in and meet your fellow parishioners! CONCERT IN their work with parishes in Northern All Welcome! SUPPORT OF CARITAS BAKHITA Uganda to build boreholes and HOUSE – On Saturday 11th June at protected springs to provide clean, ST. EDWARD’S CLUB 7.30pm the Ealing Abbey Choir & safe water nearer to their homes. The next meeting takes place Baroque Players are staging a major The families will be part of the tomorrow, Monday 16th May from concert on Monteverdi’s ‘Vespers’. construction teams and learn how to 2.00pm in the Parish Centre, Dukes Tickets from www.seetickets.com or maintain the borehole or protected Avenue. 0871 230 0010. spring which they are building. IRT is SUMMER ACCOMODATION IN also helping the parishes to set up TEA & COFFEE MORNING savings groups through which these LONDON - Allen Hall Seminary in On Tuesdays Chelsea offer comfortable rooms in families can save to ensure future after 10am Mass maintenance is carried out. central London in July and St. Edward’s Room August. Beautiful gardens and Contributions are still very welcome Everyone welcome! and can be placed in the ‘Lenten chapel. Rooms from £50 per night Project’ box. Contributions which are (including breakfast). to be ‘gift-aided’ should be placed in “MADE IN GOD’S IMAGE” Website : www.allenhall.org.uk a Lenten project envelope and A day workshop, organised by the Email : [email protected] LGBT Catholics Younger Adults Telephone :020 7349 5600 (option 0) returned to the presbytery. Group (YAG) of the Westminster Diocese, on self-acceptance and THE REPOSITORY PRIESTS’ TRAINING FUND On sale this week, Confirmation Thank you for contributions to the reflecting on our journeys. Through input from Mgr. Keith Barltrop, cards, First Communion cards & gifts Priests’ Training Fund. This fund & many other religious items. The helps to pay for the training of those spiritual guide for LGBT Catholics Westminster, and through the Repository is open after all Sunday who will serve in this, and other morning Masses and after the 10am parishes, as priests; so it is one of sharing of experiences of members of the LGBT Catholics Westminster Mass some weekday mornings the important collections that we are asked to give our support to. To date community as well as group and £2675.00 has been contributed. If individual reflection sessions, we Chiswick Liturgy Info hope that those taking part will be 9.45am Mass you haven’t yet contributed it is not too late as the fund remains open able to see God’s work in their lives PSALM until next Sunday. Contributions can and feel encouraged and supported Send forth your Spirit, O Lord, be handed into to the presbytery, by the Westminster diocese in being and renew, renew the face of the earth. REFRAIN OF GLORY TO GOD and if you wish to ‘Gift-Aid’ your who they are. The day workshop will take place at Mount Street Jesuit Gloria in excelsis Deo, contribution please use one of the nd et in terra pax, hominibus. collection envelopes. Centre on Saturday 2 July from 10am to 4pm. Suggested donation of Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in terra pax. Collections for Last Weekend £10 which will include lunch. For

more information and to register to Chiswick: £5896.41 this event please contact YAG: email CHURCH CLEANING ROTA This week Gunnersbury: £ 250.84 [email protected], the Wednesday Cleaning Group will be website cleaning the Church. Thank you for your generosity www.lgbtcatholicsyag.org.uk.