Our Lady of Dolours Egerton Gardens, NW4 4BA & St Patrick’s Catholic Church West Hendon Broadway, NW9 7EB

Rev Fr Tim Edgar (Rector & Parish Priest) Tel:020 8202 0560 www.rcdow.org.uk/hendon [email protected] In residence at St Patrick’s Presbytery: Fr Bartosz Rajewski Registered Charity Number: 233699

24TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME FEAST OF OUR LADY OF DOLOURS S 14 6.00pm Daisy Procuri (rip) Su 15 9.30am (St P) Elaine Geary (rec dec) 10.00am the people of the Parish & their needs 12noon the people of the Parish & their needs 6.00pm (St P) Elaine Geary (rec dec)

M 16 10.00am SS Cornelius & Cyprian Stephen Courtney (rec dec) 7.00pm (St P) feria Elaine Geary (rec dec) T 17 10.00am feria Margaret Brooks (rip) W 18 10.00am (StP) feria intentions of Donal Moran T 19 7.30am feria special intention F 20 10.00am REQUIEM MASS & FUNERAL OF NICOLINA ALANA S 21 9.00am St Matthew priest’s intentions

25th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME S 21 6.00pm Patrick Murray (rip) Su 22 9.30am (St P) Eddie Wynne (rip) 10.00am the people of the Parish & their needs 12noon James Peter (rip) 6.00pm (St P) the people of the Parish & their needs

Mass times and intentions are subject to change if there is a funeral. (Italics indicates Mass at St Patrick’s) Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: at Our Lady’s after Mass on Saturday morning and on First Friday: after Mass until midday Holy Rosary: at Our Lady’s Saturday 5pm Confessions: at Our Lady’s Saturday 9.30-10am; 5.15-5.45pm and at call Holy Matrimony: in accordance with the norms of Canon Law, SIX months’ notice must be given, whether the marriage is here or abroad, to enable the required spiritual preparation to take place and for the paperwork to be gathered and, if necessary, submitted to the Chancellor of the Diocese. Please make an appointment to see the Parish Priest. Our Lady’s Parish Centre Bookings: call the Parish Office. The Parish Secretary at Our Lady’s - Sheila Barr; at St Patricks - Regina Ng

THE CALENDAR THIS WEEK God. It is the prayer of silence, especially under the Sunday is the Feast of Our Lady of Dolours. There Cross. Mary found self-fulfilment in her complete will be a Solemn Mass at 12noon to which all are invited availability. from both Parishes. Bishop Paul McAleenan will preside. “I renounce my will. I turn it all over to you, my Mother At the Cross her station keeping, stood the mournful Mary, to lay at the feet of your Son. Not my will, but his Mother weeping, close to Jesus at the last. Like Mary, be done.” Pope St John Paul II. our Mother, may we continue to stand by Jesus and His Please take one of the prayers cards given out today Church through every difficulty and never abandon the away with you. Ask Our Lady to pray for our Parish, Lord. dedicated to her, for your families and loved ones, for “Mary is our Mother: this consoling truth, offered to us those who are sick, those who mourn, those who have ever more clearly and profoundly by the love and faith died. Mary is the handmaid of the Lord. She will lead us of the Church, has sustained and sustains the spiritual to Jesus for Jesus was the substance of her life. When life of us all, and encourages us, even in suffering, to we pray the Rosary the figure and life of Jesus occupies have faith and hope.” Pope St John Paul II the foreground, but through Mary, as his whole life is The Lord Jesus hid His Mother in his work, but, He hid seen and sensed by her. her in such a way that everyone who wishes can find O God, in Whose Passion the sword, according to the her. Her faith was paid for dearly with her sacrifice. prophecy of blessed Simeon, pierced through the soul of Mary’s consolation is that Jesus is happy in God. So Mary, the glorious Virgin and Mother, mercifully grant many moments, so many years she spent with Jesus. In that we, who reverently commemorate her piercing the kingdom of her Son, Mary intercedes for us. The through and her suffering, may, by the interceding prayer of the Mother of God is a constant openness to glorious merits of all the saints faithfully standing by the Cross, obtain the abundant fruit of Your passion. uncertain times, and to seek too the prayers of the Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity . of the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. “In view of the risks which humanity is facing in our Amen times, all Catholics in every part of the world have a duty On this 170th anniversary of the first Holy Mass being to proclaim and embody ever more fully the Gospel of offered in our Parish by Blessed Dominic of the Mother peace, and to show that acknowledgment of the full of God, let us trust the past to God’s mercy, the present truth of God is the first indispensable condition for to his love and the future to his providence. consolidating the truth of peace” (John Paul II). ...it is Mary’s prerogative to be the Morning Star, which heralds in the Sun. She does not shine for herself, or PLEASE pray for Vocations to the Priesthood, from herself, but she is the reflection of her and our Diaconate and Religious Life. For those who are sick Redeemer, and she glorifies Him. Saint John Henry either at Home, in Hospital or Nursing Home; for the Newman. recently departed; those killed as a result of the violence and terrorism. For an end to abortion. For the Holy Souls St , Paul Chong Hasang, and in purgatory. For peace in the world and that those who companions – (Friday).For centuries, was govern the nations may do so wisely and justly. closed to all outside influences, and all contact with foreigners was forbidden. No missionaries went there. PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS Nevertheless, a number of laymen sought to find out all V: Let us ask God to give worthy priests, brothers and that they could about the outside world, through the sisters to His Holy Church. annual embassy to Peking. Some books about R: O God, we earnestly beseech Thee to bless this Christianity fell into their hands, and they were archdiocese with many priests, brothers and sisters, converted. Because of the secrecy involved, it is who will gladly spend their entire lives to serve Thy impossible to date the origin of Christianity in Korea with Church and to make Thee known and loved. any precision: it may have started in the early 17th V: Bless our families. Bless our children. century, but the first known baptism is that of Ni- R: Choose from our homes those who are needed for Seoung-Houn, who was baptized under the name of Thy work. Peter when he visited Peking in 1784. V: Mary, Queen of the Clergy! The first known martyrs are Paul Youn and James R: Pray for us. Pray for our priests and religious. Kouen, who in 1791 refused to offer sacrifice on the Obtain for us many more. death of their relatives. Over the next century, over ten thousand Korean Christians were executed, with great First Holy Communion 2020 cruelty; and many others perished. Confirmation 2020 For most of this period, the church in Korea had no Forms for First Holy Communion (Year 3) and for priests and was an entirely lay phenomenon. The first Confirmation (Year 9) are available. Please complete priest, a Frenchman, entered the country in 1836 and them as soon as possible and return them to the was beheaded three years later. Andrew Kim Taegǒn, Presbytery without delay. The absolute deadline for the first Korean priest, secretly trained in Macao, applications for both of these is THIS SUNDAY entered Korea in 1845 and was executed in 1846, September 15th. together with his father. A lay apostle, St Paul Chong Hasang, and many others perished at the same time. A RCIA further major persecution occurred in 1866. The RCIA group is about to begin planning its meetings In all, 103 of the Korean martyrs are celebrated today: for the coming year across both Parishes. We reflect on they are mostly lay men and women: some married, what we as Catholics believe, how we pray and how we some not; some old, some young, some even children. live our faith in the world. There are no set expectations. “The Korean Church is unique because it was founded Only if the individual wishes to proceed and it is right for entirely by laypeople. This fledgling Church, so young them, do they receive the sacraments at the Easter Vigil and yet so strong in faith, withstood wave after wave of on Saturday, 11 April 2020. For more information about fierce persecution. Thus, in less than a century, it could RCIA, or if you would just like to come to the meetings boast of 10,000 martyrs. The death of these many to refresh or learn more about our Faith please speak to martyrs became the leaven of the Church and led to Fr Tim. today’s splendid flowering of the Church in Korea. Even today their undying spirit sustains the Christians of the OUR LADY OF DOLOURS DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Church of Silence in the north of this tragically divided McMillan Coffee Morning at Our Lady’s Sunday 29th land.” – Pope John Paul II at the of the September after 10am Mass. (If you would like to Korean Martyrs, May 6, 1984. donate a cake there is a list at the back of Our Lady’s A century ago, in 1918 as the First World War ended church.) 200 Club draw after 10am Mass. people were talking of “the war to end all wars”, and Christmas Fayre – 24th November how illusory that notion turned out to be. Real conflict Mary’s Meals Collection 30th Nov/1st Dec seems ever around us. Our first response has to be to Senior Parishioners Christmas Party 15th December pray for peace: we must ask God to change hearts and minds so that the vision of Isaiah may finally be realised: Elaine Geary’s funeral Mass on Wednesday 18th “He will wield authority over the nations and adjudicate September 11am at SS Sebastian & St Pancras, Hay between many peoples; these will hammer their swords Lane. into ploughshares, their spears into sickles. Nation will not lift sword against nation, there will be no more MASS COUNT training for war”. Pope Saint John Paul II asked Catholics Next Sunday 22nd September and for the following three to pray the Rosary each day for world peace: it is an Sundays there will be the annual count of all those who injunction that we would all do well to follow in these attend the Sunday Masses.