of the ]j; 9 August 2020 Holy Ghost & St. Stephen 44 Ashchurch Grove London W12 9BU Tel: 0208 743 5196 www.rcshepherdsbush.org 9.30 am Parish Priest: Fr. Mark Vickers E-mail: [email protected] Wed.: 7.00 am 20 June 2021 Parish Secretary: Sherry Samele E-Mail: [email protected]

Thurs: 7.00 pm Catechetical Co-ordinator: Daniel O’Brien E-Mail: [email protected]

Mass Times: Holy Days of Obligation Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B Sunday Masses Mass: 9.30 am & 8.00 pm Fr. Mark writes: For Catholics, June is the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. 6.00 pm (Saturday) Exposition of the Blessed Simply to see a statue of the Sacred Heart is cause for great encouragement. Our 9.15, 11.00 am & 6.00 pm Sacrament: Lord’s arms are outstretched to embrace all and sundry. ‘Come to Me,’ He says, Sat 10.00-10.45 am - Weekday Masses particularly to those who have been damaged in the struggles of life. ‘Come to Me.’ suspended Mon. Tues., Fri & Sat.: Then we see His Heart, open and visible. This is about love. He came into the world for love of us. His Heart was pierced on the Cross. He never stops loving. In Novena to Our Lady of 9.30 am that Heart, all who are so-minded find merciful acceptance. What a contrast to the Perpetual Succour Wed.: 7.00 am world which claims that anything goes – and then proves so merciless when things First Saturday: 8.45 am - Thurs: 7.00 pm suspended go wrong. In times past, the Sacred Heart was enshrined in so many Catholic homes. Would that it were again today. Legion of Mary Holy Days of Obligation Every Friday after the 9.30 Mass: 9.30 am & 7.00 pm First Holy Communion am Mass – suspended The First Holy Communion rehearsals take place in this afternoon. Please pray for our children who will Parish Office be receiving Jesus for the first time in the coming three weeks. Rosary Mon, Tues, Thurs: 10:00 - After daily Mass during the 14:30; Friday: 10:00-14:00 Fr. Albert Lawes/Rev. Mike Guthrie week – suspended for the Many of you will remember Albert, who was our parish catechist three years ago. I will be attending his moment Exposition of the Blessed ordination in this Friday. Please keep Fr. Albert and his future ministry in your Sacrament: prayers. He will be offering a First Mass here at 11.00 am on Sunday, 11 July. Confessions Sat 10.00-10.45 am Sat 10.15-11.00 am, Congratulations also to the Rev Mike Guthrie, who spent time with us as seminarian four years ago. Novena to Our Lady of Mike was ordained deacon in last week. Rev. Mike will deacon the Mass and or by request Perpetual Succour preach for us at the 11.00 am Mass on Sunday, 25 July. First Saturday: 8.45 am - Baptism suspended See Parish Priest Masses Preparation obligatory Rosary We still have to observe the guidelines for the time being. (The only difference between weekday and After daily Mass during Sunday Masses, is that we are no longer required to have stewards during the week, but we must still Marriage the week – suspended for comply with the restrictions ourselves.) See Parish Priest the moment 1. Please use the hand sanitiser on entering church and leave your details – by scanning the QR code, Six months’ notice required ticking off your name on the list or adding your contact details to the list. Preparation obligatory Confessions 2. Observe the social distancing requirements, sitting where indicated by the green ticks and sitting at Sat 10.00-10.45 am least 1 m from anyone not in your household. At the Sunday Masses especially fill the church from Or please contact Fr. Mark the front and sit where indicated. Failure to do so prevents others from being able to attend Mass. at the Parish House 3. Face coverings should still be worn except for those with exemptions. 4. During weekdays, I will try to open earlier, but for Sunday Masses and at funerals, the church will Baptism open 15 minutes before Mass begins when the stewards arrive. See Parish Priest Preparation obligatory Baptisms We welcome Felix Thomas, who is baptised this weekend. Marriage The next baptism preparation sessions for parents wanting young children baptised will be at 7.30 pm See Parish Priest on Wednesday, 23 and 30 June. They will take place in the church and last around one hour. If you Six months’ notice attend both sessions, we can then arrange a date for the baptism. required Preparation obligatory Day for Life Each year, as initiated by St. John Paul II, the Church celebrates a Day for Life, celebrating the dignity of human life and seeking to protect all human life from conception to natural death in a culture which Last week’s collection often holds life as cheap. Today the focus is upon the dying, allowing them to die naturally in God’s time, as opposed to the ‘misguided mercy’ which promotes euthanasia. £703.69 If you wish to support Pro-Life charities, there are envelopes at the back of church for the Good Counsel Network, who do tremendous work in enabling mothers to keep their babies. Please return any donations Thank-you in the collecting baskets this week or next. Thank-you.

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Mon, Tues, Thurs: 10:00 - Readings at Sunday Mass

14:30; Friday: 10:00-14:00 Job 38:1, 8-11 2 Corinthians 5:14-17 Mark 4:35-41 Psalm Response: 106 O give thanks to the Lord, for is love endures for ever. Good Shepherdgt : Catholic Primary School Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia!! 35 Gayford Road May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ enlighten the eyes of our www.goodshepherdrc.lbhf. mind, so that we can see what hope his call holds for us. sch.uk 020 8743 5060 Alleluia! Head: Mrs. Imogen Lavelle Church cleaning: Suspended until further notice

Catholic Chaplaincies Mass Intentions for Week: 19 - 27 June 2021 Charing Cross Hospital Saturday, 19 June 18.00 Teresa Forkin, Anniv. 020 3311 1042 Hammersmith Hospital Sunday, 20 June 9:15 Pro populo 020 3313 4574 11:00 James St. Pierre, RIP 18.00 Sheila Dineen, RIP Safeguarding Officer s Monday, 21 June 9.30 Margarita Maniar, RIP 07561 588717 Lucy Road St Aloysius Gonzaga shepherdsbushsg@safeguar Tuesday, 22 June 9.30 Jordan family, int. drcdow.org.uk Ss John Fisher & Thomas More Cathrin Sarll Wednesday, 23 June 7.00 Xuyen Nguyen, int. shepherdsbushsg2@safegu Thursday, 24 June 19.00 Annie & Patrick J Murphy, RIP ardrcdow.org.uk Nativity of St John the Baptist Planned giving scheme Friday, 25 June 9.30 Bridget Parker, int. (envelopes/standing orders) Saturday, 26 June 12.00 First Communion children (families only) Gary O’Brien 18.00 Sarah Glynn, RIP 07392 203005 Sunday, 27 June 9:15 Pro populo St. Vincent De Paul (SVP) 11:00 Michael Sweeney, Anniv. Mobile: 07925 560538 18.00 Lynch family, RIP

Young mums group Thurs. 7.30 pm monthly. PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK AND HOUSEBOUND OF THE PARISH: Call or text Gersende on Christopher Browne, May Carter, Agnes Charles, Tom Cooke, Finian & Helen Cox, Joe & Mary 07523 501508 Davenport, Pasquale de Stefano, Michael Evens, Rita Ferns, Hannah Galis, Mary Hill, Sandra Jones, Bridget McMorrow, Kathleen Nee, Maria Nicholls, Imelda O’Sullivan, Bridget Parker, Lorraine & Young dads group Thurs. 7.30 pm monthly John Searl, Gemma Sweny, Franco Vuoto, Laura Walsh, Ellen White, Mary Wren and the Chiswick [email protected] Nursing Centre residents. .uk Beating the Bounds Young adults group You may have heard a piece on the radio recently about the ancient custom of ‘beating the bounds,’ Suspended for the moment when parishioners turned out to process and mark the parish boundaries. In England the practice goes Sunday Scriptures back more than 1,000 years. Online 8 pm Sundays In a year when we have lost so many of our usual observances due to the pandemic, I thought this For Zoom access details: might be something we could usefully and safely do. I suggest that we attempt this during the [email protected] holidays, when more people might be able to join us, possibly after the morning Mass on Friday, 6 August, the Feast of the Transfiguration, when Jesus both went up to a high place and came down to Allen Gonzalez the plain. I think the walk would be 3-4 miles. Taking it steadily and stopping for some prayer, it

might take around 2 hours. Processing behind the cross, it could be a witness to our faith – and ensure We say good-bye today to that the neighbouring parishes don’t encroach on our territory! Allen Gonzalez, the seminarian who has been Prayer to St. Joseph, Patron Saint of the Dying visiting the parish weekly Faithful Joseph, with the fulfilment of the Lord’s promise, you peacefully leave this world in Jesus’s since last September. We and Mary’s hands. Your faith transforms death into the sowing of life; thus, God considers you to be a wish him well as he just man. Your heart overflows in the presence of the Lord. With your hands outstretched to God, your continues his studies for night is filled with prayers. Surrounded by the living, you embark upon the great march to the the priesthood. Promised Land. Open our eyes that we may glimpse the road to Life that lies beyond death. May nothing, not anger, denial, nor depression, separate us from the Love of God. Strengthen our faith in God, Who always finds ways of preserving us in His friendship. Be beside us to hold our hands when

Adoration/Confessions we take our first steps towards the Eternal Kingdom. Amen.

There will be no 9.30 am Prayer to St. Joseph for a Happy Death Mass, Adoration or O Blessed Joseph, who yielded up your last breath in the arms of Jesus and Mary, obtain for me this Confessions on 26 June, 3 grace, O holy Joseph, that I may breathe forth my soul in praise, saying in spirit, if I am unable to in or 10 July due to the First words: ‘Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I give you my heart and my soul.’ Amen.

Communion Masses. For Confession, please St. Thomas More contact Fr. Mark. ‘I do not care very much what men say of me, provided that God approves of me.’