5 AUGUST 2018 Thursday Is a Day of Special Prayer for Europe DIVINE OFFICE Week 2 EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY of ORDINARY TIME – YEAR B

WEEK COMMENCING 5 AUGUST 2018 Thursday is a Day of Special Prayer for Europe DIVINE OFFICE Week 2 EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME – YEAR B

RAPHAEL’S THE TRANSFIGURATION

The Transfiguration of Jesus has been an important subject in Christian art, especially in the iconography of the Eastern Church, which had changed little over the centuries. There, the Feast of the Transfiguration has been celebrated since at least the 6th century and is one of the 12 Great Feasts of Eastern Orthodoxy. In the Western Church, the Feast was not celebrated universally, or on a consistent date, until 1475. Raphael’s Transfiguration is considered the most important Western painting of the subject. It was Raphael’s last painting (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520), commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de Medici, later Pope Clement VII (1523–1534) as an altarpiece for Narbonne Cathedral in France. The painting now hangs Pinacoteca Vaticana art museum in Vatican City. Unusual in iconography of The Transfiguration, Rafael’s image is divided into 2 halves The top half of the image is in 2 which combine two biblical passage recorded consecutively in all three Synoptic Gospels zones of 3 figures. The figures of (Matthew 17:1-20; Mark 9:2-29; & Luke 9:28-42). The top half illustrates the story of the Christ and the prophets, in the a Transfigur ation of Christ on a mountain (Mt Tabor, according to St Jerome) where upper zone are stately, static and disciples Peter, James and John look on as Jesus speaks with Moses and Elijah. The story calm – a heavenly state, while in in the bottom half, Jesus heals a demon possessed boy, is picked up at the point where the the lower zone the disciples crowds petition Jesus after the Apostles failed to cure a boy from his demonic possession. sprawl and writhe in awe & fright. There were 8 on the mountain but Note the faces of the 3 disciples. only 6 were visible. The event of the Peter faces the vision - he was the Transfiguration of Christ was a only one to speak, first to confess theophany (visible manifestation faith in Christ, first witness after the of God). Jesus is shown ‘floating’ Christ’s Resurrection, and whose above the ground, surrounded by mission it was to sustain Christ’s illuminated clouds and shrouded in Church; James faces the ground - white (the light of Resurrection). his witness was short, as he was His appearance has changed. He the first Apostle die for emanates uncreated, divine light, Christ; John faces away as he has revealing true His identity: God no need to see the vision as he is a the Son. Scripture describes the theologian, and contemplates the cloud’s descent as overshadowing mystery of Christ. (Greek: episkiazein), which is the same word used to describe the Holy The mountain plays an important Spirit overshadowing the Virgin part in divine revelation, linking Mary at the Annunciation. The Moses and Elijah who are luminous cloud is therefore a miraculously present by Christ’s manifestation of God the Holy side. Moses holds the tablet of the Spirit. Scripture also tells us that a Law he received from God on Mt voice speaks from the cloud: “This is Sinai. Elijah, who represents all my Son, the Beloved love; with him I prophets, was told to ascend Mt am well pleased. Listen to him!” Horeb where he heard the voice of (Matthew 17:5). This is God the God. Old Testament laws and Father. All 3 Persons of the Holy prophecies all point toward Jesus Trinity are present and manifest in Christ, who is sovereign over and the event of the Transfiguration. is the fulfilment of both.

The two halves of the image are both united (by the gestures of the The figures in the top half of the image are arranged figures below), and contrasted (figures above are ‘illuminated’ by in a circle, emphasised by the luminous cloud. The faith, while chaotic figures below are in the ‘shadow’ of lack of faith). figures in the lower half are in relative darkness, and The remaining 9 disciples to the left are in shadow, indicating the lack of are arranged roughly in a square. The circle is used faith that prevented them from casting out the demons. The pleading in Christian art to symbolise God, representing father on the right is brighter, showing his faith, as is the possessed totality, wholeness, perfection, eternity. This circle boy, as even demons believe in God. The brightest figure is the central of light is further testimony of the divine nature of kneeling woman pointing at the boy - she is an allegorical figure of this event. The square in Christian art represents all Faith itself. The image as a whole expresses Christ’s Revelation of things earthly, as it is related to the number 4 (eg. Himself as deliverer of mankind from the power of the devil. four corners of the earth). MASS TIMES WEEK COMMENCING 5 AUGUST 2018 EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME Saturday Vigil 4 6.30pm St Edward’s Sunday 5 9.30am St Peter’s (Polish) See printed copy for Mass 10am St Joseph’s Intentions 11.30am St Peter’s 5pm St Peter’s Monday 6 6.30pm St Edward’s TRANSFIGURATION OF THE LORD Tuesday 7 9.30am St Joseph’s St Sixtus II & Comp/St Cajetan/ NO EVENING MASS Bl Nicholas Postgate Wednesday 8 9.30am St Peter’s St Domnic Thursday 9 9.30am ST TERESA BENEDICTA OF THE CROSS NO EVENING MASS (Day of Special Prayer for Europe) Friday 10 9.30am St Peter’s ST LAWRENCE Saturday 11 9.30am St Peter’s St Clare SYRO-MALABAR MASS: normally 3rd Sunday of the month at 4pm at St Edward’s Church Avenue Victoria. MORNING PRAYER OF THE CHURCH (Divine Office) 15 minutes before morning Mass: St Peter’s – Saturdays; St Joseph’s - daily SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION (Confessions): ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT: Saturdays St Edward’s 5.45 - 6.15pm Tuesday St Joseph’s 8.30 - 9.30am Sundays St Joseph’s 9.15 - 9.45am Thursday St Edward’s CANCELLED Saturdays St Peter’s 10 - 10.30am Saturday St Peter’s 10 - 10.30am

MASSES RECEIVED: see printed copy 300 CLUB

WINNERS

ANNIVERSARIES: see printed copy No.32 £25 No.198 £10

REGULAR PARISH GROUPS (more information from Parish Office) RECENTLY DECEASED: ROSARY for the Unborn St Peter’s: 9am Fridays; St Joseph’s: Thurs after Mass See printed copy STATIONS OF THE CROSS Fridays after Mass (St Peter’s) MASS ATTENDANCE SACRED HEART Devotion Fridays after Mass (St Peter’s) St Peter’s 11.30am 150 OUR LADY of Perpetual Help devotion 3rd Wed. monthly (St Peter’s after Mass) St Peter’s 5pm 49 MOTHERS’ PRAYERS Tuesdays 12.30pm (St Peter’s Parish Centre upper room) St Joseph’s 10am 174 St Edward’s Vigil 79 DIVINE MERCY Devotion Fridays at 2.45pm (St Peter’s Church) Polish Mass 74 LEGION OF MARY Saturdays after Exposition (St Peter’s Parish Centre) total (including children) 526 LIFE ASCENDING Prayer Group: 2nd Thursday monthly 10am (St Joseph’s bungalow) EMMAUS Scripture sharing fortnightly 2pm Thursday afternoons (St Edward’s) OFFERTORY COLLECTION St Edward’s 6.30pm: £158 SVP (St Vincent De Paul Society) 7.30pm first Monday of month (St Peter’s Parish Centre) St Joseph’s 10am: £229 UCM (Union of Catholic Mothers) 1.30pm (winter), 7pm (summer) third St Peter’s 11.30am & 5pm: £304 Tuesday monthly (St Peter’s Parish Centre) Gift Aid envelopes total: £636 PARENTS & TODDLERS Term- time weekly Mondays 9.30am (St Joseph’s Bungalow). Standing orders (weekly av.): £524 CRAFT GROUPS: St Peter's 7-9pm last Tuesday of month (Parish Total: £1,851 Centre; St Joseph's normally 2-4pm fortnightly (bungalow). ADULTS ALWAYS accompany your BARROWCLIFF CHURCHES TOGETHER LUNCH 12pm to 1pm child to the toilet when in church. every 4th Tuesday of the month at Wreyfield Methodist Church OUR LADY’S PRAYER GROUP 1st Thursday of the month 2pm to 4pm NOTICES FOR VISITORS (St Joseph’s Bungalow) TOILETS St Peter’s: in the Parish Centre YOUTH CLUB Closed now for the Summer. (across the car park); St Joseph’s & St Edward’s toilets in the church building. ICONOGRAPHY GROUP Thursdays, fortnightly 2-4pm, with breaks at ST PETER’S CHURCH IS OPEN at certain term ends (St Peter’s Parish Centre). times during the weekdays. Call in and say a BOOKINGS of our Parish communal areas should be made only prayer. CCTV is in operation. SIGN through the Parish office, thus avoiding double booking and upset. VISITORS BOOK IN THE PORCH GOING AWAY in the UK or Ireland? Find the nearest Church/Mass online at www.CatholicDirectory.org L o ADOREMUS EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS Keep an eye on the notice to the right for updates over the next month. Deadline to book has now passed. Advance payment of £10 for the coach is now payable. 9.30am Mass at Liverpool ASSUMPTION OF OUR LADY PILGRIMAGE Sunday 12 August, Metropolitan Cathedral of Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Grace, Osmotherley. 2.30pm Rosary, 3pm Holy Christ the King, celebrated by Mass. Due to insufficient interest, we will not be able to book a coach. If Archbishop Malcolm McMahon anyone is going by car and can offer a lift to others who wish to go, please OP. Places have now been contact the parish office on 360358. booked and accepted via the online portal (£3.50 ppn Admin INSTRUCTION FOR CONVERTS (RCIA) A Course of Instruction for those Fee has been paid by the parish). The thinking about becoming a Catholic beginning 6pm on Tuesday 11 September booking deadline has now passed. We in St Joseph’s bungalow. There will be 15 sessions. Speak to Fr Albert. asked for a few spare tickets. If you wish WALKING PILGRIMAGE ON THE CAMINO DE COMPOSTELA to go and haven’t already booked, contact the parish office on 360358 – spare tickets One of our parishioners is walking the 800 kilometres (nearly 500 miles) allocated on a first come first served basis. along the Camino Francés, the best known of the pilgrim routes. She begins in Outdoor Eucharistic Procession is at St Jean Peid de Port in the French Pyrenees and ends at the Shrine of St James 1pm – anyone can attend. We have in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostella in North West Spain. It will take been informed that there will be various her around 40 days. Forms available very soon, if you would like to ways to spend the time between the sponsor. Proceeds will go to St Peter’s Church Restoration Fund. (anyone Mass and the Procession, including wishes to join her on the walk, get in touch). Did you know, 300,000 opportunities for Confession and prayer, and various exhibitions. Details of this completed the Camino in 2017. will be provided closer to the time. RAFFLE UNCLAIMED FIRST PRIZE £100 No name/contact was given Transport A coach has been booked on the winning ticket stub (No. 2002) . If this is yours, please present your which will leave St Peter’s Church at ticket at St Peter’s Office to claim the prize (no ticket, no prize). 5am and will pick up at St Joseph’s Church at 5.15am (back in Scarborough BOOK SALE in September organised by South Cliff Churches Together in 7pm approx). Advance payment of £10 aid of Ecumenical charity, Feed the Minds. Please donate your unwanted is now payable. books. Place in the box at the back of St Edward’s Church. LORD REVEAL YOUR CHARACTER Ecumenical conference on prayer in You can still book to attend the talks Scarborough, following on from the successful summer conferences, Lord held on Saturday 8 September. The Teach Us How To Pray. Second Sunday of the month at St Mary’s Church, cost is £40 ppn (Main event, Bishop Robert Barron from USA is the Castle Road on 9 September, 14 October, & 11 November at 6.30pm. See speaker). You will need to book this posters or visit prayforscarborough.org.uk for more information. yourself online at the following link: ST JOSEPH’S PRESBYTERY CONVERSION UPDATE Presently we are https://www.jumpdp.com/adoremus seeking planning permission and getting estimated costs for the proposed plans. 2018/product/liverpool-tickets/ CONGRESS PRAYER Lord, give to our QUEEN ST LADIES OF MARY (DMJ) CONVENT REUNION Saturday hearts the light of faith and the fire of love, 15 September at St Augustine’s School. Contact the parish office for further info. that we may worship in spirit and in truth THE LEGION OF MARY had a good retreat day last Saturday at Madonna our God and Lord, present in the Most House and were joined by other members from Middlesbrough. Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist, who lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen CATHOLIC VOICE in church porches - free - lots of photos of Scarborough events. NEWSLETTER If you would like to be added to our newsletter mailing list PARISH BBQ 6.30pm on Friday 24 August in St please send us an email. Copies of the newsletter are also available on our parish Peter’s Rectory garden website. See top of this newsletter for email and website addresses. (beautiful views of South Bay & cliffs) Tickets available £5. Proceeds to St ST PETER’S CAR PARK is closed this week Monday 6 and Tuesday 7 Peter’s Restoration Fund. Volunteers August. It should be open again on Wednesday 8 August, but please be needed for cooking and a few BBQ aware that work may be delayed, in which case the car park will again be stoves needed, as well as some home- closed and Mass will be in the Parish Centre. It would be better to make other made coleslaw. Recently the garden has had some decking installed. Due arrangements on this day too, to be safe. care and attention will be needed around 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF PADRE the steps. (bring your deckchair). PIO (ST PIO) Day Pilgrimage by coach to the National Shrine VISITORS AT MASS If you would like at Pantasaph, North Wales, Sunday 23 September (if sufficient to Gift Aid your Sunday collection interest). Add your name to the list at back of church. Seats £10 offering, there are Gift Aid Envelopes (children free). Departs 7am from St Peter’s, 7.15am from St scattered on the benches. So you could help Joseph’s, back in Scarborough 8.30pm approx (3½ hr journey). towards our conservation and restoration of St Peter’s Sanctuary and clerestory St Padre Pio was an Italian priest known for his great piety and charity, and for windows. By Gift Aiding, you can boost the gift of the stigmata. Supernatural occurrences began to be attributed to him by your donation by 25p for every £1 given at his visitors. He died 23 September 1968. His funeral was attended by over 100,000 no extra cost to you. Simply fill in your people. Pope John Paul II recognised Padre Pio as a saint on 16 June 2002. name and address. Thank you. PRAYER INTENTIONS OF POPE FRANCIS FOR AUGUST (Universal) The treasure of Families: That any far-reaching decisions of Aid to the Church in Need is asking every Catholic to economists and politicians may make the small sacrifice of going to one extra Mass to protect the family as one of the pray for one of the 200 million Christians who are treasures of humanity. facing the threat of persecution for their faith and POPE FRANCIS HAS REVISED THE even risking death to receive Jesus in The Eucharist. CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC It is time for us to re-discover that “most powerful force in human CHURCH ON THE DEATH PENALTY history is prayer joined to sacrifice.” St Pope John Paul II

Pope Francis has approved a revision “Imagine the immense power of our prayers offered for our paragraph 2267 of the Catechism of the persecuted brothers and sisters in the Body of Christ, imagine Catholic Church. In the audience granted how we can renew our faith in the power of the Eucharist on 11 May 2018 to the Prefect of the which where “violence is transformed into love, and death into Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, life” Pope Benedict XVI Cardinal Luis Ladaria, Pope Francis said “The new formulation of number 2267 of This simple campaign is about interceding for those suffering the Catechism of the Catholic Church injustice, assault, kidnap, forced conversion, torture and death, desires to give energy to a movement and answering Pope Francis’ call to pray for the persecuted towards a decisive commitment to favour a when he reminded us that, “Today there are more [martyrs] mentality that recognises the dignity of every human life and, in respectful than in the first ages – but the media says nothing about them, dialogue with civil authorities, to because it’s not news.” encourage the creation of conditions that Will you go to one extra Mass and offer it for a allow for the elimination of the death persecuted Christian? penalty where it is still in effect.”

Here is the Vatican-provided English Those who walk with God translations of the text of the revision, as well as the letter that Cardinal Ladaria sent always reach their destination from the CDF to all bishops: The death penalty SAINT SWITHINS DAY (15 July) Swithin/Swithun (d.862) was an Anglo Saxon 2267. Recourse to the death penalty on the Bishop of Winchester. Very little is known of part of legitimate authority, following a his life, as there is little mention of him in fair trial, was long considered an contemporary documents. Swithin was one appropriate response to the gravity of of two trusted counsellors of Egbert, King of certain crimes and an acceptable, albeit the West Saxons, helping him in ecclesiastical matters, and he was probably extreme, means of safeguarding the entrusted with the education of his son common good. Ethelwulf. King Egbert was most likely Today, however, there is an increasing responsible for Swithin’s election to the awareness that the dignity of the person is Bishopric of Winchester in succession to RAINBOW CENTRE Helmstan. On his deathbed Swithin begged not lost even after the commission of very is in need of tinned & serious crimes. In addition, a new that he should be buried outside the north wall of his cathedral where passers-by should dried food, toiletries, understanding has emerged of the pass over his grave and raindrops from the soap, toothpaste etc. (non - significance of penal sanctions imposed by eaves drop upon it. More than a century later the state. Lastly, more effective systems of (931) his body was translated with great perishable items only). Box at detention have been developed, which pomp to a shrine within the new church the back of each church for ensure the due protection of citizens but, at erected by Bishop Ethelwulf (d. 984). A donations the same time, do not definitively deprive number of miraculous cures took place and the guilty of the possibility of redemption. Swithin was canonized by popular SUNDAY SMILE: acclamation. In 1093 his remains were again Consequently, the Church teaches, in the translated to the new church built by Bishop light of the Gospel, that “the death penalty Walkelin. The shrine was destroyed and the is inadmissible because it is an attack on relics scattered in 1538. It has often been said the inviolability and dignity of the that the saint was a Benedictine monk and person”, and she works with determination even Prior of Winchester but there is no evidence of this. From the first translation of for its abolition worldwide. his relics in 984 until the destruction of the MASS INTENTIONS normally entered in shrine, St Swithin was the patron of order received. We do try to honour requests Winchester Cathedral. He is best known from the popular superstition attached to his name, for specific dates. However, due to the high that the weather on his Feast Day will set the number we receive, duplicate requests course for the next 40 days. There have been inevitably occur, and it may not always be many attempts to explain the origin of this possible. It is advisable to give a second belief, but none have proved satisfactory. A choice of date. Thank you for your similar belief in France on 8 June is attached patience .... Fr Gubbins. to Ss Gervasius and Protasius. “Do turn off your predictive text, Brother Thomas!”