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CORPUS CHRISTI BOSCOMBE NEWSLETTER Fr Adrian Howell SJ (425286) Email: [email protected] Fr David Gornall SJ (425286), Fr Kevin Fox SJ (436724), Fr Tony Horan SJ (436721) 18 St James’s Square, Boscombe BH5 2BX Tel: 01202 425286 Parish Administrator: Sandra Cook. Parish Office Email: [email protected] OUR PARISH MOTTO (Normal office hours: 9.30am - 12.30pm Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday) IS “ONLY JESUS” Finance Administrator: Georgie Lockyer. Email: [email protected] Parish Centre & BOOKINGS : Aidan Foy. Tel: 07775868253 Email: [email protected] Jesuits in Britain: www.jesuit.org.uk PARISH WEBSITE: http://www.corpuschristiboscombe.org.uk/ MASS TIMES: Daily Mass: Mon - Sat at 10am SUNDAY MASSES: Sat 6.00pm vigil, Sunday 9.30am, 11.00am, 5.00pm CONFESSIONS: Saturdays at 10.30 -11.30am, 3.30 - 4.00pm and 5.30 - 5.50pm We are part of Pastoral Area 21 (Bournemouth) in the Diocese of Portsmouth - www.portsmouthdiocese.org.uk/e-news/ OTHER PARISHES PARISH PRIEST/ TEL (01202) SUNDAY MASS TIMES CLERGY ANNUNCIATION, Charminster Fr Bernardine Nsom 513369 11.00am, 6.30pm, ST EDMUND CAMPION, Castlepoint Deacon Barry Jennings 9.00am OUR LADY IMMACULATE, Fr Bernardine Nsom 764027 9.00am, 11.00am Westbourne SACRED HEART, Bournemouth Fr Peter Edwards 551013 5.00pm vigil, 8.00am, 10.30am, 4.00pm Congregation of the Oratory of St Philip Neri Deacon Roger Carr-Jones 428451 Youth Council: [email protected] Churches Together in Boscombe: http://www.ctib.community/ Royal Bournemouth Hospital/Christchurch Hospital chaplain: Non–urgent matters, ring Chaplaincy Office directly on 01202 704221. Urgent/out-of-hours, Catholic duty Chaplain contacted via Switchboard on 01202 303626. Mass 6pm Wed Poole Hospital chaplain: Deacon McConville 01202 442167 (leave message) or 01202 665511 (Page RC chaplain) Mass 6.30pm Thurs LITURGICAL CALENDAR - All weekday masses Feria except: Mon 31: St Ignatius Loyola Tues 1: St Alphonsus Mary de Liguori Fri 4: St John Mary Vianney Tues 8: St Dominic Wed 9: St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) Thurs 10: St Laurence Fri 11: St Clare A WARM WELCOME TO ALL OUR VISITORS A HAPPY & SAFE JOURNEY TO ALL OUR PARISHIONERS TRAVELLING AWAY. DOUBLE NEWSLETTER 17th Sunday & The Transfiguration of Our Lord - Year A - 30th July & 6th August 2017 ST IGNATIUS LOYOLA, founder of the Society of Jesus. His A Prayer of St Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) feast day is 31st July, the date he died on in 1556. A Basque Teach us, good Lord, courtier and soldier, Inigo de Loyola was gravely wounded during to serve you as you deserve; the battle of Pamplona in 1521. During his convalescence, he to give and not to count the cost; experienced a profound spiritual conversion that began his to fight and not to heed the wounds; lifelong commitment to God and service. From his personal to toil and not to seek for rest; experience and prayer, he articulated a guide for finding God, to to labour and not to ask for any reward, "find God in all things." and self called the Spiritual Exercises that save that of knowing that we do your will. for centuries has enabled individuals to grow in faith and willingness to work for the greater glory of God, the motto of the Society of Jesus. We wish joyful blessings to all our Jesuit priests & brothers, in active service and those who are ill or retired, especially those in our Corpus Christi Jesuit Community home. ACI INVITATION On Monday 31st July, the Patronal Feast Day of St Ignatius of Loyola, when we celebrate in thanksgiving and gratitude, for not only the life of St Ignatius but for all Jesuit priests, brothers & religious who follow the Ignatian rule, the ACI Family (Links of Love) are happy to invite everyone to refreshments in the coffee lounge after the 10.00am mass. FR PETER HACKETT SJ will be celebrating 60 years as a Priest on 31st July. There will be celebration refreshments in the Parish Centre after Sunday 9.30am Mass today (30th). All welcome! CONGRATULATIONS to David and Catherine Shannessy (neé Gilchrist) who celebrate their wedding here on Monday 31st July. “May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other…” 1Thess. 3:12 REQUIEM MASS for Anne Cooper RIP will be at 12.30pm on Tuesday 1st August. May she rest in peace. JOHN BRADBURNE ‘STRANGE VAGABOND OF GOD’ A talk about John Bradburne and the Mutemwa Leper colony, Zimbabwe in the Parish Centre on Friday 4 August 2017 - 7pm for 7.30pm Admission - Free. Collection for charity Presenter - Reverend Ben Bradshaw. TO RESERVE A SEAT – PLEASE EITHER:- email Craig Maclean on [email protected] ; or Phone 07549 230415; or fill in attendance sheet on noticeboard. See poster. EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT Corpus Christi Friday 4th August 2 - 5 pm. A time to sit and rest in quiet contemplation of the Eucharist...a time to allow our hearts to be opened... a time to give thanks. We pray especially for a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon all families, for those who are sick and their carers. PARISH OFFICE CLOSED MONDAY 31ST JULY TO FRIDAY 4TH AUGUST . THE TRANSFIGURATION OF OUR LORD - SUNDAY 6th AUGUST. This is an extraordinary Feast of hope which can help us to live differently, right now. We are invited, by reflecting on this significant event in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ, to focus us on the end of the Christian life. The Transfiguration helps to explain the very meaning and purpose of life! We will all be transfigured, as the Lord Himself was transfigured, when our redemption is complete in the Resurrection of the Body. Then, we will live in the new heaven and new earth, in a transformed cosmos! This reality is meant to affect the way we live our lives beginning right now. On this Feast Day we are invited to consider whether the truth which it reveals is being embraced and experienced in our own daily lives. We are all invited into the experience. The path up that mountain proceeds through prayer and encounter. On that Mountain, Jesus revealed before mortal eyes the Transcendent Truth of who He is - and who Peter, James and John - and each one of us - will become in Him. They were invited to exercise their freedom and embrace the path that He had prepared. So are we, right now. www.bc.edu/bc-web/bcnews/ LITURGY OF THE WORD WITH CHILDREN will not take place during the school holidays – we look forward to meeting up with you again in September and wish you a safe, happy and sunny holiday. Margaret and the team DEEPENING OUR AWARENESS OF GOD WITHIN US - This course aims to explore ways that we can meet God in our prayer and our daily life. It starts on Tuesday 12th September at 7.30pm. Application forms are in the porch. The closing date is 20th August. (The number of places is limited because of the nature of the course. More information on poster). Enquiries: Fr Tony Horan S.J. e-mail: [email protected] JOURNEY IN FAITH – RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS If you, or someone you know, would like to be considered to take part in this, please contact Fr Adrian by the middle of August. Weekly Monday evening sessions will begin in September, and go on until Easter 2017. All welcome. SUNDAY MORNING REFRESHMENTS after 9.30am & 11.00am Masses. Volunteers urgently needed, from the beginning of October, to serve refreshments after Sunday morning Masses. To be done on a rota system. Could you and your friends/ family/Ministry/Charity take on a session once a month? Please contact Win or Ian Merricks on 01202 393108 or the Parish Office or enquire after Mass on Sunday in the Coffee Lounge. ST THOMAS GARNET’S SCHOOL are providing a summer holiday club for children aged between 5 and 11 years of age until Friday 25th August. Days are 8.30am – 5.30pm @ £28 per day. For information/to book, contact Mrs Maggi Jenkin on 01202 420172 or 07938577311 (mobile on during club hours only) “CLARINET CONCERT playing a programme of Brahms and Debussy, with Doug Gould on piano, at 1:15pm in St Steven's Church, Bournemouth on Wednesday the 2nd August.” Patrick Davies (ex Corpus Christi choir) BOOK SALE for CAFOD & JESUIT MISSIONS after all masses on the weekend of 12/13th August and CAFOD COFFEE & CROISSANTS following the Sunday 9.30am Mass on 13th August. YOUTH MINISTRY - LOURDES YOUTH PILGRIMAGE 18th-25th August 2017. For aged 14-17 by 18th August. Cost is £625. Call Tom Sellars on 01329 318869 (ext 222) or email: [email protected] FANNING THE FLAME SUMMER CAMP at SWAY 21-25 August Age: 10-25 years. For more info & to book go to www.dominicansistersofstjoseph.org email: [email protected] See poster YOUTH 2000 SUMMER FESTIVAL IN WALSINGHAM Thurs 24th Aug from 5pm for 7pm start to 1pm Monday 28th Aug - 2017’s biggest young Catholic Summer Festival! Inheritance, a 5-day camping festival run by young people for young people. For anyone 16 - 35, or families with parents or children in this age-range, are welcome. At the National Catholic Shrine of Our Lady in Walsingham, Houghton St Giles, Walsingham, Norfolk, NR22 6AL. Look out for the big top! CAFOD Portsmouth Harvest Briefings at either Christchurch on Sat 9 Sept 10am - 12pm at St Joseph’s Centre, Immaculate & St Joseph’s, 67 Purewell, Christchurch BH23 1EH or Winchester on Sat 23 Sept 2.15pm - 4.15pm at St Stephen’s Church Hall, Oliver’s Battery Road, Winchester S022 4JB to find out more about CAFOD’s work in El Salvador, the focus for Harvest Fast Day.