November 3rd 2019 Thirty First Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)

THE CATHOLIC CHURCHES OF SS Anthony & George, Duncton The Divine Motherhood & St Francis of Assisi, Midhurst The Sacred Heart, Petworth Sunday November 3rd Thirty First Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) The of Petworth & Midhurst 8.00am Mass Duncton (followed by blessing of graves) Pro Pop 9.30am Mass Midhurst Patricia Kirwan RIP Parish Priest 11.00am Mass Petworth Fr Burke RIP Fr Peter Newsam 3.00pm Blessing of Graves at Carron Lane Cemetery, Midhurst [email protected] Monday November 4th S. Charles Borromeo No Mass Administrator Catherine Moody (at The Presbytery Tuesday, Tuesday November 5th Feria Wednesday & Thursday 9am-1pm) 9.30am Mass Petworth Talli Jones RIP [email protected] Wednesday November 6th Feria 9.00am Rosary for Peace & Vocations Midhurst The Presbytery, 9.30am Mass Midhurst Holy Souls (Weekly Requiem) Angel Street, Petworth, West GU28 0BG Thursday November 7th Feria 01798 342169 9.30am Mass Petworth Elina De Souza RIP 12.00Noon Mass Midhurst (Convent) Fr Wilfrid McGreal RIP Finance Lead Friday November 8th Feria Paul Mellings 6.00pm Confessions Petworth [email protected] 6.30pm Mass Petworth Holy Souls (Weekly Requiem) Pastoral Lead Saturday November 9th Consecration of The Lateran Basilica Charles Sommer 9.30am Mass Midhurst Holy Souls [email protected] 10.00am Confessions Midhurst Sunday November 10th Thirty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) Website 8.00am Mass Duncton John James Chamberlain RIP petworthcatholic.org 9.30am Mass Midhurst Holy Souls (Weekly Requiem) or 11.00am Mass Petworth People of the Parish midhurstcatholic.org Mass Book page numbers today p. 157 Fr Jerome Bertram Cong Orat RIP Please pray for the repose of the soul of Fr Jerome Bertram, a son of this Second collections: parish, who died on October 19th. Funeral at the Sunday November 3rd Retired Priests (can be Gift Oxford Oratory on Tuesday 5th November at 11am Aided in diocesan envelopes) Sunday November 17th Annual Mission Appeal The Co-Workers of Mother Teresa will be holding Sunday November 24th their annual coffee morning after Mass on Saturday Maintenance Fund (can be Gift Aided in diocesan 16th from 10am and Sunday 17th from 10.30am envelopes) November 2019.Any quality items for sale and raffle prizes would be most welcome. These can be left after Missio Red Boxes It is time for the annual collection. Mass on Sundays in the box provided at the back of Please bring your boxes to the Church as soon as the Church or handed to Sister Joan. possible. If you have any problems please contact the coordinator Chris Bleasdale (Midhurst) Tel 01730 An illustrated talk on Henry, XV 821400 OR Email : [email protected] or (builder of ) in The Cathedral Fran Montgomery (Petworth) Tel 07756 009070 or Centre, Arundel, Saturday November 23rd at Midday, email: [email protected] followed by soup & sandwich lunch. Tickets £7 from Lindsey Stratford 01903 884567 Archbishop RIP 2nd of [email protected] Arundel & Brighton. Funeral Mass at Southwark Cathedral on Monday 4th November 12.30pm. The next meeting of the Simple Lunch and Prayer Memorial Mass in Arundel Cathedral on Thursday Meeting will be on Wednesday 13 November at 12.30 14th November 7.30pm pm. Everybody welcome. The Arundel & Brighton Diocesan Trust is a Registered Charity No. 252878 Directions to Farthings are: Take the Balls Cross/ The Wellspring Community in collaboration with Kirdford road from Petworth. Past The Stag at Balls Worth Abbey. Hope to see you there. For more info Cross, over the bridge and up the hill . At the top of please email Worth Abbey: [email protected] the hill (before entering the village of Kirdford) turn left, signposted Northchapel and we are the first November - Month of The Holy Souls. Each week house on the left. there will be a Mass at Midhurst and another at Petworth for the Holy Souls. Please PRINT the Advent Residential Retreat 6-8 December with led names of anyone you would like prayed for at these exploration of the advent scriptures and the masses on the sheets in the S. Joseph Chapel opportunity for individual spiritual direction at (Petworth) and the Martyrs Chapel (Midhurst) Sussex Heritage Centre, Arundel, BN18 9QY. Cost £185 full board, single ensuite rooms. Limited places. Are you aged between 15-30? Do you know someone For more details or to book who is? The Big Encounter is an annual event for see www.sussexheritage.co.uk or phone Maria on anyone in that age range; and is an opportunity to 01903 413606 grow in faith by encountering Jesus in Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, meeting other likeminded Cathedral Deanery Initial Safeguarding Awareness young Catholics and, praising him in Worship. Our Training at the Cathedral Centre, Arundel, BN18 event this year is being held at St Dunstan’s Church in 9AY on Tuesday, 26th November 2019 from 7-9 p.m. th Please email the Safeguarding Office to book on this, Woking on 9 November. Doors open at 3.30, the or book via the Safeguarding section of the Diocesan event concludes with Mass at 6pm, celebrated by Website. this training is for everyone but we are Bishop Richard. Our guest speaker is the always particularly targeting those who work with or entertaining and engaging Fr David King. minister to Vulnerable Groups (Children and Adults Last Sunday's cash collections across the parish at Risk. ) It is the expectation of the Bishop, Trustees GA Envelopes 224 and Safeguarding Commission that this initial Loose cash 414 training is undertaken and refreshed every three This week's total 638 years. (Average weekly cash collection for comparison is 644) Spread across the year, standing orders average Sheila Cole is making a good recovery and writes that approximately £880 per week she would like “to pass on a big thank you from me to all those wonderful parishioners who have been Many thanks for your generosity. praying for me for months, I have felt so uplifted and peaceful during this whole experience”. Today’s collection for retired priests helps to ensure that our retired priests can be cared for and supported, without Ignite: Teenage Retreats 6-8th December 2019 at experiencing financial hardship. Our parish needs to Worth Abbey For those in school years 7-9. We would contribute £1,780, or £7 per massgoer, to pay our way. This like to invite you to our next Ignite teen retreat…. can be Gift Aided in Diocesan GA envelopes. Ignite retreats are faith filled, fun packed weekends for teenagers held at Worth Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Sussex. The weekends are all about This Week exploring faith, getting to know God better whilst having lots of fun and getting to know other young Sunday November 3rd Catholics. Expect talks, workshops, prayer, silly Blessing of graves after Mass (Duncton) and activities, games, sports, drama, a space for silence and 3pm (Midhurst) stillness, yummy food and lots of fun and laughter! Second collection at all Masses for retired priests The weekends are run by myself (Jess) a member of

Please continue to pray for the sick, amongst them: Minty O’Kelly, Sister Barbara, Jean Williams, Tristan Pye, Dennis Glampson, Fr Gerard Hatton, Sister Ancilla, Chris Henson, Josh Vaughan, Maureen Morey, Patrick Mahon and Patricia Leavey. Welcome to anyone who may be visiting our church, or if you have recently arrived in the area. We hope that you will enjoy being with us for our worship. If you are a taxpayer and are putting money in the collection (for which we are always grateful) you might like to use one of the yellow envelopes labelled 'Gift Aid Declaration'. These enable us to reclaim the tax paid

The Arundel & Brighton Diocesan Trust is a Registered Charity No. 252878