WEEKDAY AND SUNDAY MASS TIMES AND INTENTIONS OUR LADY OF LOURDES CHURCH,

SUNDAY 9.30am MASS – De Silva & Gomes Family RIP TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY OF THE YEAR 1/2 SEPTEMBER 2 September 11.30am MASS – Ints Edward & Carmel Benson 22nd Sunday of Golden Wedding Anniversary the Year [B] 6.30pm MASS - People of the Parish

ST GREGORY THE GREAT MONDAY 8.30am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 3 September 8.55am Angelus & Morning Prayer 9.15am MASS – Win O’Brian RIP

[ ST CUTHBERT TUESDAY 8.30am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 4 September 8.55am Angelus & Morning Prayer 9.15am MASS –Stella Murphy RIP

WEDNESDAY 8.30am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 5 September 8.55am Angelus & Morning Prayer 9.15am MASS – Teressa Ricarda RIP [

THURSDAY 8.30am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 6 September 8.55am Angelus & Morning Prayer 9.15am MASS – Nieves Mamaradlo RIP

FRIDAY 8.30am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 7 September 8.55am Angelus & Morning Prayer 9.15am MASS – Holy Souls 10.30am MASS – Our Lady of Lourdes School

[ “Nothing that goes into a man from outside can make THE BIRTHDAY OF OUR LADY him unclean.” SATURDAY 8.30am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 8 September 8.55am Angelus & Morning Prayer PARISH TELEPHONE NUMBER – 020 8989 2074 9.15am Service of the Word with Holy Communion E - mail address wanstead@dioceseo fbrentwood.org 2.00pm Nuptial Mass Ngoc Tran & Francesca Fong 6.30pm MASS –David Jawed RIP Website www.ourladyoflourdeswanstead.com

Pastoral Team – Father Patrick J. Sammon SUNDAY 9.30am MASS – Ints Rhonda, Danny, Sarah-Jane Arekion, Maureen Brazier, th 9 September Melody and Matilda O’Connor Audrey Castelino, Carmel Docherty 23rd Sunday 11.30am MASS – Sheila Teresa Scotland RIP Louise Jarvis, Clare Losty, Margaret Monahan of the Year [B] 1.00pm Ordinariate Mass ORDINARIATE GROUP - PRIEST IN CHARGE FATHER ROB PAGE 6.30pm MASS - Ints Tyrie Family RACIAL JUSTICE DAY ORDINARIATE GROUP – PRIEST IN CHARGE FATHER ROB PAGE TELEPHONE 020 8550 4540 EMAIL @dioceseofbrentwood.org

MESSAGE FROM FATHER ANTONS THE WEEK AHEAD I wish to say goodbye to all in the community of Our Lady of Lourdes and thank Monday 3 Sept 2-4pm NHS Group [Hall] you for your encouragement and friendship. I especially wish to express my 5-7pm Weightwatchers [Hall] gratitude to Father Sammon for through his generosity I have had the opportunity Tuesday 4 Sept 3.30pm Mercy Associate Meeting [St Joseph’s Convent] to experience an English parish. I shall always remember you all in my prayers 7.30pm Divine Mercy Prayer Group [Booker Room] so with affection I say goodbye and thank you. 7.45pm Baptism Preparation [1] [Hall] CONGRATULATIONS – Congratulations and best wishes to the following Wednesday 5 Sept Refreshments after 9.15am Mass [Hall] couples who were married in our church recently – 1.30pm Sheila Lovell Club [Hall Ryan Williams and Jodie Austin 6.30-8.30pm Pilates [Hall] Amy Adu and Robert Sarfo 8pm Meditation Group (St Mark Room) Ian Dobbs and Sandra Gittins Thursday 6 Sept 3.30-6pm Perform [Hall] We wish them a long and happy life together. Friday 7 Sept 9.45am-3pm Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament AUGUST 100 CLUB WINNERS – First Prize £100 Michael McCarthy, 9-11am Weight Watchers [Hall] Second Prize £50 Roy & Sheila Bates, Third Prize £50 Anthony McCarthy. 11am Pilates [Hall] Congratulations! 3.30-6pm Perform [Hall] CONGRATULATIONS – Our congratulations, prayers and best wishes to Saturday 8 Sept 10.30am PLAs Meeting Edward and Carmel Benson on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of their 1 - 4pm Knitting & Dressmaking Workshop [Hall] marriage. There is a Mass for them at 11.30am this Sunday. Sunday 9 September Teas after 9.30am Mass [Hall] GARDENER/HANDYMAN AVAILABLE – If interested contact Mervyn Carroll on READERS ROTA 8 – 9 SEPTEMBER 2012 ST ND 020 8530 8942. [Parishioner who is a retired Security Guard]. TIME 1 READING 2 READING BIDDING PRAYERS MASS OF THANKSGIVING in honour of the XIV Summer Paralympic Games on 6.30pm Flora Pereira Paul Sebastian Jo Sheehy Saturday 8 September at 12.30pm at St George’s Cathedral, Southwark. 9.30am D Arawwawala Louise Parker Shirlene Tobin 11.30am Anne Cummins Kim Morris S Laviniere REDBRIDGE FAITH FORUM INTERFAITH BUFFET SUPPER 6.30pm Mark Lonergan S J Arekion Vivian Vinning Monday 10 September from 6pm till ….. when you wish to leave, at the Kaftan EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF COMMUNION 8 – 9 SEPTEMBER 2012 Restaurant 253 High Road . For people of all ages. Tickets £10 per person Saturday Sunday Sunday Sunday if purchased in advance or £12 50 at the door. Children aged 4 -13 ~ tickets £5. 6.30pm 9.30am 11.30am 6.30pm For advance tickets ~ pick up from or order from the restaurant S Flynn N Gorni G Canning J Bangura (www.kafanrestaourant.com ) or contact Shamshia or Saira at RFF on 020 8708 P Flynn J Gorni C Curtis A Burke 2478/2445 or email [email protected] L Gerrish R Green G Davies C Docherty CATHOLIC FELLOWSHIP DIOCESAN MASS – Sunday 16 September 3pm C Glover M Greensmith M Davies A Dorigo celebrated by Bishop Thomas at Brentwood Cathedral.Refreshments afterwards. L Jarvis J Gumbrell C de Silva J Dorigo PAN-AFRICAN ANNUAL MASS - Sunday 16 September 3pm, St George’s M Kearney K van Beers I Dobbs T Fallon Church, Walthamstow. The Mass will be presided by Bishop Alan Hopes, VG & WELCOMING GROUP 8 - 9 SEPTEMBER 2012 Auxiliary Bishop in Westminster and Ethnic Chaplaincies Chairman. All welcome. Saturday Sunday Sunday Sunday VISIT TO BUCKINGHAM PALACE STATE ROOMS AND THE DIAMOND 6.30pm 9.30am 11.30am 6.30pm EXHIBITION - Thursday 20 September. All tickets have now been allocated. Linda Gerrish Selner Rodriguez Dorigo Family Would everyone please assemble at Wanstead Tube Station by 9.00 am, if we A Castelino Family Family Tara Fallon are late at the Palace there will be no admittance after the ticket time so please COUNTERS – 9 September - B Fleming, S Beckford and K Banahan. be on time. Thank you. HOLY TRINITY, BASILDON, MASS OF DEDICATION - 7.30pm Tuesday 30 CLEANING - Monday 3 September - Team 2 A.M. October. Holy Trinity has recently been extended and refurbished, with a new MONTHLY FOOD COLLECTION FOR REFUGEES IN REDBRIDGE and permanent altar. In a special ceremony Bishop Thomas will dedicate the Will take place this weekend 1/2 September. Please bring contributions to Mass church, and consecrate the altar. Everyone is very welcome: past parishioners of and leave near repository. Dry e.g. rice and pasta and tinned food would be Holy Trinity are particularly warmly invited. gratefully received. Thank you. ITALIAN LANGUAGE CLASSES - Begin in September in the Matthew Room. Various levels available: from complete beginners to intermediate. For more details go to www.smartlanguages.com or call 020 3384 1522.

PARISH MASS BOOK FOR THE TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY OF THE YEAR ASSISTANT PRIEST – As already announced we shall be having an Assistant Page 7 The beginning of the Mass Priest in the parish for one year from 7 October 2012 to 1 October 2013. At Page 126 The Collect and Readings present Deacon Matthew is on pastoral placement in St Anne Line Parish. He is Page 12 The Creed Page 14 Preparation of Gifts a former Anglican, has not come through the Ordinariate but left the Church of Page 15 Preface Dialogue Page 53 Preface England as Vicar, to become a Catholic, and then decided to study for the Page 16 Holy, Holy Page 23 Eucharistic Prayer 2 priesthood. He is a married man, his wife Lucy is a doctor and they have one Page 43 The Communion Rite of the Mass child Felicity. Matthew will continue to live in his home in and will Page 129 Prayer After Communion come here to the parish each morning. He will be ordained to the priesthood on Saturday 6 October by Bishop Thomas at 11.30am at the Cathedral in Brentwood and will celebrate his first Mass here on Sunday 7 October at SACRAMENTAL, CATECHETICAL, LITURGICAL, SPIRITUAL, PARISH 11.30am. Parishioners who would like to go to the Ordination in Brentwood NHS GROUP – Meeting on Monday 3 September 2-4pm in the Hall. please put your name on the list in the church porch. If we get sufficient numbers MERCY ASSOCIATE MEETING – Tuesday 4 September at 3.30pm in we shall organize a coach and travel to and from Brentwood. We will need to St Joseph’s Convent. All welcome. know numbers by 20 September. DIVINE MERCY –Tuesday 4 September at 7.30pm in the Booker Room. FIRST HOLY COMMUNION & FIRST RECONCILIATION 2012-2013 BAPTISM PREPARATION COURSE [1] – Tuesday 4 September 7.45pm [Hall]. IMPORTANT NOTICE – NOTE DATE PLEASE. This programme is only for SHEILA LOVELL CLUB – Wednesday 5 September at 1.30pm. [Hall]. children who live in the Parish and attend Sunday Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes, PILATES – Wednesday 5 September 6.30-8.30pm in the Hall. Wanstead weekly. It is for children in Year 3 or Year 4. If you live in another

MEDITATION GROUP – Wednesday 5 September 8pm St Mark Room. Parish it is appropriate to have your child receive these Sacraments in that PILATES – Friday 7 September 11am in the Hall. parish. Enrolment evening for parents is on Thursday 13 September at 7.30pm PLAs MEETING – Saturday 8 September at 10.30am. in the Pastoral Centre. If your child has not been baptized at Our Lady of ‘SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL FOR GOD’ – Saturday 8 September, 1-4pm in the Lourdes please bring a copy of the Baptism Certificate to the meeting. No Pastoral Centre. Please do come along and join in our knitting and dressmaking applications accepted after 13 September. workshop. Suitable for all ages and faiths. For further information, please contact PARISH CENSUS – It is now over 10 years since we undertook a Bhavanee on 07971119772 or Sutopa on 07961007993. Thank you. comprehensive census of the parish and it is time to have another. A small committee from the Parish Council is formulating plans for the census and in due course I shall be asking for volunteers to help. CONFIRMATION 2013 – Young people in Year 12 who wish to receive the BACK TO SCHOOL – Our schools re-open this week and we pray for a Sacrament of Confirmation in May 2013 should apply to Father Sammon in successful year for teachers, staff and pupils in all our schools. Congratulations writing please. PLEASE NOTE – Closing date for applications is 30 September. to our young people, many of whom have excelled in the recent ‘A’ levels and GCSEs. Well done! Good luck to those leaving the parish and going on to RCIA - WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A CATHOLIC, ‘COME AND SEE’ further education. I wish you God’s blessing, success and happiness – and Interested in the Catholic faith? Do you know someone who would like to find out always remember you are welcome home to Our Lady of Lourdes parish at more about the Catholic faith, its teachings, beliefs etc? There will be an Open holiday time. Evening in the Matthew Room on Tuesday 11 September at 8pm. It is a “Come WELCOME - Many people comment on the warm welcome they receive on and See” evening, a short presentation on what the RCIA means About Being Sundays in the church foyer from our teams of Welcomers. We urgently need to Catholic – ABC. You may wish to encourage someone you know to attend. increase the teams and I am asking parishioners, individuals, families, etc. to become Welcomers or Greeters. This involves being present 15 minutes before DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Mass, distributing the newsletter, hymn books and Mass books and collecting Mass for Clive Chitty RIP Tuesday 11 September at 2pm. them afterwards. This is a ministry – a ministry of welcome. Do please consider Mass with Prayer for Healing Wednesday 12 September at 8pm. this request. Children and young people are warmly welcome to join. If you can Life in the Spirit Mass Tuesday 18 September at 8pm help please contact Debbie Selner on 8989 5251. She is the co-ordinator of the Marriage Preparation Courses – 22 September St George’s, Walthamstow Welcoming Group. Your support of this would be much appreciated. Help make 20 October Our Lady of Lourdes, Wanstead. our parish a place of welcome. 24 November St Augustine’s,

PRAY FOR THE SICK - Mrs Gleeson, Denis Raines, Katie Cox, Olga Nunes, Maria Cutayer, Mrs Crolley, Robert Britt-Hazard, Jane Bryne, Stephen O’Riordan Mary Martin, Mrs Carldan, Muriel Taylor, Pat Hetherington, John Andrews, Noreen Cavanagh, Christopher Browne, Mary Popielarz, Francisca Beltran, Julia Taylor, Joan Claydon, Justina Paul, Helene Brown, Lilliane Abdallah, Desmond Kennedy, Henry Owens, Anna Mozejko, Harry Lakey, Rachel Goggin, Maureen Walker, Ruby Killen, Gerald Foreman, Tony Lonergan, Mary O’Riordan, Roy Harding, Mary Sullivan, Jo Stackerd, Kerrie O’Donnell, Kath Hurl, Maura Stone, Neil Toye, Hunter Guest, Bridgid Joy, Betty Whelan, Trish Corrigan-Mead, Pauline McKenna, Mary Higgins, Carl Dean, Grace Smith, Evelina Underwood, Veronica Smith, Lyndon Panton, Mary Dillane, Guido Gorni, Amelia Savino, Kathleen Durrell, David Fairman, Hazel Castelino, Shirley Khoo, Florence Smith, , Anthony and Mary O’Boyle, Fin O’Regan, Alex Blomerius, Bridget O’Halloran, Michael McGovern. RIP Anniversaries (Mon 3 September – Sunday 9 September): Sheila Scotland, Emma Nicholson, Margaret Drury, Joseph Nolan, Martin Long, Eammon Fahy, Margaret Burns, William Spashett, Stella Murphy, Chris Piper, Karen Thompson, Michael Garvey, Dr Nicholas Lawlor, Kathleen Goddard, Winifred Cook, Alice O’Leary, Vincent Mansi, Nell Titley, Winnie Zuber, Michael Dignan, Reginald Ruppert, Victoria Servid, Pauline O’Keefe, David Michael Kelly, Geoffrey Hawkins, Mary Sullivan, Shirley Evelyn Oatham. RIP – Please pray for the repose of the souls of the following who died during August – Anne Haines, wife of Ian from our parish. Josephine Kimberley, mother of Bill from our community. Katherine O’Brian, Denis de Freitas, Philip Grimes and Sadie Dolen. We extend our sympathy and prayers to their families. May they rest in peace. NEW ALTAR SERVERS – TRAINING. Training for new Altar Servers will commence on Tuesday 11 September at 6pm and continue each Tuesday for 5/6 sessions until the altar servers have reached a good standard. Boys and girls in Year 4 at primary school are eligible to commence training. If there are any young people who would like to train as Altar Servers you are welcome to come along regardless of age. Men and women are needed to help serve on week days and at funerals, etc. ORDINARIATE MASS – Sunday 9 September 1pm celebrant and preacher Mgr John Broadhurst. Refreshments after Mass. It is vital that all members of the Ordinariate are present. MASS WITH PRAYER FOR HEALING – The next Mass with Prayer for Healing will be celebrated on Wednesday 12 September at 8pm. It is an opportunity for us to come together to pray with and for those who are sick. You may wish to come along and pray for a sick person or accompany a sick person to the service. Anointing will take place during Mass. WELCOME – We welcome into the family of God Frances Appiah-Brewu and Ava Roberts who were baptised here at the end of July.