Mass Intentions Sun 6 The Body and Blood of Christ Solemnity 10.00 Somto Joshua Nwaoha – God’s blessings (Hannah & Charles Nwaoha) The Catholic Parish and Ordinariate 16.30 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament & Benediction Church of S. John Vianney, Clayhall 17.00 The People of the Parish Parish Priest: Fr Rob Page Mon 7 Weekday in Ordinary Time No Mass 1 Stoneleigh Rd Clayhall, Ilford, Essex IG5 0JB Tue 8 Weekday in Ordinary Time tel 020 8550 4540 email [email protected] 9.00 The stewards: thank you for enabling us to attend the Holy Sacrifice www.sjv-clayhall.uk facebook.com/sjv.clayhall of the Mass (Anne O’Doherty) Brentwood Diocesan Trust charity no 234092 Ordinariate charity no 1141536 Wed 9 Weekday in Ordinary Time 9.00 Neil Ewen – birthday (Anne O’Doherty) The Body and Blood of Chirst Thu 10 Weekday in Ordinary Time s 9.00 Rose Johnpillai RIP; Angelina Amerthanaygan RIP (Clotilda) 6 June 2021 Fri 11 The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Solemnity Responsorial Psalm First Reading Gospel 9.00 Giulia Vuoto RIP (Antonio Vuoto/Lina Caracina) 10am: The cup of salvation I will raise; I Exodus 24:3-8 Mark 14:12-16,22-26 20.00 Susan Good RIP (Anne Edwards) will call on the Lord’s name. Second Reading Sat 12 The Immaculate Heart of Mary 5pm: I will lift up the chalice of salvation Hebrews 9:11-15 9.00 Pat Coughlin – birthday blessings (The Saturdays) and call on the name of the Lord.

Sun 13 Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (Second Sunday after Trinity) Corpus Christi in the words of S. Thomas Aquinas 10.00 The People of the Parish 16.30 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament & Benediction “How inestimable a dignity, beloved brethren, 17.00 David Watson RIP (V Hausenloy) divine bounty has bestowed upon us Christians from the treasury of its infinite goodness! For there Tuesday to Saturday neither is nor ever has been a people to whom the 8.00 Office of readings and morning prayer – week 2 gods were so nigh as our Lord and God is nigh 8.30 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament unto us. Tuesday to Friday “Desirous that we be made partakers of His 17.30 Evening prayer – week 2 divinity, the only-begotten Son of God has taken to Himself our nature so that having become man, Stewards’ rota for this week He would be enabled to make men gods. 10.00 – 11.00 Anita Lewis, Antoinette Loroy, Siew Mendoza Whatever He assumed of our nature He wrought Sunday 6 June 16.30 – 18.00 Bernadetta Sharon, Lionel Sharon unto our salvation. For on the altar of the Cross He immolated to the Father His own Body as victim Tuesday 8 June 8.30 – 9.30 Anita Lewis for our reconciliation and shed His blood both for Wednesday 9 June 8.30 – 9.30 Jennifer Alvares our ransom and for our regeneration. Moreover, in The Most Sacred Heart of Thursday 10 June 8.30 – 9.30 Tesse Javier order that a remembrance of so great benefits Jesus may always be with us, He has left us His Body as 8.30 – 9.30 Jennifer Alvares Friday 11 June food and His Blood as drink under appearances of Friday 11 June 20.00 – 21.00 Anne Edwards, Jenny Appadoo bread and wine. 8.30 Adoration of the Blessed Saturday 12 June 8.30 – 9.30 Merlyn Sealy, Michael Josef “O banquet most precious! O banquet most Sacrament 10.00 – 11.00 Therese Valerie, Anne Edwards, Jenny Appadoo admirable! O banquet overflowing with every 9.00 Low Mass Sunday 13 June spiritual delicacy! Can anything be more excellent 16.30 – 18.00 Pauline Brooke, Marilyn Butler 20.00 Solemn Mass than this repast, in which not the flesh of goats and heifers, as of old, but Christ the true God is given us for nourishment? What more Extraordinary Ministers Sunday 10am Mass Theresa McDonagh, Lily Sarpong wondrous than this holy sacrament! In it bread and wine are changed substantially, and Reader Sunday 10am Mass Naomi Augusto under the appearance of a little bread and wine is had Christ Jesus, God and perfect Man. Flowers next Saturday as arranged for wedding In this sacrament sins are purged away, virtues are increased, the soul is satiated with an abundance of every spiritual gift. No other sacrament is so beneficial. Since it was instituted unto the salvation of all, it is offered by Holy Church for the living and for the dead, that all may share in its treasures. Continued next page Our Lady’s Lamp known to mankind and to diffuse the treasures church, on the live stream it is terribly distorted Parish Finance of His goodness, and that He had chosen her and there are sound drop outs. I have spoken £ Our Lady’s blue lamp burns this week for an for this work, (probably 27 December 1673). In to the company that installed the system for us Income (offertory, standing orders, end to the pandemic. June or July of 1674, Sister Margaret Mary and they hope that the issue could be corrected Mass stipends, candles etc) 1,268.09 If you would like the lamp to burn for an said, Jesus asked to be honoured under the by the installation of a professional quality Average weekly expenditure 1,605.00 intention of yours, please fill in one of the figure of His Heart of Flesh and asked for a sound card/mixer. Shortfall 336.91 envelopes in the narthex. The suggested devotion of expiatory love – frequent I would love to go ahead with this because donation is £7. Most weeks from 11 June Communion, Communion on the first Friday of during the pandemic the live stream has been “My dearly beloved, is it not beyond human are available. each month and the observance of Holy Hours. so important for our ministry and I am sure as power to express the ineffable delicacy of this In another vision, on the feast of Corpus Christi we press ahead it will continue to be so. The sacrament in which spiritual sweetness is It is in the eleventh and twelfth centuries that 1675, Sister Margaret Mary reported that Jesus issue is that it is going to cost £450 which we tasted in its very source, in which is brought to we find the first unmistakable indications of told her, “Behold the Heart that has so loved just do not have right now. devotion to the Sacred Heart. Through the mind the remembrance of that all-excelling men…instead of gratitude I receive from the If any of you think this is important enough to wound in the side the wounded Heart was charity which Christ showed in His sacred greater part (of mankind) only ingratitude…” help with then do have a chat with me or we gradually reached, and the wound in the Heart passion? Surely it was to impress more Jesus then asked for a feast of reparation on might just have to manage as we are at least symbolised the wound of Divine Love. In the profoundly upon the hearts of the faithful the the Friday after the octave of Corpus for the time being. immensity of this charity that our loving Saviour Benedictine and Cistercian monasteries Christi. bidding her to consult Father de la instituted this sacrament at the last supper devotion arose, although it is impossible to say Colombiére, then superior of the small Jesuit Fr Rob when, having celebrated the Pasch with His what were the first texts. Saint Gertrude (d. house at Paray. He recognized the action of the disciples. He was about to leave the world and 1302) had a vision on the feast of John the Spirit of God and consecrated himself to the Notices and News return to the Father. It was to serve as an Evangelist. She was resting her head near the Sacred Heart and directed Sister Margaret unending remembrance of His passion, as the wound in the Saviour’s side and hearing the Mary to write down her account and to circulate Sacrament of Reconciliation (confession) fulfilment of ancient types – this the greatest of beating of the Divine Heart. She asked Saint it throughout France and England. Sister Confession is available on Saturday mornings His miracles. To those who sorrow over His John if on the night of the Last Supper, he had Margaret Mary Alacoque was canonized in the after Mass and at other times by arrangement departure He has given a unique solace.” felt these delightful pulsations, why he had 20th century. with Fr Rob. never spoken of the fact. Saint John replied that Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus this revelation had been reserved for Reception of Holy Communion Weeders and pruners As May was the month of Mary, our Blessed subsequent ages when the world, having grown It is vitally important that we follow these Our weeders and pruners group meets on Mother, and June is the Month of the Sacred cold, would have need of it to rekindle its love. instructions issued by the Bishops. Mondays at 10.30am, weather permitting, and Heart of Jesus, does it not follow that as May From the thirteenth to the sixteenth century, the 1. Members of the faithful may if they wish welcomes all helpers. leads into June, Mary leads us to her the love of devotion was practised as a private, individual receive Holy Communion in the traditional way, Living rosary intention for June her Son, symbolised by His Heart? devotion of the mystical order. In the sixteenth that is ON THE TONGUE. The Beauty of Marriage: Let us pray for young Devotion to the Sacred Heart is a form of century, the devotion took an onward step and 2. Those wish to receive on the tongue are people who are preparing for marriage with the devotion to the person Jesus, and especially to passed from the domain of mysticism into that requested to come at the end of the communion support of a Christian community: may they His Love. of Christian asceticism. It was constituted an line. That is those receiving in the hand should objective devotion with prayers already grow in love, with generosity, faithfulness and The Catholic Encyclopedia details a history of approach communion first. formulated and special exercises of which the patience. We ask this through Christ our Lord. this devotion. It observed that from the time of value was extolled and practice commended. 3. Priests and extraordinary ministers of Amen Saint John and Saint Paul there has always communion should sanitise their hands before been in the Church something like devotion to The devotion to the Sacred Heart developed and after administering communion. Offertory the love of God, Who so loved the world as to further during the seventeenth century. Ascetic 4. If at any point the priest or extraordinary Please place your offertory donations in the give it His only-begotten Son, and to the love of writers spoke of it, especially those of the minister touches either the hand or the tongue basket near the church entrance/exit doors. Jesus, Who has so loved us as to deliver Society of Jesus (Jesuits), Alvarez de Paz, Luis of a member of the faithful they should: Himself up for us. But, accurately speaking, this de la Puente, Saint-Jure and Nouet and Father You can also donate online at www.diocese is not the devotion to the Sacred Heart, as it Druzbicki’s small work Meta Cordium, Cor Jesu. – Stop administering communion ofbrentwood.net/donations?parish=clayhall. pays no homage to the Heart of Jesus as the The devotion was greatly increased by the – Place the ciborium on the altar symbol of His love for us. From the earliest visions of Sister Margaret Mary Alacoque – Sanitise their hands Our Masses are live-streamed and centuries, Christ’s open side and the mystery of (1647-1690), a French Visitandine nun, at the – Resume administering communion available on YouTube afterwards. blood and water were meditated upon, and the convent of Paray-le-Monial. She had a vision of If anyone has any concerns please see Fr Rob. Church was beheld issuing from the side of Christ’s Heart on the feast of Saint John that You must wear a face covering in Jesus, as Eve came forth from the side of was similiar to that of Saint Gertrude. Jesus Live Stream Sound Quality church unless you are exempt. Adam. But there is nothing to indicate that, permitted her to rest her head upon His Heart, Many if you have commented that although the Please make sure your phone is off during the first ten centuries, any worship was and then disclosed to her the wonders of His sound quality of the new PA system is very rendered the wounded Heart. love, telling her that He desired to make this good when you are physically present in the or totally silent during Mass.