The Passage helping homeless people. Garden Party in aid of The Passage in the historic College Garden, Westminster Abbey on Friday 21 July 2017 from 6.00 p.m. St Edward the Confessor Tickets £40 from The Passage, St Vincent’s Centre, Carlisle Place, London SW1P 1NL 700 Finchley Road tel. 020 7592 1856 email [email protected] which includes buffet supper, wine, Golders Green NW11 7NE soft drinks, live music and a prize raffle. Tickets are also available through passage- garden-party.eventbrite.co.uk Tel 020 8455 1300 Email: [email protected] Catholic Singles is an organisation which helps single Catholics of all ages (over 18 Website: http://www.stedwardgg.uk years) meet other single Catholics, either one to one or through social events. For further information visit www.catholicsingles.org.uk or tel. 0161 941 3498 This parish is part of the Westminster Roman Catholic Diocese Trustee Charity No 233699 Niland Conference Centre: Garden Retreat—Cry out with joy to the Lord all the earth! Sr Laurentia Carroll OP & Sr Anne Walsh OP Tuesday, 11 July 10am-3pm. Parish Priest: Fr Tony Convery Deacon: Rev Anthony Clark Suggested donation £12. Please bring a packed lunch and rain gear in case! Niland Chief Catechist: Alvaro Scrivano Secretary: Marie Cooney Conference Centre at Rosary Priory, 93 Elstree Road, Bushey Heath WD23 4EE Registrations welcome but not required [email protected] or 020 (Email: [email protected]) Music Director: Mary Whittle- 8950 4000. Refreshments served at all events. Parish Council Coordinator: Kasonde Konie Jones

14th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A First Holy Communion th Application forms for next year’s programme are available in the porch. They 9 July 2017 th must be returned by 10 September. The programme is for children who will be in year 3 and above at school from September 2017, and who have been baptized. Children who are in non-Catholic schools will be expected to have Christ's kingly power consisted in his completed a year in our Sunday school classes. humility. As Christians we are at our strongest when we empty ourselves of Confirmation Application forms for next year’s programme are available in the porch. They self and approach others only in the must be returned by 10th September. The programme is for young people power of the Spirit. For then we can who will be in year 9 and above at school from September 2017. be sure that the message we bring is

 Hire of the hall: it may be possible to use the parish hall for private parties. Applications not our own but that of the one who should be made by sending an email to the parish address. sends us.  New to the parish?: please complete one of the blue registration cards and return to Fr Tony  In case you are admitted to hospital: In light of data protection, please indicate on entering Texts for this Sunday’s Mass hospital that your details are to be passed to the RC Chaplain. Also state that you would like Zechariah 9:9-10 See now, your king comes humbly to you. the RC Chaplain to visit you.  School forms: For parents who wish Fr Tony to sign their priest’s reference form: please Psalm response: I will bless your name for ever, O God my King. telephone or email to arrange an appointment. Romans 8:9.11-13 If by the Spirit you put an end to the misdeeds  Getting Married: couples are reminded that six months’ notice is required for a wedding, of the body, you will live. either in this country or abroad. Matthew 11:25-30 I am gentle and humble of heart.

Sunday Mass times Saturday 6.30pm (Vigil), 9am, 10.30am, 12.15pm, 6pm MASS SCHEDULE Collection Weekend 1/2 July 2017 Envelopes 1,039.18 Sunday 9th 9am People of the Parish Loose 911.30 14TH SUNDAY 10.30am For carers Standing orders 350 YEAR A 12.15pm Total £ 2,300.48 6pm Visiting: I’m visiting NW2 --- in the coming weeks, usually on Monday & Thursday Monday 10th 10am evenings. Fr Tony

Tuesday 11th 10am Parish Barbecue: many thanks to the Latin Americans who ST BENEDICT Wednesday 12th 10am Gloria Edirimanasinghe hosted a very successful barbecue last weekend. Great food, great dancing and a good way to sign off before the holidays and Thursday 13th 10am Charles Sagayam the start of the building works in the hall.

Friday 14th 10am Helen Connick This Sunday is Sea Sunday, when the Church prays for all those who Saturday 15th 10am live and work at sea. There will be a second collection for the St Bonaventure Apostleship of the Sea, the official maritime welfare agency of the 6.30pm People of the Parish Catholic Church. It provides practical and spiritual support to Sunday 16th 9am seafarers visiting our ports. For more information about its work, visit 15TH SUNDAY 10.30am James Beard www.apostleshipofthesea.org.uk YEAR A 12.15pm 6pm Gilberto Bohorquez Calling all carers: The 10.30 Mass today will be especially dedicated to those who care for others, especially the sick. Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession): Saturdays 10.30-11am, 5.30 - 6pm (5-6pm during Lent) and on request. Parish Council meets on Thursday 13 July at 8pm in the church.

Divine Mercy Hour Saturdays at 3pm. READ OF THE MONTH July 2017  Mass Intentions: please write the intention on the front of an envelope with A Brief History of English Catholicism: By: Fr Nicholas Schofield. The story your own name and preferred date and give to Fr Tony. The week’s of Catholicism in England, told here through the broad sweep of the intentions will be printed in the newsletter (as above) and the intentions for centuries, covers the periods of conversion, medieval consolidation, the the current month will be posted in the porch. crisis of the Reformation and then the Second Spring and its aftermath.  Items for the newsletter should reach the presbytery by Thursday 6pm, This booklet offers readers a general framework into which they can slot either by post or by email ([email protected]). whatever historical facts they already know. The often largely hidden history  Want to receive the newsletter by email? Give us your email address. of the English Catholic Church and its intriguing personalities, cultural riches,

controversies and stories of courage are here vividly brought to life in an engaging narrative. It is only by studying the past that we can understand BAPTISM COURSE the present and look forward to the future The next Baptism Course (2 sessions) will be on Monday 25 and Tuesday 26 This booklet will be available on the window sill near the CTS stand for September 2017. Application forms in the porch (yellow). £1 each during July.