NEWSLETTER Catholic Church of Mary Immaculate and St Gregory the Great The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Et Sanguis Christi) Week 2 Year B And the disciples set out and went to the city, and found it as he had Sunday 6th June 2021 told them; and they prepared the passover. And as they were eating, 6pm* Martin Murphy + he took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them, and 9am: Sheila Isaac & Family said, "Take; this is my body." And he took a cup, and when he had (int) given thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank of it. And he said 11.30am: Sue McCormick + to them, "This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for 6pm: Private Intention many. Truly, I say to you, I shall not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God." And Monday 7 when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. 6.30pm: Mr & Mrs Soosay + On this wonderful Feast of Corpus Christi our Parish community is invited Tuesday 8 into a deeper and joyful experience of the Eucharist. Why did Jesus offer himself as "food and drink" to his disciples? Jesus chose the time of 9.30am: Morning Prayer Passover to fulfil what he had announced earlier at Capernaum - giving his 10am: Ivor Francis + disciples his body and his blood (John 6:51-58). Jesus' passing over to his Father by his death and resurrection, the new Passover, is anticipated in Wednesday 9 the Last Supper and celebrated in the Eucharist or Lord's Supper, which NO MASS fulfils the Jewish Passover and anticipates the final Passover of the church in the glory of God's kingdom.

Thursday 10 This is the most significant meal of Jesus and the most important occasion 10am: Sean Trehy ann+ of his breaking of bread. In this meal Jesus identifies the bread as his body Mary Stella Soosay + and the cup as his blood. When the Lord Jesus commands his disciples to eat his flesh and drink his blood, he invites us to take his life into the very Friday 11 centre of our being (John 6:53). When we receive from the Lord's table we Most Sacred Heart of Jesus unite ourselves to Jesus Christ, who makes us sharers in his body and blood. Ignatius of Antioch (35-107 A.D.) calls it the "one bread that 9.30 Morning Prayer provides the medicine of immortality, the antidote for death, and the food 10am: Funeral Mass: Ouida that makes us live for ever in Jesus Christ" (Ad Eph. 20,2). Jayasuriya + (see notices) 1.30pm: Christian Meditation Quote from the Early Church Fathers: Your Word will enlighten and save in church me, by Clement of Alexandria, 150-215 A.D. “The commandment of the 6pm: Adoration Lord shines clearly, enlightening the eyes. Receive Christ, receive power to see, receive your light, that you may plainly recognise both God and Saturday 12 man. More delightful than gold and precious stones, more desirable than 6pm* David Francis + honey and the honeycomb is the Word that has enlightened us (Psalm 19:10). How could he not be desirable, who illumined minds buried in darkness, and endowed with clear vision 'the light-bearing eyes' of the 13th: 11th Sun Ordinary Time soul? 9am: Sheila McManamon (int) 11.30am: Kazimierz Paciak + Fr John 6pm: Leslie Smith +

Parish Priest: Fr John McKenna Telephone: 020 8449 3338 82 Union Street, Barnet, EN5 4HZ Email: [email protected] Website: parish.rcdow.org.uk/barnet NOTICES CONTACTLESS PAYMENT: many of us no longer carry cash, even more so, since the pandemic. We SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION: please pray for now have a contactless machine in the porch our Confirmands receiving the Sacrament of to enable us to make our offerings using a credit/ Confirmation on Wednesday 16th June, 7.30pm debit card. It is very easy to use. Mass. Celebrant: Bishop John Sherrington (please check newsletter next weekend for information on If you are a tax payer, we are able to claim gift aid attendance). on your offering at no extra cost to you. To do this, you will need to enter your details on the machine MARANATHA ‘COME LORD JESUS’ Christian (please follow the instructions - accounts details are meditation group meeting in Church. Every Friday not needed to do this) and please note you will only at 1.30pm. Please join us. need to do this once. Any questions, see Fr John and/or Janet. MORNING PRAYER: Tuesdays and Fridays at 9.30am in church. Please join us in prayer. HOLY COMMUNION MASSES will begin on FUNERAL MASS for Ouida Jayasuriya is on Friday Sunday 27th June at the 9am & 11.30am Masses. 11th June, 10am. Please keep her family in your Sunday 11th July at the 11.30am Mass and on prayers. May Ouida rest in peace. Seating will be Sunday 18th July at the 9.00am and 11.30am limited for parishioners. Masses. Please note seating will be reserved for the Holy Communion Children and their families. FUNERAL MASS for Julie Loh is on Monday 21st Until we hear the next government announcement, June, 10am. Please keep Donna and the rest of the seating at these Masses may be limited - we will Julie’s family in your prayers during this sad time. keep you informed. Thank you for your May Julie rest in peace. Attendance/seating will be understanding. Please keep the Holy Communion advised nearer to the date. Please check the Children in your prayers. newsletter.

FOR YOUR PRAYERS

Please remember in your prayers the sick, their families and all who care for them, including: Emanuele & Carlotta Brunelli, Linda & Stuart Atkinson, Pat Cosgrove, Irene Jones, Maria Wallace, Mariella Mansi, Margaret Greaney, Maurice Hunt, Ben Price, Amparo Abalos, Linda Quilter, Stasia Gallagher, Suzanne Greig, Marina Melinta, Roberto Lusignani, Leonor Driscoll, Delia Ward, John Lever, Jeanette Fernandes, Aishleen Sheeran, Elaine Brennan, Sarah Macdonald, Veronica Soosay, George Buhagiar, Mark O’Brien, Marlene Hollocks, Fr Antony Conlon, Kathleen Flynn, Agnes Day, Rita Rawlings, Margaret Trehy, Joe Connolly, Mary Harris, Paddy Falvey, Terry Loftus, Joan Ferguson, John Bridgeman, Patrick Boland, Joanna Ryan, John Carden, Bernard Smith, Eric Power, John Chuter, Michael Keyes.

Please pray for our Confirmands receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation in June: John Paul Coggins, Allen & Allysieah De Vera, Amy Heams, Robert Hermosa, Emanuela Kucera, Tanith Moses, Sidon Mussie, Keanu Naidoo, Adriano Notarianni, Louisa Pasquariello, Callum & Ronnie Read, Molly Reid, Tara Rodrigues, Isabel Sarriegui, Ellie Sui, Jeuz Talastasin, Ashish Yeruva and their families.

Recently Died: Julie Loh, Margaret Hayes.

Parish Staf Contact Information Anita Hammond - Pastoral Assistant/Catechetical Co-ordinator: [email protected] Jonathan Stephens - Evangelisation Co-ordinator: [email protected] Janet Nestor - Secretary: Parish Ofce - [email protected] (ofce is closed every Wednesday)