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Our Parish Liturgy . Sacred Heart This Week (Assumption BVM) RECESSION 18.00 N/A Parish Priest 09.00 N/A Rev Fr Daryl George JCL DIVINE OFFICE WEEK 4 Parish Newsletter 11.00 N/A Sacred Heart Presbytery 25 Between Streets ENTRANCE A great sign appeared in heaven: Next Week (21 A) for the Roman Catholic ANTIPHON a woman clothed with the sun, COBHAM community DIVINE OFFICE WEEK 1 Surrey and the moon beneath her feet, and on her head a crown of KT11 1AA of Cobham, Oxshott, FIRST Isaiah 22:19-23 twelve stars. READING I place the key of the House of David (01932) 862518 & Stoke D’Abernon upon his shoulder. part of the Arundel & Brighton Diocesan Trust, a Registered Charity No. 252878 CHILDREN’S N/A [email protected] LITURGY PSALM Your love, O Lord, is eternal, shpcobham.com Volume 1 Issue 37 16th August 2020 : Assumption Year A RESPONSE discard not the work of your PENITENTIAL Said ACT hands. THIS WEEK: ??? . SECOND Romans 11:33-36 GLORIA Said BIBLE READING PLAN READING All that exists comes from him; all is by him and for him. Su Is.3-5; 1Tim.2 FIRST Apocalypse 11:19, 12:1-6, 10 READING A woman adorned with the sun, GOSPEL Matthew 16:13-20 Mo Is.6-8; 1Tim.3 READING You are Peter, and I will give you the standing on the moon. keys of the kingdom of heaven. Tu Is.9-10; 1Tim.4 PSALM On your right stand s the queen, We Is.11-13; 1Tim.5 RESPONSE in garments of gold. Music and text of Antiphons from Psallite, © 2005 Collegeville Composers Group. Published by Liturgical Th Is.14-16; 1Tim.6 SECOND Press, MN56321. 1 Corinthians 15:20-26 Fr Is.17-19; Titus READING Christ as the first-fruits and then, those Used with Permission. One Licence No.0199 who belong to him. Sa Is.20-22; 1Pet.1 Financial News . GOSPEL Alleluia, alleluia! ACCLAMATION Mary has been taken up into MARRIAGE MATTERS Weekend of 09/08/20 heaven; all the choirs of angels In his Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia, Pope 1st £ 979.63 are rejoicing. Francis offers a profound insight into the joy of Alleluia! Christian marriage and reminds us of its place at the 2nd None very heart of the Church’s life. Christian marriage, he 2nd Collection . GOSPEL Luke 1:39-56 observes, ‘is a sign of how much Christ loved his READING The Almighty has done great things for Church in the covenant sealed on the cross, yet it This Weekend 23/08/20 me, he has exalted up the lowly. also makes that love present in the communion of None We hear Mary’s voice in the Gospel of was taken (the Latin term assumption the spouses. By becoming one flesh, they embody Luke this weekend. Luke is the gospel means ‘taken’) into heaven. Since this is PRESENTATION 18.00 N/A the espousal of our human nature by the Son of Next Weekend 30/08/20 OF THE GIFTS writer who gives the largest role to a feast based on a Latin term, that is a 09.00 N/A God.’ None 11.00 N/A Mary, from the annunciation where signal that the feast itself developed As we know, the Holy Scriptures feed and nourish Thankyou for your continuing Mary said ‘yes,’ and the visitation, the later. Even the Easter Church celebrates our faith and help us to grow in our relationship generosity to your Parish. SANCTUS 18.00 Said nativity of Jesus, and even to her own the Dormition of Mary (‘sleeping’ of with God and one another. It is for this reason that presence at significant times in Jesus’ Mary), which is also a Latin term. We 09.00 Said these scriptural reflections are offered. They should Bite Size . ministry through Pentecost in the Acts will search the Scriptures in vain to find 11.00 Said help enable married couples to focus on the richness of the Apostles. As mother of Jesus, or any mention of either the ‘sleeping’ of of God’s Word that we hear proclaimed each Sunday ‘mother of my Lord,’ as Elizabeth calls Mary or her being ‘taken’ into heaven. MEMORIAL 18.00 Said of the Year and to experience the deep joy of God’s her, Mary was in a unique position. But These traditions arose independently as ACCLAMATION 09.00 Said love expressed in the great Sacrament of Marriage. she was not passive, as her words from ways of explaining what happened to 11.00 Said the gospel this weekend indicate. She Mary. WE ARE EXALTED You block had a vision for justice that certainly In fact, the formal teaching of this GREAT AMEN 18.00 Said would have inspired and informed Church dogma was not done officially 09.00 Said your dream Jesus. Indeed, many of the themes in until 1950, though its roots certainly go 11.00 Said the canticle this weekend will be much deeper than that. when you echoed by Jesus throughout the Gospel When we consider Mary’s role in the OUR FATHER 18.00 Said of Luke and even into the Acts of the Church this weekend, we will likely find 09.00 Said allow your Apostles by Jesus’ disciples. Namely, more to contemplate in her words in Mary’s claim that ‘he has pulled down Scripture, which is why the Church 11.00 Said fear to grow princes from their thrones and exalted gives us this reading from Luke. So, AGNUS DEI Said the lowly’ finds fulfilment in Jesus’ though we celebrate her assumption Today we celebrate that Jesus exalted his ministry, just as ‘The hungry he has this weekend, we hear her voice COMMUNION All generations will call me bigger than mother in special way. As married couples filled with good things, the rich sent proclaiming justice to the downtrodden, ANTIPHON blessed, for he who is mighty has empty away’ foreshadows many of a reversal of the present order of done great things for me. we too can take heart from Mary. Although your faith. Jesus’ own parables. things. Let us not miss her voice by everything will be changed by the death of one But this weekend we are celebrating gazing into the heavens seeking to see THANKSGIVING 18.00 N/A of us, it is not the end! Nothing of our love for Mary Morrissey not the feast of the Visitation, but the where she went. 09.00 N/A each other will be lost, but, as the Lord feast of the Assumption, when Mary promised, will be made glorious in heaven. 11.00 N/A Before Mass - Talk to God During Mass - Listen to God After Mass - Talk to your friends P A G E 2 Parish Office . Church Mouse (cub reporter). P A G E 7 Normal Office Hours : Monday to Friday 09.30 - 12.30. The musings of one of God’s smallest creatures on events in and around the Parish over the past seven days . Parish Secretary : Sarah Cox (01932) 860244 [email protected] A very hot and busy week around the Presbytery. Newsletter Editorial : Items for possible inclusion in the Parish After a visit on Friday of last week Fr D and Sarah set about working on the Newsletter (if there is room) need to be received (in writing please) at findings of the Lightning Conductor, Portable Electrical Appliance, Fire Alarm and Emergency the Parish Office by midday on Wednesday. Lighting surveys. These are part of the rolling programme of Health and Safety requirements Gift Aid Organiser : Dan Meehan (01372) 456416 that the Parish has to undertake. Highlighted was a problem with the kitchen fire shutter in the [email protected] Parish Centre and the need for a heat sensor alarm in the kitchen of the Presbytery; Fr D thought that this was “getting off lightly, for a change!” These items will be addressed as soon Safeguarding Rep. : Mark Hillas 07898 785449 as we can make arrangements with the contractors concerned. [email protected] As last weekend was so hot Fr D moved one of the fans from the presbytery onto the sanctuary Catechetics Co-Ordinator : Kelly Walsh [email protected] behind his chair; he had decided to do this during the Saturday evening Mass and only remembered that he had not done it when he sat down after the Opening Prayer at the 09.00 General Parish Information . Sunday Mass. Needless to say by the time the 11.00 Sunday Mass started the fan was in position and doing its job! Parishioner Registration : Every household within the Parish is Once again, after Mass on Wednesday morning Fr D went off to Bishop’s House to continue requested to complete a ‘Parishioner Registration/Census’ form so that our working on the pile of papers that collected in his ‘in tray’ during the ‘lock-down’ and finish up Parish records may be kept up to date. These forms can be obtained from the one of his judgements for the beginning of September. According to his secretary in Bishop’s Parish Office and should be completed fully before being returned to the House Arundel & Brighton seem to have been the only diocese where the Tribunal continued to Parish Office. operate during the ‘lock-down,’ albeit remotely from homes. Should you move address within the Parish at any time please complete a new form and write ‘AMENDMENT’ across the top of the form. Thank you. Early on Thursday morning the contractors arrived to begin the replacement of the Presbytery front and kitchen side doors.
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