Mass Intentions for week beginning 10th September 2016

Sat 10 24TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY 6.00pm Intentions of Gorman Family Sun 11 TIME 10.00am The People of the Parish 12noon Elizabeth O’Donovan RIP Mon 12 The Most Holy Name of 10.00am George Markey RIP / Ken Murray Mary RIP followed by Novena Prayers Parish Priest: Fr Jean-Claude Selvini 6.30pm Amelia Nardone RIP (1962 Missal) (in residence) Fr Daniel Kulangara Tue 13 St John Chrysostom, Bp & 10.00am Terry Monksfield RIP 98, Manford Way Dr Chigwell Wed 14 THE EXALTATION OF THE HOLY 10.00am Eugene Lynch RIP IG7 4DF CROSS  & Fax 020 8500 3953 Thur 15 Our Lady of Sorrows 10.00am Mary Sullivan RIP  [email protected] website: http://nda.hainault.org.uk Fri 16 SS. Cornelius, & 10.00am Nancy Watts RIP Registered Charity No. 234092 Cyprian, Bp & MM. Sat 17 St , Bp & 9.30am Private Intention 10th-11th September 2016 24TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME Dr (HOLY YEAR OF MERCY 2015-2016) Sat 17 25TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY 6.00pm Argentina Martyres e Lobo RIP

Sun 18 TIME 10.00am Madeleine Selvini RIP / Simon Newell RIP From the Holy Father’s Homily 12noon The People of the Parish at the Canonisation of St Teresa of Calcutta last Sunday Confessions this Saturday 5.30 – 5.45pm Dear Brothers and Sisters, Your prayers are asked for the sick and housebound, especially: Roland Selvini, Bandele Majiyagbe, Kathleen Newell, John Liddard, Jones Bediako- Mother Teresa, in all aspects of her life, was a generous dispenser of divine mercy, Antwi-Benneh, Leslie Cook, Trevor Barnham, Ann Dunseath, Christopher Johnstone, making herself available for everyone through her welcome and defence of human life, Josie D’afters, Christina Whiting, Anne Purcell, Ken Stanton, Kathleen Simpson, Pamela those unborn and those abandoned and discarded. She was committed to defending life, Allen, Grace Lobendhan, Marcus Prospert, Eoin Oliver, Bob Edgar, Peggy Gajewski, ceaselessly proclaiming that “the unborn are the weakest, the smallest, the most Victor Francis, Agnes Warren, Mary Evelyn Piotrowski, Derek Pyner, Gerald Rowe, Mary vulnerable”. She bowed down before those who were spent, left to die on the side of the Brock, Ann Divine, Ann O’Donovan, Anthony Fonseca, Margaret McQueen, Paul road, seeing in them their God-given dignity; she made her voice heard before the powers Westrop, Christine Hall, Maria McLoughlin, John Phillips, Mick Martin, Adriano of this world, so that they might recognize their guilt for the crime – the crimes! – of Agatiello, Kay Fahy, Tony Baldwin, Paul Doyle, Susan Coker, Daniel Sutton, Tony poverty they created. For Mother Teresa, mercy was the “salt” which gave flavour to her Morton, Bernadette Thomas, Jane Anne Harvey, the Kitteridge Family, Maximilian work, it was the “light” which shone in the darkness of the many who no longer had tears Peluso, Patricia Theobalds, Jean Salter, Terry Eales, Norah Kelly, the residents of Sherrell to shed for their poverty and suffering. House, Belmont Lodge and Pinewood. Her mission to the urban and existential peripheries remains for us today an eloquent . witness to God’s closeness to the poorest of the poor. Today, I pass on this emblematic figure of womanhood and of consecrated life to the whole world of volunteers: may she be Mass Attendance last weekend: 370 your model of holiness! I think, perhaps, we may have some difficult in calling her “Saint Teresa”: her holiness is so near to us, so tender and so fruitful that we continual to ……………………………… spontaneously call her “Mother Teresa”. May this tireless worker of mercy help us Offertory Collection last weekend: £694.80 increasingly to understand that our only criterion for action is gratuitous love, free from every ideology and all obligations, offered freely to everyone without distinction of THE ASSUMPTION, Hainault, is twinned with the Parish of Our Lady of language, culture, race or religion. Mother Teresa loved to say, “Perhaps I don’t speak Sorrows, Maria Ratschitz, in the diocese of Dundee, South Africa. their language, but I can smile”. Let us carry her smile in our hearts and give it to those whom we meet along our journey, especially those who suffer. In this way, we will open number of collectors has dwindled over the last couple of years so please do try & deliver up opportunities of joy and hope for our many brothers and sisters who are discouraged to the Church. Wendy Moroney and who stand in need of understanding and tenderness. Franciscus PP. ESSEX RECUSANT SOCIETY

(Brentwood Diocesan Historical Society) WELCOME THIS WEEK TO ‘Little John…….but no Robin Hood’: the story of Saint (nicknamed ‘Little Fr Francis Chinnappan, who is staying at the Presbytery for a few days before John’), the Jesuit carpenter who saved the lives of countless priests by constructing hiding returning to Rome to resume his studies for a doctorate at the Marianum. holes during the period and thus enabled them ‘to become invisible’ to those searching for them and so to continue their apostolate. A power point presentation by TEA & COFFEE Tony Reynolds will be given at The Grange, 93 Queens Road, Brentwood CM14 4EY at are served in the Parish Hall after the 10.00am Mass every Sunday. 2.30pm on Saturday 24 September. All are welcome. Please come along, even if only for a few minutes, to meet and chat with your fellow parishioners. MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING On Sunday 2nd October there will be a coffee morning in the parish hall at 11 o'clock in THIS MONDAY: support of Macmillan Cancer Care. Cakes will be on sale and we would be grateful if the 10.00am Mass followed by Novena Prayers bakers in the parish could provide cakes for the day. There will also be a raffle and a donations of suitable prizes would be appreciated. A box for donations will be available 6.30pm Mass (1962 Missal) from next weekend and raffle tickets will be on sale before Masses until 2nd October. Thank you for your support. THE LEGION OF MARY meets this Thursday at 7.00pm SICK AT HOME OR IN HOSPITAL THE ROSARY is recited this Saturday half an hour before the morning Mass. If anyone is seriously ill at home or is in hospital, it is most important that a priest be informed so that the sick person may receive the spiritual help of the sacraments. Relatives or friends should inform their parish priest their parish priest and/or the Catholic chaplain FIRST COMMUNION/FIRST CONFESSION PROGRAMME of the hospital (at King George Hospital, 8590 9026; at Queen’s Hospital, 01708 477890 2016-2017 (Helen Miranda); at Whipps Cross Hospital, 8520 5877. + Tuesday 13th September at 8.00pm in the Parish Hall: First Parents’ Meeting + Thursday 15th September at 5.00pm: First Children’s Session (tour of the church) + Sunday 17th September at 10.00am: Mass of Enrolment GOING INTO HOSPITAL? I draw your attention to the Sick Parishioner Care forms at the back of church. Please take one if you are going to hospital and wish the Catholic chaplain to look after you! CONFIRMATION PROGRAMME 2017 Fr Selvini Anyone who would like to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation is invited to write to me at the Presbytery as soon as possible. Letters should be in by Sunday 18th September, please! The programme will be run jointly with the Parish of St John MASS INTENTIONS/OFFERINGS Vianney, Clayhall and classes will take place there on a Sunday afternoon. The Special envelopes are available at the back of church. If you would like a Mass offered on Opening Session will be on Sunday 2nd October. Further details can be obtained from a particular anniversary, please let the Parish Priest know well in advance – the sooner the Darren Delsol (07850 621626) who is running the course. Fr Selvini better! Thank you for your co-operation.

RED APF MISSION BOXES: if you have one of these boxes please bring it along & THE ANGELUS leave it in the Sacristy for me to collect & count. Every contribution is welcome to ensure As is now our custom, the Angelus is said at the beginning of the 6.00pm Mass the vital work of the Mill Hill Missionaries can continue. Please ensure your name is on Saturdays and the 12noon Mass on Sundays. The text of the prayer can be clearly marked on the box so I can keep track & arrange a replacement for next year. The found in the Parish Mass Books on page 2 (opposite the Table of Contents).