OUR LADY IMMACULATE & ST MICHAEL, BATTLE with ST TERESA OF LISIEUX, HORNS CROSS

14 Mount Street, Battle, East Sussex, TN33 0EG Tel: 01424 773125 e-mail: [email protected] website: battlewithnorthiam.parishportal.net Priest: Fr Anthony White

Cycle B for Sundays and Solemnities Weekend Mass Times

Year 1 for Weekdays th 6pm Saturday 7 August – Battle Arundel and Brighton Trust is a (Maud Dominica Petre, RIP, FM) Registered Charity No. 252878 9am Sunday 8th August –

Northiam (People of the Parish) 10.45am Sunday 8th August - Battle (Gavin Quinnell, RIP) THE NINETEETH SUNDAY 10.00am Wednesday 11th August IN ORDINARY TIME – Battle (Celebrant’s Intention) Weekend 7th / 8th August 2021

Sacrament of Reconciliation after 6pm Mass Saturdays Introduction to the Scripture Readings:

• First Reading Exodus 16:2-4. 12-15

The starving Israelites beg Moses to feed them. The Lord rains down food from heaven. • Second Reading: Ephesians 4:17. 20-24 Many pleasures are illusory. St Paul prescribes a total renewal in the way we think: a return, in other words, to the way God created us to be. • Gospel: John 6:24-35 People were expecting Jesus to be like Moses, providing them with daily bread. Instead, Jesus offers them fresh, rejuvenating food, unlike any other.

• If you feel you need to contact Fr Paul for any reason, his phone number is: 01323 670156. If you used to receive a visit from one of our Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist (Special Ministers), please be aware that during the current lockdown, they are unable to visit. Once the current situation changes please contact the office if you would like these visits to recommence, 01424 773125 or [email protected].

Children’s Liturgy: Children’s Liturgy will be re-starting on Sunday 5th September during the 10.45am Mass at Battle. If you have any children that have missed this during the restrictions and would like to join in to these sessions again, please bring them along – more details to follow. We pray for the Sick and Housebound Members of our Community: From Our Lady Immaculate & St Michael: Margaret Thunder, Jo Cooper, Stephen Bould, Pauline Fraser, Michael Conroy, Andrew Broderick-Ward, Sheila Lilley, Madeleine Salter, Gretta Johnson, Jim & Ruth Ayres, Richard & Brenda Widenka, Helen Powell, Tom Dodd, Dilys Fraser, John Reid, Anthony Gibbons, Rosemary Parkes, Suzanne McAdie. From St Teresa’s: Keith Bourne, Gerard Scothern & his family, Christine Mooney, June Nottage, Maureen Webster, Dominic Leahy.

Prayer Intentions - please remember the following people in your prayers this week: Una Wade, Frances Cresswell, Maureen Hanson RIP, Jack Morgan, Guy Hooper, Di Bean RIP, Judith Bridge, Maureen Ashing, Marguerite & Peter RIP, Harold Atkins RIP, Henry Cheung.

• Fr Paul is happy to receive Mass Intentions, please either give them directly to Fr Paul after Mass or let Maggie know of any future Intentions on 773125, e-mail [email protected], or drop a note through the Presbytery door, thank you.

• If you wish to follow a live Mass please follow this link from our Diocesan website https://abdiocese.org.uk/livestream or via https://www.churchservices.tv/

• Volunteers Needed Please: We are very grateful for everybody that has helped out during the restrictions, now that Masses are getting back to normal we would like to start a register for Readers, Welcomers and Altar Servers again so that these duties can be shared. This will re-commence in September. If you would like to volunteer for any of these roles, please either let Eddie or the office know. Thank you.

• Mass for the Sick and Housebound, Northiam, Sunday 22nd August, 3pm: We will be holding our usual Healing Mass to coincide with the Lourdes Pilgrimage at St Teresa’s on Sunday 22nd August at 3pm, everybody is welcome to attend. Volunteers will be needed if we are to hold the Strawberry Tea in the garden afterwards. Please contact the office if you can help in any way. Thank you.

• Redecoration of the Presbytery: The scaffolding will be going up outside the Presbytery this week so please take care when attending Mass.

News from our Diocese

• Beginning Experience Weekend If you are single again following divorce, separation or the death of your partner, a residential weekend to help you to heal will be held from 8th to 10th October 2021 at the Sion Community, Brentwood, Essex. If you would like more details, please ring Freda 01322-838415 or Maura 07795-498445 or email [email protected].

• Diocesan Youth Service – 40th Anniversary Celebration – 4 September 2021 - Arundel Cathedral: We are delighted to be able to celebrate our Youth Service, which has impacted many people in the last four decades and we want to invite anyone who has ever attended an event hosted by the service to come along and join the festivities. Whether it was a Maryvale Retreat, a World Youth Day Pilgrimage, Youthgather, Lourdes Redshirts, or you are a member of our new online community BeCome, or one of our other virtual networks, everyone will be welcome to give thanks for all that has been done and to pray for the success of the Youth Service in the future. Reminisce with old friends and meet new friends in person (not just on a screen!). A thanksgiving Mass will be said by Bishop Richard, followed by a chance to chat over refreshments. Please click here for more information and to register. of the Week

Feast of St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) – 9th August St Teresa Benedicta (1891-1942) was born Edith Stein at Wroclaw (now in , but then in the German province of Silesia), the eleventh child of a Jewish family. She showed great ability in her philosophical studies and became a popular lecturer and writer. After reading the autobiography of St Teresa of Avila, she sought in 1922 and eleven years later joined the at Cologne. She was moved to the Carmel of Echt () to void the growing Nazie threat but was eventually arrested, and gassed at Auschwitz on 9th August 1942.

Feast of St Lawrence, & Martyr – 10th August St Lawrence (+258) was one of the seven of St Sixtus II killed during the persecution of Valerian. On his arrest, he was ordered to hand over the riches of the but pointed to a crowd of poor people, saying ‘Here are the true treasures of the Church.’ According to tradition, he was roasted to death on a gridiron.

Memorial of St Clare, – 11th August St Clare (c.1193-1253) ws born in Assisi () and became a of St Francis. She founded the Order of the or Minoresses and lived a life of radical at the convent of San Damaniano. She wisely led her community for forty years and gave counsel to many high-ranking prelates. Such was the fame of her holiness, she was canonsied two years after her death.

Memorial of St Jane Frances de Chantal, Religious – 12th August St Jane Frances de Chantal (1572-1641) was born in Dijon (). She was happily married and had four children. Her husband was killed in a hunting accident: nine years later, with the help of her spiritual director, St France de Sales, she founded the Order of the Visitation, which was dedicated to works of charity among the sick and poor.

Memorial of Ss Pontian, and Hippolytus, Priest, Martyrs – 13th August Ss Pontian and Hippolytus (+c.236) suffered martyrdom after being exiled to Sardinia by the Emperor Maximinus Thrax. St Pontian succeeded St Urban I as Pope in 230, while St Hippolytus was a priest of . He may also be the noted theologian of that name who was elected anti-pope during a disagreement over the forgiveness of those who had sinned grievously. He was reconciled with the Church before his death. Memorial of St Maxilmilian Kolbe, Priest & Martyr – 14th August St Maxilmilian Kolbe (1894-1941) was born near Lodz (Poland) and joined the Conventual . Marked by an ardent devotion to the Blessed Virgin, who had appeared to him as a child, he set up the Militia Immaculata, preached Marian concecration and founded monasteries in Niepokalanow (Poland) and Nagaski (). Eventually imprisoned by the Nazis in Auschwitz, he offered himself in exchange for a father who was to be starved to death. Blessed John Paul II canonised him in 1982 and proclaimed him the patron of the ‘suffering’ twentieth century.

• The office remains open on Mondays and Thursdays from 9.30am – 12.30pm.

• The Parish Pastoral Team send all parishioners their prayers and good wishes.

Vatican News Caritas calls for fairer food systems that include women and local farmers The is convening a crucial Food Systems Summit in September, in New York. It is part of the Decade of Action to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, in order to help create healthier, more sustainable and equitable food systems. Caritas Internationalis, the confederation of 165 relief, development and social service organizations operating in over 200 countries and territories worldwide, released a statement in view of the July 26-28 Pre-Summit in Rome, asking decision-makers to ensure meaningful participation of local producers and consumers, especially women, in policymaking and implementation at the local levels. Covid has aggravated inequalities Caritas said that both the Rome Pre-Summit and the September Summit must not be missed opportunities to engage in a durable transformation of food systems. This is all the more necessary now that the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated and aggravated pre-existing inequalities in access to food. Several millions of people are expected to experience food insecurity and malnutrition in the months and years to come. Hunger and malnutrition According to UN figures, up to 811 million people faced hunger in 2020, as many as 161 million more than in 2019. Because of the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, 3 billion people cannot afford to eat healthily, either. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres lamented that the world is “seriously off track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030”. “Poverty, income inequality and the high cost of food”, he said are responsible for these ills, and climate change and conflict are “consequences and drivers of this catastrophe”. The UN’s State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report released on July 12, estimated that around 660 million people may still face hunger in 2030, 30 million more people than in a scenario in which the pandemic had not occurred, due to the lasting effects of Covid-19 on global food security. Food – a basic human right Stressing that access to food is a basic human right, Caritas said that food security cannot be ensured, and food systems cannot be transformed, by just promoting industrial agriculture, which in the long run will only contribute to excluding more people from the supply chain and will also generate more injustice in the access to food. Caritas, which works with the poorest communities, advocated the promotion of community-based traditional agriculture, agroecology, a review of the supply chain in favour of local markets and the promotion of responsible food consumption. The ’s social arm underscored the urgent need to promote agriculture and food production that scale-up ecological and sustainable farming and encourage rural agricultural activities through incentives for the farmers. “This was also the cry of the poorest Latin-American farmers during the Synod on Amazon in 2019,” said Aloysius John, the Secretary-General of Caritas Internationalis. He said this will ensure “food justice” and enable the poor farmers to live in dignity”. Women’s role In this process, John stressed that the prime role of women in traditional agriculture in their own lands must be recognized. “Women,” he said, “are part of the agricultural sector, and they are responsible for 60 to 80% of food production in the developing countries.” However, “they are also the ones who encounter untold challenges due to lack of access to land rights, credit, production resources and seeds capital”. The Caritas Internationalis Secretary-General said they must be helped to put in place cooperatives and local supply chains that would enable them to sell their products. Science and technology In line with the teachings of ’ encyclical, ‘Laudato sì’, Caritas organizations question technocratic solutions to problems such as climate change, environmental degradation and food waste. John said that one must overcome the assumption that only science and technology will offer solutions to every problem. Instead, policy choices, lifestyles and spirituality that challenges the predominant technocratic paradigm, need to be embraced. “At the heart of the problems of food insecurity, hunger and malnutrition” John said, “are human beings with dignity, relations and hopes.” Pope Francis Pope Francis has also sent a message to the UN Pre-Summit on Food Systems in Rome, in which he denounced the “scandal” of hunger in a world that produces enough food for all people. He said it is a “crime that violates basic human rights”. (Source: Caritas Internationalis)