Last Week’s Collection. Loose: £422.47. Envelopes: £260.79. Easter Roman of All Saints envelopes: £20. Priests’ Training Fund: £255. Thanks for your con- Presbytery: 2 A Salehurst Close, Kenton. HA3 OUG stant support. Tel. no.: 020 8204 3550 Email: [email protected] http://parish.rcdow.org.uk/kenton/ Year B. First Reading Acts 9: 26-31. Psalm 21 – You, Lord, are my Parish Priest: Fr Hector Rouco praise in the great assembly. Second Reading 1 John 3: 18-24 . Gospel Catechetical Co-Ordinator: Mrs Pat Edwards John 15: 1– 8. Parish Administrator: Mrs Onitha Ratnam MASS INTENTIONS Monday Donna Lewis INT Tuesday Mary Office hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 9:30am to 1:30pm Sheehan RIP Wednesday Alan Hills Thursday No Mass Friday 9:15am Michael Flynn RIP 11:00am Florence D’Cruz RIP (Funeral Mass) Satur- FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER day 6:30pm Rex hale RIP Sunday 9:00am People of the Parish 2nd May 2021 11:00am Eileen Forrestal RIP The Lord returns to “remain in Him”, and He tells us: “the Christian life is to We pray for remain in me ”. Remain . And here He uses the image of the vine, like the the sick: branches remain on a vine (see Jn 15:1-8). And this remaining is not a passive Fr Philip Cross, Michael Quigley, Terry Kennedy, Annamaria and Jason remaining, a falling asleep in the Lord. This might be a “beatific slumber”, but Coutinho, Roseanna Lawler, Katherine Lewis, Michele Peiris, Donna that’s not what it is. This remain is an active remaining, and it is also a mutual Lewis, Karen Higgins, Michelle Moran, Joanne Brooks, Patrick Arthur, remaining. Why? Because He says: You remain in me and I in you” (v. 4). He Carmel Baker, Don Bernard Kathriaratchi, Cynthia Spalding, Celia Joyce, also remains in us, it is not only we in Him. It is a mutual remaining. In anoth- Angel Leonardo Brito, Bernadette Perera, Mary Keating, er part He says: I and the Father “we will come to him and we will make our and those suffering from COVID 19, home in him ” ( Jn 14:23). This is a mystery, but it is a mystery of life, a beauti- the recently deceased and their loved ones: ful mystery. This mutual remaining. Even with this example of the vine: it is true, the branches without the vine cannot do anything because the sap would Florence D’Cruz and Patricia Mitra, not get to them. They need the sap to grow and bear fruit; but even the tree, occur at about this time: the vine needs the branches because the fruit is not attached to the tree, to Roberto Santiago and David Donoghue. the vine. There is a mutual need, a mutual remaining in order to bear fruit.

Holy Father’s Intention for May. The World of Finance. (…) Let us pray that those in charge of finance will work with governments to regulate the financial sphere and protect citizens from its dangers What comes to my mind to say is: what does the vine “need” from the branch- es? It is to have fruit. What is the “need”, let’s say it that way, a bit daringly, MASS TIMES. Saturday Vigil (1st Mass of Sunday) 6.30pm. Sunday what does “need” from us? Witness. When the Gospel says that we are Mass 9.00am and 11.00am. Weekday Mass Monday, Tuesday, the light, it says: “your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father” (Mt 5:16). That is, it is witness Wednesday and Friday 9.15am. No Mass on Thursday. Confessions Sat- that Jesus needs from us. To bear witness to His name because the faith, the urday 10:30am-11:00am. Gospel grow because of witness. This is a mysterious way: Jesus, even though He is glorified in heaven, after having lived through the Passion, needs our witness for growth, for proclamation, so that the Church might grow. And this is the mutual mystery of this “remaining”. He, the Father and the Spirit remain in us, and we remain in Jesus.

Taken from MORNING MASS IN THE CHAPEL OF THE . HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS FRANCIS. "The mutual remaining between the vine and the branches" Wednesday, 13 May 2020. https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/cotidie/2020/documents/papa-francesco- cotidie_20200513_come-itralci-e-lavite.html Please do not enter our building if: for those in the world's poorest communities. For more information • You have a temperature above 37.7°C; please visit www.marysmeals.org.uk • If you have a new or continuous cough; Regular cleaning of the church. From 14th May (not 7th May) we hope to • If you experience difficulties with breathing; restart the weekly cleaning of the church on Friday after the 9:15am Mass. • If you have a loss or change to your sense of taste or smell. Please contact Onitha, the parish administrator if you are available to help. It • If you have been in contact with someone known to have or suspected would be good to have enough volunteers to devise a rota. We will keep the to have COVID-19 deep cleaning on the last Saturday of the month and no Friday cleaning that week. KEEP IT CLEAN. KEEP SAFE. STAY WELL. A Covid-19 vaccine confidence webinar has been organized for the of Dio- Florence D’Cruz RIP. The funeral Mass of the late Florence will be celebrated ceses of Brentwood, Southwark and Westminster, with the cooperation of on Friday 7th May. May she rest in peace. The parish community offers her Hertfordshire County Council and Hammersmith and Fulham Council, and family and friends our condolences and the assurance of our prayers at this other local authorities. It will take place on Saturday 15th May 2021 from most difficult time. Please bear in mind that in the present circumstances only 10:00am to 11.30am and will feature a panel of eminent medical experts led by Prof Kevin Fenton, Regional Director of Public Health London. The panel 30 people designated by the next of kin can attend the funeral Mass. will share the latest information on COVID-19 vaccination. There will be an op- Priest Training Fund. Thank you for your generosity to the Priest Train- portunity for participants to ask questions anonymously. To join the webi- nar: https://zoom.us/j/99627319556, Passcode: 546617 ing Fund collection last weekend. We raised £255. The collection will close next weekend. Please continue to pray for vocations to the priesthood. For Annual Mass of Thanksgiving for the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony, via more information, or to make a donation, visit www.rcdow.org.uk/donations live-stream from Westminster Cathedral, on Saturday 15th May 2021 at

The Day of the Lord. Copies of this reflection by the Bishops of England 3.00pm. The Cardinal will be celebrating a live-streamed Mass for all cou- th th th th th th and Wales are attached to the parish newsletter. ples in the Diocese who are celebrating their 5 , 10 , 25 , 30 , 40 , 50 and 60th (and every year over 60) wedding anniversary of Catholic marriage in Pastoral visits at home are ONLY permitted in extremis. This means that 2021. If you are celebrating an anniversary, please give your parish clergy/ the priest, Eucharistic Ministers, parishioners involved in visiting others must parish office the following details: husband and wife’s names, wedding date, full not do so unless it is the priest visiting the dying. No change is expected until postal address and email (or telephone number if no email), and these details 17th May. will be sent to those organizing this celebration. An Order of Service can be Mass intentions. All weekday and Sunday parish Masses have been downloaded from the Cathedral website before the event – booked until July 2021. We follow the diocesan policy of having only one inten- www.westminstercathedral.org.uk tion per Mass. From the Letter Fratelli Tutti th May Devotion to Our Lady will take place on Sunday 9 May at 3.30pm at The Rights of Peoples the Shrine of Our Lady of Willesden. It will include Holy Rosary and Ben- 126. We are really speaking about a new network of international relations, ediction, with music from the Shrine Singers. Due to Covid Restrictions only a since there is no way to resolve the serious problems of our world if we contin- limited number of seats will be available for reservation. The Devotion will be ue to think only in terms of mutual assistance between individuals or small livestreamed. For a link to the livestream and booking of available seats, groups. Nor should we forget that “inequity affects not only individuals but entire please visit parish.rcdow.org.uk/Willesden countries; it compels us to consider an ethics of international relations”. Indeed, St Joseph's Catholic Primary School (HA3 7LP) are looking to appoint a justice requires recognizing and respecting not only the rights of individuals, but Class Teacher commencing September 2021. If you are interested, or know of also social rights and the rights of peoples. This means finding a way to ensure anyone who is, please contact the school office on: of- “the fundamental right of peoples to subsistence and progress”, a right which is [email protected]. at times severely restricted by the pressure created by foreign debt. In many Mary's Meals Pray in May Campaign. May is traditionally the month of Mary, instances, debt repayment not only fails to promote development but gravely and Mary's Meals is asking for our prayers this month for all the many children limits and conditions it. While respecting the principle that all legitimately ac- in schools in the developing world that the charity supports through its feeding quired debt must be repaid, the way in which many poor countries fulfil this obli- programme. As the pandemic continues to affect so many, we ask for your gation should not end up compromising their very existence and growth. The Encyclical Letter can be found on the Vatican website: http://www.vatican.va/content/