June 10th 2018 Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)

THE CATHOLIC CHURCHES OF SS Anthony & George, The Divine Motherhood & St Francis of Assisi, The Sacred Heart,

Sunday June 10th Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) Parish Priest 8.00am Mass Duncton People of the Parishes Fr Peter Newsam 9.30am Mass Midhurst Sister Michael’s intentions 11.00am Mass Petworth Marie Brooks RIP Administrator Monday June 11th S. Barnabas Catherine Moody (at The No Mass Presbytery Tuesday & Thursday mornings, or use the email below) Tuesday June 12th Feria 9.30am Mass Petworth Holy Souls The Presbytery, Wednesday June 13th S. Anthony of Padua Angel Street, Petworth, 9.30am Mass Midhurst Sister Anastasia RIP West GU28 0BG Thursday June 14th Feria 01798 342169 9.30am Mass Petworth Elizabeth Barnett RIP 12.00Noon Mass Convent Sister Mary’s intentions Email [email protected] Friday June 15th Feria 6.00pm Confessions Petworth Parish Co-ordinator (Midhurst) 6.30pm Mass Petworth Peter Harper’s intentions Paul Mellings Saturday June 16th S. Richard of [email protected] 9.30am Mass Midhurst Jon Harman on his ordination 10.00am Confessions Midhurst Parish Co-ordinator (Petworth) Charles Sommer Sunday June 17th Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) [email protected] 8.00am Mass Duncton People of the Parishes 9.30am Mass Midhurst Sister Anastasia RIP Website 11.00am Mass Petworth Susan Andreozzi’s intentions petworthcatholic.org or midhurstcatholic.org

Mass Book page number for today: p 92 Welcome to Barney Driver, to be baptised in Petworth this afternoon Forthcoming Dates Wednesday June 13th Joint meeting of Midhurst & Village Mass at the home of the Thornley Petworth Finance committees at Midhurst Parish family at 6.30pm on Tuesday June 19th. Email Angie Room 6.30pm if you would like to attend [email protected] Sunday June 17th Breakfast after 8am Mass at Duncton; Midhurst First Communions at 9.30am Duncton Breakfast The next breakfast will be after Mass; Deanery confirmation in Arundel Cathedral at 8am Mass on Sunday June 17th. Please sign up on the 3p; Second collection for the Day for Life (not Gift sheet at the back of Church if you plan to be there, to Aid)m help with catering. Tuesday June 19th Graffham Village Mass at Hill House, Graffham at 6.30pm Please pray for the repose of the soul of Sister Thursday June 21st Midhurst Parish Team meets at Anastasia, who died on Sunday 27th. Her funeral 12 Closewalks Wood at 7.30pm Mass will be at Midhurst at 11am on Wednesday June Sunday June 24th Petworth First Communions at 20th. 11am Mass The next meeting of the simple lunch and prayer Congratulations to David & Caroline Jolly meeting will be on the new date of Thursday 21 June (O’Sullivan) married in Petworth on Saturday. 2018, 12.30 pm – 2.30 pm. Everybody welcome. Directions to Farthings are: Take the Balls Cross/

The Arundel & Brighton Diocesan Trust is a Registered Charity No. 252878 road from Petworth. Past The Stag at Balls St Philip Howard Catholic School is currently looking Cross, over the bridge and up the hill . At the top of to appoint a PE Technician / Cover Supervisor. Full the hill (before entering the village of Kirdford) turn details of the vacancy can be found on the SPH left, signposted and we are the first website: www.sphcs.co.uk. Visits from prospective house on the left. applicants are very welcome. Closing date for applications is 9am on Monday 25 June 2018. theASCENT – Discipleship Process for Young People This October, theASCENT will be launching A Day of Reflection for single men aged 35-55 who at Worth Abbey with the support of the diocese. It’s a wish to explore if they have a calling to the priesthood. three-year discipleship process involving three Saturday 9th June 2018 9.30am-3.30pm. St. John’s weekend residentials a year and weekly online group Seminary, Wonersh, Guildford, GU5 0QX. For more sessions. It’s open to anyone about to go into year 10, details, contact Father Con Foley on Tel. 01932 842643 11, or 12 and it’s designed to take people with a real or email [email protected]. interest in their faith and to help them to make a deeper commitment and to explore who God created Last Sunday's Collections them to be, while making a few friends and hopefully Midhurst Petworth & Duncton having some fun in the process. For more details, or to GA Envelopes 91 268 apply, visit theascentuk.co.uk or Loose cash 183 129 contact [email protected] Ave standing orders 230 650 This week's total 504 1047 Feast of St Richard of Chichester The feast this year Weekly budget 500 1050 falls on a Saturday, but the usual Mass in Chichester Deficit/surplus + 4 - 3 Cathedral will take place on Friday 15th at 11am. Everyone is welcome to attend. Seminary improvements 264 390 Day for Life Prayer Service Sunday 17 June 6pm at the Memorial to Children Lost Before Birth, Arundel Thank you for your generosity Catholic Cemetery, London Road Arundel. There will be a short service to pray for and remember all Newsletter Items for the newsletter should reach Fr babies lost before birth, for women and families Peter by 9am on Thursday, preferably by email affected and for an end to abortion. All welcome. Please come. As Pope Francis has reminded us “a This Week human being is always sacred and inviolable, in any situation and at every stage of development”. Wednesday June 13th Joint meeting of Petworth & Midhurst Finance Pilgrimage Day Thursday 5 July in the footsteps of St Committees at the Parish Room, Midhurst at Richard of Chichester. Visit the ancient church at 6.30pm Tarring where St Richard stayed while kept out of the cathedral, minibus to Arundel and walk 8 miles from Friday June 15th Arundel to praying at Arundel, Slindon and Mass of S. Richard in Chichester Cathedral Boxgrove medieval churches. Minibus to Chichester Cathedral for evensong. Bring a packed lunch, Sunday June 17th suitable footwear and waterproofs. Suggested Breakfast after 8am Mass donation £15. Minibus pick up and drop off in Midhurst First Communions at 9.30am Mass Chichester and Arundel. Phone Maria on 01903 Deanery Confirmation in Arundel at 3pm 413606 to book or for further details.

Coffee is served in the Parish Room every Sunday after the 9.30am Mass at Midhurst - please come and join us.

Welcome to anyone who may be visiting our church, or if you have recently arrived in the area. We hope that you will enjoy being with us for our worship. If you are a taxpayer and are putting money in the collection (for which we are always grateful) you might like to use one of the yellow envelopes labelled 'Gift Aid Declaration'. These enable us to reclaim the tax paid

The Arundel & Brighton Diocesan Trust is a Registered Charity No. 252878