SUNDAY 12TH JULY 2020: FIFTEENTH SUNDAY ORDINARY TIME Year ‘A’ Cycle Ss. ANTHONY OF PADUA & FRANCIS PARISH, WALKER, NEWCASTLE
FR. DAVID SMITH (Parish Priest) Direct Tele: 0191 2623882 Email: [email protected], Website: stanthonystfrancis.org.uk
(Office is currently CLOSED due to Government Guidelines.) You can contact the Parish Secretary on 07546 302832 during the normal opening times of Wednesday & Thursday 9am-2pm, Friday 9am-3pm.)
Parable of the Sower R.V.I. & FREEMAN HOSPITAL CHAPLAIN: CONTACT FR. MARIADASS 0191 2733903
JESMOND ST MARY'S PARTNERSHIP
Bishop Robert Byrne recently announced that 10 Churches around the Diocese are to be prepared to re-open for individual prayer only. St Teresa's in Heaton is one of these Churches. We are grateful to Fr Shaun O'Neill and the parishioners of St Teresa's for inviting people from across our Partnership to visit their church for individual prayer.
St. Teresa’s Church, Heaton Road is now open: Monday 10.00am – 11.30am Wednesday 6.00pm – 7.30pm
As you will know Fr David is also Parish Priest of Our Lady and St Columba's Wallsend which is in the Tynemouth Priory Partnership. Bishop Robert Byrne has requested that Our Lady and St Columba's Wallsend should also be opened for private prayer only. Our Lady & St. Columba’s Church, Wallsend is now open: Tuesday 5.30pm - 7.30pm Thursday 5.30pm - 7.30pm Saturday 10.30am - 12.30pm
Sunday 3.00pm - 5.00pm.
On SUNDAY 19th JULY Fr. David will be celebrating 9.30am Mass and an 11.00am Mass at ST. COLUMBA’S. If people want to attend people please email or phone St. Columba’s directly to say that they would like attend Mass. Numbers will be limited so you will need to advise their Admin Team first. Please call directly to St. Columba’s on 0191 2623882.
The Partnership Clergy are grateful to those parishioners who have so generously volunteered to help prepare the churches for re-opening, once they have received the Bishop’s approval. What does individual prayer mean under the new restrictions? Individuals are expected to be able to “reflect and pray” whilst adhering to physical social distancing rules. Votive candles may still be lit but shared matches, tapers or lighters must not be used. Candles must be lit from existing lit candles. Statues and relics must not be touched or kissed. This instruction will be displayed on posters in church. Mass and all other public services, including praying together the Divine Office, the Rosary and other group devotional prayers, are still not presently permitted. Further information is available on the diocesan website www:rcdhn.org.uk.
Please note, there is also an important announcement about Offertory Envelopes on the next page. Note I am still celebrating Mass via You Tube - follow links from our Website (information on next page.) THANK YOU, FR. DAVID.
1. TO CONTACT FR. DAVID DIRECTLY please call 0191 2623882 2. ALSO - you can email or call the Parish Secretary (working from home due to Gov. guidelines) at any time during office hours on 07546302832. Your query will be dealt with as soon as possible. Email her on: [email protected] this will be picked up very quickly. 3. WEBSITE ADDRESS: Check out our Website which is being updated regularly by Simon: For our very ‘up to date’ information please refer to: Parish Website: stanthonystfrancis.org. St. Anthony’s & St. Columba’s have their very own ‘YOU TUBE’ CHANNEL. You can access the Channel by going to our Parish Website and, directly under the photo of our Church, there is a link which takes you to our ‘You Tube Channel.’ Here you will find recorded Masses and other Services. 4. ELECTRONIC COPY OF NEWSLETTER: Contact [email protected] and we’ll add you to list.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: St. Anthony’s Parish Offertory and Gift Aid Envelopes will be available to collect from the back of ST COLUMBA’S Church from next week. For any of St. Anthony’s Parishioners able to attend the Mass at St. Columba’s, you can pick
them up there. (We know some Parishioners already have these.) Otherwise,
please do not worry, they will be available for collection in St. Anthony’s Parish once we are re-opened. Thank you everyone who has been able to set up Direct Debits or Standing Orders, or who have dropped their envelopes through the Presbytery door. Could Parishioners, in the meantime – those who can - please use ordinary envelopes marking them with their NAME, ADDRESS & AMOUNT & bring to Church, once we do re-open, thanks Fr. David.
1. Keep your Weekly Offering or Gift Aid donations in your envelopes at home please, until this crisis is ended. Please be assured that because we are in unprecedented times, all measures will be taken to sort these envelopes out once the restrictions are lifted (SEE MESSAGE ABOVE.)
2. To set up a regular STANDING ORDER or make a one off donation. Please print off the ‘Standing Order Mandate Form’ which can be found on our Website and pass on to your own Bank.
3. If you have personal ONLINE BANKING you will be able to set this up yourself, you will need the following information. (Please also be assured that all bank payments are accounted for in our Parish Audit Trails.)
Account Name: “DHN Newcastle Ss. Anthony of Padua & Francis A Registered Charity” Bank: HSBC (Sort Code: 40.34.45) and Account No. 61165089
4. ‘GIFT AIDING’ for the first time and are a UK Taxpayer, you will need to download the ‘Gift Aid Form’ which can be found on our Website. Please complete and send it back to the Parish Office. Once everything is back to normal and because this is a legal document required by HMRC, the Office is required to forward it the Diocese. Please be assured that in completing this form means that the Parish will receive a small percentage back from HMRC and it will NOT affect your own personal tax in any way.
Please pray for all our sick:
Rhoda Robertson, John Gourley, Mary Garrity, REMEMBER TO JOIN FR. DAVID (VIA Doreen Graham, June Stephenson, Margaret O’Brien, Dorothy Milor, Elaine Clayton, Rosemary McIlvenna, Phil Gosling, Monica McKinnon, Martin Finchen, ‘YOU TUBE’ FOLLOW LINKS FROM THE Allison Maghie, Gail McDonnell Children: Joseph
Relph, Josh Graham, James Taylor (James is now
WEBSITE) IN CELEBRATING: OFF Oxygen altogether and the family thank you for all your prayers) SUNDAY MASS AND MONDAY ROSARY And Theo James Abbott ALSO: NHS & FRONTLINE STAFF, ST ANTHONY’S & BOSTE STAFF, ALL VOLUNTEERS & for our PRIESTS, DEACONS & BISHOP ministering to sick and dying TAGNEY TOURS HAVE Diocesan Spiritual ASKED FR. DAVID IF HE Support WILL RUN A COACH TO These resources have been created to support you and your LOURDES & LISIEUX loved ones in this unprecedented NEXT YEAR, 2021 time of the COVID–19 pandemic. He has agreed to do this. We offer these prayers in Therefore, anyone booked for solidarity and we want you know this year is welcome to leave that the Church community is their current booking in place praying with you and you are not with their deposit, which will alone. be transferred to 2021. As 'Resources for times of this will come around very grieving and death' includes; quickly. If you do wish to Prayers for loved ones we cancel, however, for the 2020 cannot visit in hospital, Prayers scheduled trip then please for someone who has recently feel free to do so. died and Prayers for a loved one whose funeral you cannot attend. FIVE SPIRITUAL COMMUNION 'Prayers for the sick and dying' PRAYERS, WHEN YOU CANNOT ATTEND MASS. contains a collection of Catholic prayers to comfort you and your Since I cannot now receive you sacramentally loved ones during difficult times I ask you to come spiritually into my heart. O let nothing ever separate you from me. Let me live of sickness and death. and die in Your love. Amen. Mgr. Andrew Faley, O my Divine Jesus. How great is my desire to Vicariate for Faith & Mission receive your Sacred Blood! Come now into my email: soul. At least, by a Spiritual Communion. I give up my soul into your Divine Hands. Receive it evfaithandmission@dioces into the bosom of your mercy. Amen. ehn.org.uk I wish, My Lord, to receive you with the purity humility and devotion with which your most Holy Mother received you with the spirit and PANDEMIC PRAYER: fervor of the Saints. O Mary, you always brighten our path as a sign of salvation and hope. We Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, entrust ourselves to you, Health of the save me. Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me. Passion of Sick, who, at the foot of the Cross, took Christ, strengthen me. O good Jesus, hear me part in Jesus’ pain while remaining within thy wounds, hide me, suffer me not to be steadfast in faith. O Loving Mother, you separated from thee. know what we need, and what we are confident you will provide for us at Cana I desire to receive Thee into the poor dwelling in Galilee. Intercede for us with your Son that my heart offers Thee. While waiting for the Jesus. The Divine Physician, for those happiness of Sacramental Communion. I wish who have fallen ill, for those who are to possess Thee in spirit. Come to me, O my vulnerable, and for those who have died. Jesus. May they love embrace my whole being in life and in death. I believe in thee. I hope in Intercede also for those charged with thee. I love thee. Amen. protecting the health and safety of others and for those who are tending to the sick and seeking a cure. Help us, O Mother of Divine Love, to conform to the Will of the Father and to do as we are told by Jesus, who took upon himself our sufferings and carried our sorrow so as to lead us, through the Cross, to the glory of the Resurrection. Under thy protection we seek refuge, O Holy Mother of God. In our needs, despise not our petitions, but deliver us always from all dangers, O glorious and Blessed Virgin.
Pope Francis appoints
New Apostolic Nuncio
to Great Britain
Pope Francis has named Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti as Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain.
Claudio Gugerotti was born in Verona, Italy, in 1955 and ordained a priest of the Diocese of Verona in 1982. He studied Eastern Languages and Sacred Liturgy and was a professor of Patristics, Eastern Liturgy at the Institute of Ecumenical Studies in Verona from 1981 to 1985. In 1985, he was appointed as an official working at the Congregation for the Eastern Churches and he became its Undersecretary in 1997. He has also taught at the Pontifical Oriental Institute. On 7 December 2001, Pope St John Paul II appointed him Apostolic Nuncio to Georgia and to Armenia. He was also subsequently appointed
Apostolic Nuncio to Azerbaijan on 13 December. He received his episcopal consecration by Pope St John Paul on 6 January 2002 appointing him to the Titular See of Ravello. Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Apostolic Nuncio to Belarus in 2011 and Pope Francis appointed him Apostolic Nuncio to Ukraine in 2015. The previous Nuncio to Great Britain, Archbishop Edward Adams, retired in January 2020.
Bishop Robert Byrne will write to welcome the New Nuncio to Great Britain, and invite him to visit the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle.
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DIOCESAN VACANCY Life After the Pandemic - Pope Francis The Vatican Publishing House has released a free eBook, “Life After The Diocese of Hexham and the Pandemic”, a collection of interventions by Pope Francis, with a Newcastle has the following preface by Cardinal Michael Czerny, to reflect on the vision of the world vacancy: that is emerging after the pandemic and to which we are called to accompany. It is now available to read or download (copy and paste to Department for Education, Browser) Administrator (maternity cover) For further information and details of how to apply please visit our website www.rcdhn.org.uk or contact us Pope Francis reflects on on 0191 243 3301 parable of the sower
Pope Francis reflected on the parable of the sower, as in today’s Gospel. The Pope told pilgrims (last year) gathered in St. Peter’s Square that Jesus spoke in a different manner from the “doctors of the law,” who used “complicated language” THE VICARIATE FOR that “was not well understood, but was full CARITAS AND THE of rigidity and distanced the people.” In the parable, Jesus performs, as it were, ROAD CENTRE “a ‘spiritual x-ray’ of our heart, which is the Caritas, in partnership with The soil on which the seed of His Word falls,” the Pope continued. “Our heart, like the Road Centre, is offering a soil, can be good and then the Word bears number of resources to help fruit—and so much—but it can also be hard, adults, young people, and impermeable.” After reflecting on the children cope with stress and different types of soil in the parable, the Pope concluded: Let us find the courage to anxiety during the Covid-19 make a good soil remediation, a good pandemic. remediation of our hearts, bringing to the Resource for adults (pdf). Lord in Confession and prayer our stones Resource for young people and our brambles. Thus Jesus, the good (pdf). sower, will be happy to carry out an additional work: to purify our heart, Resource for children (pdf). removing the stones and thorns that choke (Right hand click on ‘pdf’ above the Word. and choose ‘open hyperlink.’ May the Mother of God, unsurpassable in receiving the Word of God and putting it into practice (cf. Lk. 8:21), help us to purify our hearts and to keep the presence of the Lord.
GLOBAL HEALING
Global Healing is a film-based resource to help us to respond to the
damage being done to our planet – our common home. It's for parishes, groups and individuals and aims to inform, challenge and
equip people to engage with Pope Francis’ vital call to “Care For
Our Common Home.” The main three-part film resource featuring well-known experts,
engaging testimonies and location filming from around the UK. There are times for discussion and prayer to stir deeper
ecological conversion and fresh practical responses, in your own homes with your families and those who are in your ‘bubble.’
Downloads
The films (right click on underline and paste to your Browser) or try
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LET US JOIN On this Day in History: WITH FR. DAVID 7 years ago: Malala Yousafsai (Human Rights Activist) addresses ON MONDAY 13th the United Nations and calls for worldwide access to education JULY 22 years ago: South African President Nelson Mandela joins TO PRAY THE Queen Elizabeth II on a coach drive MYSTERIES OF LIGHT through London on a state visit. 50 years ago: British Open Men’s ROSARY. Golf, St. Andrews. Jack Nicklaus beats Doug Sanders in events first 18-hole playoff. World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka - Russians defeat German forces in FROM 5pm one of the largest ever tank battles World War 1: Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed. 300 years ago: Lorenzo Corsini chosen as Pope Clemens XII FOLLOW THE LINKS FOR 800 years ago: English King Richard 1 ‘The Lionheart’ defeat THIS FROM OUR WEBSITE Saracens in Palestine.
PRAYING FOR OUR PRISONER COMMUNITIES DURING COVID 19
Our communities are in need of prayer, especially during this Covid19 Pandemic. All of us have had to adapt and many people, especially those who are shielding due to underlying health problems as well as the elderly, have found themselves on 24-hour lockdown. This is alien to many people and has caused much stress and anxiety. Deacon David Smith, Chaplain of Northumberland Prison has been in touch, sharing with us how Covid 19 lockdown is affecting prison life. Lockdown measures mean prisoners are spending far more time in their cells which affects their mental health, as well as their health and well-being in general. The prison staff are therefore having to work and cope in very different ways. Deacon David wants to thank all the people in our Parishes who collected Rosary beads and Prayer books for the prisoners which were very well received and are being well used. If you have any more that you are able to donate and can safely have them posted through the doors of either St. Anthony of Padua Presbytery or St. Columba’s Presbytery, then we will ensure they are delivered to the Prison.
Please keep all prisoners, their families and the prison staff in your prayers, thank you.
More Brits have turned to prayer during the Coronavirus lockdown, and nearly a quarter of people in the United Kingdom have watched or listened to a religious service since lockdown began.
According to a poll commissioned by a UK-based Christian international relief and development agency, one in twenty British adults say they had started praying during the lockdown, when they did not pray before. When the lockdown began March 23, houses of worship were closed to the public in the UK, and many religions began conducting services through online streaming or over radio and television. According to the poll 24 percent of UK adults say they have watched or listened to a religious service during the lockdown, with 76 percent of regular Churchgoers participating online. Five percent of those watching or listening to services have never gone to Church. “It is encouraging to see the number of people in the UK praying during such a challenging time. This agencies experience is that prayer and practical action go hand-in-hand, and are both crucial ways of responding. The poll found that, among those who pray, 66 percent say they agree that God hears their prayers and 56 percent say they agree that prayer changes the world.
Don’t forget you can connect to Our Lady & St. Columba on You Tube (own Channel) and follow all of his Services, both at the weekend and weekdays with Fr. David:
Members of our community have been emailing and phoning Fr David informing him of situations that need prayers. As you can see from the photo Fr David has lit a candle on the Sacred Heart
Altar for each prayer request he has received. If you would like a candle to be lit please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Fr David directly, preferably by email and he’ll light a candle for you: