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Our Parish Liturgy . Sacred Heart This Week (6 Easter B) Next Week (7 Easter B) Parish Priest Rev Fr Daryl George JCL DIVINE OFFICE WEEK 2 DIVINE OFFICE WEEK 3 Parish Newsletter Sacred Heart Presbytery 25 Between Streets ENTRANCE FIRST Acts 1:15-17, 20-26 for the Roman Catholic Proclaim a joyful sound and let it COBHAM ANTIPHON be heard; proclaim to the ends of READING Let someone else take his office. community the earth: the Lord has freed his Surrey PSALM people, alleluia. The Lord has set his sway in KT11 1AA of Cobham, Oxshott, RESPONSE heaven. (01932) 862518 & Stoke D’Abernon PENITENTIAL 18.00 Said SECOND 1 John 4:11-16 part of the Arundel & Brighton Diocesan Trust, a Registered Charity No. 252878 ACT 10.00 Said [email protected] EADING R Anyone who lives in love lives in God, and God lives in him. sacredheartcobham.org.uk th th GLORIA 18.00 Said Volume 02 Issue 24 9 May 2021 : 6 Sunday Easter Year B 10.00 Musicians GOSPEL John 17:11-19 READING Father, keep those you have given me THIS WEEK: ??? . true to your name. FIRST Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48 BIBLE READING PLAN READING The pagans have received the Holy Spirit just as much as we have. Music and text of Antiphons from Psallite, © 2005 Su 1 Kings 5-6; 2 Chr. 2-3 Collegeville Composers Group. Published by Liturgical Mo 1 Kings 7; 2 Chr. 4 PSALM The Lord has shown his salvation Press, MN56321. RESPONSE to the nations. Used with Permission. One Licence No.0199 Tu 1 Kings 8; 2 Chr. 5 We 2 Chr. 6-7; Ps. 136 SECOND 1 John 4:7-10 READING Let us love one another, since love Th Psalms 134, 146-150 comes from God. Fr 1 Kings 9; 2 Chr. 8 MARRIAGE MATTERS Sa GOSPEL Alleluia, alleluia! In his Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia, Pope Proverbs 25-26 ACCLAMATION Jesus said: ‘If anyone loves me Francis offers a profound insight into the joy of he will keep my word, and my Christian marriage and reminds us of its place at the Financial News . Father will love him, and we shall very heart of the Church’s life. Christian marriage, he Weekend of 02/05/21 observes, ‘is a sign of how much Christ loved his come to him.’ st Church in the covenant sealed on the cross, yet it 1 £ 1,229:03 The heartbeat of this weekend’s gospel Baptist the precursor and “the friend of Alleluia! also makes that love present in the communion of 2nd None and second reading is “love.” As the bridegroom” (John 3:29) who, like a the spouses. By becoming one flesh, they embody disciples, we are called to feel this best man, hands over the bride Israel GOSPEL John 15:9-17 nd READING You are my friends if you do what I the espousal of our human nature by the Son of 2 Collection . pulse and make our lives beat in to Jesus; the family at Bethany, command you. God.’ rhythm with it. The love commandment especially Lazarus, the friend for whom This Weekend 09/05/21 As we know, the Holy Scriptures feed and nourish that Jesus gives to his disciples he wept at his grave and for whom PRESENTATION 18.00 Musicians our faith and help us to grow in our relationship Diocesan Missionary depends on God’s limitless love for the Jesus was the tomb breaker (John 11:35 OF THE GIFTS 10.00 Musicians Endeavor world (John 3:16). This love is made -44); Pilate, who at a critical moment with God and one another. It is for this reason that these scriptural reflections are offered. They should Gift Aid Members are able to incarnate and dwells among us in preferred to be a friend of Caesar SANCTUS 18.00 Said help enable married couples to focus on the richness make this collection tax Jesus, the one who is “close to the rather than Jesus (John 19:12); the 10.00 Musicians of God’s Word that we hear proclaimed each Sunday efficient. Father’s heart” (John 1:18), and so disciple beloved of Jesus (John 13:23: Jesus’ own relationship with his Father, 19:26; 21:7); and Peter the forgiven of the Year and to experience the deep joy of God’s Next Weekend 16/05/21 MEMORIAL 18.00 Said love expressed in the great Sacrament of Marriage. his own life and death, become the friend who will lead and shepherd the Catholic Communications norm of costly love he asks of his community of the forgiven (John 21:44). ACCLAMATION 10.00 Musicians Network CALLED TO REFLECT GOD’S LOVE disciples. This must not be a cramped As we gather around the table of our Gift Aid Members are not able or grudging love, but joyful and Eucharistic supper, we hear that we GREAT AMEN 18.00 Said expansive, encompassing the world for have been chosen by Jesus as his 10.00 Said to make this collection tax efficient. which Jesus was sent. friends and commissioned to befriend One of the most priceless human gifts the world in and with the love he has OUR FATHER 18.00 Said Thankyou for your continuing is friendship. It allows us to disclose shown us. 10.00 Said generosity to your Parish. ourselves to and receive from another The most startling, profound, yet simple in complete openness and trust. With a naming of God is proclaimed in the Bite Size . AGNUS DEI 18.00 Said friend we can think aloud; participate reading from the First Letter of St John: 10.00 Musicians in one another’s joys and sorrows, “God is love.” The letter is addressed to hopes and fears; survive loneliness, the “beloved,” those with whom God COMMUNION If you love me, keep my I always think indifference, hostility. Small wonder, has taken the initiative, who are ANTIPHON commandments, says the Lord, then, that in the gospel Jesus calls his parented by God’s love, and this self- and I will ask the Father and he that the best disciples by this most precious of giving love is the source of human love. will send you another Paraclete, names: “my friends.” Drawn into Like the gospel whose heartbeat is love, and abiding in the mutual love of the so love beats strongly in this reading - to abide with you for ever, way to know Father and the Son, disciples are no named nine times in its four verses. It alleluia. ”Love one another as I have loved you”. With these words Jesus spells out God’s plan for God is to love longer called servants but friends. is love that is expansive and global, yet THANKSGIVING 18.00 N/A marriage. As husband and wife we are called The Johannine community was to also intimate and personal, revealed 10.00 N/A each day to give our lives to each other as many things. live as friends and so, throughout his most fully in Jesus, the Son of God and gospel, John introduces us to various our brother. completely as we are able. From today let us Vincent van Gogh occasions of friendship: John the RECESSION 18.00 Musicians decide to reflect this ‘sign’ of God’s love to our 10.00 Musicians children, our family and our friends. Before Mass - Talk to God During Mass - Listen to God After Mass - Talk to your friends P A G E 2 Parish Office . Church Mouse (cub reporter). P A G E 7 The musings of one of God’s smallest creatures on events in and around the Normal Office Hours : Monday to Friday 09.30 - 12.30. Parish over the past seven days . Parish Secretary : Sarah Cox (01932) 860244 Progress continues apace with the decorations in the church - this week has seen [email protected] the completion of the sanctuary area, the whole of the righthand side of the Newsletter Editorial : Items for possible inclusion in the Parish church, the rear walls, and the balcony facia area. The rather useless old phosphorous lights Newsletter (if there is room) need to be received (in writing please) at that were under the balcony area have been removed and new, very efficient LED units have the Parish Office by midday on Wednesday. been obtained to replace them. It was also discovered that what Fr D thought were air vents in Gift Aid Organiser : Dan Meehan (01372) 456416 the under-balcony area were in fact speakers (who knows when they last worked?); Fr D will [email protected] speak to the sound engineers next time they are in to see if they can be re-instated into the new system. Next week the decorators will be moving into the ‘glass chapel’ to work on the Safeguarding Rep. : Mark Hillas 07898 785449 ceiling, walls, windows and wood panels - then it will be onto the last leg, the narthex area. [email protected] Tuesday after celebrating Mass Fr D was sourcing new lighting units for under the balcony area in the church before having to go off to a very special birthday reception. When he got back in the evening he was occupied in preparations for a virtual meeting he was due to attend on General Parish Information . Wednesday. Parishioner Registration : Every household within the Parish is Fr D had very little time after celebrating Mass in the morning before the start of an all-day requested to complete a ‘Parishioner Registration/Census’ form so that our Zoom meeting with the Canon Law Society of Great Britain and Ireland.