<p> PARISH OF ST BONIFACE, SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON JANUARY 23rd., 2011 THIRD SUNDAY of ORDINARY TIME [A] </p><p>“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is close at hand”</p><p>Presbytery: St. Boniface House, 413 Shirley Road Southampton SO15 3JD Tel: 023 80771231 Fax: 023 80528236 Parish Clergy: Father David Sillince [Parish Priest], Canon Terry Walsh [in retirement] Safeguarding Officer: Anne Monaghan 023 80777691 Chair of Parish Pastoral Council: Jane Willcox. Parish Secretary: Eileen B. Aylett Parish Office opening hours Monday Thursday and Friday 9.00am to 12.30pm Newsletter deadline 9.00pm on Tuesday for inclusion on following Sunday, space permitting. Parish Website: www.st-boniface.org.uk Parish Office e mail: office @st-boniface.org.uk This Parish is within the Pastoral Area of Southampton Central & West. RC Diocese of Portsmouth Regd. Charity 246871 The Church is normally open on weekdays 8am-12noon, Saturdays 8am-11am & 5-7.45pm, Sundays 7.30am-12noon</p><p>CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK We pray especially for:- (Divine Office week 3) Saturday January 22 ] 6.30pm Mass P.J.Phelan, RIP Sunday January 23 ] THIRD SUNDAY of ORDINARY TIME [A] 8.30am Mass Tricia Sheehy, RIP 10.30a Mass Ronald Andrews, RIP Christian Unity service “Church Together” m 6.30pm Unity ...... 6.30p m Monday January 24 St. Frances de Sales, Bishop & Doctor of the 10.00a Mass Bert & Margaret de Groen Church m (†Lyons 1622) Tuesday January 25 Feast of the CONVERSION of St. PAUL 10.00a Mass Charles Johnston [Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity ends] m Wednesda January 26 SS. Timothy, Bishop & Martyr and Titus, Bishop 10.00a Mass Erika Joan Chua, in thanksgiving y (†Ephesus / Crete 1st. cent.) m Thursday January 27 [St. Angela Merici, Foundress †Brescia 1540] 10.00a Mass Patricia & Bridget McGinnity, RIP m Friday January 28 St. Thomas Aquinas, Dominican & Doctor of the Mass Holy Souls Church 9.00a (†Fossanova 1274) m NB Saturday January 29 Our Lady on Saturday 10.00a Mass Holy Souls 6.30pm Mass is of 4th. Sunday of Ordinary Time m Confessions Saturdays after 10am Mass and from 5.45pm to 6.15pm PARISH PRAYER GROUP: Fridays 11am-12noon in the Hall, all welcome. REFRESHMENTS in the Hall every Sunday after 10.30am Mass, and after 8.30am Mass on the last Sunday of each month; also Fridays after Mass. Please pray for the repose of the Please pray for those who are sick souls of those with anniversaries at CHRISTIAN UNITY this time: Helen Brown, Patricia especially: Colette Morfett, Mary SERVICE Lewis, James Marsh, Doris Sheehy, Mervyn Coelho, Doris [Churches Together in Shirley] Warrington, Patricia Cherry, Mulvihill. Edward Standley, Margaret de in our church Groen, Gilda North, Michael May they rest in peace and rise in this Sunday January 23 at Sedotti. glory. 6.30pm. SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM: great. Collecting box in the porch, would not use the translations which Next Saturday January 29 at the plus Gift Aid envelopes. proceeded from the Calvinists in Geneva, because these rejected the 10am Mass we welcome and prepare THE KING JAMES BIBLE 1611- for Baptism Jasmine Mary Frades. threefold ministry of bishop, priest and 2011 deacon, which the Anglicans retained. Happy 400th. anniversary to the The King James Bible was intended COLLECTIONS: This Newsletter world’s most printed book, which has to be the definitive common Bible of is being produced earlier than usual, been described rather waspishly as the Anglican Church. Curious as it so details of Collections for January 9 “the only good thing ever produced by may seem, the first ‘common Bible’ in & 16 will be included next week. committee”. English was - believe it or not – a This weekend there is National The original languages of the Bible Catholic one (though intended for Retiring Collection for the “Catholic are Hebrew (the Old Testament) and personal use rather than in the liturgy Education Service”. Greek (the New Testament, plus the where Latin prevailed). This was the ‘apocryphal’ books of the Old so-called Rheims-Douai Bible (usually Testament). Some scholars maintain shortened to ‘Douai Bible’). It was CRIB COLLECTION (until that St. Matthew’s Gospel was translated from the Latin at the February 2) for the support of originally written in Aramaic and then English College, Douai, France (the Christian Schools in the Holy Land. translated into Greek, but that is a English seminary ‘in exile’), and minority view. appeared in stages, beginning with FINANCE COMMITTEE Tuesday The Hebrew books were translated the New Testament, printed in January 25 at 7pm (Presbytery), into Greek in Alexandria in the 3rd. Rheims in 1582. It was annotated. PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL century BC allegedly by 72 scholars The English Puritan theologian Sunday January 30 at 7pm (Hall). working in isolation who under divine William Fulke (†1589) set out to guidance all produced the same savage the Douai version’s notes in translation! Hence its name the his (wait for it) “Defense of the PRAYER INTENTIONS in the “Septuagint” [Latin septuaginta=70]. Sincere and True Translations of the Diocese: Su: Association of Inter- Various Latin versions of dubious Holy Scriptures into the English Church families; M: St. Francis de accuracy were created from this text, tongue, against the Manifold Cavils, Sales, Wash Common; T: Local and it was to clear up this muddle that Frivolous Quarrels and Impudent St. Jerome was commissioned to Covenants of Churches; W: Fair Slanders of Gregory Martin, one of provide an official Latin translation, the Readers of Popish Divinity in the Trade Networks; : Bishop Th based on the original languages, Traitorous Seminary of Rheims” Crispian, installed 27.1.1989; F: which he achieved (in part) between (1583). Staff and students in Higher 382 and 405AD. This version is the Fulke’s activity had the opposite effect Education; S: Salesian Cooperators “Vulgate” – the “commonly used to that intended. It made the Douai of Don Bosco. version” [Latin versio vulgata]. It version much better known. became the standard Bible of Although the King James Bible team Western Christianity until the were allowed to consult other existing CONNECT2BANGLADESH Reformation. The Vulgate is still the Bibles, they were – officially at any Our new parish charity since Advent official Bible of the Catholic Church, rate, and for obvious reasons – 2010. though massively revised in prohibited from referring to the Douai Imagine if your home was constantly accordance with modern scholarship Bible. But so many of the under threat from cyclones and and re-issued in 1979 [the “”neo- expressions of the King James Bible floods. Vulgate”]. already appear in the Douai version, In Kainmari, in southern Bangladesh, The “King James Bible” was by no that one suspects the King’s people are doing whatever it takes to means the first Bible in English. The Committee did not follow orders, to adapt to their unpredictable climate. Anglican Church had already issued the extent that some would claim the With the support of CAFOD’s partner, the “Great Bible” (1539) and the Douai Bible is the one which has Caritas Bangladesh, local people are “Bishops’ Bible” (1568), but these really had the major influence on the using their limitless energy, were ‘translations of translations’, i.e. development of 17th. century English. determination and hope to fight back of the Latin. (Having said that, much of the Douai against difficult conditions. Prior to these, early Reformers had translation, especially of St. Paul’s Two key areas of support are: (1) written English translations (and in letters, is very cumbersome, and it Earning an income: helping people to Tyndale’s case paid the penalty for it, was heavily revised by Bishop set up simple businesses, appropriate in Holland): John Wyclif in 1382, Challenor [1749-52] ... using the King to a changed climate, which will thrive William Tyndale in 1534, Myles James text!) in local conditions, make a good profit Coverdale in 1535. These last two Let us end with some comparisons of and help them cope better when were the first to be able to take a famous text of St. Paul (1 disaster strikes, and (2) Responding advantage of the invention of printing. Corinthians 13:1): to emergencies: providing vital relief, Tyndale was skilled in Hebrew and “Though I speak with the tongues of but also raising awareness and Greek, though Coverdale was not, men and of angels, and have not putting systems in place that help and relied on other translations. charity, I am become as sounding local people be more prepared for What was often significant was not brass or a tinkling cymbal” (1611) natural disasters. the translation so much as the “ean tais glôssais tôn anthrôpôn lalô Because so much of Bangladesh is annotations, which could be used to kai tôn aggelôn, agapê de mê ehô, very low-lying, it is at particular risk, ‘slant’ the text to suit a preferred yet the potential of the land is very theology. So the Anglican Church gegona halkos êhôn ê kumbalon to retire from this post due to alalazon” (St. Paul, Greek) increasing ill health, in 2007. “ si linguis hominum loquar et His funeral Mass is being celebrated angelorum, caritatem autem non at St. John’s Cathedral on Friday habeam, factus sum velut aes sonans next, January 28, followed by burial at aut cymbalum tinniens” (Vulgate, Portchester. unchanged in the neo-Vulgate) We send our prayers and sympathy to “if Y speke with tungis of men and of his family and friends. aungels, and Y have not charite, Y **** Please note that because of the am maad as bras sowynynge, or a funeral arrangements our parish cymbal tynkynge” (Wyclif 1382) Mass on Friday of this coming “ If I speak with the tongues of men week will be at 9am, and not at and of angels, and have not charity, I 10am. **** am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal” (Douai) If you “ If I can speak with the tongues of NEW SEEKERS COURSE: men and of angels, but am destitute are not a Catholic but would like to of Love, I have but become a loud- begin to explore the Catholic faith (or sounding trumpet or a clanging know somebody else likewise) please cymbal” (‘Weymouth’ Modern Speech give your name quickly to the parish 1912) office as a new course is just “ If I speak with human eloquence beginning at St. Edmund’s on behalf and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, of the whole Pastoral Area I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty (Thursdays from 7.45pm, info. Dudley gate” (‘Message’ 2002) Plunkett (023) 8067 9079). “Gin I speak wi the tungs o men an angels, but hae nae luve in my hairt, I SHOULD R.E. BE A CORE am nane better nor a dunnerin brass SUBJECT of the proposed English or a ringing cymbal” (Lorimer’s Bible Baccalaureate? If you think so (and in Scots 1976 – this verse is inscribed the official Working Party – so far – before the entrance to the Scottish does not) please share your views Parliament in Edinburgh, and should with The School Performance Data be at Westminster, too ...) Unit, 2nd. Floor, Dept. for Education, “ If I wen talk all da diffren kine Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith languages, da peopo kine language Street, London SW1P 3BT, or via: an even da angel kine languages, but mailbox.performancedatateam@educ I no mo love an aloha, wat den? I ation.asi.uk only talking rubbish kine, jalike one junk kine bell o one kalangalang cymbal” (Pidgin Bible, Hawaii 2000). “WOMEN & THE PRIESTHOOD” Take your pick .... – a talk with Fr. David in the Hall, St. David’s Day Tuesday March 1st. at 7.45pm CONFIRMATION: next session Sunday February 6, Holy Family. FIRST HOLY COMMUNION: parents’ introductory session in our Hall Wednesday February 2, 6 to 7pm.</p><p>FATHER PETER SPRAGUE RIP Father Peter, of our diocese, died on January 14 at the age of 46 after a long struggle with cancer. He had latterly been living in Portchester and, for as long as he was able, was ‘supplying’ for local priests. Father Peter was a native of this city and was ordained in our church on June 6, 1992. He worked as an assistant priest in Guernsey, as Portsmouth hospital chaplain and then as parish priest of St. Swithun’s. Yateley, near Farnborough. He had</p>