Mass Intentions Sun 14 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Quinquagesima) World Day for the Unemployed The Catholic Parish and Ordinariate 10.00 Kerrin Alvares – birthday blessings (Mrs J Alvares) Church of S. John Vianney, Clayhall 17.00 The People of the Parish Parish Priest: Fr Rob Page Mon 15 Weekday in Ordinary Time No Mass 1 Stoneleigh Rd Clayhall, Ilford, Essex IG5 0JB Tue 16 Weekday in Ordinary Time tel 020 8550 4540 email [email protected] 9.00 Gerry Tupas RIP – recently deceased (Tesse & Marilyn) www.sjv-clayhall.uk facebook.com/sjv.clayhall Wed 17 Ash Wednesday Brentwood Diocesan Trust charity no 234092 Ordinariate charity no 1141536 9.00 Tesse & Marilyn (Rose Peart) followed by Stations of the Cross 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Quinquagesima) 20.00 Fr Rob (Legion of Mary) Thu 18 Thursday after Ash Wednesday World Day for the Unemployed s 9.00 Norman Martin RIP – anniversary (Anne O’Doherty) 14 February 2021 Fri 19 Friday after Ash Wednesday 9.00 Zachary Newbould – birthday 2 February Responsorial Psalm First Reading Gospel Leviticus 13:1-2,44-46 20.00 Stations of the Cross 10am: You are my refuge, O Lord; Mark 1:40-45 Sat 20 Saturday after Ash Wednesday you fill me with the joy of salvation. Second Reading 9.00 Don Hinchin (Martin McGloin) 5pm: You are a hiding place for me; 1 Corinthians 10:31-11:1 Sun 21 First Sunday of Lent you surround me with deliverance. 10.00 Heather & Alexander Steadman 40th wedding anniv (Heather & Alex) 17.00 The People of the Parish A light that shines in the darkness, a light the darkness cannot Stewards’ rota for this week overcome Tolu Ayeni, Jenny Appadoo, Kate Echeazu, 10.00 – 10.45 Some words from the opening chapter of the Tesse Javier Sunday 14 February Gospel According to S. John; words that will be 17.00 – 17.45 Lionel Sharon, Bernadetta Sharon familiar to us as they form part of the Gospel Tuesday 16 February 9.00 – 9.30 Anita Lewis reading at Mass on Christmas Day and indeed Wednesday 17 February 9.00 – 10.15 Jennifer Alvares, Tesse Javier, Kate Echeazu are part of the last Gospel read at almost every mass celebrated according to the Extra-Ordinary (Ash Wednesday) 20.00 – 20.45 Bernadetta & Lionel Sharon, Pauline Brooke Form and the Ordinariate Use of the Roman Rite. Lent at SJV Thursday 18 February 9.00 – 9.30 Tesse Javier We are living in a time when darkness seems to 9.00 – 9.30 Jennifer Alvares Ash Wednesday Friday 19 February cover the face of the earth. This terrible virus, 20.00 – 20.30 Please volunteer Covid-19, has brought suffering, pain, loss of Mass 9am and 8pm Saturday 20 February 9.00 – 9.30 Tesse Javier, Michael Josef home and work and, yes, even death to so many Stations of the Cross in our world. And yet we must reflect that the 10.00 – 10.45 Anita Lewis, Antoinette Loroy, Yvonne Obi Wednesday 9.30am Sunday 21 February Light of Christ, which has entered into creation, 17.00 – 17.45 Pauline Brooke, Maarilyn Butler cannot and will not be overcome by darkness. By Friday 8pm (volunteer stewards the wonderful work of scientists, by the efforts of needed, please come early) so many people and, yes, by our own self- In person and live-streamed sacrifice we are starting to take the first, very tentative steps back, if not to normality, at last to a Weekly Lenten reflections Remember, you must not socialise after Mass with anyone outside your kind of new normal that might be our way of life See website and social media household or bubble. Please leave the church and grounds/carpark for some time to come. promptly after Mass. After Mass today Theresa will be in the narthex with some candles for you (in a Covid secure way) to purchase. I am asking you on each Sunday evening during Lent at 8pm to light a candle and place it either in a front window in your home or in some other place, Continued next page Our Lady’s Lamp suicide and embryo research. For more Parish Finance information go to righttolife.org.uk. £ Our Lady’s blue lamp burns for the next Redbridge Foodbank Income (offertory, standing orders, three weeks for the Anton Paul Mass stipends, candles etc,) 913.42 Sivalingham Family at the request of Redbridge Foodbank continues to need our Average weekly expenditure 1,535.00 Preya Senthel. support to help local families in crisis. Your gifts Shortfall 621.58 If you would like the lamp to burn for an of non-perishable foods, toiletries and baby intention of yours, please fill in one of nappies are greatly appreciated. More where its light will be seen from outside and information at redbridge.foodbank.org.uk. the envelopes in the narthex. Weeks then spend just five to ten minutes in prayer from 14 March are available. Understandably, many people do not want Repository asking for the grace of God to live in the to handle cash these days. So instead, you present time, for the pandemic to come to an Let us cultivate responsibility, patience and can give our parish much-needed financial Our repository is too small to enable social end and remembering before the Lord all who hope. support online at www.dioceseofbrentwood. distancing. However we do have a selection of have suffered in any way or who have lost their net/donations?parish=clayhall. cards, gifts and other items. If you wish to buy lives. Amen. something, please ask any of the usual We thank you for your generosity. Below I give some examples of prayers you Prayer adapted from a radio message from repository volunteers, or Barbara Cheah or Rodolfo Valenzuela Núñez, Bishop of La could use. Scriptures. ‘Blessed is the man who remains Sonia. Verapaz, Guatemala steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the God's healing hand Facebook An Evening Offering test he will receive the crown of life, which God To our brothers and sisters who have has promised to those who love him’ (James Visit our new page: facebook.com/sjv.clayhall. O Lord, support us all day long, until the contracted and are suffering due to the 1:12). Coronavirus Disease, we pray that God’s shadows lengthen, and the evening comes, and Mass intentions The booklet is on sale from Sonia for £1. Exact healing hand may rest upon you. the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is If you would like a Mass offered, please over, and our work is done. money please. To medical doctors, nurses and the supporting complete a Mass request envelope, place the staff who are in the frontline of the fight against Then in your mercy, grant us a safe lodging and Offertory stipend inside and put it in the parish letter box Covid-19, may the Good Lord sustain you and a holy rest, and peace at last. or give it to Sonia. Please place your offertory donations in the inspire you to render your life-saving services Amen. basket near the church entrance/exit doors. with due care, love and compassion. Forthcoming events Prayer of S. John Henry Newman You can also donate online at www.diocese To all those who have lost their loved ones due Fr Rob ofbrentwood.net/donations?parish=clayhall. Learning from Covid: church, state and a to the Coronavirus outbreak, we convey our better future deepest sympathies. Reading at Mass Notices and News Dr Gemma Simmonds CJ, Senior Research We pray that their souls, through God’s mercy, If you wish to read at any Sunday or Christmas may rest in eternal peace. Fellow and Director of the Religious Life Sacrament of Reconciliation (confession) Mass, please ask Sonia before the Mass starts Institute at the Margaret Beaufort Institute of We pray that God may grant all bereaved or during the previous week. Confession is available on Saturday mornings Theology in Cambridge will lead a Gidea Park families His consolation and strengthen their after Mass and at other times by arrangement Readers must sanitise their hands before and online study day on Saturday 6 March 11am to faith and hope in Jesus Christ, the Risen Lord. with Fr Rob. after reading. 12.30pm. To access this live-stream event, go Amen. www.whatgoodnews.org. NHS Test and Trace Prayer adapted from the 2020 Easter Message Walk with Me of the Catholic Bishops of Malawi, Zambia and A Journey of Lenten prayer for 2021 If you use the NHS COVID-19 app to scan the You must wear a face covering in Zimbabwe This year’s edition of Walk with Me draws QR code, you do not need to give us your church unless you are exempt. inspiration from Pope Francis’s latest encyclical contact details. At this time PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN. Fratelli tutti on fraternal love and social Prayer for life Dear Lord, friendship and his new book Let Us Dream, Please make sure your phone is off At this time of pandemic, which explores faith in the light of the global Right to Life UK asks us to pray this week for all or totally silent during Mass. Let us foster respect and solidarity with others, pandemic. unborn children diagnosed with disabilities, we pray for their protection and that of their especially those who are weak or poor. The pandemic has shed light on how we cope Live streaming mothers from the pressures of society to have Let us remain calm and ignore unsubstantiated in times of trial and crisis.