Parish of The Sacred Heart and St Joseph with the churches of The Sacred Heart, Hemsworth and Saint Joseph, Moorthorpe Diocese of Leeds: Registered Charity No 249404 Year B, Advent, Sunday 4, 19/20 December 2020 Getting in Father Anthony G Fenton Email [email protected] touch The Sacred Heart Presbytery [email protected] Market Street, Hemsworth, Tel 01977-610733 Pontefract, WF9 4LB Parish Website www.hemsthorpe.org.uk FB - Parish Facebook live-stream Mass Intentions Saturday 19 December Sacred Heart 5.00pm Mass Intentions Kazia & Family Sunday St Joseph’s 9.00am Mass Fr Sean O’Toole 20 December Sacred Heart 10.45am Mass FB Terry O’Brien Monday St Joseph’s 9.30am Mass Dennis Garner 21 December Tuesday 22 December Wednesday Sacred Heart 9.30am Mass Sheila Jordan 23 December Christmas St Joseph’s 3.00pm Mass of Eve Parish Family Eve Sacred Heart 5.00pm Mass of Eve Frank Cronin 24 December Sacred Heart 7.00pm Mass of Eve Geoff Marston Christmas St Joseph’s 9.00am Mass of Day Donor’s Intention (GF) Day Sacred Heart 10.45am Mass of Day FB Jovico M Gabriola 25 December Boxing Day St Joseph’s 10.00am Mass Janice Coyle 26 December Nb No Evening Mass Sunday St Joseph’s 9.00am Mass Billy Hodgson 27 December Sacred Heart 10.45am Mass FB Joseph Sankey As numbers have to be limited at all Masses, to enable physical distancing, all are requested to pre-book. To book for Mass: see our Parish Website, Parish Facebook Page, or telephone the Presbytery. As the benches are set for 1 metre+ distancing, please remain seated, at prayer, and do not kneel. For Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Masses: see times and venues above. If your first choice is fully booked, please see whether any of the other times have availability. Avoid disappointment: it is hoped none will come to Mass and be turned away. But some may have to be, if they have not booked in advance and we have reached the full numbers allowed under Covid-19 regulations. So please, for your own benefit, do make sure to book in advance. Also, please do not take another’s place. Book only for any you fully expect to come, or, if plans are changed please remember to cancel (or ask Fr Anthony to cancel for you). Sacrament of Reconciliation: presently can be celebrated by appointment with Fr Anthony. Follow us at "Parish of The Sacred Heart Hemsworth and St Joseph's Moorthorpe” 1 From Fr Anthony Things happening in our Parish From a Sermon of St Bernard of Clairvaux Please remember, You have heard, if you wish to be sure of a place O Virgin, that you at one of our Christmas Eve/Day Masses, will conceive and you need to book in advance. See details on page 1. bear a son; you have heard that it Confirmation Plans are progressing to will not be by man begin our next Preparation Programme but by the Holy during January. Those who are Baptised Spirit. The angel Catholics, in school year 6 or older, and awaits an answer; not yet Confirmed, should be eligible. it is time for him Application forms are now available from to return to God Fr Anthony, and need to be returned to who sent him. We too are waiting, O Lady, for him by the first weekend in January. your word of compassion; as the sentence of Altar Servers Because of Covid-19 distancing, at our condemnation weighs heavily upon us. Sacred Heart Church we can have no more than six The price of our salvation is offered to you. We serving at any one Mass. It is important that any wishing shall be set free at once if you consent. In the to serve at our Christmas Eve or Day Masses check with eternal Word of God we all came to be, and Paul Stuart, to know whether we have enough places for behold, we die. In your brief response we are to them on the Sanctuary. be remade in order to be recalled to life. Christmas Offerings Your donations on Christmas Eve/ Tearful Adam with his sorrowing family begs this Day are, by tradition, your gift to your Parish Priest. of you, loving Virgin, in their exile from Paradise. Places may be limited at Christmas Eve/Day Masses. Abraham begs it, David begs it. All the other holy If you book but then change your plans, please be patriarchs, your ancestors, ask it of you, as they sure to cancel your place so others can take it. dwell in the country of the shadow of death. This is what the whole earth waits for, prostrate at & Nationally your feet. It is right in doing so, for on your word Act now The assisted suicide lobby have launched a depends comfort for the wretched, ransom for campaign to put pressure on the Government to change the captive, freedom for the condemned, indeed, the legalisation of assisted suicide. It is vital that it is clear salvation for all the sons of Adam, the whole of to the Government that the public want them to continue your race. to hold strong against this pressure from assisted suicide Answer quickly, O Virgin. Reply in haste to the campaigners and reject their demands. Right To Life UK angel, or rather through the angel to the Lord. have set up an easy to use tool for you to email MPs Answer with a word, receive the Word of God. asking them to oppose any moves to assisted suicide at Speak your own word, conceive the divine Word. https://righttolife.org.uk/StopAssistedSuicide: it only takes Breathe a passing word, embrace the eternal 30 seconds using the link. Word. Why do you delay, why are you afraid? Believe, Come Lord, your wounded world is give praise, and receive. Let humility be bold, let yearning for you to come again. modesty be confident. This is no time for virginal Come Lord, your weary world is crying out simplicity to forget prudence. In this matter alone, for you to lift us up, prudent Virgin, do not fear to be presumptuous. out of our despair, our hunger, Modest silence is pleasing, but dutiful speech is our thirst for something better, now more necessary. Open your heart to faith, O our need for the food that will last. blessed Virgin, your lips to praise, your womb to Come Lord, come again, the Creator. See, the desired of all nations is at we need to begin again. your door, knocking to enter. If he should pass Sue Allerton/CAFOD by because of your delay, in sorrow you would begin to seek him afresh, the One whom your Advent Project As our Lent Project for ’Maidie’s Minibus’ soul loves. Arise, hasten, open. Arise in faith, was cut short, by the first ‘Lockdown’, our Advent Project hasten in devotion, open in praise and is taking up the same cause, to help towards the buying thanksgiving. Behold the handmaid of the Lord, of a Minibus for use by the Burntwood Nursing Home she says, be it done to me according to your Residents. Please note carefully the word. labels on the collection baskets, at Father God, look upon us with love, Church. Suitably labelled donations and fill us with your Holy Spirit. may also be delivered to our Sacred Help us to love you more and more, Heart Presbytery. and keep us safe during this week, as we look forward to the coming of Jesus, Notices for our Parish Newsletter need to be received by your Son and our Lord, for ever and ever. Amen. Wednesday 12.00noon, at the latest. 2 Sacraments Parish Monies Donations to our Parish Baptism Our Preparation Programme, Offertory Monies Many Can also be made by texting - for Parents of Children to be baptised, 30 Nov - 6 Dec. Thanks CHURCH SHSJ to 70500 will next take place 7.00-8.30pm, in our Loose £ 122.80 to contribute £5 - weekly Sacred Heart Hall, Weds 3 & 10 Mar. Envelopes £ 938.00 - fortnightly - other; To join a Programme, Parents need to Nov Bank Orders £1701.00 - or by using the Donate Button talk with Fr Anthony, after one of our Donation £1000.00 on our Parish Website Home Page. Parish Masses, to arrange an initial meeting with him. GOD OF SURPRISES The Programme is for any expecting, as well as Parents with baby born. Inner Chaos and False Images of God Every single time I want to do good, it is something evil that comes Confirmations will hopefully next be to hand. (Rom 7:21) celebrated, for Baptised Catholics now in school year 6 or older, before the ….“And now don’t you love Uncle George with all your heart and summer of 2021. Watch for application soul, mind and strength?” And we, loathing the monster, say, ‘Yes I details, coming next weekend. do, ’ because to say anything else would First Reconciliation Our Children are be to join the queue next due to meet in our Sacred Heart at the furnace. At a Parish Hall, Sat 9 Jan, 10-11.15am, tender age religious and their parents in our Sacred Heart schizophrenia has Church, 10-10.15am. set in and we keep On arrival, Parents should please telling Uncle George not enter the Hall with the Children, but how much we love go immediately into the Church. him and how good Marriage Usual minimum notice, six he is and that we months. Contact Fr Anthony.