ST. JOSEPH’S PARISH, LEICESTER St. Joseph’s Church, Uppingham Road : The Rosary Church, Armadale Drive Priest serving the parish : Father John Daley I.C. Parish House, 12 Goodwood Road, Leicester LE5 6SG :Tel. 0116 241 5159 Website: www.stjoseph-leicester.co.uk. Use the “Contact us” form on our website to email us For our YouTube streamed mass - simply search St Joseph Leicester Live (Find us also on Facebook ) (Nottingham Roman Catholic Diocesan Trustees Registered Charity number 234064) Watermead Apostolate, St. Joseph’s, 12 Goodwood Road, Leicester LE5 6SG : Telephone 0116 220 7881 Sisters of St. Joseph, The Convent, Uppingham Road, Leicester LE5 6RA : Telephone 0116 241 6255 Schools : St. Paul’s Comprehensive, Spencefield Lane, Leicester LE5 6HN : Telephone 0116 241 4057 and St. Joseph’s Primary, Armadale Drive, Leicester LE5 1HF : Telephone 0116 241 6197 Sunday 6th June 2021 : Prayer Week 2 “The Church (us) is the Sunday Readings Reference FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI Mass Intentions & Times Mystical Body of Christ. The bible references are as follows: Sunday 6th June The Institutional Church 1st reading: Exodus 24:3-8 Streamed SUNDAY MASS at 10.30 am 2nd reading: Hebrews 9:11-15 is our government Gospel according to Mark 14:12-16,22-26 for Yvonne Steel, Anthony Rodrigues, Fatima Noronha, John Myers constantly in need For a background to all the readings each week see Watermead’s The Lord’s Day newsletter from Callan Family and Edwards Family of reform.” https://www.watermead-apostolate.co.uk/the-lords-day Dear People, Last week Boris Johnson was married at Westminster and then, under its own law (Canon Law, we call it) has to agree Cathedral in a full Catholic wedding. You may have been to a sacramental marriage. This would include the annulment pleased, puzzled, amused, angry. When did he undergo the of Boris’ previous marriages outside of the Catholic Church. marriage preparation course? When had he followed the Notice the law of the land allows divorce, and the Catholic baptism preparation course for the baptism of his latest child – Church claims the power to annul or dissolve non-sacramental also in Westminster Cathedral? Were we witnessing a new marriages. This extraordinary claim is called the Petrine moral moment in Boris’ notorious sexually immoral life, would privilege – the power claimed by the popes to dissolve non he now bring his Catholic understanding into his life as Prime Catholic Church approved marriages in favour of a new start. It Minister? William Gladstone and Tony Blair might have been seems to have reached its open notoriety in the reign of Pope our first Catholic prime ministers, but both knew it would cost Pius XII – examples are easily available. votes and decided against conversion. Boris has gone ahead of Google ‘Petrine Privilege’ and you will be astounded. them – because he doesn’t care what people say about his life, Absolute power over all non-sacramental marriages. It reads loves, lusts, broken homes and families, or because he truly like supreme arrogance but it is the logic of a Church that began wants to begin personal life again. to believe it ruled the world following the extraordinary Be careful not to judge him on his laughingly immoral life. ‘Donation of Constantine’ – an 8th century hoax that fooled Many are promiscuous and unfaithful as he has reportedly Europe and allowed a succession of megalomaniac and power been – and there are regular well-paid-for stories about various and wealth-lusting popes (read for yourselves and cringe, again people in the gossipy media, unknown or uninteresting Google will help you) offset by good men who tried to counter because they are boring. Those mentioned may change the power of the many unworthy popes. We needed the (St Augustine did) when finding true love and faith, and so may Reformation many centuries ago, with Christ to guide us. Boris. Instead, it came in the 16th century with enmity, hatred and Last week’s wedding is better seen more as a legal than a wars. moral matter. According to the law of the United Kingdom The Christian community is a leaven, according to the Boris freely married, freely divorced (every country in the Gospel, in every society, working and loving and living for the world allows divorce, though often cruelly in favour of the man common good. Sadly, our Catholic Vatican is seen as a lump of – but then laws are man-made: there is better to come) and was dough, a centre of power. Each pope in my lifetime has thus free to enter another legal marriage. expressed a desire to reform the Vatican, but the Vatican keeps The Roman Catholic Church recognises every legal marriage winning. Of course there are good men, but the system is built in every country. It has to. It cannot, dare not, challenge the on a lie (‘Donation of Constantine’) and power became more legality of the law of established government. But our Church important than the truth. “Hide the scandal” became a primary holds a blessing within the ceremony which makes a marriage duty of bishops, as we have seen in the last dreadful years in sacramental, the beautiful union of love spoken about by Jesus abuse of our children and women – and for how long before in the Gospel (but read carefully what Jesus is said to have said that? in the accounts: Matthew and Mark are different). According to the all-powerful law of the Roman Catholic Until the Catholic Church is invited by a couple it is not Church Boris is in a legal sacramental marriage. For those of legally involved. A couple exclude the Church because it means you who have been told to wait for your marriage case to be nothing to them. The Church does not judge, it is simply looked at, I offer you my sympathy and understanding and excluded. But if it is approached the Church will want to see moral support. It has happened in our (my) family, too. In our justice done. For Carrie it was her first marriage, for Boris he human Church there is favouritism at every level. It seems had never previously invited the Catholic Church – might he Boris was favoured by not having to wait. So simple. In Church nSoiwnc?e F rA Jso han wbraoptet ihsies dle ttCear tahno olfifcic iahl es tahteamde ntht hea sr ibgehetn rteole aassekd. fr oTmh Ae rchblaiswho pw’se H aoruese a, Wll eesqtmuiansl,t ebr.u Ste pe o- swswibwl.yin dscoamthoeli canreew sm.comre/n ewqsu/4a2l 3t4h3a? n Church would carefully judge they were both sincere, want to others. be certain there was no injustice to previous wives or children, God bless God’s people, Feasts this Week DATES FOR DIARY + POSTBAG + Wednesday St Ephrem : St Columba The Word and the Common Good Dear People of St Joseph’s, gh We are invited to join Catholics from around the Thanks to your support, CAFOD has been Friday Diocese of Nottingham for an interactive online course helping communities around the world cope with the Sacred Heart of Jesus over six Monday evenings in June and July. pandemic. In Zambia, over the past year, we’ve been gh “Discover how Scripture and Catholic Social Teaching able to reach over 1 million people with messages on Friday can help us seize this moment and build a society Immaculate Heart of Mary COVID-19, provide over 13k people with access to that reflects God's Kingdom” gh safe water, train 392 frontline health workers from The sessions begin on Monday 7 June at 7.00 pm Zambia’s 11 dioceses on how to prepare and respond for six weeks – come to as many as you are able. to COVID-19 in their local communities AND donate For more information and to book a place visit over 1000 handwashing hygiene stations in Prayer Box dioceseofnottingham.uk/here-now-us This week we remember in prayer : ____________________________ communities to support handwashing measures. Families of the parish Caritas Diocese of Nottingham Thank you for standing alongside people in and our loved ones living and dead Zambia and for supporting communities in more than and especially for those who have recently died: Environment Workshop 30 other countries worldwide. John Myers (RIP) Tuesday 8 June , 7.00 - 8.30 pm With many thanks and best wishes, Maggie ................................................................... This weekend all priests have been asked by the Maggie Mairura Pra yers for Amy, Alison, Bob & Theresa, Declan, Bishops of England and Wales to read Eileen, Gill, Harry & Anne, Harry, Fiona, Hayden, Community Participation Coordinator their Pastoral letter in place of the homily at mass. Jean, Jenny, John, Josie’s family, Joy, Kare n, CAFOD Nottingham It is about the urgent need for us all to protect .................................................................................... Julie and family , Little Giovanni, Mick , Patrick, Roqaya, and care for God's gift of Creation. Dear People, Sam, Sean & De rek, Sheilah, Teresa, Toni, Toby, Our new diocesan Caritas network, Last week you knew I was home. This week there Vera, The Jones Family, William, Fr John, Fr Michael also launched this weekend, is hosting a workshop all those who have lost loved ones to Covid-19 have been four hospital appointments. To be certain .......................................................................... ‘Renewing the face of the Earth’. of being ready I did not answer the phone nor phone Kate and Gerry and all Madeleine’s family. It is online and will help us explore the many ways in which we can respond, out, as much as I would have liked to. I celebrated a ........A..n..d.. .f.o..r. .a..ll. .f.a..m...il.i.e..s.