SUNDAY JUNE 27TH, 2021
THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY
TIME
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Charles
Orfila RIP)
MASS (OLHoC): 11.00am (Well-being of Hannah and Ryan Mathew)
X Baptism of
Martin Joseph Ward (OLHoC): 12 noon
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• MONDAY, June 28th - St Irenaeus
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Surapon
Panrat RIP)
• TUESDAY, June 29th
– SS Peter and
Paul
MASS (St Joseph’s): 9.00am (Robert, Elizabeth, Mary & Violet Connolly RIP)
MASS (OLHoC): 10.45am (Well-being of Richard Deacon)
MASS (OLHoC): 7.30pm (Michael Finch RIP)
• WEDNESDAY, June
30th – Feria
MASS (OLHoC): 10.00am (Katie Walker RIP)
• THURSDAY, July 1st – Feria
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Alan
Wainwright RIP)
• FRIDAY, July
2nd – Feria
FIRST FRIDAY DEVOTIONS followed by
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Boris Petrov RIP)
• SATURDAY, July
3rd – St Thomas
MASS (St
Joseph’s): 10.00am (Holy Souls)
X First Holy Communion Group (OLHoC): 9.00am
X Confessions and Exposition (OLHoC): 11am to 12 noon
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Next Sunday: July 4th
FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY
TIME
Second Collection: Apostleship of the Sea
MASS (OLHoC): 6.00pm (Saturday) (For the well-being of Helen Barker)
MASS (St Joseph’s): 9.00am (Pro Populo)
MASS (OLHoC): 11.00am (Jose Antonio Fernandez RIP)
MASSES AT OUR LADY, HELP OF CHRISTIANS ARE BROADCAST LIVE
AT
https://www.churchservices.tv/folkestone
These Masses are only available as a live stream and are not recorded
X PLEASE PRAY FOR THE REPOSE OF THE SOULS OF – Roman Molnar, Austin Durcan and Ray Smith and for all those whose anniversaries fall at this time, including amongst them: Emrys Hughes (28th June); Muriel Stammers, Mary Doherty (29th June); Emily Hipson and Mary Carsana (30th June); George Nolan, Gladys Hammond and Frederick Goodge (1st July); Eugene Palmieri (2nd July); Grace Couglan (3rd July); Henry McGlone and Ida Newton (4th July); Pabala Ranasinghe (5th July); Helen Brickell (6th July).
X VISITING AND PRIVATE PRAYER AT OUR LADY, HELP OF CHRISTIANS - the Church is open for visiting and private prayer on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 8.30am – 4.00pm
New signage has been put up at the entrance to advise all attendees that 24-hour CCTV is now in operation in and around the church.
X COVID GUIDELINES FOR OUR PARISH CHURCHES FOR MASS
1. Please take personal
responsibility when visiting the church for using the Trace and Trace QR CODE.
2.
Use
HAND SANITISER on ENTERING and EXITING church.
3.
Wear
FACE COVERINGS (unless exempt) when in church.
4.
Keep
doors OPEN if possible during services.
5. Keep a 1 METRE safe
distance.
6. Congregational singing is not permitted at this time. Please hum or sing in your head at Sunday Mass. Due to current restrictions, there are no more than three people allowed in the choir (or a bubble) until further notice.
MASS
ATTENDANCE: 259 people came to the Sunday
Masses in the Parish last week. Thank you for your cooperation and support in
observing the Covid guidelines.
X SS PETER & PAUL IS ON TUESDAY THIS WEEK, (June 29th) - please remember that this is a Holy Day of Obligation! There are Masses in the morning at both churches and an evening Mass at OLHoC at 7.30am.
X FINANCE COUNCIL MEETING REPORT – the new Finance Council met last Tuesday to discuss the ongoing financial difficulty we are facing (so far this year we are running at a loss of nearly £9,000, although this is due to some higher cost planned maintenance works being done) and to look at the urgently needed current and future works programme.
St Joseph’s: so far this year over £3,000 has been spent on work needed for the drains, patching the roof and the outer window frames which had deteriorated and to undertake a structural survey. In the next week, an additional £600 will be spent on urgently required electrical safety works in the church, hall and presbytery which were identified following a Diocesan inspection.
Future work needed at St Joseph’s over the next year includes up to £50,000 on a new church roof, £50,000 to make the presbytery safe and habitable again, and up to £20,000 on replacing the boiler and moving to an alternative fuel source from the current oil heating in the church. Work will also be done to put new guards around the existing radiators in the church.
Our Lady, Help of Christians and St Aloysius: over the past year we have spent nearly £1,000 on a new stable door for the shop which allowed it to continue trading despite Covid restrictions, and £7,000 on replacing the guttering around the church and repairing the roof which was leaking in a number of places.
Future works planned are for approximately £10,000 to redecorate the church and sacristy in the first week of August when the walls will be washed, filled where necessary and two coats of paint applied. The stained glass windows will be cleaned and all the lower wood panelling in the church will be cleaned and waxed. Also in August, the presbytery will have a new shower room installed to replace the very old bath which is currently being used. The presbytery will also need repairs done to the windows and window frames which need to be managed carefully as it is a listed building. The total cost of these works will be around £3,000. Also taking place in the summer will be improvements to the exterior lighting of the church in the side alley and around the hall which will be updated at a cost of approximately £1,500 and there will be works done around the church, hall and the car park including new parking lines in thermal plastic, side gate refurbishment and new signage around the premises at a cost of approximately £2,500.
We hope to refurbish the damaged toilet hall windows further into the future and also adapt the old disabled toilet in the hall into an office as the new toilets are now adapted for disabled use. The final huge task at OLHoC will be to replace the failing lighting in the church and we expect this to cost up to £25,000. We are also planning to replace the old carpet on the altar.
Costs and Fundraising: the total cost of the work is estimated to be in the region of £175,000 to £200,000. We have the ongoing appeal and have raised some money through generous grants and promised donations for specific work that we have received, but this will be a huge task to get the work done and the money raised to do it. So far, we have got grants of £2,000 and our appeal has raised an additional £11,000.
You
can donate via cheque payable to “The Parish of Our Lady and St Joseph,
Folkestone” and placed an envelope marked ‘Renovation Appeal’ and posted
through the Parish Office door at the Presbytery at 41 Guildhall Street on any
day or via bank transfer to The Parish of Our Lady and St Joseph Folkestone,
Sort Code 52-41-42 and Account Number 08605556 with the reference ‘Renovation’.
Alternatively,
you can use our Just Giving page online, a link is on our parish website, which
allows for payments to be made by credit and debit card or by PayPal with no
fees at
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/olsj-folkestone
PARISH
INFORMATION
Presbytery and Parish
Office:
41
Guildhall Street, Folkestone, Kent CT20 1EF
Tel:
01303 252823
e-mail:
folkestone@rcaos.org.uk
Parish Secretary: Mr Dylan Jeffrey BA,
PGCE, MSc
Clergy
Parish Priest: Fr Alex Saba MA,
MSLR, MCL, JCL
Priest: Fr Francis Capener MA
Deacon: Rev. Dr Gehad Homsey
MB, BCh
01303-253601
/ 07917 134250 e-mail: gehadhomsey@yahoo.co.uk
