SUNDAY JUNE 20TH, 2021
TWELFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Second Collection: Day for Life
MASS (OLHoC): 6.00pm (Saturday) (C.K. Mathew RIP)
MASS (St Joseph’s): 9.00am (Pro Populo)
MASS (OLHoC): 11.00am (Alan Wainwright RIP)
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• MONDAY, June 21st
ST ALOYSIUS GONZAGA
(CONSECRATION OF OLHoC)
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (David Hawkins
RIP)
X Finance Council Meeting (OLHoC Parish Hall): 7.00pm
• TUESDAY, June 22nd – SS John Fisher and Thomas More
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Deceased relatives of Alice
Reynolds-Peyton)
• WEDNESDAY, June
23rd – Feria
MASS (OLHoC): 10.00am (Bino Cotter RIP)
• THURSDAY, June 24th
THE
NATIVITY OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Patrick
Lawrence RIP)
FUNERAL MASS of ROMAN MOLNAR (OLHoC): 11.00am
followed by his burial (Hawkinge Cemetery): 12 noon
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Michelle McDonagh RIP)
• SATURDAY, June 26th – Votive of the Blessed Virgin Mary
MASS (St Joseph’s): 10.00am (Thanksgiving to Sacred Heart of
Jesus and Mary)
X Confessions after Mass (St Joseph’s) 10.30am
X Confessions and Exposition (OLHoC): 11am to 12 noon
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Next Sunday: June 27th
THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY
TIME
MASS (OLHoC): 6.00pm (Saturday) (Pro Populo)
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
MASSES AT OUR LADY, HELP OF CHRISTIANS ARE BROADCAST LIVE
AT
https://www.churchservices.tv/folkestone
X PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS those who are unwell, recovering or in hospital including Angie Jane Cross, Sr Sophie Pepper and Tony Gilbert.
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: Mary Collins (20th June); Ana Hines and Thomas Cullagh (21st June); Kathleen Collins, John Moran and Ethel Hughes (22nd June); Mary Shevlane, Henry Byrne and Bernice Nevery (23rd June); Charles Orfila and Elizabeth Fox (24th June); Kathleen Gilheaney, Antana Gliaubicius and John Stratford (25th June); Terry Hughes, Margaret Nicholl, Helena Wetniak and Howard Atkinson (26th June).
X CHAPEL AT ST
EDMUNDS – St
Edmunds are pleased to report that the
original Chapel at St Edmunds has been returned to its use as a place of prayer
and worship. The staff and students are delighted to see our Chapel return
to its original purpose. On Thursday, Fr John and Fr Leo led the Blessed
Sacrament Procession and liturgy yesterday.
X DAY FOR LIFE 2021 is the day in the Church’s year dedicated to raising awareness about the meaning and value of human life at every stage and in every condition. The Church teaches that life is to be nurtured from conception to natural death. This year’s Day for Life is celebrated on 20 June in England and Wales and there is a retiring collection basket at Sunday Mass to raise money to assist the work of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre and other life-related activities supported by the Church.
Bishop John Sherrington, the Lead Bishop for Life Issues for the Church in England and Wales, has written to his brother bishops about this year’s Day for Life.
“This day,
inaugurated by Saint John Paul II, presents an opportunity to pray for the gift
of life from conception to natural death, to raise awareness of the precious
gift of life, and to support the work of protecting life in its most vulnerable
stages through the annual collection. This assists pro-life organisations who
raise awareness, engage in parliamentary work and pastoral outreach.
Global Pandemic
The fragility of
life and the reality of death has been brought into sharp focus during the
Covid-19 pandemic. In the UK alone, more than 126,000 people have died from
Covid-19. Yet in the face of such suffering and death, we have also witnessed
the extraordinary dedication of healthcare professionals and their loving care
for the sick and dying. We too have each made sacrifices for the greater good
during this pandemic. These acts of heroic love are a powerful testimony to the
fundamental dignity of the human person and to the respect owed to each life,
particularly through proper care and love in the last moments of life.
Assisted Dying
Against this
backdrop of loving care, we are now faced with the very real threat of the
legalisation of ‘assisted suicide’ in our country. It is not a question of ‘if’
this challenge will come, it is now a question of ‘when?’ There is now a
Private Members Bill in the House of Lords on so-called ‘Assisted Dying’ and it
is only a matter of time before the issue is back in the House of Commons.
This year’s theme
for Day for Life focuses on assisted suicide and the
respect owed to life. The online resources are produced to inform Catholics
about this threat to life and to share with people our response to such a
threat: a true compassion as the just response to the immense value of the
human person.
X VISITING AND PRIVATE PRAYER AT OUR LADY,
HELP OF CHRISTIANS
Monday 8.30am – 4.00pm (except during Mass)
Tuesday
8.30am – 4.00pm (except during Mass)
Thursday 8.30am – 4.00pm (except during Mass)
Friday 8.30am – 4.00pm (except during Mass)
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.
Exposition and Confessions
Saturday
11.00am – 12.00 noon
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.
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
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