SUNDAY AUGUST 1ST, 2021
EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
X Confessions
5.00pm to 5.45pm (OLHoC)
MASS (OLHoC): 6.00pm (Saturday) (Annie Dillon RIP)
MASS (St Joseph’s): 9.00am (Pro Populo)
X Tea/Coffee
and Cake in St Joseph’s Hall after Mass
MASS (OLHoC): 11.00am (Fr Cyril Walmsley RIP)
X Tea/Coffee and Cake in the Parish
Hall after Mass
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• MONDAY, August 2nd – St Eusebius
CHURCH CLOSED
AND NO MASS TODAY
• TUESDAY, August 3rd – Feria
CHURCH CLOSED
AND NO MASS TODAY
• WEDNESDAY, August 4th – St John Vianney, Patron of parish priests
MASS (OLHoC): 10.00am (Mary & Michael Dillon RIP)
X UCM Meeting in the Parish Hall (OLHoC):
11.15am
• THURSDAY, August 5th – Feria
MASS (St Joseph’s): 10.00am (Daniel Owen Thomas RIP)
• FRIDAY, August
6th –
THE TRANSFIGURATION OF THE LORD
MASS (St Joseph’s): 10.00am (Dr Chris Vickery RIP)
• SATURDAY, August
7th – Votive of BVM
NO MORNING OR
EVENING MASS TODAY
Next Sunday: August 8th
NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Second collection: Renovation Fund
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Pro Populo)
X Tea/Coffee
and Cake in Parish Hall after Mass
MASS (OLHoC): 11.00am (Wedding congratulations to Sally and Chris)
X Tea/Coffee and Cake in the Parish Hall after Mass
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• MONDAY, August 9th – St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross [Edith Stein]
CHURCH CLOSED
AND NO MASS TODAY
• TUESDAY, August
10th – St Lawrence
CHURCH CLOSED
AND NO MASS TODAY
• WEDNESDAY, August
11th – St Clare
MASS (OLHoC): 10.00am (Michael & Ellen Dillon RIP)
X Tea/Coffee
and Cake in the Parish Hall after Mass
• THURSDAY, August 12th – Feria
MASS (St Joseph’s): 10.00am (Frankie McClaughlin RIP)
• FRIDAY, August
13th – Feria
MASS (St Joseph’s): 10.00am (Martin & Catherine Murray and their daughter Catherine Teresa Clark RIP)
• SATURDAY, August
14th – Votive of BVM
NO MORNING MASS
TODAY
X Confessions
5.00pm to 5.45pm (OLHoC)
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Sunday: August 15th
THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED
VIRGIN MARY
MASS (St Joseph’s): 9.00am (Dick Gaul RIP)
X Tea/Coffee
and Cake in St Joseph’s Hall after Mass
MASS (OLHoC): 11.00am (Andrew Savvides RIP)
X Tea/Coffee
and Cake in the Parish Hall after Mass
·
Our churches in the parish will
continue to provide hand sanitiser at the entrance.
·
Face coverings are strongly
recommended to be worn in church.
·
We will continue to regularly sanitise
and clean the churches and halls using appropriate cleaning detergents every
day after use.
·
We will continue to ventilate our buildings
and try to ensure a flow of air.
·
You are no longer required to socially distance in church, however
there is a system of laminated cards, which will be cleaned after each Mass,
which can be used to create social distancing for parishioners or groups of
parishioners, to indicate that they do not want anybody to sit next to them by
placing the card on the pew next to where they are sitting.
·
Congregational singing is allowed. Please
recognise that face coverings should be worn by members of the congregation
whilst singing together, until infection levels reduce.
·
We shall keep the one-way system of
use in the churches during Mass when receiving Holy Communion. Outside of this
period, you are free to move around the churches as you so wish.
·
We will continue to promote and use
the NHS Test and Trace as long as it is operation. Please take personal
responsibility when visiting the church for using the Trace and Trace QR CODE.
·
The Holy Water stoups will continue to
remain empty at this time.
·
The offertory collection has resumed
in church, however, you can also give online or using the contactless giving located
at the back of the church at OLHoC.
·
The physical Sign of Peace remains
suspended as it is not an integral part of the Mass, and this helps to reduce
physical contact.
·
Holy Communion will continue to be
under one kind and the ministers will continue to sanitise their hands
beforehand and wear a face covering whilst distributing.
·
There are no restrictions on numbers
of people attending Baptisms or Funerals in church.
· Parish social activities have now resumed but are subject to appropriate cleaning and risk assessments being in place. Please join us in the hall for Tea, coffee and cake after the 9.00am and 11.00am Mass on Sundays and after 10.00am Mass on Wednesdays.
X TEMPORARY CHANGES TO MASS TIMES - please take note of the changes for the next two weeks with no morning Mass on Monday, Tuesday or Saturday and Mass on Thursday and Friday is at 10.00am at St Joseph’s church. In addition, there is no Saturday evening Mass on 7th August. These temporary changes are because the church at Our Lady, Help of Christians and St Aloysius is undergoing repair, maintenance and decoration.
X PLEASE PRAY FOR Pauline Gordon, Alice McClaughlin and Paul Cross, who are unwell at this time.
X PLEASE PRAY FOR THE REPOSE OF THE SOULS of the relatives and friends of our parishioners who have died recently including Dr Chris Vickery and all those whose anniversaries fall at this time, including amongst them: John Noble, Rosina Alger, Kathleen Brown (2nd August); John Sinclair, May Copping (3rd August); Andreas Savvides, Gary Wilkinson, Gertrude Stone (4th August); Brian McGarrity, Mary Webster, Helen Stevenson, Robert Walsh (5th August); Diane Gunaydin, Elizabeth Newman, Sheila Lawson (6th August); Patricia Miles, Paolo Mazzoni, Walter Walsh, Mary Rigby (7th August); Magdalene Pratt, Donald Commane, Francesca Jefferson, Ernesto Borza (8th August); Yolanda Hughes, Ma Fat Chung (9th August); Mary Spencer (10th August); Richard Kuroczycki, Gladys Williams (11th August); Francis Barrett, Mary Cox (12th August); Lauren Husk, Mary Gordon. Matthew Terry (13th August); Eileen Pendlebury, Suzanne Carney, Hannah Keeler (14th August); Joan Seagrove (15th August).
X OUR LADY & ST JOSEPH’S 100 CLUB SUMMER DRAW! – Congratulations to Margaret Marlow who won the summer draw with number 50 and the £100 prize. The next draw will be after the 11.00am Mass on Sunday 29th August. Please consider joining this excellent fundraising activity for our parish and application forms for the 2021/2022 year are at the back of each church. New members are very welcome (and you can have as many numbers as you like!).
X Fr Cyril J Walmsley (1901-71) - on Sunday 8th August at
the 11.00am Mass, we remember Fr
Cyril Walmsley, who became known as ‘The Bicycle Priest’ around the parish, who
arrived in Folkestone as Parish Priest in January 1944 and stayed until his
retirement due to ill health in October 1969. Fr Walmsley died on 30th July
1971 and is buried at Hawkinge. In 1977, Fr Walmsley was also remembered by
Shepway District Council, now Folkestone and Hythe District Council, when a new
sheltered housing development was opened in April 1977 and named after him. Walmsley
House, based on Princess Street, is still in existence today.
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
X CHURCH MAKEOVER AT OUR LADY, HELP OF CHRISTIANS AND ST ALOYSIUS – the time has finally arrived for the work to begin in repairing the church and carrying out vital maintenance and redecoration.
From Monday 2nd August, the workmen will be arriving to begin the work. The work being conducted is vast and includes:
· repairing and
repainting the crittall windows of the Presbytery, which is also Grade II
listed and requires special attention
· washing the
walls of the church down twice to remove nearly 25 years of grime from the old
heating system and the burning of in excess of half a million candles in the
church over this period.
·
Washing of all
the statues in church
·
repairing any
damage to the walls with proprietary filler and rubbing down afterwards
·
painting the
walls with two coats of Dulux emulsion which will be washable
·
cleaning the
timber panels and then applying wax rubbed into the wood
·
redecorating and
repairing the sacristy including the damage to the windows and walls
·
installing a
shower and bathroom cabinets into the presbytery
·
refurbishment of
the side gate scraping off rust, rubbing it down and applying two coats of
metal paint
·
installing new signage for the parish
hall at both entrances from Guildhall Street and from Cheriton Road
·
installing new large signage for the
church on the Forresters Way side and cleaning up the statues on the side of
the church
·
installing new
improved LED lighting inside the church
·
installing new
solar floodlighting to the exterior of the church along the alley at the side
of the church
· installing a new improved sound system in the church hopefully alleviating the problems of not being able to fully hear readings, psalms, communal prayer or the homily, with new and a greater number of speakers in the church and a new automatic mixing desk which will adjust for softer spoken sounds to create a much better sound.
When all this work is done, we can then begin focusing on the work needed at St Joseph’s. Thank you to everyone who has generously donated to make this happen. There will be a second collection to support this work on Sunday 8th August.
You can also 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
www.justgiving.com/fundraising/olsj-folkestone
Sunday 15th
August
On Sunday 15th August, in addition to Mass at the churches of Our Lady in Folkestone and St Joseph’s in Cheriton, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass will be offered at the Vatican by Cardinal Peter Turkson, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. An intention has been submitted for all those who have suffered during the pandemic and for the Parish of Our Lady and St Joseph.
HAIL, HOLY QUEEN
Hail,
holy Queen, Mother of Mercy,
Our life,
our sweetness and our hope.
To
thee do we cry, poor banished children of
Eve.
To thee do we send up our sighs,
mourning
and weeping in this vale of
tears.
Turn then, most gracious Advocate,
thine
eyes of mercy toward us, and after
this,
our exile, show unto us the blessed
fruit
of thy womb, Jesus: O clement,
O
loving, O sweet Virgin Mary!
Pray
for us O Holy Mother of God,
that
we may be made worthy of
the
promises of Christ.
Amen.
X THE POPE'S WORLDWIDE PRAYER NETWORK - in August the Pope asks us to pray for the Intention of evangelization.
Let us pray for the Church, that She may receive from the Holy Spirit the grace and strength to reform herself in the light of the Gospel.
X REMEMBERING HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI (6TH AND 9TH AUGUST) - at this time we remember the devastation caused in Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the atomic bombs were dropped, on 6 and 9 August 1945, and we pray that this can never happen again.
In his message, ‘A Culture of Care as a Path to Peace’, Pope Francis asks,
‘How many resources are spent on weaponry, especially nuclear weapons, that could be used for more significant priorities such as ensuring the safety of individuals, the promotion of peace and integral human development, the fight against poverty, and the provision of health care’. Pope Francis calls on us to ‘strive daily, in concrete and practical ways, to form a community composed of brothers and sisters who accept and care for one another’.
In this country we have an active Catholic
peace movement in Pax Christi. Their
website suggests many ways we can all promote peace in our daily lives. There
are activities for families to do at home, including a 15-minute peace liturgy
for young children.
https://paxchristi.org.uk/peace-sunday-2021/
X UNION OF CATHOLIC MOTHERS PARISH MEETING (4TH AUGUST) – the Parish’s UCM will be meeting in the Parish Hall at 11.15am on Wednesday 4th August. The UCM is open to all women members in the parish. This will follow the tea/coffee and cake, which will be served after morning Mass and is open to all to attend up until the commencement of the UCM meeting. Come along and try one of Kathleen Lynch’s superb home baked cakes.
X CHRISTMAS ORDERS – Eileen and Madeleine in the shop have requested orders for any special Christmas gifts and for advance orders for next year’s 2022 Catholic Diary (with Order of Mass), which is available in green, red, blue or black. Please talk to them in the shop about your orders or preferences.
X HAVING FUN WITH ART FOR PEOPLE AGED 55+ commissioned by Age
UK South Kent Coast, Having Fun with Art is an 8-week programme of creative
workshops delivered by Strange Cargo. Sessions run weekly on a Tuesday from 3rd
August at Marigold Centre, 65 Shaftesbury Avenue, Folkestone CT19 4NS and cost
just £5 per week. To book, call 01303 279621 and ask to speak to Jayne.
