SUNDAY 19TH SEPTEMBER 2021

 

Sunday: September 19th

TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Second collection: Home Mission

 

Confessions (OLHoC) Saturday: 5.00pm - 5.45pm

MASS (OLHoC): 6.00pm (Saturday) (Sister Josephine RIP)

 

MASS (St Joseph’s): 9.00am (Pro Populo)

X Refreshments in St Joseph’s Hall after Mass

 

MASS (OLHoC): 11.00am (For John Smeaton; retiring National Director of SPUC)

X Refreshments in the Parish Hall after Mass

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• MONDAY, September 20th - SS Andrew Kim Tae-gon & Paul Chong Ha-sang & Companions

MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Well-being of Mrs Horavata) 

 

• TUESDAY, September 21st - ST MATTHEW

MASS OLHoC): 9.00am (Well-being of Agatha Borza)

 

• WEDNESDAY, September 22nd – Feria

MASS (OLHoC): 10.00am (Marco Savini RIP)

X Tea/Coffee and Cake in the Parish Hall after Mass

 

• THURSDAY, September 23rd – Padre Pio

MASS OLHoC): 9.00am (Wedding Anniversary of Hugh & Helen Barker – 54 years)

 

• FRIDAY, September 24th

OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM

MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Tomas Horvath RIP)

 

• SATURDAY, September 25th - Votive of BVM

MASS (St Joseph’s): 10am (Ajith Ranasinghe RIP)

followed by Confessions at St Joseph’s

X Confessions and Exposition (OLHoC) 11.00am - noon 

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Next Sunday: September 26th

TWENTY-SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Confessions (OLHoC) Saturday: 5.00pm - 5.45pm

MASS (OLHoC): 6.00pm (Sat.) (Pro Populo)

 

MASS (OLHoC) 9.00am (For the refugees)

X UCM Bring & Buy Sale and refreshments in the Parish Hall after Mass

 

MASS (OLHoC): 11.00am (Marie & Zyggy Powlowski RIP)

X UCM Bring and Buy Sale and refreshments in the Parish Hall after Mass

X JOURNEY IN FAITH/RCIA (RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULT)

- Are you a Baptised non-confirmed Catholic?

- Are you a Baptised non-Catholic?

- Are you thinking about converting to the Catholic faith?

– Are you a Catholic who wants to know more about the faith?

This is something you can do and encourage others to do too. 

The new group will start after half-term on Monday 1st November and we will link classes to the school calendar year and term time only. Please call or get in touch with Fr Alex on 01303 252823 or folkestone@rcaos.org.uk or speak to Fr Alex after Mass or make an appointment at the Catholic Presbytery at Guildhall Street and he will tell all you wish to know about becoming a Catholic or learning more about the Catholic faith. The enrolment starts now and will conclude on Friday 29th October. 

X FIRST RECONCILIATION AND FIRST HOLY COMMUNION - if you have seriously taken up the commitment you and your child’s Godparents made on the day your child was baptised, the child will be familiar with Mass, maybe children’s liturgy, and will understand at least something about prayer. Whether you have enrolled your child in a Catholic school or in a non-Catholic school, your regular attendance at Mass will help judge your child’s readiness for the preparation before the celebration of the First Sacrament of Reconciliation, First Confession and First Holy Communion. Thus, the Catholic Church in England and Wales suggests that from year 3 upward, any baptised child who reaches the age of 8yrs can enrol for the preparation of these two sacraments of initiation. Contact Fr Alex on 01303 253824 or email folkestone@rcaos.org.uk to arrange an appointment to discuss your child’s arrangements to enrol for First Reconciliation and First Holy Communion. 

More information about Baptism and First Reconciliation, First Confession and First Holy Communion is available on the Parish website at

http://catholic-folkestone.blogspot.com under the Sacramental Preparation tab. 

X OUR LADY & ST JOSEPH’S 100 CLUB SUMMER DRAW! – The next draw will be after the 11.00am Mass on Sunday 26th September and new members are very welcome!

X CONFIRMATION

– are you in Year 8 or above and not yet confirmed?

- Do you have a child, grandchild or godchild in Year 8 or above who has not yet received the Sacrament of Confirmation? 

Please contact Fr Alex on 01303 252823 or email folkestone@rcaos.org.uk or speak to him after Mass to learn and find out what you need to do to help you or your child to be confirmed. Again, anyone who is interested, you must let Fr Alex know before the end of half-term week on Friday 29th October. 

X THIS WEEK’S RETIRING COLLECTION IS FOR THE HOME MISSION - the Catholic Agency for the Support of Evangelisation. This collection provides the Bishops of England and Wales with resources to support Home mission, the spread of the gospel in our own country. The money collected enables a breadth of work to be done in support of parish evangelisation. 

X THE ARCHBISHOP’S CERTIFICATE (ARCHCERT) is an online course for all in Southwark who wish to know their Catholic faith more deeply. Participants will take a two-year journey through the Church’s teaching to understand their faith in a more profound way and be able to share it with both confidence and joy.

The course will commence in October 2021 and the cost will be £365 per year.  Registration must be completed in advance.  Further details can be found here: https://aec.rcaos.org.uk/archcert    

X UCM BRING AND BUY SALE NEXT SUNDAY, 26TH SEPTEMBER - we will be having a UCM Bring & Buy sale plus cake stall after both Sunday Masses on 26th September. Setting up in the Parish Hall will be on the afternoon of Saturday 25th September. Please donate any bric-a-brac for the sale but no clothes. Please note that any items that are not sold will have to be taken back home. The proceeds from the sale will be going to help refugees for World Day of Migrants and Refugees. 

X GET YOUR BACON BUTTIES – in St Joseph’s Church Hall after the 9.00am Sunday Mass this week as part of the ‘Sunriser breakfast’ offering. Also, bacon butties will now be available after the 9.00am Sunday Mass at OLHoC too, to coincide with the UCM Bring and Buy sale. Remember also to observe the Eucharistic Fast. Canon Law states ‘A person who is to receive the Most Holy Eucharist is to abstain for at least one hour before holy communion from any food and drink, except for only water and medicine’. 

X AFTERNOON TEA AT ST JOSEPH’S on Friday 1st October in St Joseph’s Church Hall at 2.30pm costing just £3.00 per head. Come and join us from across the parish for tea and a chat. 

X PLEASE PRAY FOR THE REPOSE OF THE SOULS of the relatives and friends of our parishioners who have died recently including Alice McLaughlin, Dr Chris Vickery and Angie Cross and all those whose anniversaries fall at this time, including amongst them: Oliver Quinn (19th Sept); Linda Murphy, William Robinson, Peter McMulkin (20th Sept); Carmel Heffernan, Ann  Woods (21st Sept); Kathleen Leakey (22nd Sept); Jeannette Allen, Denis Walsh (23rd Sept); Marga Wildman, Pauline Davies, Kathleen Hill, Frances White (24th Sept); Julie Young, Phillip Powell, Shaun Solway, Marian White (25th Sept); Else McSwiggan, Peter Pasternack, John Barry, Edgar Le Frenais, Pauline Waddell, Margaret Bateson, Susan Badiali, Mary Norman (26th Sept). 

X RIDE AND STRIDE – thank you to all who took part or volunteered at our churches for this year’s Ride and Stride. Dylan managed to walk round all the churches in Folkestone, Cheriton and Sandgate, Sara cycled to churches across the Romney Marsh, and Carol, Pat, Rosemary and many others took part riding and striding. Judging by the number of sign ins at churches, our Parish was well represented, so well done all. The sponsorship money is still coming in and we are totting up the total. If you have not yet given your sponsorship, please do so asap or put it through the door at the Catholic Presbytery at 41 Guildhall Street marked ‘Ride and Stride’. 

X THE AGENCY FOR EVANGELISATION AND CATECHESIS which celebrated its first anniversary this month (September 2021), supports parishes in terms of evangelisation, catechesis and formation.

 

If you would like to find out more about courses, resources and support they offer please visit https://aec.rcaos.org.uk; follow them on various social media platforms @aecsouthwark or subscribe to their free monthly newsletter: http://eepurl.com/heWjmL 

X OUR LADY & ST JOSEPH’S 100 CLUB SUMMER DRAW! – The next draw will be after the 11.00am Mass on Sunday 26th September and new members are very welcome! 

 

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