SUNDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER 2021

 

Sunday: September 5th

TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Confessions [Fr Louis] (OLHoC) Saturday: 5.00pm - 5.45pm

 

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

 

MASS (St Joseph’s): 9.00am (Harry Austin RIP)

X Refreshments in St Joseph’s Church Hall after Mass

 

MASS (OLHoC): 11.00am (Dr Chris Vickery RIP)

X Refreshments in the Parish Hall after Mass

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• MONDAY, September 6th – Feria

MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Mary Thomas RIP)

 

 

• TUESDAY, September 7th – Feria

MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Alice McLaughlin RIP)

 

• WEDNESDAY, September 8th

THE NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

MASS (OLHoC): 10.00am (Mary Heath RIP)

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

 

• THURSDAY, September 9th – Feria

MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Basil Deba RIP)

 

• FRIDAY, September 10th – Feria

MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Janine & Eugene Fela RIP)

 

• SATURDAY, September 11th - Votive of the Blessed Virgin Mary

MASS (St Joseph’s): 10.00am (Dr Christopher Vickery RIP)

followed by Confessions with Fr Capener 

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Next Sunday: September 12th

TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

(Education Sunday)

Second collection: Catholic Education Service

 

Confessions [Fr Alex] (OLHoC) Saturday: 5.00pm - 5.45pm

 

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

 

MASS (OLHoC) 9.00am (Theresa Nevin (nee Savvides)) RIP

X Refreshments in St Joseph’s Church Hall after Mass

 

MASS (OLHoC): 11.00am (Aguida Garado RIP)

X Refreshments in the Parish Hall after Mass

X PLEASE PRAY FOR THE REPOSE OF THE SOULS of the relatives and friends of our parishioners who have died recently including Alice McLaughlin, who died on Thursday in Ashford Hospice, and all those whose anniversaries fall at this time, including amongst them: Capt William Twyman DCM, Daniel Hennessey, Giovanni Pomponio (5th Sept); Florence Raeburn (6th Sept); James Donoghue, Dierdre Barfoot, Jan Karaban, Martin Starr, Joseph Kotowski (7th Sept); Evelyn Boot, Mella Phelan (8th Sept); Clive Goble, Mark Burton, Donato Lazda (9th Sept); Robert Raeburn (10th Sept); Monica Lucy Price [Sister Gregory], Patrick Murphy, Theresa Nevin (11th Sept); Margaret Gray (12th Sept). 

X RIDE AND STRIDE – is next Saturday 11th September. Please support all our parish members who are undertaking activities for Ride and Stride including stewards, helpers, meeters, greeters, and good luck to all those taking part, including our riders and striders, namely Pat, Sara, Dylan and Steve. 

X OUR LADY & ST JOSEPH’S 100 CLUB – Congratulations to Philippa Forsdyke, winner of the £50.00 August draw with number 72. The next draw will be on Sunday 26th September and new members are very welcome! Get your application in before the draw to be included in the draw using the forms at the back of the church. 

X UCM BRING AND BUY SALE ON SUNDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER - we will be having a UCM Bring & Buy plus cake stall after Sunday Masses on 26th September. Setting up in the Parish Hall will be on Saturday afternoon. 

X JOB VACANCY AT THE RAINBOW CENTRE – SHEPWAY FOODBANK MANAGER (Salary: £19,200 per annum for a 30-hour week excluding lunch breaks). The post holder will manage the Warehouse Coordinator and volunteers at both the Warehouse and the Food Distribution Centres in Folkestone, New Romney and Lydd providing a seamless operation between the two service strands. The Manager will build the service and work with the CEO and Trustees to strategically plan and develop new provision to enhance our offer to our clients. If you are motivated and thrive working within a small team, then this role is for you. 

For further details and an application pack, please contact: By email theresa@rainbow-centre.org or Telephone 01303 850733. Closing date for applications is Monday 13th September 2021 at 5pm and interviews will take place during week beginning 20th September 2021

X SEASON OF CREATION: “A HOME FOR ALL? RENEWING THE OIKOS OF GOD” - The ecumenical celebration of the 2021 Season of Creation—themed “A home for all? Renewing the Oikos of God”—runs from 1 September, the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, through 4 October, the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of ecology. 

During this annual celebration of prayer and action for our common home, Christians across the globe will come together for a time of restoration and hope, and to discover radically new ways of living with creation. 

Pope Francis invites participation

Pope Francis has called on Catholics to take action for our common home during the Season of Creation. In the Pope Video for the month of September, he encourages everyone to question the way we live, and to turn “towards lifestyles that are simpler and more respectful of the environment.” 

The Holy Father has also stressed that the “cry of the earth and the cry of the poor are becoming increasingly serious and alarming,” urging Catholics to take “decisive, urgent action to transform this crisis into an opportunity.” 

The 2021 Season of Creation comes just a few weeks before the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), scheduled to take place from November 1-12 in Glasgow, Scotland. It also comes on the heels of a dismal, recently-released UN climate report which makes it clear that we are running out of time to avert the worst effects of the ecological crisis and the climate emergency. 

More information is at www.seasonofcreation.org

 

Healthy Planet, Healthy people Petition

In addition to individual and communal efforts during the Season of Creation, the Laudato Si’ Movement is inviting Christians to advocate for the least among us by signing the “Healthy planet, Healthy People” petition at https://thecatholicpetition.org  ahead of the COP 26 meeting, in order to tell “world leaders how they should care for God’s creation.” 

In this regard, Monsignor Bruno-Marie Duffé, the former Secretary for the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, invited Catholics to promote the petition, noting that “this Season of Creation will also be a critical moment for Catholics to lift up the voices of the most vulnerable and advocate on their behalf.” 

X CATHOLIC UNION CALLS FOR SPENDING ON WELFARE TO BE MAINTAINED BY THE GOVERNMENT - The Catholic Union (CU) has urged the Chancellor not to cut spending on social security this year as the uplift in Universal Credit and Working Tax Credits is due to end. 

The Catholic Union has described the £20 uplift as a “lifeline” to millions of people during the pandemic, but the Chancellor has said the policy will only last until the end of this month. The decision to increase payments has been estimated by the Office of Budget Responsibility to have cost the Treasury an additional £6 billion per year on welfare spending. 

The Chancellor announced the uplift in March last year to “strengthen the safety net” for those facing financial hardship as a result of Covid.

The Catholic Union has argued that the increase in spending should be maintained to help struggling families recover from the pandemic. The Centre for Social Justice has estimated that family breakdown costs the taxpayer £51 billion per year.  In a letter to Chancellor, the Catholic Union has called for the uplift to be maintained or for the cost of the uplift to be spent on tax breaks and spending to support families, such as scrapping the two-child cap on the childcare element of Universal Credit and Working Tax Credits.

The Catholic Church teaches that the poor represent those who are marginalised in society. Jesus himself taught the importance of helping those who are poor and in need and to speak out for those in need. 

The Catholic Union was founded in 1870. It is a membership organisation dedicated to the defence of Catholic values and is the consistent voice of the Catholic laity which works to promote Catholic social teaching by working with the Bishops’ conference and Parliament. All Catholics are welcome and membership details are available at https://catholicunion.org.uk/join-us/  

X THE POPE’S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR SEPTEMBER 2021 - An environmentally sustainable lifestyle We pray that we all will make courageous choices for a simple and environmentally sustainable lifestyle, rejoicing in our young people who are resolutely committed to this. 

X THANK YOU AND GOODBYE TO FATHER LOUIS KOUEVI – Fr Alex has returned home safely from his trip to Africa and Fr Louis will be going back to his parish at St Joseph’s in Roehampton, after celebrating his last Mass here on Monday 6th September. Everyone has enjoyed having Fr Louis in the parish with his jovial and loving approach and he wanted to express his thanks to everyone who has made him so very welcome here. 

“Our lives begin to end the day we become SILENT about things that Matter.”  Martin Luther King Jr. 

X PLEASE PRAY for all those who are sick or unwell at this time especially for Francis Dunn is critically ill in hospital. 

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