Sunday: October 31st
ALL SAINTS
Confessions (OLHoC)
Saturday: 5.00pm - 5.45pm
MASS (OLHoC): 6.00pm (Sat.) (Well-being of Margaret Foster)
MASS (OLHoC):
9.00am (Kathleen & Reginald Philpott RIP)
X Refreshments
in the Parish Hall after Mass
MASS
(St Joseph’s): 9.00am (Marion Mann RIP)
X Refreshments
in the Church Hall after Mass
MASS (OLHoC):
11.00am (Pro Populo)
X Refreshments
in the Parish Hall after Mass
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• MONDAY, November 1st – Feria
MASS (OLHoC) 9.00am (Thanakorn Panrat RIP)
X Journey in Faith/RCIA Class (OLHoC): 7.00pm
• TUESDAY, November 2nd
ALL SOULS’ DAY
MASS
(St Joseph’s): 9.00am (Holy Souls)
MASS (OLHoC): 7.30pm (Holy Souls)
• WEDNESDAY, November 3rd - Feria
MASS (OLHoC): 10.00am (William Chapman RIP)
X Tea/Coffee
and Cake in the Parish Hall after Mass
X UCM Meeting (Parish Hall): 11.00am
• THURSDAY, November 4th – St Charles Borromeo
MASS (OLHoC) 9.00am (John
Reynolds-Peyton RIP)
X Zoom Parish
Synod Meeting 2.00pm
• FRIDAY, November 5th – Feria
MASS (OLHoC) 9.00am (A soldier killed in action)
FUNERAL MASS of Frances Kirk (OLHoC):
1.00pm
• SATURDAY, November 6th – Votive BVM
MASS (OLHoC) 10.00am (Sr Annie Dillon & her brothers John and Jim)
X Parish Synod meeting (OLHoC) 11.00am
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Next Sunday: November 7th
THIRTY-SECOND SUNDAY OF ORDINARY
TIME
Confessions (OLHoC)
Saturday: 5.00pm - 5.45pm
MASS (OLHoC): 6.00pm (Sat.) (Pauline Kearney RIP)
MASS (St Joseph’s): 9.00am (Joan & Jack Devine RIP)
X Refreshments
in the Church Hall after Mass
MASS (OLHoC):
11.00am (A soldier
killed in action)
X Refreshments
in the Parish Hall after Mass
X Dedication of
the Garden of Remembrance (Sandgate Rd): 2.00pm
X OUR SYNOD
Gathering your views for the Synod on a number of questions on how we live our Faith covering the areas of "Participation, Mission and Communion" are our appointed parishioners, Chi Davies and John Philpott.
Following the first face to face meeting, held at St Joseph’s, there will be one more physical meeting next Saturday, 6th November, at Our Lady, Help of Christians at 11.00am for one hour following the 10.00am Mass earlier in the morning.
In addition, there will be a meeting with members of the UCM at their meeting on Wednesday after Mass.
Two virtual parish meetings will be held on:
· Thursday 4th November 2.00pm to 4.00pm
· Monday 8th November 6.30pm to 8.30pm
All are welcome to attend.
Passcode: 123456
People are also invited to send comments by email to folkestone@rcaos.org.uk mark subject matter as SYNOD. You may also drop a letter in at the presbytery at 41 Guildhall Street.
"Every person matters to the Lord and His Church, every voice matters, and every story is Important".
More information is available on diocesan
website www.rcaos.org.uk/synod
X SPECIAL MASS FOR OUR NHS AND ALL
THE VICTIMS AND THOSE AFFECTED BY COVID on Saturday 6th November at 10.00am. We
will be having a visit from a group of around 40 nurses from London on
pilgrimage led by Ralph Deocampo and
his wife Brenda.
Originally from the Philippines, he moved to the UK in 1999, and has worked for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust since 2001. Mr Deocampo and his wife Brenda met 19 years ago, not long after they both started working for the Trust. Ralph is a site nurse manager across the Trust’s three major hospitals: St Mary’s in Paddington, Hammersmith and Charing Cross. He gained notoriety in April last year when he was seen on the news having been saved by his colleagues after contracting Covid-19 and ended up in intensive care for 10 days on a ventilator. He then spent five months off work and for two of those had to use a zimmer frame to walk, gradually building up his stamina to be able to work again, getting back to saving lives in A&E on the frontline. We praise God for giving Ralph his life back helping others who are sick or in need of help.
Our special Mass will include hymns and an opportunity to give thanks for all those who work on the frontline who have led the way in looking after all those touched by Covid-19 during the pandemic. Please come along and give thanks to them and to pray for and remember all those who have died or being sick over the past 18 months from this awful disease.
X NOVEMBER ENVELOPES FOR THE DEPARTED ARE NOW AVAILABLE AT THE BACK OF CHURCH. November is the Month of the Holy Souls, and so throughout the month we continue to keep in our liturgical prayer those special people, particular to us, who have died.
A
plenary indulgence, applicable only to Holy Souls, may be gained once in any
church either on All Souls’ Day, on the preceding or following Sunday or on the
Feast of All Saints, on the usual conditions, viz a visit to a church, where
Our Father and Creed are recited, sacramental confession, Holy Communion and
prayer for the Holy Father’s intention.
ALL SAINTS’ DAY is this Sunday, 31st October, and honours and remembers saints known and unknown. We will have Mass at OLHoC at 6.00pm on Saturday, 9.00am and 11.00am on Sunday and at St Joseph’s at 9.00am on Sunday.
This Tuesday, 2nd November, there will be the Commemoration of all the faithful departed, ALL SOULS’ DAY, when we remember and pray for the whole company of the faithful who have passed from this world - the great multitude of the “Holy Common People of God” the Plebs Sancta Dei - the unknown saints, the holy people, the good, the bad and the indifferent - all those baptized into the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and Church of God, and made heirs of the Kingdom. These are the People of God, who are more or less like us in any parish community, and have been throughout the history of the Church. On All Souls, there will be a special Mass in the morning at St Joseph’s at 9.00am and an evening Mass at 7.30pm at OLHoC.
X PLEASE PRAY FOR THE REPOSE OF THE SOULS of Frances Kirk, whose Funeral Mass will be celebrated this Friday at 1.00pm and all are very welcome to attend. Please pray for Louise Megit, a long standing parishioner, who died last Saturday having been unwell for some time and for Marguerita Snalley who recently died, aged 94. May our prayers reach out to the relatives and friends of our parishioners who have died offering comfort in their grief. We also pray for all those whose anniversaries fall at this time, including amongst them: Colin Campbell, Basil Christie, James McGloin, Canon James Walters (31st Oct); Audrey Cox (1st Nov); James O’Donnell, Marcelle Joubert (2nd Nov); Eileen Donovan, Moya Higgins, Maryele Wood, Mary Leonard, Ruth Alston, William Chapman, Doris White (3rd Nov); Frank Waller, George Brown, Kathleen Irving (4th Nov); Pat Lonergan, Emily Bentley (5th Nov); Pauline Kearney, Brian Tudball, William McGonigle, Mary Mahoney (6th Nov); Patricia Jennings, Joan Devine (7th Nov).
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
Our Lady Help of Christians Hall
Bookings:
Dylan Jeffrey (Tel:01303 252823)
St Joseph’s Church Hall Bookings:
Mrs M. Irving (Tel: 01303 278435)
X A MESSAGE FROM POPE FRANCIS BROADCAST ON BBC RADIO 4’S THOUGHT FOR THE DAY ON FRIDAY 29TH OCTOBER ABOUT COP26.
In a reflection given to BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day programme, Pope Francis looks ahead to the COP26 UN climate summit and challenges us to work together to offer a radical new outlook on how we tackle climate change.
COP26 is the 2021 United Nations climate change conference. It is the 26th annual summit – giving it the name COP26. With the UK as President, COP26 takes place in Glasgow from Sunday, 31 October to Friday, 12 November 2021.
Governments and negotiators from 197 countries will meet to discuss how to keep temperature rise below dangerous levels and to prevent further climate change.
You
can hear the message at https://soundcloud.com/catholicchurch/pope-francis-gives-his-cop26-thought-for-the-day-reflection
Transcript (Translated from Italian)
Dear BBC listeners, good morning!
Climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic have exposed our deep vulnerability and raised numerous doubts and concerns about our economic systems and the way we organize our societies.
We have lost our sense of security, and are experiencing a sense of powerlessness and loss of control over our lives.
We find ourselves increasingly frail and even fearful, caught up in a succession of “crises” in the areas of health care, the environment, food supplies and the economy, to say nothing of social, humanitarian and ethical crises. All these crises are profoundly interconnected. They also forecast a “perfect storm” that could rupture the bonds holding our society together within the greater gift of God’s creation.
Every crisis calls for vision, the ability to formulate plans and put them rapidly into action, to rethink the future of the world, our common home, and to reassess our common purpose.
These crises present us with the need to take decisions, radical decisions that are
not always easy. At the same time, moments of difficulty like these also
present opportunities, opportunities that we
must not waste.
We can confront these crises by retreating into isolationism, protectionism and exploitation. Or we can see in them a real chance for change, a genuine moment of conversion, and not simply in a spiritual sense.
This last approach alone can guide us towards a
brighter horizon. Yet it can only be pursued through a renewed sense of
shared responsibility for our world, and an effective solidarity based on
justice, a sense of our common destiny and a recognition of the unity of our
human family in God’s plan for the world.
All this represents an immense cultural challenge. It means giving priority to the common good, and it calls for a change in perspective, a new outlook, in which the dignity of every human being, now and in the future, will guide our ways of thinking and acting.
The most important lesson we can take from these crises is our need to build together, so that there will no longer be any borders, barriers or political walls for us to hide behind.
Some days ago, on 4 October, I met with religious leaders and scientists to sign a Joint Appeal in which we called upon ourselves and our political leaders to act in a more responsible and consistent manner. I was impressed by something said by one of the scientists present at that meeting. He told us: “If things continue as they are, in fifty years’ time my baby granddaughter will have to live in an unliveable world”.
We cannot allow this to happen!
It is essential that each of us be committed to this urgent change of direction, sustained by our own faith and spirituality. In the Joint Appeal, we spoke of the need to work responsibly towards a “culture of care” for our common home, but also for ourselves, and the need to work tirelessly to eliminate “the seeds of conflicts: greed, indifference, ignorance, fear, injustice, insecurity and violence”.
Humanity has never before had at its disposal so many means for achieving this goal. The political decision makers who will meet at COP26 in Glasgow are urgently summoned to provide effective responses to the present ecological crisis and in this way to offer concrete hope to future generations. And it is worth repeating that each of us – whoever and wherever we may be – can play our own part in changing our collective response to the unprecedented threat of climate change and the degradation of our common home.
Credit: Used with permission from BBC Radio 4.
X GENERAL PRAYER FOR HEALTH
When Jesus entered
Peter’s house, he saw his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever. He touched her
hand, and the fever left her, and she rose and began to serve him. That evening
they brought to him many who were oppressed by demons, and he cast out the
spirits with a word and healed all who were sick. This was to fulfil what was
spoken by the prophet Isaiah: ‘He took our illnesses and bore our diseases’.
Matthew 8:14-17
Christ be with me, Christ within me,
Christ behind me, Christ before me,
Christ beside me, Christ to win me,
Christ to comfort and restore me,
Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ in quiet, Christ in danger,
Christ in hearts of all that love me,
Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.
X PRAYER FOR SYNOD OF SYNODALITY
Adsumus, Sancte Spiritus
Prayer of invocation to the Holy Spirit for an ecclesial assembly of governance or discernment (thus synodal). Every session of the Second Vatican Council began with the prayer Adsumus Sancte Spiritus, the first word of the Latin original meaning, “We stand before You, Holy Spirit,” which has been historically used at Councils, Synods and other Church gatherings for hundreds of years, being attributed to Saint Isidore of Seville (c. 560 - 4 April 636).
As we are called to embrace this synodal path of the Synod 2021-2023, this prayer invites the Holy Spirit to operate within us so that we may be a community and a people of grace. For the Synod 2021-2023, we propose to use this simplified version, so that any group or liturgical assembly can pray more easily.
We
stand before You, Holy Spirit,
as we gather together in Your name.
With You alone to guide us,
make Yourself at home in our hearts;
Teach us the way we must go
and how we are to pursue it.
We are weak and sinful;
do not let us promote disorder.
Do not let ignorance
lead
us down the wrong path
nor partiality influence our actions.
Let us find in You our unity
so that we may journey together to eternal life
and not stray from the way of truth
and what is right.
All this we ask of You,
who are at work in every place and time,
in the communion of the Father and the Son,
forever and ever. Amen.
