Sunday March 12th, 2023
THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT
VIGIL MASS (OLHoC): 6.00pm (Sat. 11th Mar.) (Brian Blomfield RIP)
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Pro Populo)
X Refreshments
in the Hall after Mass
MASS (OLHoC): 11.00am (Giuseppina Cavallo RIP)
Children’s
Liturgy Session during Mass
The psalm response will be practised before Mass in preparation for the Easter Vigil
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• MONDAY,
March 13th – Lenten Feria
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Shaun
Kelly RIP)
X Beacon+ Community Café (OLHoC): 9.30am to
2.30pm
• TUESDAY, March 14th - Lenten Feria
NO MASS TODAY
• WEDNESDAY, March 15th - Lenten Feria
MASS (OLHoC): 10.00am (Maria Byrne)
X Refreshments in the Hall after Mass
• THURSDAY,
March 16th – Lenten Feria
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Gillian
Badcock)
Parish Open
Office with Fr Alex
no
appointment necessary - 4pm to 7pm
• FRIDAY, March 17th – Lenten Feria
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am
(Catherine & Mary Ryan RIP)
Stations of the Cross (OLHoC): 12.00 noon
X Beacon+ Community Café (OLHoC): 9.30am to 2.30pm
X OLHoC Choir Practice (OLHoC Hall): 6.30pm
X St Patrick’s celebration dinner (St Joseph’s
hall): 7.00pm
• SATURDAY, March 18th – Lenten Feria
MASS (OLHoC): 10.00am (Brian Donlan
RIP)
Confessions & Exposition (OLHoC): 11.00am to 12 noon
X Caritas Southwark Inauguration at St George’s
Cathedral, Southwark at 12.30pm
Next Sunday: March 19th, 2023
Laetare Sunday & Mothering Sunday
Second collection: Poor Parishes
MASS (OLHoC): 6.00pm (Saturday) (Mary Heath RIP)
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Beatrice
Salmon RIP)
X Refreshments
in the Hall after Mass
MASS (OLHoC): 11.00am (Pro Populo
RIP)
Children’s Liturgy Session during Mass
X
Refreshments in the Hall after Mass
Note: THE
PARISH RECONCILLIATION FOR EASTER IS ON SATURDAY 25TH MARCH
STARTING AT 4.00pm
X PARISH SECRETARY VACANCY - the Parish Secretary vacancy is for 4 hours per day, 10.00am to 2.00pm, on a Monday and Friday (pay is currently National Minimum Wage of £9.50 per hour due to rise to £10.42 in April 2023). If you are interested and want to know more, please talk to Fr Alex. An application form and a job description is available from Fr Alex.
Closing
date for applications is this coming Friday, 17th March, 2023.
The successful candidate will have a trial period for one
month.
X DO YOU ATTEND THE 9.00am MASS?Would you like to join a team of “Meet and Greeters” who give out the hymn books and Mass sheets as people arrive for Mass? Please email/contact the Parish Office with your name and contact details.
X CELEBRATION OF ST PATRICK’S DAY at St Joseph’s Church Hall on Friday 17th March starting at 7.00pm. Dinner will be served at 7.30pm consisting of Irish/vegetable stew followed by apple pie or trifle. Tickets are £8.00 and are available form Margaret Irving or Ann Berry.
X READERS - Sunday
12th March
6.00pm (Saturday)
– John P. & Earl M.
9.00am – George P. & Sister Alice
11.00am – Patrick D. & Hugh B.
Next Sunday 19th March
6.00pm – Monica A. & Ann G.
9.00am – John P. & Judy D.
11.00am – Bernie P. & Ciara M.
A LETTER FROM ARCHBISHOP JOHN WILSON
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ
I greet you in the name of the Lord Jesus as we continue our Lenten journey towards Holy Week and Easter. In this joyful season of renewal we seek the living water who is Christ himself. With the Samaritan woman in today’s Gospel, we believe the Lord Jesus offers every person the gift of eternal life. He shows us that no one is beyond God’s love; not you or me; not our neighbour; not the unknown stranger in our midst. The Lord Jesus asks us to be God’s love for others, especially those in most need.
Today, I share with you the wonderful news that we are about to launch CARITAS Southwark. Caritas is the Latin word for love and CARITAS Southwark will be our Archdiocesan network to co-ordinate our practical loving service of others, putting faith into action.
Pope Francis said: ‘.. there is an inseparable bond between our faith and the poor. May we never abandon them.’ (EG 48) CARITAS Southwark will work with our parishes and schools to support them in serving those in need. Our volunteers have worked hard to get us to this point of a formal launch in a Mass in St George’s Cathedral, Southwark, at 12.30pm on Saturday 18 March. Everyone is invited to the Mass and the reception afterwards.
The Church has always served the poorest and the weakest. This happens today through our parishes, schools and social and charitable projects and organisations. In such challenging times, it is important that we strengthen and enhance our charitable outreach, rooted in our faith in Christ. This will build on the excellent work already taking place and provide encouragement and support for new initiatives. CARITAS Southwark is about facilitation and collaboration, building up our common bond of charity through a more considered identity whereby our Archdiocese can promote and recognise faith in action.
Many parishes already have projects in place. Others, as yet, do not have any specific or developed formal outreach. This is a time for all of us, clergy, religious, and lay faithful, to pray and reflect on the Scriptures, strengthened by the Eucharist, so as to discern how we live out the call to see and serve the Lord Jesus in our brothers and sisters in need. To all who already give their time and effort so generously in voluntary service to the Church’s social mission, I extend my heartfelt gratitude.
Across our Archdiocese, a tangible love of neighbour is shown through numerous social and charitable projects. Such apostolates, and new ones which will hopefully come to fruition, require that our hearts be touched by the love of Christ and opened to the needs of others. It is through us, sometimes in simple and seemingly small ways, that the love of Christ becomes real and is freely offered to people in need.
Thank you for your assistance in this important new step. With an assurance of my gratitude, and my prayers and blessing
Yours devotedly in Christ
✠ John Wilson
Metropolitan
Archbishop of Southwark
X STATIONS OF THE CROSS is every Friday at 12.00 noon at OLHoC.
X SECOND COLLECTIONS – next Sunday’s second collection is for the poor parishes. On Sunday 26th March, there will be a second collection for the Easter Flowers.
X PLEASE PRAY FOR THE REPOSE OF THE SOULS of Gabrielle Lockley and Brian Donlan who died recently and for all those whose anniversaries fall at this time, including amongst them: Robert Bowder, Lawrie Palmieri, Freda Walton (12 Mar); Paulene Wood, Catherine Mills, Ivy Willoughby, William Conroy, Margaret Savage, Col. Edward Gordon (13th Mar); Hugh Ward (14th Mar); Shaun Taylor, Shaun Kelly, Stephen Cole, Patricia Ackland, Annie Hughes, Monica White, Carlton Gillman, Gerlad McCrystal, Everilda Noble (15th Mar); Ethel Finch, James Gavigan, Aileen Keevil, Gwen Bourgois (16th Mar); Salvatore Sechi, Gordon Laye, Marie Farron-Smith, Winifred Barnes, Thomas Vincent (17th Mar); Brenda Plumpton, Thomas Welsh, Mary Fells (18th Mar); Richard Ellis, Baroness Margaret Otto (19th Mar).
X CHURCHES TOGETHER FOLKESTONE is holding a service for all our schools and school communities. Please join us this Sunday, 12th March at 6.00pm at the Harbour Church on Canterbury Road, Folkestone.
The next CTF Prayer for persecuted Christians meeting is on Sunday 26th March at 6.00pm at Cheriton Pentecostal church.
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