Sunday: June 25th 2023
TWELTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
(Second collection: Parish Building Fund)
MASS (OLHoC): 6.00pm (Sat. June 24th) (Gerald M Madden RIP)
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Thanksgiving
for John McDermottroe restored to good health)
MASS (OLHoC): 11.00am (Pro Populo)
First Holy Communion Celebration with the Parish
Children to wear their 1HC dress
X Refreshments in the Hall
after Mass
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•
MONDAY, June 26th
– Feria
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Mr
& Mrs Richard Houlden)
X Parish Representative Group meeting (St Joseph’s Hall): 7.00pm
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TUESDAY, June 27th
– Feria
NO MASS TODAY
• WEDNESDAY, June 28th – St Irenaeus
MASS (OLHoC): 10.00am
(Thanksgiving for The Whole Planet)
X Tea/coffee and cake after Mass
• THURSDAY, June 29th
SS
PETER AND PAUL
(Holy Day of Obligation)
MASS (OLHoC): 10.45am (Robert, Elizabeth, Mary & Violet Connolly RIP)
X Beacon+ Community Café (OLHoC): 9.30am-2.30pm
Parish Open Office with Fr Alex
No appointment
necessary 4pm-7pm
•
FRIDAY, June 30th
- Feria
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Brian
Donlan RIP)
X Beacon+
Community Café (OLHoC): 9.30am-2.30pm
• SATURDAY, July 1st
The Blessed Virgin Mary
MASS (OLHoC): 10.00am (Sophie Rellis-Rayner)
Confessions & Exposition (OLHoC): 11.00am -
12 noon
Flower Festival (OLHoC): 12:00 noon – 4.30pm
Ploughman’s Lunch (OLHoC Hall): 12.45pm-2.45pm
Next Sunday: July 2nd 2023
(Second collection: Peter’s Pence)
MASS (OLHoC): 6.00pm (Sat. July 1st) (Fr Capener RIP)
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Pro Populo)
X Refreshments in the Hall
after Mass
X Refreshments in the Hall
after Mass
Flower Festival (OLHoC): 12:00 noon – 4.30pm
Ploughman’s Lunch (OLHoC Hall): 12.45pm-2.45pm
BAPTISM (OLHoC) 1.00pm: Destiny Grajcarova
X CHILDREN'S HOLIDAY CLUB
Dear Parents,
you will be delighted to know that the Holiday Club will take place again this year at St. Joseph's. Starting Tuesday, August 1st from 10am - 4pm, there will be lots of activities, fun and games for Children aged 5yrs -14yrs. Application forms are available at the back of the church. Please return the completed form to the Parish Office at Our Lady's Church.
Any queries, please contact Monica on 07870 911057 or email monaherne@gmail.com
X OUR LIVE WEB STREAMING IS MOVING - from Saturday 1st July we will be switching to a new local site for our online streaming website of Masses at Our Lady, Help of Christians and St Aloysius. The new website address is www.kentchurches.com/churches/olhc/.
Can we please encourage you to share this news with anybody you know who relies on our online streaming of Mass in our parish.
X FORTHCOMING SECOND COLLECTIONS
2nd July – Peter’s
Pence
9th July – Sea
Sunday
16th July - Parish
Building Fund
3rd September - Parish Building Fund
10th September – Education Sunday
17th September – Evangelii Gaudium Sunday
X OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS & ST ALOYIOUS WITH ST JOSEPH'S FLOWER FESTIVAL ON 1ST TO 6TH JULY 2023 - Our Church will be beautifully decorated that week with flowers honouring God and the Saints. It will be spectacular! Everyone can play a part, even if you do not know about flower arranging. There are envelopes for donation if you would like to sponsor your favourite Saint. Would you like to spend an hour or two in Church during that week to keep an eye on the visitors? If so, please put your name down on the list at the back of the Church. Also, in a message from the organising committee:
Dear Parishioners, we
need copious amounts of greenery to help with the Flower Festival
displays. If you have any greenery in your garden, we would love you to donate
as much as possible, it would be really appreciated!
Please leave your offerings at the back of the church from Weds 28th June - Fri 30th June. Buckets will be provided. Thank You so much.
X FIRST RECONCILLIATION AND FIRST HOLY COMMUNION – Forms are available at the back of the church. Closing date for Registration is 23rd September 2023.
X CONFIRMATION– Forms are available at the back of the church TO REGISTER FOR Confirmation. Closing date is 21st September 2023.
X HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION REMINDER – this Thursday 29th June, is the solemnity of St Peter and St Paul and a Holy Day of Obligation. Extra Masses, including an evening Mass, will be available on this day.
X THE SICK - We remember all those who are sick and housebound and that they remain in our prayers.
X WE
PRAY FOR THE RECENTLY DECEASED
Please pray for the repose of the souls of the
following parishioners who died recently: Lazarus Banda, Arthur Marcus
Sambucci, Teresa Capon, Katrina O’Donnell, Neil Gerard McLaughlin and all those who
have died recently or whose anniversaries fall at
this time including: Kathleen
Gilheaney, Antana Gliaubicius and John Stratford (25th June); Terry Hughes, Margaret
Nicholl, Helena Wetniak and Howard Atkinson (26th June); Emrys Hughes (28th
June); Muriel Stammers, Mary Doherty, Miriam Myland (29th June); Emily Hipson
and Mary Carsana (30th June); George Nolan, Gladys Hammond and Frederick Goodge
(1st July); Eugene Palmieri (2nd July); Grace Coughlan (3rd July).
X FRIDAY 7TH JULY 2023 AT 7.30PM - MASS at Canterbury Cathedral by kind permission of the Dean and Chapter for the Feast of the Translation of St Thomas a Becket with Principal Celebrant: The Right Reverend Paul J Hendricks Auxiliary Bishop for the Kent Area.
Mass will be followed by Light Refreshments in the Chapter House
On
July 7th 1220, the remains of the body of St Thomas a Becket were translated to
a magnificent shrine in the Cathedral’s new Trinity Chapel. Present were the young king Henry III ;
chief justiciar, Hugh de Burgh; the papal legate, Pandulf; Stephan Langton,
Archbishop of Canterbury; the Bishop of Reims and most of the bishops of
England and Wales.
X FLOWER FESTIVAL PLOUGHMAN’S LUNCH – Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd July 12.45pm to 2.30pm. Tickets are priced £5.00 and available from
Anne Berry or Margaret Irving.
