SUNDAY 25 JUNE 2023

 


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)

 X Refreshments in the Hall after Mass

 

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

TUESDAY, June 27th – Feria

NO MASS TODAY

 X Beacon+ Community Café (OLHoC): 9.30am-2.30pm

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)

 MASS (OLHoC): 7.30pm (Pro Populo)

 

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

 THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

(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

 MASS (OLHoC): 11.00am (Lazarus Banda RIP) 

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 CONFIRMATIONForms 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.

 

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