SUNDAY 12 JANUARY 2025

 

 

Sunday: January 12th 2025

(Second Collection: Society for the Protection of Unborn Children – White Flower Appeal)

 

THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD

 

MASS (OLHoC): 6.00pm (Sat. 11th)

(Theresa Sharp and Norman Sharp RIP) 

MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am  (Agata and Ernesto Borza RIP)

X Refreshments in the Hall after this Mass 

MASS (OLHoC): 11.00am – (Pro Populo)

X Refreshments in the Hall after this Mass

 

 

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• MONDAY, January 13th – Feria 

MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Margaret Davies RIP) 

• TUESDAY, January 14th – Feria 

 NO MASS 

• WEDNESDAY, January 15th – Feria 

MASS (OLHoC): 10.00am

(Kathleen Lynch – Well Being) 

• THURSDAY, January 16th – Feria 

MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Mari Bronwen Strinati RIP) 

Parish Open Office with Fr Alex

4.00pm-7.00pm at the Presbytery (OLHoC) 

• FRIDAY, January 17th – St Anthony, Abbot 

REQUIEM MASS (OLHoC): 10.00am for

Sybil Conchita Henry 

•SATURDAY, January 18th  

The Blessed Virgin Mary 

9am FHC Class; 10am Confirmation Class 

MASS (OLHoC):10.00am (Mari Bronwen Strinati RIP) 

Confessions & Exposition (OLHoC):11.00am-12 noon) 

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Next Sunday: January 19th 2025

SECOND SUNDAY

IN ORDINARY TIME

PEACE DAY - Prayer today for Peace on Earth

(Second Collection: PAX CHRISTI) 

MASS (OLHoC): 6.00pm (Sat. 18th)

(Rob Curtis RIP) 

MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am

 (Deceased of Devine’s family and relatives)

X Refreshments in the Hall after this Mass 

MASS (OLHoC): 11.00am – (Pro Populo)

X Refreshments in the Hall after this Mass

 

 

X RECEPTION OF HOLY COMMUNION DURING MASS – Only Catholics in state of grace receive communion during Mass. Those Christians who are not in full communion with the Catholic Church and Roman Catholics not able to receive Holy Communion are welcome to receive a blessing. Those wishing to receive a blessing are asked to approach the priest with their arms crossed over their chess. Those receiving Holy Communion in your hands please put it in your mouth before leaving the minister/priest.

 

 

X INFANT BAPTISM may only happen after undergoing a preparation with the parish priest. Baptisms can then be celebrated at either 3pm on a Saturday or 1pm on a Sunday on the 1^st or 3^rd Sunday of the month. Please note from January 2025 the preparation for infant Baptism will take place every second Sunday of the month after 11 am Mass.

X PARISH SHOP – open after Mass every day. The new 2025 Catholic Diaries with Mass Setting are now available.

X FORTHCOMING SECOND COLLECTIONS IN 2025.

·       PAX CHRISTI: 19th January

·       Parish Building & Maintenance: 26th January

·       Racial Justice Sunday: 16th February

·       Sick and Retired Priests: 23rd February

·       CAFOD Lent Appeal: 14th March

·       Parish Building & Maintenance: 16th March

·       Poor Parishes: 23rd March

·   Holy Places of Palestine: 18th April

X WE PRAY FOR THE SICK - We remember all those who are sick or housebound and that they remain in our prayers including Liz Willis, Robert Claridge, Ema Deba, Stacy Rodrigues, Ann Robinson, Uzo Mbanugo, Bob & Tess Vickery, Canon Luke Smith, Beulah Blomfield, John Lodge, Veronica Poulton, Margaret Woolley, and all those who have asked for our prayers. 

X WE PRAY FOR THE RECENTLY DECEASED - Please pray for the repose of the soul of Sybil Conchita Henry, Obdulia Julie Di Martino, Bishop John Hine, Lillian Orfila, Robert Jones, Christine Mary Kissane, James Kissane, Ron Hall, Suchada Robinson (who was known as Jo or Jojo), Fr Wenna Henry Tiku and all those who have died recently, and those whose anniversaries fall at this time including: Angela Cavallari (12th Jan.) Nora Taylor, Nelly Cachero (14th Jan.); Norman Sharp, Martha Price, Coralie Estridge, Helena Kelly (15th Jan); Janice Buchanan, Jeanne Niedzwiecki, Henry Sprenger, Henri Pourret (16th Jan); Robert Chittock, Dorothy Stacey, Robert MacQueen, Frederick Pluck (17th Jan); Dorothy Bergum, Eileen Cavanagh (18th Jan); Anthony Riley, Fred Cotton, Leopoldo Gianella (19th Jan).

X HOLY COMMUNION FOR THE SICK OR IN HOSPITAL

For those sick at home – The parish has a team of Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion, who are all commissioned by the Archbishop and DBS checked. Their ministry is to take the Sacrament of Holy Communion to people who are long-term sick or disabled, and who are thus unable to get to Mass. If you know of anyone in this category who is not currently receiving the Sacrament at home (or where they are living), please inform Fr Alex Saba via the Parish Office on 01303 252823 or email folkestone@rcaos.org.uk

 

For those in hospital - people who are seriously ill or undergoing operations may ask for the Anointing of the Sick. Those who are going into hospital should remember to ask for a visit from the hospital’s Catholic Chaplain: If not a priest, they will arrange for a Catholic minister or an extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion to visit them, or - if anointing is required - for a priest to visit (but, hopefully, you will have already asked for anointing before you go in). Catholic chaplains are often clergy or laypeople from the hospital’s local parish. Contact the parish office 01303 252823 or email folkestone@rcaos.org.uk 

X AN APPEAL FOR AN ACT OF KINDNESS AND FAVOUR - Please, as you leave the Church at the end of Mass, return the books and papers that you were given when you first arrived, to the back of the Church where they normally stay for the next Mass. It is sad to see our volunteer who welcomed you, going through the pews to collect hymn books and papers that have been left behind and not returned to them or to the back of the Church. Thank you for your act of kindness and favour regarding such matter.

X “SACRED ART COURSE” - A four-year course teaching iconographic techniques from the very basics is starting in the Parish Hall in January, meeting every Saturday morning for 3 hours. Costs will depend on the number of participants but will be kept as low as possible to encourage access to this important form of sacred art. Anyone interested should please call Amanda de Pulford on 07756142519.

X THE WEDNESDAY COFFEE – Please note that the Wednesday Coffee after Mass will not take place in January. Coffee will start again on Wednesday 5th February 2025.

X PARISH MEMBERS OF ST VINCENTS DE PAUL SOCIETY (SVP) – have been assisting a local person who has been accommodated in a local flat, which had no furniture. With the help of others, the flat now has a bed, a sofa, a microwave and a fridge.

Before the bed was provided, this person was sleeping on bare floorboards for three months. The SVP has recently funded the supply and fitting of carpet for the living room. We are now asking for some help by asking if any parishioner has a coffee table available.

If you could assist, please contact SVP member, John Grace on 01303 250230 who will happily collect it. Thank you.'

X END OF CHRISTMAS SEASON – The Christmas season always starts with the masses of the Christmas Eve, Advent is ended, and the journey continues with the various feasts making the manifestations of the Lord Jesus to his people as the Saviour of the world. We celebrate his birth on 25th December, we join our brothers and sisters in the East as we celebrate the Epiphany which has no fixed date, but takes place before or around 6th January. This year it was 5th January. Then with the feast of The Baptism of the Lord, the Christmas season concludes. This is the time we bring our decorations down, to enter the ordinary time. Let us all embrace the sounding liturgical practice that the Church, our mother, gave us. Culture or society cannot dictate our approach to things we use to celebrate the mystery of our God who became flesh.

 

WE FLY TO THY PROTECTION

We fly to Thy protection, O Holy Mother of God.

Do not despise our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us always from all dangers,

O Glorious and Blessed Virgin.

 

PRAYER TO ST MICHAEL

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.

  

 

 

 

 

Presbytery and Parish Office:

41 Guildhall Street, Folkestone, Kent CT20 1EF 

Tel: 01303 252823 

  e-mail: folkestone@rcaos.org.uk 

Parish Priest: Fr Alex Saba MA, MSLR, MCL, JC 

Hall Bookings: hallbookingonline.com/folkestone/