Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: 10.30 – 12.00
Sacrament of Reconciliation:
10.30 – 11.30
17.15 – 17.30
Christmas Bazaar
On Monday 16th January we have our review of the Christmas
Bazaar meeting at
7.30 pm in the Presbytery. Please note new date.
Baptism Preparation
Next Wednesday there is Baptism Preparation at 8.00
pm in the Presbytery for those who wish their baby to
be baptised in our Church in the future. Please arrange
this with Fr. Mark.
Ministers of Holy Communion
We need about six new ministers of Holy Communion to
help distribute Holy Communion at Sunday Masses. If
you are interested in helping in this important ministry,
please see Fr. Michael.
Social Committee Meeting
On Monday 9th January at
8.00 pm there will be a meeting of the Social Committee
in the Presbytery. Please note new date. This is an
important meeting as we need to set dates for the year
and number of licences.
Wine Tasting Evening
The Jubilee Trust will be holding a Wine Tasting Evening
on 21st January 2006. Further details after New Year.
Bank Holiday
Do not forget Monday 2nd January is a Bank Holiday.
Mass will be at 10.00 am and then the Church will close.
Confirmation
The parish Confirmation programme starts at the end
of January with sessions on Tuesday evenings leading
up to the celebration of the Sacrament on 14 May 2006.
If you are in Year 9 or above and wish to join the programme,
please write to Fr. Mark briefly giving your details
and outlining your reasons for wishing to be confirmed.
Please drop your application off at the house or send
it by E-Mail as soon as possible.
Church
of the Most
....Sacred Heart
73 Pembroke Road, Ruislip, HA4 8NN
......Tel: 01895 632739
Fr. Michael writes:-
Mother of God. Our Mother. Woman of Faith. It is so good to
start the New Year by turning to Mary. Mary’s last recorded
words were at the wedding at Cana: “Do whatever he tells
you.” No woman ever took her own advice so completely
to heart. It is because Mary was so faithful; so positively
and courageously faithful, that she represents such a tremendous
challenge, that she is, for us, such a helpful model. I hope
that for 2006 there may be in the Church a deepening
attachment to Mary. I hope that we will honour her as God’s
mother, trust her as our own, imitate her gladly in our fidelity
to Christ and his Church. If we do that I am sure that for us
all it will be a happy new year. A very happy and holy new year
to you all.
Many thanks
Many thanks again to all who helped in any way to making
our Church beautiful for the Christmas Season. Grateful
thanks to the flower ladies; servers; cleaners; collectors;
Eucharistic Ministers and Readers; Choir; Folk Group
and Adrian our organist. Thank you also to any individuals
who helped in any way.
Grateful thanks too for all the presents and cards received
by both Fr. Mark and myself.
A big thank you for the Christmas Offerings which with
the Easter Offerings make up our annual salaries.
Pastoral Letter
This weekend at all Masses there will be a pastoral
letter from our Bishop Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor.
Welcome
Welcome to Fr. Leszek who will be celebrating the 8.30
am and 11.30 am Masses today. We are most grateful to
him.
At 11.30 am Mass today we welcome into the Church through
Baptism, James Christopher Wojcik.
Feast of the Epiphany
of the Lord
Next Friday (6th January) is the Feast of the Epiphany
of the Lord and a Holy Day of Obligation. Masses will
be:-.
5th January – 8.00 pm Vigil Mass
6th January – 10.00 am and 8.00 pm.
Congratulations
Congratulations to all the altar servers who attended
the St. Stephen’s Day Mass and to those who received
medals and certificates of merit, and to Bernadette
Manton for her silver medal for long service.
Evening Masses
There will be no Tuesday or Thursday evening Masses
for two weeks.
God our loving Father,
who made us your children
in baptism, pour out on us afresh the gifts of your
Holy Spirit.
Open our ears to
hear your Word,
open our hearts to
you in prayer,
that we may receive
with ever deeper faith the
Bread of Life.
Strengthened through
these gifts
make us signs of
your presence
to the world of today.
Father, hear our
humble prayer
through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen
S.P.U.C.
Next weekend at all Masses there will be a retiring
collection for the work of SPUC – the Society
for the Protection of the Unborn Child.
Pilgrimage to Italy
I have organised a parish pilgrimage for 15th –
21st October 2006. This pilgrimage is to Padua, Venice,
Verona and Lake Garda. Flights are from Heathrow to
Venice and we will stay at Casa de Pellegrino Hotel,
in the heart of Padua. Padua is associated with the
Franciscan St. Anthony who died there in the 13th Century.
We visit Venice, the City of St. Mark; Verona famous
for being the city of Romeo and Juliet, but also St.
Zeno, a fifth century Bishop whose relics are contained
in a Romanesque Church noted as being one of the finest
in Europe. We will visit the Venetian Islands and to
San Francesco del Deserto where in 1220 St. Frances
founded a Sanctuary. Lastly, Lake Garda and the town
of Limone, the birth place of St. Daniel Comboni, Missionary
and canonized in 2003. Cost is £ 659.00 per person
for twin bedded room includes flights, entrance fees
and half board. We shall be accompanied on this trip
by Judith Dean who was our Tour Escort in Assisi last
October. There will be a meeting on Tuesday 17th January
2006 in the Coffee Lounge at 7.30 pm for those interested.
I can only accommodate forty people on this trip. IF
YOU INTEND GOING ON THIS PILGRIMAGE YOU SHOULD ATTEND
THE MEETING. FORMS CAN BE COMPLETED ON THE NIGHT SO
DO NOT FORGET GLASSES PLUS A CHEQUE FOR THE DEPOSIT
OF £ 90.00 PLUS £ 24.70 TRAVEL INSURANCE
IF REQUIRED.
Mass Intentions
for the Week 31st Dec. 2005 to 8th Jan. 2006
Saturday 31st December 18.00 Lucie Abela, R.I.P.
Sunday 1st January 8.30 For You, the People
Solemnity of Mary, Mother 10.00 Strom-Pederson Family, R.I.P.
(Folk)
of God 11.30 Michael McInery, R.I.P.
18.00 Molly McEnery, R.I.P.
Monday 2nd January 10.00 Francis Ryan, R.I.P. SS Basil &
Gregory
Tuesday 3rd January 10.00 May Redmond, R.I.P.
Wednesday 4th January 10.00 Elsie Lewis, R.I.P.
Thursday 5th January 10.00 Brendan Lobo, R.I.P. (P. & R.
Smith)
Vigil Mass of the Epiphany 20.00 Theresia White, R.I.P. (Solis)
Friday 6th January 10.00 Margaret & Charles Hendry, R.I.P.
Feast of the Epiphany 20.00 For You, the People
Saturday 7th January 10.00 John Morrissey, R.I.P.
18.00 Veronica Joiner, R.I.P.
Sunday 8th January 8.30 Thomas Corbett, R.I.P.
Baptism of the Lord 10.00 Percy Philipson, R.I.P.
11.30 Blanche Moat & Family, R.I.P.
18.00 For You, the People
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK AND
HOUSEBOUND:
Ellie Haran, Jill Holland, Cath Barron, Douglas Prall, Dean
Welton, Carmel Galanty, Bernadette Campbell, Mary Maloney, Ron
Skew, Betty Douglas, Bridie Humphreys, Doreen Jones, Peter Flaherty,
Dolores Osborne, Christopher Redmond, Jack and Rose Pick, Lily
Fehin, Francesca Broughton, Edna Winwright, Eugene Barrett,
Brendan Sherry, Josie Jacobs, Derek Miles and Michael McAllister.
AND FOR THOSE WHOSE ANNIVERSARY OCCURS ABOUT THIS TIME:
George Burgh, Rev. Alexander Wells, Hugh Needham, Margaret Murphy,
Alice Smith, Molly Lear, Marie Josephine Cartwright, Agnes Adamson,
Evelyn Andrew, Thomas Watkins, Sean Kellegher, the Strom-Pederson
Family, Gerard Hickey, William Kelleher, Cyril Bransby, Teresa
Sanderson, Joseph Constable, Edward Rock, George Grange, Bridget
Atkinson, Dorothy Holland, Richard Bennett,
Sr. Theresa-Margaret Andrews, Marie Kirkpatrick, William Painter,
Grace Baldock, Andrew Dove, Bridget Foley, Edgar de Waterford,
Nellie Elmes, Jack Glover, Veronica Joiner, Charles Lythe.
