Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: 10.30 – 12.00
Sacrament of Reconciliation:
10.30 – 11.30
17.15 – 17.30
Collection
Envelopes £ 1389.99
Loose £ 587.66 Total £ 1977.65
Many Thanks
Week of Prayer for Christian
Unity
St. Martin's will host a shared meal for Churches Together
in Ruislip at
7.30 pm on Thursday, 19 January. The event will include
musical items, and all are invited. To help with catering,
please sign the list at the back of church by Sunday,
15 January if you intend coming. A small charge may
be requested on the evening to cover expenses.
Evening Masses
There will be no Tuesday or Thursday evening Masses
this week.
Youth Group
Many thanks to all those members (and friends) who
helped singing carols at the nursing home before Christmas.
The Youth Group starts again at 7 pm next Sunday, 15
January
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.
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.
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.
Church
of the Most
....Sacred Heart
73 Pembroke Road, Ruislip, HA4 8NN
......Tel: 01895 632739
Fr. Mark writes
:-Today we are taken immediately from the Christ Child at Christmas
to the adult Baptism of Our Lord, the beginning of His public
ministry. This is quite deliberate; God entered the world for
a purpose. Christ came to preach a message of conversion, healing
and salvation. 2000 years on the message is just the same, but
the means used to preach it necessarily change. We should never
be afraid of modern technology to get across the Good News –
and that includes the Internet, a wonderful resource for evangelisation.
The Vatican has its own Website : www.vatican.va
Another site that gives a daily news service free of charge
is www.zenit.org
Visit our own parish site www.mostsacredheartruislip.co.uk
You can find there the text of the excellent talk “Debunking
the Da Vinci Code” given in the parish last autumn.
I am involved in the Faith Movement which seeks to show the
harmony that exists between science and religion. Details of
its events, publications and youth work can be found on www.faith.org.uk
There are now many Websites for young Catholics such as www.youmagazine.com
, and www.youth2000.org
Our faith is both relevant and fun. Happy surfing
in 2006.
Confirmation
There will be a meeting for all candidates, together
with your parents, for the parish Confirmation programme
for 2006 in the Hesdin Hall at 7.30 pm on Tuesday, 17
January. It is essential you attend this meeting as
we will be giving out important information about the
programme. It would also be helpful if catechists attended
this meeting.
Jubilee Trust Wine Tasting
Evening
This event is being re-arranged for a new date and
will not be held on 21 January. The new date and further
details will be announced shortly.
Walsingham Prayer Group
Walsingham Prayer Group will be holding a Bring and
Buy on Friday 13th January 2006, in the coffee lounge
after the 10.00 am Mass. The proceeds of which will
go to help the building of the new church at Walsingham.
Please come and support this good cause.
S.P.U.C. – Retiring
Collection
This weekend at all Masses there will be a retiring
collection for the work of SPUC – the Society
for the Protection of the Unborn Child.
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
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 7th January – 15th January 2006
Saturday 7th January 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. (Sung / English)
18.00 For You, the People
Monday 9th January 10.00 Margaret & Thomas Lynam, R.I.P.
1st Week of the Year
Tuesday 10th January 10.00 Arthur Grant, R.I.P.
Wednesday 11th January 10.00 John Conway, R.I.P.
Thursday 12th January 10.00 Mary Flynn, R.I.P.
Friday 13th January 10.00 Kevin Skinner, R.I.P.
Saturday 14th January 10.00 Jim Keenan, R.I.P.
18.00 Frederick Lawrence Bower, R.I.P.
Sunday 15th January 8.30 Margaret Hewitt, R.I.P.
Second Sunday of the Year 10.00 Eamon Dunne, R.I.P. (Folk)
11.30 For You, the People (Sung / English)
18.00 Private Intention (T. Banks)
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK AND HOUSEBOUND:
Ellie Haran, Jill Holland, Cath Barron, Douglas Prall, 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, Michael McAllister and Trevor
Denham.
AND FOR THOSE WHOSE ANNIVERSARY OCCURS ABOUT THIS TIME:
Arthur Hambling, Celia Ollett, Dermot O’Connell, Frederick
Mason, Miles McKane, Ann O’Donnell, Helena Meli, Florence
Fuller, Thomas Owen, Gerald Locke, Francis McCarthy, Mary O’Reilly,
Margery Stutt, Stanley James Bradley, Margaret Rafferty, Margaret
Arthur, Frederick Bower, Christine Bergin, John Cremin, John
Conway, Andrew O’Leary, James McHugh, Mary Flynn, Anna
Mulholland, John Falconer, Marie-Louise Scott, Patrick Lyons,
Kevin Skinner, Kit Kala, Cecilia Hill, Francis Arnold Brown,
Kathleen Dale, Mary McDonald, Ronan Zybert, Winifred Clark,
Peter Balfour.
