Church of the Most Sacred Heart

Mass Times :

Saturday
Vigil Mass: 18.00

Sunday
8.30, 10.00, 11.30, 18.00

Monday –Saturday
10.00

19:00 (Tues&Thurs)

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: 10.30 – 12.00

Sacrament of Reconciliation:
10.30 – 11.30
17.15 – 17.30

Collection

Envelopes £ 1580.33
Loose £ 714.10
Total £ 2294.43



Many Thanks

ASDC – new location

The Harrow Association of Separated and Divorced Catholics will hold its monthly get together at
8.00 pm on Monday 6th February at St. Bernard’s Church Hall, 17 Mandeville Road, Northolt (near station), very informal. New members especially welcome. Do join us and bring a friend if you wish. (Contact Wills)

Jubilee Trust
Wine-tasting

Due to circumstances beyond the Jubilee Trust Committee’s control the Wine Tasting arranged for next Friday 10th February is postponed. We hope to run the event in late March or early April.

Youth Group

The Youth Group meet in the Coffee Lounge Sunday evening after the 6.00 pm Mass. Fr. Nick Schofield (a recent pupil at St. Joan of Arc and an Oxford history graduate) will give an illustrated talk on Catholic history. Useful for both GCSE / “A” Level revision and answering those awkward questions about the Crusades and the Inquisition.

Retiring Collection

There will be a retiring collection for the Catholic Education Service at all the Masses next weekend when we pray for all those involved in Catholic education.

Do you think you’d like to be an Altar Server?

If you’ve made your First Communion and would like to know more about it, there will be a meeting in the church on Wednesday, 8th February at 6.15 pm to which you are welcome.

Bereavement Group

Will meet on Wednesday 8th Feb. at 8 pm to 9:30 pm in the Coffee Lounge. The next meeting will be on the 22nd March, 3rd Wed. of the month, as usual.

Parish Priest: Fr. Michael Johnston

Assistant Priest: Fr. Mark Vickers

E-mail: Fr.Michael@mostsacredheartruislip.co.uk

..............Fr.Mark@mostsacredheartruislip.co.uk

Mobile: 07763 929329

Our Sympathy…

Please pray for the repose of the soul of Ann Parenti, whose Funeral Mass takes place this Monday at the 10.00 am Mass. We extend our sympathy to her family and friends.

Social Committee Meeting

This Monday 6th February at 8.00 pm in the Presbytery there is a meeting of the Social Committee.

Finance and Properties Committee Meeting

This Tuesday 7th February at 8.00 pm in the Presbytery there is a meeting of the Finance and Properties Committee.

Altar Servers’ Mass

The annual Mass of the Archconfraternity of St. Stephen will be said by the Cardinal in Westminster Cathedral at 2.30 pm on Saturday, 11 February. We plan to take a coach again for all those altar servers who would like to come and serve in the Cathedral that afternoon. (Parents are also welcome.) Please could altar servers collect further details from the sacristy and return the completed form if they wish to join us. The coach will leave the church here at 11.00 am prompt next Saturday.

Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes

Next Saturday 11th February is the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes and the day on which the Church asks that we pray for all those who are sick in the world.

Walsingham Prayer Group – Bring & Buy

The organizers offer their heartiest thanks to everyone who supported our Bring & Buy. Especially for the excellent sale items you provided. We raised just over £ 341.00 for the new Church at Walsingham. We thank too, the helpers for their hard work, also the kind people who gave such generous donations. Thank you all.

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

UCM

We welcome members of the Union of Catholic Mothers to the 7.00 pm Mass on Thursday, 9th February at which new members will be enrolled into the UCM.
U.C.M. Cake Sale – will be held after the 10.00 am Mass on Sunday 5th February.

French Pilgrimage : 20th – 27th May 2006

There is a meeting for all pilgrims in the Coffee Lounge at 7.30 pm on Wednesday, 22 February. The pilgrimage will visit shrines associated with the Sacred Heart, including Annecy, Paray-le-Monial, Cluny, Lyon and Ars in beautiful country in eastern France at a cost of
£ 669.00. We have around 30 pilgrims coming so far, and have five places remaining. If interested, come along to the meeting or see Fr Mark.

Pilgrimage to Italy : 15th – 21st October 2006

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 are 8 places left now for this trip. Please see Fr. Michael ASAP. Would those who attended the meeting and wish to go please make sure you have sent your form and deposit to Pax Travel.