Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: 10.30 – 12.00
Sacrament of Reconciliation:
10.30 – 11.30
17.15 – 17.30
Collections
Envelopes £1,504.94
Loose ......£653.88
Total ...... £2,158.82
Many Thanks
Bethany Tree
Installed at the front of the Church is the small Bethany Tree. Do write the names of your deceased loved ones or those who may be far from you this Christmas or those who are sick. Use the tags provided and as we pray before the Crib we will remember them.
Westminster Year Books
Westminster Year Books are now on sale in the Repository – price £3 each. This is a valuable book for all to have with all kinds of information from times of Masses around the Diocese to the age of priests!
Altar Servers
All Altar Servers are reminded that they should attend their Annual Festal Mass at 10.30 am on the Feast of St Stephen, 26th December, when new servers will receive their medals.
Bec Club
Grand Auction and Raffle in aid of the Mount Vernon Hospital
£1 million Cancer Appeal
Saturday 6th January
Auction starts 8 p.m.
Raffle tickets available from Steve Carey
Church
of the Most
....Sacred Heart
73 Pembroke Road, Ruislip, HA4 8NN
......Tel: 01895 632739
In a few hours time we celebrate Christmas. The birth of Jesus has split history in two so that each calendar is reckoned before or after His birth. The year in which He was born marks the period known as Anno Domini and the years before that as BC.
Our Lord’s Nativity is observed on 25th December. The early Church Fathers made the birthdate of Our Lord deliberately to coincide with and offset the pagan celebration of Saturnalia, that festive pagan day of celebration in which the
sun crossed the imaginary line drawn on the later-day maps as the equator. To the pagans it signified a rebirth of the Sun, now returning to the north and asserting its power to bring about the season of spring, but to the christians it marked the birthday celebration of Jesus Christ, the Son of God who had created not only the sun but all the other stars and planets too.
And so on 25th December our Saviour was born and God so loved the world He had created that He sacrificed His Son thirty-three short years later for the redemption of all mankind. The star that shone over Bethlehem to light the way for the wise men of the east still shines as an eternal beacon in the hearts of all those who have Jesus Christ in their hearts. May he shine in your heart, in your home and within your family at this time. A happy and holy Christmas to you all.
I give below our programme for Christmas and to the New Year.
Sunday 24th December Christmas Eve
Masses as usual – 8.30 a.m. 10.00 a.m. 11.30 a.m.
Carols - 6.30 p.m.
Vigil Mass of Christmas – 7.00 p.m.
Carols – 10.00 p.m
Midnight Mass – 10.30 p.m. (please note new timeof midnight service)
Monday 25th December Christmas Day
Masses: 8.30 a.m. 10.00 a.m. and 11.30 a.m.
The Church will close after 11.30 a.m.Mass today. Offerings on Christmas Day are your gifts to the Priests of our parish. Please place them in a Christmas Envelope.
Tuesday 26th December Feast of St. Stephen
Bank Holiday
Mass: 10.30 a.m.
All servers should attend this Mass.
No Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament today. No evening Mass
Wednesday 27th December Feast of St. John the Apostle
Mass: 10.00 a.m.
No Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament today.
Thursday 28th December
Feast of the Holy Innocents, Martyrs
Mass: 10.00 a.m.
No Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament today.
Friday 29th December Feast of St. Thomas Becket
Mass: 10.00 a.m.
No Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament today.
Saturday 30th December
Weekend Masses as usual
Sunday 31st December Feast of the Holy Family
Weekend Masses as usual
Monday 1st January Solemnity of Mary Mother of God Bank Holiday
Mass: 10.00 a.m.
Christmas Message
Please take a copy of the Christmas Message. This has the times of all the services from today (Sunday) until the New Year. There are some changes to the timetable and so do keep a copy at home. This will save us receiving dozens of phone calls of enquiry.
Confirmation The parish confirmation programme starts at the end of Jan. with sessions on Tuesday evenings leading up to the celebration of the sacrament on Saturday 12th May 2007 at 11.30 a.m. If you are in Year 9 or above and wish to join the programme then you are invited to write to Fr. Agustin briefly explaining your reasons for wishing to be confirmed. Your letter should include your name, address, telephone number, date of birth, where you attend school, which Mass you normally attend and a passport size photograph. All letters of application should be received in the presbytery as soon as possible. Please mark the outside of the envelope: Confirmation 2007.
Mass Intentions
for the Week 23rd December – 31st December
Saturday 23rd December 18.00 Bernie Bower, R.I.P.
Sunday 24th December 8.30 For you the People 4th Sunday of Advent ........... 10.00 David White, R.I.P. .......................................................................11.30 Nick Vecchione R.I.P (Sung / English) Christmas Eve Vigil Mass of Christmas 19.00 .............. Joe McGrath, R.I.P. Midnight Mass 22.30 .............For you, the People
Monday 25th December 8.30 Mary Holmes, R.I.P. Christmas Day ........................10.00 ......,,,,,,,. Pat Sullivan, R.I.P. (Folk) ........................................................................11.30 Anthony Almeda, R.I.P.
Tuesday 26th December .......... 10.30 For all Altar Servers living and dead Feast of St. Stephen
Wednesday 27th December ..........10.30 Private Intention (J. McE.) St. John the Apostle
Thursday 28th December 10.00 ............John Murphy, R.I.P. Feast of the Holy Innocents
Friday 29th December 10.00 .............. Michael Loughman, R.I.P. and St. Thomas Becket ............... James and Breda Brosnan, R.I.P.
Saturday 30th December 10.00 ...............Michael Griffin, R.I.P 22.30................ Lucie Abela, R.I.P.
Sunday 31st December ....................................8.30 ..............For you, the People Feast of the Holy Family ........................ 10.00 ..... Siobhan Murphy, R.I.P. ..........................................................................11.30 ...............John Sugrue, R.I.P. (SungEnglish) 18.00............... Dennis Curran, R.I.P.
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK AND HOUSEBOUND:
Carmel Galanty, Mary Maloney, Ron Skew, Betty Douglas, Doreen Jones, Peter Flaherty,
Dolores Osborne, Christopher Redmond, Rose Pick, Lily Fehin, Edna Winwright, Eugene Barrett, Trevor Denham, Mary Worley, Ann Holland, Dorothy Rushbrook and Caroline Titley.
William (Billy) Smith
AND FOR THOSE WHOSE ANNIVERSARY OCCURS ABOUT THIS TIME:
Arthur McMahon, Francis Sedge, Gladys Winifred Keenan, Thomas Burke, Jack Walsh, Elisabeth McGreevy, Justin McCarthy, Joe King, Stanley Gomes, Con Moran, Winifred Dobson, Anastasia Maher, Patrick McCarthy, Kathleen O’Connor, George Cartright, Alice Langdan, Lucie Abela, Wiliam Base, Daniel Fennelly, Amelia Mazziotto, Michael O’Connell, Royston Burchell, Sarah (Mary) Boylan, Harold Gales, Margaret Tilley, Theresa Pavlovic and Oudah Narayn.
