Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: 10.30 – 12.00
Sacrament of Reconciliation:
10.30 – 11.30
17.15 – 17.30
Collections
Envelopes £1567.98
Loose £754.47 Total £2322.45
Many thanks
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God Thursday 1st January 2009 is the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God and World Day of Prayer for Peace. Mass will be at 10.00am. Do try and come along.
Westminster Year Books 2009
These are on sale in the Repository, price £4.00 and are full of vital information on all the Churches; Mass times; Priests etc.
Baptism
Parishioners who want to have their children baptised in our parish are asked to attend a Baptismal course. Parishioners are those are registered and who come regularly to the sacraments in this parish. The next course will be on Monday 5th January. For more information or to book a baptism, please contact Nicola in the office.
Congratulations
Many congratulations to Douay Martyrs School on their recent Ofsted Inspection. The school was judged as good in all areas with outstanding features in the Catholic life of the school. The Inspection can be downloaded but I give two quotations:- “The relatively new head teacher has set high standards and developed a shared vision that is rapidly moving the school forward”. “The results for 2008 show the percentage of students gaining five or more A* to C with English and Mathematics rose considerably to above the national average”. Well done!
Mass/Hymn Books
It would be helpful if Mass and Hymn books could be put back at the end of our Masses as many of them lying on the floor have been torn. Thank you for this.
Hesdin Hall Bookings 2009
Please note all hall bookings requiring a drinks licence for 2009 must be arranged through Nicola in the Presbytery and we can only have 12 licences a year
Readers Rotas
Would all readers please pick up updated rotas from Sacristy
Church
of the Most
....Sacred Heart
73 Pembroke Road, Ruislip, HA4 8NN
......Tel: 01895 632739
Fr. Michael writes: Will the family as we know it still exist in twenty years time? Some people today seem to doubt it. In celebrating the Feast of the Holy Family, the Church is not only asking us to recall the relationship of Jesus, Mary and Joseph in the carpenter’s home in Nazareth. She is reminding us that the family is a society which nurtures and cultivates holiness. The family shows us the Church in miniature. The Second Vatican Council said that the family is the domestic Church. The home, therefore, has a sacramental setting and the love of husband and wife, parents and children, is caught up in God’s love and made holy. Home and family relationships are the very material from which God weaves his pattern of holiness, the very root of Christian growth. Today we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family but we can really celebrate family life for all and pray for our own family today.
Pastoral Letter
Today at all Masses there is a Pastoral Letter from His Eminence Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, to mark the Feast of the Holy Family.
With Sympathy
Our sympathy and prayers to the families of Christopher Buckley whose Funeral Mass takes place on Tuesday 30th December at 10.00am and to the family of Noel Hendricks whose Funeral Mass takes place on Friday 2nd January2009 at 10.00am.
Christmas/New Year Services Sunday 28th December Masses as usual - 8.30am, 10.00am, 11.30am, 6.00pm Feast of the Holy Family
Monday 29th December Mass - 10.00am Feast of St. Thomas Becket No Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Tuesday 30th December Masses - 10.00am, 7.00pm
No Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Wednesday 31st December Mass - 10.00am
No Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Thursday 1st January Mass – 10.00am (No evening Mass) Solemnity of Mary Mother of God The Church will close after Mass today.
Friday 2nd January Mass – 10.00am St. Basil & St. Gregory No Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Saturday 3rd January Masses as usual – 10.00am, 6.00pm Most Holy Name of Jesus
Sunday 4th JanuaryMasses as usual – 8.30am, 10.00am, 11.30am, 6.00pm Epiphany of the Lord
2009 Catholic Diaries Catholic diaries are out in the porch and you are welcome to take one and place a donation in the box marked ‘Newspapers’
Many Thanks
To everyone who helped to make Christmas such a lovely celebration in our parish, to the Choir, Sarah and the Folk Group, Adrian our Organist; Clement and the altar servers; Readers and Eucharistic Ministers; the Flower Ladies for the lovely floral arrangements; collectors and sidesmen; sacristans and cleaners and Andy and Co. for the cribs and Christmas Trees, also to Nicola, our Parish Secretary. Grateful thanks also to the vast numbers who attended all of our Christmas Services from the Carol Concert; the Reconciliation Service and all of our Christmas Masses. Is religion dying out? Certainly not in Ruislip! Many thanks also for the Christmas Offerings and to all who sent Fr. Cristiano and myself cards, presents and good wishes. We are most grateful to you all.
With Grateful Thanks
Jackie Leeds sends thanks to the Eucharistic Ministers, members of the SVP and many parishioners for their constant kindness to Jack Rock (R.I.P). Prayers are being offered for them.
Marriage
If you are planning to get married in the first half of 2009 either here or abroad, please can you come and register with Fr. Michael. You need to give at least 6 months’ notice so that marriage preparation and all the paperwork can be completed.
Mass Intentions for the Week 27th December- 4th Jan 2009
Saturday 27th December 10.00 Muriel & Tony Thanksgiving St. John 18.00 Lucie Abele, R.I.P
Sunday 28th December 8.30 Michael Loughman, Breda & James Brosnan, R.I.P The Holy Family 10.00 Rita Dolan, R.I.P 11.30 For You, the People (Sung/English) --- 18.00 Sarah Fox McNulty, R.I.P
Monday 29th December 10.00 John Murphy, R.I.P St. Thomas Becket
Tuesday 30th December 10.00 FUNERAL MASS: Christopher Buckley, R.I.P
19.00 Mary O’Neill, R.I.P
Wednesday 31st December ---10.00 Phil Foley
Thursday 1st January 10.00 Eric & Edna Francis, R.I.P Mary, Mother of God
Friday 2nd January 10.30 FUNERAL MASS: Noel Hendricks, R.I.P St. Basil & St. Gregory
Saturday 3rd January 10.00 Angela Moran, R.I.P
18.00 Marion Mason, R.I.P
Sunday 4th January 8.30 For You, the People Epiphany of the Lord 10.00 Michael McInerney, R.I.P (Folk) 11.30 Timothy O’Sullivan, R.I.P (Sung / English) 18.00 Noel Gibbons, R.I.P
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK AND HOUSEBOUND: Carmel Galanty, Mary Maloney, Doreen Jones, Peter Flaherty, Dolores Osborne, Christopher Redmond, Rose Pick, Lily Fehin, Edna Winwright, Eugene Barrett, Trevor Denham, Mary Worley, Ann Holland, Caroline Titley, Mike Rumsey, Joan Hendricks, Sean O’Donnell, Baby Luca Vassallo, Albert Shaw, Kittie McCashen, Dorothy Rushbrooke
and Claire Wilson
AND FOR THOSE WHOSE ANNIVERSARY OCCURS ABOUT THIS TIME: Kathleen O’Connor, George Cartwright, Alice Langdon, Lucie Abela, William Base, Daniel Fennelly, Amelia Mazziotto, Michael O’Connell, Royston Burchell, Mary Boylan, Harold Gales, Margaret Tilley, Theresa Pavlovic, Oudah Narayn, Albert Poot, Ann White, George Burgh, Rev. Alexander Wells, Hugh Needham, Margaret Murphy, Alice Smith, Molly Leon, Marie Cartwright, Agnes Adamson, Evelyn Andrew, Thomas Watkins, Sean Kellegher, The Strom-Pedersen Family, Gerard Hickey, William Kelleher, Cyril Bransby and Teresa Sanderson
