Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: 10.30 – 12.00
Sacrament of Reconciliation:
10.30 – 11.30
17.15 – 17.30
Collections
Envelopes £1559.35
Loose £ 815.09 Total £2374.44
Retiring Collection –
(CAFOD) Haiti £756.15
Many thanks
Baptism Preparation
The next Baptism Course takes place this Monday 1st February at 8.00pm. If you wish to attend and have not already booked your place, please contact Nicola in the Parish Office.
Sacred Heart Year 6 Leavers of 2009
A reunion disco has been arranged for this Fri 5th February7.30-9.30pm in Hesdin Hall. Tickets £2 on door. Helpers to contact Gemma Storey via Sacred Heart School
Altar Servers
Does your Cassock and Cotta fit you? If you have outgrown them please get a form from the sacristy, complete it, and leave it in Clement’s box so that new ones can be organised for you. Please do this TODAY as we want to place orders this week for sizes in short supply.
Monthly Quiz Many thanks for the generosity of the disappointingly small numbers who had fun supporting the quiz on Friday 22nd Jan. Over £80 can now be sent to the Hillingdon Food Bank. Please look out for details of this monthly event for good causes and become a regular quizzer! Anyone wanting the answers to the Christmas Cryptic Quiz, just e-mail mcook8@sky.com
Thanksgiving Mass for the Sacrament of Matrimony
There will be a Mass of Thanksgiving for the Sacrament of Matrimony at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday 22nd May. The Archbishop will be inviting to this Mass all couples in the Diocese who are celebrating their 10th, 25th, 40th, 50th and 60th+ wedding anniversary of Catholic marriage in 2010. If you would like an invitation, please give Fr. Duncan the following information: husband and wife’s names, wedding date, full postal address and e-mail if you have one. Admission to the Mass is by invitation only
Westminster Year Book 2010 (£4.00)
These are now available from the Repository.
Church
of the Most
....Sacred Heart
73 Pembroke Road, Ruislip, HA4 8NN
......Tel: 01895 632739
Parish Priest: Fr. Duncan M Adamson
Parish Administrator: Nicola Burke
Fr. Duncan writes:This Sunday, our First Communion Children will be celebrating the gift of God’s word. At the 10.00am Mass I will present each child with a copy of God Speaks to His Children, texts from the bible. These books come from Aid to the Church in Need, a charity that works to bring the Word of God to the many peoples in our world deprived of the word of God. For each copy of this book we buy here in England, three copies are able to be distributed to those in need; on the missions, in countries where bibles are difficult to get, etc. Please keep our ‘special children’, their parents and their catechists in your prayers.
Tuesday this week, 2nd February, is the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, Candlemas. We celebrate that day when the parents of Jesus took him to the temple to present and dedicate him to God, as was the custom among the Jews. Among the temple faithful, Jesus’ appearance is the fulfilment of their hopes and he is perceived as the ‘light of the peoples’. We will begin our Mass in the porch where candles will be blessed, and then process into the church to continue our Mass. You may take your candles home with you, if you wish. ____________________________________________________________________________
Education Sunday
This Sunday is Education Sunday, a day on which we give thanks for the work of those engaged in Education in the Church. The work of our Catholic Schools, especially our Parish School, will immediately come to mind today. We think of the teachers in our Catholic Schools, all the support staff and the Governors. It is also important to remember the enormous involvement of people in adult education and catechesis for children in parishes. We give thanks to God for catechists who work in our parish preparing the children for the Sacraments of Holy Communion, Reconciliation and Confirmation. There will be a retiring collection today for the Catholic Education Service. The Catholic Education Service is an agency of the Bishops Conference who provide the Catholic voice for education in national and local government. Mission Appeal Next weekend we welcome Sr. Rose who will be making the Annual Mission Appeal this year in Aid of Missionary Sisters of England and Wales. Baptism Congratulations
Congratulations to Joseph Burke, Niamh Carlin and SummerLiggett who were all baptised into our Church yesterday, Saturday.
Deepest Sympathy
Our sympathy and prayers to the family of Wladek Lapot whose Funeral Mass takes place this Friday 5th February at 10.00am. The Sacrament of Confirmation Bishop Alan Hopes will be coming to our parish to celebrate the Sacrament of Confirmation on 3rd July this year. If there are any young people from our parish, in Year 9 or above, who wish to be confirmed this year, they should write to Fr. Duncan now. Their letter should include name, address, telephone number, date of birth, school attended and reason for wishing to receive this Sacrament. The application list closes today, Sunday 31st January. The young people themselves should be thinking about this Sacrament, and so they should
write the letter themselves.
The Blessing of Throats
This Wed 3rd February is the Feast of St Blaise. This feast is not celebrated in our diocese as we celebrate the Feast of SS Lawrence, Dunstan and Theodore. Traditionally on the Feast of St Blaise there is the blessing of throats, invoking the intercession of St Blaise to help us in our sickness, especially those afflicted with illnesses of the throat. If you would like to receive the blessing of throats it will be given at the end of Mass. First Friday Lunch
The next lunch will be this Friday 5th February. Why not come along and enjoy a home-cooked meal in the Coffee Lounge with friends, £4.00 per person with proceeds going to charities of our Church’s Trust.
Nursery Admissions - Sacred Heart School
If your child was born between 1st September 2006 and 31st August 2007 and you would like to apply for a Nursery place at Sacred Heart School for next September, application forms are now available. If you have not already received a copy please drop into the school office between 8.00am-4.00pm. Applications should be returned to school by Friday 26th February 2010.
Calling all Beavers and Cubs of the Parish
If you wish to join in the church parade next week, 7th February, turn up in full uniform at 9.45am in the hut. Parents you must sign your child in, be in attendance at the 10.00am mass and when collecting your child sign them out.
Mass Intentions 30th Jan to 7th Feb 2010
Saturday 30th January 10.00 Mark O’Dea, R.I.P
18.00 Susan Bower, R.I.P Ann.
Sunday 31st January 08.30 For You, the People 4th Sunday of the Year 10.00 Gladys Berry, R.I.P 11.30 Maureen McDonagh (Sung / English) 18.00 Dorothy Parenti, R.I.P Ann.
Monday 1st February 10.00 Mark Connelly, R.I.P Ann.
Tuesday 2nd February 10.00 Doreen Strachan, R.I.P Presentation of the Lord
Wednesday 3rd February 10.00 Joan Feely, R.I.P Ann. St. Blaise
Thursday 4th February 10.00 -------- Christine Hickey
Friday 5th February 10.00 Funeral: Wladek Lapot, R.I.P St. Agatha
Saturday 6th February 10.00 Maureen Cunningham, R.I.P Ann. SSPaul Miki & Companions 18.00 Bill Flanagan, R.I.P
Sunday 7th February 08.30 == For You, the People 5th Sunday of the Year 10.00 == Stephen Ford, R.I.P Ann. (Folk) 11.30 Joan Feely, R.I.P Ann. (Sung / English) 18.00 Irene & Royston Burchell, R.I.P Ann.
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK AND HOUSEBOUND: Trevor Denham, Lily Fehin,
Peter Flaherty, Carmel Galanty, Ann Holland, Doreen Jones, Mary Maloney, Kitty McCashin,
Seán O’Donnell, Dolores Osborne, Rose Pick, Christopher Redmond, Mike Rumsey, Dorothy
Rushbrooke, Albert & Marjorie Shaw, Caroline Titley, Luca Vasallo, Claire Wilson, Edna
Winwright, Mary Worley, Geoff Hadden, Bernadette Campbell, Colin Smith, Ted Fitzgerald
and Pat Toland
AND FOR THOSE WHOSE ANNIVERSARY OCCURS ABOUT THIS TIME: Susan Bower, Dorothy Parenti, Joan Feely, Maureen Cunningham, Msgr. E Sutton,
Mark Connelly, Stephen Ford and Irene Burchell
