St Dominic The Priory and Parish of Our Lady of the Rosary & Sunday Masses 6pm - Saturday Vigil 8.30 am - Mass 10.00 am - Family Mass 12.00 - Solemn Mass 6.00 pm - Mass Confessions Saturday 10.30 - 11.00am 5.30 - 6.00pm Sunday 11.15 - 11.45 am Weekday Masses Monday - Friday 7.30am, 10am & 6pm Saturday 7.30am, 10.00am & 6pm - Vigil Mass Baptism course rd 3 Sunday of the month after the 10am Mass. Next course: Today Last Week’s Collection 5th April Total: £864.90 Gift Aid: £655.50 12th April Total: 1797.46 Gift Aid : £619.89 Thank you for your generosity. This Week’s Sanctuary Lamp Intentions Carol & Ray Clarke (right) Culleton Family (left) Feast Days This Week Thu St George, Martyr, Patron of England Fri Sts Erkenwald & Mellitus, Bishops (Haverstock Hill), Southampton Road, London, NW5 4LB | Tel 020 7482 9210 19th April 2015 - Third Sunday of Easter - Year B - Divine Office 3 Baptism Course Parish Pilgrimage to Walsingham Volunteers for Maitland Park Care Home Parish Pilgrimage to Lourdes If you would like your baby baptised come along after the 10am Mass today. If you are not able to join us today you may do so on any third Sunday of every month after the 10am Mass. It is a two part course and both parts must be attended. The annual Parish pilgrimage to Walsingham takes place on Sunday 17th May. It is a great occasion with Mass, a procession along the holy mile into the village and some time for quiet prayer, reflection and shopping. The coach costs £20.00 per person. Please ring Nuala on 020 7428 9340 to book your place. Maitland Park Care Home are looking for volunteers to come in and spend time with their residents and help them with some light gardening. If you have some free time to spare or know of anyone who may also wish to volunteer please contact Clare or June on 020 7424 6700. 8 - 12 June Flying from Stansted, staying at the Agena Hotel. Cost £429.00 plus insurance. Contact Nuala for more details on 020 7428 9340. Rosary School First Holy Communion - 16 May Walsingham Pilgrimage - 17th May Parish First Holy Communion - 7th June Parish Pilgrimage to Lourdes - 8th - 12th June St Dominic’s First Holy Communion - 20th June Confirmation - 21st June The AGM for the Overseas Aid Group will be held in the Priory on Sunday 26th April at 3.30pm. All members of the parish are welcome. Dates for your diary th Vocation Discernment Group The above group for 18 - 30’s will meet on the 24th April from 7-9 pm in the Hinsley Room, next to Westminster Cathedral. For more information contact, Fr Richard at richardnesbitt@rcdow.org.uk Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Stone Saturday 3oth May Priory Hall, Station Road, ST 15 8EN For more information contact Sr Julie Alves OP, at alvesjulie@hotmail.com or telephone 07881 505 425, or see poster in noticeboard. Mothers’ Prayers Mothers’ prayers will resume on Monday 20th April at 2pm in the Lourdes Chapel. Please come along and join us in prayer. Sanctuary Lamp Intentions The sanctuary lamps before the Blessed Sacrament are lit for particular prayer intentions. The lights burn for a week and point us to the Tabernacle. There are envelopes in the repository and at the back of Church if you would like candles lit for a special intention. The intentions are listed in the newsletter, with an indication of which candle is burning for which intention. Please complete one of the envelopes at the back of the church and hand it to one of the Friars. Overseas Aid Group Priory Sports Club The Sports Club will resume on Wednesday 22nd April, at the Air Dome on Weedington Road. from 5-6pm. With the weather warming up, there will be extensive opportunities to try out a variety of sports. There is an annual membership fee of £2.50 and 50p thereafter for each session. Look forward to seeing lots of you. Remember a loved one You can help us pay for the new hymn books, as well as commemorate your loved ones by sponsoring a hymn book in the name of someone who has died. There are envelopes at the back of the Church. Readings Acts 3:13-15.17-19 John 2:1-5 Luke 24:35-48 Response Lift up the light of your face on us, O Lord. Acclamation Alleluia alleluia! Lord Jesus, explain the scriptures to us. Make our hearts burn within us as you talk to us. Alleluia! Contact Details St Dominic’s Priory Southampton Road NW5 4LB Fr Thomas Skeats OP Parish Priest Tel: 020 7482 9210 Fax: 020 7482 9239 london@english.op.org Please Pray For... The Risen Messiah The scope of the appearance of the risen Jesus given in the gospel extract from Saint Luke today is very great. The full setting of his teaching was not explicitly evident in the missioning of his earthly life; he was the Galilean who had appeared with gifts of healing which entailed their divine endowment with which some passages in the later part of Isaiah's prophesy anticipated. His doctrinal and moral teaching were the elements of a divine wisdom implicit in all of his words. He claimed a heavenly origin, and that his teaching was implicitly and historically related to the Jewish scriptures, which it fulfilled by clarifying and fulfilling. The central part of his teaching would The Holy Father’s be recorded in the discourses and discussions recorded by his disciple Saint Intentions: John giving the weight of divinity beUniversal: hind his teaching, ultimately to be exThat people may learn plained by his unity and identity with to respect creation and care for it as a gift the Father, identified with the God of of God. Israel, with whom he will send the Holy Spirit. Evangelization That persecuted In his mission he had spoken as a man, Christians may feel but united personally with the Godhead the consoling presence of the Risen Lord and accompanied by the presence of Faand the solidarity of ther and Holy Spirit, as also by the anall the Church. gels who had always been with him: anouncing his birth in Bethlehem, and accompanying his solitude in the Sick: Judean desert. Geady Asta, Marcillina Fejoku, Derek Loftus, Geady Asta, K Barnes, R McDonnell, K Ruddy, P McGuiness Anniversaries: Jim Wixted, Miroslawa Kania, Danuta Kurek, Bridie O’Shea Recently Deceased: Anne Costelloe, Mary Murphy After his already prophesied betrayel and arrest, his passion and his Crucifixion by the Roman procurator under the pressure of the Jewish authorities, we are following his appearances in his human body resurrected by his fullyshared Trinitarian divinity. He had, according to Saint Luke, attached himself to two travelling disciples on the way to Emmaus, to whom he had opened the Scriptural perspectives which set him out as recapitulating all Jewish history in the world perspective anounced by the prophet Isaiah. The disciples had returned immediately to the Apostles in Jerusalem and were telling them of their experience, and at that moment He Himself appeared in Today their midst uttering the words, 'Peace Brown Bread be with you!' So he called on them to 26th April enter into the peaceful heart of his GodVocation Sunday (PTF) head: to experience its presence which Forthcoming Second Collections underlay his passion-wounded body. And he asked for food to show that his presence was both physical and spiritual. In his earthly mission he had spoken as a man; at this moment he speaks from his Godhead through his glorified manhood before its definitive Ascension. So he speaks from the perspective which embraces all perspectives, and therefore with the greatest authority, most useful for their ministering to his body which they would participate as his Church until time's end. He showed them how he was fulfilling prophesies in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms. Exegetes currently identify five Messianic prophesies in the Law-books. Firstly the enmity prophesied betwen the seed of the serpent and the Seed of the woman, not designated by a father (Gen 3,15). Secondly, the blessing promised to all the nations through the Seed of Abraham (Gen 22,18); so Mary is given a priority for the Seed of them both. Thirdly, that 'the [Kingly] sceptre shall not depart from Judah ... until the Conciliator shall come, gathering the people' (Gen 49,10), and here the slain and risen King addresses the Apostles to whom the gathering of all peoples is entrusted. Fourthly, the princes of neighbouring people of Moab had asked a pagan seer, Baalam, to curse the Israelites, but the inspiration of God compelled him to say 'I shall see him, but not now: ... there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab' (Num 24,17). Fifthly, 'I will raise up a Prophet from among their brethren and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command Him', which is in Deuteronomy (18,18). This gave the possibility of relating the Law to the highest Wisdom: not just to the Torah existing 'from the beginning' as the Rabbis taught, but a timeless, spiritually uttered Word of God such as he was now giving, to be given by John in his Prologue, and by Matthew in his Sermon on the Mount. Amen. Fr Edward Booth OP A member of our Cambridge Community