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St Bartholomew’s Catholic Church
Frs Deodat Msahala, Paul Antwi-Boasiako CSSp & Deacon Paul Milligan
159 Ellison Road
Tel: 020 8679 3545
Streatham
Website: http://www.rcnorbury.org.uk
London SW16 5DE
Email: parish.office@rcnorbury.plus.com
Sunday 3rd May 2015
Second Sunday of Easter
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Mass
Times and Intentions
Fifth Sunday of Easter
6:15 (Saturday eve)
Michael Cafferty RIP
8:30 Severina Orlandazzi RIP
10.00 People of the Parish
11:30 Welfare of the
Leszczynski Family
(Polyphony Choir Singing)
Mass: Mass in D Major Charles Kitson
Comm: Ecce Panis Angelorum Anon.
4:00 May Devotions:
Rosary and Benediction
5:00 Ellis Foundation Mass
Monday 4thMay –
The English Martyrs
(Bank Holiday – Parish Office Closed)
07:30 John Flood RIP
10:00 Geoffrey Ohen RIP
Tuesday 5thMay
7:30 Mary Sehinson RIP
10:00 Edna Graham RIP
Wednesday 6thMay
7:30 Thanksgiving –
Adindu & Nwagwu Families
10:00 Norma Carpenter RIP
Thursday 7thMay
07:30 Welfare – Okeke Family
10:00 Mary Savage RIP
Friday 8thMay
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
07:30 Miss Violetta Umali RIP
10:00 Welfare of Jean Cowie
Saturday 9th May
10:00 Jim Devereux RIP
1:15 Wedding of Sinnita Fernandes
& Roscoe Hollings
Next Sunday 10thMay
Sixth Sunday of Easter
6:15 (Sat eve) Thomas Corr RIP
8:30 Mary Savage RIP
10:00 Antoine Shun RIP
12:00 First Holy Communion
5:00 Intention of the Houlihan Family
Daily Mass & Prayer:
Mass: Mon – Fri 7:30am
Morning Prayer of the Church:
Mon - Sat 9:15am
Adoration: Rosary & Benediction Mon
– Sat 9:30am
Mass: Mon – Sat 10:00am
Confessions: Saturday, after 10am
Mass until 11am; also 5pm to 6pm.
Fifth Sunday of Easter (Year B)
A Thought
Sorrowing pupils and their teachers were
once attending the requiem Mass of one
of the students who had, sadly, died of
Leukaemia. During the homily, a baby
began to cry. Father brought this into his
thoughts. “Although we are, today,
mourning the death of a loved one, we
have just been reminded by that cry that,
though some lives must end, others will
begin”. He reminded us all of the vital
place that our children hold in the Church.
While we might, for example, object to
our prayers and contemplation being
disturbed by audible conversations among
adults, we will, surely, take heart at the
sound of a baby’s cry or the voice of a
small child; these little ones are
reminding us that, through God’s Gift of
life and the generosity of Parents who
conceive and nurture them, the Family of
the Faithful will, as Jesus promised, live
on.
Christ said, when His Apostles would
have sent children away, “Let the little
ones come to me…” On another occasion
we are told by Him that we must become
child-like (not childish) ourselves,
showing that unconditional love and trust
to God that a child shows to his or her
parents. Just as our children depend on us,
their Parents, to bring them to birth, feed
and clothe them, they depend on us, too,
in a more profound and critical way;
parents as the first teachers of their
children are in the forefront of their
education in and practice of, the Faith.
Children need to become familiar with the
church and the Mass from as early an age
as possible. While part of their education
in the Faith will, indeed, involve
developing a reverent silence in church,
however, Parents must not be selfconscious if the children express
themselves as only little ones can! Every
time we hear the cry of a cry of a baby or
the voice of an infant, we must thank God
and Parents for the continuing life of the
Community of the Faithful. Our children
are the sign of our Love, demonstrating
that as Catholics, we do not go along with
the often anti-life mentality of the world.
They are the Adults – Parents, Priests and
Religious – of the future.
Coffee Morning: None this week
Readings in Parish Mass Book:
This Sunday, 3rd May– p 268
Next Sunday, 10th May – p 270
Thank You:
The collection for April 26th was
£1847.19: £1202.99 (baskets) &
£644.20 (standing orders).
Last week’s second collection for
Ecclesiastical Education raised
£508.61
The collection for the
Maintenance of St George’s
Cathedral came to £568.55
The Life Group would like to
thank you for the £120.00 raised at
last Sunday's coffee morning. A
cheque has been sent to Zoe's
Place Baby Hospice in Liverpool.
For more information please see:
http://www.zoes-place.org.uk;
Missio: Thanks to all of you who
helped to raise a grand total of
£5909.49 during 2014!
This week:
Monday 4th – Bank Holiday
(Parish Office closed)
Tuesday 5th – Family Choir 6:30
Practices resume in the gallery.
Wednesday 6th – 40th
anniversary of the consecration
of St Bartholomew’s
First Holy Communion practice
at 6:30pm in the church.
Thursday 7th – General Election:
Hall being used as polling station
Next Sunday:
The 11:30 Mass will be moved to
12:00 and will be the first of our
First Holy Communion Masses.
No coffee morning
Sick and Housebound:
FIRST HOLY COMMUNION:
Jessica Anane, Mary Aroganampillai, Juliette Blake,
Frances Carter, Stefan Czarnecki, Ann Diffley,
Mary Downey, Fr Andrew Fernandes, Elaine Gunther,
Anne Harris, Elliott Kelley-Campbell, James McDonald,
Ajitha Mahatantila, Peter Mendonca, Edgar Ming,
Idy Rastrick, Frederic Saint-Rose, Elizabeth & Alice Scott,
Jeannette Storace-Rutter, John Taylor, Edythe Thirlwall,
Ethelda Williams, Georgette Yoo Foo.
Please inform us if you know of anybody else who
would like to be added to the list of sick and
housebound, and if they require a priest to visit.
Next Sunday, May 10th, our first group of children will
be making their First Holy Communion during a
special Mass at 12:00. (Please note that there will be a
practice in the church this coming Wednesday 6th May
at 6:30pm which all must attend. The repository will be
opening specially during this practice.
We ask you to pray for all our First Communion
Children as they prepare to meet Our Lord Jesus
Christ in this Sacrament for the very first time. Those
receiving their First Holy Communion on that occasion
will be:
Baptism course: Wednesdays 20th & 27th May 2015.
At 8:00pm.in the room behind the sacristy.
Further sessions will be announced in due course.
Church Cleaning This Week: Group 3:
Cedric Abellar, Myles Akpani, Liam Bantleman,
Isabelle Chong, Jonathan D’Souza-Walker,
Noah Germain, Jessica Giannoukakis,
Cheryl Gyedu-Bardi, Lara Hall,
Alexander Jorge, Carina Menezes, Ellie Meyern,
Daniella Serrao & Joseph Ukadike.
Patricia Branch, Brigid Griffin, Joyce Ippoliti,
Elfriede Kormawa. If anybody is no longer able to come
along, please advise the Parish Office.
Could you possibly help keep our Church clean?
We remain desperately short of cleaners. If you would
like to help, please make yourself known to either of the
clergy, or contact the Parish Office.
.
General Election, May 7th 2015:
Various moral and social issues for you to consider.
May be found at: www.catholicnews.org.uk. NB: The hall
will be an official polling station, and it will therefore
not be available at all for any part of Polling Day.
The Catenian Rosary Group:
The Catenians send unwanted rosaries to Aboriginals in
Australia. There is a special container in the porch. Even
broken ones may be left. Please see poster in the porch.
Mass Intentions: May is fully booked, and June is fast
filling up. New Mass offering envelopes coming soon.
CATHOLIC TRUTH SOCIETY (CTS):
A new selection of books has now arrived and is on
display in the CTS rack on the wall in the porch, just
outside the Repository. If you would like to help the CTS
in its mission to evangelise, please email:
marketing@ctsbooks.org or phone 020 7640 0042.
Employment opportunities in Catholic Schools:
Please see the notice board, where there are many
advertisements at present.
CAFOD – DEC APPEAL FOR NEPAL:
The recent powerful earthquake in Nepal, just
a few days ago, has left thousands dead, with
survivors in tremendous need. We reach out
to them in prayer and solidarity. CAFOD, as
part of the Disasters Emergency Committee,
asks urgently for your financial donations, so
that life-saving food, water, shelter and
emergency supplies may be provided. You
may donate by phone on: 0500 85 88 85 or
online at: www.cafod.org.uk/Nepal Please
give generously. Details of the appeal are
also to be found on posters in the porch.
Many people like to give gifts to their children to
commemorate this special occasion. With this in
mind, the Repository has available a wide range of
cards, books and gifts for First Communions. Please
visit the Repository when you come to Mass.
Help is needed with the Going Forth Party on
Sunday 7th June. It is in keeping with tradition that
we call upon the parents whose children celebrated
this sacrament last year (2014), to assist in organising
this year’s party. If you can help in any way please
call Teresa Furtado as soon as possible, on 07742
911152. Many thanks in advance.
Sons and Daughters of the Living God
:
Seminars continue in the Parish Hall of Our Lady and
St Philip Neri. Please take a brochure from the porch.
GIFT AID ENVELOPES:
New envelopes will be available from the
weekend of Pentecost, 23rd & 24th May 2015.
Please collect them from the usual room on
the right hand side of the passage way at the
very front of the church. A member of the
Gift Aid team will be on hand to deal with
any questions you may have. This is also a
good time to consider, if you do not already
do so, Gift Aiding your contributions to the
Parish, if you are a tax payer. The great
advantage is that if you give regularly, using
the Gift Aid Scheme, the Church can claim
back 25p for every £1 you put into the
collection. And all you have to do is sign a
form! If you wish, you may also pay by
standing order for regular donations. Gift Aid
is a vital source of income for the parish. In
the financial year ended April 2014, we
reclaimed £17,687.36 from HM Revenue &
Customs!