Holy Innocents’ Church Strickland Way, Orpington, Kent BR6 9UE Tel: 01689 817537 Fax: 01689 817539 Website: www.holyinnocents.org.uk Email: [email protected]Parish Priest: Rev. Fr. Victor Vella Mobile: 07802 721306 Email: [email protected]Parish Deacons: Rev. Barry Chalkley Mobile: 07917 132472 Email: [email protected]Rev. Wayne DuPreez Mobile: 07500 009281 Email: [email protected]Coordinator for Prayer & Formation: Anne Scripture Email: [email protected]Convent of Sisters of Mercy: 01689 832999 Parish Secretary: Mrs Sharon Delaney Office Hours: Mon, Wed, Fri 10:30am to 3:30pm Registered Charity No: 235468 Nineteenth Sunday - 8 th /9 th & The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - 15 th /16 th August 2015 Our Summer Spiritual Book-share has started. If you are happy and willing to lend any spiritual books that you have found helpful, please bring them to St. Joseph's Hall - there are instructions on the tables showing how to sign them in & out. They do not need to be deep theological ones! For those who like a 'lighter read', novels and biographies etc. can help us to deepen or understand our Faith in some way. The challenge to read for at least 15 minutes a day is for everyone - younger readers, do bring in your books to share with others, too! Help needed Can you spare an hour or two next Tuesday 11 th or Thursday 13 th to help the music group with sorting music? No experience necessary! We will be meeting in Room 2 after Mass until approx. 3.30pm on both days - any help will be very much appreciated. Thank you. ANNUAL PARISH DAY Sunday 13th September commencing with Mass at 11.00am. The Masses on this weekend will be 6pm Saturday, 8am and 11am Sunday
Parish Deacons: Rev. Barry Chalkley Mobile: 07917 132472Email: [email protected]. Wayne DuPreez Mobile: 07500 009281Email: [email protected]
Coordinator for Prayer & Formation: Anne Scripture Email: [email protected] Convent of Sisters of Mercy: 01689 832999 Parish Secretary: Mrs Sharon Delaney Office Hours: Mon, Wed, Fri 10:30am to 3:30pm Registered Charity No: 235468
Nineteenth Sunday - 8th/9th &The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- 15th/16th August 2015Our Summer Spiritual Book-share has started. If you are happy and willing to lend any spiritual books that you have found helpful, please bring them to St. Joseph's Hall - there are instructions on the tables showing how to sign them in & out. They do not need to be deep theological ones! For those who like a 'lighter read', novels and biographies etc. can help us to deepen or understand our Faith in some way. The challenge to read for at least 15
minutes a day is for everyone - younger readers, do bring in your books to share with others, too! Help needed Can you spare an hour or two next Tuesday 11th or Thursday 13th to help the music group with sorting music? No experience necessary! We will be meeting in Room 2 after Mass until approx. 3.30pm on both days - any help will be very much appreciated. Thank you.
ANNUAL PARISH DAY Sunday 13th September commencing with Mass at 11.00am.
The Masses on this weekend will be 6pm Saturday, 8am and 11am Sunday (NO 10am or 6pm Masses on Sunday).
PLEASE SUPPORT THIS PARISH FAMILY EVENT. Raffle prizes are needed. There will be boxes in the church porch for Raffle donations and items for the Bottle stall.
Offers of help for the event would be gratefully received. Help is needed setting up on the day, running the stalls and clearing away
If anyone is willing to make cakes for the cake stall it would be much appreciated. Please remember that cakes need to be nut free as the school is a nut free zone.
Thank you once again for your support.
P l e a s e p u t t h i s d a t e i n y o u r d i a r y.
Rite of the Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) – Journey in Faith (JIF) Would you like to know more about Jesus? Would you like to join us as we explore our Christian faith? Journey in Faith (JIF) sessions for adults who are not members of the Catholic Church (or who have not made their First Holy Communion or been confirmed) will start in October. Please let Father Victor know if you might be interested.
Parish Co-responsibility Group contact details Speak to any member of the PCRG, leave us a note in our pigeon hole in the Parish Centre, e-mail us at [email protected] or leave a message on 07778 612050.
Fr Victor is away from Monday 10th August, returning on Sunday 30th August; Deacons Barry & Wayne will be away from 10th to 17th August; Sister Joan returns on Sunday 23rd
August.Welcome to Fr. Joy Ashok who will be looking after the parish whilst Fr. Victor is away.
Coffee Morning this Sunday will be hosted by CWL; NEXT weekend will be hosted by James & Liz Mullett.
Baptism Welcome to Sophia Autumn Cossin who was received into the church through the Sacrament of Baptism recently. We share in the joy of her family.
Personal prayer intentions are included on the Holy Innocents' web-site on the Bulletin page. Please inform the editor, Cecilia, on [email protected] and also if and when the prayers are no longer required.
Please take time to have a look at this page and pray for these intentions.
We remember in our prayers the Sick, Housebound & their Carers: Ann Van Ouckana, Douglas, Shirley and Deborah Smart, Ian Andrews, Patricia Holden, Fred Morris, June Elsey, Vera Greene, Liz Weekly, Primrose Martin, Vida Stewart, Helena Johns, John Weller, Bernard & Ruth Nertney, Miriam Cappelle, Morgan Camilleri, Michael Minihane, Michael O’Sullivan, Alison Walker, Paul Chester, Terry Ruddy, Joy Waugh and all those in Hospital
Matters Financial
Restoration Fund: £26993.07 Parish Complex Fund: £160181.68 Second collection THIS week and NEXT will be for the Restoration Fund.
Do not forget to use an envelope from the box in the porch to gift aid your contribution AND PUT YOUR GIFT AID NUMBER ON THE ENVELOPE. Thank you
Please sign up for the Gift Aid Scheme, copies of the form are available in the carousel in the porch. The contact for Gift Aid is Ken Evans 01689 851793.
**** JUST VISITING? We can gift aid your offering if you are a tax payer; just complete one of the white envelopes in the pew. ****
The Adoration room is open for personal prayer Mon-Fri 8am-8pm. Please contact Sharon in the office or Anne Scripture if you need the door code to get in.
Next Sunday is the Feast of the Assumption If you are free, please come and join us in Church at 3.30pm to sing together some of our lovely Marian Hymns (including your favourites). This will be followed by Afternoon Tea in St Joseph's Hall, finishing at 5.30pm in time for the evening Mass. All voices welcome
Thursday 20th August If you have nothing planned on this day, come and join us for our "Games & Picnic" event - everyone of ALL AGES welcome. Bring your favourite board/card
games & a picnic lunch any time between 11am and 2pm to St Joseph’s Hall and/or the parish garden depending on the weather.
Confirmation & First Holy Communion Photographs Contact Sue Mound if you wish to view or purchase any photos; you can contact her on 07887 717508.
Parish walkers will meet at Downe on the green opposite the pub at 2pm on Sunday 9th August for a 3 mile walk lead by Val Yeates (01689 857495). Everyone most welcome.
The Deanery team from Our Lady of the Crays have organised a Football tournament which will take place on Sunday 9th August at 1pm at St Philamena’s primary school in Orpington. All young people from Bromley deanery are invited to attend; the address is Chelsfield Rd, Orpington BR5 4DR.
Do not forget to contact your MP about Assisted Dying Bill, due to be debated on Friday 11th September. The debate and vote on a Bill to legalise assisted suicide will put the most vulnerable people in our society at risk. Please contact your MP, urging them to attend the debate and vote against the Bill. You can send an e-mail to your MP via the Catholic Bishops’ Conference website (www.catholicnews.org.uk/assisted-suicide) or send a letter by post, a draft of which can be found at the back of the Church, along with a Q & A on Assisted Suicide.
Have cutbacks caused you particular difficulty? Are you finding it hard to meet fuel bills? Please remember that Holy Innocents’ SVP is available to help. Confidentiality
is assured. Please contact Fr. Victor for more information.Saturday 8th August18:00 Oscar & Stella Fernandes RIP (Ferris)
Sunday 9th August Nineteenth Sunday 08:00 Wellbeing of Hugh Coyle (Burke)
Mass Book Page 117 10:00 Elizabeth Holford RIP (McDowell)17:45 Ministers Praying Together - Voluntary Basis18:00 Mary & Pascal Cappuccio RIP
Monday 10th August St. Lawrence10:00 John Higgins RIP (Fane)20:00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament with Night
PrayerReadings 2 Corinthians 9:6-10 Ps 111(112):1-9 John 12:24-26
Tuesday 11th August St. Clare09:00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament with Morning
Prayer10:00 Francis Joseph McCabe (FM)Readings Deuteronomy 31:1-8 Deuteronomy 32:3-9 Matthew 18:1-5, 10,
12-14
Wednesday 12th August Feria08:30 Hipolito da Costa (Torquato)Readings Deuteronomy 34:1-12 Ps 65(66):1-5, 16-17 Matthew 18:15-2009:00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament with Morning Prayer 08:45 Gardening Team meet for regular maintenance of
the grounds Deacon Barry will not be in Residence
Thursday 13th August Feria09:00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament with Morning
Prayer10:00 Eileen & Michael O’Sullivan & their Family (Hillier)Readings Joshua 3:7-11, 13-17 Ps 113(114) Matthew 18:21 - 19:1
Friday 14th August St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe09:00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament with Morning
Prayer10:00 Intention of Children in the Third World (FM)Readings Joshua 24:1-13 Ps 135(136):1-3, 16-24 Matthew 19:3-12
Saturday 15th August Feria10:30 No Mass17:00 - 18:00 Sacrament of Reconciliation18:00 Gladys Mary Martin (FM)
Sunday 16th August The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary 08:00 Torquato Family Mass Book Page 178 10:00 Monica Howes RIP (Burke)17:45 Ministers Praying Together - Voluntary Basis18:00 Frank Carroll RIP (Farey)
Monday 17th August Feria10:00 Tom Forsyth RIP (Forsyth)
20:00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament with Night Prayer
Readings Judges 2:11-19 Ps 105(106):34-44 Matthew 19:16-22
Tuesday 18th August Feria09:00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament with Morning Prayer10:00 Mary Garvey RIP (Schwenk)Readings Judges 6:11-24 Ps 84(85):9, 11-14 Matthew 19:23-30
Wednesday 19th August Feria08:30 Mrs Lily Dacosta (Torquato)Readings Judges 9:6-15 Ps 20(21):2-7 Matthew 20:1-1609:00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament with Morning Prayer 08:45 Gardening Team meet for regular maintenance of the grounds 19:00 - 20:00 Deacon Barry “in Residence” - Parish Centre
Thursday 20th August St. Bernard09:00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament with Morning Prayer10:00 Margaret Kearney RIP & Deceased Relatives (Kearney)Readings Judges 11:29-39 Ps 39(40):5-10 Matthew 22:1-1420:00 Choir Practise - in Church
Friday 21st August St. Pius X09:00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament with Morning Prayer10:00 Shelton Soysa RIP (Madugalle)Readings Ruth 1:1, 3-6, 14-16, 22 Ps 145(146):5-10 Matthew 22:34-40
Saturday 22nd August The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary10:30 Fr. Kevin Gaskin RIP11:00 - 11:45 Sacrament of Reconciliation17:00 - 18:00 Sacrament of Reconciliation18:00 Choir Mass Margaret & Hugh Maguire RIP (Gancke)
Sunday 23rd August Twenty-First Sunday 08:00 Fred Worley RIP (O’Flynn) Mass Book Page 123 10:00 Annie & Johnny Singh (Eldridge)17:45 Ministers Praying Together - Voluntary Basis18:00 Marion Robins RIP (Robinson)
Mass intentions All August and September Masses are booked and there are only a few dates available in October.
Holy Father’s Prayer Intentions for August
Universal: That volunteers may give themselves generously to the service of the needy.
Evangelisation: That setting aside our very selves we may learn to be neighbours to those who find themselves on the margins of human life and society.
Anniversaries ~ Mary Cappuccio, Ellen Scott, Brenda Sullivan, Doreen Nowell, Sylvia Clinch, Thomas Davis, Sheila Maunder, Francis McCabe, John Higgins, Ethel Jones, Patricia Townsend, Martin Swift, Nancy Webster, John Flynn, Bernadette O’Malley, Mary Sommi, Cecily Horsham, James Allen, Eileen Murray, John Wright, Karen Burton, Laurence Kay, Julia Regan, Peter Morley, Sr. Kevin McGrath, Harriet Web, Gerald Toothe, Maureen Sheehan, Anthony Forti, Frances Sayers, Michael Sparkes, Mrs Matthias, Denis Doyle, Clarence Norris, Marie Wilding, Mounir Joseph, Liam Tasker, Jane Myles, Mary Sreeves, Thomas Reilly, Sonia Desvaux, Gerald O’Rourke, Slavka Elston, Lilian Garner, Dora Atkinson, Paul Gallagher, Bernard MacKeonis, Richard Godsil, John Flanagan and Philip Jones. May they rest in peace.
Blessed Oscar Romero A National Thanksgiving Mass to celebrate the life, martyrdom and beatification of Oscar Romero is to be held on Saturday August 15th at 12.30 pm in Metropolitan Cathedral Church of St George. The celebrant will be Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor and the preacher will be Bishop John Rawsthorne - please see the poster on the noticeboard.
CHURCHES TOGETHER Prayer List Please pray for for the work of the Gideons: Nelson & Ruth Pallister; for Ministers in secular employment and for all chaplaincy wor.
Bromley Borough Foodbank A box for food donations is positioned in the porch and a list of items required is on the top of the box. At present there is a particular need for tinned potatoes, tinned tomatoes and tinned rice pudding.
Please pray with joy and thanksgiving for the vocation of marriage. We ask that God may continue to bless all married couples in their lives together, especially those in our parish who celebrate a Wedding Anniversary during August: Liz & Ron Munro; Adrian & Mary Saunders; Barbara & Roger Fidler;
Dominic & Louise Munro; Richard & Theresa Cunningham; Bramley & Nora Torquato; Colin & Linda Ledger; Mick & Jackie Low.
Fund-raising for Leonard Cheshire Disability On Wednesday 26th August between 11.00am and 3.00pm, pop along to Nurse Plus, 141 High Street, Farnborough, Orpington BR6 7AZ for a cuppa & a cake to show your support.
