St John the Baptist & St Therese of the Infant Jesus NOTICES Catholic parishes of Westerham & Biggin Hill XIV Sunday in Ordinary Time 7 th July 2019 HYMNS at BIGGIN HILL Int: Off: Rec: Alleluia All people Firmly 37 22 173 HYMNS at WESTERHAM Int: Off: Com: Rec: Alleluia All people O Sacred Firmly 644 741 799 962 COLLECTION 30 th June – Thank you! BIGGIN HILL Cash: £159.63 Gift Aid: £57.00 Standing Orders: £25.00 2 nd collection: £105.88 WESTERHAM Cash: £274.07 Gift Aid: £100.00 Standing Orders: £295.00 2 nd collection: £172.41 Coffee: £251.35 www.jandtcatholic.com Pope Francis will canonise Blessed John Henry Newman in St Peter’s Square on Sunday 13 October 2019 alongside four others. This will make Cardinal Newman the first English person who has lived since the 17th century officially recognised as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. John Henry Newman (1801-1890) was ordained as a Church of England priest and soon became the leader of the Oxford Movement but converted to Catholicism in 1845. He founded the Oratory in England and was later made a cardinal. When he died at the age of 89, more than 15,000 people lined the streets of Birmingham for his funeral. The cause for his sainthood was opened in 1958 and he was declared Venerable by Pope Saint John Paul II in 1991 after his life of ‘heroic virtue’ was recognised. Pope Benedict XVI declared him Blessed in Cofton Park near Birmingham in September 2010, as part of his historic visit to Britain. During the ceremony for his beatification in 2010, Pope Benedict said that Newman “tells us that our divine Master has assigned a specific task to each one of us, a ‘definite service’, committed uniquely to every single person.”
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St John the Baptist & St Therese of the Infant Jesus
NOTICES Catholic parishes of Westerham & Biggin Hill
XIV Sunday in Ordinary Time 7th July 2019
HYMNS at BIGGIN HILL Int: Off: Rec:
Alleluia All people Firmly
37 22 173
HYMNS at WESTERHAM
Int: Off: Com: Rec:
Alleluia All people O Sacred Firmly
644 741 799 962
COLLECTION
30th June – Thank you! BIGGIN HILL
Cash: £159.63 Gift Aid: £57.00 Standing Orders: £25.00
2nd collection: £105.88 WESTERHAM
Cash: £274.07 Gift Aid: £100.00 Standing Orders: £295.00
2nd collection: £172.41 Coffee: £251.35
www.jandtcatholic.com
Pope Francis will canonise Blessed John Henry Newman in St Peter’s Square on Sunday 13 October 2019 alongside four others. This will make Cardinal Newman the first English person who has lived since the 17th century officially recognised as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. John Henry Newman (1801-1890) was ordained as a Church of England priest and soon became the leader of the Oxford Movement but converted to Catholicism in 1845. He founded the Oratory in England and was later made a cardinal. When he died at the age of 89, more than 15,000 people lined the streets of Birmingham for his funeral. The cause for his sainthood was opened in 1958 and he was declared Venerable by Pope Saint John Paul II in 1991 after his life of ‘heroic virtue’ was recognised. Pope Benedict XVI declared him Blessed in Cofton Park near Birmingham in September 2010, as part of his historic visit to Britain. During the ceremony for his beatification in 2010, Pope Benedict said that Newman “tells us that our divine Master has assigned a specific task to each one of us, a ‘definite service’, committed uniquely to every single person.”
Mass Times
XIV Sunday in Ordinary Time SATURDAY Confessions: 5:00pm 6th July Fatima Devotions: 5:15pm Vigil Mass: 6:00pm WESTERHAM Int: Pro Populo SUNDAY Mass: 9:00am BIGGIN HILL 7th July Sung Mass: 11:00am WESTERHAM MONDAY Feria 8th July Mass: 9:30am Westerham
TUESDAY Ss John of Cologne & Comp MM (Martyrs of Gorcum) 9th July Mass: 8:30am BIGGIN HILL Int: Holy Souls WEDNESDAY Feria 10th July Mass: 7:30pm WESTERHAM THURSDAY St Benedict, Abbot & Patron of Europe 11th July 8:30am Mass in Biggin Hill Int: Francis Joseph Palamara RIP 11:00am Funeral of Francis Joseph Palamara, WESTERHAM. FRIDAY Feria 12th July MASS: 9:30am WESTERHAM Int: Stephanie Birjukov RIP ADORATION: 10:00AM – NOON. WESTERHAM SATURDAY Feria - Our Lady on Saturday 13th July Adoration & Confessions: 9:00am - 10:00am BIGGIN HILL Mass: 10:00am BIGGIN HILL Confessions: 5:00pm Vespers: 5:30pm Vigil Mass: 6:00pm WESTERHAM Int: Pro Populo
XV Sunday in Ordinary Time SUNDAY Mass: 9:00am BIGGIN HILL 14th July Sung Mass: 11:00am WESTERHAM
Louder still and louder praise the Precious Blood.
Rosary group meets in St Theresa’s Hall on Thursday at 7:00pm.
St John’s Toddler Group meets in St Joseph’s Room, Westerham, on Friday between 10:00am and Noon.
IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY: Pilgrimage to the Holy Land with Fr Ivan: 24 - 31 August 2021. Brochures and booking form at the back of church.
Tuesday 1st October 2019: Patronal Festival of St Therese of the Child Jesus in Biggin Hill 7:30pm Sung Mass with homily by the Very Revd Fr Kevin Alban O Carm, Prior Provincial of the UK Carmelites.
The Forty Hours Devotion – Quarant’ Ore. Monday 7th to Friday 11th October 2019 11:30am - 8:00pm. Details to follow.
Archbishop-Elect John Wilson will take canonical possesion of our diocese on Thursday 25th July at Noon. All encouraged to attend.
The funeral of Stephanie Birjukov will be held at St Theodore’s Church in Cranbrook at 11.00am on Thursday 11 July.
Many thanks indeed for your valiant effort and sheer hard work in making possible the Procession of the Most Blessed Sacrament. What a triumph of the Catholic Faith, witness, and your love to Jesus it was. Well done! Next year the Solemnity of Corpus Christi falls on the 14th June 2020. Thursday 15 August – Assumption of BVM. Holy Day of Obligation. Vigil Mass Wednesday at 7.30pm Westerham Masses of the Day: 10.00am Biggin Hill 7.30pm Westerham Holiday season is upon us. Please travel safely
and enjoy a relaxing time. One of the great joys of being a Catholic is finding a catholic community and church wherever you may be in the world. It is an
opportunity for us to meet brothers and sisters and worship together with them.
Wherever you attend Mass this holiday could you please bring back a photo and/or a
pewsheet. These will be collated in St Joseph’s Room to enable our young ones to appreciate
