SAINT HELEN’S PARISH
26th SUNDAY of the YEAR THE YEAR OF THE WORD – THE GOD WHO SPEAKS
THE SEASON OF CREATION World Day for Refugees and Migrants
27th September 2020
ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS
THE WORD THIS WEEK The choice is always ours. Ezekiel warns that the good person can lose it, but in contrast, no one is
stuck in sin. Jesus tells it as a story, two brothers and how they respond to the father’s call (a parable
that Saint Luke will fill out and change into a story of the ‘prodigally forgiving father’). The choice
is ours. Reciting a beautiful early-Christian hymn, Saint Paul tells us we must be ‘in our minds, the
same as Christ Jesus’, the Son who readily completes his Father’s will. ‘Lord, make me know your
ways, teach me your paths.’
SUNDAY MASS: (Psalter: Week 2)
Gathering Antiphon (6.30pm): All that you have done to us, O Lord, you have done with true judgement,
for we have sinned against you and not obeyed your commandments.
But give glory to your name and deal with us according to the bounty of your mercy.
Ezekiel 18: 25 – 28. When the sinner renounces sin, he shall certainly live.
Response: Psalm 24. R/. The Lord is close to all who call him.
Philippians 2: 1 – 11. In your minds you must be the same as Christ Jesus.
Acclamation for the Gospel:
Alleluia, Alleluia! If anyone loves me they will keep my word and my Father will love them, and we shall come to them, Alleluia, Alleluia. Alleluia!
Matthew 21: 28 – 32. "Tax collectors and prostitutes are making their way into the kingdom of God before you."
Preface and Eucharistic Prayer: Preface of Sundays iv; Eucharistic prayer ii.
Communion Antiphon (6.30pm): By this we come to know the love of God, that Christ laid down his life for us;
so we ought to lay down our lives for one another.
AND NOW THE GOOD NEWS WE’RE BACK!
A second look means that after all we don’t need to stop public Mass.
So we are open for Sunday Mass at 6.30pm on Saturdays and 10.30am on Sundays,
and weekdays at 10am on Tuesdays and Fridays, and adoration 2-4pm on Wednesdays.
MASS AND SERVICES DURING THE WEEK: Sat 26th Sept
5.30pm
6.30pm
26th SUNDAY of the YEAR (World Day for Refugees and Migrants)
Evening Prayer of the Church (Live-streamed)
for the People of the Parish Sun 27th Sept 10.30am Mario Moruzzi (GM) (Live-streamed)
Mon 28th Sept 10.00am Liz Hogan (JH)
Tues 29th Sept
10.00am
SAINT MICHAEL, SAINT GABRIEL, + SAINT RAPHAEL,
Archangels
Barbara Jones
Wed 30th Sept
10.00am 2.00 – 4.00pm
Saint Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church
John Phillips (TT) Exposition and Adoration
Thurs 1st Oct
9,45am
10.00am
Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, Virgin + Doctor of the Church
Rosary (Live-streamed)
Luigi Antoniazzi (LA)
Fri 2nd Oct0ber
10.00am
The Guardian Angels
Margherita Antoniazzi (LA) Sat 3rd Oct
4.00pm
6.30pm
Harvest Festival (Live-streamed)
27th SUNDAY of the YEAR Diamond Remembrance (CR)
Sun 4th Oct 10.30am for the People of the Parish (Live-streamed)
THE SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION: At any time by prior arrangement with the priest (outside).
The PARISH PRAYER LIST: Among all those we pray for in this time, we continue to remember all suffering from the virus and its effects, all the medics, health-workers, and other front line workers, and also each other coping with the new lockdown. We remember also: Teresa Meade Rosa Channon Graham Jenkins Sandra Bray Lloyd Jones Cecelia Mawby David Mabey Isobel Cummins Pauline Richards Margaret Jones Carol Morrissey Claris Howell Anne Morgan Pat Starynski Yvonne Grandon Martyn Western Marjorie Gurney Carmen Agius Lowela Teves Joe Marenghi Pamela and Keith Griffiths Pat + Pino Emanuelli Mary & Wilson Brown John Maguire Katrin Merry Sian Thomas Maura Coll Mary + Colin Everson
PRAYER CYCLE FOR OUR DIOCESE: We pray for the People of Saint David, Maesglas, part of All Saints Pastoral Area, Newport, led by Revd. Michael Doyle. We remember also their schools, Saint David’s Primary, and Saint Joseph’s High School.
THE YEAR OF THE WORD – THE GOD WHO SPEAKS
“If anyone loves me he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him.”
(Gospel Acclamation, 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time)
Cardinal Newman Catholic Comprehensive School is currently accepting
applications for admission into Year 7 for September 2021. The deadline to apply
is the 16th October 2020. Applications can be completed via our
website https://www.cardinalnewman.co.uk. Please contact the school if you have
any questions.
https://www.cardinalnewman.co.uk/
Today is the WORLD DAY FOR REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS Pope Francis has much to say on this. He reminds us that an encounter with displaced people, as it is with any marginalised people, is an opportunity for an encounter with God. He says ‘The pandemic has reminded us how we are all in the same boat.’ Realising that we have the same concerns and fears has shown us once more that no one can be saved alone. To grow truly, we must grow together, sharing what we have, like the boy who offered Jesus five barley loaves and two fish… yet they proved enough for five thousand people (Jn 6:1-15) Of the world’s eighty million displaced people, only a tiny fraction seek sanctuary in the UK. The vast majority are accommodated by the world’s poorest
countries and many of our European neighbours play a much bigger role than us. Extending opportunities for resettlement and family reunification causes championed by so many of our churches, including several in our own Diocese, is surely now a more urgent moral duty than at any time in our recent history. To see the pope’s message for this day, and much more on the issue, please go to:
https://migrants-refugees.va/resource-center/world-day-of-migrants-refugees-2020/
Thursday, the feast of Saint Therese of Lisieux, ‘the Little Flower’, is also the start of October, the
MONTH OF THE ROSARY. Every weekday morning the rosary will be said in church at 9.45am. On Thursday 1st, to set us off, it will be live-streamed. Join us there, or join us in person on
Tuesday and Friday mornings before Mass, or join us each weekday at 9.45 saying the rosary with us
wherever you are.
‘ “I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land, and I will feed them upon the heights of Israel”. God has set up the authors of the divine scriptures as the heights of Israel. Feed there to feed safely. Whatever you har from that source, savour it well. Whatever is outside, reject. Lest you should go astray in the mist, listen to the shepherd’s voice. Gather together on the mountain of Holy Scripture. There are your heart’s delights; there is nothing poisonous there, nothing you should not eat, its pastures are of the richest.’ From a sermon of Saint Augustine.
Don’t forget the Thursday evening SCRIPTURE STUDY! Come and share the feast!
https://migrants-refugees.va/resource-center/world-day-of-migrants-refugees-2020/
THE SEASON OF CREATION closes next Sunday,
the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi, patron saint of the
ecological movement. For mor inspiration, please see
https://seasonofcreation.org/catholic/
To mark it, we will have a (virtual) Harvest
Festival on Saturday, 4.00pm,
livestreamed on the Parish
facebook page. Many thanks
for all the (virtual) gifts
and contributions.
SAINT HELEN’S VIRTUAL COMMUNITY CENTRE – THIS WEEK:
Date Time Event
Thurs 1st October 9.45am
7.30pm
Rosary: Via Saint Helen’s Facebook
Scripture Study: Via Saint Helen’s Facebook
Sat 3rd October 4.00pm Harvest Festival, Via Saint Helen’s Facebook
Sun 4th October 10.30am
11.30am
SUNDAY MASS: Via Saint Helen’s Website or Facebook
‘Coffee Morning’: Via Saint Helen’s Facebook
THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH Part One: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH. Section One: ‘I Believe’ – ‘We Believe’
Chapter 3: Man’s Response to God
(142) By his Revelation, “the invisible God, from the fullness of his love, addresses men as
his friends, and moves among them, in order to invite and receive them into his own
company”(DV 2; cf. ⇒ Col 1:15; ⇒ I Tim 1:17; ⇒ Ex 33:11; ⇒ Jn 15:14-15; Bar 3:38 (Vulg.)). The adequate
response to this invitation is faith.
(143) By faith, man completely submits his intellect and his will to God(Cf. DV 5). With his
whole being man gives his assent to God the revealer. Sacred Scripture calls this human
response to God, the author of revelation, "the obedience of faith" (Cf. ⇒ Rom 1:5; ⇒ 16:26). (Catechism of the Catholic Church 1992)
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