24th May, 2014 – First Mass (Sixth Sunday of Easter)

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Times of Mass and Devotions

Sat   24 May  5.30pm HA First Mass Special Intentions of Pam Cunningham
Sun  25 May  9.15am HF Sixth Sunday of Easter Special Intentions of the people of the Parish
  11.00am HA   Arthur Roberts (RIP)
Mon  26 May   1.00pm  HA Wedding: Christiana Dapaah & David Onwueseogwu  
Tue  27 May  10.00am HF St. Augustine of Canterbury Phil Johnson (RIP) Holy Souls Book
Wed 28 May   9.30am HA Wed. after 6th Sunday of Easter Sabih Khan (RIP)
Thu  29 May   7.30pm HF Thu. after 6th Sunday of Easter Heather Nutting (RIP) Holy Souls Book
 Fri   30 May 12.00pm HA Fri. after 6th Sunday of Easter The McQuade Family (RIP) Holy Souls Book
Sat  31 May  5.30pm HA The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary John Ades (RIP)
Sun   1 Jun  9.15am HF The Ascension of the Lord Special Intentions of the people of the Parish
  11.00am HA   For the families of the sailors lost at sea

 

Special Collection

Next Sunday, 1st June  there will be a Special Collection for The Catholic Communications Network

 

Liturgy

25th May,  2014

6th Sunday of Easter
May is the month of honour for our Lady

Theme:  Keeping the Commandments prepares us for the Holy Spirit

Ent:                  HA: 801  HF: 398 Love Divine
Offertory:         HA: 920  HF: 4 A New Commandment
Final Hymn:      HA: 365  HF: 300 Immaculate Mary

RESPONSORIAL PSALM: 6th Sunday of Easter (A)

 

Collections for 18/5/2014

Holy Angels: Offertory: £ 291.11
Standing Orders – April:  £ 970.00
Holy Family:
Offertory: £ 187.00
Standing Orders – April: £ 973.00

Information

Annual General Meetings for both Parishes:

Holy Angels: 11th June at 7.30pm
Holy Family:  12th June at 8.00pm

First Holy Communions:

Holy Angels:  Sat. 14th June at 1.00pm
Holy Family:  Sat. 21st June at 1.00pm

Banns for forthcoming Weddings:-

Jon Bricker & Clare Hayes (HF) 10th July, 2014
Dan Geraghty & Lysette Blondell (HA’s) 12th July, 2014
David White & Marie Purchase (HA’s) 19th July, 2014
Joshua Richard & Yara Bou Antoun (HF) 1st August
Darren Stephenson & Emily O’Connor (HA) 29th August
Mateusz Szalankiewicz & Karolina Szalankiewicz (Poland)

Please remember in your prayers these young couples as they embark on their married life together.

Sacred and Secular Concert:  Crondall Community Choir (CCC) are performing a mix of sacred and secular songs (including songs from the shows). Saturday  7th June 7.30pm. Tickets only £5. Buy them on the door  – no pre booking required. Venue: Aldershot Baptist Church, Upper Elms Road, Aldershot  GU11 3ES.  Everyone welcome. For more information please contact  Sue Haworth-Edwards on 07899 868739  or suehaworthedwards@btinternet.com

Parish Christian Gift Shop: Telephone: Judy on 01252 324125 (Catalogue at back of both Churches)

Youth Group Co-Ordinators:

Gloria Benson: Gloria.benson@chyp.com
Hilary Gray: moboffive@hotmail.com

Prayer Requests

For the sick:  Deacon David Morgan, Newton Abrew, Paul Gibson’s Mother, Judy.

 

Holy Angels

Children’s Liturgy: We are blessed with a thriving young church at Holy Angels.   However, the current team of catechists for Children’s Liturgy is small, and we are finding it difficult to hold CL on a weekly basis.   Please note that we will be holding Children’s Liturgy on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month going forward.  We would hope to hold it every week again, but first we need more catechists who are prepared to lead the lesson.    Can you help us please?   If so, please contact Bec Newey on 07854 231469 or johnandbec@ntlworld.com

Prayer Group for Holy Angels and Holy Family Churches takes place once a month on a Tuesday in the Parish Office at Holy Angels.  The next Prayer Meeting is Tuesday, 3rd June and thereafter, 8th July and 2nd September.  (Coffee at 7.30pm for 7.45pm start).

 

Holy Family

Holy Family Hall and Kitchen:  Attached to the Newsletter for Holy Family this week you will find a ‘Consultation Form’ referring to updating the Kitchen in the Hall.  Some of you, I suspect, think that we may have forgotten about this aspect of the renovation of the Church, however this is not the case – we have been gathering information and now we need your opinions so that I and Deacon John can put together a proposal for Holy Family AGM on 12th June. 

Working together on the first part of the renovation of the Church, we have ended up with a beautiful and much more useful space for Mass, Baptisms, Weddings etc.  Hopefully with the input of our local community we will be able to achieve the same for the kitchen and the Hall.

We would like to thank the two parishioners who have offered us kitchen units.

Many thanks. Father David.

 

 Keeping his Commandments

Christ says to us what he said to his apostles:  ‘If you love me, keep my commandments’.  We can’t truly call ourselves his disciples if we don’t listen to his words and make an effort to live by them.  We know we fail, and our lives are the poorer for that.  We need the Lord’s help to do better.

Reflection

It’s a chilly day by the seaside,
far too windy for my comfort.
But the gulls don’t seem to mind the wind.
In fact, they seem to enjoy it.
I watch them flying about:
they go with it, thy go against it,
they soar into the sky, they plunge back to earth.
they are availing of its power.
And I reflect on how we, the disciples of Jesus,
are so easily blown off course by the winds of adversity.
Lord, send us the Holy Spirit who will enable us
to turn the hard and easy to our advantage,
so that everything that happens to us
may bear us along the road to your kingdom.

Message from Father David

Holy Angels and Holy Family FREE Parish Fun Day will take place on Sunday, 6th July, 2014 from 1pm until 5pm at Holy Angels Church, Ash. Why not come along.  There will be lots of fun with games, face painting, we will even have a Fire Engine on site for the children. (see poster for more details)

Our Parish Free Fun Day is an opportunity for us to gather together to show each other that our friendship within the parish is important to each one of us no matter how well we know the person that sits besides us at Mass.  Your support for this, the only gathering of the whole parish and our two Churches, gives us the opportunity to show each other that our faith and our parish life is important to us.

At the back of both Churches there is a list for food to bring and share at the Fun Day.  Please respond as generously and kindly to this request as you can.

From the Fun Day Planning Group, for whose time and talents we all, I am sure, are very grateful.

PLEASE NOTE:  The Parish Office will be closed from Monday, 2nd June until Friday, 13th June inclusive.  Please do not email the office during this time as emails will not be viewed until Monday, 16th June.  Please contact Father David or Deacon John if you have any urgent matters that require assistance. Thank you.