Newsletter

7th September, 2013 – First Mass (Twenty Third Sunday)

WELCOME

Times of Mass and Devotions

Sat   7 Sep 5.300pm HA First Mass Special Intentions of the people of the Parish
Sun  8 Sep 9.15am HF Twentieth Third Sunday Father Rossiter’s Intentions
  11.00am HA   Father Rossiter’s Intentions
Mon  9 Sep     NO MASS NO MASS
Tue  10 Sep  9.30am  HF Liturgy of the Word  
Wed 11 Sep 9.30am HA Liturgy of the Word  
Thu  12 Sep   7.30pm HF Liturgy of the Word  
Fri    13 Sep 12.00pm HA Liturgy of the Word  
Sat   14 Sep 5.30pm HA First Mass Special Intentions of the people of the Parish
Sun  15 Sep 9.15am HF Twenty Fourth  Sunday Father Rossiter’s Intentions
  11.00am HA   Father Rossiter’s Intentions

Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confessions)
Holy Angels, Ash: First Friday of month after 12pm Lunchtime Mass
Holy Family, Farnham:  First Thursday of month after 7.30pm Evening Mass
Special Services with Confessions at both Churches for Advent and Lent

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament will commence on Wed. 4th Sept at Holy Family @ 7.00pm (in Church Hall)

 (Parish Office Hours: 9.30am – 1.30pm)

                        Please note:  HF = Holy Family, Heath End, Farnham and HA = Holy Angels, Ash

Special Collection

Next week there will be a Special Collection for Home Mission – an outreach to non-churchgoing (lapsed) Catholics.  On Home mission Sunday the Bishops of England and Wales invite us to pray for and support the work of evangelisation close to home through having a second collection.  The money raised will fund a number of national projects, including the development of resources to support ministry and outreach to non-churchgoing (lapsed) Catholics.  There are around four million baptised in our countries who never or rarely attend church.  Please do help the bishops to resource this important work.  Thank you for your support and do pick up a free prayer and information leaflet about Home Mission Sunday as you leave church.

 

Liturgy

23rd Sunday of Year C
Theme:  Material possessions and Power alone bring disaster.

Entrance:          HA:  971   HF:  159 Father I place into ..
Offertory:
         HA:  820   HF:  633 Seek ye first ..
Final Hymn:
HA:  883   HF:  S10 or 891 Longing for ..

PRAYER FOR PEACE
 for Syria, Egypt and the World
(To be said by all at Mass before the sign of Peace)

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is discord, union;
Where this is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy,
for your mercy and truth’s sake.
O Lord Jesus Christ, as we think of Egypt and Syria at this time, may Peace replace anger and bitterness in Our World today and may all seek to become instruments of your Peace now and forever. Amen

 

 

Holy Family Church Catholic Parish Farnham, Hale, Weybourne & Badshot Lea

Thank you from Peter Davies:

Peter would like to thank everyone for all their good wishes following his Guild of St. Stephen Gold Medal Presentation last Sunday and to all those who provided the refreshments in the hall after Mass.  Also special thanks must go to Father David for making the presentation possible, to Gloria for her kind words during the Mass and to Altea and Marie-Luisa Bertani                     from Holy Angels who joined Gloria to make up a serving team which helped to make the Mass very special. Thank you. 

 

Tuesday 1st October ASSIST Songs of Praise –  a service of celebration for the International Day for Older Persons  at the United Reformed Church on South Street, Farnham, at 3pm on  The service will last approximately one hour, and afterwards there will tea and cakes, to which everyone is invited to stay.

 

Mother and Toddler Group – Meet every Thursday morning from 9.30am until 11.30am in the Church Hall (during school term)

 

Church Garden Meeting: Wed, 25th Sept. 8pm.
A reminder to the Volunteers that they will soon need to make a major decision about the future layout of the Garden.  Meanwhile the Ida Burton Trust has sponsored a professional Gardener for one day.

 

Holy Angels  Catholic Parish for Ash, Nr. Aldershot,  Ash Vale, Tongham & Normandy

Children’s Liturgy start back TODAY

 

Mother and Toddler Group – St. Mary’s Room on a Tuesday, from 10.30am until 12.00pm

 

Gift Aid – If you gift Aid please pick up your white envelope which is a record of your donations made to the Diocese on behalf of your Parish for the tax year ended 5th April 2013. These are available in the Church lobby.

 

Information

Prayer Group – for both Holy Angels and Holy Family takes place once a month on a Tuesday.  The next dates are as follows: 10th Sept, 8th Oct and 5th November, 2013. Coffee at 7.30pm for 7.45pm start. To be held in the Parish Office

 

Confirmation 2014 – An enquiry for anyone out there in our parishes who would be eligible and would like to be confirmed next year.  Candidates have to be YR 9 and above.  We would not normally put a programme on for any number less than 10 so we need to know who would be interested.  [Please contact Gloria.benson@chyp.com or speak to Fr David or Deacon John.

 

Harvest Thanksgiving at Holy Angels & Holy Family is on 28th– 29th Sept. CAFOD Harvest Fast Day Friday, 4th October, 2013.

 

Prayer and Fasting for Syria – Last Friday, 6th September,  Pope Francis asked that all Christians in the world keep that day as a day of Prayer and Fasting for the PEACE in Syria. 

Let us pray that the Lord will have heard the prayers of his faithful and that our world Leaders will be cautious in their approach to endeavour to bring about an end to the very serious recent events that have taken place in Syria against their own people and to help bring about a Peaceful solution and an end to the dreadful suffering and loss of life. Let us pray that this can be achieved through dialogue and diplomatic means rather than the use of weapons. We also pray for the many homeless refugees who through this conflict have had to leave their homeland to escape this very sad and tragic civil war.. Lord hear our Prayer.     (the Editor)

Baptisms

Dates for Baptism Courses: 16th Sept, 11th November, 2013

Please make an appointment to see the Priest/Deacon to discuss what you need to do to prepare for your child’s baptism. If you are new to the Parish, please complete pink Registration Form and make yourself known to Father David or Deacon John after Mass.

Prayer Requests

If you would like prayers for friends or family members, please first check with that person that they are happy for their name to be mentioned in the weekly Newsletter.

 

Message from Deacon John Edwards

In mid-July I was at a meeting where it was said: “We don’t rest from work, we rest to work”. This made a bit of an impact on me and as it was said by an active Christian, when I met him the next day, I challenged him as being contradictory to the bible. “ By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.” Genesis 2:2.  He responded did I really think God needed a rest? The rest was given to the humans he had created, so our first day of existence was a day of rest.

We talked this through a bit more and recognised that in the New Testament the “Lord’s Day” was the first day of the week, and Christians honoured the Lord’s Day by taking a day of rest. More practically a new born baby spends a lot of its time asleep to enable its growth. I even have to admit that the main reason for resting when I am tired is so that I can do what needs to be done next. So at the end of this I concluded by saying therefore a vacation is not recuperation but preparation.

I believe however there is another factor to be added to this and that is allowing the Lord to help us in all that we do. Jesus himself said that we should lay our burdens on him. “My yoke is easy and my burden light”. Many of us do not feel this way at all and one thing I can see is that perhaps not all I do is what is being asked of me by the Lord. I need to be more discerning about the things I do or get involved in asking the Lord whether or not it is in accordance to His will. Then my rest will be effective preparation for the things He wants me to do.

I hope you are felling refreshed after your summer and I encourage you not to overburden yourselves.

God Bless, Deacon John

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