Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: 10.30 – 12.00
Sacrament of Reconciliation:
10.30 – 11.30
17.15 – 17.30
Collections
Envelopes £ 1365.72
Loose £ 653.60
Total £ 2019.32
Many thanks.
Confirmation
There will be a meeting led by Fr. Agustin and the team of catechists for all candidates together with their parents for the parish confirmation programme for 2008 on Tuesday 8th January at 7.30 pm. It is essential you are at this meeting as we will be giving out important information about the meaning of Confirmation and the parish programme.
First Friday Lunch
First Friday lunch in January has been postponed to 11th January 2008.
Jubilee Trust Valentine Supper Evening
The Jubilee Trust will be holding a Valentine Supper evening on 16th February. Tickets £15 each including a buffet Supper will be available after Christmas.
Pilgrimage to Spain 2008 (Sat. 26th April – Monday 5th May)
Fr. Agustin and Fr. Wilton from Westminster Cathedral will lead a pilgrimage to the Three Holy Cities of Spain. Cost of the trip is £779 plus insurance. There are brochures on the porch table and application forms from Fr. Agustin. We have only a few places left for a full complement.
Fr. Michael’s Pilgrimage 2008
I have organised a pilgrimage to mark the 90th anniversary of the apparitions at Fatima from 10th – 17th June 2008 to Fatima and Braga. Full cost £649. If numbers exceed 40 cost is £634. Brochures on table in porch; application forms from Fr. Michael. Would those with application forms please return them to Pax Travel with deposits as soon as possible. Anyone else interested should contact Fr. Michael. We have just 10 places to fill.
Church
of the Most
....Sacred Heart
73 Pembroke Road, Ruislip, HA4 8NN
......Tel: 01895 632739
Fr. Michael writes: Will the family as we know it still exist in twenty years time? Some people today seem to doubt it. In celebrating the feast of the Holy Family, the Church is not only asking us to recall the relationship of Jesus, Mary and Joseph in the carpenter’s home in Nazareth. She is reminding us that the family is a society which nurtures and cultivates holiness. The family shows us the Church in miniature. The Second Vatican Council said that the family is the domestic Church.
The home, therefore, has a sacramental setting and the love of husband and wife, parents and children, is caught up in God’s love and made holy. Home and family relationships are the very material from which God weaves his pattern of holiness, the very root of Christian growth. Today we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family but we can really celebrate family life for all and pray for our own family today.
Many thanks
Many thanks to everyone who helped to make Christmas such a lovely celebration in our parish, to the Choir, Folk Group, Adrian our Organist; Clement and the altar servers; Readers and Eucharistic Ministers; the Flower Ladies for the lovely floral arrangements; collectors and sidesmen; sacristans and cleaners and Andy and Co. for the cribs and Christmas Trees.
Grateful thanks also to the vast numbers who attended all of our Christmas Services from the Carol Concert; the Reconciliation Service and all of our Christmas Masses. Is religion dying out? Certainly not in Ruislip!
Many thanks also for the Christmas Offerings and to all who sent Fr. Agustin and myself cards; presents and good wishes. We are most grateful to you all.
Congratulations
Congratulations to Niamh Nolan and to Baby Neylon who will be baptised at 11.30 am Mass today.
Welcome
Welcome to Fr. John O’Leary who will celebrate 10.00 am Mass today.
Next Sunday we welcome Fr. Michael O’Boy who will celebrate 10.00 am and 11.30 am Mass.
Pastoral Letter
Today at all Masses there is a Pastoral Letter from His Eminence Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, to mark the Feast of the Holy Family.
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
Tuesday 1st January 2008 is the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God and World Day of Prayer for Peace. Mass will be at 10.00 am. Do try and come along.
Evening Masses
There are no evening Masses next week as Fr. Agustin is away in Spain.
Rite of Acceptance
The Rite of Acceptance for our RCIA candidates will take place in the evening.
Dates for your Diary
On Saturday 2nd / Sunday 3rd February we will have a Parish Visitation by Bishop Alan Hopes. He has requested he meet a number of groups and I have timetabled below:-
Saturday 2nd February 2008
10.30 am Parish Council - Coffee Lounge
11.00 am Finance and Properties Committee – Coffee Lounge
11.30 am U.C.M. – Coffee Lounge
12 noon All Catechists: 1st Reconciliation; 1st Communion; Confirmation and
Sunday Groups – Hall
12.30 pm Child Protection Delegate - Presbytery
4.00 pm Readers and Eucharistic Ministers - Hall
5.15 pm Confessions
The Bishop will preach at all Masses that weekend. On Sunday he will visit a few housebound; he will be available from 5.00 pm – 6.00 pm for any parishioners who would like to see him (appointments through Fr. Michael) and he will celebrate the Mass of Enrolment for Confirmation candidates at 6.00 pm. All groups involved please note times.
Mass Intentions
for the Week 29th Dec. 2007 – 6th January 2008
Saturday 29th December 18.00 Lucie Abela, R.I.P.
Sunday 30th December 8.30 Michael Loughman, R.I.P., James & Breda Brosnan, R.I.P. Feast of the Holy Family10.00 Denny Murphy, R.I.P. 11.30 For You, the People (Sung / English)
18.00 Patrick Davey, R.I.P.
Monday 31st December 10.00 Kathleen McQuinn, R.I.P.
Tuesday 1st January 10.00 Intentions of Helen Kevelaitis Mary, Mother of God
Wednesday 2nd January 10.00 Francis Ryan, R.I.P. SS Basil & St. Gregory Nazianzen
Thursday 3rd January 10.00 Intentions of Adele Cusack
Friday 4th January 10.00 FUNERAL MASS: Rita Dolan, R.I.P.
Saturday 5th January 10.00 Kitty Morrissey, R.I.P. Vigil Mass of Epiphany 18.00 Bill Flanagan, R.I.P.
Sunday 6th January 8.30 Ivy White, R.I.P. Epiphany of the Lord 10.00 Fr. Philip & Margaret Rogers, R.I.P. (Folk) 11.30 For You, the People (Sung / English)
18.00 Carmela Basile
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK AND HOUSEBOUND:
Carmel Galanty, Mary Maloney, Doreen Jones, Peter Flaherty, Dolores Osborne,
Christopher Redmond, Rose Pick, Lily Fehin, Edna Winwright, Eugene Barrett, Trevor Denham,
Mary Worley, Ann Holland, Caroline Titley, William (Billy) Smith, Mike Rumsey,
Noel & Joan Hendricks, Patrick & Mary Dowling, Sean O’Donnell, Mary de Michiel and
Baby Jessica Head.
AND FOR THOSE WHOSE ANNIVERSARY OCCURS ABOUT THIS TIME:
Harold Gales, Margaret Tilley, Theresa Pavlovic, Oudah Narayn, Albert Poot, Ann White,
George Burgh, Rev. Alexander Wells, Hugh Needham, Margaret Murphy, Alice Smith,
Marie Cartwright, Agnes Adamson, Evelyn Andrew, Thomas Watkins, Sean Kellegher,
The Strom-Pedersen Family, Gerard Hickey, William Kelleher, Cyril Bransby, Teresa Sanderson, Joseph Constable, Edward Rock, George Grange, Bridget Atkinson, Dorothy Holland,
Richard Bennett, Sister Theresa-Margaret, Daniel Benjamin.
