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FR DAVID WRITES
Thank you to everyone who either organised or supported our lovely Afternoon Tea last Sunday, especially Janet - please see her message below. Fr Tom visited this week to meet with me and learn some initial information about the parish. Please keep him in your prayers. Congratulations to Maureen and Anton who were married in church on Friday afternoon in a lovely celebration - may God continue to bless them. This is the last weekend with church music before a summer break in August. Thank you to all our musicians and singers - enjoy your well earned rest. Finally, I’m off on holidays tomorrow (Monday). I look forward to seeing you all in the middle of August when I return. God bless you!
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FR DAVID WRITES
On Friday we had a lovely School Mass, in which we gave thanks to God for the academic year as it draws to an end, and sent our Year 6 pupils off with our prayers and best wishes. Can I thank all our parents, grandparents, teachers, staff and school governors for everything they have done for our school and the children over the past academic year. Whichever school you are involved with, I wish you all a very happy and safe break over the summer holidays. May God bless you all for your goodness.
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FR DAVID WRITES
Today is the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Today is also known as ‘Sea Sunday’ and is a day of special prayer for those who live, work or travel on sea. Please pray for those who support them, and especially the chaplaincy offered by Stella Maris. Today there will be a retiring collection for the Apostleship of the Sea. Thank you in advance.
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PRIESTS
Please pray for Fr Tom Blackburn who will take up his appointment here as our new assistant priest at the end of August. Please also pray for Fr Andrew as he prepares to receive a new appointment in due course.
MASSES
Fr Andrew began his summer break on Thursday, which means Fr David is on his own for the next two weeks. Weekday Masses this week and next will be at 10 am only.
PARISH OFFICE
The office will be closed this week on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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FR DAVID WRITES
Today is the solemnity of the apostles Peter and Paul, patron saints of the city and the Church of Rome. Today at all Masses there will be a collection for Peter’s Pence which helps support the Pope’s outreach. We send you all good wishes!
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FR DAVID WRITES
Today is the Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Next weekend we will celebrate the solemnity of the apostles Peter and Paul (normally a holy day when it falls during the week). Thank you to everyone who came to our special Mass at the cemetery chapel and then the prayer service at Waterfall Road. Next Saturday at the cathedral the ordinations to the priesthood will take place. Please pray for Tom Blackburn, Domagoj Matokovic, and Robert Smialek who will receive their ordinations that day (the Mass begins at 10.30am at Westminster).
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FR DAVID WRITES
Please pray for Sean Power and James Boyle who were ordained deacons on Saturday morning at Westminster Cathedral. They are candidates for the priesthood. Please also pray for Monsignor James Curry who is to be ordained as auxiliary bishop of Westminster this Tuesday, 12 noon at the cathedral. All are welcome to the episcopal ordination. Please remember that our special Mass at New Southgate Cemetery Chapel will take place next Saturday morning, 22nd June, beginning at 11 am. The prayers at Waterfall Road cemetery will follow at 12.30 pm. Finally, please sign up for our Afternoon Tea if you would like to.
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FR DAVID WRITES
Today is the Tenth Sunday of the Year, as we return once more to the season of Ordinary Time following Easter and the big feasts we have celebrated over these last few weeks. Today (Sunday) we bid a fond farewell to Father Johnson and send him off with our prayers and affection. He tells me he is already looking forward to visiting us next year! Fr Andrew is also away this week, so please be gentle with me! Finally, I have completed six years (two terms) as Dean of Enfield which I think is long enough, so I am very pleased to hand over to Fr Daniel Humphreys, Parish Priest of Enfield Town, as the new dean. We wish him well, and I thank him for taking the reins!
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FR DAVID WRITES
Today is the solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (also known as Corpus Christi) when we celebrate the gift of the Eucharist – the abiding and dynamic presence of the Risen Lord among us. This coming Friday is the lovely solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. There is no Friday abstinence this week thanks to the Lord’s feast. We hope you had a nice half-term and wish you all every blessing.
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Thank you to everyone who came to Fr Johnson’s Farewell Mass and social. It was lovely to say thank you to Father Johnson and to prepare to send him off with our best wishes and prayers. His leaving date has been put back slightly, and he will now go a week or two later. Thanks also to everyone for our Going Forth Mass celebrated last Sunday with the First Holy Communion children and families. Today is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, and next Sunday is Corpus Christi (the Most Holy Body and Blood of the Lord). God bless you all.
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Today is Pentecost Sunday, a feast which celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the Church and which also marks the end of the Easter season. However, Pentecost is not about endings but beginnings. Please pray for the Church and for our parish, they we may be emboldened to continue the mission of the Christian life all the way to the end. Today at the 11.15 Mass we give thanks to God the gift of our recent First Holy Communions and send forth these young people to live the life of the Holy Spirit. Happy Pentecost!