Saturday 17h June – Saturday 24th June 2023

jonathonrouth
Jun 17, 2023
2 min read

Updated: Jun 19, 2023

JUNE IS THE MONTH OF THE SACRED HEART.

Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time.

Dear parishioners,

Pray for our children who are making their First Holy Communion!

Prayer of children after making their First Holy Communion.

My Jesus, I believe that you are truly present in the Most Blessed Sacrament. I love you above all things, and I desire to possess you within my soul. I believe in Your Real Presence because You said ‘This is my body, this is blood’ and I am ready to give my life for this Truth. Amen.

Prayer of parents for their children.

God, Our Father, we thank you for the gift of our children, who bring so much love and light to our lives. We thank you for our child’s First Holy Communion and with your help of the sacramental grace given to them in the Holy Communion and gifts of the Holy Spirit, we will continue to support them in their journey of faith and love of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

Prayer of the parish for our children.

Heavenly Father, bless the children of our parish as they receive your Son, Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in Holy Communion for the first time. May this day be a first step into a lifelong love of The Blessed Sacrament. Send them your Holy Spirit, to fill them with a hunger for this food from Heaven and so guide them to Him always in the trials of life for comfort, guidance and wisdom. Amen.

Holy Mary of Walsingham, pray for the children of St Thomas More parish! Amen.

Solemnity of Corpus Christi. There will be a Procession of the Blessed Sacrament around the church grounds following 11 o’clock mass on Sunday 11th June concluding with Benediction.
Solemnity of the Sacred Heart. Mass at 10.00 a.m. on Friday 16th June and An Hour of Adoration to the Sacred Heart in song, the Litany, Act of Consecration and Benediction on Sunday 18th June at 4.00 p.m.
First Communion thanksgiving Procession of the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction. Sunday 25th June, 3.00 p.m.
High Mass for the Feast of the Most Precious Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ at 11.00 a.m. on Saturday 1st July.
Devotions to the Most Precious Blood: with Sung Litany and Benediction, Sunday 30th July, 4.00 p.m.

God bless, Fr Jonathon

PARISH NOTICES

MONEY COUNTING. NEW HELPERS NEEDED!

One of our most regular and long serving counters has stepped down after many decades of service. Although many of you now make your contributions to the parish on line (which is very much encouraged) or by the new contactless devices in the church, nevertheless, a considerable percentage of our income still comes from cash. This also includes our contributions to charities and second collections. If you could give a couple of hours on a Monday or Tuesday morning from time to time, please let me know. Counting now takes place every fortnight and if we have plenty on the rota, it means you would only be doing this a few times a year. Your help would be a great service to the parish. Please contact me and I’ll forward your name and contact details to Mr Hugh Willan, or speak to Hugh yourself. As a consequence, I have lost a valued counting partner and for the time being I may have to call for help occasionally.

MESSAGE FROM SPUC

(The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children)

'Please contact your MP and implore them to reject the British Pregnancy Advisory Service's call to completely decriminalise abortion. BPAS successfully campaigned for the pills by post scheme ( active during covid) to be made permanent. We argued that without proper examination women would be sent the pills after the cut off period. BPAS have done just that, leading to the death of a totally viable child and a prison term for the mother. BPAS have made a tool for people to contact their MP so we need to respond. There's advice about this on www.spuc.org.uk but no tool as it's important you use your own words.

Rob Hills

Bexley SPUC Branch Chairman

FOOD BANK. The Bexley Food Bank currently particularly requests:

CARRIER BAGS/ TINNED TOMATOES / RICE / NOODLES / JAM / CUSTARD /TOOTPASTE / SHOWER GEl/ DEODORANT/ TOOTHPASTE/ SUGAR / WASHING PODS.

Please follow the link below to view the food donations page of the Bexley food bank website. https://bexley.foodbank.org.uk/give-help/donate-food/

Notice from Marriage and Family Life South East

Planning a catholic marriage? Marriage preparation courses are available by emailing mflse@rcaos.org.uk.

GIFT AID

Please contact the parish office if you still donate by cash and have not picked up your gift aid boxes yet.

If you would like to join the Gift Aid Scheme by donating with cash or through a bankers order/standing order, please email bostallpark@rcaos.org.uk.

PARISH YOUTH NOTICES

‘SUMMERTIME 2023’

Altar servers and young people’s summer break, Tuesday 1st August – Friday 4th August at the Oratory School, Reading. Cost £169.

A few days to meet up in a holiday atmosphere with activities including talks, discussions, prayer, daily mass, sport, a visit to Thorpe Park and swimming. For more details, contact Fr Stephen Boyle dartford@rcaos.org.uk . ‘Summertime’ is open to any teenagers up to 17 years old who are attending mass every Sunday.

CHILDREN’S CHURCH for infants: makes a welcome return this Sunday in the Church Hall at 9.00 a.m.

FIRST HOLY COMMUNIONS. Following First Holy Communions next Saturday/ Sunday, on Sunday 25th at 3.00 p.m., there will be a special service of thanksgiving for you all to come together with your families, with Procession of the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction followed by Presentations of Certificates and Communion Cake in the Hall.

CONFIRMATION 2023.

Next meeting: Devotions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus with Adoration and Benediction. Sunday 18th June, 4.00 p.m.

UPCOMING EVENTS

PARISH PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES .

Monday 23rd October to Friday 27th October 2023.

Please contact the parish office if you are interested in joining us.

Enjoy an evening out at St Thomas More Parish Club,

Presents a social evening for all the family Music by Annie G.

Friday 7th July 2023 8.00pm to 11pm

Admission - Adults £3 at the door.

For more information call

Jenny 07710 527692 or Mary 07369 252072,

everybody welcome

THURSDAY LUNCH CLUB

The Lunch Club are meeting this Thursday, 21st June at 12.30 p.m.. See you then.

DEATHS

For all our brothers and sisters who ate the Body of Christ, the bread of Life, that they may be raised up on the Last Day. (Drawn from the intercession of the Funeral Mass)

Please pray for the soul of:

Elizabeth ‘Elsie’ Murphy, who died on 18th April and whose funeral requiem was on Thursday 4th May.

Eddie Etheridge, who died on 19th April, aged 87. Funeral Requiem was on Friday 2nd June at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Chapel, Borough Green, Kent.

Melita De Mello, beloved wife of Alex, who died on Tuesday 23rd May 2023, aged 83 whose funeral is on Monday 3rd July 2023 at 10.00 a.m. followed by private committal.

Robert Penny, who died on Tuesday 30th May, aged 87.

May the divine assistance remain with them always, and may their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace.

MASSES AND INTENTIONS FOR THE ELEVENTH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME

Instaurare Omnia in Christo: "to restore all things in Christ."

Saturday 17thJune The Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, memorial.

9.00 a.m. Confessions

9.30 a.m. Rosary

+ 10.00 a.m. (NB NO LATIN MASS THIS SATURDAY) With First Holy Communions. Holy Souls.

6.00 p.m. Confessions

[+ 6.30 p.m. ELEVENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME with First Holy Communions. Sharon D’Souza TG.

Sunday 18th June

8.30 a.m. The Daily Rosary

+ 9.00 a.m. SUNG. With church for our infant children in the hall. First Holy Communions. The people of the parish.

+ 11.00 a.m. SOLEMN LATIN MASS (missa orbis factor) First Holy Communions. Trishia Kavanagh R.I.P.

4.00 p.m. PRAISE THE LORD! AN HOUR OF ADORATION TO THE MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS in song, the Litany of the Sacred Heart, Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart and Benediction.

7.00 p.m. Parish Social Evening in the Hall. All welcome.

Monday 19th June St. John Rigby, martyr, memorial.

9.30 a.m. The Daily Rosary

+10.00 John Maher R.I.P.

Tuesday 20th June St. Alban, martyr, proto-martyr of Britain, memorial.

The Daily Rosary at home.

NO PUBLIC MASS TODAY

Wednesday 21st June St. Aloysius Gonzaga, religious, memorial.

The Daily Rosary at home.

NO PUBLIC MASS TODAY.

Thursday 22nd June ST JOHN FISHER, bishop & ST THOMAS MORE, martyr, parish solemnity.

9.30 a.m. The Daily Rosary

+10.00 a.m. Bob Penny R.I.P. + 2.00 p.m. St. Thomas More Day Mass at our primary school.

12.30 p.m. Thursday Lunch Club.

Friday 23rd June St. Etheldreda, abbess.

9.30 a.m. The Daily Rosary

+10.00 a.m. Milita De Mello R.I.P. (one months mind)

6.00 p.m. Choir Practice.

Saturday 24th June THE NATIVITY OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, solemnity.

9.00 a.m. Confessions

9.30 a.m. Rosary

+ 10.00 a.m. [Latin 1962] A parishioner's private intention.

6.00 p.m. Confessions

[+ 6.30 p.m. TWELFTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME with First Holy Communions. Lorna Hornsby R.I.P.

JUNE PRAYER

ACT OF CONSECRATION TO THE MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS by Blessed Mary of the Divine Heart (1863-1899) whose letter to Pope Leo XIII was the impetus for the consecration of the world to the Divine Heart.

My most loving Jesus, I consecrate myself today anew and without reserve to your divine Heart. I consecrate my thoughts, words and actions; all my sufferings and labours; all my hopes, consolations and joys; and, above all, I consecrate to you my poor heart, that it may love only you and be consumed as a victim in the fire of your love. Accept, O Jesus, my most loving spouse, the desire that I have to console your divine Heart and to be yours forever. Possess me in such a manner that henceforward I may have no other liberty than that of loving you, no other life than that of suffering and dying for you.

I place in you unlimited trust and I hope, from your infinite mercy, for the pardon of my sins. I place in your hands all my cares, especially that of my eternal salvation. I promise to love and honour you to the last moment of my life, and to propagate, with the help of your divine grace and as far as I am able, devotion to your Sacred Heart. Dispose of me, O divine Heart of Jesus, according to your pleasure; I desire no other recompense than your greater glory and your holy love.

Grant me the grace to find my dwelling place in your Sacred Heart where I desire to pass every day of my life and where I wish to breathe my last breath. Make my heart your abode, the place of your repose, so that we may remain intimately united until, finally, I may praise, love, and possess you for all eternity, singing forever the infinite mercy of your Sacred Heart. Amen.