The Catholic Church in Jersey

The Catholic Church in Jersey
One Catholic Parish for the Island of Jersey
30/31 August 2014 ~ Twenty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time ~ Year A
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
I seem to be playing a game of snakes and
ladders in my search for a Portuguese
speaking priest for Jersey. After months of
enticing a priest to come here, which is like
climbing a ladder, I hit a snake in the form of
his Bishop who says no. Thus my hopes of Fr
Tiago coming here were dashed as his Bishop
refused permission and sent him to another
parish in his diocese. The plea I wrote to that
Bishop about our serious pastoral needs went
unanswered. So, after fifteen years trying, I
am back to the foot of the ladder once again.
Snakes and ladders in the East of the Island
have been easier. Sadly, after going straight
to the top of the ladder in being appointed my
assistant priest last autumn, with special
responsibilities at St Martin’s and St
Patrick’s, Father Phillip has slid down the
snake at the Bishop’s request to take up his
new responsibilities as a parish priest at the
opposite end of our diocese on the River
Thames. His successor, Father John Lavers,
is a priest of the Archdiocese of St John’s in
Newfoundland who has asked to come and
work near his sister who lives in
Southampton; he is due to arrive at the end
of September. Here’s hoping!
Father Kevin is settled in the West, well
assisted by Deacon Brendan and Deacon
David. So no snakes and ladders at that end
of our Island parish.
As today’s gospel reminds us,
discipleship will never be
easy. The cross will be ever
present to be embraced
rather than resented. So, as
I begin my sixteenth year
among you, I commit myself
to God and to you all again. I will try to
continue to put into practice St Paul’s
instruction to us today to offer our bodies as
a living sacrifice.
Father Nicholas
FAREWELL PARTY FOR FR PHILLIP
Although Father Phillip Harris officially ended his Ministry among us at the end of July, he is not able to
take up residence in his new parish until after 14 September. He is returning from his holiday to complete his
packing. This delay has enabled us to arrange for a farewell party for him in St Patrick’s Hall next Friday 5
September at 7.30pm; all very welcome. Father Phillip will also be able to help us out by celebrating
Masses next weekend. For news of his successor, please read Father Nicholas’ ‘Thought for the Week’ above.
PRIESTS:
Mgr Nicholas France (Dean & Parish Priest)
Fr Kevin Hoiles (Associate Parish Priest)
Fr Phillip Harris (Assistant Priest)
Fr Janusz Kopeć (Polish Mission)
Little Sisters
OFFICES:
East
St Helier
853953
720235
720235
863149
853953
07797778786
875960
[email protected]
[email protected]
DEACONS:
David Cahill
Brendan Flaxman
Iain MacFirbhisigh
Christopher Walters
Tony Ward
PARISH WEBSITE:
West
863149
Safeguarding Officer
07797752151; [email protected]
07797908194; [email protected]
725963; [email protected]
07700773030; [email protected]
853804; [email protected]
www.catholicchurch.org.je
[email protected]
Linda Wiseman 07797776640
COMMUNITY NOTICES
We are delighted that Mr
John Scally has accepted
the honorary position of
Executive Director of
Caritas Jersey. John has
an office at Catholic Pastoral Services and can be
contacted
on:
768963
or
emailed
at:
[email protected] . Fr Nicholas introduced
John Scally to the Caritas Forum meeting, where
John took the opportunity of explaining how he and
members of Caritas Jersey will be working in
partnership with many others in order to carry out
our social action effectively.
In this week’s newsletter there
by Caritas Jersey, focussing
elections to encourage people
vote. It is chiefly aimed
communities. Pass it on!
is a leaflet, produced
on the forthcoming
to both register and
at our immigrant
Another more detailed booklet produced by Caritas
Jersey will be delivered to each household in the
Island from Monday 8 September; it offers serious
questions to be asked of candidates for the
forthcoming elections.
WELCOME CENTRE MANAGER
Following Manuela Vieira’s wish to retire as
manager, and in response to the recent advert in this
newsletter, Claudia Reis was interviewed and
appointed as manager and will take up her
responsibilities later in September. We owe a great
debt of gratitude to Manuela for all she has done to
make the Centre live up to its name of ‘Welcome’.
We wish Claudia every success.
coming to help us out while priests have been away
on holiday. We wish him well for his new teaching
post at the University of Warsaw.
FR NICHOLAS …
Will be celebrating Masses in the East this Sunday and
Fr Stan in town. (Deacon Iain is on holiday this
week).
WEBSITE: WWW.CATHOLICCHURCH.ORG.JE
The updated website has now gone live. There is
now a calendar of events which will be updated
weekly to keep everyone informed about the
activities within our Island parish. Please note some
pages are still ‘work in progress’ but we hope to have
everything completed by the end of next month. If
you would like to receive your weekly newsletter by
email, then please go to the website and sign up on
the home page.
EAST OF JERSEY SUMMER RAFFLE
Thank you to everyone for your great generosity in
buying all 3,000 tickets. The list of prize winners can
be found at the back of churches in the East. Prizes
can be collected from the church office in St Martin
on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings.
SACRED HEART FLOWER ARRANGERS
Dawn Cowieson has been a long standing member of
the team at the Sacred Heart and has recently
stepped down. We thank her for all her hard work
during that time. We are now in need of a
replacement and preferably two or three more
helpers. You do not need to be a professional just
able to arrange flowers tastefully. Please call Deanna
on 863149 (8.30am to 2.30pm Tue to Fri) for more
information.
JERSEY LOURDES PILGRIMAGE
AGM OF CAFOD
, JERSEY
Takes place on Tuesday 23 September at 8pm in St
Thomas’ Small Hall. We will be reviewing the
activities and fund-raising events of last year and
planning for the year ahead. All interested
parishioners who would like to support developing
CAFOD in our island are very welcome to attend this
meeting. For further information please contact
Rosemarie Hill on 854281.
CAR WANTED FOR SISTER ANABELA
Does anyone have a small car they don’t use, or
would like to buy a used one, to enable Sister
Anabela of our new Community of Christ at Bethany
to get around the Island to visit people? Please
contact Father Nicholas if you could help. The Sisters
have no income and rely on charity, though the St
Helier district of our Island parish provides rent-free
accommodation, heating, water and electricity in the
former Presbytery next to St Mary & St Peter’s
Church. (Father Janusz, the Polish Priest, lives in the
flat beneath them).
THANK YOU TO FR STAN
Once again we are grateful to Fr Stan for including us
in his busy schedule in Rome and in Poland by
A meeting for all pilgrims will be held this
Wednesday 3 September at 7.30pm at Sacred Heart
Presbytery.
LITURGY AND SACRAMENTS
CONFIRMATION PROGRAMME – GET READY!!
Begins on Tuesday 9 September - young people who
will be in year 9+ from September this year are
invited to register for the Confirmation programme.
It is important that the young person registering
attends with at least one parent on either Friday 5
September at 8pm OR Sunday 7 September at 5pm
at St Thomas’ Hall.
ST MARY & ST PETER’S CHURCH – FEAST DAY
Will be celebrated at SMP, by Fr Nicholas, for Our
Lady’s Birthday at 7pm on Monday 8 September.
This date is also the 15th anniversary of the day
Fr Nicholas arrived in Jersey and we give thanks for
his leadership of the Catholic Church here. The SMP
Stewardship Group meets after this Mass.
FILIPINO CHOIR – 5TH ANNIVERSARY
Fr Claro Conde, a Filipino priest from Southampton,
will be celebrating Mass on Sunday evening at 6pm
at St Thomas’ to mark this anniversary.
BECOME A CATHOLIC?
Please give serious consideration to encouraging
someone to attend the next Journey in Faith
Programme - contact Deacon Christopher Walters:
[email protected]
ADORATION & BENEDICTION AT OUR LADY,
ST MARTIN
There will be no Adoration or Benediction on
Monday 1 September at 6pm. However, all are
invited to join in a service of Word and Communion
at 7pm with the Catholic Women's League.
SYRIA CRISIS APPEAL
Thank you to all those who attended the Ecumenical
prayer service at St Mary & St Peter last Friday. £716
was raised to send to the Disasters Emergency
Committee.
CAFOD COLLECTION EAST
In addition to the fantastic sum raised for Gaza and
the Middle East, another £1,300 has been sent to
CAFOD.
LEPROSY MISSION BARN DANCE
Will lead a prayer service at St Thomas’ Church on
Wednesday 3 September at 7pm. All welcome.
The Leprosy Mission is holding a Barn Dance with a
live Ceilidh band and supper at St Martin’s Public
Hall on 13 September at 7pm - tickets £12. Contact
Jo Egré on 07797831631 or [email protected].
BAPTISMS
YOUTH NEWS
THE COMMUNITY CHRIST OF BETHANY
We welcome into the Church through the Sacrament
of Baptism: Chloé Zusi Sty, Maria Santos Coelho, Pria
Anne Elliott, Aydan Marques McCosker, Maria
Isabella Coelho, Chloe Bilgeri, Charlie Tomkins,
Florence Lucas, Martyna Winiarz, Ella Fairhurst,
Emilia Du Heaume, Edward Crill, Evie Wyse, Hannah
Collingwood, Hayley Vieira Ferreira, Clodagh
McSorley, Abriana Moiro, Lexi Fernandes, Bridget
Tattan, Emma Rose Correia, Thulisa Gouveia de
Gois, Youani Jibee Duku and Mikodem Burdyski.
MARRIAGES
Congratulations to Kimberley Weld-Blundell &
Samantha Lock, Lee Marshall & Monika Wydro and
Rholo Mba & Sam Mellor.
FUNERALS
Please pray for the souls of Cary Hunt, Dorothy
Dolbel, Ernest Samuel Harzo, Jacques Girard. May
they rest in peace.
APOSTLESHIP OF PRAYER
The Holy Father’s Prayer Intentions entrusted to the
Apostleship of Prayer for the month of September
are:
Mentally disabled – That the mentally disabled may
receive the love and help they need for a dignified
life.
Service to the poor – That Christians, inspired by the
Word of God, may serve the poor and suffering .
COLLECTIONS
We acknowledge with thanks collections:
17 August
25 August
CAFOD
East
£979.70
£1,140.04
£1150.00
St Helier
£2026.00
£2849.00
£1950.68
West
£1142.02
£1166.61
£1683.03
ST HELIER 500 CLUB
Week commencing 18 and 25 August:
1. 147 2. 128 3. 41 4. 243 5. 314
1. 25 2. 51. 3. 263 4. 264 5.98
Activities and events are run for children, teens and
young adults. Check www.jacy.org.je or find us on
FaceBook. For more information call the Youth
Phone: 07797787090) or Mary Cahill Youth
Ministry Coordinator 07797742767.
Catholic Youth Assembly meets at 4.30pm on
Wednesday 3 September in the Youth Room. This
week we will be launching details of our plans for the
new term ahead. Please come to participate and
support.
THIS WEEK AT THE OASIS OF PEACE
Monday 1 September at 7pm - An opportunity to
read, reflect, discuss and pray using the readings for
the next Sunday.
Thursday 4 September at 9am - Adoration and
Rosary at the Oasis prior to 10am Mass.
Friday 5 September at 6:30am - Morning Prayer
followed by breakfast.
Saturday 6 September at 2pm - 5pm – Garden Party Free entry with donations towards running costs of
the Oasis of Peace. BBQ, afternoon teas and soft
drinks, games, face painting, Filipino and Portuguese
choirs, Cannon O’Rafferty School of Irish Dance,
tombola. Concluding with Evening Prayer.
FRIENDS OF THE HOLY LAND (JERSEY)
EMERGENCY ‘FAMILY SUPPORT’ APPEAL
Only 300 Christian families (1,313 persons from a
total population of 1.9 million) remain in Gaza. This
includes a few hundred who worship at the Church
of the Holy Family. FHL has launched an Emergency
‘Family Support’ Appeal. Every penny donated will
go directly to named families, including those most
in need recommended to us by Fr Jorge, the parish
priest. Please donate to our special Appeal Fund and
send a cheque, payable to ‘Friends of the Holy Land
(Jersey)’ c/o Deacon Iain St Thomas’ Presbytery, 17
Val Plaisant, St Helier JE2 4TA.
Published by Catholic Pastoral Services, printed by
the Knights of St Columba.
Mass Times in the Parish during the next week
Date
Saturday 30 August
Sunday 31 August
Monday 1 September
Tuesday 2 September
Wednesday 3 Sept
Time
Church
First Mass for 22nd Sunday in Ordinary time
6:00 pm
Sacred Heart
6:00 pm
St Patrick
6:00 pm
St Thomas
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
9:00 am
Our Lady, St Martin
9:00 am
St Mary & St Peter
9:30 am
St Matthieu
9:30 am
St Thomas
11:00 am
St Patrick
11:15 am
St Bernadette
11:15 am
St Mary & St Peter
3:30 pm
St Thomas
6:00 pm
St Thomas
7:30 pm
St Thomas
Feria
9:30 am
Our Lady, St Martin
Feria
9:30 am
Sacred Heart
9:30 am
St Patrick
6:00 pm
St Thomas
St Gregory The Great
12:30 pm St Thomas
6:30 pm
Sacred Heart
Mass intention
Eileen Murphy RIP
Deceased members of Dupre and Cairoli Familier
The People of the Parish
Jer 20:7-9; Ps 62; Rom 12:1-2; Mt 16:21-27
Janet Kierulf RIP
Mass in Polish
For the Souls in Purgatory
Olga & Len Hamel RIP
Manuel Marquis RIP
Keith Wallman RIP
Vittorio Crusco RIP
Mass in Portuguese: Adelino Domingos Gonçalves Vieira RIP,
João & António Teixeira & family RIP, Manuel & Virgínia Teixeira
RIP, Rosa Gouveia & family RIP & Holy Souls
Andrew McGuigan RIP
Mass in Polish
1 Cor 2:1-5; Ps 118; Lk 4:16:30
Renault Family & loved ones living and deceased
1 Cor 2:10-16; Ps 144; Lk 4:31-37
For the Souls in Purgatory
McMahon Family RIP
Special Intention of Richard & Joan Glynn
1 Thess 2:2-8; Ps 95; Mt 16:13-19
Holy Souls
Mary O’Brien RIP
6pm Adoration 7pm Rosary
St Cuthbert
1 Cor 3:18-23; Ps 23; Lk 5:1-11
7:30 am
St Mary & St Peter
Louis Guy Omer RIP
9:30 am
St Patrick
Fernando Pinto Correia RIP
10:00 am St Matthieu
Harold & Webster Wood RIP
Friday 5 September
Feria
1 Cor 4:1-5; Ps 36; Lk 5:33-39
12:00 pm St Bernadette
For the intentions of Ron & Marion Hammersley
12:30 pm St Thomas
Funeral Mass of William Dunn
7:00 pm
St Mary & St Peter
Mass in Polish + Holy Hour
Saturday 6 September Our Lady on Saturday
1 Cor 4:6-15; Ps 144; Lk 6:1-5
9:30 am
St Patrick
Intentions of Angela and Neil
11:00 am
St Thomas
Marcelo Moreira RIP
Saturday 7 September
First Mass of the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
6:00 pm
Sacred Heart
6:00 pm
St Patrick
Alain Pelletier RIP
6:00 pm
St Thomas
Pedro Bento RIP
Sunday 8 September
23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Ezek 33:7-9; Ps 94; Rom 13:8-10; Mt 18:15-20
9:00 am
Our Lady, St Martin
Rita Gray RIP
9:00 am
St Mary & St Peter
Mass in Polish
9:30 am
St Matthieu
9:30 am
St Thomas
Carry Hunt RIP
11:00 am
St Patrick
Magdelaine & Peter Thebault
11:15 am
St Bernadette
11:15 am
St Mary & St Peter
Carry Hunt RIP
3:30 pm
St Thomas
Mass in Portuguese: Arsénia Sá RIP, Adelaide Velosa Rodrigues
RIP & Maria de Jesus RIP
6:00 pm
St Thomas
The People of the Parish
7:30 pm
St Thomas
Mass in Polish
Mass at 10am each morning at the Little Sisters.
Thursday 4 Sept
Catholic Pastoral Services
The Welcome Centre
Caritas Jersey
Saint Vincent de Paul Society
The Oasis of Peace
Community Christ of Bethany
Padre Pio Prayer Chain
732583
767997
768963
874008
861750
722970
636772
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