24th/25th July
Seventeenth Sunday of the year in Ordinary Time (Cycle C)
Day for Life
Pamphlets are available in the porchForthcoming Visit of the Holy Father – National Programme of Events
There are going to be two major events for which we have been allocated tickets. The first will be the Vigil at Hyde Park on Saturday 18th September for which we have 79 tickets; and 27 tickets for the Beatification of John Henry Newman on Sunday 19th September in Crofton Park, Birmingham.
The suggested donation for Hyde Park, including pilgrims’ pack and travel card, is £10, whereas Birmingham is £25 which includes a pilgrims’ pack and coach fee. You may attend both events if you wish.
Please enter your name and telephone number on the appropriate clipboard in the porch by Thursday 29th July.
Hyde Park will open in the late morning and the vigil will end around 9pm;
Crofton Park will be open from about 3am on the morning of the Mass so that everyone is in place by around 8.30am. The co-ordinators for these events are Ken Chan and Lizzie Avey.
In due course, we will give you details of the events which will be happening in our parish as part and parcel of the Pope’s visit.Charlon Muscat As we are all aware, Charlon will be returning to Malta this week after his three month stay with us at Holy Innocents’. To thank him for the many blessings he has given us, a book will be left in the porch this weekend for all those parishioners who wish to write him a message. A message from Charlon is attached to the newsletter
Taize Cross Fr. Victor would like to thank Roger Fane for taking the initiative to make this cross. Heartfelt thanks go to David MacLaurin for the carpentry and Charlon Muscat for the artwork. This cross will be blessed at the 10am Mass this Sunday.
Please take a moment to look at the minutes of the last Finance Meeting, Parish Financial breakdown, Update of the Restoration Fund and bank account balance on the Parish Notice board by the newspapers.
Anniversaries. Mabel Oakden, David Low, Eugene Deighan, Lucinda Gallagher, Henry Featherstone, Margaret Wells, Hannah Lyons, Joseph Lionnet, Cyril Simpson, Anne Sargeant, Mary Tobin, Marion Herriot, Agnes Fleming, Mary Morris, Arthur Kennedy, John Wiles and Theresa Dennis. May they rest in peace.
We remember in our prayers the Sick, Housebound & their Carers: Ann Van Ouckana, Claire McDonough, Natasha and Ian Jude Polloni-Watson, Josephine Bailey, Vanessa Llewellyn, Douglas, Shirley and Deborah Smart, Kathleen Helm, Ann Barber, Doris Watts, Derek Jones, Diane Lubrani and all those in Orpington and PRU Hospitals.
BAPTISM - Welcome to Aoife Grae McDonagh andwho was received into the church through the Sacrament of Baptism recently. We share in the joy of her family.
Women’s World Day of Prayer If you are interested in being involved in this, please contact Bridget Brunning 01689 835572
Revelation Art Project: Revelation would like to make a large canvas and they need the help of everyone in the Parish. Can every family and friendship group please make a heart or heart frame containing your photograph? Photographs must be no bigger than 8x8cm. Please hand it in to the office on the first weekend in September. You must wait until the finished product to see the outcome!
Please Note In the school holidays the gates at the top of the pathway will not be opened during the week.
Date for your Diary 12th September Parish day; A Day for all the family details to follow. There will be an initial planning meeting for this event on Thursday 29th July at 8 pm. If you would like to help in any, way please come and join us.
There will be a follow-up meeting in September
2nd Collection this week for Day for Life, Gift Aid envelopes are available in the porch
Please remember that on all weekends that there is not a statutory second collection, there will be a collection for the Restoration Fund.
Do not forget to use an envelope from the box in the porch to gift aid your contribution AND PUT YOUR GIFT AID NUMBER ON THE ENVELOPE. Thank youAny Parishioner wishing to join the Gift Aid scheme, please telephone Ken Evans 01689 851793.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration Aylesford Priory Friday 6th August at 8.20pm. For information call John Caruana 01634 864179. Refreshments available after the Service.
Faith Hope and Charity across the Alps. Three of Jean Treloar's grandchildren are cycling 1200 miles from Sidcup on
pilgrimage to Rome. They are crossing the Alps just now. As well as a pilgrimage they are raising money for 2 excellent charities. All donations go to Mary's meals and Cardinal Winning’s initiative for women with crisis pregnancies. See www.viaromea.blogspot.com. You can gift aid sponsorship
using the link provided on their blog. Alternatively, do please give cash to Jean!Walker’s Group Saturday 7th August. Meet at 2pm by the Three Horseshoes at Knockholt. Leader: Madeleine (857241 / 07977 854675)
Interested in joining the Catenian Association? Are you a Catholic man, living in Sidcup, Petts Wood, Chislehurst, Lockbottom, Orpington and the surrounding local areas? (See Holy Innocents' Parish group web page.)
The Association was founded in 1908 and celebrated its Centenary in 2008. We have 10,000 members in over 300 Circles. There are several Circles in your area. These being: Blackheath, Swanley, Beckenham, Bromley and Chislehurst & Orpington Circles; they hold monthly meetings on various dates throughout the month and on differing days of the week to ensure that potential new members have the opportunity to attend one of our Circle meetings .
The Association have a Bursary fund to help young Catholics, aged between 16 and 24, to take part in community-based projects at home or abroad. This Fund fulfils one of the Association’s core aims: “To advance the interest of young Catholics and to assist them in their choice or pursuit of their career.”
If you are you interested in extending your social life with like-minded people and would like to find out more about the Catenian Association, please contact Terry Wills, Membership Officer, for Chislehurst & Orpington Circle; Tel: 01689 871918; Website: www.thecatenian.comURGENT Piano Trumpet Violin Cello, Harp, Percussion Players and Conductor
Smile International Volunteer Aid Coordinator needed to help with overseeing aid department. Must have own transport. Please contact Ruth Doubleday on 01689 870932 or email ruth.doubleday@smileinternational.org for further details
A new charitable trust requires volunteer musicians over grade 5 to take part in a concert in Orpington and Bromley on 24/25 September and 1/2 October. Please telephone the Parish Office or send your CV. All monies raised will go to the trust. Auditions will take place in Room 2 on Wednesday 28th July 7.30 – 9pm.HOLIDAYS Fr Victor will be away from 5th to 25th August.
Fr. Raphael, a Polish priest, will be in residence during his absence.
Sharon Delaney will be away from 16th to 27th August, returning on Wednesday 1st September.This Week’s Diary
Sunday 25th July
Children’s Liturgy – Rooms 1, 2 & 3 10:00
Tuesday 27th July
Consolation Group – Room 2 19:45
Group 88 – St .Joseph’s 20:00
Wednesday 28th July
Orpington Labour Party – St Joseph’s 19:30
Auditions – Room 2 19:30
S.V.P. – Room 1 19:30
Deacon Barry ‘In Residence’ – Parish Centre 19:00 – 20:00
Thursday 29th July
CWL Section Meeting – St. Joseph’s 19:30
Parish Day Planning Meeting – Room 2 20:00
Saturday 31st July
Sacrament of Reconciliation 17:00 – 17:50
This can also be arranged by appointment.
Sunday 1st August
Baptism of Jack & Benjamin Varney 12:30Saturday 24th July 2010
18:00 Mary Sciortino RIP (Sciortino)Sunday 25th July Seventeenth Sunday
08:00 Elizabeth Read
10:00 Carmel Buckingham RIP (Wyse Family)
Blessing of Taize Cross
18:00 Margaret Jane CocksMonday 26th July St. Joachim & St. Anne
10:00 Service of the Word and Holy CommunionTuesday 27th July Feria
10:00 Requiem Mass of Nicholas John Reeves
Wednesday 28th July Feria
08:00 (Convent) Sr. Mary Baptist RIP (Sisters)
10:00 Intention of the Gallagher Family (Cafferkey)Thursday 29th July St. Martha
10:00 Jermiahó Gorman RIP (Minihane)Friday 30th July Feria
10:00 Joyce Kelly RIP (McGinley)Saturday 31st July St. Ignatius of Loyola
10:30 No Mass
18:00 James McMahon RIP (Dickson)Sunday 1st August Eighteenth Sunday
08:00 John Tuggey RIP (Jackson)
10:00 Vocations (Kelly)
18:00 W/B Mary Heady (Lange)
Coffee morning after the 10am Mass on Sundays in Room 1.
The Repository is usually available after all Masses at the weekend.
It can be found at the back of Trinity hall.
