7th September, 2013 – First Mass (Twenty Third Sunday)

WELCOME

Times of Mass and Devotions
Sat   7 Sep	5.300pm	HA	First Mass	Special Intentions of the people of the Parish
Sun  8 Sep	9.15am	HF	Twentieth Third Sunday	Father Rossiter’s Intentions
	11.00am	HA		Father Rossiter’s Intentions
Mon  9 Sep			NO MASS	NO MASS
Tue  10 Sep	9.30am	HF	Liturgy of the Word
Wed 11 Sep	9.30am	HA	Liturgy of the Word
Thu  12 Sep	7.30pm	HF	Liturgy of the Word
Fri    13 Sep	12.00pm	HA	Liturgy of the Word
Sat   14 Sep	5.30pm	HA	First Mass	Special Intentions of the people of the Parish
Sun  15 Sep	9.15am	HF	Twenty Fourth  Sunday	Father Rossiter’s Intentions
	11.00am	HA		Father Rossiter’s Intentions

Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confessions)
Holy Angels, Ash: First Friday of month after 12pm Lunchtime Mass
Holy Family, Farnham:  First Thursday of month after 7.30pm Evening Mass
Special Services with Confessions at both Churches for Advent and Lent

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament will commence on Wed. 4th Sept at Holy Family @ 7.00pm (in Church Hall)

 (Parish Office Hours: 9.30am – 1.30pm)

                        Please note:  HF = Holy Family, Heath End, Farnham and HA = Holy Angels, Ash

Special Collection

Next week there will be a Special Collection for Home Mission – an outreach to non-churchgoing (lapsed) Catholics.  On Home mission Sunday the Bishops of England and Wales invite us to pray for and support the work of evangelisation close to home through having a second collection.  The money raised will fund a number of national projects, including the development of resources to support ministry and outreach to non-churchgoing (lapsed) Catholics.  There are around four million baptised in our countries who never or rarely attend church.  Please do help the bishops to resource this important work.  Thank you for your support and do pick up a free prayer and information leaflet about Home Mission Sunday as you leave church.

 

Liturgy

23rd Sunday of Year C
Theme:  Material possessions and Power alone bring disaster.

Entrance:          HA:  971   HF:  159 Father I place into ..
Offertory:          HA:  820   HF:  633 Seek ye first ..
Final Hymn: HA:  883   HF:  S10 or 891 Longing for ..

PRAYER FOR PEACE
 for Syria, Egypt and the World
(To be said by all at Mass before the sign of Peace)

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is discord, union;
Where this is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy,
for your mercy and truth’s sake.
O Lord Jesus Christ, as we think of Egypt and Syria at this time, may Peace replace anger and bitterness in Our World today and may all seek to become instruments of your Peace now and forever. Amen

 

 

Holy Family Church Catholic Parish Farnham, Hale, Weybourne & Badshot Lea

Tuesday 1st October ASSIST Songs of Praise –  a service of celebration for the International Day for Older Persons  at the United Reformed Church on South Street, Farnham, at 3pm on  The service will last approximately one hour, and afterwards there will tea and cakes, to which everyone is invited to stay.

 

Mother and Toddler Group – Meet every Thursday morning from 9.30am until 11.30am in the Church Hall (during school term)

 

Church Garden Meeting: Wed, 25^th Sept. 8pm.
A reminder to the Volunteers that they will soon need to make a major decision about the future layout of the Garden.  Meanwhile the Ida Burton Trust has sponsored a professional Gardener for one day.

 

Children’s Liturgy start back TODAY

 

Mother and Toddler Group – St. Mary’s Room on a Tuesday, from 10.30am until 12.00pm

 

Information

Prayer Group – for both Holy Angels and Holy Family takes place once a month on a Tuesday.  The next dates are as follows: 10^th Sept, 8^th Oct and 5^th November, 2013. Coffee at 7.30pm for 7.45pm start. To be held in the Parish Office

 

Harvest Thanksgiving at Holy Angels & Holy Family is on 28^th– 29^th Sept. CAFOD Harvest Fast Day Friday, 4^th October, 2013.

 

Prayer and Fasting for Syria – Last Friday, 6^th September,  Pope Francis asked that all Christians in the world keep that day as a day of Prayer and Fasting for the PEACE in Syria. 

Let us pray that the Lord will have heard the prayers of his faithful and that our world Leaders will be cautious in their approach to endeavour to bring about an end to the very serious recent events that have taken place in Syria against their own people and to help bring about a Peaceful solution and an end to the dreadful suffering and loss of life. Let us pray that this can be achieved through dialogue and diplomatic means rather than the use of weapons. We also pray for the many homeless refugees who through this conflict have had to leave their homeland to escape this very sad and tragic civil war.. Lord hear our Prayer.     (the Editor)

Baptisms

Dates for Baptism Courses: 16^th Sept, 11^th November, 2013

Please make an appointment to see the Priest/Deacon to discuss what you need to do to prepare for your child’s baptism. If you are new to the Parish, please complete pink Registration Form and make yourself known to Father David or Deacon John after Mass.

Prayer Requests

If you would like prayers for friends or family members, please first check with that person that they are happy for their name to be mentioned in the weekly Newsletter.

 

Message from Deacon John Edwards

In mid-July I was at a meeting where it was said: “We don’t rest from work, we rest to work”. This made a bit of an impact on me and as it was said by an active Christian, when I met him the next day, I challenged him as being contradictory to the bible. “ By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.” Genesis 2:2.  He responded did I really think God needed a rest? The rest was given to the humans he had created, so our first day of existence was a day of rest.

We talked this through a bit more and recognised that in the New Testament the “Lord’s Day” was the first day of the week, and Christians honoured the Lord’s Day by taking a day of rest. More practically a new born baby spends a lot of its time asleep to enable its growth. I even have to admit that the main reason for resting when I am tired is so that I can do what needs to be done next. So at the end of this I concluded by saying therefore a vacation is not recuperation but preparation.

I believe however there is another factor to be added to this and that is allowing the Lord to help us in all that we do. Jesus himself said that we should lay our burdens on him. “My yoke is easy and my burden light”. Many of us do not feel this way at all and one thing I can see is that perhaps not all I do is what is being asked of me by the Lord. I need to be more discerning about the things I do or get involved in asking the Lord whether or not it is in accordance to His will. Then my rest will be effective preparation for the things He wants me to do.

I hope you are felling refreshed after your summer and I encourage you not to overburden yourselves.

God Bless, Deacon John