Newsletter 16 October 2022
Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sat Oct 15 – 5.45pm P & J Lowe (sick)
Sun Oct 16 – 9.00am Parishioners | 10.30am Peter Verdin RIP
Mon Oct 17 – 9.15am Mena Winifred Wright (anniv) | St.Ignatius of Antioch
Tue Oct 18 – 7.00pm Exposition | 7.30pm Paul English (anniv) | St Luke
Wed Oct 19 – 9.15am Pauline Townson (sick) | St Peter of Alcantara
Thu Oct 20 – 9.15am Ints Andrea Hosker
Fri Oct 21 – 9.15am SI (Beck)
Sat Oct 22 – 10-10.30am Confessions and Exposition | 5.45pm Sr Catherine Joy
Sun Oct 23 – 9.00am SI (Wong) | 10.30am Parishioners
ST. JOHN H NEWMAN
St. John H Newman arish hosts an evening’s entertainment featuring musician and comedian Jimmy Cricket at 7.30pm on Wednesday October 19. Tickets are available price £12 in aid of Francis House Children’s Hospice.
PLEASE PRAY FOR
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Stephen Swietlik, who died this week. He attended Mass here regularly until he had to go into a care home some years ago. May he rest in peace.
THANK YOU for the £238 donated to CAFOD last week.
VERY STRANGE
Only four families (8 children) enrolled for RE lessons. Has the younger element of our parish disappeared?
NEXT SUNDAY
Next Sunday is World Mission Sunday and there will be a retiring collection to help fund the religious orders who try to spread the faith abroad.
VOCATIONS
The Vocations Director Fr Tony McGrath has sent us some new plastic prayer cards with a new prayer for priestly vocations. Please pick one up as you leave. Even if you only read it once that will be a prayer. The readings at Mass use various stories and examples to encourage us to persevere in prayer no matter how slow God is to respond. By now we must have all realised that the only response to our prayers in this matter seems to be ‘Not yet’.
During the month of October, we could maybe pray the rosary each day for world peace, asking Our Lady’s powerful intercession.
