This week`s Newsletter - St Joseph`s Church, Bromley

St Joseph’s Parish News
Diary for this week:
Sixth Sunday
Sunday 15th February
10.30 am
Baptism Prep. Session 3—UR
Rite of Welcome during 9.15am
Mass
Monday 16th February
Tuesday 17th February
10.30 am
Coffee iand Pancakes in Club
Room after Mass
8.00 pm
UCM –UR
Wednesday 18th February
8.30 pm
Meditation Group—UR
8.00 pm
No Jubilee Prayer Group as
Ash Wednesday
Thursday 19th February
Friday 20th February
Saturday 21st February
2.30 pm
Simply Perfect
First Holy Communion Wear—Hall
7.00 pm
Youth Film Night—UR
Sunday 22nd February
9.15 am
Children’s Liturgy
10.30 am
Baptism Preparation Session 4—UR
Rosary: Daily at 10.30am
Parish Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: First three Fridays of each month from 7.30-8.30pm.
Malayalam Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: Last Friday of each month from 7-8.30pm
Benediction on Saturday 10.30-11.00am
Baptism: Parents & Expectant Parents—please contact a Priest during Surgery. One month
preparation required.
Wedding: Please contact a Priest during Surgery. Six months notice required.
Presbytery & Parish Office
Presbytery: 1 Orchard Road, Bromley, BR1 2PR
Parish Pastoral Team
Fr. Tom
Fr. Saju
Fr. Cyriac Palakudy
Mary Crosby
Deacon Barry
Deacon Aidan
Tel: 020 8402 0459
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Tel: 07946 996759
Tel.: 07445 417335
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Parish Secretary: Susan Allatt 8.30am-1.00pm Monday-Friday
Tel.: 020 8402 0459
Twitter: @ParishStJosephs
Surgeries (at Presbytery: no appointment needed)
Monday: Fr. Saju 6-8pm Wednesday: Fr. Tom 5-7pm
St. Joseph’s School: Tel: 020 8460 1976 | Website: www.st-josephs.bromley.sch.uk
St. Joseph’s Playgroup Ltd: Monday to Friday in Church Hall. Enquiries please ring 07961 413694
Year B
15th February 2015
Readings are on page 137 of the Parish Mass Book
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Sacrament of Reconciliation:
Saturdays: 11 am-12 noon & 5.00-5.45 pm or on request.
Desk of the Parish Priest
Lent, a time for developing and
deepening Good Habits
Nearly sixty years ago a Jesuit Priest offered us the
following guide for living during a retreat for school
boys:

Place an act, form a habit

Form a habit, develop a character

Develop a character, reach your destination
Our destination is to be ‘fully human, fully alive’ in
the words of Jesus ‘Be holy for the Lord your God is
holy’. That is our vocation in life to be the kind of
person that God wants us to be, Saints.
Saints are people who have become friends of
Jesus and learned from him good habits for living.
This doesn’t come easy. It requires discipline and
commitment. We can learn a lot from top sports
men/women about developing good habits. They
give long hours of practice to developing a perfect
swing in golf or passing shot in tennis until the
prefect pattern becomes part of who they are. Bad
habits are replaced by good habits.
Lent is a time for developing good habits which
replace bad habits. So may I suggest that you
make a list of three or four good habits that you
would like to develop and begin or continue to
practice throughout the period of Lent and beyond.
Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you in your choice.
Then commit and be faithful and consistent. If you
lapse—begin again.
The Gospel on this Ash Wednesday invites us to
pray, fast, give alms. Begin with these. In addition
prepare for Mass each Sunday by reading and
pondering the scriptures in the Newsletter insert.
Cont…..
MASS TIMES AND INTENTION
Psalter Week 2
Saturday 14th February
6.00 pm
Cronin & McNamara Families
Sunday 15th February Sixth Sunday
8.00 am
Paddy McCarthy RIP
9.15 am
Int. of Perrson Family
11.00 am
Special Intention
12.30 pm
Baptism:
Cyrus Camsiyochukwu
Ndeokwelu
5.00 pm
Janey & Seamus Vance RIP (Mel)
Monday16th February
7.30 am*
Holy Souls
10.00 am
Edward Ernest & Jane Macey RIP
7.30 pm
Syro Malabar Mass
Bro. Pinto Edattukaran RIP
Tuesday 17th February
8.45 am
No Mass—Half Term
10.00 am
Funeral: Mr. John Plant RIP
Wednesday 18th February Ash Wednesday
7.30 am
Int. Geraldine Colleary (Harrington)
10.00 am
John Vincent &
Rozaria Fernandes RIP
7.30 pm
Joe Broderick RIP (Cunnliffe)
Thursday 19th February
7.30 am*
Mary Joyce & Family
10.00 am
Mary & Michael O’Shea (Dillane)
Friday 20th February
10.00 am
Michael Dilworth RIP (Crosby)
10th Anniversary
11.00 am
St. Raphael’s: Canon Grady RIP
7.30 pm
Stations of the Cross
8.00 pm
Holy Mass
8.30 pm
Syro Malabar Stations of the Cross
Saturday 21st February
10.00 am
People of the Parish
6.00 pm
Gerald Crowe RIP (Doran)
Sunday 22nd February First Sunday of Lent
8.00 am
Mrs. Kathleen Cunniffe RIP
9.15 am
UCM
11.00 am
Mary Shiels (Dillane)
5.00 pm
Rupert & Rita Anthony RIP (Volry)
*7.30am Masses will be held in Holy Trinity Chapel
Finally join a Lent reflection group that will be
using Matthew Kelly’s ‘Rediscovering Catholicism’
as a resource. Contact the parish office for more
information on this.
Have a grace filled Lent. Fr. Tom
Wednesday 18th February is Ash Wednesday
and there will be Masses at 7.30am, 10.00am
and 7.30pm in the church.
Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament:
Monday to Thursday 10.30-11.30am
Time for silence and time to pray the rosary
Friday evening 7.30-8.30pm
Saturday 10.30-11.00am
Our Parish Faith Formation
Baptism Preparation Session 3 will be held
today following the 9.15am Mass in the Upper
Room. The Rite of Welcome will take place during
the 9.15am Mass.
Lent Retreat Time Out on Monday 23rd
February at 7.45 for 8.00-9.30pm in the church
hall. The Retreat will be led by Fr. John Mulligan
who led the day on the Joy of the Gospel. See
posters in foyer and outside cabinet.
Walk with Me. A Lenten Journey of Prayer for
2015. The Joy of Living the Beatitudes. This
booklet explores the wisdom and light contained in
the Beatitudes. Available in the foyer priced £1.
Please also pick up one of the cards with the
Beatitudes printed on the reverse.
First Holy Communion Preparation Session 3
will be held on Tuesday 24th February at 6.30pm
in the upper room, Saturday 28th February at
8.45am in the upper room and Sunday 1st March
at 10.30am in the upper room and Holy Trinity
Convent.
Parish News
Lenten Groups. Many people have been
excited by Matthew Kelly’s book Rediscovering
Catholicism and have asked that we use this
excellent resource for our Lent Reflection
Groups.
If you would like to be part of a Lenten Group
or form one of your own please contact the
parish office for a copy of the study guide.
Fr. Tom
Clergy Support Fund Campaign.
Last
weekend we introduced the Clergy Support Fund
Campaign. We invited you to attend
presentations we will be holding in March to
explain how the Diocese support our sick and
retired priests. Thank you to all who completed
the cards we handed out at all the Masses. You
will soon be receiving invitations to attend a
presentation.
If you were away last weekend and you wish to
find out about how sick and retired priests are
supported please complete a card you will find
on the benches and hand it in to a member of the
Parish Pastoral Team or to the Parish Office.
The UCM invite you to come and enjoy
delicious pancakes and coffee in the Club
Room after the 10am mass on Tuesday, 17th
February (Shrove Tuesday). There will also be a
raffle. All proceeds to go to the Priests' Training
Fund.
We are holding the Women’s World Day of
Prayer at St. Joseph’s on Friday 6th March at
10.30am. The service has been prepared by the
women of the Bahamas and the theme is ‘Jesus
washing the disciples’ feet’. Everyone is
welcome. Refreshments served afterwards in
Holy Trinity Convent. Please support this event.
The Journey in Faith Group will meet on
Monday 23rd February at 7.45 for 8.00pm in the
Upper Room.
The new Flower Arrangers rota is now
available.
New volunteers welcome.
No
experience necessary. Please email Paula
Gilboy at [email protected].
Family Groups - Coming soon to St
Joseph's on the weekend of 28
February/1 March there will be talks
at each Mass on Family Groups.
Children’s Liturgy are now asking parents of
Year 1 children to attend the older group of
Children’s Liturgy in order to balance the groups.
Thank you for your co-operation.
Mission & Outreach
MARRIAGE MATTERS
(www.twoinoneflesh.org.uk)
Keeping our love alive. Sometimes we have a
sense of being at odds and separated from each
other. The question, often unasked, is ‘do you
love me?’ The answer is the same as Jesus
gave to the outcast leper ‘of course I do!’ From
being apart, we can be one again. How often do
we say to each other ‘I love you’?
The Cafod Representatives will speak at all
Masses next weekend. There will be a second
collection for their Lenten Appeal.
Churches Together in Central Bromley Lent
Course for 2015 will be held at Trinity United
Reformed Church, Freelands Road at 8.00pm on
the following Tuesdays: 24th February, 3rd, 10th,
17th and 24th March. All welcome. See poster in
outside cabinet.
Dementia and Disability. A day of study and
reflection. To be held on Saturday 14th March
from 2.00-5.30pm at Our Lady of the Crays, 312
High Street, St Mary Cray BR5 4AR. For more
information contact the Centre for Catholic
Formation on 020 8672 7684 or email:
[email protected]
‘Just Money’ an evening exploring Catholic
Social Teaching, featuring an interview with
Clifford Longley the well known Catholic
journalist and radio broadcaster. In autumn
2014, he published a brilliant essay, ‘Just Money:
How Catholic Social Teaching can Redeem
Capitalism’. In it, Clifford reflects on the banking
crash and its causes in the light of Catholic Social
Teaching. Timothy Radcliffe OP described Just
Money as “the best presentation of Catholic Social
Teaching that I have ever read. It is really
excellent.” If you would like to learn more please
come along to Holy Innocents’ Orpington on
Wednesday 4th March at 8.00pm. Contact
Stephen Walsh on 07778 612050 for further
details.
Retrouvaille—A lifeline for married couples.
For further information please ring 07887 296983
or email [email protected].
Inspired by St Francis of Assisi?
You are invited to the Fraternity monthly meeting of
the Secular Franciscan Order on Sunday
22nd February, 2.30pm-5-00pm. In St Mary's
Small Hall, Wellesley Rd Croydon. Everybody's
welcome. (Entrance down ramp at side of church).
Youth Ministry
St. Joseph’s Youth Group are planning to hold
a ‘Film Night’ for ages 12 and over on Saturday
21st February 2015 from 7-9pm in the upper
room. They would like to invite all young people
in the parish and their friends to attend. Light
refreshments will be served. Cost £2.00 per ticket.
Tickets are available from the parish office. Please
send in suggestions of age appropriate films you
would like to watch!
Flame 2—The biggest Catholic Youth Event in
the country. To be held at Wembley Arena on
Saturday 7th March 2015 from 11.00am to 5.30pm.
Suitable for those in Year 10 to young adult. For
more information and to book your place please
contact the parish office.
Miscellaneous
For future events at St. Christopher’s Hospice
please see:
http://www.stchristophers.org.uk/sites/default/files/
StChris_Concert_Series_2015.pdf
Question of the Week
Adult: Would you have the courage to tell
others to do as you do in order to be a Christian?
Why or why not?
Child: What can you do this week to be an
example to others?
PARISH FINANCES
We are the Parish and we all belong to God
Last Week: Total offering: £1330.50 and £496
was given for the Catholic Education Service.
This Sunday there will be a second collection for
the Poor Parishes Fund (formerly the Needs of
the Diocese).
When making your will you may wish to
remember your Parish.