CATHOLIC

CHURCH OF OUR LADY ST JOHN’S WOOD

“Do you realize that Jesus is there in the Blessed Sac-rament expressly for you, for you alone? He burns with the desire to come into your heart.”

-St Therese of Lisieux

Mass Times:

Sunday 6pm (Saturday) 9, 10.30, 12 &

6pm

Weekday Mon-Fri: 10am

Thurs: 7pm Sat: 10am

Rosary After weekday

Mass

Exposition Sat after Mass (Exposition/Benediction)

Confessions Daily before

Mass

Weekly Newsletter 23rd SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME– 10th September 2017

A WORD FROM FR JEFF

St John Vianney on the Eucharist

This weekend we have a very special moment in our parish to welcome Fa-ther Gary to lead us to understand the Eucharist more fully. What, or who is it that we adore in the Mass each week and in the monstrance during adoration? Have you ever come to pray before Jesus exposed on the Altar in adoration? If not, are you willing to change that into a yes? Here is what St John Vianney said about the Eucharist. Give it some thought and let us examine ourselves in how we approach Him in this most holy exchange of divine presence.

"What does Jesus Christ do in the Eucharist? It is God who, as our Savior, offers himself each day for us to his Father's justice. If you are in difficulties and sorrows, he will comfort and relieve you. If you are sick, he will either cure you or give you strength to suffer so as to merit Heaven. If the devil, the world, and the flesh are making war upon you, he will give you the weapons with which to fight, to resist, and to win victory. If you are poor, he will enrich you with all sorts of riches for time and eternity. Let us open the door of his sa-cred and adorable Heart, and be wrapped about for an instant by the flames of his love, and we shall see what a God who loves us can do. O my God, who shall be able to compre-hend?"

"The soul hungers for God, and nothing but God can satiate it. Therefore He came to dwell on earth and assumed a Body in order that this Body might become the Food of our souls,"

"If we really loved the good God, we should make it our joy and happiness to come and spend a few moments to adore Him, and ask Him for the grace of forgiveness; and we should regard those moments as the happiest of our lives."

"If we could comprehend all the good things contained in Holy Communion, nothing more would be wanting to content the heart of man. The miser would run no more after his treasures, or the ambitious after glory; each would shake off the dust of the earth, leave the world, and fly away towards heaven,"

"When we go before the Blessed Sacrament, let us open our heart; our good God will open His. We shall go to Him; He will come to us; the one to ask, the other to receive. It will be like a breath from one to the other,"

Sunday Readings (p.125)

Ezekiel 33:7-9 Psalm 94: 1-2, 6-9 Romans 13: 8-10

Matthew 18:15-20

Music at 10.30 Mass: Palestrina - Missa Ad coenan ag-

ni providi Handl - Regali ex progenieDA

Hymns 31: All ye who seek a comfort

sure 143: Dear Lord and Father of

mankind 556: O thou, who at thy Eucha-

rist didst pray

Baptism Prep Group

Next course is on 14th & 21st Octo-ber at 12.30pm in the Lower Hall

Marriage See one of the Priests.

Six months’ notice required Preparation obligatory

Union of Catholic Mothers Monday 25th September at 8pm

St Josephs Fellowship

Tuesday 10th October at 8pm

Parish Office Hours Mon - Fri: 10.30 - 13.30

Open Surgery

Tuesday 12th September at 6pm

Attendance Cards are available to collect from the back of the Church, along with new cards, so please do pick them up. The sticker programme will relaunch at all Masses from this weekend. Parish Mission 9th-12th September will focus on Eucharistic Adoration. Make sure to put it in your calendar and come! See poster and details at the back of the Church. A Day With Mary will be held in our Church, next Saturday 16th September, 10 am-5.30pm. All are welcome to a day of instruction, devotion & intercession, based on the message given at Fatima in 1917. Please bring a packed lunch. The Jubilee Room is being transformed into the main Parish Office, with works beginning on 6th September. Once completed, Parish Office access and all enquir-ies will be via the Jubilee Room door. Outside Lighting-There is a need for additional lighting to help make the Church and Parish House more secure. Any donations towards this would be greatly ap-preciated. The cost will be approximately £2000. Junior Choir will resume on Sunday 17th September, with rehearsal being on Fri-day 15th September at 6pm in the Church. Any new members, aged 7-14 years old, are welcome! First Holy Communion -the registration meeting is on 18th September at 7pm in the Church Confirmation Registration Meeting is on Sunday 8th October at 4.30pm in the Church Journey Of Faith (RCIA) If you or someone you know would like to explore the possibility of becoming a Catholic or to be received into the Catholic faith or simply to catch up one or more of the sacraments, please have a word with Fr Jeff or Fr Lorenzo or take a form from the back of the church. Sacristy Fund – Fr Jeff has present needs for the Sacristy Fund. These items are for the beautification of Mass. These will include items such as Funeral Palls, a white and a black Altar Frontal, a new cope and a Funeral Cope, as well as Stat-ues. If you wish to donate to this fund, please speak to Fr Jeff. Restoration Project: As we continue to plan and develop the restoration project, Fr Jeff will be placing photos of items we wish to purchase for the Lady Chapel, Shrines of the Sacred Heart and St Joseph in the back of the church with news in the newsletter if anyone wishes to give towards them as we move forward. These too can be offered in memory of others. New Reader, Eucharistic Ministers & Linen Rotas are available to collect from outside the Sacristy

Collect

O God, by whom we are re-

deemed and receive adoption,

look graciously upon your be-

loved sons and daughters, that

those who believe in Christ may

receive true freedom and an

everlasting inheritance.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ,

your Son, who lives and reigns

with you in the unity of the Ho-

ly Spirit, one God, for ever and

ever.

Amen

Parish Hall Activities

Monday

English Language

Classes resume on 18th Sept

Tuesday

Parent & Toddler Group re-

sume on 12th Sept

Over 50s 2pm

The Pope’s Prayer Intentions for September:

Parishes That our parishes, animated by a missionary spirit, may be places where faith is commu-nicated and charity is seen.

Spouse’s Corner

To will and choose an-other’s good in love re-quires that, among the

various goods we desire for them (like health,

happiness, truth, moral rectitude, salvation), we

also desire to give them our very selves (1

Thess. 2:8). That’s the es-sential meaning of com-munion and of covenant.

Where are you giving yourself to your spouse and where do you need to actually start giving?

put their trust in those given charge

over them (until that trust is violated).

Gift Aid– If any parishioner who has a gift aid in favour of the parish no longer

pays UK tax, please advise your name, address and the date you ceased to pay

tax to Fr Jeff or Fr Lorenzo as soon as possible. Thank you.

If you are sick or in hospital, please make it known that you are Catholic, so that

arrangements can be made for a Catholic Chaplaincy to visit you. Please also let

Fr Jeff or Fr Lorenzo know so we can arrange a visit.

Please visit http://rcdow.org.uk/diocese/jobs/ for all the current vacancies in

the diocese

Beginning Experience-There

is a healing weekend for men

and women who find them-

selves single again following

separation, divorce or the

death of a partner from 6th to

8th October 2017 at the Em-

maus Centre, West Wickham,

Kent. For details please con-

tact Freda 01322-838415 San-

dra 01293-783965 or John

01992-642443 email johna-

brotherton@hotmail.co.uk

10.30am Music

For the high mass during our Eucharistic Adoration Mission the mass setting will be ‘Missa Ad caenam Agni providi’ by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594). This setting draws on the early Ambrosian hymn which we know sing in the modern translation: ‘At the Lamb’s high feast’. This simple melody moves almost entirely by step and, being plainchant, has no defining rhythms. However, Palestrina weaves the parts around each other, bouncing simple three note ideas around the page.

We extend the celebration of the Nativity of Our Lady with a short motet by the Slo-venian, Jacob Handl (1550-1591). ‘Regali ex progenie’ starts, as tradition dictates, with all parts entering in turn with a similar phrase. This polyphony stops when all the choir come together to proclaim that Our Lady’s life is celebrated in our church-es.

Contact Information

Catholic Church of Our Lady, St John’s Wood

54 Lodge Road

London, NW8 8LA

02072863214

stjohnswood@rcdow.org.uk

http:/www.rcsjw.org.uk/

Parish Team

Parish Priest: Fr Jeff Steel

Assistant Priest: Fr Lorenzo Andreini

Parish Sister: Sr Brigid Collins

SATURDAY

9th September Feria

- - -

23rd SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME VIGIL

In Thanksgiving To Our Lady Sacrament of Reconciliation

Sacrament of Reconciliation

Alessandra Defraine RIP (4th Anniv.)

SUNDAY

10th September

23rd SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

09.00 10.30

12.00 18.00

Matthew Moses (Health Intentions) Allan Field

For The People of the Parish

MONDAY

11th September Feria

Pauline O’Neill RIP

TUESDAY

12th September Feria

Aurora Perez Delgado RIP

WEDNESDAY

13th September St John Chrysostom, Bishop & Doctor

Nichole Maxwell

THURSDAY

14th September THE EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS

Hermina Arandia RIP

FRIDAY

15th September Our Lady of Sorrows

10.00

A S Peter RIP (Anniv.)

SATURDAY

16th September Sts Cornelius, Pope & Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs

- - -

24th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME VIGIL

Sacrament of Reconciliation

SUNDAY

17th September

24th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

09.00 10.30

12.00 18.00

Noris de Bracho RIP

For The People of the Parish

All celebrations take place at the parish church, apart from those marked Q which take place at the Chapel of Our Lady Queen of the World