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Fr. Steve Wymer Parish Priest 020 8650 3390 Deacon Sean Murphy 020 3490 5693 [email protected] [email protected] Fr. Ashley Beck Assistant Priest 020 8650 4117/ 020 7998 5949 [email protected] Fr. Mark B. Binang Assistant Priest 020 8650 7533 [email protected]
CATHOLIC PARISH CHURCH OF ST. EDMUND OF CANTERBURY, BECKENHAM
PARISH NEWSLETTER 21 May 2017, Sixth Sunday of Easter(A)
The Presbytery, 20 Village Way, Beckenham BR3 3NP Parish Office 020 8650 0970
Open Monday to Friday 9 - 1pm
Email [email protected]
Website: www.saintedmunds.net
Salesian Sisters 25 Village Way, BR3 3NA 020 8650 6313 [email protected]
Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver 89 Shortlands Road BR2 0JL
020 8313 3915 [email protected]
MAY IS THE MONTH OF MARY , we sing in one of the
traditional hymns for this time of year. Last week we had a May
Procession in Bishop Challoner school and next Friday we have
one in St Mary’s; traditionally here at St Edmund’s we say the
Salve Regina at the Bidding Prayers. Our devotion to Mary in
the month of May should never be seen as detracting from the
importance of Eastertide: indeed Easter helps us understand
Mary, as she rejoices at the Resurrection of her Son and waits
with his friends in the upper room for the coming of the Holy
Spirit. We think of her particularly in this month as our true
Queen.
But May this year is different, because last weekend the Catholic
world marked the centenary of the appearances of Our Lady at
Fatima in Portugal; many of you will be going on pilgrimage
there this year. Others know much more about Fatima than I
do, and I am sure there will be accounts of the pilgrimages there
later this year in this newsletter; I simply want to make a couple
of observations.
The apparitions began in the middle of First World War, the
worse conflict which Europe by that time had ever known: by
May 1917 Portugal had been a combatant in the war for just over
a year on the allied side. Pope Benedict XV, after the war ended
commissioned the statue of Our Lady of Peace shown on the left
for the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, worked tirelessly to get
the nations involved to the negotiating table and bring the
slaughter to an end, and he made his most determined (and sadly
unsuccessful) efforts in the summer of 1917. On the actual day
the apparitions started (13 May) he consecrated Eugenio Pacelli
as a bishop (shown below), who as nuncio to Bavaria played a
major role in promoting the pope’s ‘Peace Note’ (Pacelli later
became Pius XII). The other thing to note is that in one of the
apparitions Our Lady tells the children to pray the rosary for the war to end, something the pope also asked the children of
Europe to do throughout the war.
Praying the rosary for peace: that remains a good thing for us all
to do, as we give thanks for what happened a century ago and for
what Fatima has meant to the world.
PRAYING THE ROSARY FOR PEACE
PARISH NOTICES
LIFE IN THE SPIRIT SEMINARS (LSS)
Tuesday 23 May at 7.30pm Seminar 4 of 7
Thank you all for continuing to come to our Life in the Spirit Seminars. The numbers attending have been amazing! Thank you to Michelle Moran our last speaker. We are now at the mid-point of the seminars and this week we welcome Joanne King speaking on Receiving God’s Gift. Fr Steve
. More information is in the Flyer, available at the back of
church, please take one home.
Fr. Steve Wymer & Christine Parker (Co-ordinator) 0208 658 9264 or
Parish Office: 0208 650 0970
FEAST OF THE VISITATION OF OUR LADY Wednesday 31 May
On this last day of May, the Salesian Sisters at 25 Village Way would like to invite all those who can
to join them after the 10am mass, or in the evening at 7pm, for a decade of the Rosary, hymn
to Mary and a cup of tea. Weather permitting in the
garden or if wet in the house! All welcome
RECEPTION AFTER CONFIRMATION MASS We really need more helpers at the Reception after the Confirmation mass. We have three people setting out the tables on Friday night but more helpers to decorate and lay out the food that will be arriving on Saturday morning are needed and we particularly need helpers to serve the wine and teas and coffees and to tidy up afterwards.
If you could offer some time we would be most grateful. Please contact the Parish Office on 020 8650 0970
DROP IN CAFE Laptop needed
The guests who come to the Drop-In are a musical bunch and we usually have a sing at some time during
the afternoon. We would like to be able to project the lyrics of the songs on to a screen and wonder if anyone might
have an old laptop that they could donate to us.
It doesn’t have to be anything special. All it would need to be able to do is take a memory stick with the lyrics on.
If you could help us it would be great. It could be
dropped off at the Parish Office or you could phone the Office and we will arrange collection.
Thank you
Over the next month or so, Saturdays in our church will be very busy. On May 27 a large group of our young people will be confirmed by Bishop Pat and in the Church on June 10, 17 and 24, children from the Catechism Group and from St Mary’s will be making their first communion. Also on June 10, children from Bishop Challoner will be making their first holy communion in their beautiful, newly refurbished chapel.
Confirmation Rehearsal for Altar Servers There will be a rehearsal for altar servers on
Sunday 21 May at 4 pm. Siblings of those being confirmed are particularly welcome.
CLAVER CONVENT GARDEN PARTY Saturday 8 July
This is coming up very soon. The sisters are raising funds for Fr Alexis Harolimana in the Democratic Republic of Congo who can only reach his scattered parishioners by a boat with outboard motor. Please collect toiletries, bottles, plants, hand made crafts and unwanted gifts, and nearer the day bake a cake or two. Raffle tickets will be on sale outside the church in a few weeks.
8TH NATIONAL DIVINE MERCY PILGRIMAGE TO WALSINGHAM
Saturday 3 June
organised by the Divine Mercy Apostolate -
Marian Fathers
100th Anniversary of the Apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima Poster in the porch outlining the day but more information and
coach bookings from www.divinemercyapostolate.co.uk
or 020 8998 0925
CHARITY DINNER PARTY Please look at the poster in the porch and think about coming to the charity event being organised by a group of Brazilian parishioners It looks like being an exciting evening. All the proceeds go towards charities in Brazil.
GIFT AID ENVELOPES
Gift Aid envelopes for use from 4 June are now ready for collection from the back of the church. Please
pick yours up today.
CHURCH SHOP Cards and gifts for confirmation and First Holy Communion
are on sale in the Church Shop which is open after all Sunday Masses
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The CCN provides professional support for the Bishops of England and Wales and the wider Church in promoting the Gospel through the media on current issues.
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The communications team provides up to date news releases, features, films, podcasts and information from the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales.
It also trains media spokespeople, maintains this and a number of other websites and runs the social media channels below Please give generously next weekend to enable this important work to continue,
BECKENHAM CATENIANS We are holding our monthly meeting on Monday, 22 May at 8.00 pm at The Club, 4 Bromley Road, Beckenham, BR3
5JE (beside ASK). We would welcome any male member of St Edmund’s to join us for a social evening and to find out about the
Association
DAY OF PRAYER FOR EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF THE EUCHARISTIC Saturday 24 June 2017
Led by Fr. James Moran O. Carm
Saturday 8 July 2017 Led by Sr Margaret Eason DMJ
Wednesday 12 July 2017
Led by Fr Ted Wildsmith M.Afr.
Saturday 2 September 2017 Led by Fr Bryan Wells
All begin with coffee at 10.00 a.m. and end with tea at
about 4.00 p.m. Coffee, lunch and tea: £28
Bring your own packed lunch: £19
To book please contact: The Emmaus Centre, Layhams Road, West Wickham, Kent.
Tel: 020 8777 2000
MASSES AND INTENTIONS
21 May - 28 May
Sunday 21 May Sixth Sunday of Easter 8.00 am Church Pedro and Francis Fernandes RIP 9.30 am Church Mary Smith RIP 11.00 am Church Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus 5.30 pm Church Pro populo 7.00 pm Church Breada Hoare RIP and family
members living and deceased Monday 22 May Feria (St Rita of Cascia) 8.15 am 27 V Way Howard Cronin RIP 10.00 am Church Louise Mayungbe - birthday 7.30 pm 27 V Way Adoration Hour Tuesday 23 May Feria 8.15 am Claver Mr and Mrs O’Neill and Manuel Castineira RIP 10.00 am Church Rhys and Dolce-Mai Dada RIP Wednesday 24 May Feria 8.15 am Claver Caroline Anaele RIP 10.00 am Church Terence Thornton RIP 7.30 pm Church Jack McCarthy RIP Thursday 25 May St Bede the Venerable 8.15 am Claver Mary Edet RIP 10.00 am Church Francis Joseph Friend-Pereira Friday 26 May St Philip Neri 8.15 am Claver Clifford Shute RIP 9.00 am St Mary’s May Procession 9.00 am Challoner Private Intention 10.00 am Church John Edet RIP Saturday 27 May St Augustine of Canterbury 8.15 am Claver Joan Begg RIP 10.00 am Church Ermina and Graham Stirling 12 noon Church Confirmation Mass Confessions from 5.30 6.00 pm Church Ekong and Edet families - intentions Sunday 28 May The Ascension of the Lord 8.00 am Church Simeon CabilinRIP 9.30 am Church Pro populo (family mass) 11.00 am Church Richard Graves RIPs 5.30 pm Church Maria Leocadia 7.00 pm Church For parishioners intentions and recovery of Colin Dowling
Please pray for the housebound, and the sick and others who have asked for our prayers.
Dorothy Appleyard, Peter Appleyard, Mary Atsu, James Bekoe, Kim Benardis, Trevor Binley, Christopher Browne, Edith Campos,
Baby Vienna-Marie Carpenter, John Colling, Tony Cox, Ruby Desmond, Giacomo Dillon, Kate Dillon, Rita Dixon,
Arthur Donnelly, Jeanette Duffy, Elizabeth, Ann Elmer, Martin Farquhar, Margaret Fennessy, Luigi Ferrara, Suzette Fox,
Barry Gardiner, Benny Green, Philomena Guard, Eileen Hayes, Pat Hibberd, Norman Holland, Frank Holmes, Dave Hustwayte,
Kathy Jobson, Alabooso Joe-Jim, Baby Victoria Jovanov, Fr Peter Kelly, Grace Knight, Peggy Lake, Anita Leslau, Sarah Lister, Mim Lodge,
Kathy Maleczek, Neelam Malik, Dominic McGrath, Jim McGrath, Natalie McGrath, Mickey McGuigan, Paul McQuinny and family, Patrick Metters,
Eddie Mitchell 1 yr, Gaynor Mullane, Dominic Nash, Sean O’Connor, Jospe-hine O’Hagan, Valerie Parr, Dorothy Pask, Diane Pick, Leonard Pope,
John Quaife, Baby Isaac Ratinckx, Gabriella Rolls, Sandra Sekulic, Claire Shelton-Jones, Marie-Therese Sinon, Mike & Eileen Slemen,
Eleni Symeou, John Sylvester, Sarah Thornton, Barry Thorp, Katie Toone, Barbara Tucker, Annette Virdee, Louise Walters, Ian Watson, Patricia Weal, Terry Weal, Emma Winch, Freda Wukolz, George Wukolz, Maureen Young,
and Fred Wye.
Please remember in your prayers the deceased whose anniversaries occur at this time.
Patrick Callaghan, Paul Skelly, Suzanne Podesta, John Banfield, Eliana Palacios, Terence Thornton, Michael McGee, Catherine Casey, Jack McCarthy,
Christine Thomas, Joan Fleming, Josephine Bending
Please pray for those who have recently died. Teresa Krawczyk, and
Sabine Doran.
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY MAY Every Tuesday in May from 7.30pm in the Hall - Life in the Spirit Seminars Meditation in no 11 every Monday from 10.45 - 11.30 20 May 7pm - Youth Club in the Hall 22 May 10.15 Walking Group - Beckenham Junction 26 May 7.30 9pm, no 11, Bible Study Group 27 May - Contemplative Saturday 11-12 noon in no 11 27 May - Confirmation Mass- noon JUNE 3 June - Fatima Prayer Group 17 June - 7pm Youth Club in Hall 23 June - 4pm - start of All Night Vigil of Prayer and Adoration. 24 June - Contemplative Saturday 11-12 noon in no 11 JULY 8 July - Claver Convent Garden Party 14 July - Requiem Mass for Sabine Doran 11am 29 July - Saturday - keep the day free for the parish summer outing. Details later.
Last week’s collection came to £2489.36 The second collection for the SVP raised £1135.71
Readings for Sunday 28 May Acts 1: 1-11 Psalm 46 Ep 1:17-23 Matthew 28:16-20