Weekly Diary

18th May - 25th May 2025	Fifth Week of Easter 2025
Fifth Sunday of Easter 18^th May Ac 14:21-27 Rv 21:1-5 Jn 13:31-33a, 34-35 9.00am -1^st Holy Communion-Going Forth 11.00am-Catherine & James Murphy RIP ^Anniversary 12.30 Baptism 6.00pm Mass – People of the Parish Exit Collection Parish Hall Roof	Dear Brothers & Sisters What a gift to us is Pope Leo, our new Holy Father! Though the press made much of his Chicago origins, his formative years were spent as a missionary in Peru (see next page) where he spent his ministry among impoverished people. He continues the mission of Pope Francis to people on the edges. By holy coincidence some parishioners were in Rome last week, on pilgrimage, and they were able to see Pope Leo our new Holy Father. Thanks be to God. Thanks be to God too for our first communions yesterday, the catechists and teachers who instruct the children, and the parents and guardians who take care of them. They do the work of Jesus the Good Shepherd. Our teachers deserve our thanks and praise. OLC school children have just taken their SATS tests, and at St.Peter’s our children are sitting GCSE & A-level exams after a wonderful Ofsted result. Our Going Forth Mass is at 9.00am today, when we give thanks to God for bringing our children closer to him in Holy Communion, and we ‘send them forth’ as ambassadors of Jesus. The time from Easter to Pentecost was when Our Mother Mary waited patiently with the apostles for the coming of the Spirit. May we know her presence with us now as we look forward to Pentecost. Fr.Biju Parish Priest ******************** St.Dunstan (Monday) bp. of Worcester before becoming Archbp. of Canterbury over 1,000 years ago. He encouraged the unity of the fledgling English state, and wrote the Coronation rite for King Edgar in 973…the same rite used in 2023 for the coronation of King Charles
Monday - 19^th May Saint Dunstan Ac 14:5-18 Jn 14:21-26 7.00am Mass - Private Intention 10.15 Mass Catherine Foley RIP 4^th Anniversary
Tuesday - 20^th May Ac 14:19-28 Jn 14:27-31 7.00am Mass Barry Taylor RIP 10.15 Mass Fr Dominic Innamorati SCJ RIP 7.00pm Prayer before Blessed Sacrament
Wednesday - 21^st May Saint Christopher Magallanes Ac 15:1-6 Jn 15:1-8 7.00 Mass - Andrew Cunningham RIP 10.15 Mass Patricia Tubbs RIP & Victoria Phoenix 11.00-12.00 Prayer Group (Day Chapel)
Thursday - 22^nd May Saint Rita of Cascia Ac 15:7-21 Jn 15:9-11 7.00 Mass Tom Wagner & Tom Brady 10.15 Mass Fr Paul Johnson 11.00-12.00 Prayer before Blessed Sacrament 6.00-7.00 Prayer before Blessed Sacrament
Friday - 23^rd May Ac 15:22-31 Jn 15:12-17 7.00 Mass - Special Intention B.F. (RIP) 10.15 Mass - Mrs Ros Sherman (birthday)
Saturday 24^th May Ac 16:1-10 Jn 15:18-21 9.30 Confessions 10.15 Mass Billy Gaffey RIP
Sixth Sunday of Easter 25^th May Ac 15:1-2,22-29 Rv 21:10-14,22-23 Jn 14:23-29 9.00am -Nora & John Eccles 11.00am-Jean Daint RIP 12.30 Baptism 6.00pm Mass – People of the Parish Exit Collection Friary Building Fund

18th May - 25th May 2025

Fifth Week of Easter 2025

Fifth Sunday of Easter 18^th May

Ac 14:21-27 Rv 21:1-5 Jn 13:31-33a, 34-35

9.00am -1^st Holy Communion-Going Forth

11.00am-Catherine & James Murphy RIP ^Anniversary

12.30 Baptism

6.00pm Mass – People of the Parish

Exit Collection Parish Hall Roof

Dear Brothers & Sisters

What a gift to us is Pope Leo, our new Holy Father! Though the press made much of his Chicago origins, his formative years were spent as a missionary in Peru (see next page) where he spent his ministry among impoverished people. He continues the mission of Pope Francis to people on the edges.

By holy coincidence some parishioners were in Rome last week, on pilgrimage, and they were able to see Pope Leo our new Holy Father. Thanks be to God.

Thanks be to God too for our first communions yesterday, the catechists and teachers who instruct the children, and the parents and guardians who take care of them. They do the work of Jesus the Good Shepherd.

Our teachers deserve our thanks and praise. OLC school children have just taken their SATS tests, and at St.Peter’s our children are sitting GCSE & A-level exams after a wonderful Ofsted result.

Our Going Forth Mass is at 9.00am today, when we give thanks to God for bringing our children closer to him in Holy Communion, and we ‘send them forth’ as ambassadors of Jesus.

The time from Easter to Pentecost

was when Our Mother Mary waited patiently with the apostles for the coming of the Spirit. May we know her presence with us now as we look forward to Pentecost.

Fr.Biju Parish Priest

********************

St.Dunstan (Monday) bp. of Worcester before becoming Archbp. of Canterbury over 1,000 years ago. He encouraged the unity of the fledgling English state, and wrote the Coronation rite for King Edgar in 973…the same rite used in 2023 for the coronation of King Charles

Monday - 19^th May

Saint Dunstan

Ac 14:5-18 Jn 14:21-26

7.00am Mass - Private Intention

10.15 Mass Catherine Foley RIP 4^th Anniversary

Tuesday - 20^th May

Ac 14:19-28 Jn 14:27-31

7.00am Mass Barry Taylor RIP

10.15 Mass Fr Dominic Innamorati SCJ RIP

7.00pm Prayer before Blessed Sacrament

Wednesday - 21^st May

Saint Christopher Magallanes

Ac 15:1-6 Jn 15:1-8

7.00 Mass - Andrew Cunningham RIP

10.15 Mass Patricia Tubbs RIP & Victoria Phoenix

11.00-12.00 Prayer Group (Day Chapel)

Thursday - 22^nd May

Saint Rita of Cascia

Ac 15:7-21 Jn 15:9-11

7.00 Mass Tom Wagner & Tom Brady

10.15 Mass Fr Paul Johnson

11.00-12.00 Prayer before Blessed Sacrament

6.00-7.00 Prayer before Blessed Sacrament

Friday - 23^rd May

Ac 15:22-31 Jn 15:12-17

7.00 Mass - Special Intention B.F. (RIP)

10.15 Mass - Mrs Ros Sherman (birthday)

Saturday 24^th May

Ac 16:1-10 Jn 15:18-21

9.30 Confessions

10.15 Mass Billy Gaffey RIP

Sixth Sunday of Easter 25^th May

Ac 15:1-2,22-29 Rv 21:10-14,22-23 Jn 14:23-29

9.00am -Nora & John Eccles

11.00am-Jean Daint RIP

12.30 Baptism

6.00pm Mass – People of the Parish

Exit Collection Friary Building Fund