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Please pray for sick in our hospitals & nursing homes around
the parish.
ANNIVERSARY OF DEATH: John Holden, Wladyslaw Kunda
General
Fr Ikeowku says: With unalloyed thanks I
wish to express my deep appreciation to all the parishioners for your gifts,
especially your prayers and love. My sincere thanks also go to the Filipino
community for their participation in the thanksgiving Mass and gifts and
prayers. May Almighty God reward and bless you all abundantly. Because of you
all it was a huge success.
CTS New Sunday Missal for Year C beginning on 2nd
December is now available @ £5.95 per copy. If you wish to purchase one please
tell Fr Ikeokwu or leave a note outside the parish office by the end of August.
More Welcomers are needed at St John Fisher for Sunday Mass.
Please see
Fr Ikeokwu, John Nutt or Julia Tucker.
This Week
Living your Faith: Summer camps.
See
poster in porch. Further details and application forms available from Fr Ikeokwu
or the parish office.
Diocesan Lourdes pilgrimage
,
24 – 31 August. See poster in porch for details
Coming Events
Eucharistic Congress
– Liverpool, 7 – 9 September, entitled “Adoremus”. Please see Fr Ikeokwu
if you are interested in attending.
Year or mission – 20th Sunday in ordinary time.
You are what you eat! That should be true when it comes to
the Eucharist. The food and the drink we receive at Mass is our nourishment to
sustain us in all we do to be like Christ. But those gifts of Christ’s Body
and Blood are given precisely that we might become what we receive – Christ.
We are to become what we eat and drink. Christ is given to us as food and drink
so that we might have life in us and so that his life, flowing through us, might
enable our world and others to know he is near through us. Christ is truly
present to us in the Eucharist; his real presence makes his home in us so
that, seeking to be like him, we might be reminders and signs of his presence in
the ordinariness of our week – at home, at work, in the places where we
encounter others. May our world know “Christ living among us” because of the
witness we give and the life we live.
Gospel commentary for 20th Sunday in ordinary time.
Today Jesus invites us to eat his body and drink his blood. In
doing so we will be given a life that is beyond words, the kind of nourishment
that feeds our souls and can transform us. When we eat his body and drink his
blood we take in all that Jesus is: a person of mercy, compassion, forgiveness.
Jesus was vitally concerned with those who were poor. As he went
about his ministry he met great numbers of hungry people and he fed them. When
Jesus spoke of eating his own flesh and drinking his blood some were so
horrified by this suggestion that they walked away. Those who remained gradually
came to understand that Jesus was not talking about physical food but something
far more lasting. Today we know that this is fully realised for us when we
participate in the Eucharist.
Participating in the Eucharist is a great gift for us and it
brings with it a great responsibility. We receive the body of Christ to become
the body of Christ. Pope Francis, through his daily actions and interactions,
reminds us that communion with Christ is deeply tied to communion with our
brothers and sisters. At Mass we ask God to forgive us our trespasses as we
forgive those who trespass against us, then we can approach the table of unity
and love to receive the mystery that units us not only to Christ but to our
brothers and sisters. We call the Eucharist “communion”, and gathering
around the table is our strongest sign of communion with Christ and one another.
Today the world will only come to encounter Christ by the witness, the prayer
and the love of our desire to share this gift with others.
Receiving Christ’s body and blood is never just about us. We receive so
that we may reach out and share what we have received with everyone. In doing so
we nourish our own souls and take on the responsibility of seeing and meeting
the needs of those who hunger and thirst for food, love, justice, peace and hope
in a world where there is no much suffering and so much deprivation.
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Bible Study Group: Meets
2.30-4 on certain Thursdays
(See above)
 A Bible –is available on the
table in St. John Fisher church, for your use.
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For
our immigrant parishioners:
Mass
books in both churches with 8 European languages.
Aby
pomoc znozumiec Msze Swieta emigrantom w naszej parafii, udostepuiamy
modlitewniki ( w twardej oprawie ), po polsku, angielsku oraz w inuycu
jszykach wschodnio europejslcich.
Prosimy zostawic modlitewuike w kosciele, po zakouczeuiu mszy. |
Clifton Diocese
Polish Directory:
Lists Polish chaplains, societies,
Masses etc. throughout the diocese
Yellow
Parish Introduction Cards in Polish: Available at the
doors..
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Next
Holydays of Obligation:
Epiphany,
Ascension & Corpus Christi
are now celebrated on Sundays, at Sunday times above.)
Holy
day Masses are usually celebrated at the following times:-
9.15am.
Wellington
, 7.30pm. Wiveliscombe
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CTS
faith booklets-
Sold
at the rack near the doors of both churches.
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Parking for 11.15 Mass:
-is
permitted at Wellington Youth Centre, opposite the Total
garage. Just drive in and
park.
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Parish
structure:
Parish
Pastoral Council
(Chair:
Julia Tucker)
-follows
Canon Law and Diocesan guidelines, working collaboratively with the parish
priest to make pastoral decisions, and co-ordinate parish ministries.
Meets on 4th Tuesday of most months.
Parish
Outreach Committee (Chair: Pending new appointment.)
-Meets bi-monthly to promote the mission of the parish.
Finance
& General Purposes Committee
(Chair: Charles Moorland)
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also works under Church Canon Law with the Diocese Finance Office to
maintain the parish’s legal, financial and property matters.
Parish
Forum (Facilitator: Julia Tucker )
All are invited quarterly to discuss parish
development. Meets on
announced Saturdays,
9.15am-12.00. incl. Mass, coffee & discussion.
Parish
open Annual General Meeting:
The
next one will be announced close to March 2016.
Who
does what: Our main
parish functionaries
are now listed on the church notice-board,
or accessible clicking HERE.
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Parish
Projects:
Each
year the AGM agrees which charities the parish funds from 10% of the
offertory collections and from other events.
For 2010 we agreed to support:
Always CaFOD's work for the 3rd world;
plus: “Welcome
home
ministries,
Tanzania
from
2015
See Parish Room board at St. John Fisher for
details.
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Welfare:
Crisis
pregnancy? Nearest
LIFE centre for impartial support:
48 Queen St.
Exeter
. 07837
005562 www.lifeuk.org/exeter
Also “Alternatives” in
Taunton
, 0800 0086 857 www.alternativstaunton.org.uk
“Message in a Bottle:” With
an easy form, so 999 services find your needs.
FREE by church doors. Details:
Poster, Fr. Vincent
.
Parish
Visitors –support any in need: lonely,
sick, bereaved.. Tel. Fr Vincent
Hospitalisations:
With
no priest based at
Musgrove
Park; ask Fr. Vincent for anointing or confession before going in.
Sacrament
of the Sick: Available
after the homily at Sunday Mass once each quarter.
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Deadlines: For
the Parish Diary:
Do
you have any dates that may interest other Parishioners?
Pass a note about them to Fr. Vincent .
For inserts into the parish weekly bulletin:
Now 12.00pm. on Wednesdays in at the presbytery.
Posters
to display:
Friday evenings in at St. John Fisher Presbytery.
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Every
effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this diary, but you should check
details in the "This Week" section, or get in touch.
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