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Please pray for sick in our hospitals & nursing homes around
the parish.
ANNIVERSARY OF DEATH: Gerard Kilty, Mary McHugh, Henrietta
Mortimore, Hilary Smalley, Peggy Anderson
General
More Welcomers are needed at St John Fisher for Sunday Mass.
Please see Fr Ikeokwu, John Nutt or Julia Tucker.
The Food bank will be celebrating the Harvest Festival in
the coming weeks and hopes to distribute extra items into the community. Just
one item per parishioner donated would make a big difference to the families
that rely on food bank in times of crisis. Please can we ensure items are still
in date, thank you,
Churches Together Christmas lunch: chef required confident
to cater for about 30 people and holds a current certificate from a local
authority. Please contact
richardkappleby@gmail.com.
If no response by the end of September this event may have to be shelved for
this year.
Today
Second collection
for Home Mission Sunday. This is an opportunity to financially support Catholics
throughout England and Wales to become more confident in sharing their faith.
This Week
Treasuring the Liturgy
:
exhibition of plates and textiles from across the diocese aimed at drawing
attention to the beauty of the mysteries we celebrate: Saturday – Sunday 8
& 9, and 15 – 16 September. See poster in porch for all details.
P.P.C. meeting: Tuesday 18th September at 7pm in
the parish room.
Coming Events
Mission appeal
:
a priest of the MSP will be coming to our parish on Sunday 23rd
September for mission appeal on behalf of the Missionary Society of St Paul.
Please be generous.
Pope Francis: his vision and our future. Third of a series
of three lectures,
25th September at 7pm at St John’s Church, South
Parade, Bath, giving time to look back, assess and think ahead. Led by Fr James
Hanvey.
Parish retreat on 3rd November will be led by Fr
Tom Dubois, parish priest of St Francis of Assisi, Nailsea. Mass at 10am at St
Richard’s followed by retreat at Congregational Church, Wiveliscombe.
Year of mission – 24th Sunday in ordinary time.
It’s easier to tell someone what others think of them rather
than tell someone what you actually think of them. Peter, speaking for
the Twelve, nails colours to the mast: “You are the Christ!” Jesus then
unfolds for the Twelve exactly what that means – he will suffer, he will die,
and he will rise again. That’s not something Peter wants to hear. He’s happy
to “believe” in the Christ who will save God’s people, who will champion
God’s people, who will liberate God’s people …. but a Christ who will
suffer? That’s not on his radar, nor does it fit his image of the Christ. They
are harsh words spoken to Peter in calling him Satan but they wake him up
to the fact that we cannot make God in our image! Suffering, difficulty
rejection and abandonment are part of that image and they are part of the
disciple’s life, too. And even when they are - in some great or small way –
we mustn’t forget the “rising from the dead”. God does not abandon us when
we suffer, when we face rejection or difficulty. He is there and he walks with
us alongside of us just as the psalmist has confidence in the presence of God in
the midst of everything. Wherever we are, whatever we face this week, know God
is there at our side.
Gospel commentary for 24th Sunday in ordinary time.
In today’s Gospel reading, teaching is no longer just a matter
of words: it is what is about to happen that will be the teaching. We can know
the meaning of words but this is not the same as understanding them. Peter knew
the word “Christ” but, until the passion of the Christ began, he was not
even close to understanding what it really meant for Jesus to be the Christ, the
anointed one. Peter would not fully understand anything that Jesus had said to
him until he too carried his cross.
The cross is a reality today. It is a choice made by every human
being: either to be one who carries the cross, or to be one who imposes the
cross on others. The journey of Jesus was a journey to life. It was a journey
through death, but not to death, because heaven was his home – and it is our
home too. To carry the cross is, therefore, not a death wish but a life wish. It
is possible to love without faith and hope but not in the way that Christ loves.
It is only through faith and hope in the risen Christ that we an offer to each
other the life of God. So when Jesus made his way to Jerusalem to endure the
cross, imposed by others, we can truly say that he was then beginning to teach.
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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
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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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