ST.BARNABAS CATHOLIC CHURCH PRIEST: Father John Horn Address: 28 Vine Road, Molesey, Surrey. KT8 9LF Telephone: 020 8941 8400 Parish Office Hours: 9.15am-11.15am (closed on Wednesdays) Email: [email protected] Website: www.stbarnabasmolesey.org HIRING OF THE CHURCH HALL: If you wish to hire the Church Hall please contact Theresa D’Burrage 020 8941 9205 or 07757456302 Parish Schools: St Alban’s Primary School – Beauchamp Road, Molesey. 020 8979 5893 www.stalbansprimary.org.uk Salesian Secondary School – Guildford Road, Chertsey. 01932 582 520 www.salesian.surrey.sch.uk The Arundel & Brighton Diocesan Website : www.dabnet.org FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th February 2015 Parish Mass Book Page No. 134 NEWSLETTER NO: 5 Weekend Masses: Saturday 6pm (Quiet Mass) Tonna-Barthet Intentions Sunday 10am Sunday 6pm (Music Mass) - For the People of the Parish Week Day Masses: There will be No Mass or Exposition of Monday 9.35am Tuesday No Mass the Blessed Sacrament on Tuesday Wednesday No Mass (10th Feb). Exposition will take place on Thursday 9.35am Paul Vigourex RIP Thursday (12th Feb) 10am – 1.30pm Friday - 9.35am Important Notices 2nd Collection next Sunday: Lourdes Pilgrimage Fund. Wednesdays 18th February Ash Wednesday (A day of fasting & abstinence) Masses at 9.35am & 7.30pm in the Church Confessions: Saturday 5.15 – 5.45pm in the Church or by appointment Mass is also said Monday – Friday 8.am at the Kiltegan Fathers, 20 Beauchamp Road. KT8 0PA. Parishioners are welcome. New Parishioners: Welcome to St Barnabas! Please register your details by filling in our Parish registration form at the back of the Church, and return to Father John or the Parish office. Please come and say hello at our Sunday coffee morning after the 10am Mass in the hall, you will receive a warm welcome. WEEKLY PARISH DIARY: Sun 8th Mon 9th Tue 10th Wed 11th th Thur 12 th Fri 13 Sat 14th Sun 15th ROTAS 2015 Ministers Readers Children’s Liturgy Church Cleaners Sunday Coffee Counters Flowers FIFTH SUNDAY – YEAR B (First Holy Communion candidates) Confirmation Programme : 7.30pm – 9pm, Old School room No Mass or Exposition ♪ Children’s Choir: 3.15-4pm at St Alban’s School (From Year 2- 6) ♪ Prayer Group in the House of Prayer – 7.30pm D of E Meeting: Planning (all groups together): 7pm-7.30pm No Mass Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament from 10am - 1.30pm Bible Study: 7.30pm, Presbytery Youth Club (Altogether) : 6.30pm – 8.30pm Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: 11am-Noon, Presbytery SIXTH SUNDAY – YEAR B Sat 7th Feb 6pm M Thompson Y Foster L Pang M Tidmarsh G Searle Sunday 8th February 10am 6pm J Casha O Schild P Sturgis R Methley M Healy Infants – Monica Juniors – Maria Helen & Michael H I Lee R D’Alton B D’Alton N Legg J Laleatoe First Holy Communion – Barbara Hogan Francis Jenice & Jean Casha Isobel Lee ROTAS 2015 Ministers Readers Children’s Liturgy Church Cleaners Sunday Coffee Counters Flowers Last Sunday’s collection Offertory: £595.21 Bank Direct: £403.41 Total £998.62 2nd collection £129.42 (Catholic Education Service) Attendance: 266 Sat 14th Feb 6pm Sunday 15th February 10am 6pm C Wilson M Emmanuel B D’Alton M Villani B Hogan R D’Alton M Stannard M Schild I Lee P Stannard O Schild T D’Burrage M Tidmarsh H Healy J Duggan Infants – Kasia & Joanna Juniors - Carmen Ann & Frank S UCM – Jill Mitchell Anthony McColl & Christine Davies Norah Leonard Please pray for the sick of the Parish: Kathleen Harrison, Bobbettie McColl, Marie Bolger, Ann Griffin & Margaret Brauer. The Arundel & Brighton Diocesan Trust is a registered Charity No 252878 Thank you Thank you to all who came to the party last weekend. Everybody I have spoken to says it was a great success, - most of them before I asked them. The variety of food was great and very good, one Japanese parishioner I was next to at one moment being particularly happy to find some very good sushi! Most of all though, there was an almost tangible sense of joy. So thank you to all of you who brought food, and thank you to all those who worked so hard to make it happen, especially the ladies of the Union of Catholic Mothers, and to Nick Wall for acquiring the wine and serving it. It is good that we come together socially outside the confines of the church, for as believing, Catholic Christians, we need each other in this world in which, in the West, we seem to be more and more a minority. A row is currently brewing about what Stephen Fry said on an Irish television chat show regarding the uncaring nature of the Almighty God who inflicts such suffering on people. Therefore, it is said, He cannot be real. It has been said many times before in one way, or another. The answer is not easy to explain; - as to how to reconcile the idea of an almighty, loving God with the reality of evil in the world, and many books have been written about it. God has not chosen to reveal everything yet, but there are two truths we Christians acknowledge, which are a large part of the answer: Firstly, that God has a bigger perspective than us, for He sees everything from the perspective of eternal life; and secondly as to the reality of evil in the world. We know that Satan and evil have been conquered through the death and resurrection of Jesus God. Yet God gives us free will, and, critically, it is through the exercise of our free will that we are called to find our way to Him. (If God were to deal finally with all evil now, He would be taking away our free will to choose Him.) So, while God does not will or bring about evil, yet He has chosen to leave Satan still active in the world, until finally he will be dealt with when the world as we know it will come to an end. It is a struggle for us all, yet we look forward to an unimaginable reward. If we struggle in isolation, it becomes virtually impossible. But struggling, together with like-minded Christians, it becomes much easier. We are different, in fact very different from people like Stephen Fry (whom we should pray for), just because we have that that very different perspective that this life is all about the next life. We need to come together, and (joyfully) struggle together, in order that we can reassure each other. Father John Deanery Care Mass: Sunday 8th February, 3pm at St Annes, Highfield Raod, Chertsey. KT16 1BP ELDERLY OR HOUSEBOUND WHO WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE A NEWSLETTER? Do you know of any elderly or housebound person who would like to receive the newsletter either by post or emailed to them? Please let the Parish Office know. Mass Intentions If you would like a Mass intention please fill out an envelope which is placed at the back of the Church and put it through the Presbytery door or bring it round to the Parish Office (opening hours) at the back of the Presbytery. *Please be aware when requesting a specific date to allow plenty of time * Duke of Edinburgh Awards: Congratulations to all our youngsters who received their Duke of Edinburgh’s award from the Mayor on Wednesday 4th February - 5 Gold, 4 Silver and 8 Bronze. Next Duke of Edinburgh Meeting (planning, all groups together): Wednesday 11 th February 7.30pm – All Participants 7pm - 7.30pm. The Arundel & Brighton Diocesan Trust is a registered Charity No 252878