THE CATHOLIC PARISH OF OUR LADY AND ST JOSEPH SHERINGHAM AND CROMER
R.C. Diocese of East Anglia:
A Registered Charity (Charity Commission No. 278742)
News-sheet for week beginning Sunday, 6th June, 2010
Weekday Readings for 10th Week of the Year (Cycle II)
Psalms for Week 2
THE SOLEMNITY OF THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST
Dear Parishioners,
This Sunday we celebrate the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ – the celebration we usually call ‘CORPUS CHRISTI’. On this day we give thanks for all that the Mass and Holy Communion mean to us. The rich truth of the Lord’s gift to us of his Body and Blood is summed up very beautifully in one of the Antiphons for this Feast, traditionally understood as coming from the pen of St Thomas Aquinas:
‘O Sacred Banquet, wherein Christ is received, the memory of his Passion is renewed, the mind is filled with grace and a pledge of future glory is given to us.’
RE-COMMISSIONING OF LAY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION at Our Lady of Refuge at 6pm Saturday and 9am Sunday Masses this weekend.
Re-commissioning of Ministers at St Joseph’s at 10.30am Mass next Sunday (13th June).
EVENTS THIS WEEK
Sunday:
FIRST HOLY COMMUNION CELEBRATION AT ST JOSEPH’S at 10.30am, followed by a Party in the Hall.
Monday:
2pm: Beetle Drive in St Joseph’s Hall, Sheringham
(NB. The monthly Beetle Drive will now take place on the first Monday of the month at 2pm)
Tuesday:
11am: SVP Conference at Our Lady of Refuge.
Wednesday:
7pm: Choir Practice at St Joseph’s
7.30pm: Choir Practice at Our Lady of Refuge.
Thursday:
7pm: Parish Finance Committee meets at St Joseph’s Presbytery, Sheringham
Friday:
SOLEMNITY OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS: Mass at Our Lady of Refuge at 9am.
COLLECTION FOR THE PAPAL VISIT
Many thanks to everyone who contributed so generously to this Appeal. The Parish has raised £540.60.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
At least two more volunteers are needed to assist with the cleaning of the Church at Cromer. This means only being available about once a month, or slightly less. If you can help, please tell Dorothy Shannon (Tel: 01263-577272)
SHERINGHAM AND CROMER CRUSTACEA FESTIVAL
At the auction of the lobsters and crabs last Sunday, about £15,000 was raised for the two designated charities: ‘Help for Heroes’ and the Royal National Lifeboat Institute (for several local life-boat stations).The lobster that has been on show at St Joseph’s went for £200; I am still waiting for news of how much our ‘Cromer Crab’ raised.
REVISED ROTAS FOR MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION AT ST JOSEPH’S
All Ministers should by this weekend have received, either by hand or by post, the Revised Rotas, beginning this Sunday. Kevin Jones has indicated on these revised Rotas the location for each Minister each Sunday. I hope this will make life easier for everyone – so that you may know which side of the Altar to go to when you come up; and then exactly which position you are to take up for the distribution of Holy Communion.
I am very glad to be able to announce that Manu Mathew and Sean White have agreed to be commissioned as Ministers of Holy Communion. This will be a great help, as we have been rather short of Ministers recently. Manu and Sean will attend a Diocesan Commissioning Day as soon as possible, but I have commissioned them provisionally myself for the time being.
ADVANCE NOTICES
Saturday, 12th June: Brass Band Concert at St John’s Cathedral at 7.30pm. To raise funds for CAFOD and for the Notre Dame High School students’ visit to Zambia this summer. Tickets £7.50 (Concessions £5). Sean McNulty (Tel: 01263-511504) has (at time of going to press) 17 tickets to sell! Contact either Sean or Fr Denys if you would like to buy at ticket.
Saturday, 19th June: Julian of Norwich and other Mediaeval Mystics: Diocesan Study Day, led by Pauline Lovelock of the Julian Centre in Norwich. At Catholic Church Hall, Wymondham NR18 0QE 10.30am – 3pm.
First Holy Communion Celebration on Sunday, 27th June at Our Lady of Refuge at 9am, followed by a Party in the Hall
ST JOHN’S CATHEDRAL CENTENARY FLOWER FESTIVAL: June 24th – 27th. Refreshments, etc available in the Narthex (please see posters for details)
DIOCESAN CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE: Saturday, 3rd July at 11am at St John’s Cathedral.
All couples and families are invited to this annual celebration of Marriage and Family. Certificates will be presented to those couples celebrating 1st, 5th, 10th, 20th, 25th, 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th anniversaries this year; and to families where there is a baby under one year old.
Please let Fr Denys know if you are keeping such an anniversary this year, or have a new baby – so that he can send this information to the organisers and certificates can be prepared in advance.
‘FAITH TODAY’
This is a new religious magazine, sponsored by the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. Each issue costs £1.95. If you would like to receive ‘Faith Today’ on a regular basis, please let Fr Denys know.
VISITORS TO OUR PARISH
You are most welcome and we hope you enjoy your stay with us. We provide Gift Aid envelopes for those visitors who normally use this method for their church giving. Envelopes are to be found in the pews (and on the window sills at Our Lady of Refuge). Will you please complete in ink or biro with your full name and address, including post-code. The date of Declaration will be the date you make the donation. I would also like to draw your attention to the ‘Sheringham Stations of the Cross’ books that we published at Easter, to mark the centenary of the building of the main part of St Joseph’s. These books have excellent coloured reproductions of the Stations, accompanied by Meditations. These unique Stations were commissioned by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of St Joseph’s. They were carved in the renowned Stuflesser Workshops (then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire). The books also contain a few historical notes – items that had not come to light when the St Joseph’s Parish History appeared in 2008. The ‘Sheringham Stations of the Cross’ are on sale in both our churches, price £3.50.
DRESS-MAKING AND ALTERATIONS
Isabela Popielec, the mother of one of our St Joseph’s First Holy Communion Candidates –Timmy Popielec – is a professional dress maker. She would be pleased to receive orders from members of the parish or friends of parishioners. Her address is: 11 Woodhouse Close, Sheringham. Telephone: 01263-581004 or (mobile) 07949388654.
Church Cleaning Rota at Sheringham: D. Spalton & J. Gunn
Church Cleaning Rota at Cromer: M. & E. Dunning
Counters: SHERINGHAM: This week: P. Bowie & M. Otway
Next week: M. & P. Harrington
CROMER: This week: S. McNulty & M. Arnold
Next week: P. & M. Haynes
Collection last weekend: £916.56; 2nd Collection for the funding of the Papal Visit (final total): £540.60.
SICK AND HOUSEBOUND: Bishop Michael Evans At Sheringham: Molly Whitlock, Noel Brigstock, Barbara Shannon, Cathy Fisher, Marie Perry, Carmela Boyle, Mary Mayes, Louise Bates, Roger Parsons, Angela Bronne, Victoria Skittrall, Julie Fisher, Peter White, Win Holt, Norma and John Kelly, Dorothy Smith, Eileen Short, Mario Ricciardi, Brian Dewhurst, Anne Freestone, Lesley Gillick, Olive Kent, Stella Downing, Valerie Butt, Patricia Power, Alice Marr, Win Flowerdew. At Cromer: Jean Palmer, Mary Fogarty, Margaret Rubidge, Pam Hicks, Sarah Grant, Jackie Cooper, Joe Aylward, Margaret Connolly, Charles and Molly Cullen, Len Wilde, Tracey Gowan, Joan McKenna, Frank McNeillis, Anne and Patrick Buxton, Patricia Clayton, Kathleen Heslin, Eileen Jamieson, Patricia Ward, Eileen Crossfield, Julie Bryant, Barbara Leake, James Moran, Elsie Ainslie, Lorraine Henriksen.
ANNIVERSARIES: Fr Thomas Philips (1947), Judy Reynolds (2001), Sister John (2006), Margaret McKelvey (1972), Doris Brown (1994), George Holland (2005), Michael Donnelly (1982), R.I.P. Please also remember: William Fitt and Fr Matthew Burrows, who have died recently..
DIOCESE AND PARISH INFORMATION:
The Bishop: Right Rev. Michael Evans: Tel: 01508-492202
The Parish Priest: Rev. Denys Lloyd: 58 Cromer Road, Sheringham NR26 8RT Tel: 01263-822036
e-mail: ourladyandstjoseph@btinternet.com
Website: http://www.northnorfolk.org/cromercatholicchurch/
Masses this week: THE SOLEMNITY OF THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST (CORPUS CHRISTI) (Year ‘C’)
Saturday: 6pm (Cromer) R.I.P. Fr. Matthew Burrows
Sunday 9am (Cromer) People of the Parish; 10.30am (Sheringham) R.I.P. Patrick Boulton (Bullock)
Monday (Feria) (Sheringham) 9am Private Intention
Tuesday (Feria) (Sheringham) 7pm
Wednesday (Feria) (Cromer) 9am Brendan Corrigan (sick)
Thursday (Feria) (Holt) 9.30am: R.I.P. Ted and Paula Ratcliffe
Friday (THE SOLEMNITY OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS) (Cromer) 9am R.I.P. John O’Grady
Saturday (The Immaculate Heart of Mary) (Sheringham) 9am R.I.P. Margaret Kirkton
Masses next weekend: THE ELEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Year ‘C’)
Saturday 6pm (Cromer) Priest’s Intention
Sunday 9am (Cromer) Sarah Grant (C.W.L.) 10.30am (Sheringham) People of the Parish
Confessions: Sheringham: Saturday at 9.30am; Cromer: Saturday at 5pm
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: Monday 9.30am – 10am at St Joseph’s; Wednesday 9.30am – 10am at Our Lady of Refuge.