Website Bulletin: 16/46

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1 The Roman Catholic Parish of the Immaculate Conception North Devon : Diocese of Plymouth under the Patronage of St Cuthbert Mayne COMPRISING THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY, IMMACULATE MOTHER OF GOD, BARNSTAPLE, & THE CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH, SOUTH MOLTON. Website Bulletin: 16/46 week beginning Sunday, 20 t h November, 2016 Parish Priest: Father Paul Andrew Telephone: FrPaulAndrew@live.com Deacon (retired): Rev. John Connors Parish Pastoral Asst.: Chris Eastaugh Telephone: chris.eastaugh@btopenworld.com Parish Office Manager: Mavis Eastaugh Telephone: barnstaple@prcdtr.org.uk Office hours: Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri: St Mary s Church House, Higher Church Street, Barnstaple EX32 8JE Website: barnstaplecatholicchurch.com Facebook Group: Barnstaple Catholic Parish Our Lady s Catholic Primary School Chanter s Hill, Barnstaple EX32 8DN Principal: Rob Meech Chair of Governors: Sandy Anderson Telephone: Website: SAFEGUARDING: our Parish Reps. are Barnstaple: Ruth O Donovan on South Molton: Sheila Nott on Please contact them if you have any concerns. TODAY: Christ the King Sat 19 th VIGIL MASS SM Sun 20 th SUNG MASS with hymns B & children s liturgy RR followed by coffee, etc. RR MASS (said) B End of the Jubilee Holy Year of Mercy Weekday Masses & other events Psalter: week 2; Sundays: year C; weekdays: year 2 Morning Prayer or Evening Prayer (as appropriate) is usually said 30 minutes before weekday masses. Mon 21 st Presentation of the BVM CM (for Mike Crumpton s operation today) Tue 22 nd Clergy Day at Buckfast St Cecilia CM (for our choir & musicians ) Wed 23 rd Fr Paul to present cheque at OLS St Clement of Rome, P & M B (for our separated brethren) Mass at South Molton Thu 24 th Fri 25 th A Team church cleaning B St Catherine of Alexandria CM Baptism of Gabrielle Louise Catulong McFadden KSC Quiz at Fremington Sat 26 th Mass of the Bl. V. Mary B (Buckfast Oblates day cancelled) Exposition of the Bl. Sacrament Rosary & Confessions Mid-day Prayer & Benediction Christmass Craft afternoon RR Next weekend: ADVENT 1 Year A The Year of Matthew begins. Sat 26 th VIGIL MASS SM Sun 27 th SUNG MASS with hymns B & children s liturgy RR followed by coffee, etc. RR MASS (said) B B Services & other events at S t Joseph s Church, S. Molton Thu 24 th Mass: St Andrew Dung Lac, Pr. & Mr., and companions Rosary, coffee & hymn practice Sat 26 th VIGIL MASS of ADVENT 1 FROM THE CHURCH DIARY: NOVEMBER Mon : ECM C ttee at OLS Tue : Council of Priests mtg. (was Wed. 23) Tue : Martyrdom of St Cuthbert Mayne DECEMBER Sat : Polish Mass Tue 6: Knights to Downside Abbey & Bath Christmas Market Wed : Service at Norah Bellot Court Thu 8: IMMACULATE CONCEPTION of BVM (see below) Sat : Last Messy Church event at South Molton Sat 10: Barnstaple Churches Together Christmas event Sun 11: Christmass stall for the Easter Garden Mon : School end of term mass Tue : Advent Penitential Service at Ilfracombe Wed : Advent Penitential Service at Barnstaple Thu : Advent Penitential Service at Bideford Thu : Syro-Malabar Mass with Bp. Joseph Srampickal Fri : Evening Advent Penitential Service at Barnstaple Sat 24 (Christmass Eve) 1000 Mass of the Day [no Holy Hour today] 1800 Children s Vigil Mass (No 1730 at S. Molton) 2400 Midnight Mass of the Nativity SUNDAY 25 (Christmass Day) 0930 Mass of the Day at Barnstaple 1115 Mass of the Day at South Molton No evening mass this Sunday Mon : St Stephen s Day mass for servers Tue : St John s Day mass bank holiday time LAST WEEKEND S COLLECTIONS PLATE: [GIFT AID ; LOOSE ]

2 THIS WEEK: Friday: CHURCH CLEANING A team cleaning on Friday at 9 am. Saturday: CRAFT AFTERNOON The Children's Liturgy group invite children aged 3 to 11 to a Christmas craft afternoon in the Red Room, St. Mary's Church House from 2pm until 4pm. Please get a form from a Children's Liturgy leader and return it by 20th November. ADVANCE NOTICE: Thursday, December 8 th : PATRONAL FEAST DAY CELEBRATIONS The Parish s Patronal Feast Day is December 8 th, as we are the Parish of the Immaculate Conception. Please join us for a meal at Portmore Golf Club for See notice boards in both churches. Names and money by 30 th November please. Dec. 11 th : CHRISTMASS STALL Brian and Bryony Sapsford will be fund raising for the new Easter Garden by having a stall in Narthex selling Christmass items and cakes etc. after each mass. RAFFLE TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW! OTHER NOTICES: PARISH CHRISTMASS CARD Forms are available at each Church to sign up for the Parish Christmass Card. This year the money will be divided between Special Care Baby Unit at Barnstaple, Great Ormond Street Children s Hospital and the Orphans in Rural Kenya via W.O.R.K. It is 1 per entry plus a donation towards the Charities. The card will be given out to every family in the Parish on the 4 th Sunday of Advent. KSC TRIP to Downside Abbey & Bath If you have not received an information/timetable sheet yet, please pick yours up from the Narthex table or see Bob Trickey, thank you. W.O.R.K. QUIZ EVENING Many thanks to all the parishioners who supported the curry & quiz evening. After expenses, a total of 891 (including donations) was raised for the charity which will help a great deal in Kenya. Mary Jane & Father Adrian are very grateful to you all. THANKS CWL would like to thank everyone who supported their sale of Mega Draw tickets. 260 was raised, and donated to the Poor Clare Nuns at Lynton. Ralph Oram and Michael Aylett both won prizes. SHOE BOXES UPDATE Our 50 Shoe boxes have left us and are now starting their journey to children all over the world. Thank you to all who helped in this annual project. John says he is returning in Dec. to start covering our boxes for next year. Please save your boxes, any size, John makes sure each box is the same size, so no child receives a smaller box than his neighbour. BOOKING ANNIVERSARIES in 2017 The new ordo has arrived, so if you want to book a mass for a particular day during this coming church year please see Mavis a.s.a.p. First come, first served once a date is booked it s really difficult to change it without an exceptionally good reason. KEY to abbreviations used in the Newsletter: (places in italics are not in the Church or Presbytery) B = St Mary s Parish Church, Barnstaple CM = The St Cuthbert Mayne Chapel DR = St Mary s Church House Dining Room OLS = Our Lady s Catholic Primary School PO = St Mary s Parish Office RR = St Mary s Church House Red Room S/M = St Joseph s Church, South Molton PRAYER REQUESTS: THE SICK: [at St Joseph s:] Sr. Dulai Forrones, Ann Gower, Jiff Booth, Jo. Stentiford, Luz Cerilles, Sr. Maura O Carroll, Rae McCool, John Bradley, Paddy & Pat Smyth, Evelyn Soqueño, Mary Laker, Elizabeth Paul, Gavin Bonnett, June Saunders, Caroline Dawnay and the Keeling family. [At St Mary s:] Sharon Burdon, Christine Laird, Tim, Lesley, Margaret Christelow, Patricia Mount, Roy Bezzina, Brenda, Sylvia Bilney, Jim Howgate, Gervase Markham, Clare, Tony, Barbara Bunce, Cora Coman and Gwen & family. Lord, in your mercy: hear our prayer. RECENTLY DEPARTED: Shirley Byrne [9/11], Maria Guadalupe Pesigan [5/11], Ann Gower [3/11], Brenda Hickey [1/11], Kath Evans [23/10], Sister Joseph McGinley OSC [23/10]. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord. VOTIVE LAMPS This week the lights at the shrines are sponsored for the following intentions: Blessed Sacrament for Warwick Regan, RiP Sanctuary Crucifix for Tony Lloyd, RiP S t Cuthbert Crucifix for Mavis & Chris s intentions Holy Infant of Prague for Pia Mitzi Receno s exams The Sacred Heart for Jack Stocks, RiP Divine Mercy candle for the lapsed Our Lady & Child for William Cooper, RiP Our Lady of Fatima for Pia Mitzi Receno s exams Our Lady Immaculate for Brian Nelson, RiP St Joseph for Bruce James Gentry, RiP St Cuthbert Mayne for Michael Cummins, RiP St John Paul the Gt. for Pope Francis intentions THURSDAY DEADLINE Thursdays is the deadline for this bulletin also for votive lamps & mass intentions.

3 NOTE: As this website edition of the newsletter does not have to be printed and folded, it is possible to include extra pages which are not in this week s print edition; these are items that have appeared in previous newsletters and which are still current or on-going. THURSDAY DEADLINE Thursdays is the deadline for this bulletin also for votive lamps & mass intentions. Names added to the intercession books in South Molton or in Barnstaple after Thursday morning will not appear in the bulletin. Please remember, if you would like a mass offered for anyone (living or departed) or for a particular intention at either of our churches please fill in all the details on one of the little GREEN envelopes. In this parish there is no fixed amount for the mass stipend, please just make an appropriate donation. If you would like to arrange for a votive candle at one of shrines to burn for a week in memory of a loved one or for a special intention please fill in one of the little BROWN envelopes with the appropriate details. Brown or green envelopes should be given to Mavis or Fr Paul or posted through Presbytery the letter box. Please make sure there is a contact number on them so that we can reach you if there are any queries. GETTING MARRIED? Or even just thinking about it. Please remember SIX MONTHS notice is the minimum required by Canon Law. LET US KNOW! Sometimes we don t learn that someone is in hospital until they have been there for a couple of weeks. There are TWO ways to overcome this. First, if you go into hospital, ask the ward staff to let the Catholic Chaplain know where you are. Secondly, get to know the people who sit on your bench in church, and if they are missing one week tell the priest so that he can give them a call. We all need to work together to show that we are a caring community. PRESBYTERY PHONES There have been a few moans that the telephone answering machine in the Presbytery was not switched on. It is! Always! I have now reduced the number of rings, but that means you are more likely to get the machine rather than a person, especially out of office hours. If you do want Fr Paul rather than the office, then please call him on his mobile, that number is listed on the front page of the bulletin. Obviously, he can t answer it if he s driving or at a meeting, so please leave a message, and he ll get back to you a.s.a.p. So, in summary, parish business to the land-line during office hours, or leave a message; parish priest on his mobile anytime (within reason!); leave a message if no answer. RECEIVING COMMUNION Just a reminder to everyone that the extra-ordinary ministers of communion are taught that if someone wishes to receive by intinction the minister is to take the Host from the person, intinct it in the Precious Blood and the communicant is to receive directly on to the tongue from the minister. These are the rules of the universal church, not just here; in no circumstances is self-intinction permitted. Anyone unhappy with this regulation should receive in one kind only. CAFOD VIGIL FOR PEACE During the winter months we will usually keep a time of silent prayer for world peace on the LAST FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH beginning after mass. All are welcome to drop in at anytime, even if only for a few minutes. CARDS I have left a supply of visiting cards on the red mat. I suggest you write in the blank space in case of emergency please inform and keep one in your purse or wallet. Then, should you be admitted to hospital, or in some other emergency situation, they will make sure that a priest is called. Fr Paul ST CUTHBERT MAYNE Do you have a picture of our local saint and martyr on display in your home? Pictures of St Cuthbert, with some biographical information on the back, are on sale at 1 each from the table in the narthex. ALTAR WINE With the continuing problems of the Holy Land very much in our minds at this time, it s appropriate to note that the altar wine we use at our churches is imported from Cremisan, the Salesian winery in Bethlehem. The Salesians of Don Bosco established the vineyards and winery more than 125 years ago to help Palestinian Christians by providing a livelihood for local families and an education for the children. The Salesians original purpose continues unchanged to this day shining as a beacon of stability and humanity through the tumultuous changes of the last century. Buying this wine directly helps the people of Bethlehem to

4 offset the devastating economic consequences of recent years. RE. ANOINTING OF SICK AT THE RD&E HOSPITAL Fr. John Watkins, former Catholic Hospital Chaplain at the RD&E writes: In recent years the admission of patients for orthopaedic surgery is booked for early in the day of their operation. Often this is early morning to allow for an early start to the operation. It is rarely possible for the Catholic Chaplain to find a window of opportunity to give the Sacrament before the operation and it would be better if local priests gave the Sacrament well in advance of any surgery. So if you are scheduled for an operation at the RD&E be sure to arrange to receive the Sacrament of the Sick before you go. The situation is likely to be similar at Derriford, too. INTERCESSIONS BOOK Some folk may not have heard the announcement at mass that the book in which people write their prayers requests is now brought to the altar when the person leading the Prayer of the Faithful comes to the ambo, not at the offertory. This is not only symbolically appropriate because this is when our thoughts are centred on intercessionary prayer but also complies with the liturgical ideal that the Offertory should be primarily focussed on the offering of the bread and wine, and not confused with other matters. UNWANTED GREETINGS CARDS POST CARDS and STAMPS The Presentation Sisters at Exeter are grateful for any greetings cards birthday, get well, Easter, Christmas, etc. and will recycle them in aid of their charitable work; but please remove the backs first. They also collect postcards and stamps. Please leave any of the above in the box on the table (B) or give them to Fr Paul (SM). CHRISTIANS AGAINST POVERTY [CAP] The CAP Debt Advice Centre for Barnstaple and its surrounding area, based at Holy Trinity Church, opened on April 1 st The centre is always looking for volunteer befrienders to go with the Centre Manager when potential clients are interviewed, and to support them in the long-term. Not being afraid to talk about one s faith is much more important than any financial acumen. If you think you might be interested then speak to Fr Paul. Find out more about C.A.P. at <capuk.org> COMMEMORATING WORLD WAR I Along with the rest of the nation, and in line with our own cathedral in Plymouth, we shall be commemorating the centenary of First World War. Over the next three years there will be a series of requiem masses. Still to come are: 31 st July 2017: The start of the 3 rd Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele). 11 th Nov. 2018: Armistice Day. These masses will be offered for all those who died in the war, for those currently serving in our Armed Forces, and for World Peace. CHURCH BOOKINGS We like to encourage the use of our church building and rooms for use by community groups, both religious and non-religious, for regular meetings or for one off concerts or other events. BUT please be sure to check the parish diary and the notice board to see when there are things already booked for instance, from September a choir will be rehearsing every Wednesday from 7 9 pm and our own choir and music group meet every Friday evening. If in any doubt, please call the Presbytery and check BEFORE MAKING ANY ARRANGEMENTS YOU MAY HAVE TO CANCEL. We don t want people to be disappointed. PARISH & CHURCH NAMES Sister Benignus, the diocesan archivist, has replied to Father Paul s enquiry to say: With regard to your query about the correct name for Barnstaple Catholic Church: I have no formal documentation supporting the dedication of the present church. However, I have noticed that all pre-1985 documents, such as letters, financial returns, Visitation forms, all have as the title Church of the Immaculate Conception, or The Church of the Immaculate Conception BVM. Then, 1985 and subsequent titles used are Church of St Mary, Immaculate Mother of God, gradually deteriorating to St Mary s. Furthermore the following is an extract from the Plymouth Diocesan Year Book 1985: When completed, the church will be dedicated to St. Mary, the Immaculate Mother of God. I hope you will find these examples convincing enough to confirm your accurate assessment. VOTIVE CANDLES A reminder that votive candles may be bought to burn for a week before the various shrines in our church. Some people have decided to make a long term commitment to a particular shrine, others are booked just for one week at a time. The cost of the candle is Thursday is the cut-off day if it is to appear in the newsletter. When a shrine is not sponsored any week then the candle is dedicated to the intentions of a general cause such as our school or our bishop or the Pope. SUNDAY CAR PARKING Please remember that you need to display a CURRENT VALID PERMIT if you intend to park in the yard on a Sunday. To pick up a permit please see Chris on a Sunday

5 morning or contact the parish office during office hours. Old permits are now invalid. DIOCESAN YEAR BOOKS are available at the back of Church (SM) or on the Narthex table (B) This year s price is LOOKING AHEAD! Next year March 19 th, St Joseph s Day, falls on a Sunday in Lent, so is being transferred by the universal Church to Mon. 20 th but the Monday, for us, is St Cuthbert Mayne s Baptism!!! We are planning to keep St Joseph in the morning at South Molton, with coffee and cakes at the Corn Dolly after, and St Cuthbert, with the now traditional celebration at Shirwell, in the afternoon and evening. But these are only provisional plans at this time lot can change in a year!