Parish Newsletter
Year B • 18th Sunday of the Year
2015
2014
MASS INTENTIONS 1st – 9th August
St Thomas More (STM)
Mass Time
10.00 am Fr. Gerard Hughes RIP
Our Lady of Fatima (OLF)
Mass Day
Mass Time
Saturday 6.00 pm Margaret Walshe RIP
Sunday 11.00 am Alan & June Hounslow (SI)
Monday 9.00 am Julia & Patrick Gallagher & Family Dec’d
Tuesday
Wednesday
9.00 am Joseph Maniscalco RIP
9.00 am Austin Gallagher RIP
7.30 pm NO MASS
10.00 am Billy Johnson RIP
Thursday 9.00 am People of the Parish
Friday 11.00 am Requiem Mass for Anne McCartney
Saturday 6.00 pm Sean Anglim RIP (Ann.)
Sunday 11.00 am Luke Dunlea RIP (Ann.)
10.00 am NO MASS
10.00 am Zoe Kamen’s intentions
9.00 am Tom Jolley RIP
Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) &
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Saturday: 9.30 – 10.00am at St Thomas More
Saturday: 5.00 – 6.00pm at Our Lady of Fatima
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Monday: 7.00 - 8.00pm at Our Lady of Fatima
Legion of Mary
Thursday: 7.00pm in St Thomas More Hall
Readers
6.00pm
9.00am
11.00 am
M. Hicks
P. Fox
B. Ellingham
D. Crafton
F. Linden
Eucharistic Ministers
E. Rambarran
J. Hyde
A. Farrugia
S. Farrugia
Counters
P. Tomkinson
E. Fox
E. Lloyd
D. Lawless
C. Manyati
.
Felix & Lou
G. Ayres
G. Jacob
Next Week:
Marcin & Jacek
Church Cleaning:
OLF: Team: D
1. One can write the story of humanity as the story of our searches for our needs: for food, for water, for security, for pleasure,
for comfort, for power; but also for happiness, for understanding, for love, for friendship, for wisdom, and for a reality beyond
all these: the reality to which we give the label ‘God’.
2. These searches are also the basis of our joys, our hopes, our disappointments, our frustrations, and our fears.
3. To be a disciple of Jesus is to believe that many of these desires, these searches, find their fulfilment in him and his teaching
because he is the supreme gift of the Father to humanity. He is the Wisdom of God made fully accessible to us.
4. As food satisfies our human hunger, as water satisfied our human thirst, so Jesus satisfies our desire for wisdom and of
access to life in its fullness. To assert that he is ‘the true bread’ is to assert that in him the needs that are greater than the
immediate and the physical find fulfilment: he gives us true life, he gives us true joy, he gives us happiness that exceeds
human happiness.
The Brentwood Diocesan Trust: Registered Charity No. 234092
Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette: Fr Boguslaw Kot MS – Parish Priest • Fr Leszek Gamracy MS – Assistant Priest
The Presbytery, Howard Way, Harlow, Essex CM20 2NS • Tel/Fax 01279 426017 • Email: stmandolfparish@talktalk.net
The Brentwood Diocesan Trust: Registered Charity No. 234092
BAPTISM
We welcome into our Church family Kacper Drzewiecki,
who was baptised at Our Lady of Fatima Church last
Sunday.
5. He who believes in him will never thirst. So how do we express our faith in him? We express this faith in him as the Father’s
gift when we gather as his community, the community founded upon him, the community inspired by his Wisdom, the
community that shares his bread and his cup.
PARISH NEWS 2nd August 2015
18th SUNDAY OF THE YEAR
ENTRANCE ANTIPHON
God, come to my help. Lord quickly give me
assistance. You are the one who helps me and
sets me free: Lord, do not be long in coming.
First Reading: from the book of Exodus (Exodus
16:2-4. 12-15)
RESPONSORIAL PSALM 77
The Lord gave them bread from heaven.
2nd Reading: from the letter of St. Paul to the
Ephesians (Ephesians 4:17.20-24)
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Alleluia, alleluia! I am the Way, the Truth and the
Life, says the Lord; no one can come to the
Father except through me. Alleluia!
GOSPEL: John 6:24-35
COMMUNION ANTIPHON
You gave us bread from heaven, Lord: a sweettasting bread that was very good to eat.
THEME OF THE READINGS
The Father is the one who provides man with the
food he needs for his life (First Reading, Psalm,
Gospel). But like pagans, we live with empty
minds (Second Reading) and are so taken up
with filling our stomachs and the needs of this life
that we fail to grasp the real meaning of his gifts
or the incomparable worth of the bread of life
who is Jesus himself (Gospel). Receiving this gift
we become a new creation, with “a fresh,
spiritual way of thinking” (Second Reading).
HALL BOOKINGS
If you would like further information about hiring
either of our Halls, please telephone Peter Kelly on
07538 835537 – for Our Lady of Fatima Hall or John or
Linda McNaughton on 01279 410166 for St. Thomas
More Hall.
OUR LADY’S PRAYER GROUP
With praise, intercessions and scripture – Tuesdays in Our
Lady of Fatima Chapel from 7 pm – 8 pm. Access
through Sacristy door. All Welcome.
ANNE MCCARTNEY R.I.P.
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Anne
McCartney, who died recently, and for her bereaved
family to whom we offer our condolences. Her Funeral
Mass will be at Our Lady of Fatima Church on Friday 7th
August at 11.00 am followed by burial at Parndon
Wood. May she rest in peace.
DIVINE MERCY CHAPLET
Friday 7th August in Our Lady of Fatima Chapel at 3.00
pm. With Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. All
welcome.
ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY
A new SVP conference is being set up in our parish to
serve people in need in Harlow and will meet fortnightly
on Wednesdays at 8.00 pm in the room above the
Parish Hall. Next dates: 12/08, 26/08 and 09/09. All very
HOSPITAL VISITS/HOME
VISITS
welcome.
For more information,
please call Angela on
If hospital in-patients would like a visit on the ward from
07713 735251.
a priest or Chaplaincy Team member, or to receive Holy
Communion on Sunday, they or their relatives must
HOSPITAL
VISITS/HOME
VISITS
make such
a request. Tel
Fr. Leszek on 426017. If you
Ifknow
hospital
in-patients
would
like a parishioners
visit on the ward
of any sick or housebound
who from
a
priestlike
or Chaplaincy
member,
or to receive
Holy
would
a visit, or to Team
receive
Holy Communion,
please
Communion
on
Sunday,
they
or
their
relatives
must
contact the Parish Office
make such a request. Tel Fr. Leszek on 426017. If you
know of any sick or housebound parishioners who
would like a visit, or to receive Holy Communion, please
contact the Parish Office.
SOCIAL EVENTS
The following events have been suggested at the Social
Committee Meeting: 1.Coffee Morning. 2. Talent Night.3.
Karaoke Night. 4. Polish Night. 5. Irish Night. 6. Bazaar. If
you are interested and willing to help, contact Marie on
444542. Donations of items suitable as Raffle prizes
would be greatly appreciated.
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The Brentwood Diocesan Trust: Registered Charity No. 234092
For further information about our Parish, our Faith, Sacraments and contact details please see our website:
www.olfstm.weebly.com
For further information about our Parish, our Faith, Sacraments and contact details please see our website:
www.olfstm.weebly.com
The Brentwood Diocesan Trust: Registered Charity No. 234092
For further information about our Parish, our Faith, Sacraments and contact details please see our website:
www.olfstm.weebly.com
The Brentwood Diocesan Trust: Registered Charity No. 234092