THE MISSION COMMUNITY OF S. PETER &THE HOLY APOSTLES
comprising the churches of
S. PETER WYNDHAM SQUARE, PLYMOUTH with S. THOMAS THE APOSTLE NORTH KEYHAM
& S. JAMES THE LESS HAM DRIVE
A Forward in Faith Registered Parish under the Episcopal Care of the Bishop of Plymouth
Fr PHILPOTT SSC: 01752 298502 – Dean of Tamar Region FiF
Sr MARY JOSEPH SC: 01752 302795 FR. SMITH SSC: 01752 603812 fathergrahamsmith@hotmail.com
Fr MARR SSC: 01752 228426 Fr ALLAN 01579 349074 Fr JORDAN 01752 302283 - Mission Community Catechist
SCHOOL: 01752 667724 Clerk to Govs:Nadine Philips: <nlp77@hotmail.co.uk>
WEBSITE for our parish: plymouthstpeter.co.uk ~ FOR MUCH MORE INFORMATION ON EVENTS, ETC.
ALL ARE WELCOME!
Today we celebrate
MARY, MOTHER OF GOD
9.00am Mass + hymns
9.30am Morning Prayer
10.00am SOLEMN MASS, Homily,
& Fisherfolk Club
10.30am Mass, homily, Holy Baptism + hymns
Refreshments are served after Mass
VISITORS We want to welcome you. Please help us
by making yourself known to one of our priests or to Sr
Mary Joseph SC. If you are unfamiliar with our service,
do ask for help in following the Mass. Please join us for
coffee after Mass.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP FUND – when making
a donation during the Mass towards the daily cost of
maintaining the mission, ministry and buildings of the
Church here please use the envelope to be found in each
place, and if you are a UK tax-payer please Gift Aid your
donation by completing the personal information so we
can claim the Tax on your gift.
AT MASS TODAY Fr Philpott is at St Thomas at 9am,
Fr Smith is at St Peter at 10am, Fr. Allan is at St James at
10.30am. Fr Marr is at St Gabriels.
FR PHILPOTT has been awarded an MBE in the
Queen’s New Year’s Honours. He has been given it for
his ‘service to the community of Plymouth’. He is
especially mindful of those with whom he has shared this
aspect of his work, particularly through ICTHUS,
Plymouth Drake Foundation and Millfields and he is
grateful to those who commended him for this honour.
THANK YOU ! Fr Graham wishes to say thank you to
all who sent him cards or gave him gifts for Christmas.
Such kindnesses are always warmly and gratefully
received.
FR TREVOR JORDAN will be working to grow the
Christian community at St James the Less. We aim to
make sure that this church remains open and is used more
and more for worship and for community activities so that
it gains good “street cred” within the wider community of
Ham and North Prospect. The bid for growth will be
overseen by a newly formed MISSION STRATEGY
GROUP. This Group will eventually initiate activities
across our Mission Community but it will first focus on St
James, exploring how we can both renew and grow the
Church community that is called to serve the people of
Ham and North Prospect. We want to offer a 21st century
experience of the Catholic Faith in worship and loving
service. Fr Philpott is joined by Fr Smith, Fr Jordan,
Bernard Roberts, Julian Davies and Val Braddon. Our first
meeting is on Monday 2nd January at 2pm in St James
church. Start praying for the Lord’s blessing on this
venture now!
HOWESON COFFEE SHOP is currently open
Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays from 11am until
2pm. A good selection of food is on sale. It is a good place
to meet friends.
WALSINGHAM 2012 – our pilgrimage next year is
from 24th – 28th September. Barbara is taking bookings
now. £10 deposit required. Bishop John is leading us
again.
CHRISTMAS 2 (Psalter Week 2) Week beginning Sunday 1st January 2012
Monday 2
Tues 3
10.00am (St Peter) Fr GS
10.00am (St Peter) Fr SP
St Basil the Great, Bishop & Doctor
Icon Station
The Most Holy Name of Jesus
Litany before Mass
Wed 4
Thursday 5
Friday 6
10.00am (St Peter) Fr GS
10.00am (St Peter) Fr SP
10.00am (St James) Fr. JA
1.15pm (St Peter) Fr TJ
7.00pm (St Peter) Fr SP
10.00am (St Peter) Fr SP
Christmas feria
Christmas feria
THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD
1.15pm St Peter’s Primary School in church for a
CHRISTINGLE SERVICE – ALL WELCOME
Christmas feria
9.00am (St Thomas) Fr JA
9.30am (St Peter) Lay led
10.00am (St Peter) Frs GS & SP
10.30am (St James) Fr PM
THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD
Mass, Homily +hymns
Morning Prayer
Solemn Mass, Homily, + Fisherfolk Club,
Mass, Homily, + hymns
Sat 7
Sunday
8th
January
2012
The Love of the Lord Compels us to use our gifts to make new Christians
Priestly Vocations
The Walsingham
Sisters
Religious Vocations
Derriford Hospital
Thanksgiving
Bishop John
May our Baptism
increasingly form
our lives
LOOK OUT FOR a meeting of the Fellowship of St Alban &St Sergius and a
presentation on ICONS. The Fellowship seeks to help the understanding between
Western and Eastern Christians.
It will meet in St Peter’s on 24th January 2012 at 6.30pm and will include Evening
Prayer. Fr Stephen Platt (Russian Orthodox) will give the Presentation and he is
well worth hearing.
THE ECUMENICAL JOURNEY: Please note the following important news & dates –
The Bible Study Group begins meeting again until Thursday 12th January.
The Prayer Meeting dates, times and venues in early 2012 are:
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Thursday 26th January at 12.30pm at the Crown Centre. It includes lunch – bookings 01752 254981
Tuesday 21st February at 7pm in the RC Cathedral, Wyndham Street
Tuesday 20th March at 7.30pm in St Joseph’s RC Church Devonport
Father, may they be one!
SPONSORED WEIGHT LOSS – our Parish Priest has to lose weight and he thought you might all
encourage him by sponsoring him in support of a gift(s) for our Mission Community. A Sponsor Sheet is
available in each church today. Perhaps if everyone signs up we might get a slim priest and benefit each of our
churches at the same time. By the way, Fr P needs to lose 10stone!
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP FUND … today is the day we ask you to begin paying your revised
contribution to our Church Membership Fund [CMF]. Hopefully, you have been able to increase your
giving each week. If you pay Income Tax, we ask you to Gift Aid your weekly gift. It will increase the
amount the Church receives and at no cost to yourself. You know how the cost of things you buy have gone
up. The same is true for our Mission Community. Please play your part in helping, not only to meet the bills,
but to have money to spend on mission! Please accept our thanks for all that you do to support the work
of the church in this Mission Community.
“Let us remind ourselves over and over again that holiness has to do with very ordinary things: truthfulness,
courtesy, kindness, gentleness, consideration for others, contentment with our lot, honesty and courage in the
face of life, reliability, dutifulness. Intent, as we think, on the higher reaches of spirituality, we can overlook
the warp and wool of holiness.”
Interior Castle Explored by Ruth Burrows OCD
REQUESTING PRAYERS AT MASS - it is very easy to lose track of who made the request, when and
for what purpose. Sickness is not the only spur to such requests. It would help enormously if we can assemble
the names as follows:
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Name of the person for whom we are to pray or a cause of thanksgiving
The person’s need and a request to give thanks when that need has been met
The name of the person making the request
The date the request is made
Requests should be made to Sister Mary Joseph SC
We will always pray if asked to do so, no matter how long the list of names becomes. However, if someone
recovers then we should be told and a request made that their name be removed from the list.
The Love of the Lord Compels us to use our gifts to make new Christians
MASSES & CALENDAR FOR JANUARY 2012
Day
Date
Sun
1
M
2
T
W
Th
F
3
4
5
6
Sat
Sun
7
8
Calendar
SOLEMNITY OF
THE MOTHER OF GOD
St Basil the Great, bishop & Doctor
Icon Station
Christmas feria
Christmas feria
Christmas feria
SOLEMNITY OF THE EPIPHANY
Colour
Masses
Priest
W
9am [St Thomas]
10am [St Peter]
10.30am [St James]
10am [St Peter]
Fr SP
Fr GS
Fr JA
Fr GS
W
W
W
W
10am [St Peter]
10am [St Peter]
10am [St Peter]
10am [St James]
1.15pm [St Peter]
7.00pm [St Peter]
Fr SP
Fr GS
Fr SP
Fr JA
Fr TJ
Fr SP et al
W
W
10am [St Peter]
9am [St Thomas]
10am [St Peter]
10.30am [St James]
Fr SP
Fr JA
Frs GS & SP
Fr PM
10am [St Peter]
10am [St Peter]
10am [St Peter
10am [St James]
10am [St Peter]
10am [St Peter]
10am [St Peter]
9am [St Thomas]
10am [St Peter]
10.30am [St James]
10am (St Peter)
10am (St Peter)
10am (St Peter)
10am (St James)
10am (St Peter)
10am (St Peter)
Fr GS
Fr GS
Fr SP
Fr JA
Fr GS
Fr SP
Fr SP
Fr JA
Fr GS & PM
Fr SP
Fr GS
Fr SP
Fr SP
Fr JA
Fr GS
Fr SP
10am (St Peter)
9am [St Thomas]
10am [St Peter]
10.30am [St James]
10am [St Peter]
10am [St Peter]
6.30pm [St Peter]
10am [St Peter]
10am [St James]
10am [St Peter]
10am [St Peter]
10am [St Peter]
Fr SP
Fr SP
Fr JA & GS
Fr PM
Fr GS
Fr JA
Fr SP
Fr SP
Fr SP
Fr PM
Fr GS
Fr SP
9am [St Thomas]
10am [St Peter]
10.30am [St James]
10.00am [St Peter]
10.00am [St Peter]
Fr PM
Fr GS & SP
Fr JA
Fr GS
Fr SP
W
St Peter’s Primary School in
church for a CHRISTINGLE SERVICE
– ALL WELCOME
Epiphany feria
SOLEMNITY OF
THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD
First Week of Ordinary Time Year B Psalter 1
M
T
W
Th
9
10
11
12
feria
feria
feria
St Aelred of Rievaulx, abbot
G
G
G
W
F
Sat
Sun
13
14
15
St Hilary, Bishop & Doctor
Icon Station
Of Our Lady
Second Sunday of Ordinary Time
W
W
G
M
T
W
Th
16
17
18
19
feria
St Anthony, Abbot
For the unity of the Catholic Church
St Wulstan, bishop
G
W
W
W
F
20
R
Sat
Sun
21
22
St Fabian, Pope & martyr & St Sebastian,
martyr
St Agnes, virgin & martyr
Third Sunday of Ordinary Time
M
T
23
24
G
W
W
Th
25
26
feria
St Francis de Sales, bishop & Doctor
Presentation on Icons & Evening Prayer
CONVERSION OF ST PAUL
St Timothy & St Titus, bishops
F
Sat
27
28
W
W
Sun
29
St Angela Merici, virgin
St Thomas Aquinas, priest & Doctor
ICON STATION
Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time
M
T
30
31
feria
St John Bosco, priest
G
W
(Psalter Wk 2)
R
G
(Psalter Wk 3)
W
W
G
(Psalter Wk4)
MICAH MOMENTS for LENT and HOLY WEEK
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IN LENT ON EACH WEDNESDAY BEFORE MASS we will reflect on the life, work,
witness and rapid growth of the Early Church through the series “Take & Read” – The Acts of the
Holy Apostles.
IN HOLY WEEK on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we will reflect on the signs of
transformation that we should manifest in our lives as a result and benefit of The Saviour’s
Incarnate Life, The Saviour’s Death and Passion, and The Saviour’s Glorious Resurrection and
Ascension.
OUR SUNDAY MASS RULE:
NEVER ABSENT & NEVER LATE