+THE PARISHES OF SAINT JOSEPH AND SAINT WILFRID+
GATESHEAD
A PARISH
OF
THE DIOCESE
OF
HEXHAM & NEWC ASTLE REGISTERED CHARIT Y NO.1143450
PARISH PRIEST: FR MICHAEL BROWN
PRESBYTERY: ST JOSEPH’S HIGH WEST STREET GATESHEAD NE8 1LX
TELEPHONE NOS.:
ST JOSEPH’S 477 1631
ST WILFRID’S 477 1524
http://stjosephsgateshead.wordpress.com/
BOOKINGS FOR ST JOSEPH’S HALL: 0795 0173445
email: gateshead.stjoseph@rcdhn.org.uk
MASS TIMES, INTENTIONS AND SERVICE TIMES
SAINT WILFRID’S
DEC
Saturday
Sunday
13
14
6.00pm
10.00am
SAINT JOSEPH’S
Kathleen Butler
9.00am
People of the Parish
10.30am
Elsie & George Dalton
12 noon
Extraordinary Form (Latin)
Private Intention
12.05pm
George & Elizabeth
McDonald
Brown, Henderson and
O`Keefe families
Bridget Sidaway
Monday
Tuesday
15
16
Wednesday
17
12.05pm
Thursday
18
12.05pm
Friday
19
Saturday
20
Sunday
21
10.00am
CONFESSIONS
.
Sr Vivian`s Intentions
Louise Emenogu
12.05pm
11..00am
(EF)
6.00pm
ST JOSEPH`S CAROL SERVICE: The children of St Joseph`s school will
be putting on a carol service in church on Tuesday at 6pm. All welcome.
L & d m of Appleby and
Connolly families
Edmond O`Sullivan
Celebrant`s Intention
9.00am
Joseph McGuigan Snr
10.30am
People of Parish
12.00noon
Extraordinary Form (Latin)
Private Intention (RBL)
2pm
Benediction
ST. JOSEPH’S Wed after 12.05pm Mass and Saturday 11.30-12.30pm
ST WILFRID`S before 6.00pm Mass Saturday
THE ROSARY is recited before Mass on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday in Saint Joseph’s.
Exposition of Blessed Sacrament on Thursday after Mass to 1.30pm
COLLECTIONS:
St Joseph’s 07.12.14
9.00am £126.05
10.30am £72.36
12 noon £196.52
Total: £394.93
St Wilfrid’s £186.14. Donations £20 Bonus Ball £143 Many thanks
CHILDREN’S ADVENT ACTIVITY This week we encourage the children
to take home a Heart to decorate. Families might want to think about the word
‘JOY’ printed on it. We have seen the pink candle on our Advent Wreath lit
today, and listened to the readings which tell of the joy that Christ’s coming
brings to us all. Perhaps the children can draw or write about something they
can do to bring happiness to others. The candles can be brought back to church
for our Advent display, or perhaps used as decorations at home.
ST WILFRID`S The Christmas draw will take place at the end of Mass tonight,
once again many thanks for your wonderful support!!
Next week we will be having a collection for the heating, we are lucky here to
have a decent heating system to keep us warm during Mass!!!
Parishioners are invited to bring into church Poinsettia plants in memory of
deceased loved ones. It is a lovely way of remembering them during the festive
season and they look beautiful!!! They can be brought in anytime.
ST. JOSEPH`S; 1) Please bring your Poinsettias this week to keep with the
tradition in memory of our loved ones.
2) Christmas cards; Please make sure you deliver the card to the person intended
for as each year 20 to 30 cards are left in church and have to be destroyed.
.
SUNDAY LUNCH AND BENEDICTION: Next Sunday the monthly lunch
takes place in the hall after the 12 noon Mass. Sherry and mince pies will be on
offer! Benediction at 2pm.
SR VIVIAN: Sr Vivian of the Daughters of Divine Love left this week for a
new appointment in Birmingham. Thank you to Sister for her work as parish
sister. We wish her every blessing in her new appointment.
NORTHERN CATHOLIC CALENDARS FOR 2015. Available at the back
of church: £2.50 or £3 or ringbound.
DEANERY CONFIRMATION PREPARATION The next Preparation
Session in our Deanery Confirmation Programme takes place on Monday, 15th
December at 18.30 in Cardinal Hume School. All prospective candidates are
expected to attend. Please keep our young people in your prayers.
ST JOSEPH`S CHRISTMAS RAFFLE: Three prizes remain unclaimed.
Details in the porch.
ADVENT CONFESSIONS/RECONCILIATION SERVICE Saturday 20th
December 11.30 am to 12.30 pm: Confessions at St Joseph’s. Monday 22nd
December 7.00 p.m. St Augustine’s, Leam Lane, service of reconciliation with
individual confessions.
CARDINAL HUME CATHOLIC SCHOOL ADVENT SERVICE
Wednesday 17th December at 6.30pm. Headteacher Nick Hurn would like to
invite you all to the annual school Advent Service. Please note that although
entry is free of charge, it is strictly a ticket only event, tickets can be collected
at the door. If you would like to attend please contact Helen Moffitt at the school
on 0191 4877638 or by email : info@cardinalhume.com and Helen will be
delighted to reserve you a place. An arrival time of 6.15pm is advised with
refreshments available afterwards and any donations to our CAFOD fundraising
greatly appreciated.
CHRISTMAS MASS TIMES: St Joseph`s Christmas Eve 5pm vigil Mass,
Christmas Day 10.30am. St Wilfrid`s Christmas Eve 6.30pm, Midnight (Latin).
Carol singing half an hour before Christmas Eve Masses.
ST WILFRID`S Christmas cards and a limited number of 2015 diaries and
calendars are available at the back of church. Tickets will also be available for
the Christmas raffle.
LATIN FOR BEGINNERS. Continues on Tuesday 7.30pm
GATESHEAD HOMELESS PROJECT (JOE'S PLACE) Joe`s Place project offers
hot snacks, tea and coffee to those who are either homeless, on low or no income or live
with substance addiction. Open every Wednesday 10am-1pm in. St. Joseph's church hall.
The project needs food donations, if you can help there is a container at the back of church
ASYLUM SEEKERS Please remember that we collect tinned food for those who live in
great need in our own area. There is a box at the back of St. Joseph’s under the table near
the side porch for anything you can give
GOING INTO HOSPITAL? For all hospitals in an emergency ask the Ward
Sister to contact the on call Roman Catholic Chaplain not just a Chaplain.
Contacts: Queen Elizabeth Ring 0191 4452072 RVI & Freeman ring St
Andrews 0191 2321892 and leave a message.
Parishes of Saint Joseph & Saint Wilfrid
Gateshead
Third Sunday of Advent: Year B (OF)
Third Sunday of Advent (EF)
13th /14th December 2014
ST HILDEGARD OF BINGEN
Abbess, artist, author, composer, mystic, pharmacist, poet, preacher, theologian-where to begin describing this remarkable woman?
Born into a noble family, she was instructed for ten years by the holy woman Blessed
Jutta. When Hildegard was 18, she became a Benedictine nun at the Monastery of St.
Disibodenberg. Ordered by her confessor to write down the visions that she'd received
since the age of three, Hildegard took ten years to write her Scivias (Know the Ways).
Pope Eugene III read it and in 1147 encouraged her to continue writing. Her Book of
the Merits of Life and Book of Divine Works followed. She wrote over 300 letters to
people who sought her advice; she also composed short works on medicine and
physiology, and sought advice from contemporaries such as St. Bernard of Clairvaux.
Hildegard's visions caused her to see humans as "living sparks" of God's love, coming
from God as daylight comes from the sun. Sin destroyed the original harmony of
creation; Christ's redeeming death and resurrection opened up new possibilities.
Virtuous living reduces the estrangement from God and others that sin
causes.Hildegard was no stranger to controversy. The monks near her original
foundation protested vigorously when she moved her monastery to Bingen,
overlooking the Rhine River. She confronted Emperor Frederick Barbarossa for
supporting at least three antipopes. Hildegard challenged the Cathars, who rejected
the Catholic Church claiming to follow a more pure Christianity.
Between 1152 and 1162, Hildegard often preached in the Rhineland. Her monastery
was placed under interdict because she had permitted the burial of a young man who
had been excommunicated. She insisted that he had been reconciled with the Church
and had received its sacraments before dying. Hildegard protested bitterly when the
local bishop forbade the celebration of or reception of the Eucharist at the Bingen
monastery, a sanction that was lifted only a few months before her death.
In 2012, Hildegard was canonized and named a Doctor of the Church by Pope
Benedict XVI.
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