St Dominic The Priory and Parish of Our Lady of the Rosary & Sunday Masses 6pm - Saturday Vigil 8.30 am - Mass 10.00 am - Family Mass 12.00 - Solemn Mass 6.00 pm - Mass Confessions Saturday 10.30 - 11.00am 5.30 - 6.00pm Sunday 11.15 - 11.45 am Weekday Masses Monday - Friday 7.30am, 10am & 6pm Saturday 7.30am, 10.00am & 6pm - Vigil Mass Baptism course 3 Sunday of the month after the 10am Mass. Next course: 19th April rd Last Week’s Collection 22nd March Total £1904.65 Gift Aid £719.50 Thank you for your generosity. This Week’s Sanctuary Lamp Intentions Ray & Carol Clarke (right) Carty. Tiff, Ross & Walsh families (left) (Haverstock Hill), Southampton Road, London, NW5 4LB | Tel 020 7482 9210 29th March 2015 - Palm Sunday - Year B - Divine Office 2 Divine Mercy Sunday Divine Mercy devotions will be celebrated here at St Domnic's on 12th April (Divine Mercy Sunday) from 2-4pm with Mass at 3.30pm. Please note that there will only be one Mass at 10am on Easter Monday 6th April as it is a bank holiday. There will be no 7.30am Mass from Tuesday 7th April Saturday 11th April. Normal Mass times will resume from Monday 12th April. Flowers for Easter Please note that in addition to the Brown Bread collection this weekend, there will also be a collection to cover the cost of flowers in the Church for Easter. Please be an generous as possible. Holy Week A flyer with all the details of service during Holy Week is available at the back of Church. Please take a copy with you and also for anyone who may wish to attend these services. Mothers’ Prayers Please note that there will be no Mothers’ prayers during Holy Week and in the school holidays. This group will resume on Monday 20th April at the same time of 2pm in the Lourdes Chapel. Mass Intentions for 2015 & 2016 The diary is now open to book Masses for 2016. If you wish to book a Mass for 2015 0r 2016, please fill out a Mass Intention envelope available from the Repository. If you would like a Mass on a specific day eg an Anniversary, birthday etc, please book as early as possible as Masses are booked up for intentions up to two months in advance. Please provide a contact number in case we need to get in touch with you regarding your request. The suggested stipend for a Mass is a minimum of £5.00. CCTV (closed circuit televison) now operates in the Church for your safety. All movement is recorded. Priory Sports Club There will be no sports club during the school holidays. The last session will be on Wednesday 1st April at. We will resume after the holidays on Wednesday 22nd April. Hope to see lots of you. Dates for your diary Rosary School First Holy Communion - 16th May Walsingham Pilgrimage - 17th May Parish First Holy Communion - 7th June Parish Pilgrimage to Lourdes - 8th - 12th June St Dominic’s First Holy Communion - 20th June Confirmation - 21st June Parish Pilgrimage to Walsingham The annual Parish pilgrimage to Walsingham takes place on Sunday 17th May. It is a great occasion with Mass, a procession along the holy mile into the village and some time for quiet prayer, reflection and shopping. The coach costs £20.00 per person. Please ring Nuala on 020 7428 9340 to book your place. Holy Week Retreat We welcome Fr Bob Ombres OP from the Oxford Priory for our parish Holy Week retreat this year. From Monday to Wednesday he will give the day's talk twice, after the 10am and 6pm Masses. From Thursday to Saturday he will speak after the celebration of Tenebrae at 10am. We look forward to his insights into the events of the Passion, which will help us to enter into the spirit of Holy Week. Please pick up a leaflet from the back of church, where you will find full details of Holy Week and Easter services. The Parish Red box collection (APF) raised £217.17. Mgr James Cronin, National Director of Missio that manages this project would like to thank you all for your generosity. Church Cleaning We are looking for volunteers to assist with cleaning the nave of the Church and the side chapels. If you can help or for more details please contact, Alice Kennedy on 020 7209 2584. Readings Isaiah 50:4-7 Phillipians 2:6-11 Mark 14:1-15:47 Response My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Acclamation Praise to you, O Christ, king of eternal glory; Christ was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross. But God raised him high and gave him the name which is above all names. Praise to you, O Christ, king of eternal glory. Contact Details St Dominic’s Priory Southampton Road NW5 4LB Fr Thomas Skeats OP Parish Priest Tel: 020 7482 9210 Fax: 020 7482 9239 [email protected] Please Pray For... The Holy Father’s Intentions: Universal: That those involved in scientific research may serve the wellbeing of the whole human person. Evangelization That the unique contribution of women to the life of the Church may be recognized always. Sick: K Barnes, R McDonnell, Katie Ruddy, Patrick McGuiness, Anniversaries: Frank Kennedy, Thomas Keane, Aaron Maher Faissal, Brian Dennis Logan, Michael Collins Recently Deceased: Magdalene Franklin, Maisie Dicks, Shirley Modest, Jimmy O’Leary Forthcoming Second Collections Today Easter Flowers Brown Bread 3rd April Collection for Holy Places Not Just One of the Crowd We have two readings from Mark's gospel, and each describes a crowd. There is the enthusiastic crowd of people who cheer Jesus when he enters Jerusalem on the back of the donkey, and there is the mob that jeers at him on the cross. To which one would we have belonged? Possibly both. Crowds are notoriously unstable. A group of football fans that is at one moment enjoying a match with relaxed cheerfulness can easily become a threatening mob. To be in a big group of people can feel like belonging to a community, and may be so. But you can be sucked up into a gang in which one loses one's individuality and consents to terrible deeds. Think of the Nazi rallies, sweeping people up into a hatred that one day many of them would find puzzling. Today we begin Holy Week, and we are invited to become holy. Holy people grow into an independence of mind and heart which protect them from the seductions of the mob. A saint is someone who, by the grace of God, is becoming the person whom God created them to be. Often we succumb to off-the-peg identities, and try to find ourselves in the role models of our society. Celebrities attract vast adulation, and thousands wish to belong to their 'community' through Twitter or Facebook. By associating with them, wearing their clothes, supporting their team, bearing their brand, we may hope to find ourselves. But the saints take the risk of being themselves, the unique friend of God that they are. They are non-conformist. The crowd that cheers Jesus as he enters Jerusalem is drawn by his power. He comes as the promised King, the descendant of 'our father David.' They sing 'Hosanna', which means 'Save us'. They gather around him and escort him into the city. But the crowd that mocks him, many of whom were probably the same people, coheres against him, taunting him with his powerlessness. The powerful attract us. We hope that by being with them, we may catch some of their vigour and stave off the dread that we are worth nothing. The powerless can also evoke strong reactions, like barracudas attracted to a wounded animal. When celebrities fall, the media smell blood. So as we begin Holy Week, it is worth asking how we respond to power and its loss. Do we home in on the strong people, even the bullies, shedding our convictions in the hope of a share in a bit of their strength? Do we distance ourselves from the weak and despised? Or do we dare to follow the King who 'being found in human form humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on the cross' (Philippians 2.8)? He gathers around himself a community on Easter Sunday, in which we find a multitude of brothers and sisters, but in which we can also dare to be ourselves, each individually caught up in God's universal friendship. Fr Timothy Radcliffe OP Member of our Oxford Community
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