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