Mass Times and Intentions
Saturday 18th October
ND 5.30pm First Mass of Sunday:
Raymond & Miriam Rees RIP
SS 6.00pm Deceased Members of
Moriarty Family
Sunday 19th October
SJ 8.00am Charles & Irene Horan RIP
SS 9.30am Victor, Kathleen, Peter &
David Troalic RIP
SJ 10.30am Tersigni Family G.E.
SJ 6.30pm Yves Davy RIP
Monday 20th October
SJ 7.30am Georgette Ramsay RIP
SS 10am
Joan Quevatre-funeral service
SS12 noon UCM Intentions
Tuesday 21st October
LP 7.30 am Pauline McKenna RIP
SJ 9.30 am Ferreira Family
Wednesday 22nd October
SJ 7.30am
In Thanksgiving AMM
ND 12.05pm Holy Souls
Thursday 23rd October
LP 7.30am For Vocations
SJ 9.30am Michael Baird RIP
Friday 24th October
SJ 7.30am Ian Tardivel & Family
Saturday 25th October
SJ 10.00am Jacques Maingard RIP
ND 5.30pm First Mass of Sunday:
Madeleine Hewlett In
Thanksgiving
SS 6.00pm Mary Niles RIP
Sunday 26th October
SJ 8.00am Charles & Irene Horan RIP
SS 9.30am Pat & Wilf Cochrane In
Thanksgiving
SJ 10.30am Irene Tersigni RIP
SJ 6.30pm Lawrence Troalic RIP
SJ - St. Joseph’s Church
SS - Our Lady Star of the Sea Church
ND - Notre Dame Church
LP - Le Platon Convent
Please remember British Summer
Time Ends Sunday 26th October.
The clocks go back 1 hour at 2am
on the last Sunday in October.
Today’s Psalm Response
Give the Lord glory and power.
Prayer of the Church: Week 1
Morning Prayer: 9.15am on Tuesday &
Thursday and at 9.45am on Saturday (SJ).
Feast Days this week
Wednesday: St. John Paul 11
Friday:
St Magloire
Confessions next Saturday
St Joseph's:
Notre Dame:
Star of the Sea:
10.30am - 11.00am;
5.00pm - 5.20pm;
5.30pm - 6.00pm.
Finance
Thank you for your generosity towards the
work of the Church in Guernsey:
Offertory:
£2,505
Standing Orders:
£524
Total:
£3,029
Covenant with the Poor:
£24
The Retiring collection this weekend
is for World Mission Sunday.
Diary Dates
Benediction 26th October 4 pm at
Our Lady Star of the Sea.
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Children’s Mass 2nd November 9.30am
Our Lady Star of the Sea.
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Mothers Prayers Friday 7th November
new starting time of 3.30pm.
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Special Remembrance Mass for those
Parishioners who died in the First World
War Sunday 9th November 10.30am at
St Joseph’s.
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Delancey Music Group 25th Anniversary
Celebration after 9.30am Mass Sunday
16th November
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The Children's Liturgy Group annual
cake sale following the 10.30 a.m. Mass
on Sunday, 30th November.
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Parish Christmas Lunch 7th December
2014 details to follow.
Parish of Our Lady and the Saints of Guernsey
THE LINK
29th Sunday of Ordinary Time Year A - 19th October 2014
St Joseph & St Mary Church, La Couperderie, St Peter Port
Notre Dame du Rosaire Church, Burnt Lane, St Peter Port
Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, Rue des Monts, St Sampson
Parish Priest and Dean
Assistant Priest
Deacon
Canon Michael Hore
Fr Paul Dzwig
Mark Leightley
Residence & Parish Office: Ampthill House, Cordier Hill, SPP, GY1 1JH. Tel 720196
E-mail
[email protected]
Website
www.catholic.org.gg
The Parish Office is open weekdays 9.30am - 1.30pm
Diocese of Portsmouth Registered Charity No 246871
Proclaim the Gospel
World Mission Day is a privileged moment when the faithful of various continents
engage in prayer and concrete gestures of solidarity in support of the young churches
in Mission lands. When I was a young student studying for the priesthood I was
privileged to meet many old and hardened missionaries telling their story of the
territory in which they were working in Africa or South America. It was normal
enough to have twenty or more mission stations for each priest. The anchor person in
each mission would be the Catechist. The Catechist would prepare any children for
Baptism, or children who were preparing for confirmation. There was a huge hunger
for knowledge about the life of Jesus and how he saved His people, gradually a small
school might be developed in one or more villages and this would create a great
hunger in the next village for something similar. This is how missions developed. What
impressed me most about these men returning for a well earned holiday was their love
for spreading the Gospel. Their home village would be there to support them with
some project or other to make life easier for the people whom they served. They
were truly driven by their love of Christ.
Today we hear much about New Evangelisation and how to promote it in the home. If
Jesus is not at the heart of the home then it will be a huge struggle. If you were to ask
me where is Jesus most recognisable today I would have to honestly say in the third
world countries. Handing on the faith at home does not seem to be working. There
seems to be a lost generation of parents who, with all the good will in the world, have
nothing of the faith to pass on to their children. This I believe is what the New
Evangelising hope to in some way address. When I was a young student for the
priesthood the missions were in Africa, Asia, South America. Has the heartland of
Christianity moved from Europe, have we become the New Mission territory? We
have to go back to St. Paul to see how he proclaimed the message. Canon Michael
A warm welcome to all visitors who join us for today’s
Celebration. Please join us for tea/coffee available after
9.30am Mass in Our Lady Star of the Sea and
8.00am & 10.30am Mass in St. Joseph’s.
THIS WEEK’S DIARY
Meetings in St. Joseph’s Parish Room (SJ), Our
Lady Star of the Sea Centre (SS), Centre for
Peace (CP) unless noted otherwise; Services in
the Church.
SUNDAY
10.30am
Children’s Harvest Mass (SJ)
MONDAY
12 noon
7.30pm
Mass (Rosary at 11.30am) (SS)
Bible Study Group (SS)
TUESDAY
10.00-11am Exposition of the Blessed
Sacrament (SJ)
7.00pm
Cygnet (SJ YR 6&7)
7.30pm
Rosary (CP)
WEDNESDAY
7.30pm
Holy Hour & Rosary (SJ)
THURSDAY
10.00-11am Exposition of the Blessed
Sacrament (SJ)
7.00pm
Cygnet (SJ)
7.30pm
RCIA (SJ Parish Room)
SATURDAY
11.00am
7.00pm
Legion of Mary (SJ)
All Saints Youth Club (SS)
SUNDAY
4.00pm
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Benediction (OLSS)
Please remember in your prayers:
Sister Carmel, Ronald de Putron,
Elizabeth Maloret, Peter Hanna, Ken
Finch, Fletch O’Hara (baby), Pearl
Hollingsworth, Adie Wilcox, Joan Alliss
and all who are sick in our community;
Joan Quevatre, Rev Paul Spellman
(former priest in Guernsey) who have
recently died;
Right Rev William Cotter, 3rd Bishop of
Portsmouth (1940) and all whose
anniversaries occur about now. May they rest
in peace;
Community of St Yves & St Magloire,
Guernsey;
The Island Prayer Scheme this week asks
prayers for Cobo Mission/King’s Barn
Mission.
Sacrament of Baptism
We welcome in Baptism at
St Joseph’s Ella Wilkins,
Maya Sallis, Milla & Sasha
Goldsbrough Please remember them,
their families and Godparents in your
prayers.
Holy Hour and Rosary
Wednesday 22nd October,
7.30pm, St. Joseph’s Church.
October is the month of the
Holy Rosary
In the Parish opportunities to join
together to pray the Rosary are:
Mondays at 11.30am, Our Lady Star of
the Sea;
Tuesdays at 7.30pm, Centre for Peace;
Wednesdays before the 12.05 pm
Mass at Notre Dame
and at 7.30pm during Holy Hour at
St Joseph’s;
Saturdays before 5.30pm Mass at
Notre Dame.
Christian Meditation Group
Friday 24th October, 10.30am, at Les
Cotils in the Upper Room. Please
contact Angela on 723915 for details.
John-Paul Lyttle will be Ordained Deacon on
12 December at Waterlooville. Please keep
him in your prayers. John-Paul’s Ordination
to the Priesthood will take place in 2015.
Lost Property: There are three pairs of
sunglasses and several spectacles in the
Parish office which have been left in St
Joseph’s Church over the last couple of
months. Please call the office or drop in to
collect. We will hold for a few weeks only.
We also have a set of garden fairy lights
which must please be collected from the
Parish Office. They were used for the Hog
Roast evening held last May.
St. Paul Missal 2015 now on sale
Price £5.95 at St. Joseph’s Bookstall.
Today Is World Mission Sunday
Today the Holy Father invites all Catholics to
contribute to a special collection for Missio, his
official charity for overseas mission. Your
prayers and donations today will support the
work of missionaries and young churches as
they share faith, build churches and provide
healthcare and education, often in difficult and
dangerous circumstances overseas. The World
Mission Sunday collection will go in its entirety
to support mission projects worldwide that
brings God’s love and message of dignity for all.
Please give what you can. Every gift makes a real
difference to people living in poverty who are
yearning to hear the Good News of God’s Love
for them.
Resume of GPC meeting held on Tuesday 7th
October 2014. Items discussed were:
•
Christmas mass schedule
•
Introduction of a monthly ‘Family Mass’
in Notre Dame Church after Christmas.
•
Work of the Befrienders’ Group which
seeks to maintain contact with
parishioners who can no longer take an
active part in Church
•
New Confirmation programme
‘Transformed in Christ’ .
•
A report on the New Cygnet Group for
Yr 7/8 and plans for future activities and
events for older Cygnet group.
•
The formation of a ‘Steering Committee’
by Deacon Mark, for practical
arrangements for our 2015 Parish
Mission.
The next meeting will take place on 4th
November.
Items you may wish discussed should please
be put in writing and addressed to, ‘The
Secretary, GPC’ c/o Ampthill House.
The minutes of the September meeting can
now be viewed on the notice boards and the
Parish website.
Items for next week’s Link should be sent to the
Parish Office by noon on Thursday at the
latest.
After nine years we “THE SHRINE OF
THE SACRED HEART” Committee at
Fort Hommet have decided to step down
and hand over the running of the bunker to
Helen c/o Culture and Leisure last opening
18th October 2014.At this present time we
do not know the future of the Shrine, to
continue next year it would need a team of
four to six to cover 2-4 pm twice a month
(first /third Saturday) Easter to Sept /Oct,
preferably at least one male person on duty.
The Shrine Committee would like to
say a big thank you to St Joseph’s Church
for their help and support.
Kind Regards
Ian Blanchard
on behalf of the Shrine Committee.
Union of
Catholic Mothers for providing
Thank you to the
the rail outside St. Joseph’s Church.
The Poor Box Funds collected over the
last year have been distributed to the
following Local Charities:
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Drug & Alcohol Abuse Charity
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Wigwam
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Guernsey Cheshire Home
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Guernsey Jumbulance Holidays