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ST.BARNABAS CATHOLIC CHURCH
PRIEST: Father John Horn
Address: 28 Vine Road, Molesey, Surrey. KT8 9LF
Telephone: 020 8941 8400
Parish Office Hours: 9.15am-11.15am (closed on Wednesdays)
Email: [email protected] Website: www.stbarnabasmolesey.org
HIRING OF THE CHURCH HALL: If you wish to hire the Church Hall please contact Theresa D’Burrage 020 8941 9205 or 07757456302
Parish Schools: St Alban’s Primary School – Beauchamp Road, Molesey. 020 8979 5893 www.stalbansprimary.org.uk
Salesian Secondary School – Guildford Road, Chertsey. 01932 582 520 www.salesian.surrey.sch.uk
DEDICATION OF THE LATERAN BASILICA– Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th November 2014
Parish Mass Book Page No.192
NEWSLETTER NO: 45
Weekend Masses:
Saturday 6pm (Quiet Mass) Sunday 9.30am Sunday 6pm (Music Mass) -
This Sunday morning Mass will be at
9.30am (and not 10am) so the Parish can
join Memorial service in West Molesey.
Please Note: No Sunday Coffee this week
Isabella De Paula (Thanksgiving)
Valerie Hepworth RIP
For the People of the Parish
Week Day Masses:
There will be No Mass
Monday 9.35am Philip Rutley RIP
2nd Collection Next Sunday:
on Tuesday morning
Tuesday
No Mass
Arundel Cathedral Maintenance Fund
Wednesday No Mass
only adoration from
Thursday 9.35am –
Jim Rutley RIP
10am-1.30pm
Friday 9.35am Janice Stein RIP
Confessions: Saturday 5.15 – 5.45pm in the Church or by appointment
Mass is also said Monday – Friday 8.am at the Kiltegan Fathers, 20 Beauchamp Road. KT8 0PA. Parishioners are welcome.
New Parishioners: Welcome to St Barnabas! Please register your details by filling in our Parish registration form at the back of
the Church, and return to Father John or the Parish office. Please come and say hello at our Sunday coffee morning after the
10am Mass in the hall, you will receive a warm welcome.
WEEKLY PARISH DIARY:
Sun 9th
Mon 10th
Tue 11th
Wed 12th
Thur 13th
Fri
14th
th
Sat 15
Sun 16th
ROTAS
2014
Ministers
Readers
Children’s
Liturgy
Church
Cleaners
Sunday
Coffee
Counters
Flowers
Dedication of the Lateran Basilica / Remembrance Sunday
First Holy Communion: 7.30pm, Old School Room – Parents onlyN
NO MASS ONLY Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament from 10am to
1.30pm
♪ Children’s Choir: 3.15-4pm at St Alban’s School (From Year 2- 6) ♪
Prayer Group in the House of Prayer – 7.30pm
Last Sunday’s collection
Offertory:
£503.28
Bank Direct:
£403.41
Total
£906.69
2nd Collection
£267.52
(Retired Priests Fund)
Attendance: 251
The Creed video course: 7.30pm – 9pm, Church hall
No Bible study
Youth Club (both groups): 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: 11am-Noon, Presbytery
THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY - YEAR A
Sat 8th Nov
6pm
Sunday 9th November
9.30am
6pm
M Villani
O Schild
I Lee
M Stannard
J Casha
R D’Alton
Y Foster
P Sturgis
B D’Alton
M Tidmarsh
E Firth
N Legg
G Searle
M Healy
J Laleatoe
Juniors – Deborah & Minette
Infants – Catherine
Mr & Mrs Jenice
Traidcraft – Deirdre Doe
Eileen Firth & Margaret Flanagan
Rosemary Methley
Please pray for the sick of the Parish:
Kathleen Harrison, Anthony Leonard,
Andy Haywood & Bobbettie McColl.
ROTAS
2014
Sat 15th Nov
6pm
Ministers
C Wilson
M Villani
L Pang
P Stannard
M Tidmarsh
Readers
Children’s
Liturgy
Church
Cleaners
Sunday
Coffee
Counters
Flowers
Sunday 16th November
10am
6pm
P Emmanuel
B Hogan
M Emmanuel
O Schild
H Healy
Juniors – Jean
Infants - Monica
Eileen F & Linda McD
B D’Alton
R D’Alton
I Lee
T Burrage
J Duggan
Flower Group – Rosemary Methley
Pepita & Graham Searle
Evelyn Thompson
The Arundel & Brighton Diocesan Trust is a registered Charity No 252878
How and where to worship God
In Old Testament times, God’s very presence was believed by the Jews to reside in the Ark of the Covenant. It was
constructed as God decreed during the Israelites journey through the desert of Sinai, and physically contained the
tablets of stones on which the ten commandments were inscribed by the finger of God. (Exodus 34:1). The Ark was
sometimes carried into battle by the Israelites and was once captured by the Philistines. It brought the Philistines
bad luck so they abandoned it, and King David later brought it back to Jerusalem and placed in a special tent.
Solomon (David’s son) then built the Temple about 960 BC and placed the Ark of the Covenant (and thus God’s
presence) in the Holy of Holies in the Temple.
The Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC, subsequent to which Ezekiel has the vision, described in
our first reading, of a Temple from which flowed enormous blessing. The prophetic description of this temple and
the water flowing from it is taken by Christians to be a description of the forthcoming Messiah and the blessings
prophesied to come through him
The Ark of the Covenant seems to have disappeared with the destruction of the Temple, but a newly constructed
Temple, about 515 BC, was still considered by the Jews to be the only place where God could be truly worshipped
and sacrifice be offered to Him.
In chapter 4 of John’s Gospel, the Samaritan woman comments to Jesus that the Samaritans worship God in their
temple in Samaria, but she knows that the Jews say that He must be worshipped in Jerusalem. But Jesus explains to
her that ‘the hour is coming’ when true worshippers will worship ‘in spirit and in truth’ - wherever they may be
(John 4: 19-24).
And so it is: True worshippers of God are able to worship Him through Jesus, wherever they may be. Yes Jesus
physically exists in the Eucharist in the Sacrifice of the Mass, and we receive Him in Holy Communion, but we have
to come into that relation with Jesus ‘in sprit and truth’ to really take advantage of his physical presence and gain
the benefits prophetically described by Ezekiel.
Father John
THANK YOU – for your generous support, raising £329.95 to ‘make a place at your table’ for the
CAFOD Harvest Fast Day collection three weeks ago. James Malcolm
Iraqi Christians In Need - Recital
Sunday 9th November at 6pm at Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Hampton Court Way, Thames Ditton KT7
0LP: A piano and organ recital (approximately 75 minutes long), including works by Bach, Chopin,
Debussy, Messiaen & Schubert, to raise funds for displaced Christian families in northern Iraq through the
provision of urgent medical aid and long-term housing. Recitalist is Carl Bahoshy, a British-born musician
of Iraqi Catholic heritage.
FIRST HOLY COMMUNION – Dates for the diary!
Monday 10th November, 7.30pm in the Old School room – First meeting for parents only
Sunday 16th November - Mass at 10am followed by the first class 11-12 in the Church
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 Traidcraft sale: Sunday 16th November after the 10am Mass in the Church hall
Deanery Care Mass – Sunday 30th November: 3pm at Christ Prince of Peace, Weybridge
MASS INTENTIONS - If you would like a Mass intention please fill out an envelope which is placed at the back of the
Church and put it through the Presbytery door, or bring it round to the Parish Office (opening hours) at the back of
the Presbytery. Please be aware when requesting a specific date to allow plenty of time, the diary is now fully
booked until 20th November.
New Members for Duke of Edinburgh:
Would anyone from Year 9 and above, like to join the Duke of Edinburgh? If you are interested please
contact Jean Casha on 07960 654 813 or email: [email protected].
The Arundel & Brighton Diocesan Trust is a registered Charity No 252878