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St. Colman`s with St. Paul`s Parish— Cosham & Paulsgrove
( Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth- Reg Charity No : 246871 )
The Presbytery, St. Colman`s Avenue, Portsmouth PO6 2JJ. Tel: 023 9237 6151, E-mail: [email protected]
Fr.Innaiah Maddineni, Parish Priest, St.Paul`s Catholic School, Bourne Rd, Portsmouth PO6 4JD , Tel: 023 9237 5488
Don’t forget you can sign up to receiving the week-ly newsletter electronically by dropping an e-mail:
An Act of Contrition : My God, I am sorry for my sins with all my heart. In choos-ing to do wrong and failing to do good, I have sinned against you whom I should love above all things. I firmly intend, with your help, to do penance, to sin no more, and to avoid whatever leads me to sin. Our Saviour Jesus Christ suffered and died for us. In his name, my God, have mercy.
PRAYERS FOR THE SICK : Please pray for the sick in our parish here at
St.Colman`s with St.Paul`s- Theresa Kelleher, Frances O’Donnell, Judy Dibley,
Angela Day, , Nora Bryant, Verena Wright, Chris Overy, Helen Townsend, John De
Battisa, Chelsie Whibley, Joe and Pat Charlton , James Maguire and John Cox.
Job Opportunity – Oaklands School The Governors
are seeking to appoint an Assistant School Business Man-
ager to join our hardworking, committed and enthusiastic
team and to assist the Director of Business and Finance in
the smooth running of the support functions of the Acade-
my. This will be a key position within the School, which will
bring the opportunity of further development into the full
spectrum of School Business Management responsibilities.
We are excited to offer this new position. The Governors
are looking for someone who either already has Finance,
Administration and Facilities management experience or who has experience and al-
ready have a Level 3 qualification in Finance or Facilities management and is looking
to obtain qualifications and build experience in the other areas of School Business
Management. The school is happy to provide the required training and development
opportunity for the right candidate leading towards completion of a Level 4 or 5 qualifi-
cation in School Business Management. This will be dependent on previous experience
and the level of qualifications already held. Closing Date: Friday 17th July 2020 at
12pm Proposed Interviews: week commencing 20th July 2020 For more information or
to apply please visit our website: https://www.oaklandscatholicschool.org/staff/
vacancies/
Bible study group at the South down`s Awakening : The leaders of the South
Down`s awakening had a vision to gather churches in prayer, to walk the south Downs
Way in unity, to see revival in every church and an awakening across the land. The
original plan was for all churches to come together over a week and walk the land. With
Covid-19 this is now not possible. However they are still individuals and families to walk
the South Downs and pray at the same time. More details. Htttps://
southdownsawakening.com
Church is Open for Private Prayer : St.Colman`s Private Prayer Mon to Fri 10am
to 6pm and St.Paul`s Every Friday 2pm to 4pm.
Church is Open at St.Colman`s and St.Paul`s for Mass. Please have a glance at
the Mass times..
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 12.07.2020
Saturday 11th Mass at 6pm St.Colman`s ,For the Parish & Aleykutty Abraham R.I.P
Sunday 12th Mass at St.Colman`s at 9.15am,Mary Sheehan R.I.P
Sunday 12th Mass at St.Paul`s at 11am, Mick and Tom Connolly R.I.P(Late Parents of Fiona Dreelan)
Sunday 12th Mass at St.Colman`s 6pm,Jim Maguire-Good Health
Monday 13th Mass at St.Colman`s ,9.15am Anne & Tom Renshaw R.I.P
Tuesday 14th ,Mass at St.Colman`s at 9.15am, Intentions of Sue Woodgate
Wednesday 15th at St.Colman`s—Private Mass, Greg Wain,Thanksgiving
Thursday 16th ,Mass at St.Colman`s at 9.15am,Mary Sheehan
Friday 17th Mass at St.Colman`s Private Mass, Elizabeth Vera Langston R.I.P
Saturday 18th Mass at St.Colman`s 9.15am , Thanksgiving to our Blessed Lady
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 19.07.2020
Saturday 18th 6.00pm, Mary Veronica Germain R.I.P,
Sunday 19th Mass at St.Colman`s at 9.15am, Mary Sheehan, R.I.P,Hope Whittaker, Birthday
Sunday 19th Mass at St.Paul`s at 11am,Sister Kathleen Hogg ,on her 50th Anniversary of Religious Life and
70th Birthday—Thanksgiving & Intentions
Sunday 19th Mass at St.Colman`s at 6.00am, Ian McGraham—Good Health
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A REMINDER ABOUT ATTENDANCE AT MASS
There is no Sunday obligation - You can attend Mass in church any day
Masses using Sunday liturgy will be celebrated
No booking is required, at present, to attend any day
At all Masses the two-metre rule will be in force - Hygiene and sanitising protocols are as usual.
Please follow the directions of the stewards Masses will be at morning at 9.15am and Evening at 6pm to
accommodate a range of availability. Do not attend Mass if you are shielding, vulnerable, feeling unwell or
displaying any flu-like symptoms . Than you for your support.
PRAYERS FOR THE SICK Please pray for the sick in our parish -
Theresa Kelleher, Frances O’Donnell, Judy Dibley, Angela Day, Rosemary Fitzgerald, Nora Bryant, Verena Wright, Chris Overy, Helen Townsend, John De Battisa, Chelsie
Whibley, Joe Charlton & James Maguire Jo-seph Maguire and John Cox.
Parish News Letter : Parish News Letter is available on website, email ONLY.
On Sundays and during the week , when you are around you may collect
your copy from the Presbytery if you need one.
OFFERTORY COLLECTION : There will be no offertory collection at the Private
Prayer/Masses until all restrictions are lifted. A collection box is provided
for your donations next to the altar and exist. To donate directly into the
Parish Account– details below: You can make a payment online (or in
branch) to PRCDTR PORTSMOUTH St COLMAN, Sort code 309304, Account
number 00884554. It is important that you add a reference eg 'offertory
donation'. All cheques for the Parish should be addressed as: PRCDTR
PORTSMOUTH St COLMAN. Thank you
and May Good Lord continue to sup-
port us.
Going into Hospital? If you or one of your
family is going into hospital please ensure
that the Catholic Chaplaincy at the hospital is informed so that the inpatient can
receive appropriate care. At the moment, access to patients in hospital is restrict-
ed and the chaplain may be the only person outside the strictly medical staff who
can be in contact and who can supply the consolation of sacramental and pastoral
care to relieve busy ward staff. Your relative will then receive regular visits from
Fr Daniel, Fr Rob or Fr Phil during their stay. You can also keep in touch with the
occasional phone call to the ward but please be conscious of the workload of staff
at this hectic period for front line health personnel. To contact the chaplain’s
office call 02392 286408 (or through the main switchboard 02392 286000). You
can also email at [email protected]
Catholic Grandparents Association On 26th July we usually
celebrate the Feast of St Anne & St Joachim . We invite
grandchildren and grandparents, to send us a picture, prayer,
or some message about their grandparents/grandchildren
for us to make into display. Please send contributions to
7th July 2020— Bishop Philip writes...
Last Sunday (5th July 2020) at 2 pm in the Cathedral, keeping within the various health and safety proto-cols, I ordained Rev. Matthew King to the priesthood and Anthony Fyk as a deacon. At the same time, Ambrose Chou and Edward Hauschild were instituted to the ministry of lector and acolyte respectively. Later, during Evening Prayer, Paul Nwune and James Lewis were accepted as candidates and three new students, Tom Hiney, Francis Ezeani and Yipeng John Ni, received a special blessing as they begin their
formation. Here is the homily I preached at the Mass: I will praise your name for ever, O God my King. This day, as the Psalm acclaims, is a day of great joy, as
the Lord bestows upon our Diocese a new priest, Fr. Matthew King. We’re sorry your parents cannot be here but it’s great to have with us your brother Nathan. It’s also a great joy that today the Lord grants us a new deacon, Anthony Fyk. I know your parents and brother are watching over the internet and we send them our greetings. Both of you come from afar, South Africa and Canada, but now you have a home as members of our Diocesan family. For both of you it’s been a long and winding journey, but now what God planned from all eternity comes to fruition. We must also congratulate today Ambrose Chou on becoming a Lector and Edward Hauschild on becoming an Acolyte. Later at Vespers we will pray for our two candi-
dates, James Lewis and Paul Nwune and we’ll ask God’s blessing upon our new students Tom Hiney, Fran-cis Ezeani and Yipeng John Ni.
Bear with me, for today’s Gospel is crucial: I bless you Father, Lord of heaven and earth! Here Jesus lets us see into his Sacred Heart, into His inner joy, into the relationships within the Blessed Trinity. Tenderly He adds: Come to me all you who labour and are overburdened, inviting us to find in Him an answer to all our needs. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me for I am gentle and humble of heart. Jesus is our model: if we follow Him, we’ll find the way to TGLHH&F. Sometimes people present Christianity as a moral code of do’s and don’ts: Old Testament religion. Yet what’s core, unlike any other world religion, is a personal friendship with Jesus Christ and the love, joy and energy that comes from Him. It’s from spirituality that morality and doctrine derive. This is why in a moment Anthony and then Matthew will make a dramatic and moving gesture: they will lie prostrate on the floor before the altar. Yes, a gesture of prayer. Yes, a
gesture of service. But more, it’s a gesture expressing total self-offering and consecration to the Person of Jesus Christ. They are giving their lives away. They are giving their lives to God. They are giving their
lives to Him in order to receive their lives back from Him transformed and enhanced. To our 21C, today’s liturgies of ordination and institution, of candidacy and entrustment, speak a thrilling truth. They proclaim that God does exist, that He is a loving Father actively caring for us, that His Son is One for Whom a man will give up everything, even his life, to follow Him, and that the Holy Spirit is all-
powerful, able even now to give a man a vocation and the grace to respond to it. What’s more, these ordi-nations demonstrate that the Catholic Church, despite it all, despite the opposition, despite 2000 years of
its own turbulent history, not only survives: it’s thriving. It’s wonderful to belong to the Church Christ founded, and to serve it. In our secular culture, there are now vast numbers of people spiritually adrift,
with no faith, no religion, no God. There are vast numbers of people in need, poor, unhappy, without hope There are also vast numbers of Catholics who do not practice, who do not know Jesus, who carry on with-out the Sacraments and a community to belong to. This is why the Church is calling us to the work of mis-
sion, outreach and evangelisation, and why we thank God today for enriching our Diocese with new re-sources. Let us pray that these new ministers will be passionate evangelisers, humble and holy, orthodox,
creative and courageous, so that the Gospel of Christ will reach every single person living in our place.
Anthony and Matthew, in a few moments you will receive the Sacrament of Holy Order. By this Sacra-ment, you’ll be set apart within the Christian community, respectively as a deacon and as a priest. Onto-logically configured to Jesus Christ, you will share in His three-fold mission as Priest, Teacher and Shep-herd. Make no mistake: this is going to cost you **everything.** This is why before anything else I urge you: be men of prayer. Offer the Mass every day; be faithful to the Liturgy of the Hours; say the Rosary; go regularly to Confession. Study the lives of the saints and the Church’s teaching, and keep up to date. Do your duties completely for Christ, for that’s the spirituality of the diocesan priest: to do well what we have to do; the reward is in the doing. Love people; love even the arkward ones, the sourpusses, the
moaning minnies, although don’t neglect the 99 sheep for the demands of one. And be resilient; don’t set your comfort-zone too high; put others before yourself and besides an SD have a mentor or supervisor to monitor and advise you. This is why you’ll need to spend an hour every day with Jesus in the Blessed Sac-rament, to draw from Him the strength you need. In this way, those words of Jesus in today’s Gospel will
become real for you: Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light. May God Who has begun the good work in you bring it to fulfilment. Today, that prayer of the Liturgy is our prayer for all of you: for Tom, Francis and John as they begin their formation, for Paul and James as
they become candidates, for Ambrose and Edward as they receive the lay ministries, and for Anthony and Matthew as they are ordained. Ordination is the end of a journey. Yet it’s really the start of a great adven-
ture. God will never let you down. He will lead you on. He will confirm that you’ve chosen the best, the greatest, the most fulfilling way of life a man could ever choose. So in this Mass today, let us call on She Who is our Mother for Her support. Let’s invoke St. John Vianney, the good Curé. Let’s ask the prayers of our diocesan patrons St. Edmund and Blessed Pier Giorgio and all our own friends in heaven that the Lord will bless us all with His love. May the Lord fill us with happiness today. May He grant us many more vo-cations to the sacred priesthood. May He reward those in our Diocese who work so hard to promote and foster vocations: I’m thinking especially of Canon Gerard and Fr. John. May you persevere in your voca-
tion. And may you one day be found worthy to hear the Lord Jesus say to you: Well done, good and faith-ful servant; come and enter the happiness of your Lord.
