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SAINT HELEN’S PARISH
22nd SUNDAY of the YEAR THE YEAR OF THE WORD –
THE GOD WHO SPEAKS 30th August 2020
FOR YOUR LOVE IS BETTER THAN LIFE
THE WORD THIS WEEK Hero to Zero: Saint Peter, who got it so
right last Sunday, gets it all wrong today: ‘This must not
happen to you!’ Perhaps we all want to protect Jesus, keep him
safe, different from us. But Jesus tells
us we are no different – we also have to take up our cross, lose
‘our’ life to be able to find it in him,
and share his glory. A strange seduction, that puts an ache for
God deep in our bones, offering our
‘living body as a holy sacrifice’. The only way to discover
‘what is the perfect thing to do’.
SUNDAY MASS: (Psalter: Week 2)
Gathering Antiphon (6.30pm): Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I cry
to you all the day long. O Lord, you are good and forgiving,
full of mercy to all who call to you.
Jeremiah 20: 7 – 9. The word of the Lord has meant insult for
me.
Response: Psalm 62. R/. For you my soul is thirsting, O Lord my
God.
Romans 12: 1 – 2. Offer your bodies as a living sacrifice.
Acclamation for the Gospel:
Alleluia, Alleluia! May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
enlighten the eyes of our mind, so that we can see what hope his
call holds for us. Alleluia!
Matthew 16: 21 – 27. If anyone wants to be a follower of
mine,
let him renounce himself.
Preface: of Sundays ii. Eucharistic prayer: III.
Communion Antiphon (6.30pm): How great is the goodness,
Lord,
that you keep for those who fear you.
O Crux Ave, Spes Unica! Hail, Holy Cross, Our Only Hope!
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MASS AND SERVICES DURING THE WEEK: Sat 29th August
6.30pm
22nd SUNDAY of the YEAR for our Schools
Sun 30th Aug 10.30am for the People of the Parish
(Live-streamed)
Mon 31st Aug 10.00am Barbara Jones (SVP)
Tues 1st Sept
10.00am
World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation
Honora Kathleen Coyne (JM) (Public Mass)
Wed 2nd Sept 2.00pm 3.00 – 4.00pm
Requiem for Anna Stella Curtis
Exposition and Adoration
Thurs 3rd Sept 10.00am Saint Gregory the Great, Pope + Doctor of
the Church
Giovanni + Faustina Fecci (G+RF)
Fri 4th Sept 10.00am Private Intention (TT) (Public Mass)
Sat 5th Sept
6.30pm
23rd SUNDAY of the YEAR for the People of the Parish
Sun 6th Sept 10.30am for Our New Communicants
(Live-streamed)
THE SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION: At any time by prior
arrangement with the priest (outside).
AND NOW THE OTHERS: Next Sunday morning 12 more of our
children will come with their families to SHARE IN THE BREAD
OF
LIFE for a first time. We are filled with joy for them and their
families, and keep them in our prayers, along with the first 6
children who joined in
Communion last Sunday.
WELL PREPARED! We thank and congratulate the children’s Parents
and their Catechists for all their work of preparation, education,
and growth in faith
for these children. But with present restrictions, how will we
manage this parish effort and work of
Faith-Sharing for the future, for our Children preparing for
sacraments, for Couples preparing for
Marriage, for Parents preparing to Baptise and bring up their
children? Who can do it? Who will do
it? In a couple of weeks we will gather to look at SHARING FAITH
IN THE PARISH and
meanwhile Father will be talking to one or two with an
invitation.
So where is everybody? How are they getting on? What are they
doing?
DON’T FORGET THE ZOOM COFFEE MORNING straight after Sunday Mass,
a chance to meet up and catch up before school starts again. Easy
entry, via the parish facebook page. See you there.
THE BOOK CLUB ‘meets’ on Tuesday evening, all welcome! This
month we read ‘The Alchemist’: A fascinating book, but short, so
there is still time to read it before Tuesday night. To join the
discussion, register via the Parish facebook page.
The PARISH PRAYER LIST Among all those we pray for in this time,
we continue to remember all suffering from the virus and its
effects, all the medics, health-workers, and other front line
workers, and also each other coping with the gradual easing. We
remember also: Teresa Meade Rosa Channon Graham Jenkins Sandra Bray
Lloyd Jones Cecelia Mawby David Mabey Isobel Cummins Pauline
Richards Margaret Jones Carol Morrissey Claris Howell Anne Morgan
Pat Starynski Yvonne Grandon Martyn Western Marjorie Gurney Carmen
Agius Lowela Teves Joe Marenghi Pamela and Keith Griffiths Pat +
Pino Emanuelli Mary & Wilson Brown John Maguire Katrin Merry
Sian Thomas Maura Coll Mary Everson
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Of Your Mercy please pray also for the Repose of the Soul of
Barbara Jones of Saint David’s Way, a committed member and involved
member of this Parish. who died last Monday. We offer our
commiserations to Bill and Martin.
THE YEAR OF THE WORD – THE GOD WHO SPEAKS
“The words of the Gospels echo through the centuries precisely
because they speak afresh in every generation. Ever ancient, ever
new, this story of transformation invites us to be transformed and
gradually conformed to the likeness of the one who was the gift to
others. Not dead words on a page, but a living message addressed to
each of us personally.
(The Rt Revd. Peter M Brignall Bishop of Wrexham)
SAINT HELEN’S VIRTUAL COMMUNITY CENTRE – THIS WEEK:
Date Time Event
Tues 1st September 7.00pm Book Club: Via Saint Helen’s
Facebook
Thurs 3rd September 7.30pm Scripture Study: Via Saint Helen’s
Facebook
Sun 6th September 10.30am
11.30am
SUNDAY MASS: Via Saint Helen’s Website or Facebook
‘Coffee Morning’: Via Saint Helen’s Facebook
PRAYER CYCLE FOR OUR DIOCESE: We pray for the Parishioners of
Saints Julian, Aaron, and David, Caerleon, part of the All Saints
Pastoral Area, led by Revd. Michael Doyle.
THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH Part One: THE PROFESSION OF
FAITH. Section One: ‘I Believe’ – ‘We Believe’
Article 3: SACRED SCRIPTURE In Brief: (134) "All Sacred
Scripture is but one book, and that one book is Christ, because all
divine
Scripture speaks of Christ, and all divine Scripture is
fulfilled in Christ" (Hugh of St. Victor, De
arca Noe 2, 8: PL 176, 642).
(Catechism of the Catholic Church 1992)
Parish Directory Priest: Revd. John Kelly 20883192 Chair of
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494110
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Saint Helen is a Parish of the Archdiocese of Cardiff, a
Registered Charity.
“Taking up your cross means living in a faith that believes that
nothing is impossible to God, accepting that God is greater than
our human imagination. Indeed whenever we succumb to the notion
that God cannot offer us a way out of our pain into some kind of
newness, it is precisely we have reduced god down to the size of
our own limited imagination.”
The Passion and the Cross: Ronald Rolheiser
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The God Who Speaks Spirit In The Sky ~ Norman GreenBaum ~ 1969.
This catchy
one-hit-wonder influenced by traditional southern blues
and folk revival music. Norman set out to write a religious
rock song and although Jewish chose to reference Jesus as
it would be more marketable in the US.
https://www.godwhospeaks.uk/the-god-who-speaks/word-
at-home/our-top-tens/our-top-ten-pop-culture/
‘TAKE UP YUR CROSS’
THE GRIEVERS
from Saint Helen’s Church
Late have I loved you, O Beauty so old and so new: late have I
loved you! And look! You were within me, and I was outside myself:
and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I
plunged into the lovely things which you created: you were with me,
but I was not with you. Those created things kept me far away from
you: yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at
all. You called and shouted: and broke through my deafness. You
flamed and shone: and banished my blindness. You breathed your
fragrance on me: and I drew in my breath and I pant for you. I have
tasted you: and now I hunger and thirst for more. You have touched
me: and I have burned for your peace.
Saint Augustine – Confessions 10: 27 (38)
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