Last Sunday’s Collection. Loose: £190. Envelopes: £614.30. Christ-

mas envelopes: £110. Christmas loose: £20. Catholic Children’s So-

ciety: £196.98. Thanks for your constant support.

First Reading Isaiah 55:1-11. Psalm Isaiah 12 – With joy you will draw

water from the wells of salvation. Second Reading 1 John 5: 1-9. Gospel

Mark 1:7-11.

MASS INTENTIONS Monday John Leamy RIP Tuesday (MASS WITH-

OUT A CONGREGATION) Brian Hunt RIP Wednesday Esther Lane INT

Thursday No Mass Friday John Gibbon INT Saturday 6:30pm Richard

Evans RIP 9:00am Eileen O'Brien RIP 11:00am Lina Thomas RIP

We pray for the sick:

Shirley Cunningham, Eileen Sutton, Joe McArdle, Margaret Wright, Michael Quigley, Terry Kennedy, Annamaria and Jason Coutinho,

Roseanna Lawler, Katherine Lewis, James Commons, Michele Peiris, Karen Higgins, Michelle Moran, Joanne Brooks, Patrick Arthur,

Carmel Baker, Don Bernard Kathriaratchi, Clare Lonergan, and those suffering from COVID 19,

the recently deceased and their loved ones: James Commons, Janine Moulton, Christine Wilton,

Angela Juty and Anne Keogh, and the faithful departed whose anniversaries

occur at about this time: Brain Hunter.

Holy Father’s Prayer Intention for January. Human fraternity. May the Lord give us the grace to live in full fellowship with our brothers and sisters of other religions, praying for one another, open to all.

MASS TIMES. Saturday Vigil (1st Mass of Sunday) 6.30pm. Sunday Mass 9.00am and 11.00am. Weekday Mass Monday, Tuesday (WITHOUT A CONGREGATION), Wednesday and Friday 9.15am. No Mass on Thursday. Confessions Cancelled until further notice.

Roman Catholic Church of All Saints

Presbytery: 2 A Salehurst Close,

Kenton, HA3 OUG

Telephone:020 8204 3550

kenton@rcdow.org.uk

http://parish.rcdow.org.uk/kenton/

Parish Priest: Father Hector Rouco

Catechetical Co-Ordinator: Pat Edwards

THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD

10th January 2021

The Necessity of Baptism

1257. The Lord himself affirms that Baptism is necessary for salvation. He also commands his disciples to proclaim the Gospel to all nations and to baptize them. Baptism is necessary for salvation for those to whom the Gospel has been proclaimed and who have had the possibility of asking for this sacrament. The Church does not know of any means other than Baptism that assures entry into eternal beatitude; this is why she takes care not to neglect the mission she has received from the Lord to see that all who can be baptized are "reborn of water and the Spirit." God has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism, but he himself is not bound by his sacraments.

1258. The Church has always held the firm conviction that those who suffer death for the sake of the faith without having received Baptism are baptized by their death for and with Christ. This Baptism of blood, like the desire for Bap-tism, brings about the fruits of Baptism without being a sacrament.

1259. For catechumens who die before their Baptism, their explicit desire to receive it, together with repentance for their sins, and charity, assures them the salvation that they were not able to receive through the sacrament.

1260. "Since Christ died for all, and since all men are in fact called to one and the same destiny, which is divine, we must hold that the Holy Spirit offers to all the possibility of being made partakers, in a way known to God, of the Paschal mystery. "Every man who is ignorant of the Gospel of Christ and of his Church, but seeks the truth and does the will of God in accordance with his understand-ing of it, can be saved. It may be supposed that such persons would have de-sired Baptism explicitly if they had known its necessity. Taken from the Catechism of the Catholic Church

Please do not enter our building if: • You have a temperature above 37.7°C; • If you have a new or continuous cough; • If you experience difficulties with breathing; • If you have a loss or change to your sense of taste or smell. • If you have been in contact with someone known to have or suspected to have COVID-19 KEEP IT CLEAN. KEEP SAFE. STAY WELL.

Second Collection. Last week we raised a total £196.98 for the Catholic Children’s Society. Thank you for your support. You can find information about the mission of the Catholic Children's Society on their website: https://www.cathchild.org.uk/ The collection will remain open until next weekend.

Certificates of Catholic Practice for Reception 2021. LAST WEEK.

The signing will take place in the Parish Room (entrance by the church car-

park). You can book a 10-minute slot using the ticketing system on the parish

website Events section. The section will be updated on Sunday evening for a

week at a time. Please ensure you bring your child’s baptismal certificate with

you. I will have copies of the Certificate of Catholic Practice for completion.

Once completed, I will forward the Certificates of Catholic Practice to the rele-

vant schools. Fr Hector.

Confirmation 2020. Sadly the Confirmation ceremonies for candidates who began their preparation in November 2019, and were due to be confirmed in April 2020, were unable to take place. Following several attempts at arrang-ing dates between periods of lockdown, we are now hoping that the Sacra-ment for these young people can take place after the present lockdown. All parents will be notified as soon.as possible when it is safe to proceed. Our apologies to the young people who have had such a long wait for the Sacra-ment to take place. Mrs Pat Edwards.

Sacramental Preparation 2021. None of our Sacramental preparation pro-grammes for 2021 have been put in place due to restrictions imposed by the Government and Diocese with regard to churches and Tier 4 limitations. As soon as we are able to do so, we will advertise the details for enrolling for each programme through the parish newsletter and website. The Sacraments will therefore probably take place later in the year than usual, depending on when they can begin. We are sorry about the delay in starting the programmes. Mrs Pat Edwards.

The Department of Health is holding a public consultation on whether to con-tinue the practice of allowing abortion providers to send abortion pills to wom-en so that they can perform their own abortion at home. We need as many people as possible to complete the Department of Health’s questionnaire to help stop dangerous DIY abortions becoming permanent. SPUC has prepared a briefing which gives a guide to completing the consultation questionnaire. Please go to https://www.spuc.org.uk/Get-Involved/Campaigns/England-DIY-Abortion-Consultation The consultation ends on 26 February 2021.

St Bernadette’s School Food Bank. I would like to thank-you all for your generous donations to our Food Bank within our school. We are well stocked with non-perishable/dry foods that are used by our families. I would like to ex-tend the offer of access to any parishioner who is in need of it at the moment. You are welcome to use our Food Bank during our opening hours 8.30am--4pm. Just come to our school gate, ring the bell and one of the staff will take you around the outside of the building to the Food Bank in the back play-ground. It would help if you could bring your own shopping bags with you. Mr David O’Farrell, the Head Teacher.

From the Encyclical Letter Fratelli Tutti A story constantly retold 69. The parable is clear and straightforward, yet it also evokes the interior struggle that each of us experiences as we gradually come to know ourselves through our relationships with our brothers and sisters. Sooner or later, we will all encounter a person who is suffering. Today there are more and more of them. The decision to include or exclude those lying wounded along the road-side can serve as a criterion for judging every economic, political, social and religious project. Each day we have to decide whether to be Good Samaritans or indifferent bystanders. And if we extend our gaze to the history of our own lives and that of the entire world, all of us are, or have been, like each of the characters in the parable. All of us have in ourselves something of the wound-ed man, something of the robber, something of the passers-by, and some-thing of the Good Samaritan. 70. It is remarkable how the various characters in the story change, once con-fronted by the painful sight of the poor man on the roadside. The distinctions between Judean and Samaritan, priest and merchant, fade into insignificance. Now there are only two kinds of people: those who care for someone who is hurting and those who pass by; those who bend down to help and those who look the other way and hurry off. Here, all our distinctions, labels and masks fall away: it is the moment of truth. Will we bend down to touch and heal the wounds of others? Will we bend down and help another to get up? This is to-day’s challenge, and we should not be afraid to face it. In moments of crisis, decisions become urgent. It could be said that, here and now, anyone who is neither a robber nor a passer-by is either injured himself or bearing an injured person on his shoulders. 71. The story of the Good Samaritan is constantly being repeated. We can see this clearly as social and political inertia is turning many parts of our world into a desolate byway, even as domestic and international disputes and the robbing of opportunities are leaving great numbers of the marginalized strand-ed on the roadside. In his parable, Jesus does not offer alternatives; he does not ask what might have happened had the injured man or the one who helped him yielded to anger or a thirst for revenge. Jesus trusts in the best of the human spirit; with this parable, he encourages us to persevere in love, to restore dignity to the suffering and to build a society worthy of the name.

The Encyclical Letter can be found on the Vatican website: http://www.vatican.va/content/