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: scsp@portsmouthdiocese.org.uk

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:

scsp@portsmouthdiocese.org.uk

Mass Intentions Thank you to those who have popped Mass Intentions through the presby-tery door at this past week. It means a lot to be saying Mass for the intentions of Parishioners

during this time of isolation. If you wish to book a Mass Intention please do so in the usual way, shown below in red ink. Mass Intentions will be said as scheduled for each day So be assured

that ‘your’ intention will be offered.

St. Colman`s Church Opening : Sunday 21st June - 10am to 12 noon & 3pm to 6pm for Private Prayer: After hearing the Good news that we can safely open the churches for private Prayer; Last few weeks

and days I have been doing everything I can with the help of volunteers/stewards to prepare the churches to reopen. We need cleaners, volunteers /stewards to help us in daily and weekly basis. Next week is going to be great preparation to open the Church here at St.Colman`s Cosham for Private prayer. I have now decided that Church at St.Colman`s will be opened for Private Prayer on Sunday 21st at 10am to 12 noon and 3pm to 6pm. After assessing the situation—We will open more days in the days and weeks to come.

Saturday 13th /Sunday 14th June 2020

THE DIOCESAN PRAYER AND LISTENING SERVICE Prayer and listening to God is a vi-tal part of our everyday life, but sometimes it is difficult to pray when we are exhausted or in stressful situations or by ourselves. The diocese has created a team with experience in both praying with others and in spiritual listening, all of the volunteers are trained in this service and have been through the es-sential safeguarding training and other re-quirements.

They are offering a service where people fill in a short form on the diocese website re-questing a phone call of 10—15 minutes usually. Additionally, they are asking key workers if they would like to give them their name and work place and we will pray for them by name each day. Please go to the home page of the diocese website and un-der “Coronavirus” you can click on a box called “Prayer Support”. For more infor-mation, email Clare Simpson on csimp-son@portsmouthdiocese.org.uk or Website https://www.portsmouthdiocese.org.uk/prayersupport

St.Pauls Church , Paulsgrove—Preparing to reopen for Private Prayer soon : We need army of volunteers /stewards to open St.Paul`s church for Private Pray-er. Church will be cleaned on Saturday 20th from 10am onwards. If you would like to give an hour or so please turn up with your own cleaning products/gloves/masks to clean the church. If you would like to be stewards at St.Paul`s please write to me. We can talk about it.

Special radio transmission of mass for the Feast of Corpus Christi Cardinal Vincent Nichols celebrates Mass for the Feast of Corpus Christi live from Westminster Cathedral. The music for

the mass will be played from recordings from a BBC studio so listeners will be able to experience the music of the Mass in context.

The Gloria, Sanctus and Benedictus will be sung to a setting “Ave Regina Caelorum” by Victoria, recorded in 2004 by the Choir of

Westminster Cathedral. The communion an-them – Byrd’s Ave verum corpus – will again

be a recording from the choir’s extensive discography. The readings for the day are

Deuteronomy 8:2-3,14-16 and John 6:51-58. Live from 8:10am on Sunday, 14 June 2020

Radio 4 Sunday Worship

Mass-by-Phone Mass by phone from

Middlesbrough diocese allows you to listen to Mass by telephone. Mass is recorded every Sunday at St. Mary’s Cathedral and remains available all week. The number to call is an ordi-nary geographic ‘landline’ number, 01642 130120. Calls are charged at

normal rates and free if in your includ-ed minutes.

Mass Intentions - Corpus Christi 14.06.2020

Week beginning from Saturday 13th 2020 to Mon 22nd June

Saturday 13th June St.Anthony of Padua,

Private Intentions

Sunday 14th Corpus Christi Feast,Patrick

and Mary Mulhern , Josephine Casey R.I.P

Monday 15th June Alekutty Abraham

R.I.P

Tuesday 16th June, Rosina Ward and Christiana Murphy R.I.P

Wednesday 17th June , Private Intentions

Thursday 18th June, Dorathy & Frank O`Connell R.I.P

Friday 19th , Cathie Whitlock R.I.P

Saturday 20th June , Mass for the repose of the soul of Joy Isabel Sellers R.I.P

Sunday 21st June , People of the Parish

Daily Mass : Please join Bishop Philip in the mornings for Eucharis-tic Adoration, Morning Prayer and Mass in my private chapel in Bish-op’s House, Portsmouth. I am live-streaming the Liturgy over these days. The liturgies are simple and Bishop Philip (or Fr. Philip, Bishop’s Secretary) usually offer a short message, inspired by the daily Readings. At the Mass, you are in-vited to make a Spiritual Commun-

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

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, Vere-

na Wright, Chris Overy, Helen Townsend, John De Battisa, Chelsie Whibley, Joe and Pat Charl-

ton , James Maguire and John Cox.

OFFERTORY COLLECTION With the current situation regarding the Coronavirus there will be a

significant period of time when Mass is suspended publicly. However there are still significant

overheads across our Parish that need to be covered.

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 dona-

tion'. All cheques for the Parish should be addressed as: PRCDTR PORTSMOUTH St COLMAN.

Thank you and May Good Lord continue to support us.

Marriage Care Volunteers needed: Could it be you? ‘The harvest is rich but the labourers are

few’ Broken relationships are extremely painful and can affect the wider family and friends.

Marriage Care is a Catholic organisation providing marriage preparation and relationship coun-

selling support for couples across England and Wales. Our Portsmouth centre is looking for

someone with experience of team management to support our current Head of Centre working

with our local team in delivering vital relationship support services. If you want to be part of a

friendly team making a real difference in your community, please enquire. For more infor-

mation you can visit us at: www.marriagecare.org.uk or email volunteer@marriagecare.org.uk

Spiritual aspects as home

Create a ‘sacred space’ (crucifix, statue, bible etc) to focus prayer

Read all or some of the Sunday scripture readings (obtain ‘Magnificat’ booklet

OR access ‘Universalis’ on line at https://us.magnificat.net/free

Recite the Rosary

Access the Diocesan Website for ideas and for links to live Masses: https://

www.portsmouthdiocese.org.uk/

www.churchservices.tv/ From Catholic Bishops Website: https://

www.cbcew.org.uk/home/ourwork/health-social-care/coronavirusguidelines/

online-mass-directory

Bishop Philip writes...Here is the homily Bishop preached last Sun-

day, the Feast of the Most Blessed Trinity, at the 12 noon Mass in

the Cathedral. In summer 1901, a young French pianist aged 22 entered the Car-

melites in Dijon, against the advice of her mother and a man who sought to marry her.

She took the name in religion, Sr. Elizabeth of the Trinity, although she was only to live

four years before she died from Addison’s Disease. Like her contemporary St. Thérèse

of Lisieux, her life in the convent was not a bed of roses: she suffered much spiritual

darkness as well as light. Yet towards the end of her life, she began to call herself

Laudem gloriae ‘To the Praise of Glory.’ She’d been meditating on St. Paul’s Letter to

the Romans, that when a person is baptised, the Trinity comes to dwell within. Once

you realise this, she said - that the Blessed Trinity makes Its home in us, that wherever you go, God is within you - your life

is totally changed: nothing is ever the same again. She summed it up in a prayer, Lord, make me your heaven. When Pope

Francis canonised her in 2016, people spoke of her as one of the greatest mystics of the 20C.

God sent His Son into the world not to condemn the world but so that through Him the world might be saved. Today Trini-

ty Sunday we celebrate the existence of God, not just the sheer fact that He exists, but more: His Life, His Glory, Beauty

and Goodness, His inner Relation as Three Persons in loving self-giving, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. We say in

the Creed: He is the maker of all things visible and invisible. In other words, He is the Ground, the Reason, the absolute

Answer to why the world, life, you and me, exist. But more, He is so totally transcendent, He’s utterly immanent. He’s not

way-out-there in a galaxy light years away but right in-here, in you and me, holding us in Being. And because He ‘is’ Per-

sonal, He loves us. He reaches out to us. He wants to get within us, to know us, to admire our individuality and to draw

and woo us into Himself, into His own loving communion of eternal life, happiness and joy. Trinity Sunday, then, is when

we celebrate the greatest and deepest mystery of all: God Himself – He Who loves us as a Father, as a Saviour, and as an

Animator. As many priests will tell you, it’s not easy to preach today: there’s so much to say! A story that encapsulates this

for me is the one about St. Augustine sitting on a beach pondering the mystery of the Trinity. He suddenly noticed a small

boy digging a hole in the sand and then with a seashell running to and from the sea pouring water into the hole. What are

you doing? he asked. I’m trying to empty the ocean into this hole replied the boy. But that’s impossible! - I know he said

but I’ll be able to do that before you can get the mystery of the Blessed Trinity into your head. (That child was obviously at

curriculum-key-stage 50!)

There IS much to say. Yet as Catholics living within today’s secular culture we need to reassure people especially Millenni-

als and Generation Z, that God exists, that life has a meaning, that God is Personal. For God wants to enter into relation-

ship with us, as a Father Who gives us purpose, as a Friend and Saviour Who gives us freedom, as a Lover Who guides us

along the right way. As Catholics, it’s our mission to help people enter into Divine relationship: to adore the Father, to fol-

low the Son, to be filled with the Spirit. This is why the Divine indwelling St. Elizabeth of the Trinity speaks of is central. So

in this Mass, let’s ask her prayers. Let’s ask our patron saints to pray for us. And let’s ask too the help of the Blessed Virgin

Mary, Daughter of the Father, Mother of the Son and Temple of the Spirit. In this Mass, ad Laudem Gloriae, let us praise

the glory of the Triune God, praying: Lord, make me Your heaven.