Dear Friends,

2018 PARISH YEAR OF RENEWAL

Even if the first few weeks of Lent didn’t begin well for you; even if we fell at the first hurdle, or just didn’t get off to a good start, we can begin again for these remaining weeks of Lent, especially if we go to Confession, asking God to wipe away all our sins, and give us a fresh start.

Many people are taking up the call and opportunity to do things together this Lent - coming to an extra weekday Mass, Confession, Eucharistic Adoration, Lent Study Group, Stations of the Cross. In such simple ways we encourage one another, and build up our parish community in worship of God.

This monthly Newsletter, and the weekly Sunday Bulletin, have plenty of ideas for our communal renewal during this initial Year of Parish Renewal. Our generosity to our two Lenten Charity Projects (page 3) demonstrate real solidarity with the poor and most vulnerable, as does time given to pray and witness during these 40 Days for Life at one of Bournemouth’s five abortion centres.

24 HOURS FOR THE LORD is an initiative of Pope Francis over the two days before Mothering Sunday (this year Friday 9th - Saturday 10th March), when the Holy Father urges every Catholic to give some short time in their Parish Church to adore Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar and receive His forgiveness in the Confessional. Don’t miss this mid-Lent opportunity.

HOLY WEEK and EASTER are at the end of this month. These days of the Sacred Triduum have never been ‘days of obligation’ because the Church expects that everyone will want to be here. No one should be missing from Maundy Thursday’s Mass of the Lord’s Supper (8pm on Thursday 29th March); nor dare we think of deserting Jesus on Good Friday at the hour of His saving Death (the 3pm Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion on Friday 30th March). Unless we have first participated in these preliminary days, we cannot really celebrate the Resurrection at Easter.

We wish you renewal in holiness during the remainder of Lent, all the blessings of Holy Week, and the great joy of Christ’s Risen Life at Easter.

Father Dominic & Father Peter __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

ORATORY Fr Dominic Jacob Oratory Moderator & University Chaplain Fr Peter Edwards Parish PriestCLERGY: Brother Andrew Wagstaff, Brother Francisco Hintikka

The Oratory House / Parish Office: 1 Albert Road, Richmond Hill, Bournemouth BH1 1BZParish & Chaplaincy Office open: Monday - Friday, 9am - 12 noon. Telephone: 01202 411140

Website: www.bournemouthoratory.org.ukParish Deacon: The Rev’d Roger Carr-Jones rcarrjones@portsmouthdiocese.org.uk Telephone: 01202 428451Administrator: Sharon Head, Contact as above. Youth Ambassador: Adam Bussell: oratoryyouth@mail.comEmail: sacredheart@portsmouthdiocese.org.uk www.facebook.com/SacredHeartChurchBournemouth

THE BOURNEMOUTH ORATORY in FormationSacred Heart, Bournemouth & University Catholic Chaplaincyserved by the Fathers and Brothers of the Oratorian Community of Saint Philip Neri

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Monthly Newsletter ~ MARCH 2018_________________________________________________________

MONTHLY PRAYER PAGE for MARCH 2018

SICK AND HOUSEBOUND: Sheila Brook, Brian Coburn, Roy (Christopher) Coombs, Liliana Couch, Theresa Fitt, Bronislawa Konstantin, Elfin Leahy, Tony McCarthy, Mary Moret, Arlene Nicol, Laurens Obagi, Pat Pope, Alf Skee, Rose Smith, Attracta Spears, Michael Sullivan, John & Hilary Timson, Mary Urwin, Marjorie Walsh and Alan Wright.

We pray for sick and housebound parishioners during Wednesday Eucharistic Adoration. Holy Communion is taken to them weekly by our Extraordinary Ministers. The Fathers visit all the Housebound during Advent and Lent, and at need, for the Sacraments of Confession and Anointing. Please tell the Parish Office of anyone who needs visiting by a priest.

GOING INTO HOSPITAL: If you, a family member, or Catholic friend, are going into hospital, it is important to ensure that the Catholic Chaplain knows you’re there, that your religion is recorded as ‘Catholic’ on your admission papers, and that you ask to be visited by the Catholic Chaplain.

Please also let the Parish Office know that you’re in hospital, so that we can pray for you, and that your own Priests can visit for pastoral care. Political correctness now prevents this, unless we know your ward, date of birth, or address. If you’re not yet registered on the Parish Census, it’s important to do this too. Green census cards are at the back of the church.

MARCH ANNIVERSARIES OF DEATH: 1st Gracie Rachel Cain, Elvira De Jesus Marino, 3rd Tom Howarth, Major Anthony Harry Simpson, Fr David Peter Hutton, Cong. Orat., 4th Ernest Smith, 5th Josephine MacWilkinson, 6th Winifred May Meaning, 8th Carlos do Rosario Pita da Silva, 10th Guido Joseph Lucantoni, 11th Timothy Francis Moran, Sunya Patricia Pegrum, 12th John Duffy Murray, William Anthony Byrne, 13th Mary Phillips, Robert Francis Messer, Gladys Edith Burrell, Laurence Agini, Catherine Ann Page, 15th Nora Dudman, 16th Pierina Poceschi, 18th Helena O’Sullivan, John Donald Arney Croker, 19th David John Chapman, Dorothy Richards, Dorothy Lalor, 20th David Arnold Wright, 21st Josephine Garcia, Edward George Futcher, 23rd Audrey Hodkinson, Elizabeth Chalmers, 24th Imelda Johnstone, Mariusz Seweryn Kowalczyk, 25th Roy Owen Ware, 26th Roberta Frances Freeman, 28th John Sheehan, 29th Mary Murrighy, Winifred Gwendoline Wade, Margaret Dearden, 30th Bridget Miller, Marie Paule Alix Norris, 31st Patrick Lawrence Matthews.

Please pray especially for all those who have died recently: Canon Terence ‘Tim’ Healey, who died on 2nd February;

Michael Baverstock, who died on 2nd February; Petros Christophi Agathangelou, who died on 17th February.

Eternal Rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let Perpetual Light shine upon them. May they Rest in Peace. Amen.

MASS INTENTIONS for MARCH 2018

Sunday 25th February Sunday 4th March Sunday 11th March Sunday 18th March Sunday 25th March

Sat. 5pm Donor’s Intention (A.) 8:00 Pro Populo 10:30 Parents Hurt by Abortion 4pm Laura Parkes

Sat. 5pm John Parsons 8:00 Pro Populo 10:30 John E McCabe, RIP 4pm Henry VIII, RIP

Sat. 5pm Brenda Corrie & Rowena Wittinbaker 8:00 Pro Populo 10:30 Peter Nye, RIP 4pm Peggy Jones, RIP

Sat. 5pm Filipino Community, thanksgiving 8:00 Violet Gardner, RIP 10:30 Thanksgiving 4pm Pro Populo

Sat. 5pm Thanksgiving 8:00 Pro Populo 10:30 Antoni Furmaniak, RIP 4pm For the Pope

Monday 26th 7:30 Oratory Vocations 12:15 Linda & Hugh Whyman, wellbeing

Monday 5th 7:30 Oratory Vocations 12:15 Nikki Cullen

Monday 12th 7:30 John Sampson, RIP 12:15 Mgr Ron Hishon, wellbeing

Monday 19th 7:30 Oratory Benefactors 12:15 Holy Souls

Monday 26th 7:30 Oratory Vocations 12:15 Leonard Parker, RIP

Tuesday 27th 12:15 Giulio Lucantoni, RIP

Tuesday 6th 12:15 Pamela Brigden, RIP

Tuesday 13th 12:15 Marny Oyston, RIP

Tuesday 20th

12:15 Peter Nye, RIP

Tuesday 27th

12:15 no Mass at this time

6pm Yvonne McCluskie, RIP

Wednesday 28th 7:30 Oratory Benefactors 12:15 Virginia Taylor, RIP

Wednesday 7th 7:30 Oratory Benefactors 12:15 Philomena Wong

Wednesday 14th 7:30 Oratory Vocations 12:15 Eileen Dunton, RIP

Wednesday 21st 7:30 Anna Colletti, RIP 12:15 Fr Joseph Majou, RIP

Wednesday 28th 7:30 Oratory Benefactors 12:15 Holy Souls

Thursday 1st March 12:15 Fr David Hutton Cong. Orat., RIP

Thursday 8th 12:15 Maria Tagliaferri, RIP

Thursday 15th 12:15 Wisdom to make right decision

Thursday 22nd

12:15 Mike Cross, RIP

Thursday 29th

12:15 Mary Josephine Murrighy, RIP

Friday 2nd 7:30 Paul Ashton, wellbeing 12:15 Josephine Hodgkiss, sick

Ŧ 6pm Roy Ware, RIP

Friday 9th 7:30 Agnes Mercen, sick 12:15 Pamela Brigden, RIP

Friday 16th 7:30 Oratory Benefactors 12:15 For good Confession

Friday 23rd 7:30 Mary Parker, RIP 12:15 Peter John Raxworthy, RIP

Friday 30th 7:30 Eddie Mowlem, RIP 12:15 Mike Cross, RIP

Saturday 3rd 12:15 Thomas Howarth, RIP

Saturday 10th 12:15 Thanksgiving

Saturday 17th 12:15 Mike Cross, RIP

Saturday 24th

12:15 Lola Jordan, RIP

Saturday 31st

12:15 Manuel Marques, RIP

Ŧ Extraordinary Form Mass

6pm on 1st Friday of each month

LENTEN CHARITY PROJECTSPlease be generous in the Retiring Collectionsat the end of Mass every weekend during Lent.

1. AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED is our Overseas project - a Catholic charity helping Christians persecuted, oppressed or in pastoral need in over 140 countries worldwide.

Neville Kyrke-Smith, National Director of Aid to the Church in Need, spoke at the end of Masses on the 2nd Sunday of Lent (24/25th February) about the vital work ACN is doing in helping persecuted and oppressed Christians in the Middle East. Neville has headed this expanding Catholic charity since 1991 and has travelled extensively with the charity to project countries – recently including Iraq and Lebanon. ACN is a Pontifical Foundation of the Catholic Church. 

Visit: www.acnuk.orgClick on Lent Appeal “Find Out More”,then scroll down to “Syria & Iraq”Also click on ‘Campaigns’, then: ‘Syria & Iraq’.

2. CARITAS PORTSMOUTH DIOCESE (is our ‘home’ project). The Oratory Parish of the Sacred Heart Bournemouth is pleased to support this new initiative of our Diocesan Bishop for local needs, especially the Caritas projects concerned with modern slavery, and for refugees, migrant workers and asylum seekers, so prevalent in our Parish.

Visit: www.caritasdioceseofportsmouth.org.uk

Click on ‘Projects’, then ‘Other Projects’ to find fact sheets about modern day slavery.

WHAT’S ON IN LENT 2018SUNDAYS

5pm Cath. Soc. Fellowship Groupmeets after the 4pm Massfor all students & young people.

6.20pm Continues, after 6pm Benediction,with pizza, wine and soft drinks.

MONDAYS7.30pm Evangelium explores Catholicism

with the Catechism and Christian art.

TUESDAYS7.30pm Bible Study on next Sunday’s readings.

WEDNESDAYS8am 40 Days for Life peaceful prayer vigil to at the Bournemouth abortion clinic 8pm (while others pray at Eucharistic Adoration).

8am to Eucharistic Adoration. Jesus said: 12 noon Could you not watch with Me one hour?

10am Lent Study groups: Rediscover Jesus.(not at Reflecting on Bishop Philip’s gift book.7.30pm) Feb. 14, 21, 28, March 7, 14, 21, 28.

After Easter Wednesday mornings will become the Ascent Movement, for those who are retired.

11-12 Confessions.6pm Monthly Eucharistic Adorationto on 1st Wednesdays (7th March)9pm 7-8pm Confessions, 8.45pm Benediction

THURSDAY 22nd March7.30pm Catholic Men’s Group monthly meeting

FRIDAYS11.30am Lenten Stations of the Cross& 6pm February 16, 23, March 2, 9, 16, 23.

(2nd March EF Mass followed by Stations)

FRIDAY 9th - SATURDAY 10th March“24 Hours for the Lord” Adoration & Confession

See posters, fliers & Sunday Bulletin etc.

SATURDAYS9.30am Confirmation preparation, every week.9.30am First Communion prep. 1st & 3rd Sats.9.45am First Communion Parents, 1st Sats.10am Sacrament of Baptism, 2nd & 4th Sats.11-12noon & 4-5pm Confessions.

40 Days for Life14 February - 25 March

Join our peaceful prayer vigils on Wednesdays 8am - 8pm opposite the Bournemouth BPAS

abortion centre in Ophir Road BH8 8LS, or give a Holy Hour (of half hour) of Eucharistic

Adoration on Wednesdays, 8am - 12noon.

www.40daysforlife.com

HOLY WEEK & EASTERCONFESSIONS BEFORE EASTER

Daily Confessions 30 minutes before each Mass.

Palm Sunday: 30 minutes before each Mass.Monday: Before Masses, and 11.00 - 12.00. Tuesday: Before 07.30 & 18.00 Masses only.Wednesday: Before Masses, and 11.00 - 12.00.Maundy Thursday: 10.00 - 12.00 & 19.00 - 19.45.Good Friday: 10.30 - 12.00 & 13.45 - 14.45.Holy Saturday: 10.00 - 12.00 & 16.00 - 17.00._____________________________________________________________________________________

PALM SUNDAY (25th March) Usual Saturday & Sunday Mass time.

Confessions 30 minutes before each Mass.

10.30 Solemn Mass starts in the Garden (PostOffice Road) for the Procession of Palms.

MONDAY (26th) and WEDNESDAY (28th)Masses at 07.30 & 12.15 as usual.

11 - 12 Holy Hour & Confessions.18.00 Stations of the Cross & Confessions.

TUESDAY (27th March)07.30 Mass (NB. No Mass today at 12.15)

Chrism Mass at St John’s Cathedral18.00 Mass, Stations of the Cross & Confessions

MAUNDY THURSDAY (29th March)20.00 Solemn Mass of the Lord’s Supper,

Procession to the Altar of Repose,and Vigil until Midnight.

23.45 The Night Office of Compline.

GOOD FRIDAY (30th March)11.00 Stations of the Cross (for Children)15.00 Solemn Liturgy of the Lord’s Death.

HOLY SATURDAY (31st March)08.00 - 13.00 Church Cleaning, Rehearsals etc.

Flower arranging & Sacristy work.20.00 Solemn Easter Vigil & 1st Mass of Easter.

(NB. No 5pm Saturday Vigil Mass)

EASTER SUNDAY (1st April)Usual Sunday Mass times: 12.30 Polish Mass.

8am, 10.30am Solemn Mass, 4pm.6pm Solemn Easter Benediction.

WHAT’S NEW AFTER EASTER?

SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY (SVP)is being re-founded (after a gap of many years) in our Parish with a launch at each Mass on the weekend of 28/29th April. Talk to Mike Hughes or Fr Peter. Visit: www.svp.org.uk

BROTHERS OF THE SECULAR ORATORY(a.k.a. The Little Oratory) starts after Easter.

St Philip Neri's first association was of lay people (the clerical Congregation came later.) They met daily in the Oratory where one of the Brothers or Fathers read from Scripture or a spiritual book, followed by a discourse on what they had just heard, or St Philip would ask them to discuss a given topic. The talks were always on prayer, the lives of Saints, the Virtues, or Church history. A period of mental prayer followed, then litanies and ‘the Oratory Prayers’. This pattern is still followed today in Oratories around the world - where there can also be Women’s Oratory and Teens’ Oratory.

Brothers of the Oratory is open to men aged 18 and over, at 6pm on 2nd Fridays, starting on 13th April. Speak to one of the Fathers.

ROSARY ON THE COAST Sunday 29th April. This initiative of the Catholic Laity across the British Isles invites the faithful of our nations, supported by our Bishops, Clergy, and the Rectors of our English and Welsh National Marian Shrines (Walsingham & Our Lady of the Taper), and follows the recent examples of Poland and all Ireland. Visit the website: www.rosaryonthecoast.co.uk and Facebook.We’re responsible for our part of the coast and will be praying the Rosary there at 3pm.

EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS. Saturday 5th May, at the New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth is a preparatory day of workshops on the Eucharist with talks by Fr Stephen Wang, Bishop Philip, and with Youth 2000 music. It’s free but must be booked: congress@portsmouthdiocese.org.uk This is part of our diocesan preparation for the National Eucharistic Congress in Liverpool from 7th to 9th September 2018. Book the date.