Sunday 31st December

THE HOLY FAMILY NEW YEAR’S EVE

09.00 K J Philip [RIP] 10.30 Elizabeth & Tom McDermott

12.00 Richard Sagoe [RIP 1st A]

18.30 Thanksgiving by Mariella

11.00 THANKSGIVING SERVICE prior to midnight Mass

12.00 Mass: Cecelia Egbuhuzor, RIP

Monday 1st January 09.30 Int. Katia Family

MARY, THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD

18.30 Int. Velinda Beran

Tuesday 2nd January 09.30 Maura Ansbro, RIP St. Basil 18.30 Mary McCormack, RIP

Wednesday 3rd January 09.30 Int Fr Shaju

The most holy name of Jesus 12:00 Funeral Mass; Michael Crowley 18.30 Mr & Mrs Dominic Dias Thursday 4th January 09.30 Victoria & Patrick Loughran Feria of Christmas 11:00 Funeral Mass :Mary Mongey 18.30 Tom & Liz Lynn, RIP Friday 5th January 09.30 Ken Fletcher, RIP Feria of Christmas 18.30 Int. Ann Marie Saturday 6th January 09.30 Lindsay & Marie Hungley (50th Wedding Anni.) Our Lady 18.30 Inayat John, RIP

Sunday 7th January

THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD

09.00 Tom Keaney, RIP

10.30 Int. Pedrosa Family 12.00 Rena McLoughlin

18.30 Irene & Charles

30th & 31st December 6th & 7th January LITURGICAL READERS (please collect a copy of the rota)

Sat18.30 Agnela Cabral , Ethna Power Mathew D'Souza & Lucinda D'Souza 09.00 Anita Bennett, Gary Bennett Angus Xavier & Mary Donoghue

10.30 Robin Thomas, Michele McDonald Josie McCarthy & Merical Austria 12.00 Calynn Da Cunha, Mary A Kuriakose Charmaine Fernandes & Callum Fernan-

dez 18.30 Angel Babu, Phillipa Keeling Remija Mponzi & Michael Lobo

EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS (please collect a copy of the rota) Sat18.30 Agnela, David & Manuel Cabral Debra Anton, Mitchel Bibat & Doris

Cubero 09.00 Kuriakose Antony, Pat Connors,

Angus Xavier Mary Donoghue, Monique Sinfailam & Pat Willis

10.30 Josie McCarthy, Brenda McGrath, Rui Rodrigues

Caria Jualo, Isabella Mitchell & Kasia Zuzewicz

12.00 Angelo Aningalan, David Lobo Rosemary Kanagaratnam

Neves D’Souza, Nellie Santos & Thar-ma Kandiah

18.30 Barrie Ellis Daley, Juliana De Souza, Reya Mathai

Isabella Mitchell, Sharon Wrightman & Angel Babu

Church Cleaning: Wk5 Sat 30th Dec @ 10am Wk 1 Sat 4th Jan @ 10am Coffee Morning: Genet Andemariam, Shanique

Blake, Tigist Deneke Genet Andemariam, Shanique Blake, Tigist Deneke

ST BONIFACE PARISH, TOOTING

185 Mitcham Road, London SW17 9PG Tel. 020 8672 2345 Tweet at: @BonifaceTooting

E-mail: parishpriest@stbonifacetooting.org.uk Website: www.stbonifacetooting.org.uk www.facebook.com/stbonifacetooting

Priests: Fr Shaju Varkey, Fr Wilfred Obina & Canon John O’Toole (also resident)

PARISH OFFICE HOURS 10.00—13.00: Monday-Friday

St George’s Hospital Chaplaincy Fr Jonathon Routh

020 8725 3069 (Office) 020 8672 1255 (Switchboard)

St Boniface R.C. School Undine Street, Tooting, SW17 8PP

Head teacher: Mrs S. Kerins Ph: 020 8672 5874

THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY & JOSEPH (Year B)

SUNDAY 30th DECEMBER 2017

the Feast of the Holy Family encourages us to look to the Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph for inspiration, example and encouragement. They were a model family in which both parents worked hard, helped each other, understood and accepted each other, and took good care of their Child so that He might grow up

not only in human knowledge but also as a Child of God. Jesus brought holiness to the family of Joseph and Mary as Jesus brings us holiness by embracing us in His family. The Catechism of the Catholic Church gives the following advice to the parents: "Parents have the first responsibility for the education of their children. They bear witness to this responsibility first by creating a home where tenderness, forgiveness, respect, fidelity, and disinterested service are the rule. The home is well-suited for education in the virtues. This requires an apprenticeship in self-denial, sound judgment, and self-mastery - the preconditions of all true freedom. Parents should teach their children to subordinate the 'material and instinctual dimensions to interior and spiritual ones.'"

PASTORAL STATISTICS

Sacrament of Reconciliation

Sat: 11.30am-12.30pm

Tuesday 2nd January Parent & Toddler Group ((CLOSED until 9 Jan 18)

Charismatic Prayer Group (CLOSED until the New Year)

Wednesday 3rd January Rosary Prayer Group

(CLOSED until the New Year)

Thursday 4th January Knit & Natter Group

(3pm Presbytery)

Legion of Mary (CLOSED until the New Year)

Tamil Mass (7.30pm Church)

Friday 5th January 50+ Club

(CLOSED until the 19 Jan 2018)

Parish Open House (6pm—7.30pm in Presbytery)

Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Succour

Saturday: 10am Baptism FHC Confirma-

tion Marriage Mass At-

tendance

2015 67 70 32 9 1372

2016 63 70 43 13 1471

2017 68 76 85 8 1508

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PARISH FAITH FORMATION, NEWS & MISSION

NEW YEAR

THANKSGIVNG SERVICE & MASS

We, as a parish will come together and spend time in thanksgiving to God for all the blessing each one us & our families have received in 2017. The Thanksgiving Service will begin at 11pm on SUNDAY 31st DECEMBER and we start the New Year with the Lord at the Midnight Mass followed by New Year’s celebration in the hall. Adoration starts at 10.30pm.

THANK YOU A BIG THANK YOU to all of you who helped to celebrate this year’s Christmas Celebrations with prayerfulness and festivities. Special thanks to Children's Choir & Nativity Play and all those who prepared them. Hard work of all other choirs, florists, welcomers and all those who helped in decorating the Church is greatly acknowledged. We also thank Filipino community who organised Simbáng Gabi celebrations. Thanks too for the communities who sang at the Parish Carols.

CHRISTMAS OFFERING Fr Shaju, Canon John and Fr Obina would like to thank you all for your generous Christmas Offering, very many cards and gifts.

1st JANUARY 2018: MARY, THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD

Mary is the Mother of God because she bore Jesus Christ. Today is also a new start for so many things: it is the beginning of a new time, it offers us new opportunities, it is a time of starting afresh, it is a moment to let go of the past. The notion of renewal, or starting over seems to be deep within us and is precisely what we celebrate as the redemption Christ has won for us. He comes to us with the offer of his forgiveness, with the possibility of a new

start, a rebirth. This is why the basic Christian ritual is baptism: the past is over, life begins afresh. This is the same renewal that lies at the heart of Christian forgiveness and the Sacrament of Reconciliation: the past is dead, we can begin anew.

The New Year is usually a time of planning ahead, aspiring towards ideals, setting ambiguous targets and working to reach those ideals and achieve those targets. Some people decide to devote more time to their spouses and children… Others resolve to work more efficiently… Some students choose to study systematically and consistently… But life is not as simple as making New Year resolutions and effortlessly keeping them.

Christianity teaches us that we are unable to sustain our efforts to change our attitudes and improve our behaviour by ourselves. We constantly need God’s help and blessing. Otherwise all our efforts are ultimately doomed to failure. Thus it is appropriate to ask God’s blessing on the New Year and on everything we undertake in the future and nurture them by prayer, longing for God in our life and spiritual exercise such as Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer and Examination of Conscience. It also challenges us to be humble about our talents and achievements by reminding us that our happiness and well-being originate in God’s infinite and unconditional love, which is the source of our life.

Wish you all a Happy Feast & New Year! -Fr Shaju

* * DAY WITH JESUS * * The second Saturday of each month there is Recollection, Mass & Healing Prayers. The next one will be SATURDAY 13th JANUARY starting at 9.15am with MORNING PRAYER, adoration, devotions, talk, confessions, and a SPECIAL MASS at 11am followed by anointing of the sick and prayer over people. It is a wonderful opportunity to spend time in prayer and reflection. If you

know anyone who is ill in your family or among friends please bring them with you.

FIRST COMMUNION AND CONFIRMATION PROGRAMMES

The First Holy Communion programme will start on SATURDAY 13TH JANUARY AT 10AM AND CONFIRMATION resumes on Saturday 13th January at 11.15am in n the Parish Hall.

PARISH COUNCIL will meet on Tuesday 9th January at 7.30pm.

As we have come to the end of the God given year 2017, the Parish Family wishes to say a thank you to all those w h o s u p p o r t e d o u r

community in various ways in this year. Thank you for your support to those who are saddened at the death of their loved one, your loving care for the sick & the housebound, comforting presence to those in loneliness, timely support to those who were in crisis and the helping hand to the needy, encouragement to the children & youth, compassion to the elderly etc. You all made a difference in our community: some by their silent prayers, some with their generousity, some with their gifts & talents and some with their very presence. As we acknowledge your valuable support and hard work, we wish to say a special thanks to the following:

*Altar Linen Cleaners *Altar Servers *Altar Servers Alb organisers *Catechists *Cleaning Team *Communication Team *Coffee Morning Organisers *Children’s Liturgy Team *Choirs & Music Organisers *Extraordinary Ministers of Communion & the Sick *Event Organisers * Fire Marshals *Flower Arrangers *Finance Committee *Gift Aid Administrators *Mass Coordinators *Ministers of the word *Ministers of Welcoming *Money Counters *Mothers& Toddlers Group organisers *Knitter & Natter Group *Outreach Group *Pastoral Council *Premises Team *Rosary, Divine Mercy & Charismatic Prayer Groups *Sunday Collection & Offertory Organisers *Repairs &

Maintenance helpers *Repository Team *Sacred Vessel cleaners *Sacristans *School Governors *SVP, Knights, Bible study group, 50+ club *Tea & Coffee Team *Safeguarding Representative *Social Committee *Votive Candle stand Cleaning Team *Web Master *Youth Group & Leaders.

FIRST FRIDAY HOLY HOUR is this Friday 5th January 5.15pm-6.15pm.

PARISH OPEN HOUSE The Next Parish Open House at 6pm—7.30pm is on FRIDAY 25th January.

We remember in our prayers: Karl Jackson Mary Mongey, Michael Crowley, Jean Halford who recently passed away. We offer our prayers and sympathy to all their family and friends.

NEW YEAR’S MOTTO: This alone is what God asks of you: that you act with justice; that you love with tenderness; that you walk in humility with your God.

PARISH PRAYER LIST Please remember in your prayers all those on our parish prayer list.

The Sick: Nilojan Mariyathas, Jill Hart, Vincent Ansbro, Betty Joyce, Tony Hardy, Esther Daley, Clifford Tetteh, Norman Mendonca, Irene Mendonca, Julianna Hayfron, Winston, Devonish, Norah Bolger, Nino Abel, and Patricia Xerri, Mike Nash & Monique Nash, Geoffrey Bowydin, Albert Folvi

Recently Deceased: Karl Jackson, Mary Mongey, Michael Crowley and Jean Halford.

Anniversaries: Agnes Grace, William Chambers, John Blackburne, James Ryan, Kathleen Boland, Pamela Pengelly, Baby Evie Rose-Cook, Patrick Doherty, Mathiaparanam Tharmanesan, Mary Guilfoyle, Edward Wozniak, Michael Creegan, Henrietta George, Alain Munyangabe, John Dempsey, Solomon Joseph, Patrick Ahern, Nora Goss, Patricia Christmas, Florence Prendergast, Rose Blackburne, Catherine McGurk, May they rest in peace – Amen.

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