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21 DECEMBER FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT – 28 DECEMBER THE HOLY FAMILY
Catholic Parishes and Schools in Partnership in the City of Portsmouth
How much does Christmas cost? For those with a mathematical mind it may be an exciting challenge to add up the cost of a partridge in a pear tree, two turtle doves and everything else associated with the song ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’. For others, the thought of calculating the cost of Christmas is as terrifying a thought as January’s bank statement. Christmas costs and in recent years it has seemed to cost more and more. Materially and physically the pressure put upon us at this time of year is high. Spiritually though there is enormous worth in calculating the cost of Christmas and it has already been done for us in the words of that song ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas.’ To understand its calculations is to appreciate afresh our faith. Written in sixteen century England the song had a dual purpose. Its Jesuit authors aimed to encourage the Catholic community to keep going amid bad times and also to pass on to their children the faith that meant so much to them. The Jesuits’ song, which quickly became popular, taught in code the spiritual value of Christmas and the rich worth of our Catholic faith. The twelve days are those from Christmas Day to Epiphany. ‘My true love gave to me’ is code for the Lord God speaking to whoever sings the song. The ‘partridge in a pear tree’ represents Jesus, reigning from the Cross which is to be understood as a tree waiting to bear its fruit. The two turtle doves are code for the Old and New Testaments while the three French hens represent the gifts brought by the Magi. Those ‘four calling birds’ are the gospels which call out the Good News of Jesus Christ, the five golden rings are the first five books of the Bible and the ‘six geese a-laying’ either represent the six precepts of the Church or the six days of creation - no one now is certain. The ‘seven swans a-swimming’ are of course code for the seven sacraments of the Church, the ‘eight maids a-milking’ are the beatitudes and the ‘nine ladies dancing’ are the nine choirs of angels. As for the ‘ten lords a-leaping’ they are code for the Ten Commandments while the ‘eleven pipers piping’ represent the number of the apostles – Judas having left – who pipe the faith in an unbroken tradition. And the twelve drummers drumming are code for the twelve beliefs professed in the Apostles Creed. In twenty-first century England, we Catholics must sometimes practice our faith amid bad times. We still have a desire to pass it on though don’t we which is why we might wish to seize this festive opportunity to hand down the true meaning of ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’? May it speak to us afresh of the true cost of Christmas, a cost God bore out of sheer love for us all.
Canon Dominic Golding Wednesday 24th December:
1800 First Mass of Christmas StSw
CHRISTMAS MASS TIMES
2045 Carols for Christmas Eve OLOL 2100 Night Mass of Christmas OLOL 2200 Msza św. po polsku (Pasterka) StSw 0000 Midnight Mass of Christmas StSw
Thursday 25
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0830 Mass of Christmas Morning StSw 1015 Mass of Christmas Morning StSw 1200 Msza św. po polsku StSw
Our Lady of Lourdes & St Swithun
Fr Kazimierz Stefek - Assistant Priest: Fr Pawel Przybyszewski Tel. 023 9282 8305 – [email protected]
Our Lady of Lourdes
Bransbury Road, Eastney, PO4 9JY - Pastoral Assistant: Sr Marie Elise Tel. 07747 728734 Parish Secretary: Mrs Clare Shore – Office Hours: Mon 9-11and Tues to Friday 9- 3 Safeguarding Representative: Val Croughan 023 9234 1682
St John’s Cathedral:
Bishop’s House
, Bishop Crispian Way, PO1 3HG – Tel. 02392 826170 Cathedral Dean: Canon Dominic Golding VG – [email protected] Assistant Priest: Fr James McAuley – [email protected] Parish Secretary: Mrs Lily Peach – [email protected] – Office Hours: 0900-1600 Monday – Friday Parish Pastoral Assistant: Sister Maura Chin
St Swithun
105 Waverley Road, Southsea, PO5 2PL - Safeguarding Representative: Sue Smy 023 9273 0855
Corpus Christi & St Joseph
Fr Steven Restori tel 023 9266 0927 – [email protected]
Corpus Christi
Gladys Avenue, North End PO2 9AZ –
St Colman with St Paul St Joseph
Tangier Road, Copnor PO3 6JH Parish Sister: Sr Mary Gleavey FMDM 07586 801868 – St Joseph Hall Bookings: Mrs Mary Vale 07897 488254 Safeguarding Representative: Elaine Lindsay 07749 200592 Fr Joe McNerney (Hospital Chaplain) – Assistant Priest: Fr John Humphreys [email protected] - 023 9228 6408
St Colman
St Colman’s Avenue, Cosham, PO6 2JJ –
St Paul
Allaway Avenue, PO6 4DG– tel. 023 9237 6151 Parish Assistant: Mrs Tess Pritchard Office Hours: 0900-1500 Mo-Wed & Fri Safeguarding Representative: Irene Taylor 023 9264 0754 or 07914 722708
Pastoral Youth Worker
: Dom DeBoo tel 023 9283 6524 mob 07769 185603 – [email protected]
PARISHES: Corpus Christi & St Joseph • Our Lady of Lourdes with St Swithun • St Colman & St Paul • St John’s Cathedral SCHOOLS: Primary: Corpus Christi • St John’s Cathedral • St Paul’s • St Swithun’s • Secondary: St Edmund’s
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CHRISTMAS OFFERING
It is the custom in England and Wales for the collection taken at all Masses on Christmas Day to be given to the priests of the parish in appreciation of their parochial work. This forms a large part (60%) of their annual income so in advance of whatever you wish to give: thank you.
CRIB OFFERINGS
All donations to the Crib will be going at the Bishop’s request to the support of the parishes and schools of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem which is in effect the Catholic diocese covering the Holy Land. All such donations will be channeled to them through the English branch of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre. For more information about them and their work: www.khs.org.uk For
THE SEARCH – ENQUIRY SESSIONS
Do you ever ask yourself: Is there more to life to this? What is the meaning of my life? How can I know if God is real, and if he loves me? For centuries, people have turned to the Church to find answers to the deepest and hardest questions of everyday life. If you are not a Catholic, but you would like to find out more, or if you are Catholic but have not yet been confirmed, you are invited to The Search - enquiry sessions which begin on 8 January from 1900-2000 in the Discovery Centre, and run every Thursday. This is a wonderful opportunity to explore these questions more deeply. If you are a Catholic who knows someone who might be interested, why not bring them along? more information, to: www.portsmouthcatholiccathedral.
org.uk/rcia or call 02392 826170. go
A BOUQUET OF SPIRITUAL ACTION
The Order of the Knights of St Columba are launching a campaign to create a Bouquet of Spiritual Action beginning on the Feast of the Holy Family on 28 Dec 2014 and finishing on the Feast of St John Paul II on 22 Oct 2015. A record of prayers and good deeds completed over the ten-month period of campaign will be registered in an electronic format in the KSC website, to be collated in a bound book. The focus is to gather as families, community groups or as individuals in prayer, worship, meditation and the Holy Rosary for particular chosen intentions. In a spirit of togetherness and shared aspirations they are inviting other Catholic organisations to join with them in this worthwhile endeavour. Website http://ksc.org.uk/
WORLD YOUTH DAY 2016
From Thursday 21 July – Tuesday 2 August 2016, we will be joining the Diocesan trip to Krakow, Poland for World Youth Day 2016. If you will be aged 16 by Wednesday 20 July 2016 and would like to come with us to Poland an application form can be found via the Portsmouth diocese website: www.portsmouthdiocese.org.uk.
The cost of the trip will be in the region of £995 but we will be fundraising to help us towards this target. For more info, contact Will Hince: 07780221686
FLAME 2: WEMBLEY ARENA
Following the huge success of Flame, a national event for Catholic young people, we now have Flame 2 on Saturday 7 March at Wembley Arena. The diocese has booked a coach and the cost of the trip is £45. Limited spaces available; to book contact Dom Deboo.
ECHOES: PARISH-BASED CATECHIST FORMATION
A parish-based formation for catechists and those involved in handing on the Faith. Presents key knowledge and skills needed for catechesis and equips those involved to build up their confidence in these areas; helping them to use Scripture, the Catechism of the Catholic Church and Church documents to develop their own understanding of the faith. Will be held at St Edward the Confessor, Chandler’s Ford on 24 Jan 1000-1500. Contact Sr Veronica tel. 01590681874 or email [email protected]
COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
The 'Inactive Catholics' team has initiated an exciting project this Christmas. It will be piloted in Havant Pastoral Area with the hope that, in Christmas 2015, it can be used more widely around the Diocese. The aim is very simple - to invite those who have fallen away to come back to the Church for Christmas. A video has been made for this year's project - why not share this on social media and invite friends and family to your local Mass for Christmas? See the video here ww.portsmouthdiocese.org.uk
CONFIRMATION 2016
The bishop has asked that each of the Pastoral Areas offers a confirmation programme on a 2 year cycle so there will be no confirmation programme this year. Registration for next year’s confirmation programme will start from September so more information will go out in the summer term. Next year we will be confirming anyone in school years 8 and above
Parish Notices
CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM FR KAZ
Happy Christmas! Thank you for the gifts and cards I have received. May the peace of Christ fill our hearts and World.
EPIPHANY CELEBRATION
Mince pies and mulled wine will be served following the 6pm Epiphany Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes on Saturday 3 January.
ALTAR SERVERS
Boxing Day is when the Church remembers St Stephen, the first Martyr. He is the Patron Saint of Altar Servers. To be an Altar Server you need to have made your First Communion. If you wish to become an Altar Server at St Swithun’s Church please speak to DJ or Paul after Mass in the Sacristy.
FOOD BANK – 3/4 JANUARY 2015
Please remember to bring tinned and packaged non-perishable food for the Food Bank. UHT or powdered milk is always needed together with sugar, pasta, rice, tea bags, coffee, biscuits, instant mashed potato, baked beans, cereals, tinned fruit, tinned vegetables, tinned meat and fish etc. Please place your donations in the plastic boxes provided. Thank you for your continued support for such a vital resource for those in need.
THANK YOU
for all your prayers, love and support since July this year. Charlie, Sarah and James Adie.
STARTING SCHOOL 2016
If your child was born between 1 September 2011 and 31 August 2012 and you are hoping to send them to a Catholic Primary Schools in the City in September 2016, Mass Attendance Record cards are available. The parish priest or a nominated person will be stamping the cards each Sat/Sun after Mass from January. The purpose of the card is to assist the parish priest when he comes to confirming the regularity of Sunday Mass attendance when presented with the Supplementary Worship Form which accompanies the school application forms.
Liturgy Calendar and Mass Times
SATURDAY 20 DECEMBER First Mass of 4th Sunday of Advent 1800 SUNDAY 21 DECEMBER FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT
[‘O Morning Star’] 2 Samuel 7:1-5.8-11.16 Romans 16:25-27 Luke 1:26-38
MONDAY 22 DECEMBER Liturgy of the Day
[‘O King of the nations’]
TUESDAY 23 DECEMBER Liturgy of the Day
[‘O Emmanuel’]
WEDNESDAY 24 DECEMBER Liturgy of the Day,
[Christmas Eve]
WEDNESDAY 24 DECEMBER THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD
solemnity with octave
THURSDAY 25 DECEMBER CHRISTMAS DAY
[Holy Day of Obligation]
FRIDAY 26 DECEMBER ST STEPHEN
Protomartyr,
feast
SATURDAY 27 DECEMBER ST JOHN,
Apostle, Evangelist,
feast
SATURDAY 27 DECEMBER First Mass of the Holy Family
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feast Ecclesiasticus 3:2-6.12-14 Colossians 3:12-21 Luke 2:22.39-40
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Our Lady of Lourdes
St Colman St John’s Cathedral People of the Parish St Joseph Ester Richards RIP (FM) People of the Parish St John’s Cathedral
People of the Parish
Angela Meyer RIP
St Swithun
St Joseph St Colman St John’s Cathedral
St Swithun
St Paul Corpus Christi St John’s Cathedral QA Hospital St John’s Cathedral
St Swithun
St Colman
St Swithun St Swithun
St John’s Cathedral St Colman
St Swithun
St John’s Cathedral
St Swithun
Daniel Cadogan F Mike Webber RIP (HW) Daniel Cregan RIP Ray Smith RIP (PS) Sister Sarah Jordan FMDM (100 Birthday) Jozef Dura RIP John Hughes RIP Caetano Liban INT
Mass in Polish
UCM Intentions (JG)
Wedding of Peter Whelan and Laura Caspall
Deceased Members of Cronin Family RIP Dennis Vareed RIP (DV) Doreen and Mark Paine RIP St John’s Cathedral St Paul St John’s Cathedral
St Swithun
St Joseph
Our Lady of Lourdes
Corpus Christi
St Swithun
St Colman
St Swithun
St John’s Cathedral St John’s Cathedral
St Swithun
St Joseph St Colman St John’s Cathedral
St Swithun
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St Swithun St Swithun
Corpus Christi St John’s Cathedral St Colman
St Swithun St Swithun
St John’s Cathedral
Our Lady of Lourdes
St John’s Cathedral St Colman St Joseph St John’s Cathedral
St Swithun
St Joseph St Colman St John’s Cathedral
St Swithun
Corpus Christi David John Johns RIP People of the Parish People of the Parish Fr Francis Isherwood F People of the Parish
Mass in Polish
Fr Joe's Intentions (HW)
People of the Parish
People of the Parish
Margaret Smith RIP P
Bill, Rodda & Family Darren Cox RIP (J&AC) Chloe da Costa INT
Rita and Bella Lane
Eleanor Minter
Mass in Polish Stephen Miller on his Feast Day
FMDM Community Portsmouth Danny Cronin and Mr & Mrs Marsh RIP Altar Servers
Laurence Warren RIP P
John Greenwood RIP F
People of the Parish
Timothy Short RIP Catherine McGuire RIP (MM) Mrs Audrey Drechsler & Family Josie Murray INT
Joan Margaret Baxter RIP F
Anna & Thomas Horse + Adrian Abel RIP Nick Webb RIP (PW) People of the Parish
Cristina Price RIP
People of the Parish
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MONDAY 29 DECEMBER ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY,
Bishop & Martyr,
feast
TUESDAY 30 DECEMBER Liturgy of the Day
[Sixth Day within Octave of Christmas]
WEDNESDAY 31 DECEMBER Liturgy of the Day
[Seventh Day within Octave of Christmas]
THURSDAY 1 JANUARY MARY, MOTHER OF GOD
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St John’s Cathedral St Colman
St Swithun
St John’s Cathedral
St Swithun
St John’s Cathedral St Colman
St Swithun
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St Swithun
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Our Lady of Lourdes
St John’s Cathedral
St Swithun
St John’s Cathedral St Colman
St Swithun St Swithun
Fr Andrew RIP (PS) Jonathan May RIP
Mass in Polish
John Woods INT Joan Hudson RIP (FM)
James Joseph & Joan Irene Brennan RIP F
Sarah Morgan RIP Romy Villanuexx (LP)
Christina Sumbula - 1st Birthday
Anne Munt Family INT F Hope Whittaker (PS) Charmaine Doyle RIP Winnie Woods INT Parishioners, Family & Friends (PS)
Simeon and Rosa Karme RIP P
Mark Enright RIP Daniel Nolan RIP English Martyrs RIP Norah Franchetti RIP (JC)
FRIDAY 2 JANUARY Ss Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen,
Bishops, Doctors of the Church,
memorial
SATURDAY 3 JANUARY Liturgy of the Day
[Saturday of Christmastide before Epiphany, Readings of January 3]or:
The Holy Name of Jesus,
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SATURDAY 3 JANUARY Vigil Mass of the Epiphany of the Lord,
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SUNDAY 4 JANUARY THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD,
solemnity Isaiah 60:1-6 Ephesians 3:2-3a.5-6 Matthew 2:1-12
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Corpus Christi St Paul St John’s Cathedral QA Hospital
St Swithun
St John’s Cathedral Mrs Sheila Kelly RIP F Sr Loretta O.S.M. (TP) Poor Souls in Purgatory Isobel Dwyer P Deceased Members of Coghlan Family RIP
People of the Parish
People of the Parish Joan Hudson RIP (BH) People of the Parish Gerard & Kathleen Doyle's Intentions Ray Smith (PS) Sister Rita Andrew INT
Mass in Polish
William Joseph Walsh F
HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR
This Christmas, ‘May the Lord bless you and keep you, May the Lord let his face shine on you and be gracious to you. May the Lord look kindly on you and give you his peace’ If you are aged 13–18 and want to go deeper with your faith then this is for you. Great input, desserts, discussion and prayer time. From 1900–2030 in
DISCOVERY
the Cathedral Discovery Centre on Tuesday nights. Starts: Tuesday 13 January.
facebook: ‘Dom DeBoo Portsmouth’ twitter @Dom_DeBoo_Youth www.catholicportsmouth.org.uk/youth [email protected] tel: 07769185603 THANK YOU
I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has been involved as a helper this term. We have had a lot happening and I have been very grateful to all those who have worked hard to make what we do a success. Happy Christmas everyone and we’ll see you in the new year.
ZONED In (Year 6 Youth Club)
If you are in school year 6, then we run a youth club for you on Thursday nights from 1830–2000 at Corpus Christi Catholic School with lots of fun activities and equipment. Start Date: Thursday 15 January.
CONTACT Youth
This is our youth club for young people aged 11–16 at St Colman’s Catholic Church from 1900–2100. A great programme, lots of great people and a cracking tuck shop. Start Date: Wednesday 14 January.