Services for the Eighth Week of Ordinary Time, 16^th May – 1^st June 2013

 

Saturday 25^th May, Vigil of Sunday                             

            Confessions, 5.15 p.m.

            Holy Mass, 6.00 p.m.                                                                           The People of the Parish

 

Sunday 26^th May, The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

Holy Mass, 8.00 a.m.                                                                            Kiya Bayley

Solemn Mass, 10.30 a.m.                                                                      Olive Ward

 

Monday 27^th May, The Solemnity of St Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop & Apostle of England,

      Secondary Patron of the Parish

            Holy Mass, 10.30 a.m.  (NB: Later time)                                              Fr John

 

Tuesday, 28^th May, Feria

Holy Mass, 9.30 a.m.                                                                            Eileen Healy

 

Wednesday 29^th May, Feria

Holy Mass, 9.30 a.m.                                                                            The Farrow family

            Holy Mass, 6.00 p.m. (Extraordinary Form)                                           Rex Baker RIP

 

Thursday 30^th May, Feria – Traditional Date of Corpus Christi

            Holy Mass, 9.30 a.m.                                                                            Ann Henderson RIP & deceased
                                                                                                                                                Henderson family

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, 10.00 a.m. – approx. 7.30 p.m.

Confessions, 4.30 p.m.

Sung Mass with Procession of the Blessed Sacrament, 6.00 p.m.                        Alison Davies

 

Friday 31^st May, The Feast of the Visitation of Our Lady

            Holy Mass, 9.30 a.m.                                                                           Dorothy Croucher

Holy Mass, 6.00 p.m. (Extraordinary Form)                                        James Flanagan RIP

 

Saturday 1^st June, St Justin, Martyr - Saturday of Our Lady

            Holy Mass, 9.30 a.m.                                                                            Kate Fitzgibbon

            Holy Hour & Confessions, 10.00 a.m. - 11.00 a.m.

            Benediction, 11.00 a.m.

 

Saturday 1^st June, Vigil of Sunday                              

            Confessions, 5.15 p.m.

            Holy Mass, 6.00 p.m.                                                                           The People of the Parish

 

Sunday 2^nd June, The Solemnity of Corpus Christi (transferred)

Holy Mass, 8.00 a.m.                                                                            Rex Baker RIP

Sung Mass, 10.30 a.m.                                                                         Terry and Joyce Robinson

Deanery Corpus Christi Procession, 2.30 p.m. (starting from the Oratory)

Father John writes:

 

This Sunday: Visiting Preacher – amend text?

Deacon Giles Pinnock, son of Jill, will assist me and preach at the 10.30 Mass this Sunday.  He will be ordained to the sacred priesthood on 29^th June.  Please pray for him and his family as he prepares for the great day.

 

This Thursday: The Traditional Date of Corpus Christi

According to a decision made some years ago by our bishops, the Solemnity of Corpus Christi is transferred from its traditional day of observance, the Thursday of the week after Trinity Sunday, to the Sunday following.  Those who would like to keep the feast on the Thursday may do so this year by attending a Sung Mass in the Extraordinary Form, which will be followed by the Procession of the Blessed Sacrament.  Refreshments will be served afterwards.  This Thursday is not a holy day of obligation, and the morning Mass in the Ordinary Form will not be of Corpus Christi.

 

Next Sunday: Corpus Christi Procession

The Deanery Corpus Christi Procession will take place next Sunday, the transferred Solemnity of Corpus Christi, beginning at the Oratory at 2.30 p.m. and finishing with Benediction at the Chaplaincy at 4 p.m.  Our deanery devotions will fulfil the Holy Father’s request that parishes throughout the world observe a Holy Hour on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi.

 

Advance Notice: Handicapped Mass

There will be a Mass for the handicapped pilgrims to Lourdes at 8 p.m. on Thursday 20^th June. All are welcome. 

 

New Panels for the Altar

As you will see, Sophie Hall and her colleagues, the apprentices of James Gillick, have painted new panels for the high altar with symbols of the four Evangelists and Marian motifs of the rose and the lily.  In the next few weeks the same team is going to restore the Paschal candle stand and the font in commemoration of the Year of Faith.

 

Collections: £322.55 (parish)

 

Please Pray for the Sick

Timothy Arden-Close, David Armstrong, Anne Best, Viola Burns, Stratford Caldecott, Peter de Bono, Deborah Eaton, Fr Mark Elvins OFMCap, Ruth Escritt, Doreen Fellows, Gertrud Fuss, Francesca Gibbons, Rosie Grimm, Walter Hooper, Breff & Jill Kelly, Phil Kemp, Sheila Neill, Salome Odoi, Fr John Redford, Clive Smith, Maria Thaller, and Gladys Tinnion.

 

Please Pray for the Souls of the Faithful Departed

Please pray for the repose of the souls of Barrie Anthony, Rex Baker, Josephine de Bono, Doris Collar, Anthony del Nevo, Patrick Doherty, and Maud Healy, who have anniversaries at this time.  Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.

 

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The older theologians used to say that the soul is a kind of sailboat,

the Holy Spirit is the wind which fills its sails and drives it forward,

and the gusts of wind are the Gifts of the Spirit.

Lacking His impulse and His grace, we do not go forward.

The Holy Spirit draws us into the mystery of the living God,

and saves us from the threat of a Church that is gnostic and self-referential, closed in on herself.

He impels us to open the doors and go forth to proclaim

and bear witness to the good news of the Gospel,

to communicate the joy of faith, the encounter with Christ.

The Holy Spirit is the soul of mission.

 

                                                                                                                                                  Pope Francis

Welcome

Ash Wednesday 2013: the Faithful receiving ashes.


'Ecce Agnus Dei': the consecrated Host is shown to the Faithful, at Solemn Mass in the Presences of the Blessed Sacrament, at the conclusion of the Forty Hours devotion, February 8th 2013. See here for more photos.

Welcome to the Church of SS Gregory & Augustine,

322 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 7NS 

Find us on the map here.
 
Priest in Charge: Fr. John Saward 

Email: sanctusgregorius@btinternet.com

For the restoration of the church, including the our newly painted reredos, showing Pope St Gregory the Great and St Augustine of Canterbury, see here for pictures and an interview with Fr Saward.