Author: Jacky

WEEKLY HOLY HOUR FOR OUR NEW PARISH Every Thurs from 10-11am , beginning  3 October, at Our Lady of  Ransom, followed by Mass.  Before the Blessed Sacrament, with times of quiet music, we will pray together each week asking the Holy Spirit’s guidance as we journey together to become a single New Parish. The hour will include a  Rosary for Peace in our communities and the world. To join this time of prayer please go to: http://ourladyofransom.org.uk and click on the YouTube live stream icon. The Holy Hour is saved as a recording so you can participate at a later time of the day via the same link.

      

 

 

 

A very big thank you to everyone who donated goods for the Harvest Festival Mass. Hailsham Foodbank were delighted to receive your much needed contributions.

Another thank you goes to the 32 walkers who accompanied Fr Rory on the sponsored walk. Upon arrival at St Wilfrid’s we were greeted by parishioners from both parishes and shared a lovely birthday tea with him. Big thanks go to all those who worked so hard to make this day a success. Fr Rory really enjoyed celebrating his 75th birthday with us. God bless him.  All funds raised from the sale of fresh produce and the sponsored walk go towards CAFODS Harvest Appeal.  Please return any outstanding sponsor money by October 13th. To date we have raised an amazing £1,250 but we hope to   supplement this with the money raised for the Family Fast Day envelopes and St George’s charity breakfast on October 27th.  Thank you again to everyone who has made a contribution – we are very proud of our generous community.

A new edition of the Lectionary, the book which contains the readings which are proclaimed at Mass, will come into use in England and Wales on the First Sunday of Advent 2024.
It will use the English Standard Version – Catholic  Edition for the scripture readings and the Psalms and Canticles for the Responsorial Psalms.
The Parish has ordered a new 4 volume Lectionary for each church, costing £695, and one Book of the Gospels (to be shared), costing £234. 
Each volume can be noted with the name of any person making a donation towards the cost. If you would like to make a donation, please contact Bob Waters on 01323 847014.
People’s missals are also being changed to show the new translation of the Bible. Please contact Bob if you would like to order a new missal. The CTS price is £19.95 for a Sunday Missal or £9.95 for a Sunday  Missal just for 2025. The Daily Missals won’t be available until 2025. 

If you haven’t done so already, please bring in your offerings of fresh harvest produce to the church before Mass on Sunday.  These will be sold in the hall        afterwards to raise further funds for CAFOD.

Thank you for your generosity

Fr Rory’s Birthday celebrations and CAFOD Harvest Appeal:

We all want to wish Fr Rory a very happy birthday. Come and celebrate with us this Sunday afternoon from 4pm at St Wilfrid’s Hall for a birthday tea and musical entertainment.

Thank you to everyone who has sponsored Father Rory for his walk between our two churches. There is still time to sponsor him using the QR code below or the sponsor form at the back of church. Please share the link with your family and friends and help us to reach our target of £500 for the CAFOD Harvest Appeal.  All sponsor money to be returned by Sunday, 13th October please. The walk leaves St Georges car park at 3pm. Please join us if you are able.

CAFOD Harvest Appeal:  CAFOD Family Fast Day is on Friday 4th October: a day we can pray, give, and eat simply in solidarity with our global family. This year’s appeal is focusing on supporting people like Daniel, a 21-year-old, who lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  Daniel’s family didn’t always have enough to eat, despite both of his parents working. There was no money to send him to school. Now Daniel is carving a better future for his family with carpentry skills he learned in a CAFOD-funded training centre. Use the envelope in church or give online at cafod.org.uk/envelope.  The envelopes can be    returned to church for the second collection on 6th October.
 

Recently Martin appealed to you all to come forward and offer to become a welcomer, a reader or a Minister of Holy Communion. This was a reminder that there are many roles in our parish that are helpful, possibly critical, for any parish to function properly. It serves as a reminder that a parish is not just a priest. It takes all kinds of roles, and all these roles make up our parish. St. Paul in his First Letter to the Corinthians makes this quite clear to all of us. Everyone has a role but not the same role. We are not all called to be ordained priests. Neither are we all called to be prophets. But we do all have one thing in common. We have all been baptised into one Body, and because of this we each have a necessary and relevant role that contributes to the well being of the whole.

So I ask you all to consider volunteering to help our parish in at least one of the roles I mentioned at the beginning of this letter. If you have already volunteered then I thank you on behalf of the whole parish. If you have not volunteered yet then perhaps you will consider it anew. There is nothing to stop you carrying out more than one role for the parish. You would not be asked to do more than one role at any mass except in unavoidable exceptional circumstances. Thank you again for your help and support.