14th — 29th September ’19 24th & 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Week 4 & 1

THE PARISH OF ST.THOMAS MORE, KIDLINGTON & ST.HUGH OF LINCOLN, WOODSTOCK

http://www.catholicparish.kidlingtonandwoodstock.uk

Parish Priest: Fr. (Dr) Prem Fernando Email: frpjfernando@gmail.com

142, Oxford Rd, Kidlington, OX5 1DZ, Tel: (01865) 377093 Part of the Arch Diocese of Birmingham, Registered Charity Number 234216 Parish School: Headteacher: Mrs.Breda Bowles Tel & Fax: 01865 373674

Parish Safeguarding Reps.: Anastasia Hargreaves-Hand (07786651916), Lena Shams lena.shams@physics.ox.ac.uk St Thomas More Parish Hall Contact: Ian Drury, 01865 371086, St Hugh’s Centre Contact: Ruth Fiddy, 01993 812860

Fr Prem’s message: I say thank you to Fr Martin Flatman for holding fort during the summer; cele-

brating the weekend masses for us. I am sure we were blessed to have his services. May I say a big thank you to the Dominican sisters, the sacristans, parish secretary and all others for keeping things going smoothly during the summer. Thank you very much for your support and understanding. As matters of business, our representative to the CTK Katharine Eustace has stepped down after a very productive service. I cannot thank her enough for accepting my request to represent the parish and for her faithful service supporting the CTK activity and promoting our presence in it. I thank Sean Calnan for stepping-in to fill this vacancy and I am very happy to appoint him together with Marika Dimech as our representatives to the CTK. I am sure you would extend your fullest support to them as we support the CTK activity. I trust, together with them all of us would do our very best to invite the CTK to our parish activity and programmes too and so share our faith with them as we would do with theirs. Refreshed after the summer break, I would invite the whole parish to engage ourselves in the parish mission which will lead up to the City-Wide Mission in Oxford. Our prayers and focus would be upon this mission and I trust you would extend your fullest support. Please see the caption below.

Parish Mission - ‘Come & See’, save this date! Next year all the Catholic churches in Oxford are holding a City-Wide Mission. That’s us too! The mission will run from May 25th to July 14th 2020. There is much to prepare, so we need to start now. Na-talie Orefice is the Archdiocesan Advisor for Parish Evangelisation and has kindly agreed to meet us on 24th November ’19 after the 11am mass followed by a finger lunch. If you are a volunteer or do any kind of ministry in the parish (from cleaners to catechists) or even otherwise you are all formally requested to come.

Celebrations for the Canonisation of Blessed John Henry Newman •The Canonisation will take place in Rome on Sunday 13 October. •There are special celebrations at the Birmingham Oratory see poster •In Oxford, St Mary’s will be hosting a special celebration of Choral Evensong

at 5.30pm on Thursday the 17th October to mark the canonization. This will be an ecumenical celebration and the preacher will be the Most Revd Bernard Longley, Archbishop of Birmingham and Co-Chair of ARCIC.

• Visit the Newman Canonisation website • Nine day novena https://www.newmancanonisation.com/novena • Pamphlet ‘Who was cardinal newman’ Fr Stewart Foster, the Diocesan Archivist at the Dio-

cese of Brentwood - download it from our Parish Website

ST THOMAS MORE, KIDLINGTON and St HUGH WOODSTOCK Week 4

SATURDAY 14th Sept.

Sunday

VIGIL MASS

6.00 pm

RIP Sheila Brockman

Exodus 32:7-11, 13-14 Psalms 50

1 Timothy 1:12-17 Luke 15:1-32 or 15:1-10

SUNDAY 15th Sept.

24th Sunday in Ordinary Time YrC

9.30 am

11.00 am

Woodstock -

Kidlington RIP

John Joseph Sheehan

MONDAY

16th Sept. Memorial, Ss Cor-nelius & Cyprian

9.30 am

RIP Stuart Perkins

1 Timothy 2:1-8,Ps 27 Luke 7:1-10

TUESDAY

17th Sept. Feria of OT 7pm

RIP Doreen Lloyd

1 Timothy 3:1-13, Ps100 Luke 7:11-17

WEDNESDAY

18th Sept. Feria of OT

12 Noon

Mass at Woodstock

-

1 Timothy 3:14-16 Ps110 Luke 7:31-35

THURSDAY

19th Sept. Feria of OT

9.30 am

- 1 Tim 4:12-16, Ps 110

Luke 7:36-50

FRIDAY

20th Sept.

Memorial, Ss Andrew Kim Tae-gon, Paul Chong Ha-sang, &

Companons, Martyrs

12 noon

Wellbeing of Jane Lemon

1 Timothy 6:2-12, Ps 48 Luke 8:1-3

St Hugh’s, Woodstock (Morning Prayer daily at 11.30)

Please email your news item to Fr Prem by Wednesday

This Newsletter is for the parishioners and friends of the parish. It is for the intended circulation. Feel free to take it with you and share it with others especially the sick and the homebound.

BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES—SACRAMENTS By appointment with Fr Prem. Please make sure you attend the parish regularly to ask for Sac-raments, making it purposeful and meaningful to oneself, to the community and for the future generations. It liberates us from superstition or simply a collective act—both sinful, and it re-deems the celebrant from making a mockery and a living out of simply dispensing sacraments.

Kindly make sure you are registered with the parish when you ask for sacraments.

SATURDAY 21st Sept.

Sunday

VIGIL MASS

6.00 pm

Jane— Private intention

Amos 8:4-7 Psalms 112

1 Timothy 2:1-8 Luke 16:1-13 or 16:10-13

SUNDAY 22nd Sept.

25th Sunday in Ordinary Time YrC

9.30 am

11.00

am

Woodstock -

Kidlington RIP

Sheila Brockman

MONDAY

23rd Sept. Memorial,

St Pio of Pietrelcina 9.30 am -

Ezra 1:1-6, Ps 125 Luke 8:16-18

TUESDAY

24th Sept. Memorial, Our Lady

of Walsigham 7pm -

Ezra 6:7-8, 12, 14-20 Ps 121, Luke 8:19-21

WEDNESDAY

25th Sept. Feria in OT 12 Noon

Mass at Woodstock

-

Ezra 9:5-9, Tobit 13:2, 4, 6-8, LK 9:1-6

THURSDAY

26th Sept. Feria of OT

9.30 am

- Haggai 1:1-8, Ps 149

Luke 9:7-9

FRIDAY

27th Sept. Memorial, Priest

St Vincent de Paul 12

noon -

Haggai1:15-2:9, Ps42 Luke 9:18-22

SATURDAY 28th Sept.

Sunday

VIGIL MASS

6.00 pm

RIP Sheila Brockman Amos 6:1, 4-7

Psalms 145 1 Timothy 6:11-16

Luke 16:19-31 SUNDAY 29th Sept.

26th Sunday in Ordinary Time YrC

9.30am

11.00am

Woodstock Derek Osborne (RIP)

Kidlington -

ST THOMAS MORE, KIDLINGTON and St HUGH WOODSTOCK Week 1

St Hugh’s, Woodstock (Morning Prayer daily at 11.30)

Parish Diary 2019

• 18th October, Friday - Day of prayer for vocations - Adoration & Benediction

• 02nd November - Blessing of the graves

• 23rd/24th November - Parish Mission

• 16th November, Saturday, 12 noon Heal-ing mass - (Penultimate Sunday for the OT)

• 10th December, Tuesday (after the 2nd Sunday of Advent) Taize prayer service

Fund Raising Events 2019

• 21st September - Silent Auction

• 5th October - Gourmet Evening

• 30th November - Christmas Craft Event

• 7th December - Christmas Bingo

• 12th December - STH Lecture by Professor Irene Tracy

• 15th December Carols & Christmas Grand Draw

• St Hugh’s Monthly Lottery draw - 1st Sun-day of the month. All welcome.

• Soup Lunch - Every 4th Friday of the month. Next 26th July

Scripture Study Group Monday 07th October, 1.30 pm. Come join us to read a scripture passage, and then to reflect and pray together. Next 11th November,

9th Dec., Contact Eileen Perkins on 01865 374129. All are most welcome.

‘Tea/ Coffee - chit chat’ at the Hall after 9.30 and 11 Masses. Stop by for a sip!

Bidding from 7.15 - 8.15. With cheese, wine, tea, coffee and soft drinks to go, a lovely social event for all. Do come and enjoy!!

PLEASE PRAY FOR THOSE WHO ARE SICK: Catherine Elford (McCann), Lisa Crisp, Eileen Groom, Rebec-ca Lambert , Ella Osborne, Kit Murphy, Mary Couchman, Ray Hazell, Anne Howard, Sue Rugman, June O’Leary, Tracy Richards, Bridget Spark, Pat Hornsby, Pauline Lilley, Mona Doherty, Christopher Browne, Zoe Kamen, Neil Greenwood, Joyce Franklin, Cliff and Sheila Cooper, Fr Chris Greaney, Geoff Boorman, Stephen Kardos Veryan Boorman, Marion Robinson, Sheila Brockman, Richard Upton, David Ellington,

Mary Sheehan and Canon Tony Griffiths (Kindly keep us updated to remove names from the sick list as and when required)

AND FOR ALL THOSE WHOSE DEATH ANNIVERSARIES OCCUR DURING THIS TIME: Irene Tracey, Beryl Bradley, Joseph Balazs Snr, John Dorrington, Ronald Mathewman, Eileen Belton,

Denis Canning, David Morris, Austin Andrews, Mary O'Connor. Hugh Haig, Stuart Perkins, Marie Brooks, Anthony Bramley, Eric Worley, Mary Cooper, Margaret Spiller, Patrick Murphy, Annie Mara,

John Pring, Angelique Giraud, Alice Dorrington, Catherine Wynn, Sir Philip Haddon-Cave

May all the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace. Amen

Last Sunday’s Collections: 08/9/19 - STM: £ 402.80 STH: £ 225.01 Retiring Collection - Catholic Education Services STM 107.69, STH 41.90

THIS WEEKS RETIRING COLLECTION (15/9/19) Catholic Evangelization (Home Mission Sunday), (22/9/19) Fr Hudson’s Society, (06/9/19) CAFOD - Harvest Fast

The Next Retiring Collections: 08/09/19 Catholic Education. Thank you.

The next Soup Lunch is on Friday, 27th September after Mass

Towards parish development projects Thank you for your wonderful

help and support.

Forth coming Adult Baptism & Reception into full Communion

in the Catholic Faith

We pray for Joe Lockwood

who will be baptised

& for Janice Relano who will be received into

full communion in the Catholic faith On the 29th September 11am mass.

Please come and join in the celebrations in the hall welcoming them to our parish community

Forthcoming Wedding We keep

Maria Beatrice Loynd & Dominic Sebastian Haines

In our prayer as they prepare to get married in the church of St Hugh of Lincoln

On the 21 December 2019

Dementia a free information session with

dementia specialist, Mark Harrison on

Thursday 3rd October 2019 from 2-4pm

@ Lincroft Meadow.

We welcome

Baby William Joseph Ramos

Who was baptised in our parish this Sat-

urday and offer our congratulations to

her parents Xi Chen & Raymond

Forthcoming Baptisms

St Hugh of Lincoln 28th September , 12noon

Baby Clio Victoria Rose Boorman Snape

Kidlington 12th October, 12 noon

Baby Cecily King

26th October, 12noon Baby Iris Maria Walker-Ward

Let us keep them and their family in our prayers and

welcome them to our Masses as their preparation for the

celebration of this sacrament.

Indian Cuisine Res-taurant - Fund raising event. Saturday 5th October at St Thomas More parish hall.

Tickets £ 10 each. Fantastic mouth watering tradition-al cuisine . Limited seating so rush to book your place. There will be a raffle draw and we would be thankful for your donations towards it.