St. Charles Borromeo RC Church

Parish Priest: Canon Michael Munnelly

Parish Administrator: Vincent Harrington

Parish Sister: Sr. Pauline Forde

The Presbytery, 8 Ogle Street, London, W1W 6HS

Tel: 020 7636 2883

Saturday Vigil Mass: 6pm and 8:15pm with the neo-catechumenal communities

Sunday Mass: 9am  11am  6pm

Monday & Tuesday: 12.30pm  Wednesday, Thursday & Friday: 6pm.

Confession: after masses or on call

 

The week ahead

altMonday [14th May] is the feast of St MATTHIAS, the ‘late arrival’ among  the Apostles. He was chosen by lottery!  Such are the mysteries of God’s grace.

Next week we complete forty days since Easter with the feast of the ASCENSION OF THE LORD into heaven. The fifty days of Eastertide will be finished on PENTECOST SUNDAY.

The only OFFICIAL NOVENA of the Church begins on Thursday and ends  on Pentecost Sunday We pray for the Holy Spirit to renew the whole Church, starting with ourselves!

TASKS IN THE CHURCH AND AROUND THE PARISH

Many thanks to the many who help clean the church; arrange the flowers; assist in the sacristy; take up the collection; serve at Mass; distribute the chalice; proclaim the Word; prepare the music and hymns; welcome our visitors; visit the sick and housebound; support the parish; wash the altar linens; provide meals and domestic support in the presbytery, but most of all those who through their worship of God and their prayer make our parish and our church.

 

Good Shepherd Sunday

The Good ShepherdGOOD SHEPHERD SUNDAY  The fourth Sunday of Eastertide is always kept as a day of prayer and encouragement for vocations to the priesthood in our diocese.
In Allen Hall, Redemptoris Mater and in Rome, we have more than forty students for Westminster Diocese.

After Mass today we have a collection for the PRIEST’S TRAINING FUND. Please give whatever you can afford. There are special envelopes available if wish to use GIFT AID to increase your contribution by claiming back some tax.

FEASTS THIS WEEK.  Tuesday, First of May, is the feast of  S JOSEPH THE WORKER. It opens  MARY’S MONTH.

On Thursday we celebrate the  APOSTLES, PHILIP  and  JAMES. Friday is the national feast of the  ENGLISH MARTYRS.

In every age the source of the divine call is to be found in the initiative of the infinite love of God, who reveals himself fully in Jesus Christ. As I wrote in my first Encyclical, Deus Caritas Est, ‘God is indeed visible in a number of ways. In the love story recounted by the Bible, he comes towards us, he seeks to win our hearts, all the way to the last supper, to the piercing of his heart on the Cross, to his appearance o after the Resurrection and to the great deeds by which , through the activity of the apostles, he guided the nascent church along its path. Nor has the absent from subsequent Church history: he encounters us ever anew, in the men and women who reflect his presence, in his word, in the sacraments, and especially in the Eucharist.’

From Pope Benedict’s message for Vocations Sunday

The MARRIAGE COURSE begins on next Thursday, 3rd May, at 8PM. It lasts for six weeks. We welcome any couples planning to get married – there is no need to register beforehand.

 

5th Sunday of Easter

altYOU LEARN to speak by speaking, to study by studying,
to run by running,
to work by working,
and just so ,you learn to love by loving.
All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

S Francis de Sales


Our MARRIAGE COURSE
continues on Thursdays at 8PM for all couples planning to get married in the near future.
It provides an insight into the true nature of Christian marriage.

PETITION ON MARRIAGE
Once again we are asked to make clear our opposition to the proposed change to the law on marriage. The period of consultation ends on June 14th.There is a letter from the bishop’s conference on ways to help do this.  It available at the back of the church. There are also petitions forms or you can add your name to the online petition:  www.c4m.org.uk

Our DEANERY meets this Tuesday at the chaplaincy in Gower Street. Priests and pastoral workers in the seven parishes that make up the deanery meet monthly

 

Saint George Pray for Us

St GeorgeMonday is the feast of SAINT GEORGE – THE PATRON SAINT OF ENGLAND and Wednesday is the feast of SAINT MARK, APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST

TRAINING PRIESTS for our Diocese of Westminster

Next weekend we have the diocesan collection for our seminarians.
It is also WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS. Our diocesan students prepare in Allen Hall, in Rome and some in Valladolid. A number of them step out of the Redemptoris Mater tradition, but they are all for our diocese under Archbishop Vincent.
They are free copies of The Mulberry magazine (the Allen Hall Journal) available at the back of the Church. There are also special envelopes for next weekend’s collection.

MARRIAGE COURSE
Another marriage course will begin on THURSDAY 3RD MAY AT 8PM. It will last for six weeks. There is no need to register, just turn up.

 

 

 

 

 

 
Today's Mass Readings
Acts 18:23-28.
Ps 47(46):2-3.8-9.10.
Jn 16:23b-28.
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