Week of 23 October
Next Friday (28th): Children’s Retreat - for pre-First Communion infants and Children, aged 2-7, in Annexe. Activities, songs and prayers.
Next Sunday: CENTENARY FAYRE OF PARISH GROUPS
3pm -5pm in the Church. A great one-off chance to meet and learn about our 40-odd groups.
4 00 p.m. our new Website will be demonstrated, including how each of our groups can easily make use of this great resource.
5:00 pm Blessed Sacrament will be brought back in Solemn procession
YOUTH SVP for 14+ Year olds
TODAY(Sun 23rd) 2: 00 p.m. Running the Bingo at Rosemary Ho, Uffington Rd. Meet at Church
NEXT SUN (30th) 2:00 p.m. Mural preparation - meet at Church Annexe
Following SAT (5th November) Meeting in Annexe 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Following SAT (12th November) Bowling - Park Royal.- Meet at Clergy Ho 2:30 p.m.
FIRST COMMUNION INTERVIEWS Parents of children in Year 3 & 4 are asked to take a light blue form from back of Church and ring Clergy House between 10 & 2 any weekday to arrange a November Sat morning interview with Mrs Edwards at Clergy Ho. Parent(s) will need to come with child and completed application form to this interview. If you have an older child who has not yet received Holy Communion please take and fill in a dark green application form handing it back to Clergy House before Nov 18th. There is no need to arrange an interview for older children.
AUTUMN DRAW: from Sat 30th Oct, on leaving the Church, tickets for our Annual Autumn Draw will be available at Church doors. Raffle is in aid of the Building Fund. As this is last yr for this purpose, we ask everyone to make a special effort in selling these tickets for our beautiful Church.
CENTENARY CHRISTMAS CARDS: With pictures of our Church at Christmas, notelets & engraved pens, all in commemoration of our centenary year. They will be on sale at the SECO stall 30thOct @Fayre. Proceeds to Building Fund. Remaining cards will be available in Repository.
NOVEMBER PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD
BETHANY MASS – Friday 11th at 7:30 p.m. Each year during Nov there is an additional Mass for all those whose funerals have taken place in our Church during the past year. There names will be read out All parishioners are welcome to come, there will be refreshments after Mass.
There will be NO 6:30 p.m. on this Friday
BLESSING OF GRAVES ST MARY’S, KENSAL GREEN Sunday 6th November at 2.30pm. (meeting at the chapel): Sunday (13th) at Carpender’s Pk Other times to follow.
MORE CHURCH CLEANERS needed - to be on rota about once every 4 wks on a Fri morning (or at another time by arrangement) for just one hour. Details to Clergy Ho or Bill Mawn.
END TO THE YEAR OF THE EUCHARIST
Quarant’ore- Forty hours devotion for the Blessed Sacrament, 6.30pm Thurs 27th Oct to 7.00pm Sat 29th Oct- Westminster Cathedral. St Mary Magdalen’s has been given the Sat 9 am –10 am slot.
NEXT SATURDAY Fr Nimal will be leading a group down leaving here at 7:30 am to ‘watch for an hour’. Please sign up on list on table at back.
Also see above for small Blessed Sacrament procession next Sunday 5p.m.
Also Fr John Edwards SJ will be commentating upon each Sun Mass on w/e of Nov 12th/13th
AT YOUR WORD LORD: 2nd week’s theme: Stewards of God’s Gifts: Christian Care for Creation. Reflection groups continue this week,the groups will be meeting in the Church Annexe (except for Tues Youth group and Thurs.s) for 6 weeks on Sun.s 7:30 pm, Mon.s 10:30 am, Tues.s 7:30 p.m. (Youth group in Clergy House), Wed. s 7:30 p.m and Thurs.s 7:00 p.m. (Exeter Rd). Anyone can pop along to one of these groups if they would like.
12 NOON MASS This Mass is gradually becoming a ‘Sung’ Mass, i.e. with Psalm and
Aclamations etc being sung, sometimes in Gregorian chant. New singers needed!
CHURCH ANNEXE. Children going into this room (e.g. for parents to make use of live sound relay of the Mass) must be supervised at all times. There is often an urn with boiling water in there.
ST MARY MAGDALEN WEDNESDAY CLUB-“Come & spend an afternoon with us, we are a group or people, friendly & jolly who meet at Kings Hall Community Centre, Harlesden Rd, every Wednesday afternoon at 1.45 pm to have a cup of tea, chat or play cards, then for half an hour or so we play bingo (small money prizes) until 3.30pm. All are welcome.”
DINNER & DANCE popular Annual K.S.C. event takes place Sat 19th Nov at Mazenod Centre, Quex Rd. 5-course meal Dancing until Midnight. Cost: £25 per Head. call Tom 8451-2243 or Tim 8459-3901.
COMMENTATED MASSES On the weekend of Remembrance Sunday (November 12th/13th) Fr John Edwards S.J. will preach at and commentate upon all Masses as part of the end of the Year of the Eucharist and preparation for our Centenary Advent Mission which he will preach at.
GRACED IN THE SPIRIT
The feedback from our recent questionairre on future diocesan structures is on an A4 sheet on the noticeboard to the right of the Knights’ noticeboard.
There is deanery-wide meeting to discuss such feedback at Cardinal Hinsley school on Sunday 30th October, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Towards Advent- Sat 5th Nov, Wesminster Cathedral Hall at 10.30 – a national festival of Catholic Culture. Music & Liturgy with Jeremy Satge of “Music Makers” who has helped with singing training in our parish earlier this year. @ 12 noon Workshop.
THE BEGINNING EXPERIENCE are holding their next week-end for those who find themselves alone again through divorce, separation or bereavement, from 28th to 30th October 2005 at All Saints Pastoral Centre, London Colney. Details can be found on the poster at the back of the Church.
PATH TO ROME CONFERENCE to be held at Queens Hotel, Crystal Palace, over the week-end 12th/13th November 2005. Come and hear famous Catholic Leaders and famous Converts to the Catholic Church. Leaflet on board at back of church.
FAITH IN FOCUS- for Young Adults: This Mon: Fr David Barrett, sec. to Bishop of Northampton on Pope Benedict’s Theology of Christ. 7pm St Vincent’s Centre, Carlisle Pl, Victoria. See back
Next Sunday: CENTENARY FAYRE OF PARISH GROUPS
3pm -5pm in the Church. A great one-off chance to meet and learn about our 40-odd groups.
4 00 p.m. our new Website will be demonstrated, including how each of our groups can easily make use of this great resource.
5:00 pm Blessed Sacrament will be brought back in Solemn procession
YOUTH SVP for 14+ Year olds
TODAY(Sun 23rd) 2: 00 p.m. Running the Bingo at Rosemary Ho, Uffington Rd. Meet at Church
NEXT SUN (30th) 2:00 p.m. Mural preparation - meet at Church Annexe
Following SAT (5th November) Meeting in Annexe 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Following SAT (12th November) Bowling - Park Royal.- Meet at Clergy Ho 2:30 p.m.
FIRST COMMUNION INTERVIEWS Parents of children in Year 3 & 4 are asked to take a light blue form from back of Church and ring Clergy House between 10 & 2 any weekday to arrange a November Sat morning interview with Mrs Edwards at Clergy Ho. Parent(s) will need to come with child and completed application form to this interview. If you have an older child who has not yet received Holy Communion please take and fill in a dark green application form handing it back to Clergy House before Nov 18th. There is no need to arrange an interview for older children.
AUTUMN DRAW: from Sat 30th Oct, on leaving the Church, tickets for our Annual Autumn Draw will be available at Church doors. Raffle is in aid of the Building Fund. As this is last yr for this purpose, we ask everyone to make a special effort in selling these tickets for our beautiful Church.
CENTENARY CHRISTMAS CARDS: With pictures of our Church at Christmas, notelets & engraved pens, all in commemoration of our centenary year. They will be on sale at the SECO stall 30thOct @Fayre. Proceeds to Building Fund. Remaining cards will be available in Repository.
NOVEMBER PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD
BETHANY MASS – Friday 11th at 7:30 p.m. Each year during Nov there is an additional Mass for all those whose funerals have taken place in our Church during the past year. There names will be read out All parishioners are welcome to come, there will be refreshments after Mass.
There will be NO 6:30 p.m. on this Friday
BLESSING OF GRAVES ST MARY’S, KENSAL GREEN Sunday 6th November at 2.30pm. (meeting at the chapel): Sunday (13th) at Carpender’s Pk Other times to follow.
MORE CHURCH CLEANERS needed - to be on rota about once every 4 wks on a Fri morning (or at another time by arrangement) for just one hour. Details to Clergy Ho or Bill Mawn.
END TO THE YEAR OF THE EUCHARIST
Quarant’ore- Forty hours devotion for the Blessed Sacrament, 6.30pm Thurs 27th Oct to 7.00pm Sat 29th Oct- Westminster Cathedral. St Mary Magdalen’s has been given the Sat 9 am –10 am slot.
NEXT SATURDAY Fr Nimal will be leading a group down leaving here at 7:30 am to ‘watch for an hour’. Please sign up on list on table at back.
Also see above for small Blessed Sacrament procession next Sunday 5p.m.
Also Fr John Edwards SJ will be commentating upon each Sun Mass on w/e of Nov 12th/13th
AT YOUR WORD LORD: 2nd week’s theme: Stewards of God’s Gifts: Christian Care for Creation. Reflection groups continue this week,the groups will be meeting in the Church Annexe (except for Tues Youth group and Thurs.s) for 6 weeks on Sun.s 7:30 pm, Mon.s 10:30 am, Tues.s 7:30 p.m. (Youth group in Clergy House), Wed. s 7:30 p.m and Thurs.s 7:00 p.m. (Exeter Rd). Anyone can pop along to one of these groups if they would like.
12 NOON MASS This Mass is gradually becoming a ‘Sung’ Mass, i.e. with Psalm and
Aclamations etc being sung, sometimes in Gregorian chant. New singers needed!
CHURCH ANNEXE. Children going into this room (e.g. for parents to make use of live sound relay of the Mass) must be supervised at all times. There is often an urn with boiling water in there.
ST MARY MAGDALEN WEDNESDAY CLUB-“Come & spend an afternoon with us, we are a group or people, friendly & jolly who meet at Kings Hall Community Centre, Harlesden Rd, every Wednesday afternoon at 1.45 pm to have a cup of tea, chat or play cards, then for half an hour or so we play bingo (small money prizes) until 3.30pm. All are welcome.”
DINNER & DANCE popular Annual K.S.C. event takes place Sat 19th Nov at Mazenod Centre, Quex Rd. 5-course meal Dancing until Midnight. Cost: £25 per Head. call Tom 8451-2243 or Tim 8459-3901.
COMMENTATED MASSES On the weekend of Remembrance Sunday (November 12th/13th) Fr John Edwards S.J. will preach at and commentate upon all Masses as part of the end of the Year of the Eucharist and preparation for our Centenary Advent Mission which he will preach at.
GRACED IN THE SPIRIT
The feedback from our recent questionairre on future diocesan structures is on an A4 sheet on the noticeboard to the right of the Knights’ noticeboard.
There is deanery-wide meeting to discuss such feedback at Cardinal Hinsley school on Sunday 30th October, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Towards Advent- Sat 5th Nov, Wesminster Cathedral Hall at 10.30 – a national festival of Catholic Culture. Music & Liturgy with Jeremy Satge of “Music Makers” who has helped with singing training in our parish earlier this year. @ 12 noon Workshop.
THE BEGINNING EXPERIENCE are holding their next week-end for those who find themselves alone again through divorce, separation or bereavement, from 28th to 30th October 2005 at All Saints Pastoral Centre, London Colney. Details can be found on the poster at the back of the Church.
PATH TO ROME CONFERENCE to be held at Queens Hotel, Crystal Palace, over the week-end 12th/13th November 2005. Come and hear famous Catholic Leaders and famous Converts to the Catholic Church. Leaflet on board at back of church.
FAITH IN FOCUS- for Young Adults: This Mon: Fr David Barrett, sec. to Bishop of Northampton on Pope Benedict’s Theology of Christ. 7pm St Vincent’s Centre, Carlisle Pl, Victoria. See back
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