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 Taste
and See Youth Festival – Ten till Ten for a Tenner!!
This takes place at Aylesford Priory on 9th July from 10.00am to 10.00pm.
Art – BBQ – dance – mime – sports – pottery
– drama – sign language – disco - drumming - prayer
– leaders’ resource tent. Key Speaker Mgr John Armitage –
with mime performance by Steve Murray and music by Crossbeam – Mass
celebrated by Archbishop Kevin McDonald. For more information please contact:
dhill@prcdtr-parkplace.org
– telephone 01329 835583.
Youth
News
Copies of the latest publication of the Diocese of Portsmouth Youth News
are available in the porches of our churches.
Wanted
Once a week for three hours, someone to do light housework. Please telephone
01329 281008 for details.
Wanted for Kool Dudes at St. Jude’s!!!
Kool Dudes Breakfast, After School and Holiday Club are seeking a Deputy
Supervisor. Are you a highly motivated, positive, cheerful, child-centred,
hard working, qualified unique individual? If so, you may be the person
they are looking for! The candidate needs to have (or be working towards)
an NVQ3 in Child Care and Education. Various hours are available: Breakfast
Club 7.15am – 9.00am and After School Club 2.45pm – 6.15pm
term time. Some holiday cover will also be required, these hours are negotiable
and to be agreed with the Supervisor. Application packs from The School
Office, St. Jude’s RC Primary School, Bishopsfield Road, Fareham,
Hants. PO14 1ND. Closing date for applications is Thursday 16th June 2005.
Thanks…..
From the Life Group
“Thanks to all who helped in any way to organize the Liturgy
for the Unborn, which was a very moving experience. Special thanks to
Reverend Sylvia Martin for officiating and to Eric Standen for playing
the organ.”
From
PEG
“Thank you to all who contribute to our very successful foil
and plastic milk top recycling initiative. We are also looking for a very
large vehicle which can take all the foil stored once a month to the scrap
merchant. Anyone who wishes to help is very welcome.”
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Parish Pilgrimage to Jordan
Fr Paul Townsend will be leading a Pilgrimage to Jordan including
the five Vatican Designated Holy Sites from Saturday 28th October
until Saturday 4th November 2006. The cost will be £924.00
for the eight day visit with an optional extension to Sinai for
a further four days at a cost of £264.00 (single room supplement
for the eight day trip is £98.00 and £140.00 per person
with the extension to Sinai.)
Booklets
containing full details and booking forms are available at the back
of our churches and should be returned with deposit and travel insurance
payment to the Parish office as soon as possible. Places will
go extremely quickly so early booking is recommended.
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Missionaries
of Charity – Co-workers of Mother Teresa
The Co-workers have been informed that the Indian Government will no longer
allow any second hand clothing, sheeting, bandages or towels to be imported
from any part of the world. The White Box has therefore been removed from
the porch of the Sacred Heart Church, as donations of the above can no
longer be accepted. Thank you to all who have been so generous in the
past. Donations of money, however, will still be forwarded to the Missionary
Sisters in London, who provide soup for the homeless on the streets.
An interesting
web-site!
www.theinterviewwithgod.com
– take a look!
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THE UNION
Thought for the Week
It
is true that lepers are healed, people are set free and it has been said
and written that our wonderful Church is the largest provider of health
care in the world. So some of the job description that Jesus gave His
Apostles at their commissioning has been and is being fulfilled.
Yes, we
are sheepish, as the psalmist says, by our failures and need constant
pastoral reviewing in these troubled, trackless days. But we are looking
again at the labour force and what do we see? From porch to sanctuary,
from pew to factory, from office to college and university the harvest
is here. Here too are the labourers and God’s kingdom is around
us.
For God’s
election of Israel from among the nations is not exclusive but inclusive;
He chose Israel FOR the other nations. Israel’s calling to
be a priestly people is ours too. Ours to mediate holiness and be true
to the Agreement (Covenant). In this way we are a kingdom of priests and
a consecrated nation.
Father
Charlie
Joyce
Gowans RIP
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Joyce Gowans, whose funeral
took place recently. Please also pray for all Joyce’s family and
friends.
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Open
Air Mass and Parish Open Day
On Sunday 3rd July
the Parish Open Air Mass will take place at 11.00am at St. Jude’s
School field.
This
will be the one opportunity in the year for the
whole Parish to meet together to celebrate Mass and socialise.
This
Year we celebrate the 40th Anniversary of St. Jude’s School
and the 25th Anniversary of St. Philip Howard Church.
The
First Holy Communion certificates will be presented at this Mass,
which will be the only Mass in the Parish
that weekend.
The
Parish Open Day will follow and our Parish Groups will have
the opportunity to promote themselves – and you will have
the chance to ask those questions you have always wanted to ask
to group representatives!
Bring the whole family along and enjoy a picnic afterwards –
please bring your own food and drink and picnic chairs or rugs.
Transport
for the Open Air Mass
If
anyone needs transport to the Open Air Mass this will be available
from Our Lady of Walsingham Church and the Sacred Heart Church
departing at 10.30am. Transport will also be available for the
return journey, leaving St. Jude’s School Field at approximately
2.30pm.
No need to book, just turn up on the day! Volunteer drivers
to contact Alison Ivison 01329 230049.
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St. Edmund’s
Catholic School, Portsmouth
Vacancy: Cover Supervisor Scale 2/4 dependent upon experience. Please
contact the School on 02392 823766. Closing date for return of completed
applications is 1st July 2005.
House
Group
The next meeting of the House Group will be on Wednesday 15th June (7.45pm
for 8.00pm) at 101 The Avenue, Fareham. All are welcome. For more information
please ring 01329 847533.
Portchester
Gala
This year’s Gala takes place on Saturday 18th June. The Gala
Procession leaves from Portchester Community Centre, Westlands Grove at
11.30am and should arrive at the Castle, via Central Road, Cornaway Lane,
White Hart Lane and Castle Street, at approximately 12.30pm. If anyone
has a lorry that could be used in the parade, please contact 023 9220
1629. There will be a funfair on Friday and Saturday.
Friends
of the Homeless in Fareham & Gosport
Could you spare an hour or two on an occasional basis? The Fareham and
Gosport Basics Bank are looking for people who could provide holiday and
temporary cover at their centre in Fareham for a maximum of two hours
during the day on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday. The Basics Bank provides
free food, toiletries and other items to those in need. Please call Steve
Dent on 01329 237098 for more information.
Catholic
Bible School
www.catholic-bible-school.org
Thanksgiving
Mass – Wednesday 15th June at 7.30pm, followed by refreshments
in Nutbourne House.
There is
an Open Day at the Bible School on Saturday 18th June from
2.00 – 4.30pm. There will be lots to do and lots of fun for everyone,
including games, bottle tombola, raffles, plants, cakes, jams, bric-a-brac
and refreshments. Donations of items for the stalls would be most welcome.
The Story
Telling Genius of Jesus – Saturday 2nd July from 10.00am to
3.00pm – David Wells, a highly sought after and dynamic international
speaker and Director of Adult Formation in Plymouth Diocese – prior
booking is essential.
All
of these take place at the Bible School at Nutbourne House, Farm Lane,
Nutbourne, near Chichester.
St
Jude's RC Primary School
Current newsletter here
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| 11th/12th
June 2005
11th Sunday of the Year
The
Year of St Matthew |
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 Day
for Life
The Bishops of England and Wales together with those of Scotland and Ireland
are encouraging all parishes to celebrate the Day for Life on Sunday 3rd
July and the theme is Cherishing the Evening of Life.
Chichester
Cathedral
There will be a guided tour on Monday 13th June – meet at 6.30pm
at the main entrance to the Cathedral. (You are welcome to Evensong at
5.30pm). Please ring Jean Blanchard (Fareham Society) on 01329 282187.
Tickets are £4.50.
The Adoration
of the Blessed Sacrament
“The Church lives by the Eucharist – thus wrote Servant of
God, John Paul II, in his last encyclical, ‘Ecclesia de Eucharistia’……
In the Eucharist…Christ
is really present among us. He is not a static presence. It is a dynamic
presence which takes hold of us to make us His, to assimilate us to Himself….Our
spiritual life essentially depends on the Eucharist.” (Pope Benedict
XVI, 4 June 2005)
Contacts:
Fareham - Lily Peach on 077 678 98885, Portchester - Veronica
Reeves on 023 9237 2864 or Rose Andrews on 023 9238 8494.
First
Holy Communion – 11th & 18th June 2005
Please pray for the young people of our Parish who are receiving Holy
Communion this month, for the first time:
Grace Baggott, Hannah Balfour, Alex Black, Gabrielle Bristow, Lauren Brown,
Emily David, Kerrie-Anne Dowdell, Caroline Duff, Ciaran Edwards, Caitlin
Edwards, David Edwards, Daniel Gillmore, Molly Hamilton, Kirsten Howard-Bailey,
Laura Jane Lee, Beth Lindsay, Edward Michael Lloyd, Christopher Michael
Lowman, Danny McGonagle, Holly Rose Martorana, Kealan Moore, Darragh Morris,
George W. B. Mulvany-Dear, Stuart Nixon, Martha Rose North, Natasha Syred-Paul,
Hannah Rose Ralphson, Lewis Rollins, Dominic Royston, Cameron Smith, Dawn
Smith, Daniel Tinney, Harriet Frances Wall, Caitlin White, William Whiting,
Courteney Williams, Sophie Phillippa Woodward, George Lawson Woodward.
Vacancy
for a Foundation Governor at St. Jude’s Catholic Primary School
Bishop Crispian, who has absolute discretion in the appointment of Foundation
Governors, is seeking applications from committed Baptized Catholics who
wish to be considered. The governors of a Catholic School work as a team,
in close co-operation with the headteacher and all staff. In addition
to the legal responsibilities of the Governing Body, the Foundation Governors
have a responsibility for preserving the religious character of the school,
sustaining and developing the school as a Catholic educating community
in accordance with Canon Law and the teaching of the Catholic Church and
giving witness, as individuals, and as a team, to the Gospel message and
the Church’s teaching. Appropriate training is available during
the period of service. Lack of experience in education in a Catholic school
should not deter anyone from applying if there is a genuine desire to
serve the mission of the Church. Application packs are available from
the Parish Priest, School Office or the Department for Schools Governance
at Park Place Pastoral Centre. Closing date for receipt of applications
is 25th June 2005.
Douai
Abbey Pastoral Programme
Events in June:
Healing
Grief – Nicholas Broadbridge OSB – Friday 17th
June to Sunday 19th June.
To God
through Music – Gervase Holdaway OSB Friday 24th June
to Sunday 26th June.
Full details of these
courses are on the notice board.
Finance
Thank you for your generosity in giving.
Offertory Collection - £1612.15
Forthcoming
Collections
Peter’s Pence – 26th June
Are
You New?
Are you new to this parish? If you have recently moved to this area, please
fill in one of the 'Are you new?' forms to be found at the entrance to
the church and return this to Father Chris or to the Parish Office. Alternatively
complete our online form.
Interested
in Becoming a Catholic?
A series of meetings and talks takes place each year for those interested
in becoming a member of our Church. If you would like to know more, please
contact Father Chris, or complete the online
form
Fr Chris Whelan
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