Someone
to Pray for?
Please tell your ‘Community Correspondent’, or ring the Newsletter
Secretary, 265533.
All
Saints Parish
Bereavement Support Group
Providing advice, support and help in times of grief All six Parish Communities
have trained bereavement befrienders:
Josephine Hurley, Stephen Rumsey, Mike Coombes, Sister Justina Morrin,
Kath Bown, Jim McDonnall, Sister Brigid Cantwell, Mary Culley, Joan Moran,
Lillie Fennell
If you would like to speak to someone please get in touch: Telephone:
All Saints Parish office (01633) 265533 or
Josephine Hurley (01633) 256037
Write to The Bereavement Support Group at
2 Livingstone Place, Newport NP19 8EY
Tel (01633) 250118
Email: AllSaintsBSG@live.co.uk
HOSPITAL?
Are you, someone in your family,
or a Catholic friend, in hospital now, or going into hospital soon?
When you go into hospital, they ask you your religion. However, this and
all the other details you give are private, and no-one else will be told;
not the chaplains, not Sister Veronica, not the priests who visit the
hospital. If you want Communion, care, or just a visit from the Church,
you or your relatives have to inform Sister Veronica or one of the Priests
or Sisters or the Parish Office that you are there. Please let the Catholic
Chaplain know, Sister Veronica, 01633 858539 or via the hospital chaplaincy
office, 234263. In a hospital emergency, the Hospital switchboard can
page the On-Duty Priest for you.
How
do I Book a Mass Intention? If you want someone to be remembered
at Mass, please write down the person’s name, whether they are alive
(for their intention) or have died (for the repose of their soul), the
church in which you want Mass, and if there is a particular date on which
you wish Mass to be said for them. This is usually written on an envelope,
in which you can enclose a ‘stipend’ (originally the wherewithal
for the priest to live that day, though now more of a ‘tip’
for him). All of this should then be given to one of the priests, for
entry into the list of Mass requests, to be said on the specified date,
or when next there is the opportunity.
For
More Information of the
Missal Translation
A
Request from the Archbishop:
“The current Archdiocesan website is under review and Archbishop
Stack would like to hear from you. Please
can you take no more than 5 minutes to complete the online survey to help
us improve the current website?
The survey is on the news page, http://www.rcadc.co.uk/news.html”
The ‘Street Pastors’ have
been watching and praying on the streets of Newport for two years now,
helping and rescuing many late night revellers. Some of the original volunteers
are now retiring, so new helpers are sought. If you could help, either
on the streets or at the ‘night base’, please contact Les Tugwell
on 764650.
The Emmaus Community offers both a home, and work, for
people who are homeless, and it provides a family for the ‘companions’.
A further meeting is planned (date t.b.a.) to broaden the appeal. Anyone
who would like further information, please contact Pat Drewett on 07929775040.
All
Saints Parish
MISSION STATEMENT
"Making
the Word of God come alive and active
to lift up each person in the wider community.
'Let your light so shine before all
that they may see your good works
and so give glory to your Father in heaven'."
May is traditionally the
‘Month of Mary’ within the Easter Season. This May each community
of the Parish is asked to have a ‘Travelling Statue’ to be taken
from house to house and family to Family for the prayer of the Rosary
each week. Watch out for notice of who will organise the journey in your
Community, volunteer for your week, and invite your friends and neighbours
to join you. The journeys will end in a Rosary Rally and Celebration for
the whole Parish in Saint Anne’s on the evening of Thursday 31st
May.
‘You
are already pruned, by the Word’:
Sharing the Word of God is central to the Mass, and essential for our
life and fruitfulness as Christians. The “Wednesday Word”
is helping us savour, enjoy, and grow with the Word of God week by week.
But the Word needs always to be spoken and heard: so thank you to all
those who share in this task and grace in the Parish, as Ministers of
the Word proclaiming the Scriptures to us in Mass and breaking the Word
open for the Children in the Children’s Liturgy of the Word; as Catechists
sharing the experience of the Word in our Life with both Adults and Children
asking to grow in the Sacramental life; and as Teachers in our Schools.
Congratulations also to all who do this less ‘officially’, but
equally importantly in the “Ministry of Parent”, sharing
your experience of living the Word of God, and being the lived and living
Gospel for your children.
‘Take
and Eat, take and Drink’: On the feast of the Body and Blood
of Christ, 10th June, the Ministers of Communion will be invited to
renew their commitment, and new Ministers will be Commissioned. On
Thursday 24th May there will be a training evening for new Ministers
of Communion: Is this the branch of the vine where you are called
to bear fruit? Don’t wait to be asked, ask yourself, and talk
to one of the Ministers at Mass on Sunday, or to one of the priests,
and ‘come and see’ on the 24th.
And what about those who
no longer come? “CROSSING THE THRESHOLD” is a nation-wide
initiative to skill up on inviting ‘nonchurchgoing Catholics’
back in. On Saturday 23rd June we are invited to Saint Illtyd’s
School, Cardiff for a day of talks, teaching, and resources. Please
Ring 265533 to book a place,
or go to mission.volunteer@cbcew.org.uk’.
16
– 35? Looking for your place? Why not try INVOCATION 2012 at
Oscott, Birmingham, for the weekend of 6th–8th July.
Full details at
www.invocation.org.uk
The
Newport Justice and Peace Group offers us this
reflection: The Lord’s Prayer for Justice Our Father...
Who always stands with the weak, the
powerless, the poor, the abandoned, the
sick, the aged: the very young, the
unborn, and those who by victim of
circumstance, bear the heat of the day. Who is in heaven...
Where everything will be reversed,
where the first will be last and the last
will be first, but where all will be well
and every manner of thing will be well. Holy be Your Name...
May we always acknowledge your
holiness, knowing that your ways are not
our ways, your standards are not our
standards. May our reverence for you
pull us out of the selfishness that
prevents us from seeing the pain of our
neighbour. Your kingdom come...
Help us to create a world where, beyond
our own needs and hurts, we will do
justice, love kindness and walk humbly
with you and our neighbours.
Teach us our own poverty, and to receive
your kingdom as a gift by the power of
your Spirit. Your will be done...
Open our freedom to let you in
so that the completeness that characterizes you
might flow through our veins, and thus
the life that we help generate may radiate your equal
love for all and your special love for the poor. Teach
us to partner with you as you renew and redeem
creation. Give us this day...
Give us life and love; teach us to receive
your life so that we may in turn give it
away. Give not just to our own but to
everyone, including those who are very
different than the narrow "us." Give us
this day and not tomorrow. Do not let us
push things off into some distant future
so we can excuse our passivity or our
apathy. Unveil to us the Presence of your
Kingdom. Our daily bread...
so that each person in the world may
have what they need, enough food, clean
water, clean air, adequate health care,
and access to education. So that we may
learn how simple are our true needs, so
that we may work for a sustainable
world. And forgive us our trespasses...
forgive us our blindness toward our
neighbour, our self-preoccupation, our
racism, our sexism. Forgive us our
capacity for blindness, for believing the
lies about progress, for adopting a
consumer lifestyle. As we forgive those who trespass
against us...
help us to forgive those who take
advantage of us. Help us to forgive
imperfect parents, impersonal
corporations and the systems that
wounded them and us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us
from evil, for yours is the Kingdom, and the
Power, and the Glory, forever...
Amen.
Lent Fast Day collection:
Our parish raised £ 2,512.31.
Together with the government's match funding, this means we've actually
raised
£ 5,024.62 for people living in poverty. Thank you so much for
your generosity. Our prayers, fasting, and donations are helping families
to drink clean water and live healthier, happier lives. Remember Zimi
from the Fast Day leaflet? She says: "Water is very precious. I
would like to say a big thank you for your help."
Find out more about CAFOD and the Younger Generation
Monthly Holy Hour
for the Parish: Thursdays 5pm
Adoration, prayer, and worship,
in SaintMichael’s Church: All are invited.
THE
WEDNESDAY WORD
The Wednesday Word is a national prayer mission which
links parish and schools through regular weekly prayer. Full details
about the mission can be found at www.wednesdayword.org
Each week the Parish Version of The Wednesday Word will be
made available for us to take home. Please do take a copy home today
and start to pray with it in spiritual solidarity with many parishioners
throughout the country, and with all the families of our Primary Schools,
– that they be touched by the Gospel, their faith be deepened,
and that their lives in Christ flourish: The Schools Version
of ‘The Wednesday Word’ will be distributed to all the families
of our four Primary Schools each week.
DEVELOPING
OUR GIFTS –
VOLUNTEERING OUR TALENTS
As announced at the Parish All Saints Celebration, the Pope has announced
a Year of Faith to start on October 11th 2012, a month and a day before
our November 12th anniversary the Catholic Presence in Newport. Marking
the 50th anniversary of the 2nd Vatican Council, this will strengthen
and deepen our celebrations, asking us to make it a year of sharing
Faith, studying Scripture, and re-visit the documents of the Council.
As a Parish, and as individual communities, we are challenged to work
together and prepare our response and involvement in this anniversary
and year of Faith, a call to give value to the continued Catholic
presence in our city.
