Charity Number: 234091 / HEART TO HEART
The Newsletter of the Sacred Heart Parish
148 Ashcroft Road, Stopsley, Luton LU2 9AY ( 723099
Web site: sacredheartluton.org e mail:
Fr Chris Whitehouse (Parish Priest), Rev James Bannan (Deacon), Diana Enstone (Parish Secretary)
Jenny Dowsett & Sandra Dias (Pastoral area reps) Margaret Berry & Pat Abela (Safeguarding)
Hospital Chaplain: Fr Michael Patey ( 663706 Hospice: Fr Tony Brennan ( 502400
Sacred Heart School: ( 730781 Cardinal Newman School: ( 597125
1st Sunday of Advent Psalter week 1 27th November 2016
Saturday:
Sunday: / 6.30pm
9.00am
11.00am / Holy Souls November List
Holy Souls November List
People of our Parish /
First Mass of Sunday
Readings Year A (Matthew)
Monday / 9.30am / Holy Souls November List
Tuesday / 9.30am / Eucharistic Service
Wednesday / 7.30pm / Holy Souls November List / ST ANDREW, Apostle & Patron of Scotland
Thursday / 9.30am / Augusta & Pedro Nunes RIP / St Edmund Campion, Martyr
Friday / 9.30am / Jose Gose RIP / School Mass
Saturday / 6.30pm / Harry Sheridan RIP
Entrance
antiphon /

TO YOU,I LIFT UP MY SOUL O MY GOD. IN YOU, I HAVE TRUSTED, LET ME NOT BE PUT TO SHAME. NOR LET MY ENEMIES EXULT OVER ME & LET NONE WHO HOPE IN YOU BE PUT TO SHAME.

Psalm Response /

I REJOICED WHEN I HEARD THEM SAY, LET US GO TO GOD’S HOUSE.

Gospel
Acclamation / Alleluia, alleluia! LET US SEE, O LORD, YOUR MERCY AND GIVE US YOUR SAVING HELP. Alleluia!
Communion Antiphon: / THE LORD WILL BESTOW HIS BOUNTY
& OUR EARTH SHALL YIELD ITS INCREASE.

CONFESSIONS: Saturdays: 10.00 - 10.25am (with exposition) & 6.00 - 6.15pm

Rosary is prayed twenty minutes before weekday Masses

Morning Prayer of the church is prayed Monday, Thursday & Friday this week at 8.50am

Collection: Last week’s plate collection came to £1,070.44 & Home Mission £497.44. Thank you.

Entrance: / 243 / Hark a herald voice is calling
366 / Light the Advent candle (verse one & chorus)
Gospel Acclamation / 368 / Chorus only
Offertory / 756 / Upon thy table Lord
Recessional / 613 / Promised Lord & Christ is he
Sunday / 6.30pm & 11.00am
12 noon / COG
Parish Gathering for coffee/tea / Hall
Hall
Monday / 9.15am
8.00pm / Parents & Tots
Legion of Mary / Hall
Sacristy
Tuesday / 7.30pm / Readers Meeting
Wednesday / 10.00am
7.30pm / Church cleaning (all welcome)
Confirmation Mass & Parents Meeting / Church
Church
Thursday / 2.00pm / Thursday Club / Hall
Friday / 10.30am / Prayer Group / Church
Saturday / 9.50am / Confirmation Group I, Confessions & Adoration / Church

WELCOME: to Kira Lilia Mazza who is to be baptised into the life of our community this weekend.

PASTORAL LETTER: from Bishop Peter will be read at all Masses this weekend.

READERS: there will be a parish meeting on Tuesday 29th November at 7.30pm in church, prior to recommissioning on weekend 3/4 December (Bible Sunday). Please come along to this meeting & anyone who would like to read at Mass.

ADVENT: means “coming” and we begin the church’s new year with four weeks to focus spiritually on the person of Christ and his coming to us. The Gospel this year will be from St Matthew, Year A. Please do your best promote the true meaning of Christmas by sending religious greeting cards. The Repository has a good stock of items for Advent and Christmas. Please put confessions on your to do list. The Town Penitential Service will be here on Monday 19th December at 7.00pm.

ADVENT 2016 REFLECTIONS: Do You Love Me a series of meetings for us to think about our Catholic Spirituality based on the book from the Spirituality Committee of the Bishop’s Conference of England and Wales. Thursday December 1st, 7th, 14th, & 21st 8 - 9.00pm [Mass at 7.30pm in the church] in Holy Ghost Parish Centre.

NORES: at the start of a new liturgical year, beginning with the first Sunday of Advent, there are books for purchase to help Readers with their understanding of the Gospels. The Word of God by Robin Cooper is available for £2.50 incl p&p. Please send a request with cheque payable to RE Service to NORES, 33 Westbourne Rd, Luton, LU4 8JD. Remember to include your return address.

THE ART OF DYING WELL: is a new website that offers a helping hand to those grappling with issues around death and dying. Based on the Catholic tradition but open to all, it features real-life stories dealing with the journey through death to eternal life. The site can be found at: www.artofdyingwell.org Please take a prayer card home with you from the church porch.

C.H.C.F: Mass for those with special needs: Sunday 11th December 3.00pm at St Joseph’s, Gardenia Avenue. There will not be a Mass in January.

RIP: please pray for Daniel Comerford who died recently and whose funeral is Thursday December 8th 11.00am.

ACT OF WITNESS in support of life & against abortion outside the L&D Hospital on Saturday 10th December, 1-2 pm. There continues to be hundreds of unborn children from this area & thousands nationwide, who do not come to birth. Please come, give them a voice.

THANKS: to Maurice Buckley for renovating a parish office.

HOLY SOULS LIST: Fr Chris will celebrate Mass for the Holy Souls on Tuesday at a study day in Leicestershire.

ANNIVERSARIES: Please pray for those whose anniversaries occur at this time, Alfred Barnes 1959, Delores Rodrigues 1969, Annie Mulholland 1971, Kate Fagan 1978, Thomas Brewerton 1999, Bridget Walsh 1959, Mary McLoughlin 1969, Mary Dolan 1988, Theresa Caldbeck 1991, Julia Walsh 1969, John Nugent 1974, Albert James Hand 2013, Joseph Early 2014, Joseph Gilhaneaney1987, Marcella Franklin 1965, Francis McCrudden 1983, Stephan Curtis 1996, Sarah Garlick 1998, Mary-Ann Walsh 1974, Mary O’Donoghue 1983, Eric Fowler 1987, Mary Cassidy 1991, Maggie Hayes 2002, Mary (Bridget) Hope 2013, Louise Taylor 1969 & Charlotte Mary Byrne 2011. XMay their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen