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The Diocese of Arundel & Brighton
is a Reg. Charity No. 252878
.
3rd July 2011
14th Sunday Year A
John Southern R.I.PJohnx St Mary Magdalene’s, St Martha’s, Our Lady of the Rosary
‘s The Catholic Parish serving Bexhill-on-Sea, Little Common,
Sidley and the surrounding areas.
I will bless your name for ever, O God my King
Sometimes just looking at the numerous Religion should not make life more
activities going on in the Parish, the burdensome. If Jesus placed any
commitments and challenges that lie ahead in burden on us at all, it was that of
Parish, Deanery, the Diocese and beyond; loving one another. But if we have
make me a feel a little anxious and sometimes “love” that is no burden at all. He
even despondent. There is so much I would doesn’t take our burdens from us (it
like to be able to do for others, but sometimes would be wrong to think that), but he
Confirmation there are just not the hours in the day or the gives us the strength to carry them. It
Mass with days in the week! The Bishop alluded to this seems to me, that while faith makes
feeling at his Mass for the Jubilarians at all things possible, love makes all
Bishop Kieran Arundel on Thursday. things easy!
Saturday 2nd July Then I hear the words of today’s gospel,
11:00am spoken doubtless to people who busy
St Mary Magdalene’s themselves and find it hard to stop and take
time just to be!
Congratulations to: “Come to me all you who labour and
James Bird overburdened and I will give you rest”. These
Eleanor Docksey are among the loveliest words in the Gospel.
Alastair Getty
it signifies Life can be burdensome at times. There is
Maisie Hill
Patrick Hills worry, responsibility, guilt (often that other
Hannah Jones people try and project onto you), hurts,
` disappointments, bitterness, relationship
Elliott Lusted
coffee difficulties etc. Worries about the future too!
Tobias MacDonald
Darcy McCavana Yet the smallest of things can lift a burden or
`
Alice McKenna at least lighten it - a little sensitivity, a word or
Daniel McKenna gesture of appreciation, someone’s
Sean Ruffell forgiveness, understanding or their patience.
Gregory Simpson
fro Jesus lived among ordinary people. He knew
Elizabeth Terry
to people’s struggles, difficulties and
Harry Turner
frustrations. He was aware of the heavy
Lucy Whittaker We pray for our Diocesan
burdens placed upon people.
21st March
Confirmed this Priests who will be taking up
weekend! Jesus felt for ordinary people and wanted to new appointments in September
lighten their burdens. People came to him with Fr Chris Spain will be moving
We thank their burdens of sickness and misery. All of
the young people, to Redhill (see p3).
them felt a sense of their burdens being
parents & families, David King has been
lightened by his very presence. He could bring
catechists & sponsors, peace, calm and re-assurance to those who felt appointed to Our Lady of
St Richard’s College Ransom Eastbourne.
anguished, lost or afraid.
Bishop Kieran,
Priests, servers, But regarding his own burden, Jesus merely
musicians & singers, shrugged it off “My yoke is easy and my
& all involved with burden light”. Jesus took on the burdens of so
today’s liturgy. many – yet he carried those burdens with love.
Only love can make a heavy burden seem light.
~~~~~~
Parish office closed Some of our burdens may be baggage which
we could (and maybe should) let go of.
this Thursday.
PARISH NEWS Page 2 of 4
Please pray for those who have recently died – Ivan Dupres, Monica Hoad, Eileen Hennessy & Heidi Lette.
We pray for the sick especially: Olga Alexandrou, Tom Arthur, Colin Bestley, Millie Blunt, Michael Bottrill, Colin
Brignall, Hedy Conder, Denis Conner, Winifrede Connellan, Jim Davies, Raquel Eldin, Paul Foster, Gabrielle Harris, Curtis
Herring-Smeath, Joan Hooker, Robert & Beryl Jones, Lily Long, Philomena & George T. Lowry, Pauline McKinney, Frances
McNaughton, Samira Mayal, Mary Murphy, Elizabeth Newton, Doreen O’Donovan, Dennis Patterson, Bill & Evelyn Parker, Pat
Payne, Richard Peters, Anne Pilling, Eileen Purfield, Anne Marie Rothwell, Thomas Searle, Rosemary Skyling, David Spooner,
Vera Stevens, Margaret Taylor, Rosemary Traynor, Dave Waller and Desmond Woolf.
Thank you.
Plate Summer
Prayer Cycle
. Hymn
Collections This week: St Marks
Singing 2011
th (Johnathan Frais
26 June Sunday Evenings - 8pm-8.30pm
st
1 Plate Collection Next week: Crowhurst Healing Centre
On the lawns opposite The Sackville (Kath Batte)
£1268.00 (Sackville Rd Methodist Church if wet)!
+Gift Aid £851.15 Terri Barton’s Leaving Party
2
nd
Plate Collection David Kings Ordination Terri is off to Australia. We will be having a
Special Schools in Coach Trip farewell do in St Mary Magdalene’s hall after
Bexhill the 10am Mass on Wednesday 6th July as part
A lot of people have been asking
£126.83 of the Wednesday Club.
questions about this.
+Gift Aid £128.50
10:30am (prompt) Depart Cabrini Children’s Society
*********
rd
St Mary Magdalene’s Church Cabrini would like to express their thanks for
3 July
Balances can be paid on the coach. your recent generous donation of £443.75.
Peter’s Pence
Maps will be provided for Open Spaces Lourdes Cup
********* for Picnic Lunch
th (Bring your own) Sun 24th July 2011
10 July
The annual Lourdes Cup 5-aside charity
Apostleship of the Sea or places to Eat in Ashtead soccer tournament (for adults) is at St
After the 3pm Ordination Richard’s on Sunday 24th July from 2pm till
********* we are all invited to the reception with 6pm. To enter a team, or to join a team, please
refreshments. ring or text Peter Dolan on 07980-985591.
07:00pm Depart Ashtead Entry fee £15 per team. Spectators &
09:15pm Arrive back volunteer referees welcome.
St Mary Magdalene’s Church
CATENIAN Presidents Sunday
David King’s First Mass for Next Sunday we welcome our Bexhill
this parish Sat 23rd July CATENIANS to the 11am Mass at St Mary
Magdalene’s as they celebrate their annual
Parishioners Ron Brazier, Mary Carroll Presidents Sunday. We welcome Denis Cronin
Conquest & Julia Dance are organising a personal
collection to be presented to David after
and the Bexhill circle, together with their
wives and families. Please feel free to talk to
Hospital this Mass. any of them about the CATENIAN
For the party in St Mary Magdalene’s Association with any of them after the Mass.
Chaplaincy hall, following this Mass, contributions
of plates of food or bottles will be most Sponsor Request - Fr Bruno
For a visit from one of Fr Bruno will be serving as a chaplain for the
the Catholic welcome. The hall will open from 5pm.
young people of the diocese at this summer’s
Chaplaincy Team David will celebrate the 6pm Mass World Youth Day. 130 young people from
for Anointing, (with music) on Saturday 23rd July Arundel & Brighton will spend 12 days in
Holy Communion, followed by a celebration in St Mary Spain this August where the highlight will be a
or a general visit, Magdalene’s Hall and a shared supper. vigil & Mass celebrated by the Pope in the
please contact: (He will also celebrate the 9am and presence of over 1 million young people from
The Conquest 11am Mass on Sunday 24th). all over the world. The Parish will sponsor
Chaplaincy team on: We invite all parishioners to keep £300 from its Youth Fund. Fr Bruno needs to
raise £700 to enable him to go. If anyone in
01424 757088 David (who spent his pastoral year
the parish would be willing to make a donation
with us) in prayer at this time.
he would be most grateful.
PARISH NEWS Page 3 of 4
This Month’s Parish Diary to 23rd July 2011
Page 3 of
11am St MM Church 4
nd
Sat 2 Confirmation Ceremony with Bishop Kieran
nd
Sat 2 Catenian family mass – 300 Cooden Drive 3:30pm
th
Tues 5 Deanery Clergy Annual Summer Lunch at Hastings
th
Tues 5 St Richard’s Governors (Fr Chris to attend) 5:00pm St Richard’s
th
Wed 6 Leaving Party for Terri Barton 10:40am St MM Hall
th
Wed 6 Finance Committee Lunch 12 noon (please be prompt)
th
Wed 6 Mass to celebrate “Confirmation 2011” 2:30pm St Richard’s
th
Thurs 7 St Padre Pio Meeting followed by lunch in restaurant 10:45am Prayer room
th
Thurs 7 Mass of celebration for those who made their First Communion 2011 2:00pm St MM Primary
th
Sun 10 Sea Sunday (with second Collection for the Apostleship of the Sea) All Masses
th
Sun 10 Bexhill CATENIAN Presidents Sunday at 11am Mass 11:00am St MM Church
th
Sun 10 Parish Open Gardens and Cream Tea See below!
th
Tues 12 St Mary Magdalene’s Year 6 Retreat Day 9:30am Presbytery
th
Wed 13 St Richard’s Sports Day (Fr Chris to attend)
th
Wed 13 Year 6 leavers play (Fr Chris to attend) 6:30pm St MM Primary
th
Fri 15 Fr Chris at celebration Mass “St Mary Star of the Sea School” 11:00am Hastings
th
Sat 16 David Kings Ordination and Parish Coach Trip to Ashtead, Surrey 10:30am St MMs
th
Tues 19 Primary School Leaver’s Mass 10:00am St MM Church
th
Wed 20 Three churches in Little Common 11:30am St Martha’s
th
Wed 20 Priests at Vespers in Eastbourne to celebrate Jubilee of Fr Raglan 7:00pm Eastbourne
st
Thurs 21 St Richard’s End of Academic Year Mass A.M.
st
Thurs 21 St Mary Magdalene's Primary Staff Party at the Presbytery 7:00pm Presbytery
rd
Sat 23 Celebration of David King’s ordination as he celebrates the Mass 6:00pm St MM Church
Fr Chris writes … “It seems a long time has past now since I joined you back in 2000 as the First Diocesan
Parish Priest for Bexhill, following on from the Rosminian Order who had served the Community for just over 100 years.
Now, Bishop Kieran has invited me to embark on a new challenge and a new chapter of my Priesthood.
I have been asked to serve as Moderator of the Combined Parishes of St Joseph’s - Redhill, The Holy Family – Reigate
and St Theresa’s – Merstham. The Parish is called “The Nativity of the Lord” and operates as a team ministry currently
with three priests and a deacon. Over the next four to five years there will be a lot of building work and continued work
to shape the new parish as we will seek to work as team in continuing the ministry and mission of the Church in that
part of Surrey.
I will of course be extremely sad to leave Bexhill and the wonderful Churches and Schools that have become my foster
family. I will miss all of you who have shared so much love, warmth and understanding with me. I ask your prayers as I
prepare for change and challenge; and for all the other Priests of the Diocese who are moving Parish this year.
I am very pleased to say that Fr David Parmiter has been appointed to serve this Parish (some of you may remember
him from his time as Assistant Priest at Our Lady of Ransom, Eastbourne, where he served with Fr Seamus). Fr David
is looking forward to his time here in Bexhill (where he and Fr Bruno will continue to minister) I know he will be made to
feel extremely welcome.
I am away for a week at the end of July and will be moving before the end of August. With packing, preparation, and
fulfilling existing Baptisms, Weddings and other engagements, I will not be able to take on too much more; but I look
forward to my final weeks here, and hopefully with time for a few more seafront walks!
Thank you for your anticipated prayers and personal support. Fr Chris Spain
Parish Summer Fayre Parish Open Gardens & Cream Tea
Sunday 10th July 2.30pm – 5.00pm
St Mary Magdalene’s Hall ~ Saturday July 9th
Few tickets available at £5 – please contact us by
We need your support to make this next event a success for the Friday – Claire & Ron 844177
Parish. Boxes are at the back of our Churches for your donations.
There will be tickets available on the day at £3 for
Week 4: Groceries (last week) the gardens only available from:
nd rd
Week 5: Prizes for the Raffle (2 /3 July) 10 Concorde Close (off Ellerslie Lane)
or 26 Winston Drive
Donations of homemade produce – cakes, jams, marmalade where full instructions will be given
etc. will be very welcome & can be donated nearer the day. NB. On some instruction sheets already issued Concorde
Close has been wrongly named Concorde Crescent
Help is still needed. All profits to St Michael’s Hospice.
Information: Eileen 215063 / Helga 848504 Phone Clare & Ron on 844177
or see them at St Martha’s.
Parish Info… PARISH NEWS Page 4 of 4
The Presbytery Parish Mass Diary and Intentions
St Mary Magdalene’s Parish Mass Diary and Intentions
Sea Road nd
Sat 2 July
Bexhill on Sea St Mary Magdalene’s 9:45 – 10:30 Confessions *
E. Sussex St Mary Magdalene’s 11:00am Confirmations Mass (Int: Matilda Dyer RIP)
TN40 1RH All welcome
300 Cooden Drive 3:30pm Family House Mass – All welcome (see p3)
Phone: 01424 210263
St Mary Magdalene’s 5:00pm Confession
14th Sunday Year A
Priests:
(Zechariah 9:9-10, Romans 8:9. 11-13, Matthew 11:25-30)
Fr Chris Spain St Mary Magdalene’s 6:00pm th
David Herring 90 Birthday GE
chris.spain@dabnet.org rd
Sunday 3 July Sun
Fr Bruno Witchalls St Martha’s 9:00am People of the Parish
Our Lady of the Rosary 10:00am Delia Gavin RIP Our
Also Resident: St Mary Magdalene’s 11:00am Betty Arrow RIP
Fr Séamus Hester St Mary Magdalene’s 1:00pm Baptism Lucy Chapman
St Mary Magdalene’s 6:00pm Greg Johnston RIP
Administrators: {Second collection is for Peter’s Pence }
Please use blue envelopes
Anita Hooper th
Mon 4 July
Bonita Osmond-Maher St Mary Magdalene’s 10:00am Lawrence Wharton RIP
stmm@btconnect.com th
Tues 5 July
St Mary Magdalene’s 10:00am Frank Porter RIP
Parish Office th
Wed 6 July
Wed - Fri Our Lady of the Rosary 9:00am Shipperlee O’Malley families & Alfred Shipperlee RIP
9am - 1pm St Mary Magdalene’s 10:00am Ron McGowan RIP
Finance:
th
Thurs 7 July
St Martha’s 9:00am Margaret GE
Charles Durrant St Mary Magdalene’s 10:00am th
Chris Joseph 9 Birthday in thanksgiving
stmm.finance@btconnect.com th
Fri 8 July
St Mary Magdalene’s 10:00am Funeral of Hilde Lett RIP followed by Eastbourne
Hospitals Crematorium
St Mary Magdalene’s 12 noon Benediction
Conquest Hastings th
Sat 9 July
Phone: 01424 757088
St Mary Magdalene’s 9:30am Confessions
Bexhill - Irvine Unit St Mary Magdalene’s 10:00am Holy Souls
Contact: Sr. Collette St Mary Magdalene’s 12:30pm Wedding of Andrew Copley & Frances Hilton
Phone: 01424 214818 St Mary Magdalene’s 5:00pm Confession
15th Sunday Year A
Parish Schools
(Isaiah 55:10-11, Romans 8:18-23, Matthew 13:1-23)
St Richard’s
Catholic College St Mary Magdalene’s 6:00pm Olimpio Forte RIP
th
Sunday 10 July
Principal: St Mary Magdalene’s 8:00am Priests Intentions (1962 Missal, Traditional Mass)
Miss Doreen Cronin St Martha’s 9:00am Priests Intentions
Chaplaincy: Our Lady of the Rosary 10:00am Delia Gavin RIP
Angela Brennan St Mary Magdalene’s 11:00am Catenian Intentions Denis Cronin President Sunday
Phone: 01424 731070 St Mary Magdalene’s 6:00pm People of the Parish
Fax: 01424 215623 {Second collection is for Apostleship of the Sea}
Please use blue envelopes
St Mary Magdalene’s
Primary School Next Sunday is Sea Sunday – when the Church remembers all
Head: Mrs P. Longmire who live and work at Sea. Seafarers are commonly recruited from poorer
Phone: 01424 735810 countries where wages are lower. Seafarers work in difficult and often dangerous
Fax: 01424 733664 conditions suffering from loneliness, spiritual deprivation and even exploitation as
St Mary Magdalene’s they transport the goods we consume and use every day. The AoS reaches out to
Independent Nursery seafarers offering pastoral and practical care and support. It takes the love of Christ
to seafarers in the name of the Church, recognising them as our brothers and sisters
Supervisor: Mrs Kay Darby in need. Their ministry cannot continue without you, so please give generously next
Phone: 01424 224499 Sunday. For more information … www.apostleshipofthesea.org.uk
