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NEWSLETTER FOR ST JOSEPH’S & THE ENGLISH MARTYRS
Parish Clergy:
Mgr John Nelson
(Parish Priest &
Co-ordinating Pastor)
Fr. Richard Maniak
Registered Charity Number: 246871
64 Liebenrood Road RBH Chaplain: Fr Richard Maniak The Presbytery, Berkshire Drive
Reading, Berkshire, RG30 2EB RBH: 01183227105 Mobile: 07507441185 Tilehurst, Reading, Berkshire, RG31 5JJ
Tel: 0118 957 2149 - email: Email: fr.richman@hotmail.co.uk Tel: 0118 942 8632 e-mail:
englishmartyrs@portsmouthdiocese.org.uk Youth Development Leader sjtilehurst@portsmouthdiocese.org.uk
website: www.englishmartyrs.org.uk Peter McGeady :Tel: 07769258378 or website: www.st-josephs-tilehurst.org.uk
Secretary: Gwen Price pmcgeady@portsmouthdiocese.org.uk Secretary: Sheila Jones
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THE THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME – YEAR B 17 /18 NOVEMBER 2012
Not all continents have four seasons as we do here! My mother often told me how they had two growing seasons in
Tanzania when she was there during the second world war. But we are blessed with four, spring, summer, autumn and
winter and I think that it is important for us, as part of creation, to be in tune with the seasons. For instance, now that it is
autumn we expect it to become colder, the trees to be shedding their leaves and a process of dying to take place. Then,
winter will be a time of waiting, celebrating Christmas! Spring with its freshness in new life and summer opening up its buds
to full flower and fruit! Wow, isn’t nature great! But we have to be in tune with nature to benefit from her wisdom! The
wisdom of nature!
When I came back to Reading I spent a lot of time in the garden. In the autumn I cleared the brambles and the weeds even
an elderberry which must have been seeded by a bird had grown into a large tree. The garden was covered high with
weeds. But I knew what it looked like before and where the path was. So I cleared the way along the path, making large
heaps on either side. When they had dried out I had large bonfires and slowly things were beginning to take shape! Winter
saw a covering of frost and snow over the garden which had been cleared and dug!
In the spring the sunshine revealed a garden ready for preparing for the growing season. Insects awakened from their
winter slumber were now winging their existence around the garden. Vegetables were what I would concentrate on!
Beetroot, cabbage, broccoli, spinach! And when they grew there was no stopping them: spinach grew profusely. Mum
would get annoyed that I would eat a plateful of spinach. Go to the supermarket and get something decent she would say,
but I would just smile!
Getting in tune with nature I think also enabled nature to work on me! Physically I began to shed my own leaves! On the
kitchen wall I would make a note of my weight so that over the course of a year the whole wall was covered. It became
exciting to see my weight dropping, at one time plateauing and then again dropping. I had dropped from nearly 20 stone to
13 stone in one whole year of seasons! The wonder and wisdom of the seasons!
Fr Richard
MASS INTENTIONS
ENGLISH MARTYRS DAYS ST JOSEPH’S
Deceased members of the Rafter & 6.30 pm Vigil
Kelly families RIP
John Bangura 9.30 am Sunday 8.30 am Liam Coleman RIP
Kay Rodgers’ Intentions 11.30 am
John Knox RIP 5.00 pm 10.30 am Catherine Hopes RIP
Bishop Hollis’ Intentions 9.30 am Monday NO MASS
Funeral – Mary Murphy RIP 10.00 am Tuesday 9.00 am Dec’d Members of the parish
Susan Sweeney RIP 9.30 am Wednesday NO MASS 9.30am – Morning Prayer
Mary O’Donoghue RIP 8.00 pm Thursday 9.00 am Samuel & Rachel Morris RIP
Michael McCollam RIP 9.30 am Friday 7.00 pm Dec’d Members of the parish
Saturday 10.00 am Rosita Artuz & Benjamin
Gangon RIP
FEASTS OF THE WEEK:
Wed – Presentation of the BVM Thur – St Cecilia Fri – Ss Clement I & Columbanus Sat – St Andrew Dung-Lac
Thursday – 7-8 pm EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT Saturday - 9.30 – 10 am
Saturday – 5.30-6.15 pm CONFESSIONS – SATURDAY Saturday - 10.30 – 11 am
Responsorial Psalm: “Preserve me, God, I take refuge in you.”
DIARY: A WARM WELCOME TO
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Church Cleaning: Group 3 – 23 November.
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Counters: 25 November – Mr Houseman, Quibein Samuel Nyamekye Marfo and D’Shae Robert
Mrs Lennon, Mrs A. Mullin. Crosby-Donnison are being baptised this weekend.
Next SVP meeting on Monday in Room 1 at 8 pm.
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Sr Maureen’s Retreat will be held on 28 November RIP
(10.30 am-2 pm) in the Sacristy, starting with
refreshments in Room 1. All very welcome. Please
bring a Bible and packed lunch. Please pray for the repose of the soul of
Mary Murphy who died recently and whose
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Collection: 11 November £970.28 Funeral will be held on Tuesday at 10am.
!BEREAVEMENT SERVICE – 3PM NEXT SUNDAY – DIOCESAN YOUTH DAY
ALL WELCOME - FOLLOWED BY REFRESHYMENTS! SATURDAY, 24 NOVEMBER, 1–7 PM
This will be an exciting opportunity for young
Youth Forum people (11+) from the Diocese to gather and
Aged between 11-18 and would like to have a say on celebrate faith. The day includes music, drama, a
how the church is run for young people? Then come to choice of workshops and a youth Mass. Venue:
our meeting. We need a group of young people to Bishop Challoner Secondary School, Basingstoke.
share their views on the church so that we can come Cost £5. A free coach will be travelling from
up with a great plan of action. We need your ideas and Reading. Contact Peter McGeady to book a
a willingness to make a change in the church, place. A signed consent form is needed.
otherwise old people, like myself, will make all the pmcgeady@portsmouthdiocese.org.uk,
decisions. The evening will be fun, a chance to meet 07769258378. www.readingcym.co.uk for forms.
new people and snacks will be provided.
7 - 8.30pm, 20 November, at St James’ Church. SVP Senior Citizens Christmas Party
Contact me, Peter McGeady, if you would like to
attend. pmcgeady@portsmouthdiocese.org.uk The Christmas Lunch and Party organised by the
07769258378. St Vincent de Paul Society for the Senior Citizens
of our Parish will be held in our Church Hall at 1pm
A YEAR OF FAITH – VATICAN 2 th
on Saturday, 15 December. Invitations will be
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Handing on Faith available at all masses over the weekends of 25
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November and 2 December.
‘Faith is a personal act - the free response of the
human person to the initiative of God who reveals If you would like to attend then please return a
himself. But faith is not an isolated act. No one can completed invitation form to any SVP member, or
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believe alone, just as no one can live alone. the Parish Office, by Sunday, 9 December.
You have not given yourself faith as you have not given
yourself life. The believer has received faith from Blessed Hugh Faringdon Catholic School
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others and should hand it on to others. Our love for And 6 Form Centre
Jesus and for our neighbour impels us to speak to VACANCIES for
others about our faith. Each believer is thus a link in Foundation Governors and
the great chain of believers. I cannot believe without Foundation Governors (Parent)
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Closing Date: 30 November 2012
being carried by the faith of others, and by my faith I
help support others in the faith.’ Application forms are available from:
(Catechism of the Catholic Church para 166) The School Office, Fawley Road,
FIRST HOLY COMMUNION – NOVEMBER
st st Reading RG30 3EP. Tel: 0118 957 4730
Wed 21 EM 1 parents Session -
admin@hughfaringdon.reading.sch.uk
8–9pm School Introduction
th st Headteacher’s PA: wiltsj@hughfaringdon.reading.sch.uk
Sat 24 EM 1 children’s session
Please see complete details on the notice board.
9:30am Church Vestments & Vessels
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Sun 25 Sunday Mass – Chris Eggleton who has Motor Neuron Disease
9:30am ‘I am Special’
wishes to set up a rota of family/friends who
Posada Travelling Crib Advent 2012 would be happy to give her a lift to Mass. She
There will be a Posada crib travelling around the parish can get into any car and her preferred mass is
this Advent. If you want to be a host family, keeping the 9:30am, but she is happy to attend any Saturday/
crib overnight, you can hand in your name next Sunday. Sunday masses. With sufficient support each
person will only need to do it a couple of times a
A route will be worked out by area. Those taking part year. If you would be happy to be involved
must arrange the transfer from house to house. For please ring Chris on:01189428962
more details please call Catherine Harrington on Mobile:07723707290
0793265377 or Ann Davis on 01189429924 email: christinaeggleton@btinternet.com.
NEW QUIZ IN AID OF ST JAMES RESTORATION
FUND by Lindsay Mullaney on the theme of the name
James in different languages. Copies cost £2 (not £20)
from the Bookstall.
URGENTLY
NEEDED
DO YOU HAVE AN HOUR OR SO TO
SPARE ONE DAY A MONTH?
THEN WHY NOT JOIN ONE OF OUR TEAMS OF
VOLUNTEERS THAT HELP KEEP OUR LOVELY
CHURCH CLEAN AND WELCOMING.
NOTHING ARDUOUS INVOLVED; JUST SOME
DUSTING, SWEEPING, VACUUMING OR
WHATEVER YOU FEEL HAPPIEST DOING.
SADLY NUMBERS ARE DWINDLING, SO IF THIS
IS SOMETHING YOU THINK YOU COULD
UNDERTAKE THEN PLEASE CONTACT THE PARISH
OFFICE EITHER BY TELEPHONE ON 0118 957 2149
OR
email: englishmartyrs@portsmouthdiocese.org.uk
ALL EQUIPMENT IS SUPPLIED AND REFRESHMENTS
ARE ALSO PROVIDED.
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