St Bede’s, Usworth
Monday, 2.00pm Ladies Club (Hall)
5.00pm Cleaning Team A
7.00pm Vocations Prayer Group (Church)
Tuesday, 6.30pm: Adoration.
7.30pm: Coffee Evening (Hall).
Wednesday, 12 noon: Keep Fit. cancelled
Friday: Hunger Lunch 12 noon - 1pm (Hall)
Saturday 12 noon-12.30pm: Confession.
200 Club: Subscriptions for the September draw will be
collected after both Masses this weekend.
Church Cleaning Rota: Please collect the new rota from
the back of the church.
Saturday 10 September, 11am: Latin mass at St Bede's in
celebration of the 51st anniversary of the church, followed
by refreshments in the hall.
St John Boste, Oxclose
Tuesday after Mass: Exposition.
Wednesday during Mass: Exposition.
7.30pm: Bible Study - cancelled
Saturday, 9.40am: Morning Prayer.
The church heating boilers will be replaced on Monday
10 October. The heating will be out of action for a few
days (hopefully the winter will not have started by then!)
Our Lady Queen of Peace, Penshaw
Prayer of the Church: 15 minutes before Mass / service.
Monday, 6 - 6.45pm: Exposition & confessions.
Monday, 7.30pm: Women’s Guild. New members
welcome.
Tuesday, 7.30pm: Bingo (Parish Centre) all are welcome.
Friday, 9am - 7pm: Adoration. (Evening prayer 6.40pm).
Our Blessed Lady, Washington
Wednesday to Saturday 8:45am: Morning Prayer.
Thursday & Saturday 8am: Exposition.
Thursday: Drop-in appeal for September will be Children
& Teenage Cancer Research
Cleaning: Group 2.
600 Club subscriptions: Collected on Sunday 4
September.
New Reader Lists: available at the back of the church
Parish Remembrance Book: If you wish any names to be
added please let us know their name with the month and
year of death. We will have them entered before the
November remembrance service.
Parish Information
Church Activities: Please inform Anne Casey Tel: 0191
4162262.
A collection will be taken next Sunday for Catholic
Education
Craft Group Meetings: restart on Monday 5 September at
7.00pm in St. John’s, then every Monday after. Everyone
welcome. Please bring cardigans and hats already knitted
for Zambia. Thank you.
Saturday 10 September, 11.30am at Ushaw College: The
Shield of Faith: Ushaw College at War. Explores the role
played by members of the Ushaw community during the
First World War. Contact Anne Timothy, 3345119.
The Peru Mission: At each of the Masses on 10 & 11
September some of the team who went to Peru this year
will be giving a short talk about the experience. One of the
group will be doing the Great North Run for The Peru
Mission on that Sunday and we will have buckets at the
back of church to allow anyone who wishes to make a
contribution towards the work of The Peru Mission. Thanks
you for all of your support throughout this year.
Harvest Fast Day CAFOD are coming to our Parish to talk
about their work in Bolivia which is the theme of this years
Harvest Fast Day. It will be given by David Cross and
Jeremy Cain from the North East office and will be held at
Our Lady Queen of Peace on Thursday 15 September from
7.00 p.m. until 8.30 p.m. Refreshments will be available
before and after the talk. Please come along and support
the work done by CAFOD. See the notice in the back of
church for further details.
"A heartfelt thank you to a wonderful parish community;
you will never know how much your cards, prayers, love
and support have helped sustain us through this very difficult time. Jamie's requiem was an uplifting and comforting
experience for all of us. In our family over the last six
weeks we have experienced a birth, a death and a marriage. We want you to know that God, who is love, has
been abundantly present through all of these times. God
bless you all and thank you again".
Rev Chas & Cath Ferguson.
Diocesan Asylum Seekers & Refugee Service: Please
remember your tins of corned beef and any other foods
necessary to feed needy people
Future information
A collection for Home Mission will be taken on Sunday 18
September.
Sat 17th - Sun 18 September, Brave of Heart, a Weekend
Journey for Men. Come and find all that God has prepared
for your masculine heart - Inspiring & challenging talks,
fellowship & sharing with other Christian men, walk in the
Lake District, and much more! Cor et Lumen Christi,
Wigton, CA7 9HU. Donation only event. To book or for
more information: Tel: 016973 45623 or 07516 075896
www..coretlumenchristi.org Email: stcuthberts@coretlume
nchristi.org
Bishop Seamus will be celebrating Mass at St John Boste
church on Thursday 22nd September at 7pm. The Mass
will be the Candidacy Mass which marks the transition of
Tony Joy from his discernment year for the Diaconate to
starting the formation proper. There will be refreshments
available afterwards. It would be good to have a full church
for the bishop’s visit and everyone from all the churches in
our parish will be very welcome.
Services this week
Please note there are extra Masses this week
Mon
05
Sept
Tue
06
Sept
Wed
07
Sept
Thu
08
Sept
Fri
09
Sept
Sat
10
Sept
SB
09.05
Priest’s Intention
SJ
OLQP
SJ
OLQP
OBLI
SB
SB
OBLI
OLQP
SJ
SB
SJ
OBLI
OLQP
09.15
19.00
09.15
09.30
12.15
19.00
09.05
09.15
19.00
19.00
09.05
09.15
10.00
10.00
Communion Service
David Bentham
Priest’s Intention
Mary & John Cosgrove
S.V.P. Intentions
John Liddle
OBLI
09.15
Intentions of those who are
housebound
SJ
SB
OLQP
OLQP
OBLI
SJ
SB
09.30
10.00
19.00
09.00
09.15
10.00
11:00
Priest’s Intention
Communion Service
The Bentham Family
Communion Service
Deceased Foster Family
Priest’s Intention
Latin Mass 51st Anniversary
In Honour of Our Blessed Lady
Communion Service
Communion Service
Anne & David Crombie & Family
Priest’s Intention
Communion Service
Requiem Mass Maria Keegan
Priest’s Intention
Next Weekend: Sunday 24 C
Vigil
SB
17.00
John Graham
Sun
11
SB
SJ
OLQP
08.30
09.30
10.00
Our Parish Family
Joan Poulton
Joe Foster
Sept
OBLI
11.00
In Thanksgiving Bob Smith 70th
Birthday
OBLI
18.00
Helen & Isobel Muir
Please remember
in your prayers:
Michael Anderson,
Andrew,
Maria Barrell, Vivien Bell,
Debbie Binns,
Billy Bulch, Pat Coyle,
Ophelia Davies,
Willie Day,
Fred and Freda Fletcher
Brian Flurry, Katy Foggin,
Barbara Foster,
Sheila Hepple,
Jonathan Howard (7),
Andrew Hughes,
Vera & Austin Hughes,
Holly Hunter,
Kenny Husband,
Godfrey Keefe,
Annette Keitel,
George McAfferty,
Margaret McArdle,
Joan McHale,
Nancy McHenry,
Rose McMahon,
June Matthews,
Peter Milroy, Madge Mullen,
Maureen Naylor,
George O'Donnell,
Chris Palmer, Mary Parkin,
Brian Purvis,
Monica Rackstraw,
Marie Robson, Molly Shiel,
Ronnie Shields,
Mary Skilcorn,
John Smith, George Stagg,
John Sweeney,
John Tilley,
Vicky Tindall,
Wendy Tufton,
Liz Ward, Harry Watson,
Stephen Willey,
Freda Winter,
Deacon Chas Ferguson
& his family
Fr Mark Millward 4163583
Fr Anthony Cornforth 4163805
(07923683046)
[email protected]
Fr Charles Ndhlovu 4163805
Rev Chas Ferguson 3854573
Rev Frank O’Neill 07791155845
washingtoncatholic.org.uk
St John XXIII
Incorporating:
Our Blessed Lady Immaculate, Washington
Our Lady Queen of Peace, Penshaw
St Bede, Usworth
St John Boste, Oxclose
04 - 05 September 2016: Sunday 23C
To hate / to send away?
Translation is a tricky business! It is so easy to get things wrong,
not because you have insufficient ability, but because it can be
difficult to translate not just the words but the ideas and the
meaning as expressed in a foreign language. One of the problems with the new translation of the mass is that it has been done
under the instruction to translate the Latin text precisely, whereas
previous translators were instructed to translate the sense of the
text, in much the same way as is expected of A-level students
(GCSE students are expected only to translate the actual words).
Also, it is possible that texts are corrupted over time.
When the gospel today says that followers must ‘hate’ their own families, it is a translation of
the Latin word ‘odit’ from which we have the word ‘odious’, which clearly means to hate. But
if we go further back to the original Greek, it uses the word ‘misei’ which also means ’hate’,
but is very similar to another Latin word (‘mittit’, meaning ’to send’). Has there been some
mix-up in these two words at a time when most people spoke Latin but many books were
written in Greek? This would imply that what Jesus really intends is not for us to do any
hating, a word which was hateful to him, but that if we want to be faithful followers of the
gospel then we should not allow anything to come between us and God (we should put it
aside, or send it away), which is the understanding of celibacy in the Church, an idea that
has nothing to do with being unloving, but rather open to loving all people equally and not
being committed to any individual people.
Vigil
Sun
04
Sept
SB
SB
SJ
OLQP
OBLI
OBLI
17.00
08.30
09.30
10.00
11.00
18.00
George & Ena Cornforth
Our Parish Family
Sophia’s Dad for a safe recovery
Eileen Pratt
Paul Bottoms
Our Parish Family