PARISH OF ST. BONIFACE, SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON
JULY 17th. & 24th., 2011
SIXTEENTH & SEVENTEENTH SUNDAYS of ORDINARY TIME [A]
“Gather the wheat into my barn” / “He sold all he had and bought that pearl”
Presbytery: St. Boniface House, 413 Shirley Road Southampton SO15 3JD Tel: 023 80771231 Fax: 023 80528236
Parish Clergy: Father David Sillince [Parish Priest], Canon Terry Walsh [in retirement]
Safeguarding Officer: Anne Monaghan 023 80777691 Chair of Parish Pastoral Council: Jane Willcox.
Parish Secretary: Eileen B. Aylett Parish Office opening hours Monday Thursday and Friday 9.00am to 12.30pm
Newsletter deadline 9.00pm on Tuesday for inclusion on following Sunday, space permitting.
Parish Website: www.st-boniface.org.uk Parish Office e mail: office @st-boniface.org.uk
This Parish is within the Pastoral Area of Southampton Central & West. RC Diocese of Portsmouth Regd. Charity 246871
The Church is normally open on weekdays 8am-12noon, Saturdays 8am-11am & 5-7.45pm, Sundays 7.30am-12noon
CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK / We pray especially for:-(Divine Office weeks 4 & 1 )
Saturday / July 16 / ] / 6.30pm / Mass / Canon Dermot MacDermot-Roe
Sunday / July 17 / ] SIXTEENTH SUNDAY of ORDINARY TIME [A] / 8.30am
10.30am / Mass
Mass / Regina Dzień
Monday / July 18 / of week 16 Mission Mass
Mission Talk at St. Edmund’s 7pm / 10.00am / Mass / In thanksgiving [Mathew]
Tuesday / July 19 / of week 16 [St. John Plessington, Martyr †Chester 1679]
The Mission Mass today is at Holy Family 10am
Mission Talk at St. Edmund’s 7pm / 10.00am / Mass / Lily Fitzgerald, RIP
Wednesday / July 20 / of week 16 [St. Apollinaris, Bishop & Martyr †Ravenna
2nd. cent.] Mission Mass
Mission Talk at St. Edmund’s 7pm / 10.00am / Mass / Mentally disabled & their carers
Thursday / July 21 / of week 16 [St. Laurence of Brindisi, Capuchin, Doctor
of the Church †Lisbon 1619]
The Mission Mass today is at Holy Family 10am
Mission Talk at St. Edmund’s 7pm / 10.00am / Mass / Dorothy McLoughlin, RIP
Friday / July 22 / St. Mary Magdalen
[SS. Philip Evans & John Lloyd, Martyrs †Cardiff 1679]
The Mission Mass today is at St. Edmund’s 7pm / 10.00am / Mass / Private Intention [SM]
Saturday / July 23 / Feast of St. BRIDGET, Founder (†Rome 1373)
6.30pm Mass is of 17th. Sunday of Ordinary Time / 10.00am
6.30pm / Mass
Mass / Holy Souls
Rachel Clarke
Sunday / July 24 / SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY of ORDINARY TIME [A] / 8.30am
10.30am / Mass
Mass / Holy Souls
Magda & Robert Maynard
Monday / July 25 / Feast of St. JAMES, Apostle / 10.00am / Mass / Eileen & Margaret de Groen, RIP
Tuesday / July 26 / SS. Joachim & Anne, Parents of Our Lady / 10.00am / Mass / Janet Moran & family
Wednesday / July 27 / of week 17 / 10.00am / Mass / Daria & Dmytro Kundys
Thursday / July 28 / of week 17 [St. Sampson, Bishop †Dol 565] / 10.00am / Mass / Parish music group
Friday / July 29 / St. Martha / 10.00am / Mass / Beatriz & Domingo Ordinaria, RIP
Saturday / July 30 / of week 17 [St. Peter Chrysologus, Bishop & Doctor
of the Church †Imola 450]
6.30pm Mass is of 18th. Sunday of Ordinary Time / 10.00am / Mass / Eileen & Margaret de Groen, RIP
Confessions Saturdays after 10am Mass and from 5.45pm to 6.15pm PARISH PRAYER GROUP: Fridays 11am-12noon in the Hall, all welcome.
REFRESHMENTS in the Hall every Sunday after 10.30am Mass, also Fridays after 10am Mass.
FATHER DAVID is away until July 26. Many thanks to Canon Walsh for saying the weekday Masses and also the Sunday 8.30am Masses, to Father Michael Peters who supplies for 6.30pm and 10.30am Jul 16/17, and to Father David Whitehead from Chandler’s Ford who will do likewise for Jul 23/24. No sinning, now.
THIS IS A DOUBLE NEWSLETTER covering two weeks. Then normal service.
REPOSITORY: FUNDRAISING SALE for repository re-stocking. In the Hall, Saturday Jul 23, 10.30am-12.30pm. Donations of cakes, jam, biscuits, plants and other saleable goods welcome. Contact Jeanne Agacy (023) 8090 7128.
SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY: Ben Burton & Daniela Kostek will marry here on Friday July 29 at 1.30pm. May the Lord bless them all the days of their lives.
COLLECTION:
July 10: Loose £304.88, Envelopes £447.70. Apportionment: Bankers’ Orders £320.00, Gift Aid £180.00. Total £1252.58.
CAFOD ‘Connect2Bangladesh’ charity £59.85 [£5409.34]. Many thanks for these kind contributions.
This weekend [Jul 17]: Building & Maintenance (for July). Also Jul 31 (for August).
THE NEW MISSAL STEP BY STEP:
10– The Eucharistic Prayer (2)
With the exception of Eucharistic Prayer No. I (the Roman Canon) which as we saw last week is based on a different ancient tradition, all the Prayers, though varying in length, follow the same basic pattern:
Lift up your hearts
Preface
Holy, holy ... & Blessed is he ...
Praise of the Father who sends the Holy
Spirit
Calling down of the Holy Spirit on the
bread and wine
The “institution narrative” [from the
Last Supper] and consecration,
beginning with the words “And so /
Therefore / For ...”
Memorial of Christ’s death, resurrection
and ascension
Prayer for the Holy Spirit to abide with
the people, forming a communion
which offers itself to the Father
Intercessions [Pope, Bishop, those
present, living, dead]
Final glorification of God (“doxology”)
and Amen.
While we also have the Bidding Prayers, or Intercessions, at Mass, the “intercessions” here are fixed insertions into the Prayer text. In the early Church, there were more of them, and they were inscribed on a folding wooden tablet, like a menu, called the Diptych. There were often furious controversies about whose names should be, or should not be, inscribed on them.
It is not possible to analyse every single translation change in the new prayers. In general, however, they prefer to use a more lofty, or ‘religious’ language than hitherto. So instead of offering, a word with general meaning, we will have oblation. Instead of cup, a drinking vessel of general use, we will have chalice [obviously Jesus didn’t use a chalice at the Last Supper because they didn’t exist, but you know what I mean].
At the beginning of Prayer 2 there is a reference to the Holy Spirit coming like ‘dew’, which our present translation omits possibly – I jest not – because it was felt it would sound like ‘Jew’. The new translation says dewfall though my dictionary says that is the time when dew forms, not the actual substance.
In Prayer 3 “from East to West” becomes “from the rising of the sun to its setting” which does accurately translate these words from the prophet Malachi. Our present translation – “from East to West” - wanted to suggest, as the prophet does, that the offering is universal, but possibly feared that people would take it that the Mass could not be said at night!
And that brings us to the controversy over “for all” and “for many” which we will consider next time, along with the people’s Acclamations after the consecration, and some final, general observations about the new versions of these Prayers, before we go on to the Communion Rite
[to be continued
Please pray for those who are sick especially: Colette Morfett, Mary Lewis, James Marsh, Patricia Cherry, Edward Standley, Gilda North, Michael Sedotti, Gordon Lyons, Joe Quarrie, Sheila White, Beth Jeffery.
Please pray for the repose of the souls of those with anniversaries at this time: Agnes Catarahias, Giuseppe Ardani, Deborah Downes, John Everett, Dorothy McLoughlin, Peter Peplow, Josephine Donnelly, Elsie Driver, Madeleine Davies, Fanny Silvestri, Robert O’Connell. May they rest in peace and rise in glory.
DIOCESAN PRAYER INTENTIONS: 1st week: Su: Sisters of St. Marie Madeleine Postel. M: Corpus Christi, Bournemouth. T: Catholic Women’s League. W: Welcomers. Th: Diocesan benefactors. F: St. Edmund, Southampton. Sa: Diocesan Liturgical Buildings Advisory Committee.
2nd week: Su: St. John Vianney, Wantage. M: St. James, Reading. T: St. Anne, Brockenhurst.. W: St. Joseph, Grayshott. Th: Our Lady of the Assumption & St. Edward the Confessor, Lyndhurst. F: Our Lady Star of the Sea, St. Sampson, Guernsey. Sa: Diocesan Council of Priests.
NEW MISSAL DVD: “Become one Body, one Spirit, in Christ”. We have purchased ten copies of this wide-ranging DVD which offers catechesis on the Mass and the new translation. They are available to borrow from the sacristy; please keep for only ten days, at least at this stage, to allow as many people as possible to see them; sign them in and out as shown.
NB This disc goes in your computer, not your DVD player!
APF MISSION MASS at Christ the King, Bitterne Wednesday July 20 7.30pm, followed by film on Uganda, “the suffering Pearl of Africa”. With Fr. Frank Thompson.
SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM: at the 10am Mass on Saturday July 30 we welcome and prepared for Baptism Nikita Anastazja Davey.
HORN OF AFRICA Emergency Relief Collection: August 6/7, for CAFOD.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
The Internet is now 16 years’ old at least in its fully available public form, rather than being restricted in some way to commercial and professional use. And it’s hard to imagine how we coped without it.
Every single day when I want to look something up, for a homily, for the Newsletter, for a talk or lecture or just to follow up something I saw or heard on TV or radio, I use the Internet – the encyclopedia of the world in my own study. I don’t have to rummage through books or go to the library; I can do it here.
One of my greatest errors, in about 1992, was to say that this “would not catch on”. Why would people want to look at their computer screen for information? (This was of course at the stage when the amount of information available was very limited). But now everybody wants to have themselves on the Internet.
And that includes this parish. We have a website and I am very grateful to Chris Olding who set it up, manages it and adds intriguing titbits with appropriate illustrations. It means that the boundaries of this parish stretch far beyond Shirley. I am frequently getting communications from people in all sorts of places who have come across us on the Internet. They may not have been looking for us, but in searching for some reference to something or other, the Internet ‘indexing’ (let us call it that) has referred them to us. And so I hear from New Zealand, Alaska, India and goodness knows where.
The most famous church use of the Internet in the early days involved the ‘black sheep’ bishop of Evreux, in Normandy, Jacques Gaillot. He took a very radical stand on a whole host of issues from nuclear deterrence, to granting asylum and conscientious objection which made him a real thorn in the side of most of his French Episcopal colleagues, to go no further. Eventually Rome lost patience and said he could either retire or be sacked. He chose the latter, but because a bishop cannot cease to be a bishop he was made ‘titular’ (or nominal) bishop of Parthenia, a place in Algeria abandoned to the desert sands as early as the 5th. century.
And then what did Bishop Gaillot do? This was 1995, when the Internet became fully available. He set up a website of the Diocese of Parthenia – the first in the whole church, I believe – illustrated by a view of his ‘cathedral city’ (a few rocks and palm trees), and promptly became available to the whole world. Soon, he was being ‘visited’ by 800,000 people per year.
As some Middle East régimes are finding to their cost, it is very dangerous to try to suppress people using old methods in these times of modern communication!