PARISH OF ST. BONIFACE, SOUTHAMPTON
APRIL 7th., 2013
SECOND SUNDAY of EASTERTIDE [C]
“My Lord and my God”
Presbytery: St. Boniface House, 413 Shirley Road Southampton SO15 3JD Tel: 023 80771231
Parish Clergy: Father David Sillince [Parish Priest], Canon Terry Walsh [in retirement]
Safeguarding Officer: Anne Monaghan 023 80777691 Chair of Parish Pastoral Council: Mike Wood 023 80630396
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:
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 week 2)
Saturday / April 6 / ] / 6.30pm / Mass / Winifred & Nnamdi Obiemu
Sunday / April 7 / ] SECOND SUNDAY of EASTERTIDE [C] / 8.30am
10.30am / Mass
Mass / John Brant, RIP
Mark Hill, RIP
Monday / April 8 / Solemnity of the ANNUNCIATION of the LORD
[transferred from March 25]
Litany of Our Lady of Walsingham / 10.00am / Mass / Cheers Sabanathan
Tuesday / April 9 / of Easter 2 First Station of Light / 10.00am / Mass / Jane Willcox
Wednesday / April 10 / of Easter 2 Second Station / 10.00am / Mass / May Marsh-Collis RIP [RH]
Thursday / April 11 / St. Stanislaus, Bishop & Martyr (†Kraków 1079)
Third Station / 10.00am / Mass / Eslinda Carvalho, RIP
Friday / April 12 / of Easter 2 Fourth Station / 10.00am / Mass / Father David Carvalho, RIP
Saturday / April 13 / of Easter 2 Fifth Station
[St. Martin I, Pope & Martyr †Chersonese 656]
6.30pm Mass is of 3rd. Sunday of Eastertide / 10.00am / Mass / Father James Brand, 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.
Please pray for those who are sick especially: Canon Terry Walsh, Colette Morfett, Mary Lewis, James Marsh, Edward Standley, Gordon Lyons, Sheila White, Owen family members, Margaret Gordon, Kathy White, Zena Smith, Aileen Lynn, Geoffrey Milford.
Please pray for those whose anniversaries are at this time: John Brant, Ronald Russ, John Weaver, Alberta Wills, Maria Biondani. May they rest in peace and rise in glory.
COLLECTION:
Mar 24: Easter Offering. CAFOD ‘Connect2Bangladesh’ charity £126.15 [£20043.07]. Many thanks for your kind contributions.
This weekend: Building and Maintenance Fund, as scheduled; next weekend: Extra collection for Syrian Refugee Relief via CAFOD. Green CAFOD envelopes are available in the porch if you use these, especially to declare Gift Aid.
VERY MANY THANKS for the kind Easter cards, good wishes, and gifts, and also for the ‘Easter Offering’ made at Masses on Easter Sunday; God bless you.
FIRST HOLY COMMUNION: Resumes Wednesday April 17.
YOUTH CLUBS: 1st. & 3rd. Fridays of the month. Junior [‘Frogz’] ages 8-10 from 6-7.15pm, Senior from 7.30-9pm. Both in the Hall. Senior weekly, Junior resumes April 19.
CONFIRMATION: next session is Sunday April 21.
DIOCESAN PRAYER INTENTIONS: Su: De la Salle Brothers. M: The Annunciation, Charminster; St. Mary, Aldershot. T: The Annunciation, Netley Abbey. W: Our Lady of the Annunciation & the Japanese Martyrs, St-Martin, Jersey. Th: Sisters of St. Lucy (Filippini). F: Diocesan Trustees & Finance Council. Sa: Association for Latin in the Liturgy.
REGINA CAELI
Queen of Heaven, rejoice, alleluia,
For he whom you were worthy to bear, alleluia.
Has risen, as he said, alleluia;
Pray for us to God, alleluia.
Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary, alleluia,
For the Lord is risen indeed, alleluia.
WEEKDAYS STATIONS OF LIGHT: This Tues day we begin the Eastertide weekday “Stations of Light” which correspond to the 14 Lenten Stations of the Cross. In the first five this week, we contemplate: “Christ is Risen!”, “The Meeting with Mary Magdalen”, “Jesus appears to the Women”, “The Soldiers guard the Tomb”, “Peter and John behold the Empty Tomb”.
SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM: At the 10.30am Mass this Sunday Rita Marie Wheeler will be baptised. At next Saturday’s 10am Mass we welcome and prepare for Baptism Magdalena Grace Russell & Arabella Grace Cunnington.
ARE CATHOLICS WRONG? (26)
Is the Catholic Church really THE
Church?
THE Church can only be one, as it is Christ’s foundation. If it is divided, that is due to human fault.
The classic “marks of the Church” are that it is: one, holy, catholic and apostolic. “Apostolic” can be taken in a broad sense, i.e. adhering to the teaching of the apostles, or in a narrow sense, referring to ministerial ordination, in which case it is sometimes in danger of descending into an argument about “who touched whom”.
“Catholic” is clearly a sensitive word, as although it means “whole” it is also used as an abbreviation for Roman Catholic (thereby forgetting such things as Ukrainian Catholics, etc.). We might remember, too, than in many Churches, e.g. of Georgia, the spiritual leader is called the “Catholicos”, while in southern Italy (formerly inhabited by Greeks) the parish church is called the cattolica, meaning ‘a church with a baptistry’, i.e. a ‘whole’ church.
We could say that the Church has never been one since Judas walked out. Disputes and dissent arose in the lifetime of the Apostles: St. Paul tells the Corinthians that there have to be differences, for the truth to be revealed. The letters of St. John show us communities divided by those who could, or could not, accept the truth of Jesus as human and divine. Some churches split after the Council of Chalcedon (451) with its definition of the two natures of Christ – though in recent history there has been a reconciliation.
In talk about Church unity we tend to focus on the churches of the Reformation, whereas historically a stronger focus would be on the churches of the East, from whom we disastrously split in 1054 – though the writing was on the wall long before that. St. Peter in Rome has a primacy of honour, but it was in the East that the definitive teaching of the Church was forged over several centuries.
We therefore need to focus on Orthodox sensitivities – dented by the unilateral decision of the Western Church to add to the Creed (8th. century). The Orthodox see the four marks of the Church as existing in themselves, do not see themselves as only ‘one lung’ of the Church and would not accept our Catechism’s suggestion (838) that there is little to impede full communion between us.
Vatican II said that the four marks ‘subsisted in’ the Catholic Church (an expression repeated in a document of 2000). This is an enigmatic term suggesting something under the surface, not always prominent, and not too clearly defined. Maybe that is the best answer for the moment.
EASTER PEG HUNT: In the Hall garden after 10.30am Mass next Sunday April 14. Children of all ages are invited to come along and collect the pegs against the clock to earn their Fair Trade chocolate reward. A very quick and fun activity, so please encourage your children to take part.
UCM meetings resume this Wednesday April 10 at 7.45pm.
“BEING A CATHOLIC IN A SECULAR CULTURE”: This talk has been given recently by Bishop Philip at various places in the diocese, none very close to here; it is possible to hear the whole talk by going to the diocesan website: www.portsmouthdiocese.org.uk
ORGAN RECITAL BY Professor Ian Tracey, titular organist of Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, Wednesday Apr 25 at 7.30pm at St. James’ Road Methodist Church. Tickets available at the door. The 19th. consecutive year for this Easter event
“ONLY CONNECT”: an Eastertide day of reflection at Wisdom House, Romsey, Saturday April 27, 10am-4pm. Suggested offering £23 includes lunch. 01794 830206 or
IRISH DANCING CLASSES Freemantle Community Centre, Randolph Street. Children aged 5 upwards Wednesdays 5.15-6pm, adults 7-8pm. Charlotte Haynes register@mcdonnellhaynes irishdance.co.uk
or 07740 645665.
SYRIAN CRISIS COLLECTION, next Sunday: According to the UN, 2.5 million people in Syria are in urgent need of food aid, while thousands are fleeing into neighbouring countries daily. CAFOD is supporting church partners in Syria and elsewhere to provide relief.
Fact: The tiny Christian population of Turkey (0.03% of the population) is at present inundated with pleas for help from Christian refugees from Syria.
Please consider giving your generous support.
“MAKING CONNECTIONS”: A weekend for young adults, 18-30, to deepen core beliefs and to see how our beliefs touch our lives. April 19-21 at Verbum Dei Centre, Carisbrook, IOW. For information: Sister Catherine 07811 107046,
DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES: August 23-30. Details on notice boards in church and hall; helpers (aged 17+) are sought, too.
THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK
The Pope washed female feet on Holy Thursday at a Rome detention centre for youth (one was a Moslem) and the world of the conservative Catholic blog imploded. “He will be giving Communion to dogs next!” was one comment. “It is a law, and the Pope has broken the law!” steamed a notorious South Coast priest blogger, going on to imply he was so upset he couldn’t bring himself to perform the ceremony at all.
At the other end of the scale, some people are now saying the Pope will shortly ordain women. Honestly, is it possible to keep a sense of proportion? We are only talking about feet, after all.
It is only very recently that the Congregation for Divine Worship – presumably goaded by reports that clergy especially in the US were regarding the ceremony as a simple sign of Christian service, and including women – issued a ‘clarification’ saying it represented Christ washing the 12 Apostles’ feet. Very nice, except the rubric doesn’t mention the number 12, or indeed any number at all.
I think we’ll go on the way we are.
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Chaos on Palm Sunday when we discovered that the new people’s booklets had completely eliminated the ‘crowd’ part, after I had carefully reminded everybody that declaiming this part did not mean one subscribed to the sentiments. When I rang up the publisher (being in a long queue of fuming priests) I discovered this had been ordered at the last minute by the national Liturgy Office in London. Am I the only priest who wishes to strangle Church bureaucrats who issue edicts behind the scenes without any consultation?
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The situation in Cyprus is not much fun. My paper had a photo of the manager of a branch of the Laiki Bank trying to holding back anxious customers storming the building after a 12-day shutdown. The notice on the door said: Ores leitourgias 10-18, i.e. ‘Business Hours 10am-6pm’. Their everyday word leitourgia is our old friend ‘liturgy’, Isn’t it true they always say liturgy causes the most trouble?
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Why parents are zombified. Children aged 3-10 ask an average of 288 questions per day, an amazing total of 105,120 per year. Mostly to Mother; 42% say that’s because “Dad in stupid” and 24% because “Dad said ask Mum”. A 4 year-old girl asks 390 questions a day. The hardest question, apparently, is “why is water wet?” At least they didn’t include “How come Adam had a navel?” I now see why Jesus said to his disciples: “On that day you will ask me no more questions” [John 16:23].