Newsletter for the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity 2nd Oct 2016
THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, CROMER STREET, LONDON WC1H 8JU.
Website: www.holycrosscromerstreet.org
THE NINETEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY: THE KINDLING AND REKINDLING OF FAITH
HYMNS FOR THIS MORNING’S MASS: 238 Great is Thy Faithfulness 295 486
READINGS FOR THIS MORNING’S MASS: Habakkuk 1.1-4; 2.1-4; 2 Timothy 1.1-14; Luke 17.5-10.
PRAY FOR THOSE IN NEED: Jill Mitra, Daniel, Leonard Godfrey, Katharine Redgrave, Fr Bill Kirkpatrick, Fr Robert Norwood, George Cole, Marianna Sagovsky, June Hornby, Alma Godfrey, William Petter.
IN MEMORIAM: Kevin McGee, Liz Davison, Terry Grambridge, Madge Pursglove.
RIP: Megan O’Brien.
MASSES THIS WEEK
(2nd October to 9th October)
Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time.
Wednesday 6 pm
St Francis of Assisi (from Tuesday)
Thursday 6 pm
St Bruno, Priest.
Friday 12 45 pm
Open Morning from
10 am until the 12 45 pm Mass.
Rosary Group in the
Walsingham Chapel at 11 am.
Saturday 10 30 am
Sunday Parish Mass 11 am
The Twentieth Sunday after Trinity.
NOTICES THIS WEEK:
1. HOLY CROSS PCC MEETING will take place after the Parish Mass at 12 30 pm prompt.
2. AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST – The Bishop of Edmonton, Bishop Robert, has notified us of a movement within the Diocese of London which seeks to appoint 100,000 ambassadors for Christ by the year 2020. These are to be faithful people drawn from parishes across the Diocese of London who will be commissioned by the Bishop to communicate the love of Christ within their own spheres of influence: whether in schools, in the workplace or on our streets. There are booklets available at the back of church for information and a sheet to sign up to form a group with Fr Christopher and explore this possibility more fully. Sign up now and fulfil the words of 2 Corinthians 5.20 “We are ambassadors of Christ”.
3. NATIONAL PILGRIMAGE TO THE SHRINE OF EDWARD THE CONFESSOR AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY takes place on Saturday 15th October with a Mass at 11 30 am. The Preacher will be The Rt Rev’d. Dr Geoffrey Rowell, Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Chichester and formerly Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe. A part of us will leave Holy Cross Church at 10 30 am for the Abbey and please sign the list at the back of church if you intend to go. The Abbey is organising a whole day of events culminating with Choral Evensong with Procession at 3 pm.
4. P A C T S LEAFLETS FOR INDIVIDUAL GUIDED PRAYER AND PARISH MONTHLY INTERCESSIONS BOOKLETS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE BACK OF CHURCH. You can also find these aids to prayer on the Parish website.
5. SERMONS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE BACK OF CHURCH. Please take ONE copy from the plastic folders. Each pack contains several! A backlist of sermons can be found on the parish website.
6. ALL CRYPT AND CHURCH BOOKINGS can be made by contacting the parish priest, Fr Christopher Cawrse on 020 7278 6263.
7. A WARM WELCOME TO OUR VISITORS THIS MORNING. Tea and freshly brewed coffee and cake is served at the back of church after this service. Please do stay and join us.
Newsletter for The Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity 25th Sep 2016
THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, CROMER STREET, LONDON WC1H 8JU.
Website: www.holycrosscromerstreet.org
THE EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY: GOD’S ECONOMY OF LOVE AND OF GENEROSITY.
HYMNS FOR THIS MORNING’S MASS: 377 When I needed a Neighbour? 341 495
READINGS FOR THIS MORNING’S MASS: Amos 6.1a. 4-7; 1 Timothy 6.6-19; Luke 16.19-31.
CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED AND CONFIRMED: Baby Adeeb Siddique, Jade and Jaiden Ross, Anna Sabisky, Jonas Florell and Thomas Byrne.
PRAY FOR THOSE IN NEED: Jill Mitra, Daniel, Leonard Godfrey, Katharine Redgrave, Fr Bill Kirkpatrick, Fr Robert Norwood, George Cole, Marianna Sagovsky, June Hornby, Alma Godfrey, William Petter.
IN MEMORIAM: Joan Bradley, David Willcocks, Brian Sewell, Madge Pursglove.
RIP: Megan O’Brien.
MASSES THIS WEEK
(25th September to 2nd October)
Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time.
Wednesday 6 pm
St Wenceslaus, Martyr.
Thursday 6 pm
Saints Michael, Gabriel and All Angels.
Friday 12 45 pm
St Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church
Open Morning from
10 am until the 12 45 pm Mass.
Rosary Group in the
Walsingham Chapel at 11 am.
Saturday 10 30 am
St Teresa of Lisieux
Sunday Parish Mass 11 am
The Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity
PCC Meeting after the Mass
NOTICES THIS WEEK:
1. MANY THANKS TO ALL WHO MADE LAST SUNDAY’S PATRONAL CELEBRATIONS SO VERY JOYFUL AND MEMORABLE. Thanks especially to those who worked so hard to provide refreshments, music and flowers and to ensure the church looked prepared and beautiful for our celebrations.
2. AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST – The Bishop of Edmonton, Bishop Robert, has left us a message in his Patronal sermon about a movement within the Diocese of London which seeks to appoint 100,000 ambassadors for Christ by the year 2020. These are people drawn from parishes across the Diocese of London who will be commissioned by the Bishop to communicate the love of Christ within your own spheres of influence: whether in schools, in the workplace or on our streets. There are three booklets available at the back of church for information and a sheet to sign up to form a group with Fr Christopher and explore this possibility more fully. Sign up now and fulfil the words of 2 Corinthians 5.20 “We are Christ’s ambassadors”.
3. PATRONAL FESTIVAL FOR ST MICHAEL’S CAMDEN TOWN this Thursday 29th September at 7 pm. Preacher: Fr Gareth Powell. Refreshments afterwards. St Michael’s is situated next door to the big Sainsburys.
4. THE NEXT PCC MEETING will take place this Sunday 2nd October after the Parish Mass.
5. P A C T S LEAFLETS FOR INDIVIDUAL GUIDED PRAYER AND PARISH MONTHLY INTERCESSIONS BOOKLETS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE BACK OF CHURCH. You can also find these aids to prayer on the Parish website.
6. SERMONS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE BACK OF CHURCH. Please take ONE copy from the plastic folders. Each pack contains several! A backlist of sermons can be found on the parish website.
7. ALL CRYPT AND CHURCH BOOKINGS can be made by contacting the parish priest, Fr Christopher Cawrse on 020 7278 6263.
8. A WARM WELCOME TO OUR VISITORS THIS MORNING. Tea and freshly brewed coffee and cake is served at the back of church after this service. Please do stay and join us.
Newsletter for the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity 11th Sep 2016
THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, CROMER STREET, LONDON WC1H 8JU.
Website: www.holycrosscromerstreet.org
THE SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY: THE GREATNESSS OF GOD’S MERCY.
HYMNS FOR THIS MORNING’S MASS: 137 Be Still for the Presence of the Lord 297 457
READINGS FOR THIS MORNING’S MASS: Exodus 32.7-14; 1 Timothy 1.12-17; Luke 15.1-10.
PRAY FOR THOSE TO BE BAPTIZED: Baby Adeeb Siddique, Jade and Jaiden Ross, Anna Sabisky.
PRAY FOR THOSE TO BE CONFIRMED: Jade and Jaiden Ross, Anna Sabisky, Jonas Florrell, Thomas Byrne.
PRAY FOR THOSE IN NEED: Jill Mitra, Daniel, Leonard Godfrey, Katharine Redgrave, William and Erlinda Pittard, John Joshua, Fr Bill Kirkpatrick, Fr Robert Norwood, George Cole, Marianna Sagovsky, June Hornby, Alma Godfrey, William Petter.
IN MEMORIAM: Kathleen Dolan, David Brown, Barbara Thatcher, Kenneth Davies.
RIP:
MASSES THIS WEEK: (11th September to 18th September)
Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time.
Wednesday 6 pm
(Holy Cross Day)
Thursday 6 pm
St Cyprian, Bishop, Martyr
Friday 12 45 pm
Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest.
Open Morning from
10 am until the 12 45 pm Mass.
Rosary Group in the
Walsingham Chapel at 11 am.
Saturday 10 30 am
Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Mystic.
Sunday Parish Mass 11 am
The Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross 6 pm
Solemn Mass with Procession and Administration
of Baptism and Confirmation.
Celebrant and Preacher: Bishop of Edmonton.
1. THE RITE OF HOLY ANOINTING WITH THE LAYING ON OF HANDS will take place as part of this morning’s Parish Mass.
2. THE PARISH BEATING OF THE BOUNDS took place yesterday afternoon and many thanks to all who turned up for a very energetic and educational walk around our parish boundaries. A photo appears in Facebook.
3. HOLY CROSS PATRONAL FESTIVAL MASS FOR THE FEAST OF THE EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS THIS SUNDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER AT 6 PM. The Celebrant and Preacher will be the Bishop of Edmonton, The Rt. Rev’d. Robert Wickham. Choir members from St Alban’s Holborn will accompany the music and there will be a reception after the Mass. The occasion also marks Fr Christopher’s ten years here at Holy Cross Church. Please put this date in your diaries. A sheet is available at the back of church for promises of food items. Please sign up! Please do consider this evening Mass as your MAIN act of worship for the day.
4. HOLY CROSS CONFIRMATION GROUP will be meeting in church this Thursday 15th September at 7 pm for a rehearsal of this Sunday’s Patronal Mass with Baptism and Confirmation.
5. THE NEXT PCC MEETING will take place on Sunday 2nd October after the Parish Mass. .
6. P A C T S LEAFLETS FOR INDIVIDUAL GUIDED PRAYER AND PARISH MONTHLY INTERCESSIONS BOOKLETS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE BACK OF CHURCH. You can also find these aids to prayer on the Parish website.
7. SERMONS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE BACK OF CHURCH. Please take ONE copy from the plastic folders. Each pack contains several! A backlist of sermons can be found on the parish website.
8. ALL CRYPT AND CHURCH BOOKINGS can be made by contacting the parish priest, Fr Christopher Cawrse on 020 7278 6263.
9. A WARM WELCOME TO OUR VISITORS THIS MORNING. Tea and freshly brewed coffee and cake is served at the back of church after this service. Please do stay and join us.
Newsletter for the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 4th Sep 2016
THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, CROMER STREET, LONDON WC1H 8JU.
Website: www.holycrosscromerstreet.org
THE FIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY : THE WAY OF DISPOSSESSION.
THIS WEEKEND IS THE CENTENARY OF THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, WHERE MANY
KING’S CROSS MEN WHOSE NAMES ARE INSCRIBED ON OUR WAR MEMORIAL WERE KILLED.
HYMNS FOR THIS MORNING’S MASS: 420 To God be the Glory 376 372
READINGS FOR THIS MORNING’S MASS: Dueteronomy 30.15-20; Philemon 1-21; Luke 14.25-33.
PRAY FOR THOSE TO BE BAPTIZED: Adeeb Siddique, Jade and Jaiden Ross, Anna Sabisky.
PRAY FOR THOSE TO BE CONFIRMED: Jade and Jaiden Ross, Anna Sabisky, Jonas Florrell, Thomas Byrne.
PRAY FOR THOSE IN NEED: Jill Mitra, Daniel, Michael Reynolds, Leonard Godfrey, Katharine Redgrave, William and Erlinda Pittard, John Joshua, Fr Bill Kirkpatrick, Fr Robert Norwood, George Cole, Marianna Sagovsky, June Hornby, Alma Godfrey, William Petter.
IN MEMORIAM:
RIP: Adelaïde Fiotte Joaille, Mick Egan, Sylvia Reynolds, Norah Sexton.
MASSES THIS WEEK: (4th September to 11th September)
Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time.
*** Please note there will be no Mass on Thursday ***
Wednesday 6 pm
Friday 12 45 pm
Birth of The Blessed Virgin Mary
Open Morning from
10 am until the 12 45 pm Mass.
Rosary Group in the
Walsingham Chapel at 11 am.
Saturday 10 30 am
Charles Lowder, Anglo-Catholic Priest.
Sunday Parish Mass 11 am
The Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity
*** The next PCC meeting will take place on Sunday 2nd October after the Parish Mass. Please note this change of date in order to
accommodate a fuller attendance. ***
1. THE PARISH BEATING OF THE BOUNDS ahead of our Patronal Festival will take place this Saturday 10th September at 11 am, beginning after the 11 am Mass. We will follow our parish boundary, which will take us down Judd Street/Hunter Street, through Brunswick Gardens to Mecklenburgh Square and then across to Frederick Street, King’s Cross Road, Euston Road and back to Cromer Street. The walk takes about one hour with talks based on important buildings and landmarks along the way. The walk will be followed by bangers and mash and banana custard in the crypt. Please sign the list at the back of church if you would like to come and wish to stay for lunch.
2. THE RITE OF HOLY ANOINTING WITH THE LAYING ON OF HANDS will take place as part of the Parish Mass this Sunday 11th September.
3. HOLY CROSS PATRONAL FESTIVAL MASS FOR THE FEAST OF THE EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS ON SUNDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER AT 6 PM. The Celebrant and Preacher will be the Bishop of Edmonton, The Rt. Rev’d. Robert Wickham. Choir members from St Alban’s Holborn will accompany the music and there will be a reception after the Mass. The occasion also marks Fr Christopher’s ten years here at Holy Cross Church. Please put this date in your diaries. A sheet is available at the back of church for promises of food items. Please sign up!
4. HOLY CROSS CONFIRMATION GROUP will be meeting in church on Thursday 15th September at 7 pm for a rehearsal of the Patronal Mass with Baptism and Confirmation.
5. P A C T S LEAFLETS FOR INDIVIDUAL GUIDED PRAYER AND PARISH MONTHLY INTERCESSIONS BOOKLETS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE BACK OF CHURCH. You can also find these aids to prayer on the Parish website.
6. SERMONS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE BACK OF CHURCH. Please take ONE copy from the plastic folders. Each pack contains several! A backlist of sermons can be found on the parish website.
7. ALL CRYPT AND CHURCH BOOKINGS can be made by contacting the parish priest, Fr Christopher Cawrse on 020 7278 6263.
8. A WARM WELCOME TO OUR VISITORS THIS MORNING. Tea and freshly brewed coffee and cake is served at the back of church after this service. Please do stay and join us.
Newsletter for the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity 28th Aug 2016
THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS, CROMER STREET, LONDON WC1H 8JU.
Website: www.holycrosscromerstreet.org
THE FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY : THE HOSPITABLE; THE INCLUSIVE GOD.
HYMNS FOR THIS MORNING’S MASS: 339 From Heav’n You Came 311 186
READINGS FOR THIS MORNING’S MASS: Ecclesiasticus 10.12-18; Hebrews 13.1-8. 15-16; Luke 14.1, 7-14.
PRAY FOR THOSE IN NEED: Jill Mitra, Daniel, Michael Reynolds, Leonard Godfrey, Katharine Redgrave, William and Erlinda Pittard, John Joshua, Fr Bill Kirkpatrick, Fr Robert Norwood, George Cole, Marianna Sagovsky, June Hornby, Alma Godfrey, William Petter.
IN MEMORIAM: Kathleen Dolan, David Brown, Barbara Thatcher, Kenneth Davies.
RIP: Adelaïde Fiotte Joaille, Mick Egan, Sylvia Reynolds, Norah Sexton.
MASSES THIS WEEK: (28th August to 4th September)
Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time
Wednesday 6 pm
St Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne
Thursday 6 pm
Friday 12 45 pm
The Martyrs of Papua New Guinea
Open Morning from
10 am until the 12 45 pm Mass.
Rosary Group in the
Walsingham Chapel at 11 am.
Saturday 10 30 am
Pope Gregory the Great
Sunday Parish Mass 11 am
The Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity
NOTICES THIS WEEK: Please pray for the townspeople of Amatrice, Italy, and for the victims of the recent earthquakes in central Italy and their loved ones. Pray for the Italian people at this time of devastating loss.
*** The next PCC meeting will take place on Sunday 2nd October after the Parish Mass. Please note this change of date in order to accommodate a fuller attendance. ***
1. THE PARISH BEATING OF THE BOUNDS ahead of our Patronal Festival will take place on Saturday 10th September at 11 am, beginning after the 11 am Mass. We will follow our parish boundary, which will take us down Judd Street/Hunter Street, through Brunswick Gardens to Mecklenburgh Square and then across to Frederick Street, King’s Cross Road, Euston Road and back to Cromer Street. The walk takes about one hour with talks based on important buildings and landmarks along the way. The walk will be followed by bangers and mash and banana custard in the crypt. Please sign the list at the back of church if you would like to come and wish to stay for lunch.
2. THE RITE OF HOLY ANOINTING WITH THE LAYING ON OF HANDS will take place as part of the Parish Mass on Sunday 11th September.
3. HOLY CROSS PATRONAL FESTIVAL MASS FOR THE FEAST OF THE EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS ON SUNDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER AT 6 PM. The Celebrant and Preacher will be the Bishop of Edmonton, The Rt. Rev’d. Robert Wickham. Baby Adeeb Sidique, Jade and Jaiden Ross and Anna Sabisky are to be Baptized and Jade and Jaiden Ross, Jonas Florrell, Anna Sabisky and Thomas Byrne are to be Confirmed. Choir members from St Alban’s Holborn will accompany the music and there will be a reception after the Mass. The occasion also marks Fr Christopher’s ten years here at Holy Cross Church. Please put this date in your diaries. A shee is available at the back of church for promises of food items. Please sign up!
4. HOLY CROSS CONFIRMATION CLASS will be meeting this Thursday 1st September at 7 pm at the Vicarage. The classes also doubles as a refresher course in The Christian Faith. This session: “Anglo-Catholicism”. Please pray for this group; for Andrew, Anna, Thomas, Jade, Jaiden and Jonas, and also for baby Adeeb Siddique.
5. P A C T S LEAFLETS FOR INDIVIDUAL GUIDED PRAYER AND PARISH MONTHLY INTERCESSIONS BOOKLETS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE BACK OF CHURCH. You can also find these aids to prayer on the Parish website.
6. SERMONS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE BACK OF CHURCH. Please take ONE copy from the plastic folders. Each pack contains several! A backlist of sermons can be found on the parish website.
7. ALL CRYPT AND CHURCH BOOKINGS can be made by contacting the parish priest, Fr Christopher Cawrse on 020 7278 6263.
8. A WARM WELCOME TO OUR VISITORS THIS MORNING. Tea and freshly brewed coffee and cake are served at the back of church after this service. Please do stay and join us.
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