18th Sunday Year C - St Elizabeth`s Coventry

Important Dates for your diary
Forthcoming Second Collections up to December 2016
Sunday 11th September:
Sunday 18th September:
Sunday 25th September:
Sunday 9th October:
Sunday 23rd October:
Sunday 6th November:
Sunday 20th November:
Sunday 4th December:
Catholic Education Service
Catholic Evangelisation
Father Hudson’s Society
CAFOD Harvest Fast
APF World Mission Sunday
Retired and infirm clergy (John Association)
Catholic Youth Service
Poor Parishes Fund
Pilgrimage to Lisbon and Fatima 9-14 July 2017:
St Elizabeth’s Justice and Peace Group monthly meeting in parish hall at
10:10 for 45 minutes. Meeting Sunday 4th September 2016.
Special celebrations coming in August and September 2016
On Sunday 14th August at 3:00pm - we shall be celebrating the 10th Anniversary
of the Multicultural Mass of the African Day. Please let Fr. Moses know if you can
help on this day or help to prepare for this day.
On Sunday 25th September 2016 at 3:00pm - we shall have a joint celebrations of
the 100th years birthday of St Elizabeth’s school and our Church Building, and also
the 50th birthday of Good Shepherd Catholic primary school. The Archbishop
Bernard Longley will celebrate this Mass. There will be only ONE Mass that Sunday
morning - and it will be a joint one at 10:00am. Please insert this in your diary.
Parish Youth Group: Meet each Sunday at 12:30pm in school hall. Please
remember that you need signed permission forms to attend the Youth Group.
Sunday Parking in the school Car Park: St Elizabeth’s School Car Park is open
from 8:00am – 1:00pm.
Death Anniversaries this Week:
Catherine Downes, Anna Darby, Michael Slane, Patrick McNamara, Helena Malcolmson,
Thomas Darrigan, Christopher Kelly, Thomas O'Doherty, Thomas Thompson, Thomas
Doherty, Vincent Caldwell, Alice McPhail McGuigan, Daniel David Griffin, Brigid Lynch,
William Judge, Michael Amsbaury, John Henry McKenzie, Patrick Kelly, Michael Cosgrove,
Chhibod Ram Salotra, Margaret Mary McGlynn, Catherine Ellen Waller, Philomena Maria
Davis, Thomas Mask. Gilmartin, Frances Lamb, Sarah Mary King, Margaret Shinefield,
John Thomas O’Donoghue, Catherine Mullally, Mary Teresa King, Margaret Ann Ashby,
Brigid Brolly, Jacob Herbert Healey, May Hanly, Elizabeth Walker, Valentine Pregely,
Christopher Douglas, Mary Anne Jones, and Rose Mary Clarke. Rest In eternal Peace.
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This Parish is part of the Archdiocese of Birmingham: Registered Charity No: 234216
Apostles of Jesus Serves:
St. Osburg
St. Mary
St. Elizabeth
St. Elizabeth’s Roman Catholic Church
Parish Priest: Rev Moses Pitya David. AJ. Priest in residence: Fr. George
Parish Office Contacts:
The Presbytery, 63, St. Elizabeth’s Road, Coventry CV6 5BX Tel:024 76688536.
Email: stelizabethchurch@btconnect.com Website: www.stelizabethcoventr y.co.uk
Parish Schools (Heads)
St. Elizabeth’s
Mr P Burke 024 76687527
Good Shepherd
Mrs Yvonne Clarke
024 76689392
Parish Church
Child Protection Office
Miss Laura Srodon (Solicitor)
Parish Maintenance
John Moran and Joe
Parish Co-ordinators for:
Holy Communions
Mrs Sonya Moran
Confirmations & RCIA
Miss Ann Harkin
Chair of Parish Finance
Mr T Ashby
Altar Servers
Mrs Janet Vaughan
Miss Alaysa Embate
Church Flowers
Children’s Liturgy and
Parish Hall Booking
Mr Richard Swift
Church Music
Miss Laura Srodon
Gift Aid Scheme
Mrs Denise Clifford
Mr Stan Milewski
Sacristan
Miss Ann Harkin
Justice and Peace
Consolata and Parish Team
CAFOD/SVP
Mr Kevin Vaughan
Red Boxes
Mr Bob Ayliffe
Sunday 31st July 2016: 18th Sunday YC.
Parish Mass Book - Readings on page 59
One’s life does not Consist of Possessions
A columnist once wrote about a man who had achieved
everything in his ambition when he was once a
president of a large corporation. This man, one day
thought of himself and said, “Now I have everything and
have reached the age of retirement, but I live with my wife in
the same house and never talk to each other. I don’t know my
own children, and my children don’t know me too. I don’t know
anything or anybody apart from myself. Everything is all about
me; but I am retiring in a month’s time and don’t know even
how to cook any food.” What shall I do?
This man in the above short story is guilty of two things:
1. Had a wrong set of values and life priorities.
2. had failed to allow life to enrich him with it’s God’s given
treasures.
He had refused to become educated and to grow up into
the whole human being. He had organised his life
without reference to God. Such life in the end can bring
nothing in a person’s life, but only frustration as
Qoheleth calls it vanities in reading One and Jesus in
the Gospel said; he is like the one who stores up
treasure for himself but is not rich in what matters to
God. These readings are not only speaking about
material riches but also our God’s given gifts and talents
not used to the benefit of others. Our today’s world is
being possessed by greed. The rich people and nations
are always ready to exploit and grasp from the poor by
all means possible and likewise the poor try to fight
back, resulting to present chaos in the world. Pope
Francis said this week that our world is at war- not war
of any kind but “War of interest.”
Parish Notices
Mass Times and Intentions
Sunday
9:00am Edward Doherty R.I.P.
31st July
18th Sunday
in ordinary time
11:15am Fr. Moses Special Intentions
:
Monday
9:00am Dina (1924) 92 - Birthday
Allaysa traveling home from WYD
Wednesday
9:00am
Thursday
9:15am
Friday
6:30pm
Saturday
St Gregory’s Catholic Primary School:
St Gregory Catholic Primary School in Coventry is looking to appoint a new Head
teacher. Details can be found on the website: http://eomeromac.com/vacancies/
principal-vacancy-st-gregorys-catholic-primary-school.
World Youth Day: Alaysa and Janet are now winding up their visit to Poland,
and they will be travelling back this Sunday. They have been in touch with us at the
parish, all is well. Please remember them in your prayer for their safe travel.
11:00am
Sunday
9:00am Glenda-Special Intention
7th August
19th Sunday
11:15am Margaret & Tom Clarke - Anniversary R.I.P
1:30 PM Kevin-Rotery service - in Church
In ordinary time
Sunday’s
Eucharistic Ministers
9:00am
11:15am
This Sunday
Next Sunday
Kevin Vaughan
John Moran
John Moran
Sandra Chaplin
Lakhwinder
Lakwinder
Clare Unes
Elizabeth Karota
Elizabeth Karota
Mary Harkin
Readers
Next Sunday
This Sunday
9:00am
11:15am
Multi-cultural Mass on Sunday 14th August at 3:00pm
This annual celebration known as the African Day is at our door now. We are left
with very few days and I hope everything is set: both Liturgy - the Mass in Church
and later the Social part including food and refreshments in the parish garden. I am
hereby reminding all those responsible to prepare us for this occasion to make use
of the remaining days. The joint choir with St Mary’s and St Elizabeth’s, will take
place on Saturdays 6th and 13th August from 4:30pm at St Elizabeth’s Church.
Please come and rehearse your hymn with us, if you have been allocated any.
Sr. Olivia
Ann Harkin
Sonya Moran
Stan Milewski
Richard Fernandes
Maureen N Obi
Sr. Joan
Noela
Weekly Offertory
Church Cleaning Team: B
Gift Aid
£290.50
(Friday Morning 9:30am)
Non Gift Aid
£242.74
Angeline, Gladys Williams and
Juliet, Dede Claudine
Thank you very much for your generosity
Church Painting: Thank you to everybody who is continuing to improve the
decoration of the church. Please if you could spare some time to help complete a
section at Lady chapel this week - Wednesday of Friday - because the tower needs
to come down
Pilgrimage to Lisbon and Fatima 9-14 July 2017:
There will be a pilgrimage to Lisbon and Fatima from 9th -14th July 2017 led by The
Most Rev. Bernard Longley, Archbishop of Birmingham. This pilgrimage is open to
all the faithful. For more information, or to book a place, please contact Fr. Cecil
Rogerson on 01384 274520 or email: see.tee.roger@gmail.com and should you
wish to join this Pilgrimage, please book via PaxTravel on nfo@paxtravel.co.uk or Tel:
+44 (0)20 7485 3003, asking for Ericsson.
Pastoral Information
Sacrament of Penance/Confessions and the Exposition
Every Saturday from 11:20am. to 12:30pm. In emergency, please come to the
Presbytery or call 024 76 68 85 36.
Chaplaincies:
Shona/Ndebele Community Mass: Celebrated here 3rd Sunday of each
month at 1:00pm, by the Chaplaincy of the Zimbabwe community
in England.
Punjabi Catholic Community Mass: Last Saturday of each month at 4:00pm
by their Chaplain Fr George Waraich.
Please pray for The Sick and Housebound of our Parish
Please remember in your prayers parishioners who are sick, house-bound particularly:Christopher Brown, Phylis Goan, Nora Caldwell, Mary McGee, Nancy Doherty,
Caroline Dickinson, Dina Kuczynski, Camela Sirti, Victor De Souza,
Julienne Tchoameni, Swarni Salotra, Wiseley Simmons, Colette McKee, Mr & Mrs Williams,
Edmund Douglas, Rita Keogh and Mr & Mrs Smith. Get Well Soon.