PRIEST: Father John Horn Address: Parish Office Hours: 9.15am-11.15am (closed on Wednesdays)

ST.BARNABAS CATHOLIC CHURCH
PRIEST: Father John Horn
Address: 28 Vine Road, Molesey, Surrey. KT8 9LF
Telephone: 020 8941 8400
Parish Office Hours: 9.15am-11.15am (closed on Wednesdays)
Email: stbarnabaseastmolesey@btconnect.com Website: www.stbarnabasmolesey.org
HIRING OF THE CHURCH HALL: If you wish to hire the Church Hall please contact Theresa D’Burrage 020 8941 9205 or 07757456302
Parish Schools: St Alban’s Primary School – Beauchamp Road, Molesey. 020 8979 5893 www.stalbansprimary.org.uk
Salesian Secondary School – Guildford Road, Chertsey. 01932 582 520 www.salesian.surrey.sch.uk
THIRTIETH SUNDAY– Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th October 2014
Parish Mass Book Page No. 146
NEWSLETTER NO: 43
Weekend Masses:
Saturday 6pm (Quiet Mass) - David Corbould RIP
Sunday 10.00am
- For the People of the Parish
Sunday 6pm (Music Mass) - Charlie Dullaghan RIP
2nd Collection Next Sunday:
For the Retired Priests Fund.
Week Day Mass:
Monday 12.30pm -
th
Sunday morning Mass on 9 November will
Tuesday 9.35am
Billy (William junior) Speight RIP
Wednesday No Mass
be at 9.30am (and not 10am) so the Parish
Thursday 9.35am –
Joan Robinson (Health)
can join the 11am memorial service in West
Friday 9.35am Molesey.
Confessions: Saturday 5.15 – 5.45pm in the Church or by appointment
Mass is also said Monday – Friday 8.am at the Kiltegan Fathers, 20 Beauchamp Road. KT8 0PA. Parishioners are welcome.
New Parishioners: Welcome to St Barnabas! Please register your details by filling in our Parish registration form at the back of
the Church, and return to Father John or the Parish office. Please come and say hello at our Sunday coffee morning after the
10am Mass in the hall, you will receive a warm welcome.
Sun 26th
Mon 27th
Tue 28th
Wed 29th
Thur 30th
Fri
st
31
Sat 1st
Sun 2nd
ROTAS
2014
Ministers
Readers
Children’s
Liturgy
Church
Cleaners
Sunday
Coffee
Counters
Flowers
WEEKLY PARISH DIARY:
THIRTIETH SUNDAY –YEAR A
Last Sunday’s collection
Offertory:
£431.07
Bank Direct:
£403.41
Total
£834.48
Half Term This Week
- No D of E Meetings this week
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament from 10am to 1.30pm
- Half Term – No Children’s Choir
Prayer Group in the House of Prayer – 7.30pm
D of E: Gold- out for practice Wed- Sun
2nd Collection:
£171.06
(World Missionary)
No Video course this week on The Creed, it will resume again
on : Thursday 6th November at 7.30pm – 9pm, Church hall
Attendance: 281
No Bible study
- No Youth Club this week
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: 11am-Noon, Presbytery
ALL SAINTS
th
Sat 25 Oct
6pm
th
Sunday 26
10am
October
6pm
M Thompson
N Cleary
R D’Alton
C Wilson
M Schild
B D’Alton
M Villani
A Hogan
M Stannard
M Schild
T D’Burrage
G Searle
R Methley
J Laleatoe
Half Term – to be announced on the day
ROTAS
2014
Ministers
Readers
Please pray for the sick of the Parish:
Kathleen Harrison, Anthony Leonard,
Andy Haywood & Bobbettie McColl.
st
Sat 1 Nov
6pm
nd
Sunday 2 November
10am
6pm
C Addison
E Firth
B D’Alton
M Thompson
H Healy
R D’Alton
C Wilson
P Emmanuel
I Lee
G Searle
T Ayres
T Burrage
P Stannard
R Methley
J Duggan
to be announced on the day
Children’s
Liturgy
Carmen A & Mary E
Church
Judith D & Patrick D
Cleaners
Yvonne Foster & Theresa D’Burrage
Sunday
Music Group – Nicola Cleary
Coffee
Francis Jenice & Jean Casha
Counters
Anthony McCall & Christine Davies
Isobel Lee
Flowers
Ann Maloney
The Arundel & Brighton Diocesan Trust is a registered Charity No 252878
Or not is it a chicken and egg situation?
Not really. For it usually starts with the parent loving the child, and the defence-less, needy child comes to love the
parent who loves it and cares for it.
And that is how it is with God and us. God, who is love (1Jn.4:8), created us out of love. When God first introduces
Himself to Moses (Exodus 3:16), He declares that He has come down to deliver ‘His people Israel’ from their misery
in Egypt and bring them to a land of milk and honey. He loves the Israelites and henceforth will care for them. As
the story progresses, God gives the Israelites rules which they are to live by, the first of which is that they are to
love the Lord their God ‘with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind’. He also gives them a further
series of rules or commandments, which, summed up, amount to loving their neighbour (Ex.Ch20).
So, we should love God in response to His loving us. Much later on, after the death and Resurrection of Jesus, Paul
starts his great letter to the Romans, which he calls his gospel (his account of the good news of Jesus Christ), by
telling the Roman Christians that they are God’s beloved in Rome.
So this love, which is the theme of this Sunday’s gospel (Mt.22:34-40), originates with God, but is responded to by
us; - if we do chose to love God in return.
God gives us free will so that we can positively choose Him or not. But He does then gives us the command to love
Him, not only because He is the Parent wanting to be loved, but also, and very importantly, because He knows what
is good for us.
At the end of the Israelites’ journey through the desert to the Promised Land, Moses makes a long speech stressing
the importance of living according to God’s ways (Dt. ch.27-28): “all these blessings will come upon and overtake
you, if you obey the Lord, your God”.
The blessings are just a natural function of being obedient to God; - it’s the way He made the world. The alternative
of doing our own thing and defying God, results in things going wrong (Dt.28:15), - because God is no longer
looking after us, - for we have chosen to come out from under God’s protective umbrella; and then the devil can
get to work on messing up our lives, as he does.
In speaking with his disciples at the end of the Last Supper, Jesus reminds them that if they love Him, they will keep
his commandments (Jn14:15). And in today’s gospel Jesus teaches that the two commandments, to love God and
our neighbour, sum up all God’s instructions as to how we should live our lives. We will truly experience God’s
blessings if we know this and put it in to practice.
Father John
Iraqi Christians In Need - Recital
Sunday 9th November at 6pm at Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Hampton Court Way, Thames Ditton KT7
0LP: A piano and organ recital (approximately 75 minutes long), including works by Bach, Chopin,
Debussy, Messiaen & Schubert, to raise funds for displaced Christian families in northern Iraq through the
provision of urgent medical aid and long-term housing. Recitalist is Carl Bahoshy, a British-born musician
of Iraqi Catholic heritage.
TO ALL PARISHIONERS OF ST BARNABAS -We would like to express our gratitude for the wonderful party
you gave us on Sunday. To all those who prepared the delicious food, baked the fabulous cakes, arranged
and decorated the hall, organised the drinks and cleared away afterwards, as well as for all your warm
wishes, both on the day and previously, we thank you - we were so touched. Love from Nicola, Doug,
Richard and Helena Cleary.
MASS INTENTIONS - If you would like a Mass intention please fill out an envelope which is placed at the back of the
Church and put it through the Presbytery door, or bring it round to the Parish Office (opening hours) at the back of
the Presbytery. Please be aware when requesting a specific date to allow plenty of time, the diary is now fully
booked until 16th November.
New Members for Duke of Edinburgh:
Would anyone from Year 9 and above like to join the Duke of Edinburgh? If you are interested please
contact Jean Casha on 07960 654 813 or email: jean@cashaonline.de.
The Arundel & Brighton Diocesan Trust is a registered Charity No 252878