Our Lady of the Annunciation

Our Lady of the Annunciation
Parish Priest: Fr. Joe O’Connor
Deacon: Keith Sylvia
147 Bingham Road, Addiscombe, Croydon CR0 7E. Phone 020-8654 1709
email: office@addiscombecatholicchurch.com
website: www.addiscombecatholicchurch.com
Diocesan website: www.rcsouthwark.co.uk Office Hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-3pm
Deanery website: www.croydoncatholics.org.uk
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION: Every Saturday 9.30am and 5.00pm.
8 FEBRUARY 2015 FIFTH SUDAY I ORDIARY TIME (see page of 134 Parish Mass Book)
YEAR B
Mass Intentions This Week
How do you deal with suffering in your life?
In a world without God (for those who have no faith) all suffering is
abhorrent, to be alleviated at all costs. And, let’s be honest, in a world with
God much of the suffering that occurs could be avoided if we treated each
other a bit better, shared food and resources, were less covetous, and slower to
exploit the weak and vulnerable peoples of the world. When man directly
causes suffering it is abhorrent, and we must do better to live more generously
and peaceably with each other!
But what about those things that appear to us as cruel fate; natural disasters, birth defects, the devastating patterns of bad luck that affect some families but not others, modern plagues and the many and varied complications
that surround growing old, etc etc?
Our readings today suggest to us that in a world with God, the world
inhabited by those with faith, our suffering affords us and those who support
us at these times, opportunities to mirror Christ; to be loving, generous, compassionate, patient, enduring, prayerful, trusting, all those noble attributes seen
in Jesus as he ministered, and more significantly, as he suffered in his Passion.
Many of the saints go on alarmingly about suffering as something not to
be avoided but embraced. Pray with this week’s readings as you ask yourselves this most vital Question.
Deacon Keith
WEEKLY DRAW
£5 - Anne Rowe
£50 - Jean Carpenter
£50 - Helen O'Reilly
CHURCH CLEAIG
Team A: Mrs Grant
LAST WEEK’S OFFERTORY
Loose cash
Gift Aid Envelopes
S/Os
£431.55
£875.31
£880.00
Total
£2186.86
Saturday 7 February
10.00 Martha Sam Vu RIP
18.00 Paddy & Nora Walsh RIP
8 February: FIFTH SUDAY
08.30 Tony Borfiga RIP *
10.00 Con McCloone RIP *
12.00 All Parishioners
9 February
10.00 Eucharistic Service
10 February
10.00 Graham Abraham RIP
11 February
10.00 Wellbeing: Maggie Daly
12 February
10.00 Pat Maher RIP
13 February
10:00 Holy Souls
Saturday 14 January
10.00 Dan Aherne RIP
18:00 Jim & Teresa Cafferkey RIP & All
Deceased members of the Cafferkey &
McGuire Family.
15 February: SIXTH SUDAY
08:30 All Parishioners ~
10:00 Patrick John Dempsey RIP + ~
12:00 Marcos Noronha RIP ~
* With Children’s Liturgy
+ With Uniformed Groups
~ Collection for Refugee Centre
COLLECTIOS
Last Sunday’s Diocesan collection for the Catholic Education Service amounted to £632.69. Many Thanks. This week
there will be a collection for Friends of the Holy Land. Next week there will be a collection for Poor Parishes. On 1st
March there will be a collection for CAFOD Fast Day-Please pick up an envelope from the porch.
We pray for the sick in our Parish: Elizabeth Damsel, Fr David Peck, Lily Harley, Sheila Minus, Catherine
Whelan, Clayton McMahon, Eddie Gallacher, Rose-Marie Cummins, Baby Benjamin Rowe, Stephen Walker.
We pray for parishioners whose anniversaries occur this Week: David Tuckey, Eufemiano Lopes, Maureen
Woodcraft, Sheila Merredew, Joan Griffiths, Charles Fowley, David Barwell, Catherine Winston, Jean Garner,
Margaret Blackford, Judy Maharaj, Tony Borfiga, Kathleen Davies, Sarah Rees, Hilda Chow, Anthony Curry,
Chris Pearce, Catherine Wilson, Edward Scanlon.