29th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Father Mervyn presided at today’s well-supported Parish Mass at which Father Martin concelebrated, read the Gospel and preached. Our Intercessions were led by Pamela. In his sermon Father Martin asked the question “what does the year 313 mean to us.” Several people offered answers but it was Eve who correctly said it was the year Constantine became a Christian. Father then gave a potted history of what happened subsequently and explained how today, all these years later, we should be grateful for his conversion leading to the spread of the Christian faith.

Yesterday’s Saturday Shop took £190

Monday 21st to Wednesday 30th October our Holy Land Pilgrimage in conjunction with Ilford Hospital Chapel

Please pray for Father Martin and Father Mervyn who are leading the pilgrimage and all those who are visiting the Holy Places in Israel.

 

 

 

 

 

Due to the Pilgrimage there will be no week day Masses at St. Augustine’s until 31st October but there will be a Mass at Ilford Hospital Chapel on Thursday at 12.35 p.m.

VISIT OUR NEW WEBSITE

http://www.staugustinechurch.co.uk

 

WINTER BAZAAR

Saturday 16th November

from 10.00 a.m. -1.30 p.m.

Any offers of help to Father Martin, please.

GRAND DRAW

Tickets for the Grand Draw are now available 20p each/£1 per book

The Draw will take place at the Bazaar

28TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Despite appalling weather this morning we had an excellent number present for the Parish Mass today at which Father Martin presided and Father Mervyn played the organ and preached. In his sermon Father Mervyn talked about the lepers who had been healed by Jesus and how only one, a Samaritan, had said thank you to Jesus for his healing. We need to constantly say thank you to God for all the blessings he has bestowed upon us. He quoted Meister Eckhart, the 13th century mystic and theologian who said “The most important prayer in the world is just two words long: Thank you”

Yesterday’s Saturday Shop took £238.

Monday 21st to Wednesday 30th October our Holy Land Pilgrimage in conjunction with Ilford Hospital Chapel

Please pray for Father Martin and Father Mervyn who are leading the pilgrimage and all those who are visiting the Holy Places in Israel.

VISIT OUR NEW WEBSITE

http://www.staugustinechurch.co.uk

WINTER BAZAAR

Saturday 16^th November

from 10.00 a.m. -1.30 p.m.

Any offers of help to Father Martin, please.

GRAND DRAW

   Tickets for the Grand Draw are now available      20p each/£1 per book

The Draw will take place at the Bazaar

27th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Today Father Mervyn presided and Father Martin read the Gospel, preached and concelebrated at today’s Parish Mass. Ann led us in our Intercessions. In his sermon Father Martin recalled the time he was a guest at the Oxford and Cambridge Club in Pall Mall.

It is a custom in the club not to thank members of staff  i.e waiters as they are doing their job. Father Martin found this very strange and disconcerting. He pointed out that we were all called to be servants to each other; Jesus called himself the servant of his people. We must emulate him in our dealings with each other.

YESTERDAY’S SATURDAY SHOP TOOK £158

VISIT OUR NEW WEBSITE

http://www.staugustinechurch.co.uk

WINTER BAZAAR

Saturday 16^th November from 10.00 a.m. -1.30 p.m.

Any offers of help to Father Martin, please.

GRAND DRAW

   Tickets for the Grand Draw are now available      20p each/£1 per book

The Draw will take place at the Bazaar