Sea Sunday 14 July
Seafarers and fishers play a vital role in all of our lives, but they often work in difficult, hazardous conditions. The number of crews abandoned by their employers is still at a record high. Many are still being denied the right to leave their ships for even a short break away from the relentless noise and pressure onboard. Many are reporting more stress and poorer mental health. Stella Maris is the maritime agency of the Catholic Church. Stella Maris’ 22 UK chaplains and 80 ship-visiting volunteers provide friendship, spiritual, pastoral, and practical support helping seafarers, fishers and their families often in difficult situations. 1n 2023 in the UK they made 5,758 ship visits, helped 126,676 seafarers and fishers, provided gifts to 1,895 ships in UK ports, provided 1,704 ships with phone/internet cards or free WiFi for seafarers to contact home. This weekend we will take a retiring collection for the work of Stella Maris. Donation/Gift Aid envelopes are available at the Newsletter table or you can donate online.
St Peter-in-Chains School Ofsted Report
Following our recent inspection we are delighted to share that St Peter’s is a Good School in all areas. “This is a small and happy school where all get to know each other well. The new senior leadership team has set high ambitions for all pupils’ achievement and their social development. They have secured many improvements, at pace, both to the curriculum and pupils’ behaviour.” The school prioritises the teaching of reading, right from the start of Reception. The children are surrounded by books, whether in the large library, the corridors or in the classrooms. Pupils love listening to their teachers read to them. They enjoy attending reading workshops, sometimes with authors at the local library. All staff have been trained to teach the new phonics programme effectively. They make sure that pupils practise reading using books matched to the sounds that they know. Staff give pupils who fall behind and those with SEND extra bespoke help. As a result, pupils become confident, keen and fluent readers.” Ofsted May 2024.
Congratulation to all of the staff, children and parents. As we move to one site we are proud that both schools have been judged to be good, where children are happy and proud of their schools. Frances Booker, Chair of Governors. The full report can be found on the Ofsted website.
Services
Sunday Masses are at 6:30pm (Saturday), 9:45am, 11:15am and 7pm. (Note: from 5th to 26th August inclusive, there will be no 7pm Mass on Sundays)
Sunday Scripture readings
Notes on the Scripture readings
Normal Weekday Mass times (unless there is a funeral) are 9am Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday after Morning Prayer at 8:45am.
End of Academic Year Mass for St Peter’s and St Gilda’s: will be on Monday 22nd July at 9:30am.
Rest in Peace: The funeral Mass of Mira Lidstone will be on Tuesday 23rd July at 11am. Please keep Mira and Andrew in your prayers.
Eucharistic Adoration: Wednesday and Friday after 9am Mass until 10:30am.
Rosary: Tuesday and Friday after 9am Mass.
Confession: The Sacrament of Reconciliation or Confession is available on Saturday evening from 6-6:20pm.
Family Room: This week’s activity reflects on Praying for seafarers.
Coming up
Thursdays Together: Thursday lunchtimes 11:30am – 1:30pm in the hall in Stapleton Hall Road (next to St Aidan’s School). Meet your neighbours and chat over light refreshments.
Community Soup Café: Enjoy a free bowl of homemade soup with bread every Monday, during term, From 11am – 2.30pm at Hornsey Vale Community Centre, Mayfield Road. Soup is served from 12 – 2pm.
Pilgrimage to Walsingham: The annual diocesan pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham will take place on Saturday, 21st September. Further information will be available in due course.
Our Parish Giving & Stewardship Campaign
Thank you to everyone who has returned their promise forms. If you took a form away to complete, please hand it to the priest after Mass. After processing the forms we have arranged the new boxes of envelopes and submitted the Standing Orders.
Soup Run Update
Grateful thanks to those who have come forward as drivers/distributors after our last appeal. It has helped to ease the pressure off our current volunteers. We would still always welcome help and also for our sandwich teams. Donations of instant coffee, tuna (no catering sizes please), sweetcorn and mayo always appreciated. Contact Kit Greveson on 07507138582 or email kit.greveson@gmail.com.
Pope Francis’ July prayer intention
Pope Francis’ monthly prayer intention this July is “For Pastoral Care of the Sick” The Holy Father asks “for the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick to give strength from the Lord to those who receive it and their loved ones, becoming a visible sign of compassion and hope for everyone.” Watch the Pope’s video here.
The October 2024 Synod
The Holy See Press Office has released the Instrumentum laboris – or working document – that will guide the work of the second session of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod that will be held in Rome from 2 – 27 October, the second session of the General Assembly, following the one twelve months earlier. How to be a missionary synodal Church? That is the question at the heart of the Instrumentum laboris which does not offer any “pre-packaged answers” but rather “indications and proposals”. These regard how the Church, as a whole, can respond “to the need to be ‘synodal in mission’”, that is, to be a Church closer to people, less bureaucratic, where all the baptised are – within their different ministries and roles – co-responsible and participants in its life. Two key focal points of the document are the need for transparency and accountability, and the role of women in the Church. More is available on the Bishops’ Conference website.
Other News:
£££ Contactless payments – Gift Aid If you wish to Gift Aid all your donations made using our new contactless system (rather than just a single donation) we would ask you to chose the Gift Aid option “I would like to Gift Aid this donation and all donations made to CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST. PETER-IN-CHAINS from the date of this declaration.” Thank you.
Divine Mercy Retreat on Saturday 20 July 2024 from 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm at St Sebastian and St Pancras R.C. Church 22 Hay Lane, Kingsbury, NW9 0NG. The Retreat will include teachings on the Message of Mercy, Stations of the Cross, Holy Mass, Hour of Mercy with Adoration and Benediction and Veneration of the Image of Merciful Jesus. All Welcome. Please call Millie on 07957594646 for more information.
Food Bank donations: As more and more people need to access food banks, we would ask anyone who is able to donate, when they can, to one of our local food banks. Contributions can be made to Holy Trinity Foodbank on Sundays between 1pm and 3:30pm. Please come to the Church Hall on Stapleton Hall Road, next to St Aidan’s School, N4 4RR, near the Albany Road junction.
The National Guild of St Stephen Altar Servers’ Dinner will be held at the Liner Hotel, Lord Nelson Street, Liverpool, L3 5QB on Friday 6th September at 7.30pm. This is a great opportunity to meet other server’s and families from all over the UK. For more details: https://www.guildofststephen.org/events/dinner2024.
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Please pray for:
Those who are ill: Christian Overal, Antonio Neto, Zintra Sansom, Brenda Buzec, Amy Gordon, Annette Donivar, Caroline Hilton, Karin Summers, Graham Summers, Joan Summers, Helen Kozlowski, Don Brewis, Roman Cholij, Adeline Oyekoya, Mary Wallace, Sister Pia, Margaret Whelan, Kitty Madden, Brendan Whelan, Claire Marchand, Mike Coombes, Gemma Francis, Richard Simon, Noah Purcell–Chandler, Nathalie Renford, Jackie Loivette, Michael Reid, Wendy Fairhurst, Ann Elizabeth Bennett, Joseph Lunn, Michael Hurley, Enid Samaru, Emilie Alcaraz, Ann Kozlowski-Hunt, Gabriel Brimacombe-Rand, Marie-Christine Polak, Frank Farrell, Peter Leung, Elizabeth Herbert, Mr Anthony Mark Selvarajah, Elaine Benjamin, Emma Gordon, Mariia Karp.
Those who have recently died: Martin Mulligan, Eamonn Barker-Burke, Teresa Buckley, Mira Lidstone RIP.