East Worthing Parish Newsletter

the Roman Catholic communities of Holy Family, Lancing & St Charles, Worthing

part of the Arundel & Brighton Diocesan Trust, a Registered Charity No. 252878

13th October 2019 : 28th Ordinary Year C Volume 11 Issue 46

Living In Wholeness . . . . . We have all met people who blame God when bad things happen. Do those same people give credit to God whenever good things happen? Today’s gospel reading is a lesson for us on living in gratitude and wholeness. Jesus cures ten lepers and nine of them hurry off without a word of thanks. Presumably they can’t wait to get back to their families and loved ones. They can’t wait to get back to where they left off. They can’t wait to get back to ‘normality’. To the nine lepers Jesus must have seemed nothing more than a biblical paramedic. How often do we fall into the same trap? We pray to God to help us through some crisis, but when the crisis blows over, do we remember to thank God or do we heave sigh of relief and carry on as ‘normal’? The one leper who returned to thank Jesus recognised that his life would never be ‘normal’ again. Something

extraordinary had happened; his life had been touched by God. The nine lepers who returned to normality knew they had been made well, but the one who returned to thank Jesus recognised that not only had he been made well …… he had been made whole. The leper who returned was not about to forget what God had done for him. The leper who retuned was bubbling over with gratitude. We all have reasons to bubble over with gratitude to God. The key to living in wholeness is to appreciate when God lifts us from ‘normality’ and ‘ordinariness’. Question of the week -

Do I receive the Lord in gratitude, here at Mass and at other times in my life? How can I change my attitude, to see what I have as blessings from God?

In the event of an emergency when a priest is urgently required and there is no answer at the above telephone number please ring St Mary’s (200416) or St Peter’s (01273 452654).

Parish Priest

Rev Fr Daryl George JCL

St Charles’ Presbytery

Chesswood Road

WORTHING

West Sussex

BN11 2AE

THIS WEEK:

B I B L E R E A D I N G P L A N

S U N 1 C H R . 4 - 6 ; L K . 1 : 1 - 2 0

M O N 1 C H R . 7 - 9 ; L K . 1 : 2 1 - 3 8

T U E 1 C H R . 1 0 - 1 2 ; L K . 1 : 3 9 - 5 6

W E D 1 C H R . 1 3 - 1 5 ; L K . 1 : 5 7 - 8 0

T H U 1 C H R . 1 6 - 1 8 ; L K . 2 : 1 - 2 4

F R I 1 C H R . 1 9 - 2 1 ; L K . 2 : 2 5 - 5 2

S A T 1 C H R . 2 2 - 2 4 ; L K . 3

Financial News . .

Weekend of 06/10/19

1st £ T.B.A.

2nd £ T.B.A. C.A.F.O.D. Harvest Fast Day

2nd Collection . . .

This Weekend 13/10/19

2nd Missio Membership Appeal

No Retiring Collection

Next Weekend 20/10/19

2nd World Mission Sunday, Missio

Gift Aid members are able to make this tax efficient by using the Special Envelope.

Thankyou for your continuing generosity to your Parish.

Bite Size . . .

Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for.

Terry Lynn Taylor

Our Parish Liturgy . . . . .

This Week (28 C)

DIVINE OFFICE

WEEK 4

ENTRANCE ANTIPHON

18.00 10.30

788 ANTIPHON : below

CHILDREN’S LITURGY

18.00 10.30

N/A 979 v2

PENITENTIAL RITE

18.00 10.30

Said Said

GLORIA

18.00 10.30

Said S 524

FIRST READING

2 Kings 5:14-17 Naaman returned to Elisha and acknowledged the Lord.

PSALM RESPONSE

18.00 10.30

The Lord has shown his salvation to the nations. SONG FOR THE WORD : below

SECOND READING

2 Timothy 2:8-13 If we hold firm, we shall reign with him.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION

18.00 10.30

Alleluia, alleluia! Your words are spirit, Lord, and they are life: you have the message of eternal life. Alleluia! S 543

GOSPEL READING

Luke 17:11-19 No one has come back to give praise to God, except this foreigner.

PRESENTATION OF THE GIFTS

18.00 10.30

600 339

SANCTUS 18.00 10.30

Said S 579

MEMORIAL ACCLAMATION

18.00 10.30

Said S 580 C

GREAT AMEN 18.00 10.30

Said S 581

AGNUS DEI 18.00 10.30

Said Said

COMMUNION ANTIPHON

18.00 10.30

The rich suffer want and go hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no blessing. SONG FOR THE TABLE : below

THANKSGIVING

18.00 10.30

807 807

RECESSION

18.00 10.30

772 713

Next Week (29 C)

DIVINE OFFICE

WEEK 1

FIRST READING

Exodus 17:8-13 As long as Moses kept his arms raised, Israel had the advantage.

SECOND READING

2 Timothy 3:14-4:2 The man who is dedicated to God becomes fully equipped and ready for any good work.

GOSPEL READING

Luke 18:1-8 God will see justice done to his chosen who cry to him.

Music and text of Antiphons from Psallite, © 2005 Collegeville Composers Group. Published by Liturgical Press, MN56321.

Used with Permission. Calamus Licence No.0338

Before Mass - Talk to God During Mass - Listen to God After Mass - Talk to your friends

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MARRIAGE MATTERS

HEALING MIRACLES IN OUR MARRIAGE . . . . HE IS THERE

God knows we need healing! Daily He performs, through the Holy Spirit, large and small healing ‘miracles’. When we look carefully and sensitively at what happens in our marriages, we can detect God alive and active within us. As we learn to choose to co- operate with His grace and mercy, He becomes evident in our lives. Let’s always thank Him.

Were not all ten made clean? The other nine, where are they? (Luke 17:18).

P A G E 2 Parish Office . . . . .

Parish Deacons: Rev. John Body 762038 Rev. Phil Richardson 752292

Office Hours : Monday, Wednesday & Friday 09.30 - 11.30.

Fr Daryl’s Surgery this week : Tuesday, 17.30 - 18.30.

Newsletter Editorial : Items for possible inclusion in the Parish Newsletter (if there is room) need to be received (in writing please) at the Parish Office by midday on Wednesday.

General Parish Information . . . . . Parishioner Registration : Every household within the Parish is requested to complete a ‘Parishioner Registration/Census’ form so that our Parish records may be kept up to date. These forms can be found in the church narthex and should be completed fully before being returned to the Parish Office. Should you move address within the Parish at any time please complete a new form and write ‘AMENDMENT’ across the top of the form. Thank you.

Hospital : Parishioners are advised that our local General Hospital (Worthing) in Lyndhurst Road does not give the names of inpatients to the Chaplaincy Department. This means that should you find yourself admitted as an emergency case to the hospital you will need to inform the staff that you wish the Roman Catholic Chaplaincy to be informed, either yourself or through a relative. If you are going into hospital as a ‘planned admission’ you are strongly encouraged to contact the Parish Priest well beforehand so that, if appropriate, the Sacrament of the Sick can be celebrated beforehand.

Infant Baptism : Infant Baptisms are intended for the children of practising parishioners only and are celebrated on five occasions during the year after parents and godparents have completed a course of preparation. There can be no celebration without this important course. The dates of the courses for the current year can be found in the application form in the church narthex (bright green). Baptisms do not take place during the seasons of Advent or Lent.

Sacramental Preparation : Notice of the availability of application forms for First Reconciliation and First Eucharist will be made in the Parish Newsletter between the school Summer Half Term and 31st August each year. Possible candidates for Confirmation should respond to the announcements made in the Parish Newsletter during the Autumn school term. Parishioners are advised that it is very difficult to imagine that any family/individual who is not regularly practising their faith as a member of our community could possibly be ready to celebrate a Sacrament of the Church.

Marriage Preparation : Marriages are celebrated by appointment with the Parish Priest. It should be remembered that in the Diocese of Arundel & Brighton twelve months minimum notice is required before a marriage may take place; this is a requirement of the Church for all marriages that involve a Roman Catholic (even if they are not taking place in the Catholic Church). It is also necessary that one of the parties must have a meaningful connection with the Parish. Marriages do not take place during the seasons of Advent or Lent.

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Current Parish Appeals. . .

Children’s Word Search 28th Sunday Year C

Harvest Appeal

Turning Tides provides a variety of services many of which are accessed through contact at St Clare's Community Hub.

Today we support over 1100 people each year providing a range of services including a Community Hub and 4 Accommodation Projects. Any one night there are up to 59 people in our accommodation services. We work with them on a one to one basis to enable them to live independently once again.

We believe that everyone has the right to a home, regardless of the difficulties and issues they may face in their lives. We believe in showing those who need our help that the wider community is there to support them and to offer hope for a better future. We work with some of the most vulnerable and excluded individuals in Worthing.

The work undertaken by us is crucial; people who live in our accommodation receive the specialist support they need to ensure their recovery. We empower homeless or insecurely housed individuals to achieve sustainable independent living.

The following items are desperately needed at this time, could you add a couple of items to your shopping list over the NEXT week?

BOXER SHORTS; MEN’S SOCKS; DISH CLOTHS; DISHWASHER SALT / TABLETS / RINSE AID; LIQUID SOAP; RAZORS; SHAMPOO & CONDITIONER; TINNED FRUIT & VEGETABLES; SHAVING FOAM or GEL; PICKLES or CHUTNEY; DRIED HERBS; WASHING POWDER.

Love In A Box

Appeal 2019

‘Shoebox’ time is once more again upon us!

Our ‘pick-up date’ this year is Thursday 21st Nov. -

in order to achieve this date all filled shoe boxes need to be handed in by:

St Charles Saturday 16th November Holy Family Sunday 17th November

If you would like to support this appeal and bring a little Christmas happiness to a needy child, but feel you are unable to fill a shoe box, the Mustard Seed Mission is very happy to receive any donations towards the cost of transporting the boxes to their final destination please take an envelope and enclose your donation which will be gratefully received.

Leaflets and some shoeboxes are available in the church narthex.

Parish Contact:- Sheila Dunbar (762074)

P A G E 3 Services For The Coming Week . . . . . Day Date Where Time Service / Intention Donor

Sat. 12th Oct. St Wilfrid, Bishop (Diocesan Saint)

St Charles PLEASE NOTE : NO EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT TODAY

St Charles PLEASE NOTE : NO SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION TODAY

St Charles 18.00 Private Intention

Sun. 13th Oct. 28TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME, YEAR C

Holy Family 10.30 For the Parishioners

Mon. 14th Oct. Ferial Weekday

No Service Today

Tue. 15th Oct. St Teresa of Jesus, Virgin & Doctor of the Church

St Charles 09.30 John Hill

Wed. 16th Oct. Ferial Weekday

Holy Family 09.30 Edward Stokes Paddy & Sheila D.

Thu. 17th Oct. St Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop & Martyr

St Charles 09.30 Carol Weir

Fri. 18th Oct. St Luke, Evangelist (Day of Abstinence)

Holy Family 09.30 Brian & Angela George

Holy Family PLEASE NOTE : NO EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT TODAY

Holy Family PLEASE NOTE : NO SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION TODAY

Holy Family 19.00 GOOD BYE FR DARYL PARISH SOCIAL EVENING

Sat. 19th Oct. St Philip Howard, Martyr (Patron of the Diocese)

St Charles 17.00 - 17.45 EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT FOR PRIVATE PRAYER

St Charles 17.00 - 17.30 SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION

St Charles 18.00 John & Laura Morris

Sun. 20th Oct. 29TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME, YEAR C

Holy Family 10.30 For the Parishioners

Mass may be offered for both the living and the dead and also for most other intentions. We do our best to try and accommodate specific dates but this can be especially difficult on weekends and at less than three months notice.

‘Mass Intentions’ are published in the Parish Newsletter on the weekend before they are celebrated although sometimes a Requiem Mass will ‘bump’ an intention to a later date.

Extraordinary Month Of Mission . . . . . What is EMM2019? EMM2019 is the Extraordinary Month of Mission. Pope Francis has declared that October 2019 will be a special month of prayer and action to strengthen and grow God’s mission through the Church.

Why is it important? EMM2019 aims: • To encourage Catholics

into a deeper relation-ship with Jesus through prayer;

• To look to, and learn from, the actions and sacrifices of our saints, martyrs and living mis-sionaries;

• To financially support overseas mission, through Missio;

• To rediscover and re-new our understanding of overseas mission (missio ad gentes).

Who is coordinating EMM2019? Missio, also known as the Pontifical Mission Societies. Pope Francis asks schools, parishes, dioceses, orders, organisations, communities and individuals to get creative in supporting this global Church initiative. Where will it happen? Every Catholic diocese in the world! When does EMM2019 start? October – it runs throughout October.

Is EMM2019 replacing World Mission Sunday? No – EMM2019 and the normal World Mission Sunday are separate but complementary events.

John Henry Newman - The Birth and Pursuit of an Ideal of Holiness . . . Bishop Philip Boyce O.C.D.

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These effects of his conversion were enduring: Newman was never to lose his realization of God’s presence, his respect for revealed truth and his thirst for holiness of life. Fr Stephen Dessain rightly considered this conversion event as the turning point in Newman’s life, the experience that gave the rest of his life its unity and the moment at which his heart was captured by the Christian ideal of holiness.

We do not wish to imply that Newman’s conversion was an isolated event in his youth, unprepared by other circumstances. That would be quite untrue and indeed untypical of the ways by which divine providence attains its ends through secondary means and a natural evolution brought about by the experiences of life. Undoubtedly the atmosphere of peace and reflection, and the illness that afflicted him were instrumental in converting him at this most dangerous period of his life. The human instrument at work was the pious and zealous clergyman, the Rev. Walter Mayers, a convinced Evangelical. This devoted minister, who had scruples about the time given to teaching classics in Ealing in so far as it distracted him from his more directly pastoral duties, helped to implant the seed of divine faith in Newman. A few weeks after Mayers’ premature death in 1828, Newman preached a sermon in memory of him and stated that “his life was a life of prayer. The works and ways of God, the mercies of Christ, the real purposes and uses of life, the unseen things of the spiritual world, were always uppermost in his mind. ... He lived not only to God, but as in the sight of God. ‘Thou God seest me’ was the language of every day with him.” Since, as already affirmed, a keen awareness of the unseen and of God’s presence was at the heart of Newman’s conversion, it is evident that the close friendship, the conversations and instructions of this man were highly important in the years antecedent to that grace. Newman himself was never to forget his former master and we find that forty-two years later he remembers him as his “great friend” and still prays for him at Mass on the anniversary of his death.

Mayers gave Newman some spiritual books to read. These authors were Calvanistic and Evangelical in their teaching and they had the most decisive influence on his spiritual formation. Yet Newman was never an Evangelical at heart, much less a strict Calvinist. His conversion did not pass through the conventional stages (conviction of one’s personal sinfulness ; fear of damnation; hearing of Christ’s redemptive work; apprehension of Christ’s merits; sense of ecstatic joy and the assurance of salvation) and he never accepted the Calvinistic doctrine of predestination to eternal death. For all that, however, he acknowledged the formative influence of Evangelicalism’s rigorous beliefs on his conversion. Eight years after the event he makes the following entry in his Private Journal, referring to himself: “He has indeed been converted by it [the Evangelical teaching] to a spiritual life.”

The book which most influenced Newman at this critical period of his conversion, 1 August to 21 December 1816, was perhaps Thomas Scott’s Force of Truth. In the Apologia Newman confessed that it was Scott “who made a deeper impression on my mind than any other, and to whom (humanly speaking) I almost owe my soul”23. It was this writer who undeceived Newman about the Calvinistic doctrine of predestination to eternal life or eternal death which he had read about in the writings of William Romaine. Scott insisted throughout his works on the importance of conscience as a moral guide and the need for a practical faith expressing itself in good works. This point made him unacceptable to Calvinists who branded him as an Arminian. He also insisted on the danger of intellectual pride and mere reasoning destroying the vigour of faith. Newman was taken by Scott’s practical faith which was not a pure theory, by his “bold unworldliness”, his struggle towards holiness of life for himself and his flock and his courageous obedience to the light as shown in the process of his conversion from Unitarianism to belief in the Holy Trinity.

To be continued . . . .

Parish Ministries For Next Weekend . . . . . P A G E 4

DATE / MASS WELCOME MINISTERS

READERS EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS

ALTAR SERVERS

CHILDREN’S LITURGY

PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION

SATURDAY 29 C

19/10/19 18.00

ST CHARLES

Teresa G. Andrew C Mildred P.

John F. Angela F.

Sean M.

N/A N/A

SUNDAY 29 C

20/10/19 10.30

HOLY FAMILY

Winifrid M. John M.

Maggie H. Sheila D.

Lide D. Kate C. Mary L. Bernard M.

Isabelle M. Kath McG-B. Deacon John

PLEASE REMEMBER : If you are unable to complete your particular ministry then it is your responsibility to arrange cover with another minister. In this way our Sunday Liturgies will run in a smooth and prayerful way.

For those who

are unwell…….

those who have

died recently….

those whose

anniversaries

occur…..

the Holy

Father’s Prayer

Intention….

FOR THOSE UNWELL AT THIS TIME:

Kathleen E., Eileen S-S., Kathleen McK., John P.,

Kate N., Christopher B., Joan C., Ena S., François G., Sue B., Rosemary B., Michael L., Joan H., Eleanor J., Margaret R., Anne S., Shirley W., Stephanie S., Paul W., Hamish P., Anne A., Siobhan A., Edward S., Canon Colin Wolczak, Fr Tony Collins, Fr John Healy, Fr Gerard Hatton & Fr Martin Jakubas.

Prayers Please . . . . . THE RECENTLY DECEASED:

ANNIVERSARIES OF DEATH:

Victor Carrington, Kathleen Gardner, Patricia Stanford, Sydney Thompson, Jeanne Dossi, Eva O’Donnell, Doris Starns, Archie Axtell, Emily Hudson, Lynda Harvey, John McFarlane, Canon Gordon Albon, Fr Aidan White-Spunner, Canon Dermod Fogarty and Canon Geoffrey Burke.

HOLY FATHER’S MONTHLY PRAYER INTENTION:

“. . . . . . that politicians, scientists and economists may work together to protect the world’s seas and oceans.”

Parish Roundup . . . . . P A G E 5

Holy Family, North Road, Lancing Mass 10.30 Sunday

St Charles, Chesswood Road, Worthing Mass 18.00 Saturday

St Peter’s Catholic Primary School - If your child is due to start at Primary School next September (2020) now is the time to be looking at the available provision. St Peter’s School welcomes parents who would like to have a look around the school (appointments necessary). In the narthex there are flyers with details of the school. OCTOBER, MONTH OF THE ROSARY - As usual during October we will celebrate one decade of the Rosary after our weekday liturgy. NOVEMBER DEAD - November is called by Catholics the ‘Month of the Dead;’ a time when we are called to pray for all those friends and family who have ‘died and gone before us.’ Two traditional ways of marking this are arranging for the celebration of a Mass for ‘The Holy Souls’ and having their names entered in our Parish ‘Book of the Dead.’ This book is brought up and placed in the sanctuary at Mass during the Presentation of the Gifts at each of our weekend Masses throughout November. Forms for new names to be entered into the ‘Book of the Dead’ are available in the narthex these should be handed into the Parish Office along with a completed Mass Envelope (£10 enclosed) for the ‘Holy Souls.’ MISSION WITNESS : ‘RED BOX’ THANK YOU & APPEAL - This weekend we welcome Fr Gerry Hastie MHM to give the five-yearly Membership Appeal. Thank you to all those parishioners who already give to the Pope’s official charity for overseas mission - Missio - and Britain's own missionary order, the Mill Hill Missionaries, through the Red Box. There will not be a Retiring Collection, but if you do not currently have a Red Box, please do consider taking one. It would be fantastic if every home had a Red Box to help care for our Church family throughout the world.

DEACONS’ THOUGHTS . . . .

John Henry Newman is canonised this weekend on 13th October. An English saint! Deo gratias, hurrah and huzzah! And what a remarkable figure he is. An Anglican who prompted a good deal of reform in the 1830’s and 40’s in the Church of England by turning that church toward a more Catholic style of worship he eventually became a Roman Catholic when he could no longer see the Church of England as a middle way between Catholic and Protestant. His conversion caused considerable scandal at the time and he wrote about it in his ‘Apologia’ a moving spiritual autobiography. He became involved in educational reforms in both Ireland and England and was eventually made Cardinal in 1890.

His ideas are much too wide ranging to deal with here but he became well known for his teaching on conscience, the development of doctrine and for his opposition to ‘liberalism’ which he understood as a danger to the truth of the faith. He even had the time to write novels (Loss and Gain is really rather good) but perhaps he is at his best in his sermons which are models of clarity and insight. Perhaps we might look at one or two in our Advent group this year?

GOODBYE FR DARYL EVENING SUPPER

We would normally celebrate a ‘Harvest Supper’ in October but with the news that Bishop Richard has decided to post Fr Daryl to The Sacred Heart in Cobham we will now be having a Parish ‘Goodbye Social’ THIS FRIDAY (18th October).

On the narthex notice board there is a sign-up list for donations of food for the evening.

Please do have a look to see what you might be able to help out with for this special occasion.

SUNDAY 20 OCTOBER 2019 – NEXT SUNDAY IS WORLD MISSION SUNDAY

Next Sunday (20th) is World Mission Sunday, when the Holy Father invites all Catholics to contribute to a special collection for Missio, his charity for world mission.

Please support Missio in helping missionaries to work alongside communities throughout the world that are poor or in need, regardless of their background or belief. Join in on this special day, that unites Catholics all over the world in prayer and celebration of our Church’s mission to share God’s love with all creation – ‘Together we are Mission’. You will be able to Gift Aid your donations by using the special envelopes provided by Missio.

For more information, visit missio.org.uk Thank you.