Parish Priest: Fr Jean-Claude Selvini

(in residence) Fr Gabriel Ciobanu The Presbytery, 98, Manford Way

Chigwell, Essex. IG7 4DF 020 8500 3953

nda.hainault@btinternet.com website: http://nda.hainault.org.uk

Registered Charity No. 234092

30th – 31st January 2021 4TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME (YEAR OF SAINT JOSEPH)

Catechesis: The prayer as blessing

Dear Brothers and Sisters, In our continuing catechesis on Christian prayer, we now consider the importance of blessing as an essential dimension of prayer. To “bless” literally means to “speak something good”. In creating and sustaining the world, God speaks a good word; he “blesses” his creation and sees that it is “good”. God did not withhold his blessing even after we turned away in sin, but continues to desire our good. In the history of salvation, the greatest of God’s blessings is Jesus Christ himself. Saint Paul exhorts us to bless God, who has blessed us in Christ, and made us his beloved sons and daughters (cf. Ephesians 1:3-6). In response to God’s blessings, we in turn bless him, the source of all good, through our prayers of praise, adoration and thanksgiving. As the Catechism teaches: “The prayer of blessing is man’s response to God’s gifts” (No. 2626). May we always find joy in blessing the Father with gratitude for the infinite goodness he has shown us in giving us his Son.

Franciscus PP.

PRAYER TO SAINT JOSEPH

(for the Year of Saint Joseph) Hail, Guardian of the Redeemer, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. To you God entrusted his only Son; in you Mary placed her trust; with you Christ became man.

Blessed Joseph, to us too, show yourself a father and guide us in the path of life. Obtain for us grace, mercy and courage, and defend us from every evil. Amen.

FACE COVERINGS IN CHURCH are now obligatory unless you are exempt.

Please take them off before receiving Holy Communion. PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN!

IMPORTANT NOTICE To help us keep the church sanitised, please bring with you a cloth and cleaning agent, and carefully wipe surfaces that you have touched before leaving. Otherwise, sanitising wipes are available for your use at the back of the church. Please throw wipes away in the bin by the main door as you leave.

GIFTAID / STANDING ORDER If you are a taxpayer and are not yet in the gift aid scheme, please take a form at the back of church, complete it and return it to the sacristy. It really helps if you can make your donation by monthly standing order. You can either complete a standing order form, available at the back of church, or set one up by online banking. Our account details are on the standing order form.

AN ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION (for those unable to receive Holy Communion)

O my Jesus, I believe that you are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love you above all things, and I desire to receive you in my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive you sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace you as if you were already there, and unite myself wholly to you. Never permit me to be separated from you. Amen.

KATHLEEN MARY NEWELL RIP: the Funeral Mass is this Friday at 1.00pm followed by Interment in Chigwell Cemetery. Requiescat in Pace!

THIS MONDAY: 10.00am Mass & 6.30pm Mass (1962 Missal)

The Montligeon Prayer Group for the Holy Souls in Purgatory meets this Wednesday for Mass at 10.00am, followed by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Prayers for the Holy Souls and Benediction. The meeting will end no later than 11 o’clock.

Eucharistic Adoration this Friday (the First Friday of February)

10.00am Mass Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament ending with Benediction at 11.00am

Come, let us worship!

Intention: Vocations to the Priesthood – our Diocesan Seminarians

THIS SATURDAY: 9.30am Mass

10.00-10.30am Eucharistic Adoration & Benediction

ACKNOWLEDGED WITH MANY THANKS a donation of £175 from Harold Wood Funerals as a Christmas gift to the parish.

Parish Safeguarding Representative: Shirley Ruiz – 020 8500 5316

Mass Intentions for the week beginning 31st January 2021

Sat 30 4TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

6.00pm 10.00am 12noon 1.30pm

Johnnie Johnson RIP (anniv.) The People of the Parish Intentions of John Turner Mass in Romanian

Sun 31

Mon 1 Feria 10.00am 6.30pm

John Duggan RIP The Confraternity of St Peter

Tue 2 THE PRESENTATION OF THE LORD IN THE TEMPLE

10.00am Clare Loughran RIP / Canon Giles Goward RIP

Wed 3 St Anne Line, M. 10.00am February Anniversaries RIP

Thu 4 Feria 10.00am Gertrude & Johannes Mbambo RIP

Fri 5 St Agatha, V.M. 10.00am 1.00pm

Eddie Jarman RIP Funeral Mass

Sat 6 The Martyrs of Japan 9.30am Eddie Jarman RIP Sat 6 5TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY

TIME 6.00pm 10.00am 12noon 1.30pm

Thanksgiving (Onyiuke Family) The People of the Parish Paddy Foley RIP (anniv.) Mass in Romanian

Sun 7

CONFESSIONS: this Saturday during Adoration (10-10.30am)

Your prayers are asked for the sick and housebound, especially those whose names are on the Sick List of the parish – their names

will be found on the hard copies of this newsletter available in church.

Mass Attendance last weekend: 110

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Offertory Collection last weekend: £687.62 (two weeks)

THE ASSUMPTION, Hainault, is twinned with the Parish of Our Lady of Sorrows, Maria Ratschitz, in the diocese of Dundee, South Africa.