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Holy Family RC Church Coventry
Website: www.hf-cov.org.uk
Email: [email protected] Fr Pat’s Blog: Humblepiety.blogspot.com Twitter: @Pathound
Coventry CV6 4GF 02476 333128
Registered as a Charity. Birmingham RC Diocese No: 234216
Holy Trinity Year A Mass Book Page 81
Saturday 10th June 6 00pm Joe Crean RIP (A)
Sunday 11th June 10 00 am People of the Parish
Monday 12th June 9 15 am Libby Pemberton
Monday 12th June 10.15 am Funeral Service Elizabeth “Betty” Howat RIP
Tuesday 13th June 9 15 am Gabrielle Freeman RIP (A)
Tuesday 13th June 10 00am In Holy Family School Year 1
Wednesday 14th June 9 15 am For prayers answered
Thursday 15th June 9 15 am Peter McNamee RIP (1st A)
Thursday 15th June 11 00 am In Holy Family School Year 6
Friday 16th June 9 15 am Sheila Houghton
Friday 16th June 12 30 pm @Cardinal Newman Sp Int
Confessions 5 15 pm –545pm
Saturday 17th June 6 00 pm Annie O’Donnell RIP
Sunday 18th June 10 00 am Elizabeth Howat RIP
ALTAR SERVERS If you have made your First Holy Communion and can make a commitment to being at a weekend Mass, then please think of being a server. Young or old, male or female the servers’ ministry enhances our worship. Please see Robert Cramp or Fr Pat to know more
PILGRIMAGE AFTERNOON AT MARYVALE There will be an open air Mass and Procession of the Blessed Sacrament in honour of the Sacred Heart at 3pm on Sunday 25th June. This follows a week of Mass-es, Sermons and Novenas each evening from 15th – 23rd June at 8pm. For details, please call Maryvale House on 0121 360 8118
Monday Mother’s Prayers. This Monday the prayers will begin at 8 30 am as there is a funeral service in church at 10 15am.
COVENTRY PIONEER REGIONAL COMMITTEE
Invites you to their
ANNUAL PIONEER RALLY
On Saturday, 17th June 2017 At The Pioneer Hall, Broad Street, Foleshill, Coventry CV6 5AX
Commencing at 6.30pm with Mass Chief Celebrant, Father David Barry
Followed by Social and Dance Refreshments provided
Entertainment by Little Jimmy Deanery Meeting Fr Pat and Fr Bernard will be attending the Deanery Meeting this Tuesday @ St John Fisher Church in Wyken from 11 00 am .
Website Links: Diocese: www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk Deanery: www.coventry-catholicdeanery.org.uk
School: www.holyfamily.coventry.sch.uk
Head Teachers: Holy Family: Grainne Griffiths Cardinal Newman: Marina Kelly
Parish Safeguarding Reps: Debbie O’Donoghue, Carmel Farrelly Gift Aid: Paul & Ann Yielding HForce Youth Group: Every Second Thursday Young at Heart: Coffee, tea; chat, friendship, in the parish centre Thursdays at 10.00am. Toddlers Group: Tuesday mornings 915 am-11 15 am Parish Centre Information and bookings 02476 336345 Parish Grounds Tidy Up Team. Monday’s 2.pm volunteers
Marriages and Baptisms please refer to Fr Pat to make arrangements
Weekend 17th/18th June Parish Ministers
6 00 pm 10.00am
Extraordinary Ministers: Kim Simmons Robert Cramp Kim Ashby Emma Nugent Julie Hughes Martina Haggerty Mary Iggulden Kim Nghiem Ursula Pearson Readers Tony Kiely Kim Nghiem, Caitlain Nghiem Counters: Derrick & Angela Gough 100 Club Collectors: Paul & Ann Yielding Carmel O’Sullivan
Cleaning Team 1 Una McKeown & Co Tues 13th June
Please pray for the elderly, the housebound, the sick; Jessica Graham, Fiona & Brian Burke, Cheryl Kenny, Sarah Higgins, Thomas Cramp and Mary Mulvanney and all who receive Communion from the ministers, in nursing homes, or hospital. May they know the Jesus’ healing touch For all who have died recently especially, Betty Howat
Please pray for all who have died recently... For victims of violence... For an increase in Faith For Pro-Life issues For 1st Holy Communions For Church Unity For Pope Francis For priests and deacons For the newly baptised For peace in the world... For all the lapsed… For the parish… for the schools and families... For recently married couples... for prayers answered… for vocations to the priesthood and consecrated life…
The Parish Live Stream Web Cam:
hf-cov.org.uk
Monday Grounds team Mondays 2.00pm Helping to keep the grounds around the church neat and tidy. New people always welcome! Tea provided.
Youth Group H-Force meet every other Thursday evenings in the hall. See Laura Kemp and the youth board
Knitting In the Church Monthly on Monday’s 10 am 11 00am For deserving causes.
Holy Family Weekly Offerings: Gift Aid £186.70 Loose £553.50 Thank you! 2nd Collection This Week Day for Life
The Summer Gala Fete: Sunday 25th June 11am-300pm The raffle tickets are at the back, please take some and don’t forget to sell them and bring the monies and counter foils back. The Gala is done as a joint project with the Holy Family school. If you can help on the day or on the day before, to set up tables and stalls (Saturday 10am) please volunteer. The school will be hosting and putting on entertainment, races for the children food and drink will be available for sale, as will many interesting stalls selling a large range of goods. There will be a bottle stall, tea, refreshments, cakes on sale, and lots of activities for all. Please bring in good quality items for sale on the bric a brac stall or as prizes for the tombola. Please leave items in the CHURCH
Fatima News We invite you to St Peter’s, Dormer Place, Leamington Spa, CV32 5AE
on Tuesday 13th June, as they are a pilgrimage church for the Birmingham
archdiocese during the Fatima Centenary Year. A special indulgence is available on
the 13th of each month up to 13th October if you visit us on these days. They have a
new statue of Our Lady of Fatima now on display.
"In the Eucharist, this divine Heart governs us and loves us by living and abiding with us, so that we may live and abide in Him, because
in this Sacrament... He offers and gives Himself to us as victim,
companion, viaticum, and the pledge of future glory,"
- Pope Benedict XV
100 Club Winners: 1st £400 137 Mr & Mrs Nugent 2nd £200 245 Mary O’Hara 3rd £100 164 Carmel O’Sullivan
Piety Stall. A Good selection of gifts, religious objects and cards on sale.
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Each Friday 7 45 am until 9 am
This Life
My heart beats gently within me Keeping time with my life’s history My eyes peer into the mists of eternity Revealing a sweet vision of heavenly ecstasy My ears delight to hear a voice of divinity Echoing throughout the whole of my life’s story My thoughts are concerned with ideals, noble and lofty Wrapped up in the contemplation of life’s sacred mystery My body is employed in the service of the Blessed Trinity Determined to embrace, justice, holiness, faith and humility My soul and my spirit awake radiating a deep harmony Driving me forwards, to live this life in peaceful simplicity
Fr Patrick Brennan © 2012 all rights reserved
“Celebrate Birmingham” is a lively, Catholic, faith filled weekend for the whole family at St Mary’s College Oscott, on 1st &
2nd July. There will be inspiring talks, children streams, Masses, Reconciliation, workshops. For info visit
www.celebrateconference.org; Tel: 01564 772238; or Email [email protected]
Visitation of Fatima Statue to St Chad’s Cathedral: To promote the Centenary of the apparitions of Our Lady at Fatima, the
World Apostolate of Fatima (WAF) in England and Wales has organised a program of visitations to Cathedrals by the
National Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima, and Relics of St. Jacinta and St. Francisco. This will include a visitation
to St Chad’s Cathedral in Birmingham from 29th-30th July.
June, the Month of the Sacred Heart. Don’t forget to honour the Sacred Heart during the month of
June. “I promise you, in the excessive mercy of My Heart, that My all-powerful love will grant to all
those who receive Holy Communion on the First Friday of nine consecutive months, the grace of
final penitence; they shall not die in disgrace nor without receiving their Sacraments; My Divine
Heart shall be their safe refuge in this last moment. Jesus meek and humble of heart, make our
hearts like unto yours.”
CAFOD Campaigns Day
Listening to the Cry of the Earth and the Cry of the Poor: The Response of the Church in Latin America to
Pope Francis’ Call
Do join us on Tuesday 11 July, 11am-3pm at St Columbans, Widney Manor Road, Solihull, B93 9AB for our
CAFOD campaigns day. We will hear from Fr Peter Hughes, an Irish Columban priest from County Mayo who has
spent most of his life as a missionary based in Lima, Peru.
Tea and coffee will be served from 10.45am and please do bring something for a bring-and-share lunch.
Jubilee Celebrations 60th priestly anniversary of Fr Bernard Anwyl, 16th March 1957, the 25th priestly anniversary of Fr Patrick Brennan, 5th July 1992. Mass and a celebration on Friday July 14th, to which you are all most welcome to come along to. Also there are 5 priests in the deanery who are celebrating jubilees this year and Holy Family will host a Deanery Mass and celebration on Friday 30th June. #There will be a meeting for all who wish to help organise both events on Tuesday 13th June @700pm in the church.
Children’s Liturgy of the Word.
Extra Helpers needed to help with this most important ministry in our church. There are often
many children who come out from the 10 00 am Mass to enjoy a Liturgy that reflects them and
keeps their interest. We have dedicated parishioners who support this, but they are always
looking for more people to come forward to help them. You do not need training or have all
the answers of faith, just a love for Christ and an enthusiasm to spread his word! The
Children’s Liturgy is about sowing the seeds of faith for our future generations!
This weekend of 17/18th June has been designated as this year’s ‘Day for Life’. This year’s Day for Life is particularly significant as it is 50 years since the 1967 Abortion Act was passed in England, Scotland and Wales. That anniversary in October will be marked in various ways. This year’s Day for Life provides us with an opportunity to pray for and remember all lives lost before birth and to offer practical and emotional support to women and men who are worried and concerned about an unexpected pregnancy. For those who have had an abortion, this anniversary year is a reminder that 50 years on: “there is no sin that God’s mercy cannot reach and wipe away when it finds a repentant heart seeking to be reconciled with the Father” (Pope Francis, Apostolic Letter, Misericordia et misera, 12).
There will be a mandatory second collection in parishes to support Day for Life. Proceeds of the collection will go to The Anscombe Bioethics Centre and other Church-supported life activities.
The Office for the Day for Life at the Bishops’ Conference has produced material for this year’s Day for Life,
which includes prayers, stories and detailed structure for holding a Vigil or a prayer service as far as this is
possible on or around the weekend of 17/18 June, together with material for the 27th October 2017. These
and other resources are available at: www.dayforlife.org.
Reflections for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity.
“Dear friends, sometimes we may be tempted to give in to laziness, or worse, to discouragement, especially
when faced with the hardships and trials of life. In these cases, let us not lose heart, let us invoke the Holy
Spirit so that through the gift of fortitude he may lift our hearts and communicate new strength and
enthusiasm to our life and to our following of Jesus.” — Pope Francis
Reflection: How do you call upon the Holy Spirit to guide your life? When have you been tempted to laziness
or discouragement? How did you resist the temptations or recover from falling into them? Have you ever
lost heart in difficult times? Who or what helped you find courage and strength?
Embracing the mystery each day
On Trinity Sunday, rather than try to solve the mystery, let us ask
how open we are to it: the mystery of why God created us to begin
with; the mystery of God loving us, desiring to be part of our lives,
to live in our hearts; to be one with us; the mystery of God inviting
us to share in the life of the Trinity: Father, Son and Spirit; the
mystery of a God who cares for us like a loving parent, who lays
down his life for us like a best friend, who fills our hearts like a lover
who will not be refused. While the Holy Trinity is a mystery that
cannot be proven by Scripture we come into contact, through our
liturgy, with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit: "The grace of
the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the
Holy Spirit be with all of you." How many times each day do we
make the sign of the cross? It may be in our Morning Offering, at grace before meals, at Mass, or before we
retire for the night. It may be when we pray the Liturgy of the Hours, or recite the Rosary. How often do we
sign ourselves "In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit"? How often do we think about
the deep meaning of these words and this simple, yet profound Trinitarian gesture? Today let us pause and
think of what we are doing when we mark ourselves with the sign of the cross. What does it mean to sign
myself with the Divine love that binds the Godhead as One? God said at creation, "Let us make man in our
image." He spoke of Himself as "Us," implying the Trinitarian nature in which we Catholics believe. God also
said that we humans would image that nature. How does my life reflect the community of love that is the
Godhead? How do I image the Divine nature, which is love itself? Are mercy, grace, and faithfulness part of
my identity? Fr. Thomas Rosica, CSBCEO, Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation
