Dear Friends,

THE SEASON OF LENT in our PARISH YEAR OF RENEWAL

LENT IS A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY to begin again. God, in His Wisdom, through His Church, gives us this annual opportunity to renew our lives by renewing our relationship with Him.

Rediscover Jesus is the book given, at Christmas, to everyone in Portsmouth Diocese by our Bishop. Our Parish Community is united by each of us reading it daily from 1st January, and we’ll delve more deeply into its 40 short chapters during the 40 days of Lent, with Lent Study Groups meeting each Wednesday morning and evening - so that everyone can grow together in our Year of Renewal.

WHAT ARE YOU GIVING UP FOR LENT - OR TAKING ON? This is a question which our non-Catholic friends may be asking us. While it’s good to make our own choices, it’s easier to do things together, than alone. (That’s the success of Weight Watchers, Alcoholics Anonymous, and similar groups.) Let’s leave the ‘giving up' to each individual - giving up what’s wrong for us, giving up a habitual sin or bad habit, giving up things which divert us from God, and from a godly life. Let’s consider, communally, as a Parish, ‘taking on’ something together for Lent - but no one should take on more than a few from the following suggested list. Be renewed, in our Parish Year of Renewal, by coming to:

• An extra Mass during the week: 12.15pm daily; 7.30am Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays. • A Holy Hour (or half hour) of Eucharistic Adoration: 8am - 12 noon every Wednesday.

Additionally on 1st Wednesdays of each month (7th March) from 6pm to 9pm, with Benediction at 8.45pm.

• Rediscover Jesus Lent Study Group: 10am or 7.30pm every Wednesday in Lent. • Confession: Once a month (February & March), or once a week. See the times on page 3. • Stations of the Cross: 11.30am or 6pm every Friday in Lent (except 2nd March - EF Mass). • 40 Days for Life: Get involved in our local Pro-Life Campaign. See the daily times. • Lenten Charities: Support our Projects ‘at home’ and overseas. See page 3.

By doing things together we encourage each other, and bring our friends to grow closer to Heaven. Together, in our Parish Year of Renewal, may we each be renewed in our relationship with God.

Father Dominic & Father Peter __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

ORATORY Fr Dominic Jacob Oratory Moderator & University Chaplain Fr Peter Edwards Parish PriestCLERGY: Brother Andrew Wagstaff, Brother Francisco Hintikka

The Oratory House / Parish Office: 1 Albert Road, Richmond Hill, Bournemouth BH1 1BZParish & Chaplaincy Office open: Monday - Friday, 9am - 12 noon. Telephone: 01202 411140

Website: www.bournemouthoratory.org.ukParish Deacon: The Rev’d Roger Carr-Jones rcarrjones@portsmouthdiocese.org.uk Telephone: 01202 428451Administrator: Sharon Head, Contact as above. Youth Ambassador: Adam Bussell: oratoryyouth@mail.comEmail: sacredheart@portsmouthdiocese.org.uk www.facebook.com/SacredHeartChurchBournemouth

THE BOURNEMOUTH ORATORY in FormationSacred Heart, Bournemouth & University Catholic Chaplaincyserved by the Fathers and Brothers of the Oratorian Community of Saint Philip Neri

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Monthly Newsletter ~ FEBRUARY 2018________________________________________________________

MONTHLY PRAYER PAGE for FEBRUARY 2018

SICK AND HOUSEBOUND: Sheila Brook, Brian Coburn, Roy (Christopher) Coombs, Liliana Couch, Theresa Fitt, Valentina Grant, Bronislawa Konstantin, Elfin Leahy, Tony McCarthy, Mary Moret, Arlene Nicol, Laurens Obagi, Pat Pope, Alf Skee, Rose Smith, Attracta Spears, Michael Sullivan, John & Hilary Timson, Mary Urwin, Marjorie Walsh and Alan Wright.

We pray for sick and housebound parishioners during Wednesday Eucharistic Adoration. Holy Communion is taken to them weekly by our Extraordinary Ministers. The Fathers visit all the Housebound during Advent and Lent, and at need, for the Sacraments of Confession and Anointing. Please tell the Parish Office of anyone who needs visiting by a priest.

GOING INTO HOSPITAL: If you, a family member, or Catholic friend, are going into hospital, it is important to ensure that the Catholic Chaplain knows you’re there, that your religion is recorded as ‘Catholic’ on your admission papers, and that you ask to be visited by the Catholic Chaplain.

Please also let the Parish Office know that you’re in hospital, so that we can pray for you, and that your own Priests can visit for pastoral care. Political correctness now prevents this, unless we know your ward, date of birth, or address. If you’re not yet registered on the Parish Census, it’s important to do this too. Green census cards are at the back of the church.

FEBRUARY ANNIVERSARIES OF DEATH: 1st Stella Wildman, Harold Berry, 2nd Mary Denning, 4th Aldoura Da Silva, 5th Charles Robert Hill, Gerrard Machin, 6th Ethel Anne MacKenzie, Afred Stowell Fitzroy Simmons, Felice Tullio Gianneri, 7th Joan Jeffrey, 9th John Lewis C. Whitlock, 10th Victoria May Downes, Gladys Dorothy Jones, 11th John Sharkey, 12th Frances Bridget Glanville, 14th Margaret Daisy Gillespie, 15th Eugeniusz Majer, 16th Alessandro Zucconi, 17th Bella Antonia Shane, Matilde Anne Jones, Joan Jeffrey, Pia Emma Rudkin, Stephen Alan Fairfield, 18th Mary Betty Hilda Hill, 19th Gordon Stanley Perry, 20th Patrick John Curley, Josephine Mara Stocker, 21st Kathleen Mary Byrne, John Jones, Wladyslaw Niemiec, Giuseppe Giovanni Mirco, 23rd William Whitehead, Mary Eileen Fisher, 24th Edward Lawrence Major, Michael Gerald Rothery, 25th Ellen Mendoza, Virginia Guadalupe Taylor, 27th Jack McCabe, Lorna Corbett-Jones, Joseph Osmund Luxton, Iris Maureen Bunker, Giulio Dominic Lucantoni, 28/29th Joanna Margaret Brown, Wanda Janina Kaflinska, Sunya Patricia Pegram.

Please pray especially for all those who have died recently:

Eternal Rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let Perpetual Light shine upon them. May they Rest in Peace. Amen.

MASS INTENTIONS for FEBRUARY 2018

Sunday 28th January Sunday 4th February Sunday 11th February Sunday 18th February Sunday 25th February

Sat. 5pm For all Priests 8:00 Pro Populo 10:30 Mike Cross, RIP 4pm Kilian Cheo

Sat. 5pm Ntsokolo Selebe, wellbeing 8:00 Oratory Vocations 10:30 James McBreen, RIP 4pm Pro Populo

Sat. 5pm Krystyna Kania 8:00 Pro Populo 10:30 Helena Mickiewicz, RIP 4pm Magdalena’s Birthday & Protection of the Unborn

Sat. 5pm Filipino Community, thanksgiving 8:00 Pro Populo 10:30 Norman Fellows, RIP 4pm Ita Murphy, RIP

Sat. 5pm Unknown Bishop 8:00 Pro Populo 10:30 Parents Hurt by Abortion 4pm Laura Parkes, Birthday

Monday 29th 7:30 Oratory Vocations 12:15 All my Family’s Souls

Monday 5th 7:30 Thanksgiving 12:15 Ana Pita, RIP

Monday 12th 7:30 Oratory Vocations 12:15 Betty June Lucantoni, RIP

Monday 19th 7:30 Jarek’s Birthday, thanksgiving & blessings 12:15 Dr Desmond Beetles, RIP

Monday 26th 7:30 Oratory Vocations 12:15 Linda & Hugh Whyman, wellbeing

Tuesday 30th 12:15 Ayabulela Selebe, wellbeing

Tuesday 6th 12:15 Brenda Duncan, wellbeing

Tuesday 13th 12:15 For all Priests

Tuesday 20th

12:15 Kurt Berggren, RIP

Tuesday 27th

12:15 Giulio Lucantoni, RIP

Wednesday 31st 7:30 Holy Souls 12:15 Thanksgiving

Wednesday 7th 7:30 Oratory Benefactors 12:15 Anna McCarthy, thanksgiving

Wednesday 14th 7:30 Denise, wellbeing, & Clive, RIP 12:15 Alan Farah, Birthday

Wednesday 21st 7:30 Oratory Vocations 12:15 Mike Cross, RIP

Wednesday 28th 7:30 Oratory Benefactors 12:15 Virginia Taylor, RIP

Thursday 1st February 12:15 Edgar & Nora Ashton-Kinder, RIP

Thursday 8th 12:15 Suh Israel, RIP

Thursday 15th 12:15 For all Priests

Thursday 22nd

12:15 Linda Elms, RIP

Thursday 1st March

12:15 Fr David Hutton Cong. Orat., RIP

Friday 2nd 7:30 Oratory Benefactors 12:15 For the Oratorians of the Sacred Heart

Ŧ 6pm Roy Ware, RIP

Friday 9th 7:30 Juliana Neh, RIP 12:15 Peter Nye, RIP

Friday 16th 7:30 Oratory Benefactors 12:15 For the Oratorians of the Sacred Heart

Friday 23rd 7:30 Oratory Benefactors 12:15 Pauline Browning, RIP

Friday 2nd 7:30 Paul Ashton, wellbeing 12:15 Josephine Hodgkiss

Ŧ 6pm Roy Ware, RIP

Saturday 3rd 12:15 Melissa Varela, thanksgiving

Saturday 10th 12:15 Richard Hammond, RIP

Saturday 17th 12:15 Matilde Jones, RIP

Saturday 24th

12:15 Raymond & Bernadette Beaton

Saturday 3rd

12:15 Thomas Howarth, RIP

Ŧ Extraordinary Form Mass 6pm on 1st Friday of each month

Home ProjectCARITAS PORTSMOUTH DIOCESE

The ethnic and linguistic diversity of the communities in our Diocese and Parishes is an ideal foundation for the Church’s mission to respond to the command to be ‘fishers of men’.

Caritas Portsmouth Diocese is firmly rooted in our belief in salvation through Jesus Christ, and the wealth of Catholic Social Teaching. Caritas exists to enable the support, teaching, promotion, ordering and organisation of this constitutive element of the Church within parishes, schools, pastoral areas and deaneries of our diocese.

Caritas Portsmouth Diocese was founded in May 2015, with its new Director on 1st March 2017. The Oratory Parish of the Sacred Heart Bournemouth is pleased to support this new initiative of our Diocesan Bishop for local needs, especially the Caritas projects concerned with modern slavery, and for refugees, migrant workers and asylum seekers, who are so prevalent in our Parish. Visit:

www.caritasdioceseofportsmouth.org.uk

Click on ‘Projects’, then ‘Other Projects’ to find fact sheets about modern day slavery.

Overseas ProjectAID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED

Aid to the Church in Need is a Catholic charity providing vital help to Christians who are persecuted, oppressed or in pastoral need in over 140 countries worldwide.

Neville Kyrke-Smith, National Director of Aid to the Church in Need, will give a brief talk at the end of each Mass on the 2nd Sunday of Lent (24/25th February) about the vital work ACN is doing in helping persecuted and oppressed Christians in the Middle East. There will be a retiring collection for this Lenten Project.

Neville has headed this expanding Catholic charity since 1991 and has travelled extensively with the charity to project countries – including recent field trips to Iraq and Lebanon. ACN is a Pontifical Foundation of the Catholic Church. 

Visit: www.acnuk.orgScroll down to ‘Latest News’, and click on:

24th January 2018SYRIA Country’s Churches under fire.

and 25th January‘God has been with me always’

Also click on ‘Campaigns’, then: ‘Syria & Iraq’.

14 February - 25 March 40 Days for Life Ash Wednesday - Palm Sunday www.40daysforlife.com

Click on ‘Join a campaign’, then ‘Choose your Country’, and scroll down to ‘United Kingdom’ then click on: ‘3. Bournemouth’.

Join our peaceful prayer vigils near one of Bournemouth’s abortion clinics on 6 Wednesdays in Lent.

Sunday 11th February 6pm Benediction and meeting. Updates meanwhile in the Sunday Bulletin.

2018 Parish Year of Renewal

LENTEN CHARITY PROJECTSThe Finance Committee recently decided that the Parish will support only bona fide Catholic charities so that Parishioners are assured of the sound moral and ethical aspects of the organisations for which we raise funds.

During Lent we support two charities, for breadth of interest - one ‘at home’, and the other overseas.

Weekly Faith Developmentin the Season of Lent 2018

SUNDAYS5pm Cath. Soc. Fellowship Group

meets at 5pm (after the 4pm Mass),

6.20pm continues, after 6pm Benediction,with pizza, wine and soft drinks.

MONDAYS7.30pm Evangelium explores the Catholic

Faith with the Catechism of the Catholic Church and Christian art.

TUESDAYS7.30pm Bible Study reflects on the following

Sunday’s Readings.

WEDNESDAYS8am Eucharistic Adoration. Jesus said, to in the Garden of Gethsemane:12 noon Could you not watch with Me one hour?

8am 40 Days for Life peaceful prayer vigil to at the Bournemouth abortion clinic, 8pm while others pray at Eucharistic Adoration.

10am Lent Study groups: Rediscover Jesus.and Reflecting on Bishop Philip’s gift book.7.30pm Feb. 14, 21, 28, March 7, 14, 21, 28.

After Easter these Wednesday morningswill transform into the Ascent Movement (also known as ‘Life Ascending’) for those who are retired. See the March Newsletter.

6pm Monthly Eucharistic Adoration on to the 1st Wednesday of each month9pm (ie. 7th February and 7th March)

with Confessions 7pm - 8pm,concluding with 8.45pm Benediction.

THURSDAYS7.30pm RISE: Men’s Group (see opposite)

22nd February and 22nd March.

FRIDAYS11.30am Lenten Stations of the Cross& 6pm February 16, 23, March 9, 16, 23.

(except 2nd March EF Mass)

2018 PARISH YEAR OF RENEWAL

A MEN’S GROUP is starting up in our Parish. Catholic men are invited to sign-up NOW to start on Ash Wednesday, 14th February, for this on-line programme.

RISE is a 30-Day Challenge, by Chris Stefanick & Bill Donaghy, which will give you the tools you need to take your life and relationships to the next level. Journey with men all over the world as we RISE together to claim our true identity. For only about a dollar a day, RISE is an investment toward building a better life for you and those you love. This will renew you, renew your relationships, and renew the parish during our Parish Year of Renewal.

This will lead to our new Men’s Group starting after Easter on a monthly or fortnightly evening.Contact Adam Bussell: oratoryyouth@mail.com

See the trailer at: www.menriseup.org

SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY (SVP)is being re-founded (after a gap of many years) in our Parish after Easter with a launch at each Mass on the weekend of 28/29th April. Talk to Mike Hughes, or Fr Peter, and visit:

www.svp.org.uk

BROTHERS OF THE LITTLE ORATORY(a.k.a. The Secular Oratory) starts soon.

St Philip Neri's first association was of lay people (the clerical Congregation came later.) They met daily in the Oratory where one of the Brothers or Fathers would read from Scripture or a spiritual book. There was a discourse on what they had just heard, or St Philip would ask those present to discuss a given topic. The talks were always on prayer, the lives of Saints, the Virtues, and Church history. A period of mental prayer followed, then litanies and ‘the Oratory Prayers’. This pattern is still followed today in Oratories around the world - where there can also be Women’s Oratory, and Teens’ Oratory, etc…

Brothers of the Oratory is open to all men aged 18 and over, meeting monthly or fortnightly. Speak to one of the Fathers if you’re interested.