ON FACEBOOK ONLY – Daily Services Thursday 4th June 2020
ON FACEBOOK ONLY –
During the Coronavirus Pandemic we are only able to stream services via Facebook. Please click on the page below to get to the live services
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Dear Brothers and Sisters, Thank You so much for all for your prayers during this global pandemic.
Virtual Services and Events Online during the Pandemic:
Please join us for our on-line weekend services for Holy Mass via our facebook page during this Covid-19 pandemic
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Our website and newsletter give you all of these services on a daily basis. The website has also been modified to make it easy for people to “watch online” and the latest videos can be viewed on the home page.
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Mass Times for this week are:
- Saturdays at 6pm for our Vigil Mass of the 5th Sunday of Easter.
- Sundays, Masses will be at 8:30am, 10:15am and then our Mass in Polish at 12noon.
- Daily masses on other days are at 9am and then mass in Polish at 4pm (please note this new time).
A Glass of Wine or a Cup of Coffee daily with Father Marcin
Why not join Father Marcin daily to ask questions about our Catholic Faith or just share a glass of wine or coffee with others.
- Daily , Monday , Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 10:00am in POLISH for an hour
- (‘PORANNA KAWA’ z ks. Marcinem godz. 10.00)
- Daily Monday to Friday at 8:30pm in ENGLISH. (‘A glass of wine ‘ with Fr Marcin). All are welcome.
Every Wednesday 10:30am on Facebook for Children – ‘Sowing seeds of faith’ with Fr Marcin
We have a special session for our Children “sowing the seeds of faith” every Wednesday at 10:30am on our facebook pages – Please feel free for your children to join. – Dear First Communion Children and your Beloved Parents Download here: Dear First Communion Children and your Beloved Parents + “Laudetur Iesus Christus” (May Jesus Christ will be praised) – You should respond: … “in secula seculorum. Amen” (forever and ever. Amen) I write this letter, because I wonder how You are and I miss You very much. This time is very difficult in many ways for many people around, but generally for all of us. I’m very grateful for all …
click on link: Read more here – https://stswithuns.org.uk/sowing-seeds/
Our Prayers are Needed:
Please continue to prayer for all our special workers who are out there keeping us safe. Prayer for all of the victims of the pandemic and their families who are grieving. Remember also all of our homeless for whom we are still trying to support in our Parish. Please pray that they may stay safe too.
DONATION APPEAL – CAN YOU HELP? (Appeal to help our Patish Homeless)
These weeks of lockdown are difficult for all of us, and we are particularly mindful of those whose jobs and lives are put on hold because of the pandemic. We want to be here for you during these difficult times. Even so, the Church in our Diocese of Portsmouth, its clergy, parishes and schools, is entirely dependent upon your generous charity. So that we can continue to provide the Liturgy of the Lord and our works, both centrally and from our parishes to the local community, I kindly ask all of the faithful who are able to do so, to continue their generous regular-giving to the Diocese and to their parish churches, which would otherwise lose vital income.
We continue to feed our homeless each day and on Sundays in the best ways we can. If you can make a donation to the parish then we would be most grateful.
We have set up a donate page for those parishioners who are able to.
Click on link: https://stswithuns.org.uk/donate-help-support-our-parish/
Click on link: https://stswithuns.org.uk/appeal-a-note-on-parish-finances-can-you-help/
with best wishes Father Marcin and the Parish team.
DURING JUNE – Possiblity to Go to Confession and Holy Communion by strick appointment only during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Also One Family at Mass every day all under strick Covid regulations
Father Marcin’s Q&A Sessions nightly during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Daily Readings Thursday 4th June 2020
Thursday 4 June 2020 Our Lord Jesus Christ the Eternal High Priest – Feast Liturgical Colour: White.
Entrance Antiphon:
Cf. Hebrews 7:24; 9, 15
Christ, Mediator of the New Covenant, has an eternal priesthood because he remains for ever.
Collect:
O God, who for the glory of your majesty and the salvation of the human race, made your Only Begotten Son the Eternal High Priest, grant that, through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, those whom he has chosen as ministers and stewards of his mysteries may be found faithful in carrying out the ministry they have received. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
First Reading:
Genesis 22:9-18
The sacrifice of Isaac
When they arrived at the place God had pointed out to him, Abraham built an altar there, and arranged the wood. Then he bound his son Isaac and put him on the altar on top of the wood. Abraham stretched out his hand and seized the knife to kill his son.
But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven. ‘Abraham, Abraham’ he said. ‘I am here’ he replied. ‘Do not raise your hand against the boy’ the angel said. ‘Do not harm him, for now I know you fear God. You have not refused me your son, your only son.’ Then looking up, Abraham saw a ram caught by its horns in a bush. Abraham took the ram and offered it as a burnt-offering in place of his son. Abraham called this place ‘The Lord Provides’, and hence the saying today: On the mountain the Lord provides.
The angel of the Lord called Abraham a second time from heaven. ‘I swear by my own self – it is the Lord who speaks – because you have done this, because you have not refused me your son, your only son, I will shower blessings on you, I will make your descendants as many as the stars of heaven and the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants shall gain possession of the gates of their enemies. All the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by your descendants, as a reward for your obedience.’
Responsorial Psalm:
Psalm 39(40):7-10,17
Here I am, Lord! I come to do your will.
You do not ask for sacrifice and offerings,
but an open ear.
You do not ask for holocaust and victim.
Instead, here am I.
Here I am, Lord! I come to do your will.
In the scroll of the book it stands written
that I should do your will.
My God, I delight in your law
in the depth of my heart.
Here I am, Lord! I come to do your will.
Your justice I have proclaimed
in the great assembly.
My lips I have not sealed;
you know it, O Lord.
Here I am, Lord! I come to do your will.
O let there be rejoicing and gladness
for all who seek you.
Let them ever say: ‘The Lord is great’,
who love your saving help.
Here I am, Lord! I come to do your will.
When a Feast of the Lord falls on a weekday, there is no Reading after the Psalm and before the Gospel:.
Gospel Acclamation:
Alleluia, alleluia!
Christ became obedient for us unto death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has exalted him and given him a name which is above every name.
Alleluia!
Gospel:
Matthew 26:36-42
My soul is sorrowful to the point of death
Jesus came with them to a small estate called Gethsemane; and he said to his disciples, ‘Stay here while I go over there to pray.’ He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee with him. And sadness came over him, and great distress. Then he said to them, ‘My soul is sorrowful to the point of death. Wait here and keep awake with me.’
And going on a little further he fell on his face and prayed: ‘My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass me by. Nevertheless, let it be as you, not I, would have it.’ He came back to the disciples and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter: ‘So you had not the strength to keep awake with me one hour? You should be awake, and praying not to be put to the test. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.’ Again, a second time, he went away and prayed: ‘My Father, if this cup cannot pass by without my drinking it, your will be done!’
Prayer over the Offerings:
Lord, may our Mediator Jesus Christ render these gifts acceptable to you, and may he present us as sacrifices pleasing to you in union with him. Who lives and reigns for ever and ever.
Communion Antiphon:
Matthew 28:20
And behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.
Prayer after Communion:
May this divine sacrifice we have offered and received fill us with life, O Lord, we pray, so that, bound to you in lasting charity, we may bear fruit that lasts for ever. Through Christ our Lord.
Copyright © 1996-2019 Universalis Publishing Limited: see www.universalis.com. Scripture readings from the Jerusalem Bible are published and copyright © 1966, 1967 and 1968 by Darton, Longman & Todd, Ltd and Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc, and used by permission of the publishers. Text of the Psalms: Copyright © 1963, The Grail (England). Used with permission of A.P. Watt Ltd. All rights reserved.