St Anthony of Padua Anerley

The Most Holy Trinity

Mass Readings: 83 – 85

Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 47

Trinity Sunday

 Today is Trinity Sunday. We are able to think about God who created heaven and earth, and about God coming to live as a man among us, and about the God we experience in our lives. In other words, we can cope with the ideas of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Also, we can cope with the idea of there being one God only.

We may not understand how it is that God can be both one God and also three persons, but we can draw great profit from meditating on the revelation that he is. Each of the three persons is complete and perfect in itself: Jesus is perfect as the Son, as a human being; the Spirit is perfect as the Spirit; the Father is perfect as the Father. Yet they are one God and that God is infinite and therefore cannot be divided. The three persons therefore, must be bound together in the perfect unity of perfect love. We are called to become like God, so this is a model for us and very rich one. We are called, not only to become perfect  persons, but also to be bound together in the perfect unity of perfect peace. We have all met people who want to have unity at the cost of riding roughshod over the opinions and feelings of individuals; and today we meet an increasing number of people loudly shouting about their right to personal freedom irrespective of the values and consensus of the community which alone makes their freedom possible. It takes very special people to be committed to both ideals at the same time; it takes people committed to growing in their understanding ; it takes people at whom the world marvels, saying ‘See how these Christians love one another’.

Sunday Teas:

This Sunday’s teas will be served by the SVP.

Next Sunday’s teas will be served by the Flower Arrangers.
Thank you to all those who help out with the Sunday Teas.

Last Sunday’s Collections: The 1st collection was £601.07p + £298.20p in Gift Aid Envelopes giving us a parish total of £899.27p. The 2nd collection for our Church Repair Fund 2018 was £84.95p. Thank you for your generosity. Today’s retiring collection is for our Church Repair Fund 2018.

Recently Deceased: Please pray for the souls and families of James Eugene Markham and Wilma Noronha.

The funeral for James Eugene Markham will be at Beckenham Crematorium on Tuesday 29th May at 12:30pm.

The funeral mass for Wilma Noronha will be on Friday 1st June at 9:30am followed by the committal at West Norwood Crematorium at 11am.

May they rest in peace.

1st Friday Silent Adoration: On the first Friday of every month there will be Silent Adoration in the Church from 7 – 8pm.  The next Friday Adoration will be next Friday, 1st June.

Invitation to new readers: Have you read at Mass before, maybe in another parish? Have you made your confirmation recently? Have you thought about becoming a reader but not put your thought into action? We will have an introduction meeting for anyone interested in becoming a reader on Tuesday 5 June from 7.45 to 8.45 at the church. Please come along if you would like to find out more.

Church Repairs: Until further notice, on Sundays where there is no diocesan collection, all our retiring collections will go towards our church restoration fund. In addition, one of the wall boxes (near to the water font at the side door) has been re-allocated to this fund. Any donations will be much appreciated. If you are a registered gift-aider, please put donations in an envelope with your name or unique gift aid number on it, and we will be able to reclaim the tax that you have already paid to HMRC on them.

The Bethlehem Nativity Group, who visited our Parish last weekend to sell Olive Wood religious carvings from the Holy Land, would love to express huge thanks to everyone who supported their good cause, the result of which was very beneficial and rewarding for their needy Christian families, (raising £1858.96). They don’t have enough words to thank you with but will make sure that you are always in their prayers. www.tbng.co.uk

Parish Pilgrimage to Lourdes 2019: 2nd to 6th September costing £620 per person based on a shared room. Single room supplement is £112. The cost includes air fare and full board at the 3 star Hotel Beau Site which was restored in 2015. As the flight is open to other groups as well as ours and there are obviously a limited number of seats on the plane the pilgrimage is on a first come first served basis though we are ahead of the game! Booking is made by individuals direct with the tour company, Tagney Tours, which runs Diocesan pilgrimages and booking forms will be available from Fr. Stuart from next Saturday (2nd June). Please note that this pilgrimage is strictly reserved for St Anthony’s parishioners.

The Diocesan Justice & Peace Commission, Spring Assembly 2018 will be at St Mary’s Church, Croydon, Surrey on Saturday 2^nd June from 10.30am to 4pm, Preceded by Mass at 10am celebrated by Bishop Lynch. Speaker Ellen Teague. Free event. Everyone welcome. Please bring a packed lunch. Tea & coffee provided.

The Marian Fathers are holding their 17th Divine Mercy Conference on  Saturday 16th June 2018 at Our Lady Mother of the  Church, 2 Windsor Road, Ealing W5 5PD from 10:30 am to 6 pm, nearest underground station Ealing Broadway. Entrance is  by tickets only £10 donation. For tickets and more information contact: DIVINE MERCY APOSTOLATE – MARIAN FATHERS, 1 Courtfield Gardens, London W13 0EY, T: 020 8998 0925; Email: info@divinemercy.org.uk   www.divinemercyapostolate.co.uk.

CCF Golden Jubilee: 1968-2018: The Centre for Catholic Formation will be 50 years old this summer and a lecture series has been arranged as part of our celebrations. All are welcome to attend one or all of four evening talks on key themes: Bishop Paul Mason on adult formation (5 June); Dr Caroline Farey on catechesis (8 June); Canon John Udris on GK Chesterton (14 June) and Dr Pia Matthews on Disability Theology (19 June). To book your place: https://www.ccftootingbec.org.uk/fifty or call 020 8672 7684; email: office@ccftootingbec.org.uk

Please pray for the sick of the Parish: John Barry, Mercie Ihekweme-Hill, Kieran Quinn and Michael Creech.

MASS TIMES AND INTENTIONS (27th May—3rd June 2018) (Year: B)