ST JOSEPH’S JOURNAL Volume 53 No: 30
CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION & SAINT JOSEPH
23 ST JOHN’S STREET, HERTFORD SG14 1RX
Email: hertford@rcdow.org.uk
Parish Priest: Canon Terence Phipps Tel: 01992 582109
DATE: 8 August 2021 NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
The page numbers for the prayers for this Sunday’s Mass are at the front of The Parish Mass Book. Please note that there is a Loop system in the Church.
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THE VIEW FROM THE PRESBYTERY
We are now fully into August and are consequently in that period of the year when nothing much seems to be happening. A number of people will be away, of course, and although we shall get some visitors to the parish, we shall probably be down in numbers for the next few weeks. We have had quite a number of baptisms, however, so there are still people joining the parish.
There have also been a few deaths and we have sent some people on their journey to God with hope and prayer in our hearts. Paul Rutland-Barsby’s funeral will take place next Wednesday, 11 August at 11.30. Paul was a very active member of our parish for many years. He was a member of the choir and the parish’s Cafod representative and he worked hard in so many areas. The family would ask that because of difficulties connected with Covid only those who are invited should attend the Funeral Mass. However, the ceremony will be live streamed and you can find the details of how to access and view the live stream on the back of this newsletter. You will also find details of how to find Paul’s Just Giving Page, if you wish to make a donation in his memory. The chosen charity is Cafod.
Another parishioner who has passed away is Norah Hilditch, but the particular sadness there is that her only daughter Irene has also just passed away as I write this. Please keep them in your prayers; the only family Norah and Irene had are all in Kenya.
On another subject, I would like to thank Elizabeth Black and Daniel Fajardo, who have agreed to become Parish Safeguarding Representatives. Their job will be to keep up the official paperwork for the DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) forms, which are necessary for any volunteers who work with children or vulnerable adults and also to be available to anyone who has concerns about any problems connected with safeguarding. We want to make sure that everyone in the parish is safe.
I want also to thank Joan Chadirchi, who has been our Parish Safeguarding Representative for several years and has done a marvellous job despite all the recent Covid restrictions. We are very much in her debt.
We shall continue with the current practice at Mass until the first weekend in September. Please sanitise your hands at the door of the church; keep to the one-way system for Holy Communion; wear a mask inside the church, unless you are exempt. Let’s hope and pray that current improvements will continue and that the vaccination process will continue to bring down infections and help us return to some normality. I am looking forward to being away from 16/8 until 2/9. Fr Michael Doyle visited this week and is also looking forward to supplying in Hertford during my absence. Please give him a good welcome, and remember that next Sunday is the Feast of the Assumption of our Blessed Lady. A great Feast! As always: keep safe; keep smiling; keep going! Happy holidays!
God Bless – Fr Terry
POPE’S INTENTION AUGUST
The Church
Let us pray for the Church, that she may receive from the Holy Spirit the grace and strength to reform herself in the light of the Gospel.
IF YOU GO IN TO HOSPITAL: Catholics in hospital are unlikely to receive an automatic visit from the Catholic Chaplain. If someone is sick in hospital, please let us know here at the Presbytery, and/or ask the staff on the ward, so that your loved one can be visited whilst in hospital, and receive Holy Communion and any other Sacraments from the Chaplain.
ONLINE DONATIONS TO OUR CHURCH:
Westminster Roman Catholic Diocese Trustee Hertford as the account name.
Account number: 21263242
Sort code: 40-05-20
If you would like to use STANDING ORDER to donate your weekly/monthly offering, the forms are available on the website to download.
IF YOU WRITE A CHEQUE TO THE PARISH please can you make payable to WRCDT Hertford. Thank you.
PAUL RUTLAND-BARSBY’S FUNERAL – LIVE STREAMING ACCESS:
Step 1. Enter in your browser: www.truecapturemedia.co.uk/11082021
Step 2. Enter the password:
jne3xjwk5x
The live stream will be available to watch at the given start time.
Step 3: Once broadcasting has started the live stream will display a play button on the bottom left of the player – click this to start watching.
If anyone wishes to send anecdotes or special memories they have of Paul that they would have shared if they were able to have attended his funeral in person, please send to juliette.hodson@icloud.com
They can then be collated for family to read and share. Should anyone like to make a donation, please use the JustGiving page created in Paul’s memory. The charity chosen is CAFOD as it was one Paul felt strongly about supporting
MASS INTENTIONS
6.00pm: People of the Parish
Sunday: NINETEETH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR
10.30am: George Robert Emmett (RIP)
6.00pm: Ann McChesney (RIP Anni)
Monday:
10.00am: Joan Chadirchi (Ints)
Tuesday:
10.00am: Private Intention
Wednesday:
10.00am: Joe & Peggy Scripps (RIP)
Thursday:
CHURCH CLOSED
Friday:
10.00am: Gregory Coldwell (RIP)
Saturday:
10.00am: Bernadette & John McLaughlin (RIP)
6.00pm: People of the Parish
RECENTLY DECEASED:
Irene Hilditch, Norah Hilditch,
Paul Rutland-Barsby
RECENTLY BAPTISED:
Sebastian Robert Cooper