Mass Times * News * Fr Cyril Chiaha Writes
For more information about the parishes of Buntingford and Old Hall green
see the websites at https://parish.rcdow.org.uk/buntingford and https://parish.rcdow.org.uk/oldhallgreen
Weekly Mass: 1st – 8th November
Throughout the pandemic all Masses will take place in the parish church of St Richard of Chichester, Buntingford due to capacity.
Following the new national restrictions, from 5th November Mass will be celebrated in private.
The obligation to attend Mass remains suspended. Please see the Coronavirus page for more details.
Saturday 31st October: Vigil Mass of the Feast of All Saints
- 6.00pm: Buntingford
Sunday 1st November: Feast of All Saints
- 9.15am: Buntingford
- 11.00am: Buntingford
Tuesday 3rd November: Feria
- 9.30am: Buntingford
Wednesday 4th November: St Charles Borromeo
- 9.30am: Buntingford
Thursday 5th November: Feria
- 9.30am: Buntingford
Friday 6th November: Feria
- 9.30am: Buntingford
Saturday 7th November: Vigil Mass of the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary time
- 6.00pm: Buntingford
Sunday 8th November: 32nd Sunday in Ordinary time
- 9.15am: Buntingford
- 11.00am: Buntingford
The readings for Mass can be found every day on the ‘Universalis’ website.
Some churches in our diocese stream Mass online, you may be able to watch one of these during this time.
Sacrament of Confession
- In these exceptional times confession is by appointment and will be held at Buntingford.
Parish Office Hours
- Please consider using the email or telephone for office matters. While we must all support each other in these times, we must also try and do our part in lessening the spread of the this disease.
NOVEMBER – Month of the Holy Soul: Throughout the month of November Holy Mass will be offered for the names on the lists of the dead available at the back of the church. If you wish to remember and pray for your family and friends that have died, please fill in that form, place it in the envelope provided and return the envelope to the presbytery through the letterbox or hand it in after Mass. The names will be placed at the foot of the Altar throughout the month of November.
Next week’s second collection is for the Sick & Retired Priests’. As always, this is our chance to say thank you to our sick and retired priests who are receiving support after years of dedicated service to God and their parishioners.
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St Richard Reynolds Catholic College Twickenham are recruiting for an RE teacher with a specialism in KS4 / KS5 from Nov 2020 (maternity cover). Part time will be considered. Please contact recruitment@srrcc.org.uk for further details.
Offertory Collection
- Many Thanks to all those who have maintained regular parish offering through Standing Order, loose plate or cheque and to those who wrote a cheque covering the time we were in lockdown.
- Setting Up A New Standing Order: If you are setting up a Standing Order or donating online for the first time, please note that a new Confirmation of Payee service has been rolled out for additional security reasons.
- Although no changes have been made to the name of our parish bank account, you would be required to use the full name of the parish account set below when setting up a new payment instruction. In other words, the full meaning of the abbreviation WRCDT has to be used.
| Account name: Westminster Roman Catholic Diocese Trustee Old Hall Green and Puckeridge Parish |
Account name: Westminster Roman Catholic Diocese Trustee Buntingford Parish |
|---|---|
| Account Number: 91270044 |
Account Number: 51308610 |
| Sort Code 40-05-20 | Sort Code 40-05-20 |
We are still living through the pandemic; so the obligation to attend Mass remains suspended.
Please do not consider coming to church if you are self-isolating or shielding or have any of the symptoms of the coronavirus
Fr Cyril Chiaha Writes:
Today is the solemnity of All Saints, the day we remember and honor men and women both known and unknown who, notwithstanding the challenges of life, strived to live lives deeply rooted in Christ and the values of God’s kingdom. They did so in the understanding that human happiness does not consist in bodily life, but ultimately lying in the vision of God. They stood for something that lasts unto eternity, something that “rust cannot corrode, moths cannot eat, and thieves cannot steal”.
The gospel reading of today’s feast is the beatitudes. They present to us Jesus’ core values, thereby informing us how to be. It is my hope that we try as much as we can, in every relationship, place, and circumstance, to seek to be occupied with living out the values of God’s kingdom, as that is crucial to living a Christian life, a life of holiness, a life of becoming a saint. May our celebration of today’s feasts encourage us to make the right and informed choices in this life, as our choices here and now, are fundamental to our future destiny.
Have a blessed week!