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Southwark Priests Called to Eternal Life

30/5/2020

Two outstanding priests, with long years of outstanding service in our diocese, have been called to eternal life. We commend their souls to Jesus the High Priest. Both are brothers. Edmund died a couple of days before his brother Francis. Ed and Francis Hartley are survived by another brother who is also a priest. Their brother is John and this weekend he celebrates 62 years of priestly ministry. Three priests from one family. All three honourable, decent and holy priests. We thank God for their calling to serve Him in our diocese for so long and so well.
Please keep the Hartley family in your prayers.
May Ed and Francis Rest in Peace and Rise in Glory.

May Devotions

24/5/2020

On the feast of St. Augustine, this Wednesday 27th May at 7p.m. Archbishop John will be live streaming May Devotions and a Scripture Rosary of the Mysteries of Light from the Cathedral. Please join him if you can via the Cathedral website.

Candles

24/5/2020

.... lit for special intentions, with a prayer. Please let me know if you would like me to light a candle for your family, your birthday, wedding anniversary, for someone who is sick, in hospital or has to self-isolate. Please contact me by ‘phone, text, email or via the parish WhatsApp group.

Our Journey to Pentecost Sunday: Novena to the Holy Spirit

24/5/2020

The novena in honour of the Holy Spirit is the oldest of all Novenas since it was first made at the direction of Our Lord Himself when He sent His apostles back to Jerusalem to await the coming of the Holy Spirit on the first Pentecost. It is still the only novena officially prescribed by the Church. Addressed to the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, it is a powerful plea for the light and strength and love so sorely needed by every Christian. We have begun our Novena. These are the prayers we shall pray each day:
Act of Consecration to the Holy Spirit
On my knees I before the great multitude of heavenly witnesses I offer myself, soul and body to You, Eternal Spirit of God. I adore the brightness of Your purity, the unerring keenness of Your justice, and the might of your love. You are the Strength and light of my soul. In You I live and move and am. I desire never to grieve You by unfaithfulness to grace and I pray with all my heart to be kept from the smallest sin against You. Mercifully guard my every thought and grant that I may always watch for Your light, and listen to Your voice, and follow Your gracious inspirations. I cling to You and give myself to You and ask You, by Your compassion to watch over me in my weakness. Holding the pierced Feet of Jesus and looking at His Five Wounds, and trusting His Precious Blood and adoring His opened Side and stricken Heart, I implore You, Adorable Spirit, Helper of my infirmity, to keep me in Your grace that I may never sin against You. Give me O Holy Spirit, Spirit of the Father and the Son to say to You always and everywhere, “Speak Lord for Your servant heareth.” Amen.
Prayer for the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit
O Lord Jesus Christ Who, before ascending into Heaven did promise to send the Holy Spirit to finish Your work in the souls of Your Apostles and Disciples, deign to grant the same Holy Spirit to me that He may perfect in my soul, the work of Your grace and Your love. Grant me the Spirit of Wisdom that I may despise the perishable thing of this world and aspire after the things that are eternal, the Spirit of Understanding to enlighten my mind with the light of Your divine truth, the Spirit on Counsel that I may ever choose the surest way of pleasing God and gaining Heaven, the Spirit of Fortitude that I may bear my cross with You and that I may overcome with courage all the obstacles that oppose my salvation, the Spirit of Knowledge that I may know God and know myself and grow perfect in the science of the Saints, the Spirit of Piety that I may find the service of God sweet and amiable, and the Spirit of Fear that I may be filled with a loving reverence towards God and may dread any way to displease Him. Mark me, dear Lord with the sign of Your true disciples, and animate me in all things with Your Spirit. Amen.
We shall each day focus on one of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, followed by a prayer. Our Father.... Hail Mary....... Once followed by Glory Be to the Father...... seven times – the Act of Consecration, Prayer for the Seven Gifts.

May They Rest in Peace

24/5/2020

Thank you for your prayers and spiritual support for families and parishioners who have had loved ones called to Eternal Glory.
We have two funerals pending:
Glynys Mary Marsh – Funeral will take place on Friday 29th May. Requiem Mass at 10a.m. Marlene Rozario – Funeral will take place on Monday 1st June. Requiem Mass at 10a.m.
We offer our sympathy and prayers to the de Silva family. Rohan de Silva age 71 was called to Eternal Life last Sunday in Australia. Please pray for him, hid funeral will take place this Friday in Australia. We bless his sister Carmen, Nihal and all the family in the days to come.
May They Rest in Peace and Rise in Glory. Our loved ones, those who have die in these past weeks, those whose anniversaries occur at this time. We remember Daniel Patrick Carrol and Phyllis Donnely. We shall keep them in prayer and light candles for them on behalf of our parish family.

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