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OUR STREAM TIMES (UK Time)

MORNING PRAYER: Monday to Friday 7.45 AM
EVENING PRAYER: Mo-Fri 6.00 PM
combined with MASS: on SUNDAY 10 AM // WEDNESDAY: 12 PM // MONDAY, TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY: 7.45 AM combined with Morning Prayer (7.45 AM).

On Wednesdays, Eucharistic Adoration 12.00 pm - UK time.

Texts for Prayers: http://www.oremus.org/cofe.html
or you can buy your hard-copy here: https://www.chpublishing.co.uk/books/9780715121993/common-worship-daily-pray

IMPORTANT NOTICE
​The number of Covid cases is rising very fast.

 Please
  • Do not  come to church if you have a high temperature, cough etc
  • Wear a mask covering your mouth and nose in church at all times.
  • Do not mix with others in church 
  • HANDS * FACE * SPACE


RESOURCES
www.youtube.com/saintaugustinecolindale
http://almanac.oremus.org
- Sunday Worship at Home (prayers) and  Letter of Encouragement to our parishioners - pdf documents/word documents on our homepage 'What's On', 'This week's newsletter' http://www.saintaugustinecolindale.com/this-weeks-services-and-newspaper.html


  • EASTER: Easter is the central feast of the liturgical year, the Queen of The name Easter comes from ‘east’, the direction ofsunrise. Our sun is the Resurrected Lord! With the Great Vigil of Easter, the risen Lord makes himself known in the Breaking of Bread. After its Lenten absence, the ‘Glory to God in the Highest’ returns. The fast is ended, veils fall from the crosses and images. The time of feasting begins. Easter Week presents various appearances of the risen Lord. As the Sundays of Easter succeed one another they begin to turn toward the Ascension and the end of the resurrection appearances. Ascension Day will commemorate Jesus’ triumphant return to the place he left in order to do his great work on earth. Finally, the Day of Pentecost as the completion of the fifty days of abounding joy brings the gift of the Holy Spirit as the fulfilment of the Easter promise that Jesus will remain with us till the end of the world. Easter Week, called Bright Week in the Eastern churches, was the occasion for the bishop’s mystagogical lectures to the newly baptised to continue their incorporation into the body of believers.

  • The Meaning of Lent. The colour of Lent is violet (purple), the colour of penitence and mourning. In Lent, we remember that through our baptism we died to sin and were raised to a new life in Christ. This penitential season transports us back to the moment of the fundamental break in our relationship with our Creator and therefore to the possibility of a fundamental healing in that relationship. We prepare for the celebration of Easter, the three sacred days of Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Day, the days of our Lord’s passion and resurrection.
  •  Lent is a time when each one of us should grow in our lives as Christians. A time to be more open to the light and warmth of god’s love for every one of us. There are some tried and tested ways of encouraging this growth. Ways of elbowing out self from the centre of our lives – so that we can let God and our neighbour in. First, of course, our regular worship as part of a Christian community. The Lord’s Service on the Lord’s Day puts God where he belongs - at the beginning of the week. And us where we belong - as part of his family at his altar. · Alongside that, our daily time for God. He gives us all the time in the world. Let us make sure we sue some of that time each day with him in prayer. We are fortunate enough to have a daily mass in the parish. And Stations of the Cross during Lent.  · Invitations to spend more time with Christ. Self-denial. The world calls it dieting. And spends thousands of pounds on it. Christians call it fasting. And it doesn’t cost a penny. Jesus went into the desert and denied himself food. Christians do the same in Lent - even though only a token imitation of the Master. We give up booze, or fags, or some nice but unnecessary food. It is a good discipline for us, and it helps our Almsgiving. In lent we make an extra effort to be generous with the money we have. We give over and above our regular giving.


  • Ordinary Time. The time between Epiphany and Ash Wednesday and between the Day of Pentecost and the beginning of Advent are the two “green seasons”, so called from their liturgical colours. This long trek of “Ordinary Time”, the thirty-four weeks   which extend from now till the end of November and the start of Advent. This time is calling us to be people of hope, particularly hope in the next generation. The colour of hope and growth is green. Indeed, from now on we concentrate on the work which affects our future.

  • The feast of Epiphany. Epiphany means an appearance or manifestation of God. Today’s celebration proclaims the greatness of the Christ. Already the infant King begins to draw the whole world to himself. The three Magi represent the three races of humanity: Asian, African, and European. We are celebrating the revelation of Christ’s divinity to all humankind as the three kings are the representatives of the Gentile nations. Their gifts have symbolic meaning: gold for a king, incense for a God, myrrh for his burial. Let the star which led the three Magi reveal the Redeemer’s love to us in all the details of our daily lives!
 
  • The feast of the Holy Family and Annual Thanksgiving. The Feast of the Holy Family celebrates the human family unit, as well as the ultimate family unit: Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. The feast, not a solemnity, is usually celebrated on the Sunday after Christmas. The Feast of the Holy Family is not just about the Holy Family, but about our own families too. The main purpose of the Feast is to present the Holy Family as the model for all Christian families, and for domestic life in general. Our family life becomes sanctified when we live the life of the Church within our homes. This is called the "domestic church" or the "church in miniature." St. John Chrysostom urged all Christians to make each home a "family church," and in doing so, we sanctify the family unit. Just how does one live out the Church in the family? The best way is by making Christ the center of family and individual life. Ways to do this include: reading scripture regularly, praying daily, attending Mass at least on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation, imitating the actions of the Holy Family, receiving the Sacraments frequently, all done together as a family unit.


  • Ordinary Time. The time between Epiphany and Ash Wednesday and between the Day of Pentecost and the beginning of Advent are the two “green seasons”, so called from their liturgical colours. This long trek of “Ordinary Time”, the thirty-four weeks   which extend from now till the end of November and the start of Advent. This time is calling us to be people of hope, particularly hope in the next generation. The colour of hope and growth is green. Indeed, from now on we concentrate on the work which affects our future.

  • The meaning of Advent. The name Advent comes from the Latin ‘Adventus’, ‘coming’, ‘approach’. We remember both the first coming of the Lord in his Incarnation, and his approaching return as risen Lord in all his heavenly splendour. In advent we can contemplate the completion of the work of redemption.  The purpose of advent is the rouse once again in the people of the Church the anticipation of the End, the great day of the Lord, and to bid them be prepared for it. The four Sundays of Advent before Christmas Day have a clear theme. The first Sunday focuses on the final times, the fulfillment of all things (‘eschatology’). The second and third both focus on the ministry of the forerunner, John the Baptist.  The fourth Sunday shows the events that prepared for Jesus’ birth. The liturgical colour throughout Advent is violet, symbolizing not penitence as it does in Lent but rather the royalty of the approaching King.

  • The time after Pentecost, ordinary time, concludes with the feast of Christ the King. The feast was instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925 to combat what he considered the destructive forces of the age: the rise of Bolshevik communism in Russia, Fascism in Italy, materialism generally. The new feast was intended to reassure the faithful that Christ the King was still in control. The reforms of the Second Vatican Council moved the feast to the last Sunday of the liturgical year, replacing the terrifying theme of the Last Judgement. It was a happy innovation quickly adopted by Anglicans. Today’s feast is a declaration that it is the Father’s will to restore all things in Christ. All creation is to be redeemed and restored to its original perfection.
 
  • The feast of the Ascension marks the completion of our Lord’s redemptive work, and yet the story is not finished, as the risen Lord whose earthly appearances have ended, will come again. Ascension day prepares us for the gift of the Holy Spirit. Also, in the ascension of Christ, the Church sees a promise of where his followers will be. This week between Ascension and Pentecost is a time of prayer for the Holy Spirit that the Church might be prepared to receive the gifts of the Spirit

  • With this coming Sunday (6th Sunday of Easter), the church looks ahead to the coming of the Holy Spirit of love. ‘Declare this with a shout of joy: the Lord has redeemed his people, Alleluja!’ (Isa.48:20). Today we ask God to enable us to show in the way we live the life we celebrate with such joy. The readings of the Mass point to the very source of this life, the Holy Spirit who led Jesus Christ in his earthly ministry and whom he has shared with us his disciples. This is the Spirit who leads the churches towards our Heavenly Jerusalem, where Jesus, after his return to the Father, will prepare home, our lasting abode.
 
  • Today, in the amazement of Easter Day, we are forced to realise, by this greatest Miracle of miracles, that Jesus is no longer dead! He is living and calling us to be his messengers to the unbelieving world.Let us celebrate the Christ who loves and saves us! Happy Easter!
 
  • The meaning of Lent. The colour of Lent is violet (purple), the colour of penitence and mourning. In Lent, we remember that through our baptism we died to sin and were raised to a new life in Christ. This penitential season transports us back to the moment of the fundamental break in our relationship with our Creator and therefore to the possibility of a fundamental healing in that relationship. We prepare for the celebration of Easter, the three sacred days of Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Day, the days of our Lord’s passion and resurrection.
 
  • Ordinary Time. The time between Epiphany and Ash Wednesday and between the Day of Pentecost and the beginning of Advent are the two “green seasons”, so called from their liturgical colours. This long trek of “Ordinary Time”, the thirty-four weeks   which extend from now till the end of November and the start of Advent. This time is calling us to be people of hope, particularly hope in the next generation. The colour of hope and growth is green. Indeed, from now on we concentrate on the work which affects our future.
 
  • Epiphany. The word originally signalled a visit of a king to a city of his realm, especially when he showed himself publicly to the people. Epiphany means an appearance or manifestation of God. The Eucharist of the Epiphany proclaims the greatness of the Christ. Already the infant King begins to draw the whole world to himself. The three Magi represent the three races of humanity: Asian, African, and European. We are celebrating the revelation of Christ’s divinity to all humankind as the three kings are the representatives of the Gentile nations. Their gifts have symbolic meaning: gold for a king, incense for a God, myrrh for his burial. Epiphany, in the ordinary sense, is a sudden, intuitive perception of an essential meaning, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience. Let the star which lead the three Magi reveal the Redeemer’s love to us in all the details of our daily lives!
  • The meaning of Advent. The name Advent comes from the Latin ‘Adventus’, ‘coming’, ‘approach’. We remember both the first coming of the Lord in his Incarnation, and his approaching return as risen Lord in all his heavenly splendour. In advent we can contemplate the completion of the work of redemption.  The purpose of advent is the rouse once again in the people of the Church the anticipation of the End, the great day of the Lord, and to bid them be prepared for it. The four Sundays of Advent before Christmas Day have a clear theme. The first Sunday focuses on the final times, the fulfillment of all things (‘eschatology’). The second and third both focus on the ministry of the forerunner, John the Baptist.  The fourth Sunday shows the events that prepared for Jesus’ birth. The liturgical colour throughout Advent is violet, symbolizing not penitence as it does in Lent but rather the royalty of the approaching King.
THIS WEEK (starting with 16th April):

Monday 19th April / Feria
7.45 am Morning Prayer with MASS
6.00 pm Evening Prayer
 
Tuesday 20th April / Feria
7.45 am Morning Prayer with MASS
6.00 pm – Evening Prayer
 
Wednesday 21st April / Memoria
Saint Anselm of Canterbury
7.45 am MASS with Morning Prayer
12.00 pm MASS for Lunch Club via Zoom (replay) + ‘Home Communion on the doorstep’
6.00 pm Evening Prayer
 
Thursday 22nd April / Feria
7.45 am Morning Prayer
6.30 pm MASS of the Last Supper
 
Friday 23rd April / Solemnity
Saint George, Martyr
7.45 am Morning Prayer + Mass
6.00 pm Evening Prayer

  • 25 April 11.00 am (after Sunday mass): Annual Meeting of Parishioners (approving the Financial, Fabric, and Pastoral Reports) and election/approval of Church wardens; election of new members of the PCC if there are new nominees.
  • The season of Ester will end with the Day of Pentecost (23rd May) as the completion of the fifty days of abounding joy brings the gift of the Holy Spirit as the fulfilment of the Easter promise that Jesus will remain with us till the end of the world.
  • Readings for the Week (Day: Morning // Evening). Sunday: (Exodus 16:2-15; 1 Corinthians 15:35-58 // Proverbs 4:10-18; John 1:43-51) Monday: (Ps 96, 97; Job 23:1-12; John 6:1-24 //Ps 61, 65;  Isaiah 30,15-21; John 17,1-8) Tuesday: (Ps 98, 99, 100; Deuteronomy 9:11-29; Acts 9,32-43 // Ps 71; Deuteronomy 10:1-22; Acts 10:1-23) Wednesday: (Ps 105; Deuteronomy 11:1-12; Acts 10:24-48 // Ps 67, 72; Deuteronomy 11:13-31; Acts 11:1-18), Thursday: (Ps 136; Deuteronomy 12,1-14; Acts 11:19-29 //Ps 73; Deuteronomy 15:1-18; Acts 12:1-21) Friday: (Ps 5, 146; Deuteronomy 16:1-20; Acts 12:25.13:1-12// Ps 3, 11; Deuteronomy 17:8-20; Acts 13:13-43) Saturday: (Deuteronomy 18:9-22; Acts 13:44-52. 14:1-7 // Deuteronomy 19:1-21; Acts 14:8-28)

​FROM FATHER JOSEPH
 

  • The Artworkshop and Sunday school. Please, contact Esperanza on zsazsa.walsh@gmail.com The sessions are at 4.30-6.30 pm on Tuesdays and Fridays. For those who are interested in our Sunday School, please contact her.
  • Please share the news that every Friday 2-4 pm, that in our parish, there is a foodbank in Saint Alphage’s Church Hall.
  • Our online-mass offering/financial support is available now online at www.saintaugustinecolindale.com/donations
 
All enquiries to Fr Joseph on 02082051979, saintaugustinecolindele@gmail.com, Fr Hugh Moore on 02089524611 (S. Alphage, Burnt Oak), HALL RENTAL to Joseph Hayibo on 07836711995. Nursery: rugratsnursery@gmail.com or 07555380069.)


COMING WEEK: (Starting with 26th April):

Monday 26th April / Easter Feria
7.45 am Morning Prayer with MASS
6.00 pm Evening Prayer
 
Tuesday 27th April / Easter Feria
7.45 am Morning Prayer with MASS
6.00 pm – Evening Prayer
 
Wednesday 28th April / Easter Feria
7.45 am MASS with Morning Prayer
12.00 pm MASS for Lunch Club via Zoom (replay) + ‘Home Communion on the doorstep’
6.00 pm Evening Prayer
 
Thursday 29th April / Memoria
Saint Catherine of Siena, Virgin, Dr
7.45 am Morning Prayer
6.30 pm MASS of the Last Supper
 
Friday 30th April / Memoria
Saint Pius V, Pope
7.45 am Morning Prayer + Mass
6.00 pm Evening Prayer
  • Today, after mass at 11.00 am (after Sunday mass): Annual Meeting of Parishioners (approving the Financial, Fabric, and Pastoral Reports) and election/approval of Church wardens; election of new members of the PCC if there are new nominees.
  • Today, we celebrate Saint Alphage, patron saint of Our Parish. Fr Hugh, and the people of St Alphage’s side of the parish are in particular in our prayers today. Alphage - a.k.a Alphege, or Alfege, Elphege or even Alfeah – It’s all the same chap: they weren’t very good at spelling those days! – was born in 954. When he grew up he became a monk at Deerhust in Gloucestershire, and became bishop of Winchester in 984. In 1005 he was made archbishop of Canterbury. This was the time of the Danish invasions. And Alphage was taken hostage by the Danes. He refused to allow his people to give their money to ransom him (‘Dane geld’), and was battered to death be a drunken mob at Greenwich on April 19th, 1012.
  • The season of Ester will end with the Day of Pentecost (23rd May) as the completion of the fifty days of abounding joy brings the gift of the Holy Spirit as the fulfilment of the Easter promise that Jesus will remain with us till the end of the world.
  • Readings for the Week (Day: Morning // Evening). Sunday (Numbers 22:1-35; Acts 2:22-47 //Numbers 22:36-23:26; Revelation 2:1-17) Monday: (Ps 37:23-41, Ps 148; Deuteronomy 21:122-22:8; Acts 15:1-21 //Ps 45; Deuteronomy 24:5-22; Acts 15:22-35) Tuesday: (Ps 139; Deuteronomy 26:1-19; Acts 15:36-16:5 // Ps 115, 116; Deuteronomy 28:58-68; Acts 16:6-40) Wednesday: (Ps 135; Deuteronomy 29:10-29; Acts 17:1-15 // Ps 71; Deuteronomy 30:1-20; Acts 17:16-34), Thursday: (Ps 118; Deuteronomy 31:1-13; Acts 18:1-23 // Ps 71; Deuteronomy 31:14-29; Acts 18:24-19:7) Friday: (Ps 33; Deuteronomy 31:30-32:14; Acts 19:8-19 // Ps 36, 40; Deuteronomy 32:15-47; Acts 19:21-41) Saturday: (Deuteronomy 33:1-29; Acts 20:1-16; Deuteronomy 32:48-34:12; Acts 20:17-38)



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