ST COLMAN WITH ST PAUL Parish Priest: Fr Innaiah Maddineni, Hannah Charlotte Carpenter (Parish Secretary) The Presbytery, St. Colman`s Avenue, Portsmouth PO6 2JJ, Tel: 02392376151 ,E-mail: scsp@portsmouthdiocese.org.uk www.stcolmanandstpaul.org.uk St. Paul's Primary School, Bourne Road,

Portsmouth PO6 4JD, Tel: 023 9237 5488 | Email: admin@st-pauls.portsmouth.sch.uk October 2019

FRIDAY Evening : Throughout the month of Sep there will be half an hour of Adoration at 6.30pm on Fridays fol-lowed by the Rosary.

Saturday Mass at 9.15am: There will be Mass celebrated every Saturday at 9.15am.

NEW READERS & EURCHARISTIC MINISTERS: The Parish is in urgent need for New Readers and New Eucharistic Min-isters for the Saturday 6pm Mass at St. Colman’s. Please let Paula Medd know if you want to know more about this ministry. CAFOD: CAFOD Regional meeting is taking place at St. Col-

man`s on Wednesday 18th September 7.15pm.all are

Welcome.

PARISH OFFICE: Please note that our Secretary Hannah

Carpenter will be on holiday from Monday 16th Septem-

ber, returning Wednesday 25th September.

EXTRA ORDINARY MONTH OF MISSION OCTOBER 2019

As you have already heard from Our Bishop Philip, Holy Father Pope Francis declared October 2019 ,being the Ex-tra Ordinary Month of Mission (EMM) to commemorate Pope Benedict XV`s apostolic letter Maximum illud issued on 30 November 1919 and this has “ the aim of fostering an increased awareness of the Missio ad Gentes and tak-ing up again with renewed fervor the missionary transfor-mation of the church`s life and pastoral activity, and to help their communities grow in mis-sionary and evangelizing zeal.” As an act of Solidarity with whole Church, on Mission Sun-day, 20th October 2019, 2pm Bishop Philip invites you to join him to celebrate Mission Sunday Mass at St. John`s Cathedral, Portsmouth.

Weekend Collection for 7/8th September 2019

£1211-09. G.A. 61-4% .

Thank you for your generosity

24th Sunday in Ordinary Time -15.09.19

Sat 14th Sep Mass at St. Colman’s 9.15am

THE EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS

Sara Endersby RIP

Sat 14th Sep Mass at St. Colman’s 6pm

Marjorie Burton RIP

Sun 15th Sep Mass at St. Colman`s at 9.15am

Ann Adair RIP

Mass at St. Paul`s at 11am

Anthony Chaplin RIP

Mass at QA at 4pm

James Gaffney RIP

Mon 16th Sep Mass 9.15am at St. Colman`s

Ss Cornelius & Cyprian,memorial

William & Jacqueline Kelleher RIP & The Kelleher family

Tue 17th Sep Mass 9.15am at St. Paul`s

St Hildegard of Bingen

Stuart, Eunice & Arthur RIP & All the Smeeth family

Wed 18th Sep Word & Communion at 9.15am at

St. Colman`s

Thu 19th Sep Mass at 9.15am at St. Colman`s

St Januarius

Stuart Smeeth, On his Birthday RIP

Fri 20th Sep Adoration at 6.30pm at St.Colman`s

25th Sunday in Ordinary Time—22.9.19

Sat 21st Sep Mass at 9.15am at St. Colman`s

St Matthew

Bridie Taylor RIP

Sat 21st Sep Mass at 6pm at St. Colman’s

Mrs Una Copley R.I.P (FM)

HYMNS FOR SUNDAY 15TH SEP AT ST. COLMAN’S

Entrance: 234 Dear Lord and Father of mankind

Offertory: 207 Come back to me with all your heart.

Communion: 500 O bread of heav’n.

Recessional: 358 I'll sing a hymn to Mary.

PARISH PILGRIMAGE TRIP: There will be a Parish trip to

the Friars in Aylesford on Saturday 19th October. A coach has been arranged and will cost £15 per person and children are also welcome, payment will be arranged nearer the time. It is a beautiful Monastery to visit and a lovely opportunity for all to come together for a great day out. If you would like to come please sign up on the sheet in the Church porch, or for more details please speak to Tony or Paula. Further details can also be found on the following website at www.thefriars.org.uk/Information

NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING: Natural Fertility Aware-ness Day- 19th October 2019 – Church of the Holy Family- My Fertility…my Gift. 10-4pm – Come & learn about the gift of your fertility. Whether you use a fertility app or not, this is a unique opportunity to discover the spir-itual, practical and scientific benefits of understanding your natural fertility. Please RSVP to mandfl@portsmouthdiocese.org.uk by September 29th. Lunch provided. Suggested donation of £10.

PARISH MEAL at ST. PAUL’S: Advance notice, Parish lunch on 29th September. We are going to combine our parish meal with a McMillan coffee session and lunch will be an early afternoon tea. Even if you can’t stay for lunch, please have a coffee/tea and a piece of cake and put a few pennies in the box. Any contributions of cake (Home made or bought), sandwiches etc. would be very gratefully received. All goes to the work of McMillan.

TASTE OF THE WORLD: Parish event at St. Colman’s in the Hall, Saturday 26th October starting at 6.30pm. A chance to bring along a dish of your choice to share with friends in the Parish. More details to follow.

PARISH EVENT: The Social and Fundraising group pass

on their many thanks for all who participated in the Ap-ple chutney making day last Saturday at St. Colman’s. The day was a great success and a total of 155 jars were made, these are currently being stored in the dark where the magic happens and will be available to buy prior to Christmas. The Parish thanks all who joined in and for everyone's hard work.

Home Missions: This Sunday 2nd collection is for Home Missions. Please support Home Mis-sions in England & Wales.

Welcome: Are you New to the Area/St. Colman`s or St. Paul's? Please relax and feel at Home. Please meet Fr.Innaiah or Greeters and we will be more than happy to welcome you into our community. Please take a sign up sheet with you. Once completed please hand over per-sonally to Fr.Innaiah, Office ,Paula Medd ,Malcolm only.

BAMENDA UPDATE: "Church leaders and human rights groups have condemned the atrocities committed by both sides in the Anglophone crisis which are maintain-ing a climate of fear and preventing adults and children going about their everyday lives. Unicef have estimated that 4,400 schools have been closed and 74 burned, leav-ing more than 600,000 children without education in northwest and southwest Cameroon. Please pray this week that our brothers and sisters in Bamenda Archdio-cese will be able to start the new academic year in safe-ty”. For an update on the situation please see the Bamenda noticeboard at the back of St. Colman’s Church.

GRANDPARENTS: Calling Catholic Grandparents, Tues-day 24th September at St. Colman’s. An opportunity for grandparents to meet once a month to pray the Rosary for the intentions of your grandchildren is what this is about. Following the morning Mass, we will pray the Ro-sary together and conclude with the grandparents’ pray-er. We will have tea & coffee afterwards, whilst we watch an inspirational video of Catherine Wiley’s appeal to all catholic grandparents. Venue – The Presbytery - Please save the date and RSVP to the Parish office by 17th September. Thank you.

JAG: 'JAG Care of Creation Harvest Festival' : We hope that everybody has enjoyed nurturing their seed-lings and plants during the summer, whether in the gar-den or on the windowsill - now its time to get ready to share the fruits of your labours! Please bring your pro-duce - fruit, vegetables, flowers, jam and preserves - to share or swap after each of the Masses next weekend to celebrate Harvest Festival on Sunday 22 September. We will also be making up produce boxes for delivery to our fellow parishioners who are unable to get to Mass. Children's Liturgy, if you would like us to display a photograph of you with your sunflower (or other plant) at Harvest Festival please ask your parent to email a photograph to mewithmysunflower@gmail.com. We would also love to display your pictures of flowers or veg-etables from our wonderful world - please bring those too!'

PRAYERS FOR THE SICK :

Please pray for the sick in our Parish-Theresa Kelleher, Frances O’Donnell, Judy and Peter Di-bley, Angela Day, Rosemary Fitzgerald, May Tracey, Nora Bryant, Verena Wright, and Chris Overy, Helen Townsend, John De Battisa and Christine Peroti.