THE CATHOLIC PARISH OF ST. WILLIAM OF YORK 4 BROCKLEY …

1 THE CATHOLIC PARISH OF ST. WILLIAM OF YORK. 4 BROCKLEY PARK, FOREST HILL, LONDON, SE23 1PS. Clergy: Fr. Tom Creagh-Fuller, Fr. Gregory Griffiths Dcn: Amgad Gerges Tel: 020 8690 4549. Email: Website: The PARISH Office will be open from Monday to Friday this week to 3pm TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME ( A ). 16/17 September 2017 Scripture Readings: Psalter Week 4 Ecclesiasiticus 27:30-28:7. Romans 14:7-9. Matthew 18:21-35. READERS: Saturday 18:00 Neil Brereton & Maria Kirby Sunday Peter Julian & Elizabeth O'Mahony Sunday Patrick Bentham & Dominic Bentham 2nd Collections 16/17 September - Home Mission Sunday 23/24 September - CAFOD - South Asia Floods Appeal ENTRANCE ANTIPHON: Give peace, O Lord, to those who wait for you, that your prophets be found true.

2 Hear the prayers of your servant, and of your people Israel. PSALM: The Lord is compassion and love, slow to anger and rich in mercy. ACCLAMATION: Alleluia, alleluia! Speak, Lord, your servant is listening: you have the message of eternal life. Alleluia! SCRIPTURE REFLECTION - Matthew brings to a close his 'discourse on the church', continued from last Sunday's Gospel, by quoting Jesus' response to Peter's question: "how often must i forgive my " Jesus' reply, also quoted by Luke * :4), is unequivical: there is no limit! Jesus then amplifies His reply by taking verse 4 of the first reading from the Book of Ecclesisticus: "showing no pity for a man like himself, can he then plead for his own sin?", He expands this into the parable of the unforgiving debtor.

3 As with many of Jesus' parables, and in common with rabbis of His time, He deliberately exaggerates the details to reinforce His message, and, very importantly, to help His hearers the more easily to commit His message, and its meaning, to memory. Hence, ten thousand talents, something in the region of 5,000,000 in today's money(!), is an intentionally fantastical sum, and one hundred denarii is equivalently barely 20. This device throws the comparative reaction of the servant's plea for mercy to his master, with his own reaction to his fellow servant's plea, into stark relief. Point made! Jesus pointedly concludes the parable by emphasising that the observance of His teaching cannot be just a form of words, a purely outward show of compliance.

4 With the words: "were you not bound?", Jesus lays upon His disciples not a choice - take it or leave it - but an obligation; and if further emphasis is still needed, He concludes with a demand for sincerity, a forgiveness" from the heart." AMcG. 9/10 SEPTEMBER 2017 HOME MISSION SUNDAY - 2ND. COLLECTION TODAY -: This collection 449 People celebrated the Eucharist. provides the bishops of England and Wales The Offertory collection was with resources to support Home Mission, the spread of the gospel in our own country. The The 2nd collection for CATHOLIC money collected enables a breadth of work to Education Service was be done in support of PARISH evangelisation. From Standing Orders we collected THE MISSIONARY SISTERS OF ST. PETER CLAVER will be in the PARISH to sell their Mission Calendars this weekend Thank you for your continued support.

5 16/17 September 2017. Having a Mission Calendar is a way of reminding ourselves all Please Gift Aid where possible the year round of our duty to sustain the REMINDER: your PARISH music ministry missions by our prayer and sacrifice. Please needs Sunday 24 September, 1pm, help the sisters generously. lower hall and church: shared lunch and meeting to discuss developing the music PASTORAL CARE GROUP. ministry in the PARISH . If you would like to The PPC would like to set up a Pastoral Care participate in making music, or already do, Group which will look at all aspects and age please do come along and help us plan and groups involved. If you are interested in develop the music ministry. All are getting involved please contact Liz Brereton: welcome!

6 Bring enough food for yourself 020 8656 7382. A. and a little to meeting will be planned in October. CONFIRMATION COURSE 2017-2018. If your child is in Year 10 or above and would like to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation there will be a Parent and Do you? We currently have spaces for Candidate meeting on Sunday 24th boys and girls aged 6 to 10 - We meet on September at 6pm in the upper hall. Thursdays in Scout HQ, 66 St Germans Application forms will be given out at the Road meeting so attendance is compulsory. For more info go to Looking forward to seeing you there. If you would like to come and give us a ANNUAL DAY FOR CATECHISTS go please call Antonietta on 07766. St George's Cathedral Saturday 23rd 075934. September 2017.

7 Details available in the Narthex. Please advise Mary in the PARISH ST URSULA'S CONVENT SCHOOL. office by Monday 18th September if you FOR GIRLS Open Morning for Year 7. will be attending. admissions for September 2018. Saturday 23 September 2017 10am 1pm Crooms Hill, Greenwich, London SE10 8HN. SUNDAY SMILE - Which cheese would you choose to coax a bear down from a tree? Camembert! CONCERT! - We are having a RCIA/JOURNEY IN FAITH. fundraising concert on Tuesday, It's that time of the 14th November ( ) and hope you year again when can all come to support the wonderful we will begin music we will perform, which will journeying in faith include Gerard Johnson's music, a with those who first choral work by Andrew Wright, have expressed a and an extract from Handel's desire to explore the possibility of seeking 'Messiah'.

8 We welcome more singers union with us in faith, or wishing to complete who would like to be part of this their reception of the Sacraments of Initiation. lovely event, so please email Julia As usual, we will keep you all informed about Bentham for more details: the journey with our Enquirers, and, as or ring / always, all are welcome at our sessions, since text on: 07877 869790. it is we, as a PARISH community who are extending the welcome to them. Look out for ST WILLIAM OF YORK the date, time and place of our sessions in PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES forthcoming issues of the newsletter. 2018 - - Monday 10th September to And here's another may be Friday 14th September (4 nights, 5 those among us on Sundays who are not days) . Follow in the footsteps of St necessarily CATHOLIC , but come to support Bernadette and enjoy this PARISH their wives, husbands and children who are.

9 If Pilgrimage to Lourdes. Flights from this applies to you, maybe you have thought Stansted Airport, coach transfers to about joining us in faith but have never got and from Stansted. Staying in the 3 round to it. Well perhaps this might be the star Hotel Beau Site situated a short right time for you. Think about it and if you walk from the Domaine on a full would like to discuss it further, please contact board basis, Breakfast, Lunch & the PARISH office to make an appointment with Dinner included. Pilgrimage cost:- a member of the RCIA/JIF team. Everything based on 2 or more sharing will be discussed in confidence and you will a room, optional extras:- Single not be put under any pressure whatsoever to room - and Insurance - make a quick decision.

10 A deposit of will be EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS PRAYER, payable on booking. You will need REFLECTION & STUDY SESSION - an up to date passport and an EHIC Saturday 21st October 2017 , (European Health Insurance Card). Good Shepherd, Downham. This is a very special year in Programme Lourdes, as it's the 160th Arrival & Refreshments Anniversary of the Apparitions. The Talk by Rev. Deacon Amgad Gerges Pilgrimage will led by Fr Gregory & and questions Fr David Jasinski and there will be 12:00 Quiet time in Church an English speaking guide for the 12:15 Benediction duration of the stay and a full Finish spiritual programme will be Kindly note all Eucharistic Ministers are arranged. We hope many expected to attend annually a Day of parishioners will be able to join us Reflection in their Ministry.