Sat 18th | SH | 5.00pm LS | Day for Life—Care of the Elderly |
Sun 19th | SH EM | 9.30 am 11.00 am LS | For the People of the Parishes Joe Comerford RIP |
Mon 20th | SH | 10.00 am LS | No Mass today |
Tues 21st | SH | 10.00 am. LS | No Mass today |
Wed 22nd | SH | 7.00 pm. LS | Private Intention |
Thurs 23rd | EM SH | 11 am 10.00 am | Intentions of English Martyrs School Liturgy of the Word and Holy Communion |
Fri 24th | SH | 7.00pm LS | Sick and Infirm of the Parishes and Carers |
Sat 25th | SH | 5pm LS | The People of the Parishes |
Sun 26th | SH EM | 9.30 am 11.00 am LS | First Holy Communion Mass Private Intention |
ENGLISH MARTYRS SUMMER FETE 2022 — Saturday 25th June from noon until 3.30 pm on the school field. Donations of bottles for one bottle tombola, cakes, chocolate , toys and books are wanted. If you can help with a stall or setting up, clearing up on the day please contact Caroline on 07768171146. Raffle tickets will be available after Mass in the coming weeks, £2.50 a book or 50p each, some great prizes to be won. All welcome from both Parishes. Please come along and enjoy yourself and support a worthy cause.
Sacred Heart Safeguarding Officer: Sue Leary www.sacredheartrugby.org.uk Tel. 01788 813263 YouTube: Sacred Heart, Bilton Email: sacredheart.bilton@rcaob.org.uk Parish Office for both parishes open: Tuesday and Friday 9.30 am to 12.00. | English Martyrs Safeguarding Officer: Marie Kane www.englishmartyrsrugby.org Tel. 01788 813263 YouTube -English Martyrs RC Parish Rugby Email: sacredheart.bilton@rcaob.org.uk English Martyrs Primary School Tel 01788 543432 |
Parish Team Canon Gerard Murray, Deacon Lionel Pelloquin. Fr Graham Venn IC in residence Archdiocese of Birmingham Registered as a charity no. 234216 |
REFRESHMENTS AFTER SUNDAY MASS AT SACRED HEART— after a long period during Covid when we couldn’t meet after Mass we have now resumed. Two or three families have been providing coffee etc on an ad hoc basis and we are very grateful to them. They would like to increase their numbers and revert to a rota system. It would be great if we could find a few families who would be willing to help perhaps once every six or seven weeks. It is a great opportunity to meet other parishioners for a chat and the children love to play together. If you are interested please put your name on the list in the narthex. Thank you.
SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION AT SH – Please pray for the Children and their Families. First Holy Communion (1st Group)
The next session for Children will be on 20th June at 6pm in the Hall. First Communion for this group is on Sunday 26th June at 9.30am Mass.
First Holy Communion (2nd Group)
Next meeting for children will be on Thursday 23rd June at 6pm in the Hall. Please remember to bring your folder and pencil case. First Communion for this group will be on Saturday, 16th July at 2pm.
RUGBY LIFE SHOP in Sheep Street is in urgent need of our support. They would welcome donations of clothes in good condition, men’s particularly. Bric-a-brac or unwanted gifts. LIFE is a Pregnancy Support Charity helping babies, mothers and families. In 2021 LIFE helped nearly 70k people in different ways, housed 422 babies and mothers and gave emotional support around pregnancy and pregnancy loss to over 5000 people.
UKRAINIAN REFUGEES IN RUGBY AREA – Sacred Heart Parish runs a Coffee Morning and other refreshments are available on Wednesday mornings each week at 10am to 12 noon for members of refugee families and their hosts. For more information please contact Diane on 07951177910.
ALTAR SERVERS – At Sacred Heart and English Martyrs our number of Servers available has greatly reduced . We are very grateful to those who have been able to continue serving. We welcome any boys or girls who have made their First Holy Communion and would like to serve regularly at our weekend Masses. Full training and guidance will be give. Please let Fr Gerry or Deacon Lionel know if you would like to take up serving.
CAR PARKING AT ENGLISH MARTYRS WEEKEND MASS TIMES : From now on we will be using the School Car Park directly at the end of the Drive. Please always park considerately allowing ease of entry and exit to other users and in such a way as all the spaces can be used.
ENGLISH MARTYRS SUMMER FETE 2022 – Saturday 25th June from noon until 3.30 pm on the school field. Donations of bottles for one bottle tombola, cakes, chocolate , toys and books are wanted. If you can help with a stall or setting up, clearing up on the day please contact Caroline on 07768171146. Raffle tickets will be available after Mass in the coming weeks, £2.50 a book or 50p each, some great prizes to be won. All welcome from both Parishes.
RETIRING COLLECTION : This weekend there will be a collection at both parishes for the Day of Life . The theme this year is Care of the Elderly
Across: We are looking for helpers and nurses to travel to Lourdes to help make “the impossible possible” for our wonderful VIPs. We have various pilgrimage dates available and have subsidies available for nurses and young helpers (aged 16-25 in full time education). Please call the office on 020 3542 1800 for more information.
LIVESTREAM : We are suspending the livestream of the Saturday evening Mass at SH.
We will be continuing the Livestream from EM at 11 am on Sunday . For the present we are livestreaming the weekday Masses from SH at the published times. It is good to see that so many of the parishioners from both parishes