Parish Newsletter 10/11 October 2020
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Our Lady and St Peter, Aldeburgh
All Saints, Leiston
Parish Priest: Fr Tony Rogers tonybrucerogers@gmail.com
Website: catholicsinaldeburghandleiston.org
Tel: 07778 221509
Newsletter – 26th  Week in Ordinary Time -  27/09/2020

Newsletter – 29th in Ordinary Time  10/11 October
 
Masses during the Week
Saturday:               1800. Aldeburgh* (donor’s intention))
Sunday:                  0915. Leiston
                                1100  Aldeburgh (people of the parish) *
Monday                  No Mass today.
Tuesday                 0900  Leiston (donor’s intention)
Wednesday           0900  Aldeburgh (donor’s intention)
Thursday               0900  Leiston (donor’s intention)
Friday                     0900  Aldeburgh (donor’s intention)*
Saturday                1800  Aldeburgh *
Next Sunday          0915  Leiston
                                1100  Aldeburgh (people of the parish)*
If there is an asterisk beside the Mass, it means that it is scheduled for live-streaming.
Hospital Stays: the contact number for Fr Bineesh, who is the Catholic chaplain at Ipswich Hospital is 075496 95648. Please phone him directly, if you would like a visit during your stay, or ask a family member or friend to do so. At the present time, this is obviously subject to hospital regulations. Fr Bineesh is an excellent chaplain.

Saints and Feasts of the Week: Monday – St John be Brébeuf and companions; Thursday – St John Paul II.
 
Welcome to any visitors to our churches this weekend. Our stewards are there to guide you and answer any questions. In the meantime, enjoy your stay among us. You will be asked for your name and contact number – for the purposes of tracking and tracing and the safety of all concerned.
 
Face Masks: Government directives require face masks to be worn in church.  It seems a logical and sensible step, so please remember to abide by this requirement.
 
Stewards: Please offer to help in whatever way is helpful when you arrive at church – help is needed before, during and after mass.
 
Last week’s collection. In addition to our standing orders, we received loose cash. Last Sunday, the loose collection totalled £70 and the Second Collection for Cafod came to £391, for which many thanks. We’d still encourage you to set up a standing order if at all possible, and are grateful to those who have done this recently. The only details you need are these: Sort Code 20-98-07: a/c number: 90777048. And for Gift Aid purposes, the Charity number for the diocese is 278742. Thank you for your continued generosity. The full title of the parish account is: ‘For and on behalf of St Peter’s Catholic Church Parish Account: Registered Charity: No 278742’. But ‘Our Lady and St Peter, Aldeburgh should be sufficient. Let me know if you have a problem when you try to set up a direct debit. Today, there is a retiring collection for World Mission Sunday.
 
In The Interest Of The Environment I will continue to send out the weekly newsletter on line, and just print off a limited number of hard copies. I would also ask you to run off a copy of the newsletter and give it those without emails. It helps them keep in touch.
 
Don’t forget that clocks go back an hour next Saturday. We face the darkness of winter evenings!
 
Please Keep In Your Prayers   Liz O’Connor, Paul McComish, Margaret Stubbs, Maureen Dawson, Anne Smith, and all who are sick or in lockdown. Remember Michael O’loughlin,, Frank Stanley, Paul Kerlin and all whose anniversaries occur at this time of the year: RIP
 
Catholic Climate Change: See if you are eligible for the green homes grant scheme https://www.gov.uk/guidance/apply-for-the-green-homes-grant-scheme
 
Live-streaming of Masses: following technical problems and my absence, we are now up and running again. Darren has been busy installing systems all over the country, which is why it took a while to sort us out. Let’s hope that there are not too many more Windows updates in the days to come!
 
Lectio Divina will start again on Wednesday at 1800.. It will once again be on YouTube, rather than Zoom.
 
Christmas is Coming and we need to turn our thoughts to the schedule of Christmas Masses. During the course of the week several people have asked the question ‘How are we going to do it?’ It is clear that masses will need to be a ticketed, but before you start to panic, let me explain what will happen. We will almost certainly be using a ticketing system called ‘Eventbrite’, which is what most churches who need bookings for normal Sunday masses do. Obviously, tickets will cost nothing. And will either be available on smartphones or on hard copy. We’re looking into this at the moment, and hope that this can be done via our website. I hope that we will be open for bookings within the next couple of weeks, and would encourage you to sign up as soon as possible, even if it is two months away. At Christmas the last thing I would want to do is turn anyone away, and this is the reason for giving plenty of notice. We will have plenty of visitors (restrictions permitting) and must think well in advance. My gut feelings are in two directions. 1) Look creatively at our seating plans in church, while abiding by the rules, and 2) pledge that, as far as is humanly possible, as many masses as are needed will be provided on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We’ll probably begin with bookings for the normal Christmas masses – two on Christmas Eve and two on Christmas Day, and, if and when those lists are full, offer additional alternatives, Rest assured, we’ll keep you fully appraised in both the newsletter and on the website!
Please let me know if you or someone you know would like Holy Communion at home. We may, in the future, be subject to more restrictions, but in the meantime are happy to bring the Eucharist to you, with all the guidance and regulations observed. In the meantime, I ask everyone to take care of yourselves and keep to the rules.
 
 
 
 
Readings for 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time
FIRST READING:    Isaiah 45:1. 4-6
Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus,
whom he has taken by his right hand
to subdue nations before him
and strip the loins of kings,
to force gateways before him
that their gates be closed no more:
It is for the sake of my servant Jacob,
of Israel my chosen one,
that I have called you by your name,
conferring a title though you do not know me.
I am the Lord, unrivalled;
there is no other God besides me.
Though you do not know me, I arm you
that men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun
that, apart from me, all is nothing.
 
Psalm Response: Give the Lord glory and power.
l. O sing a new song to the Lord,
sing to the Lord all the earth.
Tell among the nations his glory
and his wonders among all the peoples.      Response
2. The Lord is great and worthy of praise,
to be feared above all gods;
the gods of the heathens are naught.
It was the Lord who made the heavens.       Response
3. Give the Lord, you families of peoples,
give the Lord glory and power,
give the Lord the glory of his name.
Bring an offering and enter his courts.         Response
4. Worship the Lord in his temple.
O earth, tremble before him.
Proclaim to the nations: ‘God is king.’
He will judge the peoples in fairness.            Response
 
SECOND READING    1 Thessalonians 1:1-5
From Paul, Silvanus and Timothy, to the Church in Thessalonika which is in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ; wishing you grace and peace.
We always mention you in our prayers and thank God for you all, and constantly remember before God our Father how you have shown your faith in action, worked for love and persevered through hope, in our Lord Jesus Christ.
We know, brothers, that God loves you and that you have been chosen, because when we brought the Good News to you, it came to you not only as words, but as power and as the Holy Spirit and as utter conviction.
The Word of the Lord.
 
Gospel Acclamation         
Alleluia, alleluia!
Your word is truth, O Lord,
consecrate us in the truth.
Alleluia!
 
GOSPEL:    Matthew 22:15-21
Give back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar – and to God what belongs to God.
The Pharisees went away to work out between them how to trap Jesus in what he said. And they sent their disciples to him, together with the Herodians, to say,
‘Master, we know that you are an honest man and teach the way of God in an honest way,
and that you are not afraid of anyone, because a man’s rank means nothing to you.
Tell us your opinion, then. Is it permissible to pay taxes to Caesar or not?
But Jesus was aware of their malice and replied,
‘You hypocrites! Why do you set this trap for me? Let me see the money you pay the tax with.’
They handed him a denarius and he said, ‘Whose head is this? Whose name?’ ‘Caesar’s’ they replied.
He then said to them, ‘Very well, give back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar – and to God what belongs to God.’
The Gospel of the Lord.
 
Thought for the Day
In 1926, Pope Pius XI decided the Church needed a special day on which to pray for missionaries, and to renew her commitment to the missions. Today, World Mission Day is celebrated on the penultimate Sunday in October, all around the globe, as a sign of support and solidarity for missions and missionaries everywhere.    Pope Francis released his annual Message for World Mission Sunday 2020 on Pentecost Sunday last. It’s theme is taken from Isaiah: “Here am I, send me” (6:8). 
 
From Today’s Readings: a prayerful reflection.
Lord, there was a time when we had become overly concerned for what was relatively unimportant:
– what people thought about us; being financially secure; not making mistakes; being hurt.
We recognise now that this concern was undermining our priorities like the Pharisees working out between them how to trap Jesus in what he said.
We thank you that you sent us Jesus, close friends, members of our community, our children, national  leaders. They made us aware of the malice in this concern, told us that we were quite right to give to Caesar what belonged to him but that we had allowed ourselves to give to Caesar what belonged to you  alone.
We thank you, Lord, for the insight, so simple and yet so surprising. What had seemed an insoluble problem was now solved we left it alone and went our way. Thank you, Lord.