24th May 2020 7th SUNDAY of EASTER Ps Wk 3 Easter

Guardian Angels Catholic Church 377 Mile End Road, Mile End, London E3 4QS Tel: 020 8980 1845 E-mail: mileend@rcdow.org.uk

PARISH WEBSITE: https://parish.rcdow.org.uk/mileend Parish Priest: Fr. John Elliott Deacon: Dcn Jeremy Yates

Parish Admin: Mrs Cecilia Allen Safeguarding Representative: Mrs Maria McGeown

Our Church building is closed for the Duration of the Corona Virus crisis. All Masses are said without a Congregation.

Sunday 24th May (Sat 8pm) 2020 11am

7th Sunday of Easter

The Adorers (Intention)

People of the Parish

Monday The Venerable Bede Rita & Chris Healy-Burt and family (Int.)

Tuesday Joe Borg (RIP)

Wednesday St Augustine of Canterbury Kathleen & John Cowley (RIP)

Thursday Henry Welch (RIP)

Friday Pope Paul VI Jeffrey Cosgrove (RIP)

Saturday Donors Intention

(Sat 8pm) Sunday 31st May 11:00am

Pentecost Sunday

Keith Andrews (Aniversary)

People of the Parish

Please pray for the sick: Mrs Loughlin; Eddy Balancy; Fr Teave Carrol; Freddie Williamson; Concetta Ritaccio; Elvira Giordano; Kwame Burrell; Ikjot Kaur; Joyce Knowles; Marjorie Hands; Paul Hayward; Kath Sullivan; Barbara Purcell; John Ryan; William Murphy; Clifford & Christopher Browne; Sandra Jones; Elaine Bassett; John Paul Ramsey; Louise Dunne; Bethany O’Brien; Denis Towler; Breda Dalton; Kathleen Donoghue; Carolina; Debrita & Marcelle; Ophelia Tamini; Vera Yates; Nicholas Joseph; Liz Morgan; Sr Elizabeth; Susan Sullivan; Philip Rice; Toni Bryson; Owen Lavery; Leo Wilson; Davie Kennedy; Georgio Volpe; George Marquis; Michael McGarr; Gerardo Gonnella; Sandra Condon; Ana Macanas Ylarde; Michael Serra; Sarah Nkrumah; Mary Condon.

Please pray for those who have died: Fr Paul Dynan of Greys; Chas Langridge; Robert Cox; Andrew Hood; Martha Dong Thi Nguyen; Michael Allieu; Michael George; Helen O’Neill; Phil Chan; Fr Bryan Jones; Margaret Underwood; Lucas Monerville; Maria Wisniewska; Ron Redmond; Archbishop Peter Smith; Hadi Mobargha; Dilys Maynard; John Wesley Seaton; Richard D’Souza; Juan Morales; Masie Skeehan; Carlos Dizon; Cecilia Achiaa; Monica Francisca Raeburn; Doxy D’Souza and for Raheal Gebrasadig, John Hayes, John Dady, Rodrigo Carbona & Suabun Nessa whose Anniversaries occur around this time.

RESPONSE TO THE PSALM: “I am sure I shall see the Lord’s goodness in the land of the living.”

Reading for today’s Mass: Acts of the Apostles 1:12-14. 1Peter 4:13-16 John 17:1-11

POPE BENEDICT SAYS : “Jesus stresses the importance of his ‘return to the father’. He came into the world to bring the people back to God, not on an ideal level - like a philosopher or a master of wisdom – but really like a shepherd who wants to lead his sheep back to the fold. It was for our sake that he came down from heaven and for our sake he ascended to it, after becoming himself in all things like us, humbling himself even to death on a cross and after having touched the abyss of the greatest distance from God. For this very reason the Father exalted him and restored him to the fullness of his glory, but now with our humanity. God in man - man in God: this is even now a reality, not a theoretical truth.” A thought from Archbishop Nichols: We all know the title of Mary as ‘our sorrowful Mother’. We turn to her in our sorrows. Yet there is another tribute to her, even more deeply rooted in our tradition, it that of the Joys of Mary. These joys often numbered as seven, include the coming of the angel Gabriel to Mary at the Annunciation and the wondrous birth of her Son our saviour and her entry in glory into the happiness of heaven. We share in them because they are the joy of our faith. We are called to be heralds of this Joy in a world often in need of joy.

CONFESSION (RECONCILIATION) & THE SACRAMENT OF THE SICK are available by appointment (via email or telephone) at the Church Presbytery (the priest’s house).

‘Social Distancing’ has a proper and good purpose as does Self Isolation, but ‘Social Isolation’ is dangerous to the human person.

COMMUNICATION WITH THE PARISH

PLEASE USE THE CONTACT DETAILS given at the top of the Newsletter PLEASE CHECK the Website each day or our Facebook page, or phone for updates and resources.

ONLINE LITURGIES & SERVICES:

o ZOOM PARTICIPATION INSTRUCTIONS: To use Zoom EITHER click on https://zoom.us/j/4071152792 OR telephone one of the following numbers in turn until you are connected: 0208 080 6591 or2, 0330 088 5830, 0131 460 1196, 0203 481 5237 or 0203 481 5240. The Meeting ID is: 407 115 2792. NO need to enter a password.

Here are the YouTube links for

weekend Masses to be held on and

8pm Vigil Mass 23 May https://youtu.be/EQlzszkL1Mo 11am Sunday Mass 24 May https://youtu.be/NagEcM-2i8A

To receive notifications of upcoming events, we encourage you to subscribe to the 'GuardianAngels MileEnd' You Tube channel at:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-2i1S7BE1l70fTpcuoorbg

YEAR OF THE WORD BIBLE STUDY: 7-8 pm, Wednesday 27th May, via Zoom: We continue our journey with the Word of God during May and June looking at Letters of St Paul to the Colossians and the Philippians. On 27th May we will study Colossians chapter 2. This will be led by Dcn Jeremy and Terry Cowley. This is an opportunity to study the great Christ-Hymns and show how Paul used these in his teaching about how Christ wants us to be as Church. If you are able please read Chapters 1 and 2 from Colossians using either your own Bible or this use link

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+1&version=NRSVACE.

PENTECOST SUNDAY MAY 31ST – NATIONAL ROSARY RELAY RALLY across England, Wales, Scotland -

9am to 9pmn. Organised by Our Lady Uniter of Knots Prayer Group. Westminster Diocese -

allocated Rosary Hour is 5pm to 6pm. Please join us in praying for conversion, help, protection and deliverance from this global pandemic and much more. See poster at the end of the newsletter for more details.

WE HAVE CREATED A PARISH TEAM TO RESPOND TO THE CRISIS. If you are in need, especially if you are an elderly or vulnerable person, or you know of a parishioner who needs our help, please email us at mileend@rcdow.org.uk or telephone us on 0208 980 1845 to tell us what we can do, spiritually or materially, to help you or others through this time. If you are able to volunteer, please let us know.

FURTHER INFORMATION is displayed in the front window of the Priest’s house, regularly updated.

ANOINTING OF THE SICK & HOSPITAL VISITS: Please ask us. We will do what we can. We may have to phone you at home rather than visit if you have the CV19 virus. If you are in hospital, please tell the staff you want the Catholic Chaplin to know you are in. For Confession and Communion see the paragraphs below.

SACRAMENTS & SERVICES while The CHURCH BUILDING is CLOSED

HOLY MASS: For the duration of this Crisis the obligation of Catholics to attend mass on Sundays is lifted. Mass is said privately each day for the intentions of the People and for mass intentions already requested. MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER will take place via Zoom Monday to Friday at 8:45am and 5:45pm respectively. Morning prayer will also take place at 9.30am and 5.30pm on Sunday. Please use the resources at www.universalis.com to participate in morning and evening prayer. A DAILY SERVICE OF THE WORD and SPIRITUAL COMMUNION will take place via Zoom from 9:30am to 10:00am each day, except for Saturday and Sunday. THE ROSARY WILL BE PRAYED via Zoom DAILY Monday to Friday at 9:05am (straight after Morning Prayer), Saturday at 1.10pm and Sunday at 9.50am (straight after Morning Prayer). OUR SCHOOL will be joining with St Annes in Whitechapel on 31st August and our Mile End site is closing. There has been a school attached to our parish since shortly after the Parish opened in 1868, the loss of this school is not a total disaster but is a great disappointment. The current and future pupils will still be catered for at St Annes, St Elizabeth’s and St Agnes’s Catholic Primary schools, along with several others.

PARISH COLLECTION (MARCH): Standing Orders £2734; Planned Giving Envelopes £580.55 ; Loose money £801.37. Please note, the last collection at mass was on 15th March, any money given after that will be banked with April’s moneys.

PLANNED GIVING – MAKING UP THE SHORTFALL: With no Sunday Mass collections, your giving matters now more than ever. Due to the current coronavirus crisis we are unable to give out the new envelope boxes or bank any donations given by loose or envelope. Our expenses will remain the same but our income will drop drastically over the next few months. If are able to afford it and you do online banking, the quickest and most direct way to donate is with a bank transfer. If you can, please also consider a monthly gift by Standing Order. If you are giving by Envelope and want to switch to a Standing Order to help the PARISH during this time please either email Cecilia at mileend@rcdow.org.uk and she will send you the necessary bank details, OR set up a standing order online using the bank details at https://parish.rcdow.org.uk/mileend/donate/.

FUNDRAISING: The fundraising drive for our altar and reredos projects continue. If you have any questions about how to donate, or want to donate for a particular phase or icon, please contact Cecilia at mileendtreasurer@rcdow.org.uk, OR you can make an online ONE-OFF DONATION via our parish website.

UPDATING THE PARISH REGISTER: Please either, email your details (name, phone no. email) with ‘subscribe’ as the subject line to mileend@rcdow.org.uk, or ‘phone the Parish on 0208 980 1845/07496 387078.

TO RECEIVE EMAIL ALERTS please sign up here https://parish.rcdow.org.uk/mileend/

BOW FOODBANK: The poor now find it harder to get the basic necessities of life. Please donate money, to our local Bow Foodbank. http://www.bowfoodbank.org/ for more details. Sorry no food is taken at the moment.

Each Diocese/Eparchy/Ordinariate from Scotland, Wales, and England has been allocated a 'Rosary Hour'.

Pope Francis is encouraging Catholics to pray the Rosary in their family homes during the month of May, especially when the Pandemic is

making us aware of the value of our families and making it possible for us to pray together in lockdown at home.

He encourages simple Rosaries and joining online Rosary initiatives to pray to Our Lady for deliverance from Covid-19 and he has

composed two prayers for this intention.

"The Psalter of the Most Holy Virgin which we pray in order to

placate God's anger and implore her intercession." April 1573 - Pope Gregory XIII "Monete Apostolos"

In Jesus we TRUST

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us

Our Lady help of Christians, come to our aid!

St. Joseph, patron & protector of the Universal Church, pray for us

Saints of our Isles, pray for us