CHRISTINGLE
Our Christingle Celebration is on:-
Sunday, 17th December at 3.00pm,
and will include the First Communion children’s Nativity Play.
Other readers are still involved and the rehearsal for this is on
Saturday 16th December at 2.00pm.
Please see the poster on the board for more details
Any enquiries please contact Theresa on 01296 688839
or email t.short705@btinternet.co.uk
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Bishop David’s Pastoral Letter for the 3rd Sunday of Easter
pastoral Letter Third Sunday of Easter 2023
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Bishop David’s Parish Visit – 29th & 30th January 2023
We welcomed Bishop David at the end of January for his first Parish Visitation to Sacred Heart. He celebrated all 3 of our weekend Masses and was warmly welcomed by the parishioners.
At the end of the 9am Mass he presented Shirley Smith with the Bene Merenti medal awarded to her by Pope Francis. Shirley has lived in this country for 48 years, in Leighton Buzzard. During that time she has been one of our organists in our church since her arrival, playing at weekend Masses, and most of the funerals. For the last 30 years she has also been organist at Northall Baptist Church, providing a valuable eceumenical link. She has been a member of the SVP for about 40 years, visiting people in need and especially the elderly in some of our nursing homes – a conscientious and caring person.
At the end of the 11am Mass he presented Deacon Tony with the Bene Merenti medal awarded to him by Pope Francis. Deacon Tony has lived in Leighton Buzzard for 45 years and has been very supportive of all the priests who have served the parish during his time here. He has been a member of the SVP since 1979, visiting the poor and the needy in their homes and nursing homes and taking Holy Communion to the housebound. Having been Ordained to the Permanent Diaconate in 2014, he has continued in this pastoral work of visiting and taking Communion to a number of parishioners.
Shirley and Deacon Tony are the 2nd and 3rd recipients of this award in this Parish, the first being our late Organist, Max Merron who received his award in April 2009.
This is a photo of the Bene Merenti medal
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INSTRUCTION CLASSES
Classes for adults either interested in being received into the Church, or who
have not been confirmed, will begin in the Autumn 2023. For more information, please speak to Fr John or Deacon Tony
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Bishops of England and Wales – Synod
This is a reflection from the Bishops of England and Wales following the compilation of the Synodal National Synthesis Document – can be read here
Bishops-Reflection-Synodal-National-Synthesis July 22nd 2022
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National Synod Report
The National Synod team have now submitted to the Bishops of England and Wales the report which distils the individual Diocesan Synod documents into a single National Synthesis document – this can be read here.
synod-national-synthesis-england-wales
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National Synod Day 1st June 2022
This is the report on the Independent Catholic News website, of the gathering on Wednesday 1st June at Southwark RC Cathedral, where the national team met to begin work collating and synthesising all of the individual Diocesan Synod documents.
(pdf format) National Synod Day – June 1st 2022
(word format) National Synod Day – June 1st 2022
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Synod – our Diocesan Response
Following the submissions from the parishes throughout the Diocese, our Diocesan team distilled the parish responses into a single Diocesan response which was submitted to the National team who are collating all the different Diocesan responses into a single National Synod Report. Our diocesan response can be read here
Diocesan-Synod-Report-version May 2022
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Synod – our Parish Responses
Following our various meetings, the Facilitators met and compiled a composite report based upon the various points made during the discussions. This can be read here:-2022-03-22 – Sacred Heart Leighton Buzzard Synod – Responses FINAL DOC
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Fr John’s Sermon on Easter Sunday has been added to this page – scroll down to find the link
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Parish Newsletter in PDF format is available, if you look to the right hand side of this page, you will see a list of previous newsletters, the most recent being in PDF format.
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Prayer for Ukraine
Loving God, We pray for the people of Ukraine, for all those suffering or afraid, that you will be close to them and protect them.
We pray for world leaders, for compassion, strength and wisdom to guide their choices.
We pray for the world that in this moment of crisis, we may reach out in solidarity to our brothers and sisters in need.
May we walk in your ways so that peace and justice become a reality for the people of Ukraine and for all the world.
Amen
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Live streaming of Mass
Mass will be live-streamed from our church, at 11am on Sundays
In order to view this live on Youtube or watch later, go to the Sacred Heart YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3KkmiI9hNaOQwo8G3owsAw
You do not require an account to view the Videos or Live Streams
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- A Prayer leaflet for Spiritual Communion can be found here:-
- Prayer for Spiritual Communion
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On this page you will find copies of the Sunday Sermons, plus links to the Videos of Fr John’s Lockdown homilies
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Fr John’s / Deacon Tony’s Sermon for:-
Fr John’s Easter Sunday meditation can be found here:-
Fr John’s Homily for Easter Sunday 2022
Fr John’s meditation for – Easter Sunday 4th April 2021
27/12/2020 – Bishop David – Pastoral Letter on the Feast of the Holy Family -2020
06/12/2020 – Deacon Tony – Homily for 2nd week in Advent Year B – December 6th 2020
29/11/2020 – Bishop David’s Pastoral letter for Advent: Pastoral Letter Advent 2020
22/11/2020 – Fr John – Homily 22nd November 2020 – Feast of Christ the King – Fr John
15/11/2020 – Fr John – Homily 15th November 2020 – 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Fr John
08/11/2020 – Fr John – 2020-11-08 – 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A – Fr John’s Homily
01/11/2020 – Deacon Tony – Homily for the feast of All Saints & All Souls Day – 2020-11-01 & 02
25/10/20 – Fr John – 2020-10-25 – 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A – Fr John’s sermon
18/10/20 – Fr John – 2020-10-18 – 29th Sundayin Ordinary Time Year A – Fr John’s sermon
11/10/20 – Fr John – 2020-10-11 – 28th Sunday, Year A – Fr John’s Homily
04/10/20 – Deacon Tony – 2020-10-04 – Homily for 27th week in Ordinary time Year A October 4th 2020
27/09/20 – Fr John – 2020-09-27 – 26th Sunday, Year A – Fr John’s Homily
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