ST. JAMES
THE LESS AND ST. HELEN

CATHOLIC CHURCH, Colchester

with

Mersea, Mile End and Monkwick

Fr
Joseph Whisstock

Fr
Paul
Dynan

Fr
Philip Willenbrock

51 Priory
Street , Colchester, Essex,
CO1 2QB

Tel:
01206 866317;   Fax  01206 791213

E-Mail      [email-masked]

www.stjamesthelessandsthelen.org

THE BODY AND BLOOD OF
CHRIST  [C]

Dear Friends

The words of Jesus, as recorded by St Paul in today’s
reading could not be more simple or direct: “This is my body.  Do this in remembrance of
me”.  At the Eucharist,
Jesus makes himself bodily present for us; he is there just as truly as if he
had walked into the room.  He asks
us to let him in via the route he chooses, the bread and wine; and as the
bread and wine become incorporated into our bodies, so Jesus becomes incorporated
into our beings, and we into his. It is not necessary to become too concerned
with the ritual of the Mass, i.e. the place of rendezvous; it is the person
we have come to meet, and we cannot force the pace.  Jesus is the giver, only he can decide
when and how he will share himself with us.  Our part is to be open to receive and
to esteem properly the value of the gift.  The carpenter of Nazareth was killed under torture by those
set on erasing his presence from the world.  But the night before he died, he hid
that presence where it could not be found – in bread and wine. The
Eucharist is Calvary made present –
the suffering through which the whole of creation is redeemed.  In 1606, Nicholas Owen, also a
carpenter, was killed under torture in the Tower.  He, too, hid the presence of Jesus in
ingeniously concealed priests’ holes, action which, together with his
silence in dying, were testimony to the inestimable value he placed on the
Eucharist.  The story in
today’s Gospel also points towards the Eucharist.  As with the Apostles, when we are faced
with people’s needs and look at our own resources, we can become
depressed.  Their hunger is so
vast and our abilities so small, but all care and all ministry
is a sharing from poverty.  None
of us has all the answers; none of us is millionaires in mercy and compassion
but the promise of the Gospel is that if we share our poverty then we, too,
will inherit a kingdom prepared for us from the beginning of the world.
God bless

EVENTS THIS WEEK

Tuesday,
12th June
10:30pm Mersea
Coffee Morning
See Notice

Wednesday
13th June
10-12
Monkwick Studio Coffee Morning      “

“
“
“
7-9pm    Scripture Course
Crypt

Thursday
14th June
7.30pm  Baptism Course 2 of 2
Crypt

Saturday
16th June
8.00pm   Cavendish Consort Concert    Church

EVENING
PRAYER:  During this month of
June, Evening Prayer from Monday to Friday will be at 48 Priory Street at 5:45pm and not in the Church.  Everyone is welcome to come.

CONGRATULATIONS:
to
Doctors Bruno Kalu and Adaeze
Nsoedo recently married here.

RAFFLE THIS
WEEKEND:  To be held in aid of the
Brentwood Youth Service to help young people of the Parish to go to summer Lourdes.  Details from Theresa
Higgins.

SVP: ANNUAL
COLLECTION Will take place after all Masses this weekend. This will assist our
own SVP to practically support the needy in our parish.

RECENTLY
DECEASED:  Please pray for the
repose of the soul of Lillian Harrington,
Murray McIsaac and Stan Archard
who have died.  May they rest in peace.

MERSEA
COFFEE MORNING: The next Coffee morning takes place on Tuesday 12th June at
the Home of Margaret Williams 28,
Coast Road, starting at 10.30am.

MONKWICK
COFFEE MORNING:  a Studio Coffee Morning is
being held at the home of Christine Brown, 3 Adelaide Drive, on Wednesday 13th
June from 10am to 12 noon.  There
will be an exhibition of paintings, a Bring and Buy sale and Raffle.  All donations to the St
Theodore’s.

BRES
SPIRITUALITY MEETING:  Wednesday 13th
June in the Conference Centre, Cathedral House, Brentwood.  7.30pm
– 9pm.  Speaker:
Fr Laurence Freeman OSB; Topic; The
Eucharist and Silence.  Cost
£5; unwaged £3.

CAVENDISH
CONSORT will
be giving another of their delightful concerts in the church on Saturday 16th
June at 8pm.  The programme
is called Fiori Musicali and
features music from the 17th century Italy, played on original instruments.
Admission £5 [£3.50 concessions].  A highly entertaining evening with
proceeds to church funds.

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION
CHILDREN: Next
weekend the children who have just made their First Holy Communion will
gather for their final meeting on Saturday 16th June and on Sunday
17th June at 10.30 a Going Forth Mass will be celebrated followed
by a party in the Hall. All are welcome.
We pray for these 46 children and thank you to everyone involved in
the Programme.

NATIONAL
CHILD PROTECTION CHECKS FOR ALL VOLUNTEERS WITHIN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH:    All volunteers are required to
complete a CRB form in order to carry on their valuable work in the
parish.  As previously announced
in the Newsletter, the first of two meetings to complete the documentation
takes place on Sunday 17th
June in the Crypt after 10.30am Mass.
The second meeting takes place on Sunday, 15h July.   Those who find difficulty
attending should drop a note addressed to James Shaw, Parish Child Protection
representative c/o The Presbytery.

FRIENDS OF PERU:  Curry Night – Saturday, 7th
July in
the Cardinal Bourne Hall 7pm –
11pm.  For further
information contact 503410 or 867707.

BRENTWOOD CATHOLIC CHILDREN’S SOCIETY:  Fundraising Events: Italian
Cooking Day at TASTE-ITALIA, Ramsden Heath,
Nr Billericay. Wednesday
27th June 9.30am-3.30pm.  Tickets £45; places are
limited.

Go-Kart Endurance Challenge Sunday 1st
July from 11am at Brentwood
Karting Raceway. A team event of 2-4 drivers. 90
minutes of racing including pit stops, driver changes and re-fuelling.
[Minimum age for racing is 16].
Cost per team £135 which includes insurance and a donation to
the Society.  Take part for FREE by
raising sponsorship of £350 – minimum.  Call 01268 784544

YOUTH NEWS:  A Youth Mass [age 11 upwards] will be
held on Saturday 30th June at the 6:15pm Mass.
Young members of the congregation are needed as readers, musicians and
altar servers.  Please contact
Caroline Higgins on 797411 or 523501.
This will be followed by pizza and other refreshments in the Cardinal
Bourne Hall and will be your chance to make known what activities young
people would like to see in the parish.

If you are planning to go to the World Youth Day, please contact
Theresa or Caroline Higgins to discuss fundraising activities.  The parish will be contributing to the
costs on a match funding basis.  Email Theresa.higgins203@ntlworld,com
or text 07971 270477 or phone 523501.

Aylesford
Youth Festival Saturday 7th July 10.30am-8pm. Year 8 and above.  A day of sport, drama, music,
street-dance, sign language, drumming and art!  Cost £8 + £10 coach fare
[leaves from Stratford, Romford,
Brentwood]  For more details phone Sarah
01277 265286 or visit www.bcys.net  Training
and Resource Day for parishioners working with young people Saturday 22nd
September.  A long way off but
the Youth Office will be in touch next month for names and numbers.

DAILY: Rosary 8.40am; Divine Mercy 9am [Wednesdays 11.40am]. PRAYER

GROUP: Mondays 8pm in Crypt; MEDITATION GROUP: Tuesdays at 8pm
at 48 Priory

St.  EXPOSITION: Saturdays 10am-11am.

SICK PARISHIONERS: Please pray for Emily Begg, June Bickersteth,

Pauline Carter, Ron Collins, Sylvina de Britto, Marie Dixon,
John Fisher, Florence

Fuller, Denisia
Gray, Eileen Head, Michelle Huet, Deirdre Kehoe,
Catherine Libby,

Luke McShane, Sheila
Parsons, John Rae, Sheila Shillingford, Carole Stover.

LITURGY FOR THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST [C]

June 10th 2007 A.D.

The first Mass of Sunday
is on Saturday Evening at Priory
Street

Saturday  June 9th

Sunday
June 10th

6:15
pm

8:00
am

10:30
am

3:30
pm

5:00 pm

6:30 pm

Derek Boagey RIP

Intentions of Maddy
McCann and Family

Patrick Burke RIP

SIGNED MASS

HOLY HOUR

David Wonson RIP

West Mersea

8:30 am

Rev. Edward Bilsborrow
RIP

Mile
End

9:15
am

Gerry Coyle RIP [A]

Monkwick

10:15
am

Parishioners

Monday 11th
St
Barnabas, Ap.

Tuesday 12th

Church                9:15
am Private Intention [M & C McE]

Church
12:15 pm REQUIEM – Lillian Harrington RIP

Feria

Church                 9:15 am Intentions of Richard
Condon

Church
2:00 pm
FUNERAL – MURRAY McISAAC
RIP

Wednesday 13

Thursday 14th

St Antony   of

Church

Church

Feria

Church

Padua,

9:15
am

12:15pm

9:15 am

Pr, D.

Intentions of the Knights of St Columba

REQUIEM
– STAN ARCHARD RIP

Cecily Sim RIP

Friday  15th

Church

9:15 am

SACRED HEART OF JESUS

John Carrell RIP

Michael and Bridget Brady RIP [A]

Saturday 16th

Immaculate
Heart of Mary

Church
9:15 am   Hugh Smith RIP

LITURGY FOR THE ELEVENTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR [C]

June 17th 2007 A.D.

Saturday  June 16th

Sunday    June 17th

6:15
pm

8:00
am

10:30
am

4:00 pm

6:30 pm

Patrick and Elizabeth Brogan RIP

Tony Bickersteth RIP

Banks and Loftus Families RIP

POLISH MASS

Annaliza Cagadas
RIP & Maria Aganon RIP

West Mersea

8:30
am

Parishioners

Mile End

9:15
am

Private Intention

Monkwick

10:15
am

Denise Smith RIP

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
Saturday 10:00-11:00am & 5:30-6:00pm

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM                        Baptismal
Courses arranged as per Newsletter

SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE
At  least six
months notice is required

SCHOOLS
St Thomas More       Head:
Bridget Harris [865722]

St Benedict’s
Head: John
O’Hara   [549222]

Marriage
Care
www.marriagecare.org.uk
0800 389 3801

The Brentwood
Diocesan Trust – Registered Charity No. 234092