ST. JAMES
THE LESS AND ST.
HELEN

CATHOLIC CHURCH, Colchester

with

Mersea, Mile End and Monkwick

Fr  Anthony  McKentey

Fr
Neil
Brett

Fr
Philip Willenbrock

51 Priory
Street , Colchester, Essex,
CO1 2QB

Tel:           01206 866317;   Fax  01206 791213

E-Mail      [email-masked]

www.stjamesthelessandsthelen.org

THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS,
MARY & JOSEPH

December 26th 2010

My
dear friends,

I hope you all had a very enjoyable celebration
of Christmas.  After all the
trials of the recent severe weather, I hope you managed to have an enjoyable
time with your families and friends. Many thanks to all those who helped to
make our Parish celebration of Christmas so special, in particular those who
helped with the music, the Liturgy, cleaning and decorating the Church.  Many thanks to everyone for your good
wishes, kindness and generosity to your priests at Christmas.

On this Sunday after Christmas, we celebrate the
Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary
and Joseph.  We ask their prayers
for all our families.  As the
prayer of today’s Feast puts it, may we live like the Holy Family,
united in respect and love.  We
also include in this, the Parish family to which we all belong.

As we come to the end of 2010 may I thank you for
all your support for the Parish during the year.  On behalf of Fr Neil, Fr Philip and
myself, I wish you a very Happy New Year.

We begin 2011 with the Feast of Mary, Mother of God, with Mass at 10a.m. on
Saturday this week; a good way to start the year and on the first Sunday of
the New Year we will celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord.

May the Lord bless you all during this Christmas Season.

Fr Tony McKentey

EVENTS THIS WEEK

*Please note morning
Mass on Monday, 28th & Tuesday, 29th is at 10am

Friday December 31st
12 noon Hospital Mass

[the Chapel is
adjacent to Wivenhoe Ward]

Saturday January 1st
*  Mass at 10am

NO Exposition or Confessions

DAILY:   Morning
Prayer 8:15am; Rosary/Divine
Mercy 8:35am. [Wed. 11:15am]

PRAYER
GROUP    [Not 27th December]      Mondays @ 8pm in the Crypt

MEDITATION
GROUP:  [Not 28th
“    ]        Tuesdays @ 8pm in the Crypt

EXPOSITION:
[Not 1st January]       Saturdays
@ 9.45am – 10.30am

SICK:  Please remember in your prayers: June Bickersteth, Joan Boyden, Nancy Drummond, Salvatore Morreale,
Bridie Murphy, Baby Leah Patterson, Hector Silva, Olivia
Thorpe.

RECENTLY
DECEASED:  Please pray for the
repose of the soul of David Vaughan-Williamson and Mrs Kashia Hurlo. David’s funeral has been arranged on 7th
January at 10:15am at
Colchester Crematorium; Kashia’s funeral has yet to be arranged.   May they rest in peace.

“100 CLUB”: Christmas 2010 Draw Winners: 1st [£100] Ron Smith; 2nd
[£70] Gail Haigherty;
3rd [£50] Catherine Watson; 4th [£25] Marie
Lyons; 5th [£15] Wolfgang Fauser;
6th [Free Renewal Sub for 2011] Jennifer Bebb.  December Draw Winners – 1st
[£25] May Banks; 2nd [£15] Mark
Saunders; 3rd [£10] Eve Pereira.  Congratulations to all.

REPOSITORY SALE NOW
ON:  All Christmas items are half price, plus many other
bargains.  The Repository stall is
open in the Cardinal Bourne Hall
after Sunday 10:30 Mass.

MASS
FOR VOCATIONS: On
29th December at 11:30am
at Holy Trinity
Church,
Wickhay, Basildon,
SS15 5AD.  Afterwards, you are warmly invited to lunch
with the Diocesan seminarians and those discerning vocation to the
Priesthood. For the sake of catering, please let Fr
Dominic know if you are coming on 01268 553425 or [email-masked]

WORLD YOUTH DAY:  The cost can put people off; just to be
clear that it is an all-in price, and includes the WYD registration fee
(itself just over £200) and 14 days abroad, including four nights with
a Spanish host family, and seven nights in a world class hostel located in central
Madrid. All travel, accommodation and meals are included, as is insurance.
WYD really is a life changing experience in terms of how it affirms and
deepens the faith for many of those attending. There are just nine places
left on the Youth Service trip.

Brentwood Catholic Youth Service.   Email
[email-masked] or call 01277 265286

WINTER RESERVE ACCOMMODATION PROJECT [WRAP]; Keeping homeless people off the street this winter: Can you help?  The relevant weeks for our Parish are 12th-19th January 2011 and 9th-16th
February 20. It will be necessary for volunteers to sleep in the Hall
overnight but for full information please ring 01206 549 885 and speak
to Pernille.

STARTING
JUSTICE & PEACE FROM THE GRASSROOTS – a one day seminar for
Brentwood, Southwark and Westminster
parishes, Wednesday, 26th January, 11am – 4pm at Amigo Hall, St George’s Cathedral, LONDON SEI.
Stephen Kearney and Julia Olsen
from RE:generate explain a
tried and tested approach renewing our parish witness to Social Justice. Tea,
Coffee and lunch provided – suggested donation towards costs
£10.  To book a place contact CJSR 01277 265290 email: [email-masked]

OFFICIAL DVD
OF THE PAPAL VISIT 2010: Retail price £9.99
but discounted price for parishes of £5.99. There is a poster in the
porch at Priory Street
and at the Mass centres.
Please put your name on the list if you wish to order a copy.

VACANCY:
For a Senior Science Lab Technician at St
Bonaventure’s Catholic
Comprehensive School,
Forest Gate from January 2011.
Full details on poster in the porch.  Job description, application letter
and form available on the school website www.stbons.org
.  Closing date 12th January 2011.

TASTE AND
SEE EVENT:  For those practising
Catholic teachers, or a practising Christian from another denomination, who
are presently not teaching in Catholic schools.  On Saturday, 29th January 2011 at
the Homerton Conference Centre, Hills Road, Cambridge.
Full details on the poster in the porch and the event is
being funded by the National
College supporting
succession planning in both Anglican and Catholic dioceses.

FROM THE
DIOCESAN ARCHIVIST: A parishioner at Manor Park, Shea Lolin, has
published a very interesting history of St Nicholas’ Industrial School,
Manor Park,
London, E12. This was a Catholic orphanage/reformatory established
by the Archdiocese of Westminster in 1868. It was closed in the 1920s, but
the school chapel still serves as a chapel-of-ease for the Manor Park
parish. The booklet uses some previously unpublished archive photographs. For
further information, please contact Shea Lolin: [email-masked]

NEW TO THE PARISH?:  Please introduce yourself to one of the priests after Mass, complete a
registration form [on the big table in the porch] and return it to the Parish
Office.  Please also advise the
Parish Office if you move within or out of the Parish.  PARISH
WEB SITE:
For all inclusions, contact [email-masked]

LITURGY FOR THE HOLY
FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY &
JOSEPH [A]

26th December 201 – Breviary Week 5

Sunday December 26th

8:00 am

10:30 am

6:30
pm

John Lowe RIP

Intentions of the Jay Family

Special Intention [JH]

Mersea

8:30
am

Thomas & Bridie
Smith RIP

Mile End

9:15
am

Leo Foley RIP

Monkwick

10:15 am

Parishioners

Monday 27th

ST JOHN, Ap, Evangelist

Church  * 10:00 am
Canon Thomas Clarke RIP

Tuesday 28th

THE HOLY INNOCENTS, Mm

Church   * 10:00 am    Fr Brian Godden RIP

Wednesday
29

St Thomas of Canterbury, Bp, M.

Church     12:15 pm   Frederick, Elizabeth
& Angelo Lucas RIP

Thursday 30th

Sixth day within the
Octave of Christmas

Church:     9:15 am   Howard Turner RIP

Friday 31st

Gen. Hospital

Seventh day within the
Octave of Christmas

Church      9:15 am    Patrick John Lyons RIP

Chapel    12:00 pm    Frederick, Elizabeth & Angelo Lucas RIP

2 0 1 1                   MARY,
MOTHER OF GOD

Saturday              Church   *  10:00 am    D/Rels:
Walker/McGrath Families RIP

January 1st

LITURGY FOR THE EPIPHANY
OF THE LORD  [A]

January 2nd
2011

Saturday January 1st

Sunday   January 2nd

6:15
pm

8:00
am

Annie Gibbons RIP

In Thanksgiving [PM]

10:30am

Baby Aoife

6:30
pm

Parishioners

West Mersea

8:30
am

Norma Golding RIP

Mile End

9:15
am

Allfredo Sagnella
RIP

Monkwick

10:15am

Kazimierz Hurlo
RIP

SACRAMENT
OF RECONCILIATION       Saturday
9:45-10:30am and 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]

www.marriagecare.org.uk   or 0800 389 3801.             www.brentwoodvocations.org

The Brentwood Diocesan Trust – Registered Charity No.
234092