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Year A Weekly News Letter Year A SOLEMN FEAST
OF CORPUS CHRISTI Corpus Christi This is only the second year we have celebrated the Feast of Corpus Christi on a Sunday. Today’s feast commemorates the institution of the Holy Eucharist. The feast is similar to Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday) commemorating Our Lord's institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper but as that celebration takes place during Holy Week there is a sense of sadness at the Lord’s death. Corpus Christ was introduced in the late 13th century to encourage the faithful to give special honor to the institution of the Holy Eucharist to the Blessed Sacrament. The official title of this Solemnity was changed in 1970 to ‘The Body and Blood of Christ’. In the 13th century there were many Eucharistic miracles, especially in Italy and France. Feasts in honour of the Eucharist began first in particular dioceses. In the 1260s St Thomas Aquinas was commissioned by Pope Urban IV to write the prayers for the Mass of Corpus Christi which we use to this day. The Sequence Sing forth, O Sion, sweetly sing, which we sing or say before the Gospel is a magnificent meditation on the meaning of the Eucharist for our lives as Christians. Corpus Christi became a universal feast in the Roman Church in 1312. The processions on Corpus Christi to honor the Holy Eucharist have become a principal feature of the feast's celebration by the faithful, and became a tradition throughout Europe. In the best of presents, there is something of the giver in what is given. In the Eucharist, in the Blessed Sacrament, the gift is the Giver Himself.
‘Behold the bread of angels sent For pilgrims in their banishment, The Bread for God’s true children meant’
MASS TIMES & INTENTIONS FOR THIS WEEK
If you would like to have Mass offered for a particular intention, you are invited to fill in an envelope from the back of church and make an offering
WEST HULL PARISHES Confessions: First Saturday of the month St Joseph’s-11am-11.30am – 7th June Second Saturday of the month Corpus Christi-11am-11.30am – 14th June Third Saturday of the month St Wilfrid’s-11am-11.30am – 21st June
Parish Youth Club – No youth club this week
Confirmation 2008
– There will be two meetings: Tuesday 10 June and 17
June 7pm.
First Holy Communion - will take place at St Wilfrid’s on 1st June
WEST HULL PARISHES ‘100 PLUS’ CLUB – Week 18-J.McCaffer No.92. Week 19-P. Bottomley No.113. Week 20-W Varney No. 49. Week 20 £50 prize J McNaughton No.18.
Adult Formation – at St John’s, Beverley Parish. See notice at back of church.
Faith Summertime at Ampleforth 28th-31st July for those aged 10-15 years– booking forms are now being distributed. You need to send it to Sr Roseann (address on form) with full payment to secure a place. There’ll be a coach from Hull. Book early to be certain of a place.
‘Welcoming Back’ There will be a workshop at The Endsleigh Centre on Saturday 21st June. 10.30am-3.30pm. drinks will be served from 10.00am. Bring a packed lunch. Cost per person is £10. All names by the 2nd June please. List for names at the back of church. See also May issue of the Catholic Voice and notices in church.
A Legion of Mary Praesidium is to be started at St Charles but open to the whole city. Meetings will be on a Thursday evening. See Fr William or Sr Brenda for more information.
40 Hours Adoration ‘Quarantore’ at St Charles beginning Friday 6th June at 10am concluding with Solemn Holy Hour Sunday 8th June at 5.30pm (continuous apart from Saturday night).
Hull Faith Forum resumes on Monday 16th June at the Endsleigh Centre, Beverley Rd, 7.30pm, with a series of talks for young people. The theme is: ‘Words of Encouragement’. The first talk: Fr Colman Ryan on ‘How to get the Most out of the Readings at Mass’.
CAFOD – Walk to Holy Island on Saturday 14 June Notice at back of church
CORPUS CHRISTI Many thanks for last Sunday’s collection £345.15 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament from 9.15am on Fridays CAFOD Humber Bridge walk Mary Taylor & Sandra would like to thank those who sponsored them the amount raised was £86.29.
ST WILFRID’S Many thanks for last Sunday’s collection £320.39 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament from 9.15am on Thursdays
Coffee after Sunday morning Mass in the Boulevard Village Hall has now begun. Please come along. Volunteer helpers are welcome.
ST JOSEPH’S Many thanks for last Sunday’s collection £402.96 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament from 6.30pm on Wednesdays For Hall bookings contact: Colin Bainbridge
Cleaners still needed for St Joseph’s Church Please see Fr William if you can help. It is just once a month. We have had three volunteers.
Helpers are needed after Sunday Mass to make and serve the tea if we have two more volunteers it would be only once a month.
Catholic Singles is an organisation which helps single Catholics meet up, either one to one or through social events. For more information please tel: 0161 941 3498. visit the website www.catholicsingles.org.uk or email info@catholicsingles.org.uk
TODAY’S LITURGYFirst Reading: Deuteronomy 8:2-3. 14-16 The period in the Wilderness was Israel’s opportunity to become aware of the living and personal aspects of their covenant with God. When they received the gift of manna, they discovered their true hunger which the word of God alone could satisfy.
Second Reading: First Letter of St Paul to the Corinthians 10: 16-17 Christians have no need to sacrifice to this world’s idols, they have the blood of Christ which has saved them, and the only bread of life which makes them one.
Communion Antiphon for [Sunday and weekdays] Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood will live in me and I in him, says the Lord.
FEASTS THIS WEEK
Monday: St Philip Neri 1515-1595 Priest of Rome, he drew a great following which became the Oratory order. A man of humour and humanity: to be holy is to be fully human.
Tuesday: St Augustine of Canterbury He was sent by Saint Gregory the Great in the year 597 from the monastery of St Andrew in Rome to preach the gospel in England. He was helped thee by the king Ethelbert and he became Archbishop of Canterbury. He converted many to the faith and set up some dioceses especially in the kingdom of Kent. He died on 26 May about the year 605.
Friday: Solemn Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus We rejoice in the great love that flows from the human heart of Christ to the world.
Saturday: Feast of the Visitation of Our Lady We recall Mary’s love and concern for her cousin Elizabeth, Elizabeth’s greeting of Mary as “full of grace”, and a child leaping for joy in his mother’s womb – “so near was man’s salvation”.
Please pray for those from the West Hull Parishes who will be in Lourdes this week – we will pray for you.
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