Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic Community Herne Bay, Kent
Clarence Road, Herne Bay, Kent - 01227 375095 - Parish Priest: Fr Mark White CP (mwhite8684@aol.com); Assistant Priest: Fr Patrick CP (743727); Deacons James Foley (366841) & Barry Walker (368685) - website: www.ourladyhernebay.co.uk
tWenty-seCond sunday in ordinary tiMe (Year B) 29/30 AUGUST 2015 Entrance Antiphon Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I cry to you all the day long. O Lord, you are good and forgiving, full of mercy to all who call on you. Coming Up This Week Next Saturday (5 Sept) a Day of Renewal at Aylesford, “Now is the time of God’s Favour”, will take place. The day begins with Rosary at 9.30am and ends with Mass (which starts at 4pm). Our parish first Friday Evening Mass and Prayer for Healing will be celebrated this week (4 Sept at 7pm). Please come if you can. The Parish Pastoral Council will be meeting on Wednesday at 7pm, please keep its members and their discussions in your prayers. Annual Day of Global Prayer for Creation Pope Francis has established an annual day of global prayer for creation to be celebrated on 1 September. He writes: “The annual World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation will offer individual believers and communities a fitting opportunity to reaffirm their personal vocation to be stewards of creation, to thank God for the wonderful handiwork which he has entrusted to our care, and to implore his help for the protection of creation as well as his pardon for the sins committed against the world in which we live.” The Day of Prayer is in unity with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who began a similar day of prayer for the Orthodox Church in 1989. “The celebration of this Day, on the same date as the Orthodox Church, will be a valuable opportunity to bear witness to our growing communion with our Orthodox brothers and sisters.”