Parish Priest: Fr. Seán Wales C.Ss.R Email: parishpriest@holyredeemer.co.zaAssistants: Fr. Tyrone Sam C.Ss.RRev. Alan MorrisHOLY REDEEMER PARISHHOLY REDEEMER PARISHHOLY REDEEMER PARISH

19th/20th November 2011Christ the King—Cycle AMissal Pages: Old: 380 New: 487

BERGVLIET ROAD, BERGVLIET, 7945 • TEL NO: 021 7122210/7121181 •FAX: 021 7124271 • EMAIL: parish@holyredeemer.co.za • WEBSITE: www.holyredeemer.co.za

WEEKLY DIARY MASS INTENTIONS

Nov. 21 Mon Morning Prayer in the Church at 8:00 am 6:15 am Maria Introna RIP 8:30 am Mortuary List

Nov. 22 Tues

Morning Prayer in the Church at 8:00 am Care & craft group – after 8:30 am Mass SVP meets at 6:00 pm in the Boardroom RCIA meets at 7:15 pm in Parish Centre Charismatic Group meets at 7:45 pm in the Church Liturgy Meeting at 7:30 pm in the Boardroom

6:15 am Mary McAdam- Healing 8:30 am Deceased Legionaries

Nov. 23 Wed Morning Prayer in the Church at 8:00 am Rosary after 8:30 am Mass Choir practice at 6:30 pm in the Church

6:15 am Redemptorists 8:30 am Bianca McGowan (Lino) RIP

Nov. 24 Thurs Morning Prayer in the Church at 8:00 am Novena at 7:30 pm in the Church

6:15 am Private Intention 8:30 am Special Intention

Nov. 25 Fri Morning Prayer in the Church at 8:00 am Kick Youth meet at 6:00 pm in the Parish Centre Rummage sale at 7:30 am in the Hall

6:15 am Private Intention 8:30 am Barbara Fish RIP

Nov. 26 Sat Legion of Mary– 3:15 pm in the Boardroom 8:30 am Aubrey Human RIP 6:00 pm V O’ Connor RIP

Nov. 27 Sun FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT

7:00 am Professor John Viljoen RIP 9:00 am Tony Back RIP 11:00 am Parishioners 6:00 pm Sacristans

Need somewhere to talk that is safe,where there is total confidentiality andwhere you will not be judged?

Contact one of our trained counsellors:

ANNETTE MILNER TEL: 021-715 8177

CYNTHIA WIESE TEL: 021-794 1601

WEEKEND MASS TIMES :SATURDAY: 6:00pmSUNDAY: 7:00am, 9:00am, 11:00am & 6:00pmDAILY MASS TIMES:MON - FRI: 6:l5am & 8:30am. Sat (only 8.30am)CONFESSION TIMES:THURSDAY: 7:00 - 7:30pmSATURDAY: 9:00 - 9:30am & 5:00 - 5:55pmADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT:MON - FRIDAY: 9:00am - l0:00pmNOVENA & BENEDICTION :Thursday: -7:30pmFRENCH MASS: 2nd & 4th SUNDAY - 3:00pm

ANNOUNCEMENTS

COLLECTION. The second collec-tion today is for the Prison Minis-try .

ADORATION CHAPEL. Adorersurgently needed on Mon. 2-3pm;Wed. 10-11 am Fri. 7-8pm.Please cal l Christ ine on0824991718.PS: The Adoration Chapel willclose at 6pm on Wed. 14 Dec. andreopen on Tues. 10 Jan. at 9:00am.

BAPTISM INSTRUCTIONS willtake place on Sat. the 3rd and10th of Dec. at 2:00pm. The sac-rament will be celebrated on Sun-day, 11th after the 11am Mass

MORTUARY LIST. Envelopes areavailable in the Church porch.Please print names clearly.PS. Please include offering. See‘MASS STIPENDS’ on page 4.

WELCOME COMMITTEE is havingan unwanted gift sale on Sun. 11Dec. after the 9:00 am Mass. Do-nations required. Please drop offat Office.

MASS FOR THE SICK will becelebrated on Sat. 10 of Dec at11am followed by lunch in theParish Centre.

ALPHA will be selling bacon andegg rolls after the 9:00 am Massnext week. Please support.

LITURGY MEETING will be heldthe 22nd of Nov. at 7:30 pm in theBoardroom to plan for Advent &Xmas.

BAGS OF LOVE will be on saleafter all Masses next week at R7each. More details next week.

PRAY FOR OUR SICK

Leonard Craig, Mrs Boyles, George Visser, Lisa MarieMoses, Matthew & Janine Beukes, Zima Lovric, ErinDaames, Dawn Forsdike, Edith Klein, Brian Miller; Doro-thy & Alfie Harris, Jack Hardy, Bernadette Brindley,Lorraine O’Brien, Sadie Jenkins, Rosetta Orgill, Magda-lene Hinter, Charles Roberts, Christine Van Schalkwyk,Russell & Dawn Heynes, Mr Eckles, Joyce Dunn, SybilRobbins, Tony Chanquin, Ma Fouten, Doris Fernandez,Louis Catin, Alan Rodgers, Brenda Saunders, MaryJones, Douglas Coutriers, Hazel Canterbury, SylviaPeters, Muriel van Rensburg, Steve Catin, William O’Riley, Gloria Mbiya, Mrs S Fortuin, Mr H Herman, Chris-tine Jegels, Edwin Rosslind, Sharon Erwin, Mrs Wil-lemse, Catherine Jansen, Patrick Ford, Ernest Peskin,Michael Maggott, Clement Nicolls, Lance Wolff, YvonneHendry Tony Carling, James King, Eleanor McDuma,Gabriel & Wilhelmina Naidoo, Mary McAdam

Prayer for EcclesiaFather, continue to pour out your Spirit on ourArchdioceseAs we enter this time of Ecclesia:Grant us a new vision of your glorya new experience of your powera new faithfulness to your Worda new consecration to your serviceSo that your love may grow among usAnd your kingdom comeBless our commitmentto realise our Pastoral Planto deepen our communionto fruitful missionthrough Christ our LordOur Lady of the Flight into Egypt, pray for us.Amen

NOVENA TO OUR MOTHER OFPERPETUAL HELP

Come and ask her Motherly help,every Thursday evening at 7.30pm

Place your special Prayer Intentions & Thanks-givings in the box at the back of the Church.

Also online at www.holyredeemer.co.za

Just a thought

CELEBRATIONS

This is a weekend of grace in our parish. We celebrate two significant aspectsof our faith.

First, this weekend we keep the Feast of Jesus Christ, Universal King. The litur-gical feast was instituted by Pope Pius X1 in 1925. The Pope took a long view ofhistory and saw that the world had been in turmoil for centuries: the FrenchRevolution, the Industrial Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the growing senseof negative Nationalism, all these had created great upheavals in society. ThePope wanted to recall Christians to a fundamental insight into the Gospel. Jesushad proclaimed himself King and had initiated his Kingdom, a Kingdom of graceand truth which no early political system could destroy.

Pius X1 simply used the title “Feast of Christ the King”. In 1969 Pope Paul V1moved the feast to the last Sunday of the Church’s year and called it “The So-lemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Universal King”. At a stroke Pope Paul evokedthe truth that the Kingship of Jesus will be fully manifested at the end of time.He is King of all creation, a reality which is true already even though not yet fullymanifested.

Secondly, this weekend a large group of children from our catechism classesmake their first Holy Communion. We are all twice blessed in these two cele-brations. The children who make their first Holy Communion receive Jesus, Kingof Kings and Lord of Lords. They become more deeply established in His King-dom and they are strengthened for the rest of their faith journey.

This weekend is also the celebration of the end of the Church’s liturgical year.Since last Advent we have lived together the mystery of faith, we have experi-enced grace and truth and even if our response has not always been what wewould have liked, we are still living in a context of grace and love. The beautifulconclusion of the Church’s year is a hint of the beautiful conclusion to our wholelife. May that be pure grace. And may those who have gone to God this year,enjoy the fullness of grace and truth.

Fr Seán Wales, C.Ss.R

MASS FOR AIDS VICTIMS

Our parish's annual Mass for victims ofHIV- AIDS will be held at 18h00 on Sun-day the 4th December. We would greatlyappreciate donations of baby products(soap, baby lotion, disposable nappies,etc) for the AIDS babies. Second-handbaby clothes will be welcome. We willbe collecting at all the Masses or you canleave it at the parish office. These prod-ucts will be distributed by the Co-workers of Mother Teresa.

CATECHETICAL/CONFIRMATIONTHANKSGIVING MASS:

On Sunday the 11th December a Mass ofthanksgiving will be celebrated at 18h00 toclose the catechetical program for 2011.This will be preceeded at 17h00 by an AD-VENT reflection which will be put on bythe children of our catechetical program. Inthanksgiving for what we have, we wouldgreatly appreciate it if each family woulddonate one gift (if possible) for the manychildren in our Deanery who will not re-ceive Christmas presents on Christmasmorning. These gifts will be distributed bythe St Vincent de Paul Society. We ask thatthe gifts be wrapped and the age and sex ofthe child for which the gift is suitable beattached to the gift.

NEXT WINNERS’ DRAW

2nd DECEMBERIN THE ATRIUM

AFTER FIRST FRIDAYMORNING HOLY MASS

Please make your contributionby 30th November 2011

TO BE SURE YOU’RE IN ITTO WIN IT

Check your name on list in Foyer

Contact Lydia 021-7125422

Please donate your clothes, including blackschool trousers, white shirtsand shoes, and blankets which you nolonger need. These will be channeledthrough Catholic Welfare Development(CWD). About 67 houses burned andaffected 300 people including children inJoe Slovo- Langa Township outsideCape Town. The incident happened lastweekend, 13 and 14 November. CWD saysthat the people have lost everything.Please drop off at the Holy Redeemer

church office.

ST ANTHONY’S RC PRIMARY SCHOOLCHILDRENS BOOKS

We are looking for good suitable readingbooks for childrenfrom Grade R (6 year olds) to Grade 7 (13years olds) for ourlibrary. We would appreciate it if you haveany books thatyou want to dispose of if you could bring itto the office atthe church or at the school Our telephonenumber is021-7128026 should you need to contactus.We thank you so much for your support.

Please remember The Dan-Ag Care fundraiser:

OLD SCHOOL PARTY

Friday 25th November, 7.30pm

St Mary's hall, Retreat Road, Retreat

R30 P/P

Refreshments on sale

St Vincent de PaulSociety

(Working for the Poor)

Place your offering to sup-port the Society in theirwork for the poor in thebox at the back of theChurch. Have you thought of joining? Theymeet on Tuesdays at 6: 00pm. Contact WilfDe Hahn on 021 7154277

Co-Workers ofMother Teresa

Share your daily breadwith the poor

Please bring your offering ofa loaf of bread to Holy Massand place in the box at theAltar.

PARISH REPOSITORY SHOP

Specials now on sale:Christmas gifts, rosaries,First Communion & Con-

firmation gifts

Open in the Parish Officearea after all the weekendMasses. Contact Peter &

Barbara Soares 0217056068

MASS STIPENDS

The South AfricanBishops’ Conferencerecommends thatwhere possible, theamount for a Massoffering be increasedfrom R20 to R40.