Welcome to our Parish
Welcome to the Parish Website for the Crawley Catholic Parish, which is made up of six communities across the town. On any Sunday over 1,500 people gather together to celebrate Mass - the source and summit of all we do.
Fr. Raymond Tumba, OSA; Fr. Joachim Osigwe, OSA; Fr. Nelson Daniel, OSA
MASSES ARE NOW LIVE-STREAMED IN THE FRIARY CHURCH EVERY DAY (12:15 MASS FROM MONDAY TO SATURDAY AND 11 am MASS ON SUNDAYS). SIMPLY CLICK THE FACEBOOK LINK BELOW TO JOIN THE MASS.
https://www.universalis.com/mass.html
YouTube Channel: Crawleyparish Friary
Facebook: @CrawleyCatholicParish
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CRUCIAL AND URGENT NOTICE
Pentecost Sunday
May 31st – National Rosary Rally 9 am to 9 pm
England, Wales, Scotland
There will be a 12-hour National Rosary rally on Pentecost Sunday. Arundel & Brighton diocese has been allocated the time of 9 am on Sunday 31st May 2020.
Our loving Parishioners of Crawley, we are all encouraged to participate in this rare and grace-filled spiritual activity either:
- By joining Bishop Richard (who will be praying a live-streamed Rosary from Arundel Cathedral on 31st May 2020. Time: 9 am). Or
- By joining the Augustinian Priests of Crawley Parish (who will be praying a live-streamed Rosary from the Friary Church of Crawley on 31st May 2020. Time 9 am). To watch the live-streamed Rosary and daily Masses at the Friary Church, simply click on the Facebook link above.
May the Lord God continue to protect and keep us safe from the invasion of Coronavirus in the Name of Jesus! Amen.
CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE OF ENGLAND AND WALES
Mass for the Sick and their Families,
NHS Front-Line workers and those working in Social Care
The Catholic Bishops of England and Wales recognise that this time of the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting every person in our countries. Those who are sick, and their families, are suffering many hardships of isolation from contact with those they love. Our front-line workers in hospitals and in care homes all over our lands are giving exceptional service to those who are vulnerable at this time.
In order to show spiritual solidarity with all those who are involved in the ways described above, each week from next Thursday, a Catholic Bishop will celebrate Mass in their Cathedral which will be live-streamed for people to join. This will take place every Thursday at 7.00 pm
4th June Bishop John Arnold Salford Cathedral
11th June Bishop Patrick McKinney Nottingham Cathedral
18th June Archbishop Bernard Longley Birmingham Cathedral
25th June Bishop Alan Hopes Norwich Cathedral
2nd July Archbishop John Wilson Southwark Cathedral
9th July Bishop Tom Williams Liverpool Cathedral
By visiting the Cathedral webpage, or the Bishops’ Conference Webpage (cbcew.org.uk) links for the live-streaming of these Masses can be found.
Pentecost Sunday
May 31st – National Rosary Rally 9 am to 9 pm
England, Wales, Scotland
Publicity Notice
Pope Francis is encouraging Catholics to pray the Rosary in their family homes during the month of May, especially when the Pandemic is making us aware of the value of our families and making it possible for us to pray together in lockdown at home. He encourages simple Rosaries and joining online Rosary initiatives to pray to Our Lady for deliverance from Covid-19 and he has composed two prayers for this intention. I invite you to join in an initiative that follows on the Pope’s request, the Pentecost Sunday National Rosary Rally, from 9.00 am to 9.00 pm across Scotland England and Wales. Our Diocese has been asked to pray a Rosary Hour at …… pm and I warmly invite you to take part.
Proposed timetable for across the Dioceses
9.00am Arundel & Brighton, Northampton and HM Forces
10.00am Birmingham, Nottingham & Ukranian Eparchy
11.00am Brentwood & Plymouth
12 Noon Cardiff, Portsmouth & Dunkeld
1.00pm Clifton, Salford & St. Andrews & Edinburgh
2.00pm East Anglia, Shrewsbury, Aberdeen
3.00pm Hallam, Southwark, Glasgow
4.00pm Hexham & Newcastle, Wrexham, Ordinariate OLW
5.00pm Lancaster, Westminster, Argyll & the Isles
6.00pm Leeds, Polish Mission & Galloway
7.00pm Liverpool, Middlesbrough & Motherwell
8.00pm Menevia, Paisley & Syro Malabar Eparchy
9.00pm Bishop John Keenan, as the May 2020 Rosary Mission Episcopal lead, will lead a final Rosary at 9pm to which all are invited.
This is to be led in the form of a Rosary relay Rally where the Dioceses designated in their Rosary Hour encourage the peoples across their Diocese to pray the Rosary either, individually, in families, as online prayer groups, parish groups, and where possible led online by their parish priests and Bishop. It does not matter what time during the specified hour that the Rosary is prayed.
Then on the hour the next Dioceses take up the Rosary relay Rally and so on until 9pm.
At 9pm the Rosary Rally will end with a Rosary being led by Bishop John Keenan from St. Mirin’s Cathedral in Paisley.
Come Holy Spirit & Renew the Face of the Earth
Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, pray for us
THE LOVE OF GOD AND OUR LOVING RESPONSE:
According to our Holy Father, St Augustine in His Sermon on Love: All who do not love God are strangers and antichrists. They might come to the churches, but they cannot be numbered among the children of God. That fountain of life does not belong to them. A bad person can have baptism and prophecy. King Saul had prophecy: even while he persecuted the holy David, he was filled with the Spirit of Prophecy, and began to prophesy. [1 Sam. 19] A bad person can receive the sacrament of the body and blood of the Lord, for it is said, “All who eat and drink unworthily, eat and drink judgment on themselves.” [1 Cor. 11:29] A bad person can have the name of Christ and be called a Christian. Such people are referred to when it says, “They polluted the name of their God.” [Ezek. 36:20] To have all these sacraments is, as St Augustine says, possible even for a bad person. But to have love and be a bad person is impossible.
Harsh as St Augustine may sound, yet the reason why he exhorts us, is so that we may come to love God. Though we may be slow to love, let us not be slow to love in return. God loved us first. We do not even love in the same way as he. God loved the unrighteous, but he took away the unrighteousness. He loved the sick, but he visited them to make them whole. The Scripture says God allows the Rain and the Sun to fall on the good and the bad.
Love, then, is God. “This is how the love of God is shown among us: God sent his only Son into the world, that we may live through him.” As the Lord himself said: “No one can have greater love than this: to lay his down his life for his friends.” [John 25:13] This proved Christ’s love for us, the fact that he died for us. How is the Father’s love for us proved? By the fact that he sent his only Son to die for us. As the apostle Paul says, “He who did not spare his own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will he not freely give us all things?” [Rom. 8:32] Notice how the Father delivered up Christ, and so did Judas. Does it not seem that they did the same sort of thing? … There was a delivering up by the Father; a delivering up [of himself] by the Son, and a delivering up by Judas. The thing done is the same, but what is it that sets their actions apart? This: the Father and the Son did it in love, but Judas did it in betrayal. So you see that we need to consider not what a person does but with what mind and will he does it. Why do we bless the Father and detest Judas for doing the same deed? We bless love and detest wickedness. …
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” [Matt. 5:8]. If you would see God, here is what you should imagine: God is love. What sort of face does love have? What shape is it? What size? What hands and feet does it have? No one can say. And yet it does have feet, those feet that carry people to church. It does have hands, those hands that reach out to the poor. It has eyes, those through which we consider the needy: “blessed is the person,” it is said, “who considers the needy and the poor.” [Ps. 41:1].
God’s love is a sacrificial love and that is why John 3:16 says, ‘For God so love the world that He gave his only son.’ To love as God loves, sacrifice or letting go is not an option for you and I. The acts of love in Matthew 25:35 (…HUNGRY; THIRSTY; STRANGER; NAKED AND SICK). We can carry out these gracious acts only if we make are ready to make sacrifice or to let go of what we have.
1 Corinthians 13: 4-7 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Brothers and sisters, you and I can practice the above if we are ready to sacrifice and let go. If you find the above acts of love difficult to put in practice, pray, and ask our Merciful and Loving Father and God for the grace to love. God will surely grant you and me for God is forever faithful.
NOTICES
- Greetings from the Parish Team to all our loving and faithful Parishioners of Crawley Parish. In this our lives of 'glorious isolation' here in the Friary, we are still coming to terms with the turn of event precipitated by the Corona Pandemic as most of you are also. The Lord God will successfully see us through this horrendous Corona Pandemic in the Name of Jesus. Wherever you and us may be at the moment, we are consoled by God's words that reassure us that we are not alone. The Lord God is with us because His Name is Emmanuel (God is with us). He equally promised us that 'He will be with us always to the end of the age (Matthew 28:20). You are always remembered in our daily Augustinian Community prayers in the Friary.
- With the gracious assistance of Luke and Jero, our daily live-streamed Mass has been upgraded and is clarity and sound output is almost equivalent to EWTN. Thanks to them and to those who are behind the successful daily live-streamed Mass albeit from a distance.
- The times for our Weekdays live-stream Mass is 12:15 while Sunday Mass is 11 am.
- Thanks to Triona for organizing the children's liturgy every Sunday. These Masses and the Children liturgy are easily accessible by merely clicking the Facebook connection above.
- For those who have been wondering how to book Mass, kindly call the Parish phone number, Frs Joachim, or Nelson or myself will attend to you.
- May the Lord God grant eternal rest to all our deceased parishioners: healing to all the sick: His protection to all those in the frontline battling with the Corona Pandemic and His consoling presence to the housebound.
Do have a blessed and Divinely favoured Sunday!
Fr Raymond Tumba, OSA.
MASS INTENSIONS
May, 2020
Saturday 23rd In Petition and Thanksgiving
Janet Bailey (RIP)
Sunday 24th Maria-Luisa Kohli & The Kohli & Mazzeo Families
Tess Meany (RIP)
Clifford Jansz (RIP)
People of the Parish
Monday 25th Peggy Bullock (RIP)
Outpouring of the Holy Spirit
Tuesday 26th Michael Roach (RIP)
Outpouring of the Holy Spirit
Phillip Gomes (RIP)
Wednesday 27th Janet Bailey (RIP)
Outpouring of the Holy Spirit
Mundiel Liseby Aristide (RIP)
Thursday 28th Elizabeth O’Gorman (RIP)
Outpouring of the Holy Spirit
Friday 29th Arnold Nazereth (RIP)
Outpouring of the Holy Spirit
Saturday 30th Shanahan Family
Outpouring of the Holy Spirit
Douglas Beeson (RIP) & Special Intention of His Daughter
Sunday 31st People of the Parish
Welsh Family
Sean Paul Glover (RIP)
Gerry Lydon (RIP)
Outpouring of the Holy Spirit
Lam Sauchan (RIP: Anniversary)
SVP
SVP in Crawley are still reaching out to those in need (who would normally receive a visit) by phone contact on a regular basis.
Most of our senior members are in isolation due to the Coronavirus.
In addition to our regular members, around 10 volunteers have offered their help on a weekly basis, with packing and distributing food.
We are grateful to Our Lady Queen of Heaven, Saint Francis and Seymour Primary schools for offering their premises as a hub for families to collect their food parcels. Currently, we support over 50 families. We are able to maintain this work during these difficult times, thanks to the ongoing support and donations from parishioners.
If you would like further information please contact Donal Quinlan on 07500 484058.
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