OLDE FORGE CAFE - AN EVANGELISATION PROJECT

Webmaster • December 4, 2023


Thanks to you and to your Faith and to your willingness to do what the good Lord asks of us, the Olde Forge Cafe Evangelisation project has begun! The Cafe is primarily, first and foremost, a way of inviting the people of our village and area, to get to know the Lord Jesus by getting to know us. We are his very presence. When people who don’t normally form part of our community for holy Mass, come into our Cafe, please greet and welcome them in your usual very warm way, inviting them to share our refreshments. Chat with them only if you feel they would like you to do that. Never try to ‘convert’ someone!!! We leave that to the Lord. If people ask why we are doing this, please simply tell them that we want to share the Lord’s love with everyone. Never ignore a new face. The Cafe is primarily, first and foremost, to evangelise, to reach out to others beyond our own parish community. It is not a nice, new social centre for us, the people of our parish to enjoy ourselves with free refreshments! That said, of course we all can and should enjoy the Cafe too but always remember its most important reason for being there - to be a place of welcome and warmth, through us, for those who do not yet know or know the Lord Jesus well. May he send his Spirit upon each of us as we begin this great work in his name.


Please invite your family members, neighbours, colleagues and acquaintances to join you for holy Mass and to join you for coffee/tea and cake in the Cafe any day and time it is open. We are all asked by the Lord Jesus to be his Missionaries. Our parish, we, you and I, are moving from Maintenance to Mission. Thanks be to God.


It’s wonderful to see many new faces visiting our Cafe and coming to holy Mass, thanks to your invitations.


‘Who shall I invite to come with me to holy Mass and/or to our Cafe’ is our natural, normal way of thinking, as we follow our Blessed Lord, leading us home to Heaven.


 

ROTA FOR LECTORS – NOVEMBER

By Webmaster • November 3, 2025
1/2: 5pm Richard; 9am Gerry; 11am Mutsa 8/9: 5pm Collette; 9am Claire; 11am Paul 15/16: 5pm Marian; 9am Lorenza; 11am Patricia 22/23: 5pm Lizzie; 9am David; 11am Jim 29/30: 5pm Maggie; 9am John; 11am Lisa

HEALTH AND SAFETY - LEAVES!

By Webmaster • November 3, 2025
Please be careful on the pavement in front of the church and on the pathways leading to the main door of the church and around the church and Cafe and presbytery. As Autumn takes hold and the daylight hours decrease, fallen leaves make for slippery surfaces. If you see fallen leaves around our church and buildings and on the pavement in front of the church, please clear the leaves. There is a brush in the church porch. Thank you. Thank you so much to everyone who helped to sweep and remove fallen leaves after holy Mass last Sunday. We will need to keep doing this for a few more weeks, I fear! If you can hold a broom, please help!

BLESSING OF GRAVES

By Webmaster • November 2, 2025
BLESSING OF GRAVES AND PRAYER FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DIED Next Sunday afternoon, 9th November , I’ll be pleased to visit local cemeteries to bless the graves of your loved ones with holy water and pray for them. Please let me know if you would like me to do this for you.

THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER - PRAYING FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DIED

By Webmaster • November 2, 2025
We began the month of November with the great Feast of All Saints, inviting everyone who is now with the Lord in Heaven, living in eternal joy, to pray for us. Tomorrow, the Feast of All Souls, we begin to think of those who have died and, while not yet in Heaven, are on their way home! We believe that the holy Mass and our prayers help these Holy Souls on that journey. Do come to holy Mass tomorrow, All Souls Day, and join me and through the holy Mass we can help our loved ones to speedily reach our homeland of Heaven.  If you would like me to offer holy Mass during the month of November, for specific members of your family or friends who have died, please fill in one of the Holy Mass envelopes which you will find in the church porch, enclose your stipend and please give it to me or pop it through the presbytery letterbox. In the holy Mass, we are connected to the Lord Jesus in his death and resurrection. The holy Mass is the most powerful means possible to allow the Lord to bring us and our loved ones safely home to Heaven.

EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION ROTA

By Webmaster • November 2, 2025
NOVEMBER 2025 1/2: 5pm Patrick; 9am Paul; 11am Lizzie, Ross, Marian(H) 8/9: 5pm Patricia; 9am Maggie; 11am Lorenza, David, Simone(H) 15/16: 5pm Angela; 9am Phil; 11am Margaret, Mary, Lisa(H) 22/23: 5pm Carolyn; 9am Jim; 11am John, Gabrielle, Giannina(H) 29/30: 5pm Regina; 9am Patrick; 11am Paul, Patricia, Linda(H) Thank you to our wonderful Ministers of the Eucharist who have accepted the Lord’s invitation to this awesome, sacred ministry, by their willingness to give up their own plans and convenience in order to do God’s will rather than their own. Let us pray for them because they too fight the same personal weaknesses we all have to fight against and they too have to fight the same temptations we all have to fight. God be with them.

WEEK DAY LECTORS

By WEBMASTER • November 2, 2025
Mon 3rd Nov: Gerry Tue 4th Nov: Paul Doherty Wed 5th Nov: David Thu 6th Nov: Jim Fri 7th Nov: Lizzie

CHILDREN’S LITURGY OF THE WORD DURING 11.00am SUNDAY HOLY MASS

By Webmaster • November 2, 2025
We will begin again our ‘Liturgy of the Word’ for children of Primary School age on Sunday November 2nd and then on the following consecutive Sundays. Dear Parents please bear these dates in mind when you bring your children to holy Mass. During these ‘Liturgy of the Word’ sessions, our children will have opportunities to understand and enjoy God’s loving Word during the 11.00am holy Mass.

BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE

By Webmaster • November 2, 2025
Please add the names of any loved ones who have died in the last year, to our Book of Remembrance, on the page of the date they left our world. The Book of Remembrance will be placed on the altar during every holy Mass in this month of November and so we will remember to pray for them at each and every holy Mass.

THE PARISH IN COUNCIL - MEETING - A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY

By Webmaster • November 2, 2025
Each year we have a meeting for the whole parish to discuss our plans for the forthcoming year and to review all that we have achieved, by God’s grace, during the previous year. At this meeting we will cover every aspect of our parish life, from Liturgy to Finances! Last year, you may remember, we discussed our Archbishop’s plans for the diocese and parishes. May I invite everyone to this ‘Parish in Council’ meeting on Thursday 6th November at 6.30pm

RCIA - RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS - DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

By Webmaster • November 2, 2025
We will soon begin again our meetings for adults who are thinking about becoming Catholics and/or who wish to receive the Sacraments of Baptism or Eucharist or Reconciliation or Confirmation. The next 3 meetings will be at 5.00pm on the 7th, 14th and 21st November. The meetings will take place in our Parish Room. We already have 2 adults who have signed up for these sessions. Please let me know if you have not yet been baptised or have not yet received the Sacraments mentioned above. You will be most welcome at these meetings which will be very informal and relaxed.