STOP PRESS: Jon Sobrino SJ at Heythrop College, 6.30 pm, 19 June
Details: romerotrust@btinternet.com – www.romerotrust.org.uk
Everyone’s Talented! What about offering to help actively in the celebration of these liturgies,
and in other ways in this parish, by completing a Talent Sheet – TODAY ?
Homilies - You can read a selection of Soho Masses’ homilies on the website:
If you wish to understand the principles informing the Soho Masses’ liturgical style ,
please refer to our website: www.sohomasses.com – SMPC Aims & Principles.
CATHOLIC AIDS MEMORIAL BOOK - names are remembered in bidding prayers on the
1st Sunday of every month. If you would like the names of friends or loved ones who have
died from AIDS included, please take a CAPS Memorial Book form today. The names are
inscribed by Fr. Bruno Healy, a Westminster priest living aneremitical life at a Carmelite
monastery in Norfolk.
This Mass is yours … please complete our TALENT SHEET if you’d like to help with reading
or Eucharistic ministry, help with refreshments, preparing and clearing up the church, distributing
publicity about the Masses etc? e-mail us at info@sohomasses.com or 020 8986 0807.
Varying our music style? This was a frequent comment in recent Survey responses. If you’d
like to help form an occasional music group with keyboard, guitar, woodwind contact Sarah: sohomusic2007@gmail.com / 07727 282 159.
It is right and just … that we account for 5.00 pm Mass collections on 1st & 3rd Sundays.
Details for May will be given in June’s issue. Your offertory gifts contribute to the day-to-day
expenses of Our Lady of the Assumption Parish including the provision of liturgies and other
pastoral activities.
Unattached ? (from a church that is!) – Apart from taking a more active part in the life of the
Church of the Assumption, including its other Masses, you may wish to check out the following
London churches as welcoming communities on Sundays, other than 1st and 3rd Sundays in
Soho:
St. Joseph’s Church, Lambs Passage, off Bunhill Row, Barbican, EC1Y 8LE.
(Barbican/Moorgate/Old St. Tubes) Check website for details & times of services.
www.rcdow.org.uk/bunhillrow NB Sunday Mass is now at 11.30am; Eucharistic Service or
Mass on Wednesdays at 12.05 pm.
St. Francis of Assisi, Pottery Lane, W11 4NQ - 020 7727 7968 (Holland Park Tube) -
St. Ignatius, High Road, Stamford Hill, N15 6ND – 020 8800 2121 (Seven Sisters Tube) -
Holy Apostles, 47 Cumberland Street, Pimlico, London SW1V 4LY - 020 7834 6965 - pimlico@rcdow.org.uk www.holyapostlespimlico.org
Church of the Blessed Sacrament, 157 Copenhagen Street, London N1 0SR -020 7837 4841 - blesac@rcdow.org.uk www.rcdow.org.uk/copenhagenstreet/
Church of the Holy Cross, 52 Cortayne Road, Parsons Green, SW6 3QA -
020 7736 1068 - parsonsgreen@rcdow.org.uk www.rcdow.org.uk/parsonsgreen/
Some priests from these parishes serve on the Warwick Street presiding rota.
Ecumenical Pilgrimage to Rome – St. Joseph’s, Bunhill Row is one of 4 churches in the
Barbican/City area organising an ecumenical pilgrimage of Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans and
Methodists to Rome for the Year of St. Paul, from 21 - 26 January 2009. We will take part in
Ecumenical Vespers presided over by Pope Benedict at St. Paul’s Outside the Walls. Cost =
£549. Contact Pax Travel Ltd for more details:
020 7485 3003 - info@paxtravel.co.uk - www.paxtravel.co.uk
Catholics and HIV/AIDS: Positive Catholics, a peer support group for Catholics living with
HIV holds occasional meetings - details from Vincent on 07952 475 615 or CAPS -
020 8986 0807 - or e-mail: positivecatholics@btinternet.com – CAPS, PO Box 24632,
London E9 6XF - Website: http://positivecatholics.googlepages.com/ or e-mail:
STAY INFORMED! Browse the information table, over after-Mass refreshments, for all the
latest news from LGBT and other sources.
Search Group - peer support group for gay clergy and male religious –
Bernard ( 020 7 284 1464).
Want to prepare reflectively for Mass?
Go to Other Websites section for Liturgy, Spirituality & Theology Resources
Also see Other Websites for news and other items of interest to lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgendered Catholics.
The Soho Masses Bookstall includes books by laity, priests and religious all closely linked to
the Soho Masses community! All at discounted prices, - as well as fliers/news about forthcoming publicationsfrom publishers such as Darton Longman & Todd, Continuum, The Columba Press,
Wild Goose Publications. Recent additions include Sebastian Moore’s The Contagion of
Jesus, Tina Beattie’s The New Atheists. Contemporary Icon greeting cards include Dorothy
Day, Jesus Christ Liberator, 50p. Soho Rainbow Crosses & Salvadoran Crosses, £2.50.
Concerned about homophobic/transphobic incidents in Soho/Westminster. Pick up a card
on information table. We also have contact with WPC Anita Simmons, LGBT Police
Officer for Soho, based at West End Central Police Station - if you have any issues you need
to talk to her about, please call her on 0207 321 8758.