Parish News: Seventeenth Sunday and Week of the Year

We begin a series of readings from the sixth chapter of St John’s Gospel; the so called ‘bread of life’ discourses. In this week, the first excerpt, the miracle of the feeding of the 5000 is related. In it we find a truth about the abudance of sustenance tha we can find in the Blessed Sacrament – the bread of life that is made holy for us at each mass. 

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You can find the readings for this coming Sunday here.

Please pray for:
The sick and those in need
Brenda, Cordelia, Lolita, Reece, Vanessa, John, Hugh and Nathan.
The Faithful departed
All who have worshipped in and served at Saint Benet’s, the recently departed and those whose year’s mind falls this week, amongst them Barbara Sharples (4th).
Our candidates for baptism and confirmation; those recently ordained priest and deacon.

Summer dates for your diary:
Sunday 28th of July 3.30pm, Choral Evensong for the Dedication of the Church at All Hallows Gospel Oak NW3 2JP

Today we say goodbye to Nathan who has been our Pastoral Assistant this year; our thanks to him for all his work in the parish.

The cover art this week is Multiplication of the loaves and fish by Ambrosius Francken I (circa 1544/1545–1618) held in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp.