THE CARDIFF ORATORY PARISH CHURCH OF

ST ALBAN ON THE MOORS A Parish of the Archdiocese of Cardiff

(a Registered Charity 1177272) Website: www.cardifforatory.co.uk Contact: frsebastian@cardifforatory.co.uk

Parish Priest: Fr. Sebastian M Jones Hospital Chaplain (Fr. Davies) 029 2074 3230; St Alban's Oratory House: 029 2046 3219.

For Daily Masses, Rosary and Benediction go to

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/cardifforatory

THE MASS LINE: 029 2267 0924. (Mass Line is the cost of a local call)

I was glad when they said to me "Let us go to the house of the Lord"

Now our feet are standing within your gates. (Psalm 122:1-2)

The Church is now open for private prayer

Weekdays: 10 am - Midday and 3 - 4:45pm

Saturday: 9 am - Midday & 3 - 4:45 pm

Sunday: 2 - 3:45 pm

Å There are hand sanitizing stations at both entrances to the church.

Å There is a one way system set up, please follow the signs.

Å Please do not sit or kneel in the pews marked with signs.

Å Masks are optional Å Your full cooperation with the

volunteers is expected.

Mass Times for the coming week Sat 27th

St. Cyril of Alexandria 8.00 Mass: Joji

16.00 "Mass Line": Thanksgiving (Botto) 17.00 Oratory Vespers

18.00 Mass: John Garland R.I.P Sun 28th Sts Peter and Paul

(Apostles) 10:00 Mass: Westgarth & Hiles R.I.P

11:15 Mass: John & Norma Pathy 16.00 Vespers & Benediction of the Most

Blessed Sacrament Mon 29th Feria 7.30 Mass: Br. Ambrose Int.

9.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 9.30am Mass: Mother Damien Int.

17.00 Rosary Tues 30th

The First Martyrs of the

Holy Roman Church 7.30 Mass: G & G Jackson Int.

9.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 9.30 Mass: Florence & Edward Westgarth R.I.P

17.00 Rosary Wed 1st July The Precious Blood of Our

Lord Jesus Christ 7.30 Mass: P & C Jackson Int.

9.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 9.30 Mass: Paul O'Brien R.I.P

17.00 Rosary 19.00 Missa Cantata

Thurs 2nd Feria 7.30 Mass: John Scanlon R.I.P 9.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

9.30 Mass: Angela M Jackson R.I.P 17.00 Rosary

Fri 3rd St. Thomas (Apostle)

7.30 Mass: M & D Saltmarsh R.I.P 9.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

9.30 Mass: Donors Int. 17.00 Rosary

Sat 4th

Our Lady's Saturday 8.00 Mass: Pat & Charles Xuereb 16.00 "Mass Line": Pro Populo

17.00 Oratory Vespers 18.00 Mass: Terry O'Brien R.I.P

Sun 5th 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time

10:00 Mass: Barbara Hurley Int 11:15 Mass: John Scanlon R.I.P

16.00 Vespers & Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament

Fr Sebastian writes... St Alban's Day on Monday was an occasion of real joy to the Oratory. The chanting of first and second Vespers and the Masses including the Missa Cantata were only overshadowed that you the faithful were not able to be present. Although, many participated via YouTube. As you will see in the photographs in this week's Newsletter, the impressive reliquary, the beautifully handmade bier and its stand for the annual festival of St Alban were brought to the church even though we will await the solemn arrival of our patron's relics to fulfil their purpose. Like you, I am very delighted for St Alban's to be open for private prayer. However, it is not a matter of merely opening the doors of the church. To facilitate this opening one of the requirements is that there be a designated person to "manage" the health and safety requirements for those coming to pray. If you would be willing to sign up for an hours slot once or however many times a week, please email or drop a note into the Oratory House. One of the Oratorians will be present each hour also. On July 1st Fr Alexander will celebrate his Silver Jubilee of Ordination to the Sacred Priesthood. The Mass will be on YouTube. There will be another celebration once the present restrictions are lifted when the Oratory will host a reception to mark this great moment in Father's life. I am making my annual retreat at a monastery from 23-29 June. You will all of course be in my prayers and daily Mass memento. While I am on retreat and then on my annual holiday, I will be offering Holy Mass each day for the Holy Souls which would normally be the 7.30am Mass in church. Please look out for your requested intentions which will be offered in the Parish during this time.

THIS WEEK'S SAINTS 29th June Sts. Peter and Paul, Apostles. Simon, son of Jonah and brother of Andrew, was the first among the disciples to confess that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, by whom he was renamed Peter. During his life, he performed countless miracles, presided over the Council of Jerusalem, served as Bishop of Antioch and Rome, and wrote two books of the New Testament, serving as a source for the Gospel of St. Mark. St. Paul, the Apostle of the gentiles, preached Christ Crucified to the Jews and the Greeks. His miraculous conversion on the Road to Damascus is celebrated with its own feast day; he wrote half the New Testament, made four missionary journeys across the ancient world, and performed many miracles. Filled with the faith and love of Jesus Christ, both saints proclaimed the Gospel in the city of Rome and died as martyrs under the Emperor Nero: the former, as tradition holds, was affixed to a cross upside down, and was buried on the Vatican Hill along the Via Triumphalis, where today the great Basilica which bears his name is home to the saint’s successors; the latter was slain with the sword and entombed on the Via Ostiensis, outside the walls of the City. The whole world celebrates on this day the triumph of both, with equal honour and veneration, who are the twin patrons of Rome. 30th June Protomartyrs of the Holy Roman Church. Today celebrates those disciples of the Lord who, blamed for the fire that devastated the City of Rome, were ordered by the Emperor Nero to be cruelly slain in various ways: some were covered with the hides of beasts and left to be mauled by dogs, others were affixed to crosses and set afire, so that when the day ended, they would serve to illumine the night. All of these were disciples of the Apostles and the first fruits of the martyrs, whom the Roman Church entrusted to the Lord. 1st July Most Precious Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. This feast day celebrates the Blood which our Lord Jesus shed for human salvation. According to the teaching of the author of the Book of Hebrews, “without the shedding of blood, there can be no forgiveness of sins.” It was our Lord’s most precious Blood, shed in His sorrowful Passion, which saves mankind from our sins. 2nd July Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This day recalls when Our Lady came to her cousin, St. Elizabeth and greeted her who was pregnant with a son in her old age. When those two expecting mothers hastened to meet each other rejoicing, the Coming Redeemer sanctified His precursor while still in the womb, and Mary, answering Elizabeth’s salutation and exulting in the Spirit, magnified the Lord with her canticle of praise, Magnificat. Our Lady’s visit is also celebrated on May 31. 3rd July St. Thomas, Apostle. Saint Thomas the Apostle famously did not believe the news of the other disciples that Jesus had risen, but when Jesus Himself showed him His pierced side, he exclaimed, “My Lord and my God.” This great saint is believed to have proclaimed Faith in Jesus Christ to the Indian peoples. His body is buried in the basilica bearing his name in Chennai, Mylapore, in southern India. 4th July St. Elizabeth of Portugal, Queen and Holy Woman. St. Elizabeth was admirable in reconciling discord between kings and in charity to the poor. When her husband King Denis had died, she embraced the religious life among the nuns of the Third Order of Saint Clare, in the coenobium she herself had founded at Estremoz in Portugal. There, she passed to God while attempting to reconcile her son and his son-in-law in A.D. 1336.

Please remember them when praying the Rosary; in personal prayer:

Mark, Lynette Houlston, Martin, Sr. Nora, Fr. Delaney, Sally Botto, Geoff, Edna Murray, Agnes,

Michael Coffeey, Billy Page, Alison, Kit Lewis, Sheila Donovan, Eileen, Phoebe Paul, Ruth Pinder, Audrey Bodenham, Dennis Caine, Christian Babu, Olive Bowen, Paul Burns, David

Burns, Julie Cale, Irene Casey, Ethan Chichester, John Cowley, Justin Domenico, Alun Edwards, Elle Fine, Mary Healy, Nell Horan, James Hogg, Barbara Hurley, Don James, Anthony Jeremy,

Jennifer King, Colin, Shirley & Michael Kingston, Alexandra Micallef, Michael McCauliffe, Betty Murphy, Beatrice Rajanayagam, Fay Simpson, Beatrice O'Brien, Elizabeth Sitole, Shelagh

O’Donaghue, Gareth & Ethan Woodberry, Pat Xuereb.

The Fathers and Brothers pray for these intentions every morning.

VIGIL LAMPS

The Most Blessed Sacrament:

Sick in the Parish

Novena to the Sacred Heart: Hollow & Britton Families R.I.P

Our Lady's Altar: + Icon of Our Lady

Jackson Family

Our Lady of Pity: Patrick & Eveleen Eccles R.I.P

St Joseph's altar:

Holy Souls

St Alban's shrine: Patron of Travellers & Guardian of

Priests: The Parish

If you would like to organise a votive candle for

July or for your own intentions or an anniversary, you can do so by dropping the

details through the Oratory House front door on Cameron Street or by going to the new link

on the Parish website.

ST ALBAN'S PARISH FINANCE MATTERS:

GIVING SINCE LAST SUNDAY Gift Aid: £110.00 Loose: £45.00 Direct Debit/Bank Transfer: £192.00 Candles: £35.00 Total £382.00

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God bless and protect you all!

Fr Sebastian

Daily Maxims of St. Philip Neri Founder of the Oratory

29th June - We ought to desire to do great things for the service of God, and not to content ourselves with a moderate goodness, but wish, if it were possible, to surpass in sanctity and love even St. Peter and St. Paul 30th June - Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as to do at least in desire what he cannot carry out in effect. 1st July - We ought to make no account of abstinences and fasts, when there is self-will in the matter. 2nd July - Our Blessed Lady is the dispenser of all the favours which the goodness of God concedes to the sons of Adam. 3rd July - In seeking for counsel it is necessary sometimes to hear what our inferiors think, and to recommend ourselves to their prayers. 4th July - A man ought never to say one word in his own praise, however true it may be; no, not even in a joking way. 5th July - Whenever we do a good work, and somebody takes credit for it, we ought to rejoice, and acknowledge it as a gift from God. Anyhow, we ought not to be sorry, because if others diminish our glory before men, we shall recover it with all the more honour before God.

The Bells

On the 12th June, the bells of St. Albans were heard once again. They will be rung every day for the Angelus at Midday and Six in the afternoon. The bells are also played when we open the church for private prayer and before the Rosary and Benediction in the evening. The community are very grateful for the donations that were given in aid of getting the bells back working. We might have to think about staging a production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame in the future.

The Angelus The Angel of the Lord declared to Mary: And she conceived of the Holy Spirit. Hail Mary... Behold the handmaid of the Lord: Be it done unto me according to Thy word. Hail Mary... And the Word was made Flesh: And dwelt among us. Hail Mary... Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. Let us pray: Pour forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts; that we, to whom the incarnation of Christ, Thy Son, was made known by the message of an angel, may by His Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of His Resurrection, through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen

Of your Charity, pray for the soul

of

Mr Kevin Vincent Casey, RIP

Late of the parish.

~RIP~

LIFE OF ST DAVID LEWIS (continued Nobility and Loyalty: Recusants - loyal Catholics The Gunter Family owned the property on a main street in Abergavenny upon which was a public chapel cared for by the Jesuits.

The numbers recorded suggest that “a hundred Catholics went to Mass there, at a time when not forty attended the new religion in the parish

church.” At Treowen those who went to Mass with Lady Jones walked through the parish churchyard, “whether it was time for service or not” so as to get to Mass. Also the Catholic people at Ysgyryd Fawr climbed St. Michael`s Mount and could be seen gathering for Mass and prayers. From such accounts as these and details such as Sheldon’s census which details 541Catholics in Gwent in 1676 compared with 311 in 1606, numbers not including children, we may conclude that the Priests living at the Cwm of which Fr. Lewis was the Rector 1667-72, 1674-9, were extremely active and had borne much fruit up until the so-called “Popish Plot”. It must be recorded that there appears to have been a degree of tolerance towards the Old Faith by some of the Monmouthshire magistrates, several of whom had relatives still loyal to the Faith. This open tolerance was very unpopular amongst the gentry who had succumbed to Protestantism, not least John Arnold of Llanvihangel Crucorney. Arnold was the Member of Parliament for Monmouthshire who was an ardent Calvinist. Of equal enthusiasm was Charles Price of Llanfoist near Abergavenny. Also Captain John Scudamore of Kentchurch who was as equally active in his hatred and persecution of the Faith in Herefordshire. They informed the House of Lords in 1670 that at Lady Morgan`s House at Llantarnam “there was a room fitted up chapelwise for saying Mass where Fr. David Lewis has said Mass for many years past. They also reported that “there were still six priests living at the Cwm, a place which had been a centre for nearly forty years.”