Mortimer Benefice

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Weekly Newsletter 29th to 6th November 2020

The Sunday Link 29th November 2020

The Benefice will be live-streaming the forthcoming services

at St. John’s, Mortimer via Zoom

Sunday 22ndNovember at 10 am

The Feast of Christ the King

Sunday 29thNovember at 6 pm

The Advent Procession

Sunday 20thDecember at 4 pm

The Carol Service – Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

Thursday 24thDecember at 5 pm

Christingle

Thursday 24thDecember at 11.30 pm

Midnight Mass

Friday 25th December at 10 am

Christmas Day

27/06/2020




Prayer Thought: Anyone Who Welcomes You Welcomes Me. Christ looks at us from the eyes of the men, women and children with whom we live, work and rest. For Christians there can be no ‘foreigners’. By welcoming each other we welcome Christ and welcome the Father who sent him.
THE  HOLY  EUCHARIST
for the 
The Third Sunday after Trinity
13th in Ordinary Time
 
28th June 2020 at 10.00 am - online at ZOOM
Mortimer Online Mission


Evangelization is a buzz word which can sometimes sound like something we do to people who are not Christians. Whereas the best way to share the teaching and life of Jesus  - his message and who he is - with those around us is through reaching out as authentic witnesses of his love and being good stewards of our lives, our church and our world.

Perhaps we sometimes give the impression that Jesus is the one we ‘evangelize’ about instead of thinking about Jesus as being the first evangelizer; the first one to share the good news. The NT message is clear that Jesus Christ was the first and supreme evangelizer. It was Jesus Christ who proclaimed the Kingdom of God, as the urgent and definitive intervention of God in history, and defined this proclamation, this  Gospel, this Good News. Indeed, Jesus devoted his entire earthly life to this Gospel, to this Good News, for all humankind. But, as he made known the joy of belonging to the Kingdom of God, he also made known its demands, its magna carta, the mysteries which it embraces, the life of fraternal charity required of those who wish to enter it and share in its future fulfilment.

Today, we need to evangelize by the way we live our faith in the supermarket, at the beach, at a wedding, and at a friend’s party. Today there is the same urgent need to proclaim the Good News, the Gospel, and to help others experience good news in our world.  Don’t get me wrong, lots of ‘good news’ is happening all over the world, but we need to pray and seek to make known the way of Jesus and the joy of knowing him and living his way.

The NT message is that God can do great things in and through us when we truly work together and commit ourselves together to a life of prayerful relationship with God and with one another and with the whole creation. We can glimpse what this looks like though the lives and witnesses of Mary, John the Evangelizer, John the Baptiser, and many others. This Sunday let us entrust ourselves to work together to carry the Gospel ever deeper into the hearts and lives of the people and communities around us. And let us today entrust our missionary mandate to our Heavenly Father and commit ourselves anew to the sharing of his Good News and pray that we may become more faithful good stewards of all the gifts and goods that have been entrusted to us. God bless, Paul