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Soho Masses Pastoral Council Members: Benoit Crabeels (Treasurer), Celia Gardiner, Michael Jenkins, Vincent Manning, Lorraine Milford (Joint Secretary), Renate Rothwell (Joint Secretary), Sophie Stanes, Joe Stanley (Chair), Terry Weldon.
Webmaster: Roger Jenkins. Please contact Roger if you want to have something displayed on the website, or with suggestions, corrections, etc. rogerdgford@gmail.com
 ADVENT IN SOHO
We wish everyone a hope-filled Advent, a joyous Christmas, and a New Year filled with peace and justice for all.
WEDNESDAY, 9 DECEMBER, 19.00, A Service of Readings & Carols, Our Lady of the Assumption & St. Gregory, Warwick Street, Soho W1B 5NB
One Light, Many Flames LGBT Carol Service, Saturday, 12 December 15.00, St. Botolph’ s Church Aldgate. ALL ARE WELCOME ! Seasonal refreshments will follow the Mass for the 4th Sunday of Advent, 20 December, 17.00, when Mgr. Seamus O'Boyle, Parish Priest of the Church of the Assumption, will preside.
Scheduled Christmas Masses at Warwick Street: Christmas Midnight Mass: 00.00 - Christmas Morning Mass: 10.30
The first Mass in 2010 will take place on the Feast of the Epiphany, Sunday, 3 January 2010 at 17.00, followed by seasonal refreshments when Fr. Tony Lester O.Carm., Chaplain at the University of York, will preside.
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 cleaning up the church, distributing publicity about the Masses etc, or e-mail us at info@sohomasses.com or tel: 020 8986 0807
 Check out the book-stall and information tables. Just follow the crowd through the door, to the left of the sanctuary.
Soho Masses Younger Adults Group provides an opportunity to meet and socialise with other younger adults in their 20s, 30s & even 40s, who are part of, or visiting the Soho Masses. Next gathering: Sunday, 13 December, after the 17.00 Mass - Faith & Science Meet, DVD & Discussion. For more details and directions: info@sohomasses.com
Schola Assumptionis & Soho Masses Consort present a programme of Lenten Music, Sunday 21 February 2010, 19.00, The Church of Our Lady of the Assumption & St. Gregory, Warwick Street, Soho, London W1B 5NB. Admission Free – donations in aid of Jesuit Refugee Service.
New Facebook Group Thanks to the hard work of Lisandro Caffaratto, the Soho Masses now have a group on Facebook. You can find the group here: http://www.facebook.com/n/?group.php&gid=159409215819&mid=1307cbaG69c2e60cG1ea635G40 Please, everyone, get involved - the group needs you!
The US Bishops have published a Pastoral Letter - "Marriage: Love and Life in the Divine Plan" For more details see the Fortunate Families' section on the Parents' Issues page here
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.
CHURCH TEACHINGS – Do you know what the Church teaches on a range of issues? Was childhood RE your last faith formation? Mount Street Jesuit Centre runs some excellent programmes. Leaflets available at the back of the Church. CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS: On 3rd Sundays we name those who have requested our prayers as they enter civil partnerships. Please take a form from the information table if you wish names included or contact us, as above.
Varying Our Music Styles? CAN YOU HELP ENRICH OUR LITURGIES. Some have offered their talents with guitar, keyboard, etc. Please contact Martin to fix a convenient date to meet -020 8986 0807 or sohomasses@btinternet.com
It is right and just … that we account for 5.00 pm Mass collections on 1st & 3rd Sundays, November:£386. Your offertory gifts contribute to the day-to-day expenses of Our Lady of the Assumption Parish including the provision of these liturgies and other pastoral activities. Russian LGBT Christian Conference Retiring Collection: £190. With other donations we were able to contribute £760 for our sisters and brothers in Moscow. Catholics for AIDS Prevention & Support is also grateful for the World AIDS Mass retiring collection: £116. Soho Masses Blogger The Soho Masses are fortunate to have an accomplished blog writer in theior midst! Terry's blog "Queering The Church" contains much that is stimulating, thought provoking and informative. Click here to take a look.
Terry has also set up a site for the discussion of all matters relating to faith and homosexuality - "The Sergius & Bacchus Book Club". You can find it here
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 other London churches as welcoming communities on Sundays, other than 1st and 3rd Sundays in Soho. We aim to up-date our directory – let us know any you can recommend.
Carmel-in-the-City is a monthly Carmelite spirituality initiative at St. Joseph’s Bunhill Row (see above). For further details, see website: www.laycarmel.org or e-mail: carmelinthecity@laycarmel.org - Sylvia –07889 436165 . ALL ARE WELCOME!
Visiting South Africa? We have a link with Holy Trinity Jesuit Church in Joannesburg – www.trinityjhb.co.za – See all the links to other parishes worldwide, on our website – www.sohomasses.com
Looking for support? Counselling & Psychotherapy – a number of Soho Masses participants are professionally qualified in these areas. If you’re seeking such support please contact us in confidence for referral details. Catholics and HIV/AIDS: Contact CAPS if you would like friends/loved ones’ names inscribed in the Catholic AIDS Memorial Book - take a leaflet from the information table. Names are inscribed by Fr. Bruno Healy, a Westminster priest living as a hermit in Norfolk. They are included in Bidding Prayers, every 1st Sunday. Positive Catholics is a peer-support group for Catholics living with HIV - details from 07505 608 655 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: positivecatholics@gmail.com
Search Group - peer support group for gay clergy and male religious – Bernard 020 7284 1464. STAY INFORMED! Browse the information table, over after-Mass refreshments, for all the latest news from LGBT and other sources.
Want to prepare reflectively for Mass?
Go to Links section for Liturgy, Spirituality & Theology Resources
Also see Links 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! Special pre-Christmas Book Sale of new books at knock-down prices available, as well as Christmas Cards and items suitable as Christmas gifts NOW! JUST ARRIVED - Guardian of the Light, biography of the late Archbishop Denis Hurley of Durban SA, & A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church, memoirs of Archbishop Rembert Weakland OSB. Concerned about homophobic/transphobic incidents, or harassed in Soho/Westminster? Let us know, pick up a GALOP card on the information table, or contact WPC Anita Simmons, LGBT Police Officer for Soho, 0207 321 9754, - info.lgbt-westminster@met.police.uk
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