Evangelii Gaudium

Webmaster • September 16, 2023



 Evangelii Gaudium Sunday (formally Home Mission Sunday) 

Today the Church celebrates Evangelli Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel) Sunday. There will be a retiring collection at the end of all Masses this weekend to support the development work of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales’ Department of Evangelisation and Discipleship. 


The Catholic Church in England and Wales has celebrated Evangelii Guadium Sunday each September. The origins of this Sunday lie in the work of the Catholic Missionary Society, created by Cardinal Bourne in 1903 and which closed in 2003. This special Sunday focused on the evangelisation work that takes place in each parish and diocese, offered a theme and resources for reflection on this Sunday and asked each parish to have a collection so that the national work of evangelisation could be supported through the Home Mission Office. Following a restructuring of the work at the Bishops’ Conference, the Home Mission Office no longer exists, but the work of encounter and evangelisation continues through the Directorate for Mission - https://www.cbcew.org.uk/evangelisation/. Through this directorate, the vision of the Holy Father is embraced in a fuller way and promotes the whole ideal of Proclamation, Evangelisation, Dialogue and Catechesis. 



A key focus of work for the next few years is responding to Pope Francis’ calling of a Jubilee Year in 2025 with the theme “Pilgrims of Hope”. Pope Francis reflects on this invitation in the letter he has written for Evangelii Gaudium Sunday, you can read it here - https://www.cbcew.org.uk/home/our-work/home-mission/evangelii-gaudium-sunday-2/pope-francis-message-2023/ 

The second collection of Evangelii Gaudium Sunday supports the work carried out by the Mission Directorate on behalf of the Bishops’ Conference. In the last year, this has included: 

  • Enabling the recording of videos on the four constitutions of Vatican II; 
  • Bringing together a working group from across England and Wales to prepare materials for the Jubilee Year 2025 and the Year of Prayer 2024; 
  • Supporting Patrimony experts to deliver funding to 39 projects at outstanding Grade I and II* Catholic Churches with the £6.6million awarded to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference via Historic England through the governments’ Culture Recovery Fund in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and 
  • Supporting co-ordinators and their teams in dioceses through formation and sharing of best practice. 


Please be generous in your support for the Outreach undertaken by the Church throughout England and Wales 




Evangelii Gaudium Sunday (formally Home Mission Sunday) Next Sunday the Church celebrates Evangelli Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel) Sunday, there will be a retiring collection at the end of all Masses next weekend to support the development work of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales’ Department of Evangelisation and Discipleship. 

Clothes donations for the SVP

By Webmaster • August 7, 2026
Clothes donations for the SVP – this Weekend The Parish St. Vincent De Paul (SVP) Conference undertakes a monthly collection of clothing for the SVP Charity Shop. Clean, good quality clothing, books and toys are very welcome. Donations may be left outside the confessionals at the rear of St. Teilo’s this weekend. The clothes will be removed early on Monday morning, so please ensure that donations are brought to the Church by the end of the evening Mass this weekend or kept at home until the Second Sunday of September when we will have another collection. Thank you from the parish SVP.

Certificate in Altar Server Studies

By Webmaster • August 7, 2026
The Guild of St Stephen for Altar Servers and the Maryvale Institute run an annual 6-month course for adult Altar Servers, exploring the history of liturgy, the sacraments, scripture, communication, leadership and people skills and the theology of service. There are no pre-requisite education requirements, and it is delivered online in 1-hour monthly evening sessions, with an optional one day in-person session at Oscott College, Birmingham at the end of the course. The deadline for registration for the next cohort is 15th September 2026. For more information see the Guild of St Stephen website - https://www.guildofststephen.org/certificate or email Deacon Paul Briers on certificate@guildofststephen.org

No Mass, Coffee and Tea at Our Lady of Lourdes on Wednesday

By Webmaster • August 7, 2026
Due to the funeral service for Yvonne Butcher there will be no Mass, coffee or tea at Our Lady of Lourdes on Wednesday 12th August. The usual arrangements were resume next week.

Walk and Talk – Eclipse Special

By Webmaster • August 7, 2026
Walk and Talk Please note that the Walk and Talk group’s walk this Wednesday evening will begin at the earlier time of 5.30pm at the car park of the Lisvane and Llanishen Reservoirs, weather permitting. The earlier time is to enable the walkers to enjoy the partial eclipse of the sun, when the moon will cover 93.2% of the sun. The eclipse begins at 6.16pm. on Wednesday evening.

Mass on Wednasday

By Webmaster • August 7, 2026
Please note that due to the Funeral Service of Yvonne Butcher, Mass on Wednesday will be at St. Teilo’s at the earlier time of 9.00am. Funeral Service The Funeral Service for Yvonne Butcher takes place at St. Teilo’s on Wednesday at 10.00am followed by interment .

Annual Pilgrimage to the Grave of St. John Kemble

By Webmaster • August 7, 2026
This year’s pilgrimage takes place on Sunday, August 23rd . All are welcome to attend the whole or part of the day’s events: 9.15a.m. Mass at St Mary’s Church, Monmouth 10.15 a.m. Monmouth to Welsh Newton Pilgrims set off to walk to Welsh Newton from St. Mary’s Church, Monmouth after the 9.15 a.m. Mass. Everybody is welcome. Please bring a packed lunch. 3.00 p.m. Welsh Newton We meet for Rosary, Readings and Prayers at St. John Kemble’s Grave in the Churchyard at Welsh Newton. 4.15 p.m. Monmouth Benediction follows in St. Mary’s Church, Monmouth For further information please contact Mary Walsh on 07907 616578

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

By Webmaster • August 7, 2026
Holyday of Obligation – Transferred to the weekend Masses The Solemnity of the Assumption is normally celebrated on August 15th and is a Holyday of Obligation. As the Solemnity falls on a Saturday this year, the celebration of the solemnity is transferred to the weekend Masses with the obligation to attend Mass on Sunday or the evening before. The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary The Assumption is the oldest feast day of Our Lady but we do not know when it first came to be celebrated. From the fourth century the "Memory of Mary" was being celebrated. Later it was to become our feast of the Assumption. Having become a great celebration in the churches of the Eastern Empire. In the seventh century, it began to be celebrated in Rome under the title of the "Falling Asleep" ("Dormitio") of the Mother of God. Soon the name was changed to the "Assumption of Mary," since there was more to the feast than her dying. It also proclaimed that she had been taken up, body and soul, into heaven. On November 1st, 1950, Pope Pius XII defined the Assumption of Mary to be a dogma of faith: “We pronounce, declare and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma that the immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul to heavenly glory.” Thus, he solemnly proclaimed that the belief whereby the Blessed Virgin Mary, at the close of her earthly life, was taken up, body and soul, into the glory of heaven, definitively forms part of the deposit of faith, received from the Apostles. To avoid all that is uncertain, the Pope did not state either the manner or the circumstances of time and place in which the Assumption took place. Only the fact of the Assumption of Mary, body and soul, into the glory of heaven, is the matter of the definition.  We gather next weekend to honour Mary, who has gone before us in faith to share in the victory over death won by her Son, in which we all can share, in the glory of heaven, if we live lives of fidelity to God’s Word as Mary did.

Tuesday Evening Adoration

By Webmaster • August 7, 2026
Each Tuesday evening, the parish has an hour of silent Adoration at St. Teilo’s from 7pm to 8pm. The primary intention for the period of Adoration is vocations to the priesthood and religious life. Feel free to come for all or part of the hour to pray for the Church in its need for faithful ministers to continue the Mission of Jesus.

Adoration and Exposition

By Webmaster • August 7, 2026
Adoration and Exposition – Friday There will be Adoration and Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament from 10.30am to 11.30am at St. Teilo’s on Friday. Why not come along to spend time in silent prayer and Adoration before the Lord?

Recently Deceased of the parish

By Webmaster • August 7, 2026
Rest in Peace Please pray for those who have died recently, especially Yvonne Butcher and Trisha Murphy, the sister of John Steele. Yvonne’s Funeral Service will take place at St. Teilo’s at 10am on Wednesday, August 12th followed by interment at Wenallt Chapel, Thornhill at 11.30am. Trisha Murphy’s Funeral Mass with be at St. Francis Church, Ely at 10.30am on Wednesday, August 12th followed by interment at Western Cemetery.  Please also pray for those whose anniversaries occur at this time: Canon Francis Mulvey, Father John O’Leary, Father Michael O’Donovan, Father Joseph Billingham, Father Patrick Gibbons, Susan Flook, Thomas Thomas, Patricia Stephens, James Donovan, Michael Driscoll, Eilena Williams, John O’Sullivan, Josephine Marquiss, John Driscoll, Catherine Gaffney, Joseph O’Callaghan, Maureen Chidgey, William Conway, Elizabeth Wells, Anne Hodgson, John Kelly, Jean Bartlett, Ignatius Silva, Denise Voisey, Thomas Strange, Kathleen Carey, William Williams, Julian Migward, John Evans, Marion Webb, Kay Collier, William Brown and Monica Baldock.