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St Bartholomew's Ipswich, Newton Road, Ipswich (2026)

04/09/2026

Ezekiel 33: 7 - 9
Psalm 94
Romans 13: 8-10
Matthew 18: 15-20

Warnings! The Christian Community, like any group of people, has to have rules or discipline. In the case of Christianity, these are always expressions of God’s love. In the gospel the disciples are taught to offer the offender a road back and only to exclude them if they refuse to respond and repent. In this context, we should note how Jesus connects alienation from God to alienation from the community. Reconciliation is similarly intertwined. The Christian minister also has authority in these areas, both to bind and loose and to intercede for his people. The prophet Ezekiel is reminded that he has the responsibility for warning the people of God’s wrath; and he will be personally answerable if they fail to repent because he has neglected his role as God’s spokesman.

SUNDAY 6 -TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

10am Parish Mass -Church and Parish

Monday 7 - Weekday - Social Services
Tuesday 8 - Nativity of the BVM - 7pm - new parents
Wednesday 9 - Weekday - 7pm - Mission
Thursday 10 - Weekday - 6.45pm - students
Friday 11 - Weekday - 7pm & Rosary - peace
Saturday 12 - Weekday - 9.30 am Mass of Our Lady - 10 am Holy Hour - Walsingham

SUNDAY 13 - TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

10am Parish Mass -Church and Parish

Confessions Friday 6.15pm or by appointment with Fr Paul

Please note the extra Mass on Tuesday for the Nativity of the BVM and on Monday week for Holy Cross Day, which will be offered for the Society of the Holy Cross (SSC).

People attending the Ladies’ might like to join us for mass first.

LADIES EVENING TUESDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER 7.30PM JOIN US FOR A GAME OF U N O
COFFEE AND CAKE AFTERWARDS

We plan to have the church open and attended on Saturday 12th September for the Annual Suffolk Historic Church Trust Ride and Stride sponsored event. It would be helpful to know at this early stage who would be able to help out with welcoming visitors. Could you check your diaries and have a word with David Strike if you think you could help out.

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Anyone wanting to be on the distribution list, please drop me an email.

Deadline for material to be included in this bulletin and the Sunday sheet is Tuesday of the preceding week.

Please let Fr Paul know of any who are sick or who might appreciate a visit for any reason…even if you think he might know already!

Fr Paul Carter SSC
St Bartholomew’s Vicarage
Newton Road
Ipswich
07950 787178/01473 727441

28/08/2026

Jeremiah 20: 7 - 9
Psalm 62
Romans 12: 1-2
Matthew 16: 21-27

Submit to God’s will. The prophet Jeremiah encapsulates the pain and paradox that is so often at the heart of vocation. He knows persecution and suffering when he speaks God’s words; but he also feels driven from his heart, almost against his better judgement, to continue to prophesy. For Peter, the difficulty lies in accepting Jesus’ anticipated suffering rather than his own. Love and good intentions lie behind Peter’s remonstrations – no one wants to see a friend suffer. But ultimately his will must bend to that of the Lord; to save his soul he must take up his cross and follow Jesus in obedient suffering. Paul knew the poignancy of this aspect of discipleship to the point that his suffering was a central aspect of his worship, his offering of himself to God.

SUNDAY 30 - TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

10am Parish Mass - Church and Parish

Monday 31 - Weekday - end to drought
Tuesday 1 - Weekday - local NHS trust
Wednesday 2 - Weekday - 7pm - Mission
Thursday 3 - S Gregory the Great - 6.45pm
Christian Unity
Friday 4 - Weekday - 7pm & Rosary - peace
Saturday 5 - Weekday - 9.30 am Mass of Our Lady - 10 am Holy Hour - Bishop Luke

SUNDAY 6 - TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

10am Parish Mass - Church and Parish

Confessions Friday 6.15pm or by appointment with Fr Paul

Advance notice

We plan to have the church open and attended on Saturday 12th September for the Annual Suffolk Historic Church Trust Ride and Stride sponsored event. It would be helpful to know at this early stage who would be able to help out with welcoming visitors. Could you check your diaries and have a word with David Strike if you think you could help out.

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Anyone wanting to be on the distribution list, please drop me an email.

Deadline for material to be included in this bulletin and the Sunday sheet is Tuesday of the preceding week.

Please let Fr Paul know of any who are sick or who might appreciate a visit for any reason…even if you think he might know already!

Fr Paul Carter SSC
St Bartholomew’s Vicarage
Newton Road
Ipswich
07950 787178/01473 727441

22/08/2026

Have you ever spent an hour in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament? For the last few Saturdays we have had the opportunity to do just this after Mass at 9.30. An hour seems like a long time and sometimes it’s longer than others - as +Lindsay would say “when your head is like a tree full of monkeys” but it is an opportunity to escape the busy-ness of our every day lives. The hour starts at the end of Mass so 10am and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament is given at 11am. People are encouraged to stay for the whole hour but are welcome to come to Mass and then leave; or stay for a few minutes after Mass; or come into church for a few minutes or longer during exposition; or come into church nearer Benediction. The silence is very powerful.

21/08/2026

Flowers for St Bartholomew ready to celebrate St Bart’s Day this Sunday - do join us for our patronal if you can!

21/08/2026

Isaiah 52: 7-9
Psalm 23
Revelation 21: 9-14
John 1: 45-51

St Bartholomew. This week’s gospel is chosen because Nathaniel has often been identified as St Bartholomew. Either way, he has a problem accepting Jesus as Messiah, simply because he knows about his background. The other readings are about evangelism. The prophet Isaiah rejoices that one will come bringing good news. And from Revelation we hear a vision of heaven where the new Jerusalem is built on the foundation of the twelve apostles.

SUNDAY 23 - ST BARTHOLOMEW

10am Parish Mass - Church and Parish

Monday 24 - Weekday - Ipswich Deanery
Tuesday 25 - Weekday - theologians
Wednesday 26 - Weekday - 6.45pm - Mission
Thursday 27 - S Monica - 10am - Mothers
Friday 28 - S Augustine - 7pm & Rosary - peace
Saturday 29 - Passion of John the Baptist - 9.30am - Mass of Our Lady; 10 am Holy Hour
- candidates for Confirmation

SUNDAY 30 - TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

10am Parish Mass - Church and Parish

Confessions Friday 6.15pm or by appointment with Fr Paul

Come and see!

This Sunday we keep our Patronal Festival (we transfer it from Monday).

In the gospel we hear Philip telling Nathaniel that they have found the Messiah. Philip believes that in Jesus he has found the fulfilment of God’s promises and the meaning to his life. Not surprisingly, Nathaniel is sceptical. We probably would be! But what’s significant is Philip’s response to Nathaniel’s hesitation. He simply invites him to observe. ‘Come and see!’ he says.

What a model this gives for evangelism! Let Christ do the talking. Let his words, his church bring people to faith. This isn’t to abandon our role. Rather, it is to define it. Sure enough, we are not there to argue or convince. We are there to invite.

This doesn’t mean that the mission of the church is then a simple matter. To call others to see what we see requires confidence in our vision and the object upon which we are gazing. Not only that, there are obstacles along the way for the would-be convert, too. We all have our prejudices and hangups that can blinker our view of the Messiah. And we all makes errors as we could the cost of discipleship. These things are in Sunday’s gospel and they have been repeated down the ages.

But what if we had enough confidence in our God and in his church to be ale to echo Philip’s evangelistic call? Come and see!

Advance notice

We plan to have the church open and attended on Saturday 12th September for the Annual Suffolk Historic Church Trust Ride and Stride sponsored event. It would be helpful to know at this early stage who would be able to help out with welcoming visitors. Could you check your diaries and have a word with David Strike if you think you could help out.

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Anyone wanting to be on the distribution list, please drop me an email.

Deadline for material to be included in this bulletin and the Sunday sheet is Tuesday of the preceding week.

Please let Fr Paul know of any who are sick or who might appreciate a visit for any reason…even if you think he might know already!

Fr Paul Carter SSC
St Bartholomew’s Vicarage
Newton Road
Ipswich
07950 787178/01473 727441

14/08/2026

Revelation 11: 19-12: 10
Psalm 44 (45)
1 Corinthians 15: 20-26
Luke 1: 309-56

The Assumption. Mary clearly had a privileged role in God’s plan to save the world. Next week’s gospel makes this clear: her cousin Elizabeth articulates the honour she has in receiving the Mother of her Lord as a guest; and Mary herself prophesies that ‘all generations will call (her) blessed’. That blessedness had many causes. But all of these lay in her uniqueness as Jesus’ mother and her willingness to say her ‘yes’ to God. The doctrine of the Assumption teaches that at the end of her life Mary was taken body and soul to be in heaven. Just as God’s providence and the saving work of Jesus kept Mary free from original sin, so it is appropriate that Mary should receive this special honour in following in the destiny of her Son. The real wonder, though, is not so much that God bestows the honour of being body and soul in heaven with Mary as that he wills this destiny on us all!

SUNDAY 16 - ASSUMPTION OF THE BVM
10am Parish Mass - Church and Parish

Monday 17 - Weekday - artists
Tuesday 18 - Weekday - holiday-makers
Wednesday 19 - Weekday - 7pm - Mission
Thursday 20 - S Bernard - 6.45pm - persecuted Christians
Friday 21 - S Pius X / 7pm & Rosary - peace
Saturday 22 - Queenship of Mary - 9.30 am
10 am Holy Hour - Walsingham

SUNDAY 23 - TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
10am Parish Mass -Church and Parish

Confessions Friday 6.15pm or by appointment with Fr Paul

We need volunteers for this - please ask yourself if you can help:

We plan to have the church open and attended on Saturday 12th September for the Annual Suffolk Historic Church Trust Ride and Stride sponsored event. It would be helpful to know at this early stage who would be able to help out with welcoming visitors. Could you check your diaries and have a word with David Strike if you think you could help out.

Please note the Vicarage landline is out of order due to an internet issue. Fr Paul can be contacted on the mobile number below or this email address (which is monitored regularly).

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Anyone wanting to be on the distribution list, please drop me an email.

Deadline for material to be included in this bulletin and the Sunday sheet is Tuesday of the preceding week.

Please let Fr Paul know of any who are sick or who might appreciate a visit for any reason…even if you think he might know already!

Fr Paul Carter SSC
St Bartholomew’s Vicarage
Newton Road
Ipswich
07950 787178/01473 727441

06/08/2026

1 Kings 19: 9-13
Psalm 84 (85)
Romans 9: 1-5
Matthew 14: 22-33

The Presence of the Lord. The readings next week contain a series of cries concerned with God’s presence or his perceived absence. The disciples fear the figure on the water is not him but his antithesis, a ghost. He proclaims, ‘It is I, be not afraid.’ Peter cries out to be saved and Jesus rebukes him for his little faith. In the end though, the disciples worship the Lord whom even nature’s elements obey, he is ‘the Son of God.’ Elijah seeks the presence of God but finds it not in powerful wind, shattering earthquake or the flames of a fire. Instead, the prophet can stand before God as the gentle breeze meets him at the mouth of the cave. If God’s presence is illusive or easily missed, his will can be equally impenetrable. Paul struggles with God’s purpose for his own people who do not know the Christ and yet were the first to receive God’s promises.

SUNDAY 9 - NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

10am Parish Mass - Church and Parish

Monday 10 - S Lawrence - deacons
Tuesday 11 - S Clare - vocations to religious life
Wednesday 12 - Weekday - 7pm - Mission
Thursday 13 - Weekday - 6.45pm - persecuted Christians
Friday 14 - S Maximillian Kolbe - 7pm & Rosary
peace
Saturday 15 - Weekday - 9.30 Mass of Our Lady; 10 am Holy Hour - race relations

SUNDAY 16 - ASSUMPTION OF THE BVM
10am Parish Mass - Church and Parish

Confessions Friday 6.15pm or by appointment with Fr Paul

Advance notice
We plan to have the church open and attended on Saturday 12th September
for the Annual Suffolk Historic Church Trust Ride and Stride sponsored event.
It would be helpful to know at this early stage who would be able to help out with
welcoming visitors. Could you check your diaries and have a word
with David Strike if you think you could help out.

*****************************************************************************************************************

Anyone wanting to be on the distribution list, please drop me an email.

Deadline for material to be included in this bulletin and the Sunday sheet is Tuesday of the preceding week.

Please let Fr Paul know of any who are sick or who might appreciate a visit for any reason…even if you think he might know already!

Fr Paul Carter SSC
St Bartholomew’s Vicarage
Newton Road
Ipswich
07950 787178/01473 727441

31/07/2026

Isaiah 55: 1-3
Psalm 144
Romans 8: 35-39
Matthew 14: 13-21

The Lord feeds his people. It is so hard for us to think of ourselves as dependant on God! For people of former generations, though, no leap of the imagination was required. They knew that clement weather brought food and inclement weather brought famine. Thus, it was easy and natural for them to associate food with God’s blessing and his presence. The promised land, the return to which is prophesied in the OT reading, was a place of milk and honey – God dwelt there and he was his people’s reward. The feeding of the Five Thousand is practical as well as symbolic; it satisfies physical hunger and establishes Jesus as the source of all that is good. Its structure (taking, blessing, breaking and sharing) anticipates the Last Supper and every Christian Eucharist that was to follow.

SUNDAY 2 - EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

10am Parish Mass - Church and Parish

Monday 3 - Weekday - deacons
Tuesday 4 - S John Vianney - parish priests
Wednesday 5 - Weekday - 6.45pm - Mission
Thursday 6 - Transfiguration of the Lord - 10am
our worship
Friday 7 - Weekday 7pm & Rosary - peace
Saturday 8 - S Dominic - 9.30 Mass of Our Lady; 10 am Holy Hour - preachers

SUNDAY 9 - NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

10am Parish Mass - Church and Parish

Confessions Friday 6.15pm or by appointment with Fr Paul

Advance notice

We plan to have the church open and attended on Saturday 12th September for the Annual Suffolk Historic Church Trust Ride and Stride sponsored event.

It would be helpful to know at this early stage who would be able to help out with welcoming visitors. Could you check your diaries and have a word with David Strike if you think you could help.

Anyone wanting to be on the distribution list, please drop me an email.

Deadline for material to be included in this bulletin and the Sunday sheet is Tuesday of the preceding week.

Please let Fr Paul know of any who are sick or who might appreciate a visit for any reason…even if you think he might know already!

Fr Paul Carter SSC
St Bartholomew’s Vicarage
Newton Road
Ipswich
07950 787178/01473 727441

24/07/2026

1 Kings 3: 5-12
Psalm 118
Romans 8: 28-30
Matthew 13: 44-52

King Solomon prays to the Lord for Wisdom! We could almost say that to be so aware of one’s youthful limitations as to make such a prayer shows a certain wisdom already. But the OT teaches us that there is more to wisdom than that and Solomon was the personification of the gift. We are told that he had largeness of mind beyond measure, that many foreign rulers travelled to consult him; and in his peaceful reign his country knew a flourishing of arts and culture. But even that is not all. The NT, and in particular St John’s gospel, portray wisdom as not just personified but incarnate. Jesus, in taking human nature to himself, is the wisdom of God dwelling among us. In his parables of the kingdom, Jesus exhorts his hearers to learn wisdom and seek his kingdom before all else. In so doing, we make the best possible preparation for God’s judgement. St Paul touches on another aspect of God’s wisdom, his plans for our lives.

SUNDAY 26 - SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

10am Parish Mass - Church and Parish

Monday 27 -Weekday - sick
Tuesday 28 - Weekday - bereaved
Wednesday 29 - Ss Mary, Martha & Lazarus - 7pm - Mission
Thursday 30 - Weekday - 6.45pm priests
Friday 31 - S Ignatius of Loyola- 7pm & Rosary
peace
Saturday - 1 August - St Alphonsus Mary de Liguori - 9.30 Mass of Our Lady; 10 am Holy Hour - Bishop Luke

SUNDAY 2 - EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

10am Parish Mass - Church and Parish

Confessions Friday 6.15pm or by appointment with Fr Paul

Dear All

Our teaching this weekend will focus on our ’treasuring’. What matters to us and motivates us? Solomon knows what he needs to be a good king and, when he is offered the chance, asks for it. This might make us wonder what we would ask of God, given the opportunity.
But the readings offer us something a little more spiritually rich than just a challenge to our priorities. There is an art to ’treasuring’ and a cost. There is also a surprising foundation to it all. So, on Sunday, we will consider how we go about treasuring those things that matter most and how we make a place for them in our busy lives. The ultimate treasure, after God, is the human person, ourselves and other people. S Paul tells us we are called, made right with God and given a vision of his glory. This is rich treasure indeed! P

Advance notice

We plan to have the church open and attended on Saturday 12th September for the Annual Suffolk Historic Church Trust Ride and Stride sponsored event. It would be helpful to know at this early stage who would be able to help out with welcoming visitors. Could you check your diaries and have a word with David Strike if you think you could help out.

Toilet facilities

This Sunday the toilet for the disabled is available. This is the first door on the left as you enter the hall. There is no access beyond this point so please do not do past the barrier.

Anyone wanting to be on the distribution list, please drop me an email.

Deadline for material to be included in this bulletin and the Sunday sheet is Tuesday of the preceding week.

Please let Fr Paul know of any who are sick or who might appreciate a visit for any reason…even if you think he might know already!

Fr Paul Carter SSC
St Bartholomew’s Vicarage
Newton Road
Ipswich
07950 787178/01473 727441

17/07/2026

Wisdom 12: 13-19
Psalm 85 (86)
Romans 8: 26-27
Matthew 13: 24-43

Parables of the Kingdom. Jesus uses images from his contemporaries’ everyday experience to teach about God’s patient mercy, his judgement and the exponential growth of his kingdom. Seed and darnel grow together now; but a harvest of separation will certainly come. The mustard seed is inauspicious because diminutive; but it will grow to impressive proportions. No wonder that praying to this God leaves the believer lost for words! And so, as we continue to hear St Paul teach about the Holy Spirit, he touches now on the Spirit’s work in praying with and for us in ways that cannot be put into words. The OT reading from Wisdom must have been chosen because it picks up on God’s tolerance and understanding, his power and ultimately his judgement.

SUNDAY 19 - SIXTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

10am Parish Mass - Church and Parish

Monday 20 - Weekday - unemployed
Tuesday 21 - Weekday - holiday-makers
Wednesday 22 - S Mary Magdalene - 7pm - Mission
Thursday 23 - S Bridget - 10am - Europe
Friday 24 - Weekday - 7pm & Rosary - peace
Saturday 25 - S James - 9.30 Mass of Our Lady;
10 am Holy Hour - S James’ Colchester

SUNDAY 26 - SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

10am Parish Mass - Church and Parish

Confessions Friday 6.15pm or by appointment with Fr Paul

Advance notice

We plan to have the church open and attended on Saturday 12th September for the Annual Suffolk Historic Church Trust Ride and Stride sponsored event. It would be helpful to know at this early stage who would be able to help out with welcoming visitors. Could you check your diaries and have a word with David Strike if you think you can help.

Anyone wanting to be on the distribution list, please drop me an email.

Deadline for material to be included in this bulletin and the Sunday sheet is Tuesday of the preceding week.

Please let Fr Paul know of any who are sick or who might appreciate a visit for any reason…even if you think he might know already!

Fr Paul Carter SSC
St Bartholomew’s Vicarage
Newton Road
Ipswich
07950 787178/01473 727441

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