There’s
a lot on Briefly today! Please take your copy HOME and read it!!
Today we
welcome Mike Mielniczek who will speak on behalf of CAFOD in the wake of Friday’s Lenten
Fast Day -thank you for bringing in your envelopes today.
This
afternoon - Petts Wood
Festival Chorus rehearse Stainer’s ‘Crucifixion.’ (3pm). This moving music
will be performed here on March 25th at 7.30pm (tickets: £5 –
in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Fund). Don’t miss what will be a very special
event.
Monday:
Craft Group
- 1.30pm. Thanks to this group for the beautiful babies’ blankets which we are
hoping to send to Tanzania (You Touch Africa).
Confirmation
Group (7pm- ‘Christmas Dinner’). Journey in Faith 8.30pm.
Tuesday:
Film- ‘Of
Gods and Men’ (voted best foreign language film of 2007)- 7.30pm
in the coffee lounge, Christ Church, Willett Way. (in French with subtitles-
not to be missed!) Come along even if you are a little late). Cistercian monks
in Algeria in 1996.
Servers
practice at 5.30pm.
Also: Social
Teaching of the Catholic Church - Michael Walsh, former librarian of Heythrop College - Holy Innocents Orpington, 8pm. Highly recommended. The
church was packed last Tuesday.
Wednesday: Baptism Preparation (for parents
who have been invited). Meeting room 8.15pm.
Thursday:
Choir
practice for Holy Week and Easter - 8pm. We need many more singers -
music is so important for this holy season. Surely with an adult
membership of 600 people we can get a choir of 20 or so together? Please
ring Dominic if you can help (after 6pm on 01689 827100). Tenors and
basses urgently needed, but also sopranos and altos....
Deanery
Pastoral Council -
8pm at St. Joseph’s, Bromley. Our reps are Zosia Bajorek and Nick Babb - who will be
pleased to forward your ideas, suggestions etc. This excellent team
helps our parishes to work much more closely together.
On BBC4 at
9pm-‘Catholics’ (sounds like us!) - 3/3- about women and the church,
based around Westminster Cathedral.
Friday: confessions at 6.30pm -
Stations of the Cross at 7pm.(ends c.7.30pm). Come along to stations if you
have never been before........a most moving devotion.
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Mass
attendances last Sunday were 704.
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Sunday
4/3/12
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Second
Sunday of Lent (B)
6pm – People of the Parish
9.15am
– Catherine
Knewss (Mowatt Family)
11am – John & Teresa Lynch RIP (M.
Jackson)
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Monday
5/3/12
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Feria
9.30am
– Raymond Askin
RIP (Paula Kemp)
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Tuesday
6/3/12
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Feria
9.30am – Kathie Daniels RIP (M. Clark)
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Wednesday
7/3/12
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Feria
9.30am – Florence & Richard Angel
RIP (Rutter Family)
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Thursday
8/3/12
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Feria
9.30am
– Mgr. John
Elliott RIP (Huntington Family)
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Friday
9/3/12
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Feria
9.30am
– Deceased
Members of Fenner Family
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Sunday
11/3/12
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Third
Sunday of Lent (B)
6pm – Private Intention
9.15am
– People of the
Parish
11am –
Francis Fernandes
RIP (Fernandes Family)
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Next
Sunday: 2nd
collection for Maintenance and Refurbishment Fund. Also table top sale
of seasonal items after the 9.15 and 11am Masses (for Maintenance Fund also.)
At the
11am Mass our confirmation candidates (30) will be presented to the
congregation
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Confession
before Easter-usual
times but also 1st confessions (children) on March 12th
and 14th, and on Thursday March 15th our Lenten
Penitential Service at 7.0.pm with priests from the deanery.
Please put this in your diary
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Parish
Library – now
open after all Masses (upstairs off choir gallery.) Do use this valuable
resource.
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Passover
Supper here on Wednesday
March 21st at 7.30pm (ends c. 9pm). We welcome Beverley
Taylor from Streatham Liberal Synagogue, who will take us through the
Jewish Passover Meal – the meal Jesus was celebrating at the Last
Supper. Free (collection at end) but booking essential (list in
porch). A wonderful inter-faith initiative! (It would be good if
we had a good number of ‘first timers’- Beverley has been twice before and we
can only accommodate 60 or so.) Flyers in porch.
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Orpington
Foodbank An idea
for your Friday penance during Lent- put an item aside for the food bank (please
do not bring to church until the Sunday after Easter –April 15th).
Please take their list of foods from porch – thank you.
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School
Applications (2013) - parents don’t forget to register every
Sunday after Mass.
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Thank
you to the many parishioners who have been engaged in church activities over the past
week or so. Your
time is precious and you give it willingly. It would be great if more
people could avail themselves of the variety of opportunities we offer.......They
are all designed to help us to grow in our faith-in our love for God, and for
each other.
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Every
blessing, Fr Bryan.
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