Parish Forum –Monday March 21^st 8pm in the social centre – to receive the 2010 accounts; to reflect on the past year; and to peer into the future!  We shall be explaining the results of the hall survey and presenting new ideas for maintenance and upgrading of our buildings.  Please make this a priority!

Fairtrade fortnight runs from 28^th February to 13^th March.  Fairtrade is about fair terms for farmers and workers in the developing world and it addresses the injustices of conventional trade. It enables people to improve their position and have more control over their lives.  Please do everything you can to support them.

Cabrini Children’s Society (today’s second collection) supports and cares for some of the most vulnerable children and young people in our community. Please give what you can to help give the next generation the chance they deserve.

Please pray for five members of our community who will be joining the Catholic Church here on Easter morning:  Andy Delamain, Andrew Guyton, Alex Boot-Handford, Matthew Robson and Richard Swann. 

These will be attending the Rite of Election in our Cathedral next Saturday (12^th) and, together with hundreds of other candidates from all over our Diocese, will be welcomed by the Archbishop as they begin their final preparations for initiation into the Church.  They have been faithfully attending our Evangelium course and it is a matter of great joy to all of us that God has given us five new members of his Church.

Mozart’s great choral work (his last) the Requiem K.626 will be performed in St Michaels, Locksbottom on Sunday March 20^th at 7.30pm (details in porch.) This choir (PWFC) was formed with one clear aim:

Churches Working Together through Music to Serve the Local Community

We believe that PWFC is a good example of Christian unity in action and music has an incredible spiritual power to bind people together. I do hope you will come and share this, and also support the PRUH.

Mass attendances last Sunday were 671.

Sunday 6/3/11	9^th Sunday in Ordinary time (A) 6.00pm – People of the Parish 9.15am – Betty Ulyth Wright, RIP (Roger & Ellen Wright) 11.00am – Brendan O’Leary (Mary O’ Leary) 2^nd collection for Cabrini Children’s Society Please use one of their envelopes if you can
Monday 7/3/11	Feria 9.30am- Teresa & John Lynch RIP (the Jackson family) 1-30-3.30 pm - craft/card games/tea and chat in the hall. Everyone very welcome! Pastoral and Advisory team - meeting 8pm.
Tuesday 8/3/11	Feria 9.30am-  Olive Cosgrave RIP Benediction and confessions after morning Mass today. 11am - Requiem Mass for Kathleen Gudge.  Fr. Bill Agley is the celebrant. Every  sympathy to Kathleen’s family and friends.  7.15pm-  Kath Gudge RIP (the Scott family) 8pm Evangelium –(281A Crescent Drive)
Wednesday 9/3/11	Ash Wednesday Mass today at 9.30am (with St James School) – Deceased members of the Fenner family (Found.)  and Mass at 8pm -  John & Brenda Fuller (Bill & Marie Morley)
Thursday 10/3/11	Feria 9.30am –Brian Woosey RIP (Liam Carland)
Friday 11/3/11	Feria 9.30am –   Marie & Bill Morley (M Howell)
Sunday 13/3/11	First Sunday of Lent (A)  6pm –Edith Mary George RIP (Edith’s family) 9.15am-  Alex Devan Wetton (Alex’s family) 11am –  O’Flaherty family (Ned)

Monday March 7^th –7.30pm meeting in social centre for parents of children at present in Year 2 to explain the new arrangements for First Communion from 2012. (Please note change of time)

Thursday March 10^th – Autumn Festival Planning meeting – meeting room 8pm.   

St Patrick’s Day Party Sat March 19^th – social centre. Tickets £6 (£15 family) – to support two of our Guides going to Switzerland representing Greater London and Kent.

Petts Wood Festival Chorus tickets are for sale in the Rainbow Centre and In the Repository (our church shop) after Mass.  We are delighted that Bishop Pat will be coming.

Please remember the sick in your prayers: Bill Morley, Gerald Colman, Gloria Calnan, Joshua Canning (11 yrs.), Florence Angel, Christopher Drew, Ernest Field, Brendan O’Leary, Maurice Cantopher and Bishop Michael Evans (East Anglia).

Hopefully see you on Wednesday (Ash)....

..............Every blessing, Fr Bryan