The annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity starts on Tuesday (18^th-25^th.)

At the last Supper Jesus prayed “May they all be one, as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, so may they be in us  that the world may believe that you sent me.”  John 17:20-21. 

We give thanks for the excellent relationships that exist between the Christian communities in Petts Wood but we must not be complacent and must continue along the road towards full organic unity.

Our disunity is a scandal. We are united by our common baptism, but only when we are able to share the eucharist together will we be truly united. 

I do hope that you will come and pray with members of all our churches next Sunday (23^rd) here is St James at 7pm at our special Taize Service. The Taize community in France draws thousands of young Christians from every tradition (and none) each year. We must pray for the gift of unity which only God can grant.

Mass attendances last Sunday were 774.
Sunday 16/1/11	2^nd Sunday (A) 6pm – Private Intention (Ellen Cushman) 9.15am- People of the Parish 11am – Paul Searle RIP  (Sarah Boot- Handford) Today (after Sunday Masses): sale of genuine Peruvian articles supporting Paul Elliston’s work with the very poor. 3-5pm - rehearsal - Petts Wood Festival Chorus.
Monday 17/1/11	St Anthony, Abbot 9.30am – Alice Luckett RIP (Peter Luckett)
Tuesday 18/1/11	Feria  9.30am- Huw Jones (Teresa West) Benediction and confessions after morning Mass 7.15pm Olive Cosgrave RIP (F & S Simon)  Confessions no longer heard at 6.45pm
Wednesday 19/1/11	Feria  9.30am –Gerald Colman
Thursday 20/1/11	Feria  9.30am –Olive Cosgrave RIP (the Stanley family)
Friday 21/1/11	St Agnes, Martyr 9.30am – Maria Carletti RIP (Denise Delf)
Sunday 23/1/11	3rd  Sunday in Ordinary time (A) 6pm –  People of the Parish 9.15am- Eileen  Haselwood RIP (Gill Griffiths) 11am –Noah Mark Rothon RIP (the Rothon family) 3-5pm - rehearsal - Petts Wood Festival Chorus. 7pm Special Taize Service –for all Petts Wood churches to celebrate the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity- foll. by refresh.
Monday 24/1/11	7.30pm: Meeting for parents applying for church schools (primary or secondary, catholic or C of E) 2012.  It is essential that each child is represented by a parent.

Find out about how CAFOD has helped change the lives of millions of people: - Sat. 22nd Jan., 9.30am-4pm in the Amigo Hall, (next to St George's Cathedral, Westminster Bridge Road.) Contact: 01322 294924

Please remember the sick in your prayers: Bill Morley, Gerald Colman, Gloria Calnan, Joshua Canning (11 yrs.), Florence Angel, Elizabeth Agobash, Christopher Drew and Bishop Michael Evans (East Anglia).

The funeral (Requiem Mass) for Moya Riley will be here on Monday January 24^th at 2pm; and for Olive Cosgrave here on Thursday January 27^th at 10.30am (no 9.30 Mass that day.)   

Ministry to the sick – please let me know as soon as possible  if you are ill (and especially if you are in hospital) so that a visit can be arranged.  I am always pleased to visit but I must know!

Your Body the Church

We ask you to forgive the sin that mingles even with our holiest actions.

Forgive us for the ways in which we have hurt and dismembered your body, the church.

Forgive us for any way in which we have, thoughtlessly or deliberately, insulted or patronised those who are called by the same name as ourselves. 

Forgive us if we have prayed for unity and have done nothing, or very little, to help bring it about, preferring prayers to action and fantasies to hard reality.

Be active, be disturbing, be empowering, in your church and among Christian people throughout the world.

Remind us of the mighty company in heaven and on earth to which we all belong.

.John Harvey

Every blessing...... Fr. Bryan