Sunday Mass Attendance 8th February – 757

Sunday Mass Attendance 15th February – 605

Mass Intentions

This Sunday

(Sat)

6.00pm

People of the Parish

 

10.00am

Nazzareno Rusmini RIP (A Rusmini)

 

11.30am

Pat & Albert Murray (Mrs Mahon)

Daily Morning Prayer:          Monday – Saturday at 9.10am

Weekday Masses:                9.30 am unless otherwise stated

Mon

St Polycarp

CWL Intention

Tue

Feria

Dan Carrigan RIP (Mrs Carrigan)

Wed

ASH WEDNESDAY

(9.30and 8pm)

Ossie Barrett RIP (B Bridle)

Thu

Feria

Dr Michael Kelly RIP (M Kelly)

Fri

Feria

Tess Johnson welfare (M Kelly)

Sat

Feria

Service of the Word & Holy Communion

NEXT SUNDAY 1st MARCH – FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT

(Sat)

6.00pm

Nora Forshaw welfare (M Morley)

 

10.00am

Colin Smith RIP (M Smith)

 

11.30am

People of the Parish

 

Confessions: Saturday at 6.50pm after the 6.00pm Mass and Monday 10.00am after the 9.30am Mass also by prior appointment or at call.  Exposition: Monday 10.00-11.00am.

Welcome to Mass today!

Today’s gospel is about Jesus healing a paralysed man.  Lent gives us all a wonderful opportunity to be healed from all kinds of paralysis in our lives.  We need to ‘get moving’ ! Very often it is our sins which keep us from ‘moving on’.  We tend to ‘get stuck’ in our thinking, our attitudes, our habits.

Christ offers to forgive and heal us, to renew our lives but we must allow him to do so.  And when we do so, we experience once again his love  and enjoy true freedom and peace, such as only he can give.

We welcome, through Holy baptism (Saturday 4.15pm) Harley Joseph Anthony Bennett (8mths), his parents Lisa & Darren and godparents Paul, Daniel, Natalie and Nancy.

Today:                        The annual collection for the Cabrini Children’s Society (previously the Catholic Children’s Society) will take place today.  Cabrini provides wide ranging services to children, young people, families and to adults with learning disabilities.

Each Sunday:            Handel’s Messiah rehearsal 3:30-5pm (and every Sunday until the end of March.(NB next Sunday March 1st at St Francis Church, Willett Way.)

Mon 23rd Feb:            Journey in Faith 8-9:30pm in the Presbytery (281A).  The topic this week will be the sacraments of reconciliation and of the sick.

CWL Meeting at 8.00pm in the Social Centre.  Non members welcome.  Please contact Madeleine Howell

Wed 25th Feb

Ash Wednesday:       (1st day of Lent) Masses at 9:30am and 8.00pm.  This is a day of fasting and abstinence, i.e. no meat or alcohol, only one major meal.)

Thu 26th Feb:             MaP (Mission & Planning Team) – The first meeting was cancelled due to the snow and has been rescheduled for this evening at 8:30pm in the Social Centre.

Sat 28th Feb:              Senior Youth Group 1.30-3.30pm.  Come and learn how you can make your own special pancakes.  Open to year 10’s only.

                                    Junior Youth Group 3.45-5.45pm.  Come and join us for fun activities and see how you can become a Guitar Hero for the day! Open to all year 7, 8 and 9’s

Youth Groups – If there is anyone in the parish with a skill, e.g. card playing, debating topics and are willing to spare an hour could you please contact Jim Callinan.

Lent Course – You are strongly encouraged to join one of the five ecumenical Lent groups (details in porch.) The title is ‘Faith, Hope & Love’ and lasts for the five weeks of Lent, starting Monday 1st March.  Already about 30 people have signed up – lets have another 30 today!!

Parish Forum – Tuesday 10th March at 8pm in the Social Centre – to receive the accounts for 2008 and to reflect together on where we are as a parish.  I do hope we have a really full attendance from parishioners.

Deanery Youth Leaders Follow-up Meeting Following the highly successful course held here for the Deanery last year, there will be a special follow-up evening here on Wednesday 25th March at 8:15pm with Jonny Toryusen and Káren North from the Diocesan Youth Service.  For all our leaders (even if you did not attend the original course)

Servers’ training continues each Saturday morning at 10.30am.  It is great to see so many new servers and any child who has made his/her First Communion is welcome to train as a server (contact Nick Babb).

STOP PRESS! Handel’s  Messiah: extra practice THIS Tuesday (24th) at 8.00pm in church for tenors and basses.  (Tickets and flyers hopefully available next week.  Performances on March 28th and 29th.  Don’t miss it !)

Lenten materials Do look at and buy the various publications There are all kinds of things to peruse/take/buy/borrow...including the CTS pamphlets (20p each.) Also several posters to look at.  It would be so good to see many more of you sometimes at Daily Mass (9.30am) during Lent.  What about it?

Every blessing- Fr.Bryan.

Church and Social Centre Rotas

Wednesday Coffee

Church Cleaning 25th February

B Bridle

B D’Arcy

S Ingle

E Doyle

E Said

 

Next Sunday 1st March

Bar

Tellers

Coffee 10.00am

Coffee 11.30am

W Fleeman

P Troy

C Delf

M Troy

L Floris

U Floris

I Webb

C Battista

V Volney

 

Readers

6.00pm Sat.

10.00am

11.30am

D Rogerson

A Fernandes

M Morley

L Benson

A Scripture

P Bunnage

 

Ministers of Holy Communion

6.00pm Sat.

10.00am

11.30am

C Cahill

M Cahill

C Cosgrave

P Cosgrave

M Hutchinson

T Wells

R Wright

P Crosland

B D’Arcy

W David

C Delf

O Clutton

C Hawes

A Murphy

Y Sykes

R Del Guercio

M Ingledew

 

Welcomers

6.00pm Sat.

10.00am

11.30am

A Huntington

C Dale

P Murray

E Lams

M Cooper