Week of 5th March 2006

It is possible to purchase tickets for next Saturday’s St Patrick’s Supper-Dance after Mass today. Last weekend for this.

§ After mass today we take up our monthly Building Fund Collection.

§ CTS leaflet on LENT available for wall holders, near exit and newspaper rack.

§ St Patrick’s Day, Mother’s Day and Easter Cards now on sale in the repository.

This Friday is a FAMILY FAST DAY focusing upon the importance of Water. More often than not we take it for granted. Until recently the young boy pictured on the poster in the porch did not have this basic need. His family live in a dusty shantytown on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. CAFOD has founded a project to provide pumps & piping for a new water supply. By supporting Fast Days you are enabling CAFOD to continue to help people in need all over the world to improve their lives. Please fill in the Gift Aid form on the back of your collection envelope this earns an extra 28p for every £1 donated.

FIRST WEEK OF LENT

Monday: Confirmation PARENTS AND CANDIDATES meeting (for Y9/10 course about to begin) 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. J&M Infant Convent

Monday: SMALL REFLECTION GROUP 10:20 am, Annexe.

Tuesday: TALK & MEDITATION on UNDERSTANDING THE MASS at 7.30pm for 30mins in annexe and then move into the Church with 25mins led Exposition of Blessed Sacrament.

Wednesday: SMALL REFLECTION GROUP 7 pm, Clergy House.

Thursday SMALL REFLECTION GROUP 7 pm, 40 Exeter Rd.

Friday: FAMILY FAST DAY in aid of CAFOD. Envelopes at the back.

Friday: THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS 7:00pm after Mass, being led this year by one of the above reflection groups.

Friday: LENTEN ALMS monies placed in the box opposite the Lady Altar will go towards Aid to the Church in Need. This charity supports those Christians persecuted for their faith, from those in Sudan through sisters in China to seminarians in Eastern Europe, from distributing children’s bibles to building churches.

Saturday ST PATRICK’S SUPPER DANCE with a green theme- at St Mary Magdalen’s School, Linacre Road, at 8.00pm. Music provided by the popular Billy & The North Winds. Menu is Irish stew and apple pie with trimmings, Irish coffees to order and a bar. Tickets will be on sale Sundays to Mar 6th after all Masses.

Feast of the Annunciation – 25th March, St Matthew’s Church, Hallowell Rd, Northwood. Please call Agnes on 01923 836627 or email northwoodcharismaticgroup@hotmail.com for further details.

FAIR TRADE FORTNIGHT 6-19th March: Products with the Fairtrade logo can be found in major shops as this worthy movement continues to grow. But it and thus a fairer income for farmers and workers around the world relies on people purchasing these goods.

CAR PARKING IN THE FORECOURT We are hoping to go ahead with this for the elderly, disabled and their drivers. Watch this space.

CATHOLIC YOUNG ADULTS: “What’s on and Happening?” – blue booklet surveying diocesan youth work: our parish figures prominently – now available from bottom of pamphlet rack, opposite newspaper rack.

St Patrick’s Day–Willesden Green Library 5pm-10pm.The parade leaves Willesden Green Station @5pm.

Parish Youth Worker +1 – Looking for digs / rented accommodation locally. Please call clergy house.

PARISH PILGRIMAGE TO NATIONAL SHRINE OF WALSINGHAM: Saturday 10th June, starting early.