Ninth Sunday of the Year A 6th March 2011
TODAY
• The penultimate School Building Fund: Monthly collection after all masses
• 10:30 Mass: includes the Rite of Acceptance for First Confession
• 6:30 pm Mass our confirmation candidates will be celebrating the rite of commitment as they continue to prepare for their confirmation in June.
• Westminster Record – this month has a profile of our parish – see newspaper rack
• Redish Planned Giving leaflets for those wishing to join our envelope scheme are in the porch.
NEXT SUNDAY- Cake Sale World Youth Day fundraising – cake sale will be held after Sunday Morning Masses next weekend in the Annexe – organised by our post confirmation youth group.
Also – Tony Thomas will be collecting from those who kindly sponsored his run this Sun
Altar Servers practice, Team K (Sun 6:30 pm) initially scheduled for next Saturday at 2 pm is being rescheduled due to a memorial Mass.
TALK HERE ON NEWMAN: Friday 25th March at 7.30pm, annexe. Dr Andrew Nash will give a beautifully illustrated talk on the life of John Henry Newman, whom Pope Benedict beatified in Birmingham last September. Everybody welcome. Afterwards there will be coffee and cake. £3 donation, with funds going to the work of the Maryvale Institute, which has helped the catechesis of our parish very much.
DIOCESAN VACANCY
Intern Assistant Hours of work: 35-40 hours per week (flexible) Allowance:£86 per week plus full board and lodging Location:Westminster Cathedral. Details of how to apply can be obtained from our website at www.rcdow.org.uk/jobs
Privately organised Pilgrimage to Lourdes Lisieux, Nevers & Paris by luxury coach from 28th May to 4th June 2011 for £599, including all excursions and full board in a 4 star hotel in Lourdes and half board in Nevers & Lisieux. For further info call Mrs Mozzi on 0208 472 0843.
LENT
ASH WEDNESDAY is this Wednesday. For able-bodied adults it is a day of fasting (at most one main meal & two snacks) and abstinence (no meat).
Masses will be celebrated at 9.30am, 12noon and 7pm, and ashes will be blessed & distributed. Please note Ashes can only be distributed at Mass, not at any other time.
TAKING THE PLEDGE – Ash Wednesday – 8 p.m.
If you would like to give up alcohol for Lent in a way that links you with a group of people in solidarity with and in prayer for those who suffer from alcohol or drug addition and other abuses of the body, then join Fr Hugh / Fr Kieran and others on Ash Wednesday at 7.30pm in the Church for 20 mins to take the Pioneers’ Lenten Pledge. This is a commitment to abstain from all intoxicating drink, to recite a daily prayer, to wear the pioneer emblem.
Each Fri. evening there will be Stations of the Cross 7pm.
LENTEN ALMS (see box on wall opposite Lady Altar- monies go towards:
The diocesan St John Southworth Fund assists homeless, migrants and refugees, youth education, disability support, pastoral support for the elderly, children and various other projects
And Friends of the Holy Land - to provide spiritual, moral and financial support for the suffering Christian Community in the Holy Land cf. www.friendsoftheholyland.org.uk
Children’s Calendars for Lent – available at back.
FAMILY FAST DAY, Friday 25th March, will be in aid of Aid to the Church in Need. More information to come.
National Day for Prayer and Fasting for Life: On the 9th March, Ash Wednesday please pray & fast for the end of abortion and euthanasia. Inf: Good Counsel Network on 020 7723 1740
Archbishop’s Mass of Thanksgiving for the Sacrament of Matrimony: Westminster Cathedral, Sat 11th June 3.00pm. Those who are celebrating their 10th, 25th, 40th, 50th and 60th + wedding anniversary of Catholic marriage in 2011 please give us:: Husband & wife’s names, wedding date, postal address & email or tel. no.
• The penultimate School Building Fund: Monthly collection after all masses
• 10:30 Mass: includes the Rite of Acceptance for First Confession
• 6:30 pm Mass our confirmation candidates will be celebrating the rite of commitment as they continue to prepare for their confirmation in June.
• Westminster Record – this month has a profile of our parish – see newspaper rack
• Redish Planned Giving leaflets for those wishing to join our envelope scheme are in the porch.
NEXT SUNDAY- Cake Sale World Youth Day fundraising – cake sale will be held after Sunday Morning Masses next weekend in the Annexe – organised by our post confirmation youth group.
Also – Tony Thomas will be collecting from those who kindly sponsored his run this Sun
Altar Servers practice, Team K (Sun 6:30 pm) initially scheduled for next Saturday at 2 pm is being rescheduled due to a memorial Mass.
TALK HERE ON NEWMAN: Friday 25th March at 7.30pm, annexe. Dr Andrew Nash will give a beautifully illustrated talk on the life of John Henry Newman, whom Pope Benedict beatified in Birmingham last September. Everybody welcome. Afterwards there will be coffee and cake. £3 donation, with funds going to the work of the Maryvale Institute, which has helped the catechesis of our parish very much.
DIOCESAN VACANCY
Intern Assistant Hours of work: 35-40 hours per week (flexible) Allowance:£86 per week plus full board and lodging Location:Westminster Cathedral. Details of how to apply can be obtained from our website at www.rcdow.org.uk/jobs
Privately organised Pilgrimage to Lourdes Lisieux, Nevers & Paris by luxury coach from 28th May to 4th June 2011 for £599, including all excursions and full board in a 4 star hotel in Lourdes and half board in Nevers & Lisieux. For further info call Mrs Mozzi on 0208 472 0843.
LENT
ASH WEDNESDAY is this Wednesday. For able-bodied adults it is a day of fasting (at most one main meal & two snacks) and abstinence (no meat).
Masses will be celebrated at 9.30am, 12noon and 7pm, and ashes will be blessed & distributed. Please note Ashes can only be distributed at Mass, not at any other time.
TAKING THE PLEDGE – Ash Wednesday – 8 p.m.
If you would like to give up alcohol for Lent in a way that links you with a group of people in solidarity with and in prayer for those who suffer from alcohol or drug addition and other abuses of the body, then join Fr Hugh / Fr Kieran and others on Ash Wednesday at 7.30pm in the Church for 20 mins to take the Pioneers’ Lenten Pledge. This is a commitment to abstain from all intoxicating drink, to recite a daily prayer, to wear the pioneer emblem.
Each Fri. evening there will be Stations of the Cross 7pm.
LENTEN ALMS (see box on wall opposite Lady Altar- monies go towards:
The diocesan St John Southworth Fund assists homeless, migrants and refugees, youth education, disability support, pastoral support for the elderly, children and various other projects
And Friends of the Holy Land - to provide spiritual, moral and financial support for the suffering Christian Community in the Holy Land cf. www.friendsoftheholyland.org.uk
Children’s Calendars for Lent – available at back.
FAMILY FAST DAY, Friday 25th March, will be in aid of Aid to the Church in Need. More information to come.
National Day for Prayer and Fasting for Life: On the 9th March, Ash Wednesday please pray & fast for the end of abortion and euthanasia. Inf: Good Counsel Network on 020 7723 1740
Archbishop’s Mass of Thanksgiving for the Sacrament of Matrimony: Westminster Cathedral, Sat 11th June 3.00pm. Those who are celebrating their 10th, 25th, 40th, 50th and 60th + wedding anniversary of Catholic marriage in 2011 please give us:: Husband & wife’s names, wedding date, postal address & email or tel. no.
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