(back of) newsletter 22nd Feb 2015

RESPONSORIAL PSALM: Your ways, Lord, are faithfulness and love

                                                                            For those who keep your covenant.                      

IMPULSES FOR PRAYER: 

Genesis 15:1-21;   Exodus 19:16-25;   Matt 4:1-11;   Luke 4:1-13

MEDITATION:

Sustain us, Lord, we implore you, with your heavenly peace and goodness. With all our hearts and minds we pray to you, O Lord. Lord have mercy.

For the holy Church of God throughout the world, we pray to you, O Lord. Lord have mercy.

For those who have lost loved ones, for widows and orphans, for those deprived of freedom and for all repentant sinners. Lord have mercy.

For fine weather and the fertility of the earth. Lord have mercy.

For mariners, for refugees and for those who find themselves in chains or in exile. Lord have mercy. For those who are afflicted with illness: Lord have mercy.

From the Ambrosian Rite: Litany for the Sundays of Lent

Mass Intentions for First Week in Lent

Saturday 21^st  February, 6pm: Veronica and Michael, Miriam’s niece and husband, married in Perth last weekend.

Sunday 22^nd February, 10am: Henry Ellis, RIP

Sunday 22nd February, 11.30am: Ana Francesca and Vicente D’Souza, RIP

Monday 23rd February, 10am: Damien Upton, RIP

Tuesday 24th February,10am: In Thanksgiving

Wednesday 25th February, 10am: Joe Batty, RIP

Thursday 26^th February, 10.00am:

Friday 27th February, 10am:

Saturday 28^th February, 10am: John Brown, RIP

CHURCH FLOWERS MINISTRY

Our heartfelt thanks to Ann, Angela and their team who have decorated the church so beautifully for many years. They are retiring after the weekend of 12^th April.

From then on we will need a new team.

 If you would like to be part of the team, please let Fr Seamus know. The duties include arranging flowers and disposing of them later on.

DIVINE MERCY DEVOTIONS ON MONDAYS IN THE PRESBYTERY AT 2.30pm:

Do join us on 2^nd March and 16^th March

SOUL AND MOTOWN NIGHT

For friends, parents and staff of St Richard’s Catholic College. On Saturday 7th March, 7.30pm to 11.30pm, in the college hall. Featuring Soul Man Sam. £8 per ticket. Licensed bar. Tickets on sale in Reception or phone (01424) 731070

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CAN YOU DONATE CROCKERY, curtains or a vacuum cleaner to a learning disabled adult who is struggling in an unfurnished flat having been moved off disability benefits and onto Job Seekers’ Allowance. If you can, please phone or text parishioner Claire Cordell on 07811 464202. Claire can collect your donations.

“PARTNERS IN CREATION”

CAFOD in St Leonard’s Deanery invites you to a Lenten Service focussing on Creation and Climate Change. On Sunday 1^st March at 3.30pm in St Mary Magdalene’s Church, Bexhill.

Please join us for tea or coffee and hot cross buns after this service.