(BACK OF) NEWSLETTER 8th FEBRUARY 2015

RESPONSORIAL PSALM:

Praise the Lord who heals the broken-hearted

IMPULSES FOR PRAYER: 

Job 1: 20-22;   Matt 6: 5-13;   1 Thessalonians 5: 16-24

MEDITATION:

Jesus’ ministry was formed and supported by prayer. His relationship with God the Father as expressed in prayer lay at the root of all his actions, even through his Passion and his dying words on the cross. That in the midst of meeting people in extreme need he went off to a deserted place to pray, tells us how central prayer was to his self-understanding.

That is how it needs to be with us also. Glenstal Missal

Mass Intentions for Week 5 in Ordinary Time

Saturday 7th February, 6pm: Ellen Stanston, RIP

Sunday 8th February, 10am: Simon Menezes,Emilio, Elizabeth & Dorothy Rodrigues & Family, RIP

Sunday 8th February, 11.30am: Ron Collins, RIP

Monday 9th February, 10am:

Tuesday 10^th February, St Scholastica,10am:

Wednesday 11^th February, Our Lady of Lourdes, 10am:

Thursday 12^th February, 10.30am: Olive Preskett, RIP, birthday remembrance

Friday 13th February, 10am: Keith Hodgeson, RIP

Saturday 14^th February, Ss Cyril & Methodius, 10am: Holy Souls

OUR PARISH NEWSLETTER CAN ALSO BE READ AT http://staroftheseahastings.blogspot.co.uk/

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

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

Points for possible inclusion in your letters and emails to members of the House of Lords

re GM Babies.

It would be callous not to recognise the deep desire of women whose children may be affected by mitochondrial diseases to bear healthy children of their own. However the issues of safety and legality still remain outstanding whatever view one takes of the ethics of one or both of these procedures. How can it be right to push ahead with a procedure which one world authority, Professor Stuart Newman, has described as “inherently unsafe?”. Another warned that “the UK is on the verge of an historic mistake.” The Chief Medical Officer, Dame Sally Davies, who supports the proposals, told Peers this week: “no-one will guarantee that it is safe”. GM experiments using animals have had some horrifying results. Work was done in exactly the area of manipulation of human beings through mitochondrial ‘donation’ in China over a decade ago. It led to the Chinese Government outlawing the use of these techniques because of the appalling, tragic outcomes.

More points available at http://davidalton.net/2015/02/05/house-of-commons-votes-for-gm-babies-will-the-lords-ask-for-safety-legal-and-ethical-issues-to-be-addressed-90-minutes-for-gm-babies-90-hours-for-foxhunting/