(front of) newsletter 22nd Feb 2015

St. Mary Star of the Sea   1 High Street, HASTINGS TN34 3EY

Tel: 01424 421263

(Arundel and Brighton Diocesan Trust – Registered Charity 252878)

Society of the Catholic Apostolate (Pallottines)

Parish Priest: Fr Seamus Stapleton SCA

Normal Mass Times

Sundays: 6.00pm (Sat), 10.00am, 11.30am. Monday to Saturday: 10.00am

Adoration: First Friday of Month 10.30am to 12 noon. Saturdays: 10.30am to 11am.

Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturdays 10.30am and after the 6.00pm Mass.

22nd FEBRUARY  2015                  FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT                        YR B

SEASON OF LENT LENTEN GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory! STATIONS OF THE CROSS 9.30am each Friday in Lent. -------------------------------------------------- CHILDREN’S LITURGY TEAM If you are a leader or helper, could you text 07850 561828 or email mysteries.hastings@gmail.com with any Sundays you can’t do in the next three months. And if anyone would like to join our team of leaders and helpers, just text or email as above. Many thanks. ----------------------------------------------------- ON TUESDAY FEBRUARY 24th, THE HOUSE OF LORDS WILL VOTE  ON WHETHER TO LEGALIZE THE GENETIC MODIFICATION OF HUMANS, which the government and scientists are euphemistically and erroneously calling ‘mitochondrial donation’. In fact, like cloning, the techniques involve replacement of an egg's nucleus by a nucleus from another cell. If allowed to go ahead, this will result in most cases in functional and developmental defects in the human beings thus produced. Please write to any member of the House of Lords to voice your concern by going to http://www.stopgm3parentbabies.com/ where you can easily email a lord in two minutes. At the link, you can choose a member of the House or be randomly allocated one. The wording of the email is provided and you can add to it if you wish.

ST PATRICK’S DAY CELEBRATION LUNCH Tuesday 17th March. Mass at 11.30am followed by lunch in church hall at 1pm. Cost £6 to include Irish Coffee. Tickets available after all Masses as from next weekend 28th February/1st March. ----------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL COLLECTION  NEXT WEEKEND for CAFOD Lenten Fast day, which is on Friday. IN MEMORIAM Please pray for the repose of the soul of MICHAEL GEOFFREY HODGSON Funeral Mass: Thursday 26th February at 12 noon Followed by Committal at 1.15pm at Hastings Crematorium May he rest in peace. -------------------------------------------------------------- PARISH FINANCES The offertory collection at last weekend’s Masses came to £739.07 including cheques and standing orders. The collection for the Lourdes Pilgrimage Fund came to £140.02. Many thanks to all concerned. ---------------------------------------------------- BAPTISM COURSE There will be a Baptism course in the presbytery on Saturday 14th February from 10.30am till 12 noon. Parents requesting Baptism for babies and toddlers in the next three months are required to attend. Babies and children welcome. PALLOTTINE PRAYER God saved us by means of the cleansing water of rebirth and renewal in the Holy Spirit, so that, justified by his grace, we should become heirs, in hope of eternal life. They are happy, whose God is the Lord, the people he has chosen as his own. St Vincent Pallotti, pray for us.