(front of) newsletter 29th March 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.

29th MARCH  2015   PALM SUNDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD  YR B. Parish Mass Book p 181

MASSES ON THE MONDAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY OF HOLY WEEK will be at 10am as usual. For the next three days, our normal timetable is replaced by the following: HOLY THURSDAY Mass of the Lord’s Supper at 7.30pm. Watching until 10pm in church at altar of repose. FRIDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD/ GOOD FRIDAY Procession of Witness starts from St Clement’s Church at 10.30am, then to St Mary Star of the Sea, ending at All Saints. Do join us for this ecumenical event. Please note: there will be no indoor Stations of the Cross on Good Friday. CELEBRATION OF OUR LORD’S PASSION At 3pm on Good Friday. With a collection for the Holy Places. Please note, Good Friday is a Day of Fasting and Abstinence. HOLY SATURDAY Easter Vigil at 8pm. Please note, there will be no 6pm Mass on Holy Saturday. ROTA FOR READERS FOR HOLY WEEK CEREMONIES is at the back of the church. --------------------------------------- DO JOIN US FOR THE CHURCH EASTER CLEAN-UP ON WEDNESDAY 1ST APRIL from 8.30am onwards. ---------------------------------------------------------- BLESSING OF POLISH FOOD Will be on Saturday 4th April at 12 noon. Swiecenie potraw w sobote 04.04 o godz 12.00 tutaj w kosciele St Mary Star of the Sea ---------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE TAKE A BISHOPS’ LETTER Giving guidance on how to discern who to vote for at the General Election. At back of church.

PARISH FINANCES The offertory collection at last weekend’s Masses came to £697.47 including cheques and standing orders. Many thanks to all concerned. A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE Who contributed to the special collection for the Church Restoration Work. £4,148 was raised. THE ST PATRICK’S DAY LUNCH raised £322. Thank you for your generosity to all those who made this fundraising event such a success: our generous parishioners who contributed financially, who organized and prepared the St Patrick’s Day lunch and all those who came to clean and put everything back in order afterwards. GIFT AID ENVELOPES For the coming year are available in church porch. ---------------------------------------------------------- ENVELOPES FOR EASTER OFFERINGS For the support of your clergy  are at the back of the church. PALLOTTINE PRAYER Jesus, stripped and scourged, slapped and derided, crowned with thorns and greeted with derision, spat upon, struck, insulted and ridiculed, have mercy on us. Jesus, laden with the cross of our sins and the curses of the multitudes, Nailed to an infamous tree between two thieves, wearied with insults and humiliations, Mortified and dishonoured before men, Have mercy on us. St Vincent Pallotti, pray for us.