(back of ) newsletter 11th Oct 2015

RESPONSORIAL PSALM:  Fill us with your love that we may rejoice.

IMPULSES FOR PRAYER: Wis: 12-16;   Acts 2: 44;   1 Pt 1: 23

MEDITATION:

The Church, the mystical body of Christ, does not worship itself, but worships Christ who is actually present in his Body and in his Blood that the Church receives in the sacrament of the Eucharist, which is its life.

Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, The Mass (Collins, 1990)

           

MASS INTENTIONS

Saturday 10th October, 6pm: Mavis Murphy, RIP

Sunday 11^th October, 10am: Goyko Vuctchkovitch   11.30am: Duncan Browne and Family Intention

Tuesday 13^th October,10am: Communion Service

Wednesday 14^th October, 10am: Special Intention

Thursday 15th October, 10am:

Friday 16th October, 10am:

Saturday 17th October,10am: Pat Joyce, RIP

Clerk to the Governors. Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School (Hastings) requires a clerk to the governors from January 2016. The clerk will be required for the fully governing body and sub-committee meetings, amounting to a total of ten evening meetings between January and the end of July, in addition to the other administrative aspects of the role.

Our first preference is for a candidate who is already qualified as a clerk, although applicants with a strong secretarial background may be considered.

Initial expressions of interest are welcome by 23^rd October. Please email Stephen Calladine-Evans at chair@sacred-heart.e-sussex.sch.uk, simply providing your contact details and indicating your interest in the role. The expression of interest will result in you receiving the application pack and role description by email on Monday 2^nd November.

DIVINE MERCY PRAYER GROUP

Do join us at the Divine Mercy Prayer Group in the presbytery on the following Mondays at 2.30pm in the presbytery:

12th October, 26th October, 9th November, 23rd November,

8th December, 21st December

COMMUNITY CLUB

In the hall on Mondays from 10.30am till 12 noon. Coffee/tea and biscuits 50p.

Annual subs: £3. Do join us.

October programme:

12th: coffee & chat. Some 1066 poems

19th: ‘Born and Bred in Hastings’. Illustrated talk by E Preston.

26th: coffee and chat

SCAFFOLDING IN CAR PARK

Please could car drivers be careful to avoid the scaffolding in the church car park.

REFUGEE CRISIS

Aidan Cantwell, who is co-ordinating help for refugees at A&B Diocese, thanks everyone from Star of the Sea who has offered help including accommodation and English teaching. You will hear from him soon and/or from the local council when refugees needing your skills and help arrive in Hastings. If you didn’t sign the parish list but would still like to help the refugees coming to Hastings, just click on the link at http://www.abdiocese.org.uk/ .

CHILDREN AND ADULTS BASIC SAFEGUARDING AWARENESS TRAINING

You can access the EduCare e-learning package for free by contacting the Safeguarding Office: safeguarding@dabnet.org or tel. 01273 241203.

Those who successfully complete the module will receive a certificate.

 INEXPENSIVE CHRISTMAS GIFTS AND CARDS TO BENEFIT PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS

The refugees we are hoping to welcome to Hastings and to help will have been brought from the camps. Unfortunately, Christians tend to be too frightened to go to these camps because of the anti-Christian feeling that often exists in them. But you can help Christian refugees by buying Christmas cards and gifts from the Aid to the Church in Need shop at http://www.acnuk.org/products.php  Or you can phone them on 020 8642 8668 and ask them to send you a brochure. In particular, you may wish to buy Advent Calendars from them as they have Nativity scenes on them – such Advent calendars are very hard to find in the shops among the Advent calendars featuring Barbie, Disney characters, Moshi Monsters, Star Wars, Polly Pocket and Fireman Sam.