(front of) newsletter, 23rd October 2016

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

Tel: 01424 421263              Email: stmaryshastings@outlook.com

(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. Tuesday 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.

THIRTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

23rd OCTOBER 2016             YEAR C         Parish Mass book: p 155

TODAY: There will be a collection for MISSIO. ----------------------------------------------------------- SCHOOL FORMS are being signed after the 6pm Mass on Saturdays in October. CENTENARY ANNIVERSARY OF THE MARIAN APPARITION OF FATIMA We are considering running a parish pilgrimage to Fatima. If you are interested in going on pilgrimage to Fatima, please let Fr Seamus know. -------------------------------------------------------------- PARISH COMMUNITY CLUB In the Crypt. Entrance via The Bourne. Mondays 10.30am to 12 noon. Annual subscription: £3. Non-members welcome: 50p for talks. Coffee/tea & biscuit: 50p. 24th Oct: Wonderful Flower Arranging. By Irene Grandfield. There’ll be 12 arrangements for raffle. 31st October: coffee and chat. CONFIRMATION 2017. ENQUIRY MEETING: Friday 11th November at 7pm in the presbytery meeting rooms. Could Confirmation candidates from Year 10 and above please fill in this form and hand it into the presbytery: NAME: CONTACT DETAILS: -------------------------------------------------------------- MEDJUGORJE EVENING HERE AT STAR OF THE SEA CHURCH Wednesday 9th November 7pm: Holy Rosary followed by Mass. 8pm to 9pm: Adoration. Do join us for the evening, which takes place at the same time as the rosary, Mass and Adoration in Medjugorje. SACRED HEART SCHOOL ANNUAL FIREWORKS SPECTACULAR! Friday 4th November. Doors 5.45 pm. Fabulous firework display. Hot food, tea, cakes, candy floss, kids’ disco and giant bonfire. All welcome! -------------------------------------------------------------- SAFEGUARDING If you have been given DBS/CRB forms, please could you fill them in and bring them back quickly with your verification documents. Many thanks to those who have already brought theirs back. Please feel free to contact me if you have any queries. Tel no. 07518521286 or 01424 753923. Chris Emary, Parish Safeguarding Officer.

NOVEMBER BLESSING OF THE GRAVES at the Catholic Cemetery, Fairlight on Sunday 6th November at 3pm. Envelopes are at back of church for you to take and fill in with names of your dearly departed. You can hand your filled-in envelope with or without an offering enclosed to Fr Seamus or through the presbytery letterbox and it will be placed on the altar. The people whose names you write will be remembered in the Novena of Masses for the Holy Souls in November.  -------------------------------------------------------- SNOWFLAKE NIGHT SHELTER NEEDS YOU We need volunteers to help run the winter night shelter in Hastings and St Leonards. Friday 25th November 2016 – Monday 20th March 2017. Dates of volunteer registration/ training events are now on the Website and Facebook Page. Visit: http://www.snowflake-nightshelter.org.uk Join us on Facebook: Snowflake Night Shelter Or phone: 07954 241544 STOP PRESS! There will be an induction meeting for volunteers here at St Mary Star of the Sea Church on Tuesday 25th October at 7.30pm. It will last an hour, and volunteers will need to fill in a volunteer form. If you can’t make this meeting, you will need to go to one of the others listed on the Snowflake website. Many thanks. PALLOTTINE POST-COMMUNION PRAYER Lord, make me a better person, more considerate towards others, more honest with myself, more faithful to you. Make me generous enough to want sincerely to do your will whatever it may be. Help me to find my true vocation in life and grant that through it I may find happiness myself and bring happiness to others. Lord, may those whom you call to enter the priesthood or religious life have the generosity to answer your call. St Vincent Pallotti, pray for us. Mary, Mother of Divine Love, pray for us.