(front of) newsletter, 22nd January, 2017

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

Tel: 01424 421263              Email: stmarystarofthesea.hastings.uk@gmail.com

(Arundel and Brighton Diocesan Trust – Registered Charity 252878)

Society of the Catholic Apostolate (Pallottines)

Parish Deacon: Rev. Duncan Brown.                                                           Priest: Mgr Tony Harris, 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.

FEAST OF ST VINCENT PALLOTTI/ THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

22nd January 2017             YEAR A         Parish Mass Book page 127

The Funeral Mass of MRS MARY DONNELLY will take place on Monday 6th February at 10am followed by burial at Hastings Cemetery. Our sympathy and prayers to her family.  May she rest in peace. -------------------------------------------------------- MR JOHN DRIVER RIP Sympathy is offered to Mrs Judy Brown on the death of her brother MR JOHN DRIVER. John spent a number of years as a student with the Pallottines. He was a classmate of Fr Kevin Ward SCA. We keep John and his family in our prayers at this sad time.  May he rest in peace. ---------------------------------------------------------- PARISH FINANCES The offertory collection last weekend came to £684.79including cheques and standing orders. Many thanks to all concerned. ON TUES 24th and WED 25th JANUARY there will be Liturgy of the Word with Holy Communion instead of our 10am Mass. --------------------------------------------------------- DIVINE MERCY GROUP WELCOMES you to join us in the presbytery at 2.30pm  on the following Mondays: 23rd January, 6th February, 20th February, 6th March, 20th March and 3rd April. There will be no Divine Mercy group  on Monday 17th April. HOW TO DEFEND THE CHRISTIAN FAITH WITHOUT SHOUTING The Diocese invites you to a formation day on Saturday 11 February at the Christian Education Centre, Crawley RH10 6RP with Austen Ivereigh, papal biographer, coordinator and co-founder of Catholic Voices and a contributing editor for Crux. 9.30am (registration from 9am) to 2pm. Bring a packed lunch. Booking essential. Contact Mark Woods, Communications Officer on 01293 651170 or email communications@dabnet.org or book online at www.dabnet.org/courses (click on communications)

FEAST OF ST VINCENT PALLOTTI Today, Sunday 22nd January, is the Feast of St Vincent Pallotti, founder of the Pallottine Fathers and Brothers. On 1st September 1963, Pope Blessed Paul VI, speaking at Frascati, said, “St Vincent Pallotti was a pioneer: he anticipated by almost a century the recognition that the laity could participate in the Church’s mission. In saying this one risks denigrating the Christian tradition but we must be realistic and admit that this saint gave the lay conscience a jolt by demonstrating that the laity -  previously dormant and passive, timid and unable to express itself – had a great potential for good. He released new energy, made lay people aware of their possibilities for doing good and enriched the Christian community with a huge number of vocations, not merely as a passive and tranquil acceptance of faith but as an active and militant profession of faith.” This year the feast will be celebrated ON WEDNESDAY 25th JANUARY at the Church of Our Lady of the Visitation, 358 Greenford Road, Middlesex UB6 9AN with Mass at 12.30pm followed by lunch at the Cardinal Wiseman School. All are welcome. PALLOTTINE PRAYER Come, Vincent, you who burned  with love for Christ, With love you shone brightly, Come, enlighten our minds, To follow your example with boundless love of Christ. St Vincent Pallotti, pray for us. Mary, Mother of Divine Love, pray for us. --------------------------------------------------------------- PARISH COMMUNITY CLUB In the Crypt. Entrance via The Bourne. Mondays 10.30am to 12 noon.  January 2017 programme: 23rd: Coffee & chat plus armchair exercises – different ones from last time! Annual subscription: £3. Non-members welcome: 50p for talks. Coffee/tea & biscuit/ cake: 50p. A THOUGHT Though God made us from dust that is no reason to treat others like dirt.