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.

THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD

8th January 2017             YEAR A         Parish Mass Book page 115

PARISH MATTERS  Deacon Duncan  can be contacted on  07766 828612  for help on parish matters THE WHITE FLOWER APPEAL The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children is holding its annual appeal this weekend. This year SPUC is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the passing of the 1967 Abortion Act. Over 8.7 million unborn children have lost their lives due to abortion in the last 50 years. Since 1967 SPUC has been working tirelessly to uphold the sanctity of human life from conception until natural death. Please help make 2017 a landmark year in SPUC’s historic campaign to win legal protection for unborn children. Please be as generous as you can to help SPUC and help save mothers and babies from abortion. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------- CRIB OFFERINGS This year the offerings will be donated to the Friends of the Holy Land. Every penny will help the poorest Christian families in Bethlehem, the West Bank, Gaza and Israel with education, employment, health and housing initiatives. ------------------------------------------------------------ PARISH FINANCES The offertory collection last weekend came to £702.84 including cheques and standing orders. Many thanks to all concerned. ------------------------------------------------------------- BAPTISM COURSE Saturday 14th January in the presbytery from 10.30am to 12 noon. Parents requesting Baptism for babies and toddlers in the next 4 months  are required to attend. Babies/ children welcome. DIVINE MERCY GROUP WELCOMES you to join us in the presbytery at 2.30pm  on the following Mondays: 9th January, 23rd January, 6th February, 20th February, 6th March, 20th March and 3rd April. There will be no Divine Mercy group on Monday 17th April.

WELCOME TO OUR PROVINCIAL Fr Derry Murphy will be supplying for me as I take a break. Fr Tony ------------------------------------------------------------ IN MEMORIAM Please pray for the repose of the soul of ANNE JOSEPHINE FOLEY, RIP Requiem Mass: Monday 9th January at 1.15pm followed by cremation at Hastings Crematorium. Our prayers and sympathy to her family. May she rest in peace. ----------------------------------------------------------- FEAST OF ST VINCENT PALLOTTI Sunday 22nd January 2017. 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. A THOUGHT You can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses A PRAYER I am regretting the past and fearing the future. Suddenly my Lord was speaking: ‘My name is I am.’ I invited. He continued ‘When you live in the past, with its mistakes and regrets, it is hard. I am not there. My name is not I was. ‘When you live in the future, with its problems and fears, it is hard. I am not there. My name is not I will be. When you live in this moment it is not hard. I am here. My name is I AM. (Helen Mallicoat)