Saturday 26th March
PARISH RECONCILLIATION SERVICE (OLHoC): 4.30pm
Sunday: March 27th
FOURTH
SUNDAY OF LENT
Mothering Sunday and Laetare
Sunday
The Angelus will be said two minutes
before Mass
MASS (OLHOC): 9.00am (Pro Populo)
X Tea/Coffee in the hall after Mass
MASS (OLHoC): 11.00am (Teresa & Patrick Pender RIP)
X Tea/Coffee in
the hall after Mass
• MONDAY, March 28th - Feria
MASS (OLHoC):
9.00am (Valeria Sambucci RIP)
X Parish Pastoral & Social Cttee (OLHoC): 2.00pm
X Catechism Class (OLHoC Hall): 7.30pm
• TUESDAY, March 29th - Feria
NO MASS TODAY
• WEDNESDAY, March 30th - Feria
HOLY ROSARY
(OLHoC): 9.30am followed by
MASS (OLHoC): 10.00am
(Marion Dillon RIP)
X Tea/Coffee in
the hall after Mass
Stations
of the Cross (St Joseph’s):
12.00 noon
• THURSDAY, March 31st - Feria
MASS
(OLHoC): 9.00 am (Holy Souls)
X Lent – Reflection &
Renewal (OLHoC Hall): 7.30pm
• FRIDAY, April 1st - Feria
Mass (OLHoC): 9:00am (Well-being of Margaret Woolley)
Stations of the Cross (OLHoC): 12.00 noon
• SATURDAY, April
2nd - Feria
MASS (OLHoC): 10.00am (Deceased members of the Fitzpatrick family)
Confessions
& Exposition (OLHoC): 11.00am to 12 noon
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Following Sunday: April 3rd
FIFTH SUNDAY
OF LENT
Second Collection: Easter
Flowers
MASS (OLHoC): 6.00pm (Sat.) (Mary Heath RIP)
MASS
(St Joseph’s): 9.00am (Paulene Wood RIP)
X Tea/Coffee in the hall after Mass
MASS (OLHoC):
11.00am (Pro Populo)
X Tea/Coffee in
the hall after Mass
X STATIONS OF THE CROSS take place at noon on
Wednesday at St Joseph’s and noon on Friday at Our Lady, Help of Christians.
X LENT COURSE, SESSION 4: MARY, QUEEN OF HEAVEN - This Thursday we’ll
be at Our Lady, Help of Christians hall, 7.30-9pm. Join us for our DVD and stimulating
discussion! We’d love to see you!
The dates remaining,
and you can drop in to any of the evenings, are:
·
Thursday
31st March: Queen of Heaven – OLHoC hall at 7.30pm
· Thursday 7th April: Help of Christians – St Joseph’s hall at 7.30pm
X CATECHISM AND CATHOLIC STUDY CLASS takes place on Monday nights at 7.30pm in the Hall at Our Lady, Help of Christians. These sessions usually finish around 9.00pm and are engaging, enthusing and enable all participants to explore their faith further. Classes are open to all who want to explore their Catholic faith further. It doesn’t matter if you have not been before, you can drop in any time. Please do come along and join in this amazing experience on a Monday evening. The last class before Easter will be Monday 4th April and they will resume on 9th May.
X A MESSAGE FROM THE MARRIAGE
AND FAMILY LIFE TEAM - Dear husband and wife!
An online ‘Building a Better
Marriage’ opportunity is being held from 9am - 1pm on Saturday April 2nd
2022.
The course offered means that you can
attend the course from your own living room and there is no group sharing!
Recent Building a
Better Marriage courses received the following comments from married couples
who logged on … ‘The topics were chosen well and we could really relate to
them. The personal stories you shared were very insightful and helped us to
reflect on our own relationships more deeply… It was relaxed and you put us at
ease, being friendly and personable...’
‘We thoroughly
enjoyed attending the course and have certainly been practicing a few of the
things we learnt already. It puts a smile on our faces when we do because we
know that we are certainly richer from participating in the course.’
For further information contact: Carole - Tel: 07983524727 or email: mflkent@rcaos.org.uk
X SECOND COLLECTION LAST WEEKEND raised
£69.14 for the Poor Parishes in our Diocese. Thank you for your generosity.
X VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR CHURCH OPENING AND CLOSING AT OLHoC OR HELPING OUT ON SATRURDAY EVENINGS – can you commit to opening and closing the church on a couple of days per week or helping with the stewarding and locking up after Mass on Saturday evenings. If you are able to assist, please speak to Dylan who will run through what’s required and how you might be able to help.
X SECOND COLLECTION NEXT WEEKEND will be for the Easter flowers at both of our churches in the parish.
X PLEASE PRAY FOR THOSE WHO ARE SICK, IN HOSPITAL OR RECOVERING FROM ILLNESS, SURGERY OR TREATMENT including Margaret Woolley, Francis Dunn, Lilian Orfila, Yenny Marcela Torres, Beulah Blomfield, Margaret Murphy and Margaret Foster.
X LATEST CATHOLIC POST newspaper (March edition) is now available for all [one copy each] at the back of the church. A donation towards this cost can be made at any time in the newspapers donation box located at the back of the church at St Joseph’s and at Our Lady, Help of Christians.
X SIR WILLIAM FITTALL, RIP (1953 – 2022) - retired senior civil
servant, Secretary-General of the Church of England General Synod and, more
recently, Chair of the Trustees of the Rainbow Centre, died recently.
Through the Rainbow
Centre, William became involved with the Winter Shelter, he and his wife,
Barbara, initially volunteering a few years ago to help serve breakfasts at Our
Lady, Help of Christians. The following
year he volunteered for the overnight team, sleeping weekly in Our Lady’s hall
most weeks during the course of the winter….and that continued for a few years
with a break when St Paul’s, Sandgate became one of the host churches. But William seemed to have a soft spot for
Our Lady and returned for the 2019/20 season.
For 2020/21 our guests were accommodated in bed-and-breakfasts, so
William became one of our drivers, delivering meals prepared by our cooks.
One evening, William
having arrived in Our Lady Help of Christian’s hall as usual, he received a
‘phone call. He didn’t reveal the
content until much later, by which time the news had become public: William was
to receive a knighthood!
May he rest in peace.
X MASS ATTENDANCE -
last weekend there were 334 people who came to
Sunday Masses. Remember, after the 9.00am and 11.00am Sunday Mass there is always
refreshments available in the church hall at the mass site where Mass is being
held. You are always very welcome to join us for refreshments.
X PLEASE PRAY FOR THE REPOSE OF THE SOULS of those who have died recently, including Eva Goss and Sir Wiliam Fittall, and for all those whose anniversaries fall at this time, including: Molly Clayton, Patricia Reeves (27th March); Julian Perez-Tejedor (28th Mar); James Martin, Paul Kubilec (29th Mar); Jean Smith, Mary Adams, Stephen Geering (30th Mar); Bridget Woodsford (31st Mar); Fernando Nunes-Diniz, Gladys Baker, Rose Simons, Drummond De Villiers (1st Apr); Leonard Ashton (2nd Apr).
X FORWARD DATES FOR THE DIARY -
9th/10th April – Palm Sunday 6.00pm at OLHoC on Saturday 9th, and on Sunday 10th at 9.00am at St
Joseph’s and 11.00am at OLHoC.
14th April – Mass of the Lord’s Supper at 8.00pm at OLHoC followed by watching vigil until
midnight
15th April at 3.00pm – The Passion of the Lord at OLHoC
16th April – Easter Vigil at 8.00pm at OLHoC
17th April – Easter Sunday 9.00am at St Joseph’s and 11.00am at OLHoC with Easter eggs for the
children. There will also be an Easter Egg Hunt at St Joseph’s on that day.
Weekend of 23rd/24th April – Special Comboni Missionaries of the Heart
of Jesus Mission Appeal weekend with
visiting priest.
30th
Apr/1st May – 6.00pm Mass on Saturday 30th April.
There is no 9.00am Mass on 1st May but there is a special 11.00am outdoor
Sunday Mass being held on the school field at Stella Maris School for a joint
parish celebration of St Joseph the worker and Our Lady.
Sunday
15th May – Summer Fayre at OLHoC organised
by the UCM in partnership with the Parish Pastoral and Social Committee in the
hall after the 9.00am and 11.00am Mass.
Sunday
22nd May – First Holy Communions
Sunday
3rd July – BBQ at St Joseph’s
