Sunday: April 3rd
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT
Second Collection: Easter Flowers
The Angelus will be said two minutes
before Mass
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
• MONDAY, April 4th - Feria
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Deceased relatives of Miss Annie Court)
• TUESDAY, April 5th - Feria
NO MASS TODAY
• WEDNESDAY, April 6th - Feria
HOLY ROSARY (OLHoC): 9.30am
followed by
MASS (OLHoC): 10.00am (Brother James Casey RIP)
X Tea/Coffee in
the hall after Mass
Stations
of the Cross (St Joseph’s):
12.00 noon
• THURSDAY, April 7th - Feria
FUNERAL
MASS of Eva Gross (OLHoC): 10.00 am
X Burial of Eva Gross (Hawkinge): 11.00am
X Lent –
Reflection & Renewal (St Jo’s Hall): 7.30pm
• FRIDAY, April 8th - Feria
Mass (OLHoC): 9:00am (Fr Denis Paul RIP)
Stations of the Cross (OLHoC): 12.00 noon
• SATURDAY, April
9th - Feria
MASS (OLHoC): 10.00am (Brian Bucktrout RIP)
Confessions & Exposition
(OLHoC): 11.00am to 12 noon
Following Sunday: April 10th
PALM SUNDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE
LORD
MASS (St Joseph’s):
9.00am (Pro Populo)
X Tea/Coffee in the hall after Mass
Palm Sunday procession from10.30am from the hall before
MASS (OLHoC): 11.00am (Giovanni Strinati RIP)
X Tea/Coffee in
the hall after Mass
X ŚWIĘCONKA [BLESSING OF THE EASTER BASKETS] will take place on Easter Saturday, 16th April, at OLHoC
at 1.00pm
X LENT COURSE, SESSION 5 - Join us for our final session this Thursday,
7.30pm at St Joseph’s hall. Thank you to everyone who’s attended so far….
for your listening, your discussion, your warmth. See you on Thursday!
· 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. This is the last class before Easter will be Monday 4th April and they will resume on 9th May. So come along for Catholic learning and your journey in faith.
X VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR CHURCH OPENING AND CLOSING AT OLHoC OR HELPING OUT ON SATURDAY EVENINGS – can you commit to occasionally 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 THIS 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 POPE FRANCIS’ PRAYER INTENTION FOR APRIL: For Health Care Workers - We pray for health care workers who serve the sick and the elderly, especially in the poorest countries; may they be adequately supported by governments and local communities.
X EASTER OFFERING – Easter Offering envelopes will be placed at the back of the church from next weekend for you to put into the collection baskets or to put through the Presbytery door at 41 Guildhall Street.
X MASS ATTENDANCE -
last weekend there were 351 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 LATEST CATHOLIC POST newspaper out today (April edition) is now available for all [one copy each] at the back of the church. An optional 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. Please take your copy home and good luck with the crossword on the back cover.
X NUNCIO VISITS ASYLUM SEEKERS IN FOLKESTONE – this week the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti,
visited the former army barracks in Folkestone on Thursday 31st March to show
the Pope’s solidarity with them as they look to a better future. Archbishop
Gugerotti, the Pope’s representative in the UK listened to the asylum seekers’
stories and learned more about their struggles. The plight of migrants
and refugees is a subject close to the Holy Father’s heart as he said “The Pope
wants to go and see the suffering flesh of the Lord. The poor are the suffering
flesh of the Lord – and [asylum seekers] are the poor.”
X STATIONS OF THE CROSS – during Lent our parish can follow the Stations of the Cross - at 12 noon on Wednesday at St Joseph’s and at 12 noon on Friday at Our Lady, Help of Christians and St Aloysius. A “station” is a place on a journey where one makes a stop – and we follow Jesus along the path of sorrow – the Via Dolorosa - from Pilate’s Court to the tomb, and we make a stop at fourteen places to be with Jesus on this way of suffering. The Stations of the Cross is a devotion that can reach deep into our hearts and prepares us to enter into the heart of the Paschal Mystery at Easter.
X PARISH CENSUS 2022 – Next weekend we will be starting our Parish Census to update our records held by Our Lady and St Joseph, Folkestone. Forms will be given out for completion from next weekend.
X PLEASE PRAY FOR THE REPOSE OF THE SOULS of those who have died recently, and for all those whose anniversaries fall at this time, including: John Moran, Robert Woodhead (3rd Apr); Ellen Brown (4th Apr); Barbara Goldfinch, John Lawrence, Giovannina Divito, James McCann, Patrick Carter (5th Apr); Monique Whalley, David St Ledger, Joyce Dorgan (7th Apr); Richard Vigus (8th Apr); Eric Thody, Doris Croucher , Mary Reeve (9th Apr).
X FUNERAL MASS OF EVA GROSS is at 10.00am on Thursday morning (note the
Mass time change). All are welcome to attend.
X VEILING OF THE CROSS AND THE STATUES - Today is the Fifth Sunday of Lent, and the statues and crosses are VEILED at our churches. Why? The Church has veiled her colourful images and bright crosses at Passiontide for over 1,000 years - precisely because they are splendid and beautiful. We do it to deepen the Lenten plain-ness of the church; we do it to echo Christ’s veiling of his own splendour during his passion; we do it in order to give ourselves a jolt, a vivid reminder of that we’re about something serious during this time of getting ready for the Paschal mystery; and we do it in order to focus – to keep ourselves from being distracted before the proper time by what are, in fact, celebrations and expressions of Christ’s victory.
The crosses will be unveiled after the Liturgy of Good Friday; the statues just before the Vigil.
X FORWARD DATES, EVENTS AND MASS TIMES FOR THE DIARY –
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 open
to all children in the parish.
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 – Parish Fayre in the OLHoC hall
after the 11.00am Mass running from 12 noon until 2.30pm.
Sunday
22nd May – First Holy Communions
Sunday
3rd July – BBQ at St Joseph’s
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