SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT
2nd collection: CAFOD Lent Fast Day
VIGIL MASS (OLHoC): 6.00pm (Sat. 25th Feb.) (Pro Populo)
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (The Wellbeing of Wendy & David James)
X Refreshments
in the Hall after Mass
MASS (OLHoC): 11.00am (Yvette, Samuel, Yves, & Michael Théanne RIP)
Children’s
Liturgy Session during Mass
The psalm response will be practised before Mass in preparation for the Easter Vigil
X
Refreshments in the Hall after Mass
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• MONDAY,
March 6th – Lenten Feria
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Brian
Donlan RIP)
X Beacon+ Community Café (OLHoC): 9.30am to
2.30pm
X Tea and chat for the Wise and Mature (St
Joseph’s Hall) 1.30pm – 3.30pm
• TUESDAY, March 7th - Lenten Feria
NO MASS TODAY
X Beacon+ Community Café (OLHoC): 9.30am to
2.30pm
• WEDNESDAY, March 8th - Lenten Feria
MASS (OLHoC): 10.00am (Margaret Riordan RIP)
X Refreshments in the Hall after Mass
• THURSDAY,
March 9th – Lenten Feria
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Margaret
Dean & family)
X Beacon+ Community Café (OLHoC): 9.30am to
2.30pm
Parish Open
Office with Fr Alex
no
appointment necessary - 4pm to 7pm
• FRIDAY, March 10th – Lenten Feria
FUNERAL MASS
(OLHoC): 10.00am
of Leslie
Thomas Armstrong
Stations of the Cross (OLHoC): 12.00 noon
• SATURDAY, March 11th – Lenten Feria
MASS (OLHoC): 10.00am (In Thanksgiving to God)
Confessions & Exposition (OLHoC): 11.00am to 12 noon
Note: THE PARISH RECONCILLIATION
FOR EASTER WILL BE ON SATURDAY 25TH MARCH
Next Sunday: March 12th,
2023
THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Pro Populo)
X Refreshments
in the Hall after Mass
MASS (OLHoC): 11.00am (Giuseppina Cavallo RIP)
Children’s Liturgy Session during Mass
X The psalm response will be practised before Mass in preparation for the Easter Vigil
X CAFOD FAMILY FAST DAY – LENT APPEAL AND
SECOND COLLECTION. The Lenten fast day for CAFOD
was last Friday and envelopes for this week’s second collection for Cafod are
at the back of the church and may be taken from the back of the church and
placed in the second collection being held next weekend. This Lent, your donations to CAFOD’s Family Fast Day Appeal will help
families fighting the climate crisis and ensure that our Church network can
quickly respond to emergencies, like the recent earthquake in Syria and Turkey.
Let us also pray for CAFOD’s development and emergency response work all over
the world.
X COLLECTION – a total of £703.65 was raised at last week’s cash collection and a total of £277.04 was raised in the second collection for the Clergy Support Fund for sick and retired priests.
We received a further £216.84 from the coffee morning collections for Wednesday and Sunday mornings. Thank you to our volunteers for their work on the coffee mornings and thank you for your kindness and generosity.
X PARISH SECRETARY VACANCY - the Parish Secretary vacancy is for 4 hours per day, 10.00am to 2.00pm, on a Monday and Friday (pay is currently National Minimum Wage of £9.50 per hour due to rise to £10.42 in April 2023). If you are interested and want to know more, please talk to Fr Alex. An application form and a job description is available from Fr Alex.
Closing date for applications is 17th March, 2023. The successful candidate will have a trial period for one month.
X HELP! - A REQUEST FROM ARCHBISHOP JOHN. Dear friends, I need your help. Good preaching matters to every Catholic. I would like to gather some feedback from people who listen to sermons regularly in a Catholic setting. This is to help those entrusted with the ministry of preaching.
If you are willing to help, please would you be kind enough to answer the following questions – as fully as possible. You can reply by copying and pasting the questions below into an email, then type your personal responses underneath and send the email to homilyhelp@gmail.com
This is a gmail account because it’s easy to set up for this purpose. Someone contacted me to say they are worried it’s a scam. It’s not. If you are concerned you can always send something to me at archbishop@rcaos.org.uk, but the gmail account is easier for me and this project. Or you can post something to Archbishop’s House, 150 St George’s Road, London, SE1 6HX.
All responses will be treated confidentially. Please feel free to share this invitation.
Question 1 - What things do you find most helpful in a homily?
Question 2 - What things do you find least helpful in a homily?
Question 3 - What things would you want a preacher to bear in mind when preparing a homily?
Question 4 - What things would you want a preacher to bear in mind when delivering a homily?
Question 5 - Is there anything else you want to offer to help preachers preach better?
Finally,
if you’re willing, could you say if you are:
a. Under 20
b. 20-30
c. 30-50
d. 50+
Thank you so much.
Most
Rev John Wilson
Archbishop
of Southwark
X CAN YOU HELP WITH SUNDAY COFFEE? Would you like to help with Sunday Coffee after the 9.00am Mass on a Sunday? We are looking for a couple of volunteers to help share the rota, you would be needed once every 4-6 weeks. Please contact Monica Aherne monaherne@gmail.com or 07870 911057 if you are interested.
X PRAYERS FOR OUR SICK PARISHIONERS: John McDermottroe, Margaret Gillhealey, Mark de Pulford, Steve Press, Margaret Wooley and all who are undergoing investigations, operations or receiving care.
X PLEASE PRAY FOR THE REPOSE OF THE SOUL of Gabrielle Lockley who died last week and for Brian Donlan. May they rest in peace. We also pray for all those who have died recently, and for all those whose anniversaries fall at this time, including amongst them: Brian Hamer, Philip Townsend (5 Mar); Martin Kilduff, Jeanne Christou (6 Mar); Ronnie McIntyre, Francisca Armijo, Eileen Whickman, Stephanie Langley, Frederick Andrews (7 Mar); Rosemary Stone, Maura Finnerty, Timothy O’Connell (9 Mar); Margaret Smithers, Brian Blomfield (10 Mar); Leon Falkowski, Mary Clare, Pasquale Gallone (11 Mar); Robert Bowder, Lawrie Palmieri, Freda Walton (12 Mar).
X READERS - Sunday 5th March
6.00pm (Saturday) – Monica A. & Kevin S.
9.00am – Annie H & Glyn H.
11.00am – Nathan M.
& Karen I.
Next Sunday 12th March
6.00pm
– John P. & Earl M.
9.00am – George P.
& Sister Alice
11.00am – Patrick D. & Hugh B.
X CARITAS
SOUTHWARK INAUGURATION – you are invited to a great event on 18th March 2023 at
St George’s Cathedral during which Archbishop John Wilson will inaugurate
Caritas Southwark in the Archdiocese.
This occasion will begin at 12.30pm with the Holy Mass and continue in Amigo Hall thereafter, with light
refreshments and a Roadshow of the
numerous social and religious activities operating within the diocese.
X ST PATIRCK'S DAY CELBERATION AT ST JOSEPH'S HALL ON FRIDAY 17TH MARCH AT 7.00PM - TICKETS £8 AVAILAIBLE FROM ANN BERRY OR MARGARET IRVING.
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