SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT
Second Collection: CAFOD Lent Appeal
VIGIL MASS (OLHoC): 6.00pm (Sat. 24th) (Pro Populo)
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (David Mills RIP)
X Refreshments in the Hall
after Mass
MASS (OLHoC): 11.00am (Brian Donlan RIP)
Children’s Liturgy session during Mass
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MONDAY, February
26th – Feria
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Well-being of Margaret Woolley)
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TUESDAY, February
27th – Feria
NO MASS TODAY AT OLHoC
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WEDNESDAY, February
28th
MASS (OLHoC): 10.00am (Michael
Davis RIP)
X PARISH LENT PROGRAM 2024
“We Dare to Say” – Reflection (OLHoC Hall): 2.00pm to 3.30pm
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THURSDAY, February
29th – Feria
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Paddy Clark RIP)
Parish Open Office with Fr Alex – 4pm-7pm at the Presbytery (OLHoC)
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FRIDAY, March
1st
ST DAVID
MASS (OLHoC):9.00am (The Well-being of Abraham Vanghese)
STATIONS OF THE CROSS (OLHoC): 12
noon
X World Day of Prayer (All Souls Anglican Church): 2.30pm
• SATURDAY, March 2nd - Feria
MASS (OLHoC):10.00am (Brian Bucktrout RIP)
Confessions & Exposition (OLHoC): 11.00am to 12 noon
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Next Sunday: March 3rd, 2024
THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT
MASS (OLHoC): 6pm (Sat. March 2nd) (Frank & Else McSwiggan RIP)
MASS (OLHoC): 9.00am (Pro Populo)
X Refreshments in the Hall
after Mass
MASS (OLHoC): 11.00am (Well-being of Ema Deba)
Children’s Liturgy session during Mass
X Refreshments in the Hall
after Mass
There will be weekly events to help us with our Lenten Reflections. The sessions are planned for Wednesday afternoons and evenings at Our Lady’s Hall.
Dates are :
February 28th at 2 pm to 3:30 pm
March 6th at 7 pm
to 8:30 pm
March 13th at 2pm to 3:30 pm
March 20th at 7pm to 8:30 pm
The topic is “ WE DARE TO SAY” based on Our Lord’s Prayer. Booklets accompanying the programme can be purchased from the Parish bookshop for £3.00 each. For an electronic version, please contact the Parish office.
X STATIONS OF THE CROSS will take place on Fridays during Lent at 12:00 noon.
X THE POPE’S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR FEBRUARY are for the terminally ill. We pray that those with a terminal illness, and their families, receive the necessary physical and spiritual care and accompaniment. Let us pray for the Pope that, with the help of the Holy Spirit, he may continue to accompany in the faith the flock entrusted to him.
X WORLD DAY OF PRAYER – This ecumenical prayer service will take place on
Friday 1st March, at 2.30pm at All Souls Church, Cheriton. Annually this
service is put together by the ladies of different countries, reflecting their
hopes, concerns & prayers – this year it has been put together by the
ladies of Palestine. Refreshments will be served after the service. For more
information please contact Margaret Irving on 01303 278435
X COLLECTIONS – last weekend’s collection raised £668.71. The second collection raised a total of £285.00 for Sick and Retired Priests and the Clergy Support Fund.
In addition, we received donations of £114.10 from the coffee mornings held on Wednesday and Sunday mornings. Thank you for your generosity.
X FORTHCOMING COLLECTIONS IN 2024
· CAFOD Lent Appeal:
25th February
· Parish
Building & Maintenance: 10th March
· Poor Parishes: 17th
March
· Holy Places of Palestine: 29th March
X CAFOD FAMILY FAST DAY APPEAL – SUNDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2024 - this Lent, your donations to CAFOD’s Family Fast Day appeal will help hardworking people like James the fisherman in Liberia with resources, tools and training to feed their families for good.
This Sunday you can give the cost of the amount from your skipped meal this coming Friday by using the envelopes provided or into the second collection plate next weekend and please join us in praying with James that our sisters and brothers around the world have what they need to feed their families.
X THE SICK - We remember all those who are sick and housebound and that they remain in our prayers including John McDermottroe, Bob Vickery, Canon Luke Smith, Sheelagh (Mary) Crowther, Beulah Blomfield, John Lodge, Robert Jones, Veronica Poulton, Margaret Woolley, Ema Deba, Rosaleen Kelly, King Charles, John McDermottroe and all those who have asked for our prayers.
X CARITAS: This March we celebrate the first anniversary of Caritas Southwark. To mark the occasion, Archbishop John will celebrate Mass at St George’s Cathedral on Saturday 16th March at 12.30pm. Kindly save the date in your diaries and there will also be an event in the Amigo Hall afterwards to hear about some of the wonderful projects happening around the diocese.
X WE PRAY FOR THE RECENTLY
DECEASED - Please pray for the repose of the souls of Fr
Patrick Maloney, Tennea Cheesman, Eric Barton, Bronwen Strinati, Michael Lyons and all those who
have died recently or whose anniversaries fall at
this time including: Joseph Punnett, Mary Quinn, Charles
Mitchell (25th Feb); Elvina Davies (26th Feb); Aristhea Poile, Walter Borucki,
Martin Morgan (27th Feb); Freda Spencer (28th Feb); John Zabrocki, Mary Rowe,
Joan Fitzgerlad (1st Mar); Frank McSwiggan, Gwen Plunkett (2nd Mar); Sheila
Booth, Francis McGurran, Albert Clover (3rd Mar); Hazel McCann, Edith Gilbert,
Bernard Gibbens, John Byrne (4th Mar); Brian Hamer, Philip Townsend (5th Mar).
X MASS IN CELEBRATION OF THE SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE - July 13th, 2024 at St George’s Cathedral. If you are celebrating your 1st/10th/25th/40th/50th/60th + wedding anniversary this year, please let us know as soon as possible, and no later than May 31st 2024, providing the following details: your names in the format ‘John and Mary Smith’, your home address, the anniversary you are celebrating, so you can receive an invitation from the Archbishop for the renewal of vows during Mass. Spaces are limited. Email mflkent@rcaos.org.uk. For the title of your email, please write your parish location e.g. Our Lady and St Joseph, Folkestone.
X A DAY WITH MARY PILGRIMAGES
Further information on A Day With Mary
2024 Pilgrimages to Fatima (7-14 June) and Italy (4-12 September) is available
at www.adaywithmary.org or
email adwmary.uk@gmail.com
X LENT FROM 14 FEBRUARY TO 28 MARCH. Lent is a 40-day fast — a reference to the time Jesus spent being
tempted in the desert. It’s a time when we can prepare our hearts for the
remembrance of Christ’s death. Our observance of Lent culminates in the solemn
celebrations of Holy Week when on Palm Sunday we follow Christ from his
triumphant entrance into Jerusalem to the foot of the Cross as sorrowful
bystanders to His Passion, before rolling back the stone of the empty tomb and
the joy of the Resurrection. The
six-week period is dedicated to prayer, fasting, and almsgiving in preparation
for this great celebration of Christ’s Paschal Mystery in the Easter Triduum.
