8th of February
5th Sunday in Ordinary Time 
Year: A
NOTICES
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Lent begins next week, (we will need some palm crosses for Ashes) and now is the time to think about what we might want to do to keep Lent, together and individually. Ideas to help the planet (Give up meat), or the community or a community in dire need elsewhere in the world, Cafod has some good ideas. https://cafod.org.uk/pray/prayer-resources/lent-family-prayer-ideas
QUIZ NIGHT: Friday 13th February, 7pm for 7.30pm. Tickets are priced either at £8 (inclusive of a fish and chip supper) or £3 exclusive. Will you let Pauline know by 12noon tomorrow if you want Fish and chips so that she can order them for you.
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VALENTINES CARD: The annual Valentine’s Card will be on sale after Mass this weekend at the back of church.
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GOSPEL JOY DISCUSSION GROUP: Monday, 2-3pm. ’You are the light of the world.’
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GARDENING GROUP: Tuesday & Saturday, after Mass. All welcome.
SACRAMENTAL PROGRAMME: Tuesday, 6pm for 6.30pm. A meeting for the parents and children involved in this year’s programme.
WEEKLY COFFEE MORNING: Friday, after Mass.
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STOCK CHECK: Sunday 15 February, after Mass. There will be a stock check of the piety stall in preparation for Easter and First Holy Communion. All are invited to help.
CARITAS COLLECTIONS: These collections continue at the back of church. The Food bank finds that demand far outstrips supply, tins, dried goods toiletries Many thanks for your continued generosity.
Hymns: 962 644 898 367 987
THE WORLD THIS WEEK
True peace, like unity, is richer and tougher than the version peddled on the world stage. For at least a few centuries, the Vatican has addressed the deficit by combining homespun pieties with icy realpolitik, but Trumpian geopolitics may be straining the formula too far. “We little ones can raise our voices and always seek dialogue and not violence to resolve these problems,” Pope Leo told the scrum of reporters in Castel Gandolfo last week, even as the Holy See was considering an invitation to join President Trump’s Board of Peace and discreetly maintaining contact with an Iranian regime gunning down its own citizens. The dissonance doesn’t do the message any favours.
In such a bind, the Church usually turns to St Francis and his unerring ability to turn out the crowds and tell them a story. “Our times are not very different from those in which Francis lived, and precisely in light of this, his teachings are perhaps even more valid and understandable today,” said the major penitentiary, Cardinal Angelo De Donatis. “When Christian charity languishes, ignorance spreads like bad habits, and those who extol harmony among peoples do so more out of selfishness than out of a sincere Christian spirit.”
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
Friday: 9.20- 9.45am
Saturday: 6pm to 6.20pm and at call
COLLECTIONS
31 Jan/1Feb: £435.80
Thank you as always for your generosity.
This week, Team A.
STEWARDS (7/8FEB)
Saturday Sweeney, J Whatmough, B Whatmough
Sunday: D Hibbert, C Timoney, B Rogers
STAY CONNECTED
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FUTURE EDITIONS
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