HOLY FAMILY PARISH NEWSLETTER
Sunday 8th March
Third Sunday of Lent
Give us water to drink
MASS THIS FRIDAY IS AT12 noon and is the Requiem for John Wren (no Holy Hour but Weekly CAFOD coffee morning at 10.30pm and station are still at 11am ).
LENTEN APPEAL: We have been invited by St Anne's RC Voluntary Academy to support a Lenten appeal in aid of The Christie Hospital by donating items suitable for a tombola which will take place at their fair on Thursday 17 March. If you can, please make a donation there is a hamper at the back of church. Thank you.
GOSPEL JOY DISCUSSION GROUP: Monday, 2-3pm. ’The hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.’
GARDENING GROUP: Tuesday & Saturday, after Mass. All welcome.
CHILDREN’S CRAFT SESSION: 22nd March – getting ready for Easter- after mass for two hours including lunch.
SACRAMENTAL PROGRAMME & RCIA: Tuesday, 6pm for 6.30pm.
RED BOX MISSION APPEAL: Can all red box holders please bring their boxes to church for counting. Thank
you. Please also ask if you would like a copy of the Missio magazine.
PAINTINGS SALE: Saturday, after Mass. There will be a paintings sale that all are welcome to support if able or browse to buy.
CARITAS COLLECTIONS: These collections continue at the back of church. Many thanks for your continued generosity.
Pilgrimage to Rome: 6th –9th October with optional extension to Assisi –anyone interested see Fr Peter. If a group of a dozen can be found I will cost it out.
THE WORLD THIS WEEK
The Church, and all in the Church, have a “prophetic duty” to convince political leaders that war is not only a disaster in itself, but also a “disastrous distraction from the much bigger, all-Earth threat of climate change”, Dr Hugo Slim, Director of the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice at Blackfriars Hall in Oxford has said.
On one hand, we face the rapid rearrangement of all life on Earth because of the changing climate, weather patterns, biodiversity loss, and transformations in natural landscapes. “On the other hand, we face the rapid rearrangement of political power across the earth in a return to a world of great powers,
Nature’s cry from war must also be heard. Rightly given civilian status in the Geneva Conventions and the laws of war, nature should be protected from deliberate attack. Instead, it is often deliberately laid waste by burning, flooding, polluting, and land mines, or simply occupied, harvested and stolen by its owner’s enemies.”
Environmental damage in war is often “catastrophic for thousands of species”, Dr Slim highlighted and revealed that this probably makes non-human life the single biggest casualty of war as individual plant, animal, fish, and insect deaths far exceed human deaths.
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
Friday: 9.20- 9.45am
Saturday: 6pm to 6.20pm and at call
COLLECTIONS
28 Feb/1 March: £366.00
Thank you as always for your generosity.
This week, Team B.
STEWARDS (7/8 MAR)
Saturday: J Sweeney, J Whatmough, B Whatmough
Sunday: D Hibbert, C Timoney, B Rogers
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