HOLY FAMILY PARISH NEWSLETTER
Sunday 22nd March
Fifth Sunday of Lent
NOTICES
Hymns: 809 752 750 756
CHILDREN’S CRAFT SESSION: Sunday, after Mass. There will be a crafts session for all children of the parish.
Sponsored Lent Walk for CAFOD Nonagenarian Bernard Roddy is once again doing the CAFOD Lent sponsored walk: please sponsor him if you can.
SERVICES OF FRECONCILLIATION: in preparation for Easter this week, St Joseph’s on Tuesday and here on Thursday here on both starting at 7pm. An opportunity to make your confession for your EASTER communion.
GOSPEL JOY DISCUSSION GROUP: Monday, 2-3pm. ’All welcome “I believe.’
GARDENING GROUP: Tuesday & Saturday, after Mass. All welcome.
CAFOD COFFEE MORNING & Friday, after Mass.
STATIONS OF THE CROSS: Stations of the cross from 11am.
PAINTING SALE: Many thanks to all who contributed to the success of the painting sale which raised £215.60 for the parish.
DEVELOPMENT DRAW: The March development draw will take place on Sunday 29th March, after Mass. The Easter raffle draw will also take place.
CARITAS COLLECTIONS: These collections continue at the back of the church. Many thanks for your continued generosity.
THE WORLD THIS WEEK
In many ways, St Óscar Romero had a spectacularly positive vision for human life. He knew God’s presence; he saw the beautiful image of God all around him and he trusted in the coming of a Kingdom in which all will be fully alive. His preaching was filled with hope to the end. As he said just moments before he was shot dead celebrating Mass on 24 March 1980, the grain of wheat may need to fall and die in order to bear fruit, but the harvest of the Kingdom will be abundant beyond measure: “This is the hope that inspires us as Christians. We know that every effort to improve society, especially when injustice and sin are so widespread, is an effort that God blesses, that God wants, that God requires of us … Our work does not remain here; it is gathered and purified by the Spirit of God.” For Romero, if we bring together his constant rejection of violence and hatred, his constant call for mercy and justice for the poor, his constant desire that the Church would simply carry out its mission here on earth, his one homily would be: “A shout like that of Christ who says, ‘Be converted, return to the good path’”
FUTURE EDITIONS
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SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
Friday: 9.20- 9.45am
Saturday: 6pm to 6.20pm and at call
COLLECTIONS
14/15 March: £399.07
Thank you as always for your generosity.
This week, Team A.
STEWARDS (21/22 MAR)
Saturday: J Sweeney, J Whatmough, B Whatmough
Sunday: D Hibbert, C Timoney, B Rogers
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