HOLY FAMILY PARISH NEWSLETTER
Sunday 1st March
Second Sunday of Lent
NOTICES
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 17th March. If you can donate there is a hamper at the back of church. Thank you.
GOSPEL JOY DISCUSSION GROUP: Monday, 2-3pm. ’Stand up. Do not be afraid.’
CLEANING & GARDENING GROUP: Tuesday & Saturday, after Mass. All welcome.
WEEKLY COFFEE MORNING & STATIONS OF THE CROSS: Friday, after Mass. Stations of the cross after the coffee morning.
PAINTINGS SALE: Saturday 14th March, after Mass. There will be a paintings sale, all are welcome to support please. £5 per table allows you to sell any goods you like. There will be refreshments on sale from the kitchen.
Weekdays this week: On Monday Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday and Saturday this week we will be having a Service of the Word and Holy Communion instead of Mass.
On Friday we will be having a Holy Hour, Benediction and Mass as usual as Fr Richard Bailey Cong Orat is coming from the Oratory to celebrate mass. Stations of the Cross on Friday at 11am
CARITAS COLLECTIONS: These collections continue at the
back of church. Many thanks for your continued generosity.
The Food bank finds that demand far outstrips supply, tins, dried goods toiletries, also THICK socks, thermal clothing: Jogging bottoms, waterproof jackets and trousers, jumpers, new underwear.
THE WORLD THIS WEEK
Trappist monk Erik Varden, the Bishop of Trondheim in Norway, has preached the Spiritual Exercises for Lent to Pope Leo XIV and others.
“The extent of the peace we embody – that signal peace ‘which the world cannot give’ – indicates Jesus’s abiding presence in us,” said Bishop Varden in his first reflection. “We must insist on this now, when the Gospel is sometimes deployed as a weapon in culture wars.
“Instrumentalizations of Christian language and signs should be challenged, not just by wan outrage, but by teaching the terms of authentic spiritual warfare. For Christian peace is not a promise of ease; it is a condition for transformed society.
“It is timely to articulate the radicality of Christian ‘peace’ while we remind ourselves and others of the truth in St John Climacus’s words: ‘There is no greater obstacle to the presence of the Spirit in us than anger.’”
COLLECTIONS
21/22 Feb: £320.70
Thank you as always for your generosity.
This week, Team A.
STEWARDS (28 FEB/1 MAR)
Saturday: M Hesketh, J Whatmough, B Whatmough
Sunday: D Hibbert, C Timoney, B Rogers
STAY CONNECTED
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see John Hesketh for details or posts.
Contact Pauline (07841712971) to join the parish WhatsApp group.
FUTURE EDITIONS
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SRCDT Reg. Charity no. 25003 www.dioceseofsalford.org.uk