Sunday 5th April
Easter Day
NOTICES
THANK YOU to all those who helped in any way to prepare the church and take part in the Liturgy over the Easter Triduum, you have all done a sterling job, well done!
Terry Carroll’s Funeral Mass will be on 9th April at 11.15am
Please continue to pray for those baptised, received and confirmed at the Vigil on Easter Eve for those being baptised today and for those preparing for First Holy Communion.
MAINTENANCE DAY: Saturday 11th April, after Mass (around 11am). All members of the parish are invited to help maintain the church building and its grounds.
DEVELOPMENT DRAW: A list of March development draw winners can be found below:
PRIZE NUMBER WINNER AGENT
£100 02-14 J Bond P Hibbert
£20 08-02 F Buckley B Whatmough
£20 10-05 M Froggat A Sweeney
£20 10-18 B O’Driscoll A Sweeney
£10 06-01 R Sweeney A Sweeney
£10 10-04 J Sweeney A Sweeney
£10 11-04 A Kelly B Ward
£10 07-05 S Wren P Hibbert
GARDENING GROUP: Tuesday, after Mass. All invited to support.
WEEKLY COFFEE MORNING: Friday, after Mass. All welcome.
GOSPEL JOY DISCUSSION GROUP: This group will be taking a break over the Easter period and will be back on Monday 20th April, 2-3pm. "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb."
MUSIC NIGHT: Friday 24th April, 7pm. Join us for a night of live music, fun and entertainment. With performances by The Footnotes and The Ukulele Band.
CARITAS COLLECTIONS: These collections continue at the back of church. Many thanks for your continued generosity.
THE WORLD THIS WEEK
The Pope’s recent suggestion at a meeting with staff from the Italian national airline that aerial bombardment “should have been banned forever” might sound detached from the realities of modern warfare. In a world of precision-guided munitions and drone warfare, the idea of outlawing attacks from the skies appears implausible.
Yet Leo’s intervention, delivered as the United States and Israel’s confrontation with Iran deepens, is more nuanced than perhaps it first appears.
The gathering storm of statistics cannot be ignored. I run the explosive-violence monitoring group Action on Armed Violence. Over the past 12 years, we have consistently found in English-language media reports that when explosive weapons are used in populated areas, civilians account for more than 90 per cent of casualties. This devastation reflects the physics of blast and fragmentation, which cannot discriminate between a military target and the apartment block next door. Beyond the immediate dead and wounded lies reverberating harm: shattered hospitals, ruptured water mains and the slow attrition of displacement and disease.
States remain unwilling to relinquish weapons they consider effective, whatever the documented human cost.
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
Friday: 9.20- 9.45am
Saturday: 6pm to 6.20pm and at call
COLLECTIONS
28/29 March: £342.00
21/22March: £360.90
Thank you as always for your generosity.
This week, Team C.
STEWARDS (4/5APR)
Saturday: M Hesketh, J Whatmough, B Whatmough
Sunday: D Hibbert, C Timoney, B Rogers
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FUTURE EDITIONS
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