ST BEDE’S BEDLINGTON
Catholic Row, Bedlington, NE 22 6 HS Tel: 01670 823258
Email: bede57@googlemail.com
Parish Website: www.saintbede.org.uk
Diocesan Website: www.rcdhn.org.uk
8th January 2011
Parish Mass Book page 115
Mass Times and Intentions
Saturday 7th 6.30 pm Vigil Jim, Sarah & James Craik
Sunday 8th 11.00 am People of Parish
Monday 10.00 am Eucharistic Service
Tuesday 10.00 am Requiem Mass- Annie Maughn
Wednesday 10.00 am Monica & Bernard Ward
Thursday 10.00 am Fr Peter Starrs
Friday 10.00 am John & Sarah Sutherland
Saturday 6.30 pm Vigil People of Parish
SUNDAY 15th 11.00 am Angela & David Tomlinson
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Saturday 5.45 pm - 6.15 pm
and at any time upon request
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Friday 9.30 –10.00 am
First Sunday of the Month 4.00-5.00 pm
Please pray for
· all who are sick,
· all who have died recently especially Annie Maughn
· Angela Robertson and all whose anniversaries occur at this time.
Finance ...
Parish Offertory:
Christmas Day: £857.68
January 1st : £368.09:
Many Thanks
Retiring Collection on Christmas Day for Christian Solidarity Worldwide and De Paul UK raised £110.80 Many thanks for your continued generosity.
Matthew Project
This is a project being started by members of the Bedlington Christian Fellowship (the Coffin Chapel). This project will be working with statutory and voluntary agencies to provide basic food stuffs for those who need it. The project was launched on Friday by Ian Lavery MP and I am delighted to say the parish was represented by Lawrie Clark, Peter and Barbara Fowler and Moira Quinn. Just as other churches in Bedlington have worked with us in opening the Open House project I would like the parish to work as best we can with this important initiative. Peter and Barbara Fowler have kindly volunteered to be responsible for collecting and distributing food stuffs. Non perishable goods such as jam, sugar, tea and coffee, rice, pasta and any tinned items would be acceptable. I am aware of our commitment to the refugee project where we are requested to provide specifically tinned meat, therefore, contributions to the Matthew project should not affect our particular contributions to the refugee project.
Collection for refugees and asylum seekers will continue on the first Sunday of every month.
SVP Holy Island Camp
New volunteers are needed for the SVP Holy Island Camp . Please see posters in the narthex for more details
Journey in Faith
This will resume on Tuesday January 10 at 7pm. John will be looking at ‘Grace and Sin’
Open House
This will reopen for 212 on Tuesday January 10 at 6pm. New volunteers always appreciated
Volunteers Please Needed to take down the Christmas decoration in the Church after the 11.00pm Mass this Sunday
Diocesan Lourdes Pilgrimage 27 July-3rd August
Nurses are required for this. If interested please contact Fr Peter Stott
Weeks of Guided Prayer Lent 2012
Please excuse me making references to Lent before Christmas has finished! However, for practical purposes I will need to know who wishes to take part in this by the end of the month so I would like to give you as much time as possible for you to reflect on whether you would like to take part in this
For the fans of Strictly Come Dancing you will be aware that to become a good dancer the inexperienced celebrity does need a partner to help them learn their steps; it would be impossible for them to learn on their own! The notion of Prayer Guiding works on a similar principle. Throughout the history of Christianity it has been recognised that we need fellow disciples to guide us in our living out of the gospel. Prayer Guiding seeks to help people in affirming and developing their own personal prayer life.
From February 16 to March 29 'Weeks of Guided Prayer' lead by the Ecumenical North East Prayer Guides will be taking place for the local Churches Together Group. The sessions will take place here at St Bede’s. At the initial introductory meeting a person is given a prayer guide whom they will meet at the same time for the following five weeks. Unlike the professionals on ‘Strictly’, Prayer Guides do not see themselves as great experts but they have been trained to listen to other talk about their own prayer life and offer a different ways that may help to develop their own relationship with God. They will offer to guide but not give commands or tell you there is only one way to pray. The Christian tradition has developed a number of ways of prayer over 2000 years. It is like a spiritual sweet box of ‘Roses’ or ‘Quality Street’. What Weeks of Guided Prayer seek to do is to open that spiritual sweet box to see what spiritual sweets could help you.
After five sessions with your prayer guide we will all come together as a group to give thanks to God for the blessing received in the preceding weeks.
If you are interested in taking part in the Weeks of Guided Prayer please sign the list in the narthex by the end of January. Please also indicate if you would like to meet your prayer guide in the afternoons or evenings.
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