Ascension of the Lord

Ascension of the Lord

20th May 2012

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Mass Times and Intentions

                                       6.30 pm  Vigil People of Parish

Sunday  20th May                11.00 am  Angela Robertson/Dorothy Tomlinson                                                                                                      

Monday                        10.00 am  Eucharistic Service

Tuesday                       10.00 am  Private Intention

Wednesday                  10.00 am  Jim Craik

Thursday                      10.00 am  Joan Keddy

Friday                             7.00 pm   People of Parish

                                       6.30 pm  Vigil John & Catherine McGinn

Sunday  27th May                 11.00 am  People of Parish

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,

· all whose anniversaries occur at this time. 

 

                            Finance ...

Parish Offertory:     £337.72   

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Many thanks

 

Parish Mission December 2012  Thanks to all who came to the meeting on Sunday.  Your contributions are much appreciated.  I will be saying more about this in the coming month. 

Parish Patronal Feast—25th May  25th May is the Feast of our parish Patron and I would like to encourage as many of the parish to be involved in this.  On the morning of the 25th at 9.30 am the whole of the primary school will be coming to church to celebrate Mass for St Bede.  At 11.00 am the leavers Mass for sixth formers of St Benet Biscop’s till take place at St Bede’s. In the evening at 7.00 pm there will be the parish Mass for our patron and this will be followed by a barbecue in the blazing sunshine!  Tickets are now available from members of the social committee and the cost is £5.  Please put this date in your diary.  The celebration of the patronal feast links into what I was saying about the parish mission in terms of acknowledging that we are part of a parish community that we all have something to contribute to the parish and building up the parish through using our own gifts and talents is really important.  Ideally, I would like as many people to be at the evening Mass as possible, though I appreciate that if you have links with the pupils who will be at Masses in the morning I would understand if you wish to take part in one of those Masses.

Welcome Back Sunday 26/27th May  Pentecost Sunday has been designated by Bishop Seamus as ‘Welcome Back Sunday’ when we are encouraged to invite people who have drifted away from the Church to be once again be part of the active life of the parish.  Invitation notes are available at the back of church if you would like to give to anyone you think might be interested.

First Holy Communion  There will be a rehearsal on Monday 22nd and Sunday 27th May at 10.00  to 10.45 am for all candidates for First Holy Communion.  There will also be a session for the parents of the First Holy Communion children with Fr Chris at 10.00 am in the upper room.

Today one of our candidates is making her first Holy Communion before she moves off to Canada.  So please pray for Janey Young as she receives her first Holy Communion this weekend.

Children’s Liturgy  As I said at the Sunday morning Mass last week we are in need of new helpers with the children’s liturgy.  If you think you would like to help why not ask to sit in at one of the children’s liturgies to see if you would like to be involved.

 

There will be a Retiring Collection  today for World Communications Day.

CAFOD

The Coffee morning at the start of Lent  kindly hosted by Jackie and Tino Menai  at their Café  raised £183.70. Jackie and Tino are going to offer ‘Afternoon Teas’ with 50p a time being donated to CAFOD. If anyone would like to knit tea cosies for these teas, it will be most appreciated. Overall, the CAFOD Lenten appeal raised over £5 million. So the offer to match this by the Government means that over £10 million was raised for CAFOD during its Lenten Appeal. Thanks to all who contributed

Christ in the World Group

The next meeting of the Christ in the World Group will be on Friday June 16^th. The session will be lead by Fr Chris and will be on ‘The pastoral, spiritual and social issues of caring for people with Dementia and their carers’

Football Players Wanted!

One of our parishioners, Dominic Molloy, is looking at the possibility of whether a team from the parish could be established to be members of the North East Christian Fellowship League. The league was established to enable fellow Christians to play their  football within a Christian ethos. Each team must have at least 5 Christians. Dominic has had interest from some of his friends and family but obviously would like to see if other parishioners would like to take part. Dominic is looking for players of any ability aged 16 upwards to apply, (Professionals, ex pros, Misters Messai and Ronaldo are more than welcome!) .  If interested please see poster in the narthex and or contact Dominic on  07725039180 or at dminicjospephmolloy@gmail.com Many thanks to Dominic for this initiatative

Bede- a glimpse of his life in readings and chant

This very interesting recital of some St Bede’s  writings  and the chants he would have sung will be given at Brinkburn Priory (Longframlington, Morpeth) on Saturday 9 June at 3.00pm. The recital is free but there will be the usual entry fee of £3.20 for adults and £2.00 for children