Fourth Sunday of Lent

Fourth Sunday of Lent

15th March 2015

 

Parish Mass Book  -  page  162

Preface of Lent II

 Eucharistic Prayer II

 

                              Mass Times and Intentions

                                         6.30 pm  Vigil  People of Parish

Sunday  15 March              10.00 am  John Bradley                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Monday                           10.00 am  Eucharistic Service

Tuesday                          12.30 pm  John Bradley (at St BBs)

Wednesday                     10.00 am   In Thanksgiving

Thursday                         10.00 am   NBF

Friday                              10.00 am  Stations of the Cross

                                         6.30 pm   Eddie Miller

 

 

                                      6.30 pm  Vigil  Isobel Brennan

Sunday  22 March              10.00 am  People of Parish

 

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

 

Friday 9.20 - 9.50 am

Sacrament of Reconciliation

 

Friday 6.00— 6.20 pm

 

Saturday 5.45 pm - 6.15 pm

 

Please pray for:

 

 

· Fr Laurence Jones (Morpeth) and all who are sick,

 

· Doreen Taylor and all who have died recently,

 

· Isobel Brennan all whose anniversaries occur at this time. 

 

St Cuthbert’s Day

 

This Friday we celebrate our diocesan patron St Cuthbert.  The 6.30 pm Mass on Friday we will celebrate our patron.  I would encourage as many of you as possible to share in this diocesan solemnity as the diocese is facing change, praying as a diocese and asking our patron for guidance is very important.  To continue the celebration drinks and nibbles will be available in the Presbytery afterwards.

 

 

 

LENT

 

We continue our annual Lenten journey .  Lent is an opportunity to renew and deepen our relationship with God and to discern His call for us at the present time. During Lent the following will be taking place:

 

· Tuesday’s, the parish Mass will be in St Benet Biscop’s school chapel at 12.30 pm.

 

· Thursday’s Ecumenical Lenten lunches at here St Bede’s from 12 noon with prayer at 12.45 pm. 

 

· Friday’s Stations of the Cross at 10.00 am,   Confessions from 6.00 pm.  Mass at 6.30 pm.

 

· Penitential service, Sunday 29th March at 4.00 pm.

 

Lenten Lunches

 

My thanks to those who provided the soup on Thursday.  Volunteers to host and serve on Thursday lunchtimes will still be appreciated.

 

 

 

Journey of faith  continues on Wednesday evening at 6.30 pm. We will look at the sacrament of healing.

 

 

 

The Deanery

 

At the moment three major parishes in the deanery do not have a priest  who is able to work full time.  St Paul’s, Alnwick, St Paul’s, Cramlington, and not that Fr Jones is not very well St Robert’s in Morpeth.  As you can imagine this adds extra pressure on clergy in the deanery.  For me this means taking the hospital week one week out of every three,

instead of five, and taking some responsibility in Morpeth so far has meant baptisms and weddings. Obviously this will effect  the amount of work I can commit to this parish.  I ask for your understanding and prayers.

SVP  National raffle tickets are on sale this weekend.

 

Confirmations

The next session of the Confirmation programme is on Thursday at 7.45. We will be exploring gifts of the Spirit. Please pray for our six confirmation candidates

 

Gift Aid and Planned Giving 

 

f you did not collect your box last weekend please do so today.

If you are new to the parish and would like to support the parish through the envelope scheme please give your details to one of the doormen in the Narthex.  More people are choosing to make

their donations by standing order. To alter your method of giving please leave your details.

 

The new boxes commence on 5th April 2015. 

 

Many thanks for your continued financial support.

 

Liturgy Rotas  commence on 29th March.  If you are involved in the liturgy please take a copy of the rota which is available in the Narthex today.

 

Good Friday Liturgy

As of last year the Passion narrative will be read by young members of the parish.  If any more young parishioners wish to be involved please contact me as soon as possible.

 

Parish email address

We are still having problems getting to the parish email account.  At least for the time being. If you wish to contact me by email please use:  bedebedlington@live.co.uk

 

Moving Forward In Hope

The next step of the process is for the diocese is a meeting for all parish priests and parish contacts on 18th March.  Moira Quinn will represent the parish. I will share with you any new information asap.  Please note that we will say the Moving in Hope prayer at the end of the intercessions.

 

General Election

The Bishops of England and Wales have written a letter to all

Catholics identifying key themes for us to reflect on as we decide for whom we wish to vote for on May 7th. You should have received a copy last week but there are plenty of copies still available