St Felix Catholic Parish Newsletter - 16th Sunday Of Ordinary Time

MONTE CASSINO & ROME

Tony Pittaccio Tel: 270762, email: [email protected]

One of the deepest forms of poverty a person can experience is isolation. If we look closely at other kinds of poverty, including material forms, we see that they are born from isolation, from not being loved or from difficulties in being able to love. Poverty is often produced by a rejection of God's love, by humanity's basic and tragic tendency to close in on themselves, thinking themselves to be self-sufficient or merely an insignificant and ephemeral fact, strangers in a random universe. Man is alienated when s/he is alone, when s/he is detached from reality, when s/he stops thinking and believing in a foundation. All of humanity is alienated when too much trust is placed in merely human projects, ideologies and false utopias. Today humanity appears much more interactive than in the past: this shared sense of being close to one another must be transformed into true communion. The development of peoples depends, above all, on a recognition that the human race is a single family working together in true communion, not simply a group of subjects who happen to live side by side. Pope Benedict XVI: Charity in Truth, Ch 5, para 53.

St. Felix RC Parish Newsletter

Earlier this year I once again led a group of Rotarians through the battlefields of Cassino and although overwhelmed by the memories of the awesome battles, I am also conscious of being in the shadow of St Benedict and of the world’s foremost Christian monastery he founded there. So I ask myself, are there members of our parish who would like to ‘follow in the footsteps’ of St Benedict? If so, a four day trip could be arranged at a suitable time. The trip would also include a visit to St Thomas Aquinas’s birthplace, a brief introduction to the battlefields and a visit to the tomb of St Peter under the Scavi in the Vatican. Numbers are not important, but should anyone be interested in knowing more, I should be pleased to give an introduction at an arranged meeting.

8, Gainsborough Rd., Felixstowe IP11 7HT 01394 282561 E-Mail: [email protected] Parish Priest: Fr David Hennessy Website : www.saintfelix.org.uk

July 19th, 2009

16th Sunday Year B

Facebook Group facebook.com/group.php?

WEEKEND MASS SATURDAY 6pm ( Douglas Jones+ )

SUNDAY 9am 10.30am ( Convent )

“You must come away to some lonely place by yourselves and rest awhile”

11.30am ( Trimley )

COLLECTIONS LAST WEEK

( Tom McIlwraith+ )

OFFERTORY: £818.98 CAFOD: £194.29

WEEKDAY MASSES THIS COMING WEEK Monday: Euch Service Tuesday– Saturday:10.00am at the Convent each day

Friday, 24th, at St Felix 12noon

AoS: £274.87 MANY THANKS ONCE AGAIN FOR YOUR GENEROSITY

The Pope’s latest Encyclical is now published and can be found by following this link: www.saintfelix.org.uk/ Caritas_In_Veritate

STRAWBERRY TEA

PARISH B.B.Q. Sunday 2nd August in Parish Garden 1.00 p.m. Tickets £4. on sale after Mass TODAY and 25th/26th July

THE TOGETHER CLUB

meet at the Convent at 10.30 a.m. on Thursday for their outing to Dunwich returning approx 5.00 p.m.

The Family of Jesus and Mary would like to thank most sincerely all those who helped with the preparation. Above all, we are very grateful to all who supported us on the day. A magnificent profit of £523.49 was made and, in addition, a very generous donation of £500 was received. The money will be spent on: Displaced people of the Swat Valley in Pakistan The Street children in Mumbai Poor families in Syria in need of special medical care, and help in the education of their children.

CWL CAFOD £7,269.22 is the sum given by this parish to CAFOD in the first six months of this year. Many thanks for this wonderful generosity to the world’s poorest people.

The Catholic Women's League would like to thank most sincerely everyone who helped to make the Italian Evening last Monday evening such a success. £390.30 was raised and (we hope ) a good time was had by all.

CHILDREN’S LITURGY OF THE WORD There will be no Children’s Liturgy at the 9am Mass at St Felix during the month of August. It will resume on Sunday September 6th.

THE RELICS OF ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX will be brought to England and Wales from September 16th to October 16th 2009. They will visit 22 cathedrals and churches. In the Diocese of East Anglia they will be hosted at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham from the afternoon of 6th October to after the 12 Noon Mass on the 7th October. A varied Programme will be organised throughout and there will be an All Night Vigil from 10pm to 6am with opening and closing Masses to cover the night hours. We are looking to organise a coach for the deanery; please let me know soon if you are interested

CHILDREN’S RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION CLASSES Religious Instruction for children attending local non-catholic primary schools is provided at the convent on Saturday mornings during term time. Forms are available at St Felix, St Cecilia and the convent for the registration of new children (in year 1 or above) for classes beginning this September. Please return completed forms as soon as possible. PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS ALL WHO ARE SICK AND THOSE WHO HAVE DIED RECENTLY OR HAVE ANNIVERSARIES:

Sr. Brigid Caulfield, Gertrude Keable, Tom McIlwraith, Mary L’Estrange, Walter Ashden, Ronald Russell, Stephen McSweeney, Marie McIntee, Arthur Green, Edward Richards, Maurice Simms, Eric Chambers. RIP