St Felix Catholic Parish Newsletter - 22nd Week Of Ordinary Time

8, Gainsborough Rd., Felixstowe IP11 7HT 01394 282561

Several parishioners have expressed a n interest in going to Monte Cassino. The chosen month is May 2010 and I hope to arrange a meeting in November when I shall explain what the trip involves. Please, will those of you who are interested let me have your email address if you have one.

Tony

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

HISTORIC CHURCHES CYCLE RIDE SATURDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER, 2009 We have a new start time this year, 9am, and will finish at 5pm. Recorders are needed to cover each hour through the day, TWO people per hour. A list is on the church notice-board in the porch. You can be sponsored for this on the pink forms. MOST OF ALL we need cyclists and walkers; very few of our parishioners take part. Can we have a big push this year? Why not make up a cycling or walking party and make it fun? Lists of Open Churches are available in the porch so you can plan your route beforehand. Please use gold-coloured sponsor forms. ANY QUERIES—please phone Alan Deveney ( Fx 277582 )

ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE WALK honouring Ipswich’s own Madonna. Sunday, September 6th, 3pm. From St Peter’s church to the shrine of Our Lady of Grace via Lady Lane. Tea afterwards. Contact Judith Fell for more details ( Ips 214590 )

PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS ALL WHO ARE SICK AND THOSE WHO HAVE DIED RECENTLY OR HAVE ANNIVERSARIES: Fr. Michael Geraghty, Sr. Margaret Mary Flynn, Sr. Rose Nallon, Andres Guiseppi, Elizabeth Artis, Johanna Woodcraft, Geoffrey Miller, Emily Byrne, William Allen, Thomas Hobin Gerard Slattery, Minnie Walker, Albert Grayling, Nancy Doyle, Terry Madden, Emily Proctor, Winifred Gardner, Daisy Campbell, Harold Axford, Max Scott. RIP

St. Felix RC Parish Newsletter

MONTE CASSINO & ROME

E-Mail: [email protected] Parish Priest: Fr David Hennessy Website : www.saintfelix.org.uk

August 30th, 2009

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WEEKEND MASS SATURDAY 6pm SUNDAY 9am 10.30am ( Convent ) 11.30am ( Trimley )

RECENT COLLECTIONS OFFERTORY: £744.47 & 650.09 CAFOD: £153.02 & 147.92 MANY THANKS ONCE AGAIN FOR YOUR GENEROSITY

WEEKDAY MASSES THIS COMING WEEK AND NEXT Monday- Saturday:10.00am at the Convent each day

THURSDAY September 3rd 11am at St Felix

CONGRATULATIONS to Ian Garstang and Emma Dance married in St. Felix last Saturday with a Nuptial Mass. We wish them much happiness.

CONFIRMATION GROUP NEXT MEETING IS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th, 5pm

DEANERY QUIZ The Quiz this year will be later than usual on Sat. Oct 3rd 7.30 for 8pm start . It will be held at St. Mary’s Woodbridge Rd. Rd Questions will be easier this year with the usual excellent buffet. BYOB, glasses provided. Teams of 4; 2 teams allowed from each MASS CENTRE. Spectators welcome Entrance £5 [under 16, £3]

For reasons best known to himself, Tony Lazell is having a “back and chest wax”; to make matters worse, it’s in public! The bright side of this is that it is a sponsored event for charity, in aid of CANCER CAMPAIGN IN SUFFOLK and THE MENINGITIS TRUST. Tony has left a sponsor form on the notice-board at the back of the church and would love to have your sponsorship support. Please do give it! If you can bear the sight of all this, it’s taking place in SAXON UPHOLSTERY ( Window ), 166 Hamilton Rd on Saturday, September 12th at 10.00am.

CHILDREN’S LITURGY There will be a meeting for all those involved in leading Children's Liturgy at Saint Felix, on Wednesday, 2nd September at 7.30 pm in the Cooper Room. If anyone else is interested in finding out about helping with Children's Liturgy they would be welcome.

Classes at the Convent will resume on Saturday 19th September at 8.50am. For more information, please contact Monica Macdonald on 278258. Catechists only, will meet for planning on Saturday 5th September at 9am.

The Knights of St. Columba have been busy during the last weekend . Nigel Gorham , Tom Brazier , with their wives joined a party on pilgrimage to Boulogne in Honour of Our Lady of Walsingham while John King and Vernon Watts with their wives joined the Southern Provinces of the KSC at Westminster Cathedral for Mass celebrating 90 years of the Order . Reminder to Brothers we have our meeting at St. Felix on Thursday 10 7.30pm; also to attend Mass on the 8th, the Birthday of the BVM .

SEPTEMBER 3RD this year will be the 70th anniversary of the start of the Second World War. MASS ON THIS DAY WILL BE AT 11am AT ST FELIX. We will remember in our Prayers all who died in this terrible conflict which spread across the world and pray that such a war never takes place again.

John King Earlier I asked for the recollections of those who remembered the outbreak of WW2 .Several have now come in, anymore welcomed but only now by E mail [[email protected]] They will be on show in the Church and on our Web Site. Below are just a few extracts -------------------

Mrs Bartholomew: Bartholomew Attending Mass at St. Patrick's, Glasgow. Priest announced war had broken out; later I was "Called up" and joined the ATS . Eric Bonello: Bonello In Malta ---Continuous air raids ---meagre rations ----shoes unobtainable Bomb dropped on Mosta church but failed to explode 300 in congregation Jennie Coates: Coates Evacuated to Devon; kindly treated, but homesick . Soldiers threw chocolate etc from passing trains. Visited her host family in the 50s to thank them . John King: King Father met me from Mass; went to see barrage balloon; heard War declared on radio; within 15 mins sirens sounded but a false alarm. Not so in May, when airfield nearby bombed. Battle of Britain, Doodlebugs . Tony Pittaccio: Pittaccio On holiday in Italy at Cassino; father in England. Unable to return. Italy declared war against wishes of its people. Saw war through in Cassino then joined 23rd new Zealand Infantry . Sister Mavis, RJM: RJM Holiday in Ipswich when war broke out. Too dangerous to return to London, so stayed boarding at J & M school. Returned later to London lived through the Blitz, nights spent in the shelters, one night in an Underground station. Peter Sutcliffe: Sutcliffe Evacuated to Springfield House West Cranmore in Somerset from West Ham; news of war brought to us in the servants hall !! Mass celebrated by priest from Downside Abbey for the evacuees in village hall, the first time since the Reformation.