St Felix Parish Newsletter - 4th Sunday Of Advent '08

WHIST DRIVE To be held on Monday 12th January, St. Felix Church Hall at 7.30pm. Tickets will cost £3 and include light refreshments, but please bring your own drink. Tickets will be available from the 3rd of January. Or by phoning Elizabeth - FXT. 279708 or Jenny FXT. 671217.

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

December 21st, 2008 4TH SUNDAY OF ADVENT CHRISTMAS 2008

All are welcome at this event. Don't worry if you can't play, just come along and someone will help you. Organised by C.W.L. in aid of their charities. (This year will include The Princess Royal's Trust for Carers).

A very Happy

PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS ALL WHO ARE SICK, THOSE WHO HAVE DIED RECENTLY AND ALL WHO HAVE ANNIVERSARIES:

Des Ward, Helena Mitchell, Annie Rooney, Peggy Waring, Sister Raymond Gibney, Joe Grace, Heather Campbell, Keith McGinn, Deborah Hailes, Robert Di Martino, Edith Thomas, Bernard Fortune, John Haste, Terence Bloomfield, Min Duck, Gabrielle Harrison, Bolleslaw Siedlecki, Norah Cranswick, Edna Maguire. RIP

KITTY SPENCER R.I.P. Kitty died peacefully in the course of last week.

and Holy

Her funeral is arranged for Wednesday, January 7th, 2pm, at St Felix.

Christmas

EILEEN ASCOTT R.I.P. has also died this week. No funeral details as yet.

May they rest in peace!

to you all

COLLECTIONS OFFERTORY: £640.61 CAFOD: £162.37 SICK & RETIRED CLERGY £509.98

THE DIOCESAN YEARBOOK

is now available in the porch Please make a donation of £3 if you would like to take one.

MANY THANKS! CHURCHES TOGETHER IN FELIXSTOWE ARE ABLE THIS YEAR TO SHOW THEIR CRIB AT 28 HAMILTON RD, TOGETHER WITH LISTS OF MOST OF THE CHURCH SERVICES . THE UNITYWEEK SERVICE WILL BE ON JAN 25TH 6.30PM AT ST. JOHNS CHURCH. ALL ARE WELCOME .

THE FAMILY OF JESUS AND MARY would like to remind all members that there will be no meeting in December. We meet again for our Christmas Party on Friday, 9th January at 7pm. This will replace the January meeting.

CHRISTMAS MASS TIMES THIS WEEK Monday –Wednesday 10.00am at the convent

CHRISTMAS EVE Convent: 7.00pm St Felix: 9pm

CHRISTMAS DAY St Felix: 9.00am St Cecilia’s: 10.45am ************

If you want God, and long for union with him, yet sometimes wonder what that means or whether it can mean anything at all, you are already walking with the God who comes. If you are at times so weary and involved with the struggle of living that you have no strength even to want him, yet are still dissatisfied that you don’t, you are already keeping Advent in your life. If you have ever had an obscure intuition that the truth of things is somehow better, greater, more wonderful than you deserve or desire, that the touch of God in your life stills you by its gentleness, that there is a mercy beyond anything you could ever suspect, you are already drawn into the central mystery of salvation. Your hope is not a mocking dream; God creates in human hearts a huge desire and a sense of need, because he wants to fill them with the gift of himself. It is because his self-sharing love is there first, forestalling any response or prayer from our side, that such hope can be in us. We cannot hope until we know, however obscurely, that there is something to hope for; if we have had no glimpse of a vision, we cannot conduct our lives with vision. And yet we do: there is hope in us, and longing, because grace was there first. God’s longing for us is the spring of ours for him. Maria Boulding, OSB. The Coming of God

26th / 27th December 10.00am at the convent Friday: Kathleen Mansfield+ Saturday: Eileen Hennessy+ WEEKEND MASS TIMES AS USUAL