St Felix Rc Parish Newsletter - 2nd Sunday Of Easter 2009

C.W.L. The next meeting will be on Monday April 20th at 7.45pm in the church hall. Parishioners are invited to hear a speaker from Ipswich Health Outreach Project talk about working with homeless people. There will be a collection of tinned goods for the homeless. C.W.L. ladies are reminded that their business meeting will commence at 7.00pm. Lynne Lanigan will be collecting subscriptions and items of new clothing for the Catholic Clothing Guild at this CWL meeting, or to arrange collection call 448568.

PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS ALL WHO ARE SICK AND THOSE WHO HAVE DIED RECENTLY OR HAVE ANNIVERSARIES: Elizabeth Flight, Richard Creagh, Jutta Swann, Bernard Moran, Arthur Segger, Edith Birt, Edwin Driscoll, Francis Elley, Patricia Casserley, Cornelius Lane, Arthur Proctor, Francis Green, Mona Roberts, Owen McGrath, Marjorie Yelverton, Mary Harney, Gillian Benson, Captain H Ramsbottom, Catherine O’Carroll, Mark Compton, Vera Pawlowski, Roman Nanowski. RIP

8, Gainsborough Rd., Felixstowe IP11 7HT 01394 282561 E-Mail: [email protected] Parish Priest: Fr David Hennessy Website : www.saintfelix.org.uk Facebook Group facebook.com/group.php? gid=112120055384

Pope Benedict XVI, Easter Message, 2009

SECOND SUNDAY OF

EASTER MASS THIS WEEKEND SATURDAY 6pm ( William Robinson+) SUNDAY 9am ( Marjorie Yelverton+) 11.00am ( Convent ) 11.30am ( Trimley )

Indeed, one of the questions that most preoccupies men and women is this: what is there after death? To this mystery today’s solemnity allows us to respond that death does not have the last word, because Life will be victorious at the end. This certainty of ours is based not on simple human reasoning, but on a historical fact of faith: Jesus Christ, crucified and buried, is risen with his glorified body. Jesus is risen so that we too, believing in him, may have eternal life. This proclamation is at the heart of the Gospel message. As Saint Paul vigorously declares: “If Christ has not been raised, our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.” He goes on to say: “If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people the most to be pitied” (1 Cor 15:14,19). Ever since the dawn of Easter a new Spring of hope has filled the world; from that day forward our resurrection has begun, because Easter does not simply signal a moment in history, but the beginning of a new condition: Jesus is risen not because his memory remains alive in the hearts of his disciples, but because he himself lives in us, and in him we can already savour the joy of eternal life.

April 19th 2009

COLLECTIONS LAST WEEK:

OFFERTORY: £1,714.68 CAFOD: £ 213.08 HOLY PLACES: £250.03 MANY THANKS INDEED FOR YOUR GENEROSITY! If you have any CAFOD boxes at home, please empty them and return the money with a note of the amount to the sacristy or to Fr David

MASSES THIS WEEK Monday: 10.00am Tuesday: 10.00am

Wednesday: 5.45pm Thursday: 10.00am Friday:10.00am [ Tuesday, 2pm Funeral service for Helen Samkin ]

FRIDAY 12 noon at St Felix ( CWL intentions )

THE FAMILY OF JESUS AND MARY will be holding their Easter Party in the convent on THURSDAY, APRIL 23rd, 7pm

DATE FOR YOUR DIARY The Parish Fete will be held on SATURDAY 20th JUNE 2pm to 4pm. More details nearer the time. Please try and keep this date free and support the fete in any way you can.

St. Thomas Aquinas discusses another interesting question. He asks whether or not Jesus should have lived continually with his disciples after the Resurrection. His answer is no. He says that Jesus should have been with them a sufficient number of times so that they would be sure that it really was he. But he should not have been with them constantly, because, if he had, they might have erroneously concluded that he had come back to the same life he had lived before. There is, you see, always that element of the Resurrection that cannot be explained: Jesus is no longer as he was, he is still who he was. He is the same Jesus (he even carries the wounds of his passion on his body), yet he is inexplicably different …

GIFT AID The parish will shortly be submitting the annual claim for repayment of tax in respect of contributions made under the Gift Aid scheme. It is essential that parishioners, who donate through the weekly collection under a Gift Aid Declaration, let the parish know if they are no longer paying either income or capital gains tax at least equal to the amount of tax that the parish is about to claim for the tax year ending 5th April 2009. If you have donated a total of £100 during the year, the parish can claim £28.20 – provided you have paid at least £28.10 in tax. For each multiple of £100 you donate, the parish can claim that multiple of £28.20 and you must have paid at least that amount of tax. Please note that you must inform the parish if you change your address or if you cease to pay tax.. If you have any query, please contact Mike Tehan on 286059.

Next week’s newsletter is a double issue; all copy by Wednesday, 22nd, please!

… What happened when Jesus was raised from the dead? It is noteworthy that none of the Gospels attempt to describe the Resurrection. They do describe the crucifixion, for that is something that humans did to Jesus and as such it is a part of human history and therefore capable of being verified empirically. The Resurrection, on the other hand, is something that God did and therefore not a part of human history in the same sense. It is something that truly happened, but it is a trans-historical event, that is, a divine intervention into human history, and therefore an event that the historian as historian can neither prove or nor disprove. Thomas H Shannon, The Resurrection