St Felix Rc Parish Newsletter - 4th Sunday Of Lent 2009

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

SUNDAY, JUNE 28th This is an all day, outdoor re-enactment of the life of Christ. The performance starts at 10.00am and finishes at 4.00pm so the coach will leave Felixstowe Great Eastern Square at 6.00am and return at approximately 7.30 pm. There is some walking through this beautiful estate in Surrey and no seating, or cover, is provided and a packed lunch is recommended. The entrance cost will be £15.00 for adults and £7.50 for children/students ( MIN AGE 8 ) plus £10.00 for the coach. Fr. David has kindly said the Parish will pay entrance and coach for any children. PARENT(S), OR OTHER RESPONSIBLE ADULT CHOSEN BY PARENT, MUST ACCOMPANY THEIR CHILDREN For further details see the Wintershall website at www.wintershallestate.com, the poster in the church porch, or contact Barbara Lamberton on 279373. We shall require entrance money to be paid by 30 April 2009

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

Kathleen Thomson, Sr Aloysius Bracken, Sr Ethna McAndrew, Lois Lazell, Elsie Fenton, Fr William Cooper, Fr Augustine Berrell, Adeline Fuller, Mabel Courtney, Sr Vincent Fitzgibbon, Sr Francis Borgis, Coucke, Maisie Moyes, Leslie Saywell, Peter Goggins, Derek Curry, Lindsay Campbell, Anne Grantham, Rose Cotton, Margaret Bennett, Catherine Frayling, Cyril Brown, Nicholas Aylward, Norah Sugden, Harry Butters. RIP

St. Felix RC Parish Newsletter

THE CWL is organising a coach to go to the WINTERSHALL “LIFE OF CHRIST” (sometimes called the English Oberammagau) on

E-Mail: [email protected] Parish Priest: Fr David Hennessy Website : www.saintfelix.org.uk Facebook Group facebook.com/group.php? gid=112120055384

SATURDAY 6pm ( Private intention )

March 22nd, 2009 FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT MOTHERING SUNDAY

SUNDAY 9am 10.30am ( Mary Read CWL )

St Cecilia’s: 11.30am

OFFERTORY: £ 894.03

MASSES THIS COMING WEEK at the Convent

CAFOD: £ 328.91

Monday—Saturday: 10.00am

( CAFOD total: £1324.80 )

Monday: Elsie Fenton+ Saturday: Angela Hill-Willis+

COLLECTIONS LAST WEEK

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 as soon as possible.

At St FELIX FRIDAY: MASS 12 noon followed by HUNGER LUNCH

**************** Benediction & Stations, every Friday, 7pm, during Lent

LENTEN PROGRAMME AT ST. FELIX EVERY FRIDAY MASS NOON HUNGER LUNCH 12.30 [EXCEPT 20TH] STATIONS OF THE CROSS & BENEDICTION 7PM. SERVICE OF RECONCILIATION 7.30PM THURSDAY APRIL 2ND DETAILS OF THE COACH TO THE CHRISM MASS AND HOLY WEEK SERVICES WILL BE PUBLISHED LATER . LENT AT THE CONVENT SUNDAYS: Exposition and Evening Prayer at 4.30pm THURSDAYS: Holy Hour & Exposition at 4.30pm FRIDAYS: Stations of the Cross at 4.45pm ALL ARE VERY WELCOME PASSOVER SUPPER

will be on Monday, April 6th, in the convent at 7.30pm. Numbers will be limited; if you would like to come, please telephone Margaret Smith on Fx 277430

ASSISTED SUICIDE

– Report Stage next week –Monday or Tuesday We have just received the news that the Coroners and Justice Bill will have its Report Stage next week and not in 2 or 3 weeks as we had been told. This means that if we are unable to get any notices published this weekend, there will be little or no mail to MPs. Please telephone your MP 0207 219 3000 and urge him or her to vote against any amendment which would legalise euthanasia or assisted suicide. Please ensure that as many people as you know will telephone their MPs in the next 3 or 4 days.

ST ALBAN’S AND FRIENDS CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA will be presenting their 7th annual concert at 730pm on Saturday 28th March at St John’s Church, Cauldwell Hall Road, lpswich. This year the programme will include Schubert’s Mass in C and Faure’s Pavane and Requiem. The concert will be given in memory of two teachers from St Alban’s who died during the past year. Tickets, priced at £6 for adults and £1 for students, will be available at the door and after expenses, a donation will be given to Macmillan Cancer Support.

Ready Able Giving Everything The next meeting is on Monday, 23rd of March at 7.30pm and is run for for Yrs 7 and up. This week we are remote control car racing so bring along remote controlled car and please bring along your mates too. 50p to help out with food and drink. We look forward to seeing you all and hopefully some new faces.

We have come to believe in God's love: in these words Christians can express the fundamental decision of their lives. Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction. Saint John's Gospel describes that event in these words: “God so loved the world that he

gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should ... have eternal life” (3:16). … Jesus united into a single precept this commandment of love for God and the commandment of love for neighbour found in the Book of Leviticus: “You shall love your neighbour as your self” (19:18; cf. Mk 12:29-31). Since God has first loved us (cf. 1 Jn 4:10), love is now no longer a mere “command”; it is the response to the gift of love with which God draws near to us. Benedict XVI; Deus Caritas Est, #1