St Felix Rc Parish Newsletter - Wk 5 2009

RADICAL DISCIPLESHIP You could make a list of the things that most of us want to be, and want our children to be, and then you could make a list of the things that Jesus of Nazareth was during his life. The two lists would be startlingly different. Our list might go: owning property, having a settled job (‘I do wish he’d settle’), having financial secu-

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

February 8th, 2009 FIFTH SUNDAY, B

rity, a happy marriage and family, being approved of by society, moving upwards socially, a job in the professions, not upsetting the community one lives in, retirement with the approval of one’s

SATURDAY 6pm

peers, keeping in with the Church. It is fair to say that that is proba-

( Jean Evans+ )

bly what most schools aim to prepare their pupils for, including Christian schools. If you next compare that list of worthy aims against the life of Jesus, God made man, you find a big difference. Jesus was apparently not property-owning and lived without the need for it; Jesus, during his public ministry, had no settled job but was itinerant; Jesus had no financial security and told his followers

SUNDAY 9am: ( Christopher Doogue+ )

10.30am ( Sr Sebastian - 90th )

St Cecilia’s: 11.30am ( Peter Hearne—90th )

not to bother about it; Jesus upset the community he lived in —

MASSES THIS COMING WEEK at the Convent

even his family were against him; so he did not retire with honour

MONDAY—SATURDAY 10.00am

or approval but was done away with by the religious leaders of his

AT St FELIX

community; and his death between two criminals on Calvary was certainly not a socially upward move. As ( the famous German

COLLECTIONS LAST WEEK OFFERTORY: £726.70

11.30am

CAFOD: £165.25

Requiem Mass Barbara Strong+ and

MANY THANKS INDEED FOR YOUR GENEROSITY!

KSC—80th Anniversary Mass

theologian ) Moltmann said, Jesus chose to be the sort of person we choose not to be. This makes it challenging for us to pursue the imitation of Christ. From: The Cross a Pasture, John Dalrymple, pp 45/6

TUESDAY

7.30pm

FRIDAY at 12noon ( Bernard Bush+ )

KSC LITURGY GROUP MEETING has now been confirmed 7.30pm Thursday 19th Feb.

PARISH QUIZ and supper to be held in the Church Hall on Shrove Tuesday 24th February 7.30 p.m. (supper to be sausage and mash followed by pancakes) Tickets £4 will be on sale next weekend 7th February THE TOGETHER CLUB will meet at the Convent on Thursday 5th February at 2.00 p.m. for Beetle all welcome

C.W.L. Ladies, a reminder our meeting is on Monday 9th February at 7.30pm. We will be planning our year ahead, so put on your thinking caps on and bring your suggestions along. During coffee we hope to show a short d.v.d about the Samaritan's Purse Christmas Shoe Box Appeal.

To start our 80th anniversary celebration we will have a Concelebrated Mass 7.30pm on Feb 10th together with a social gathering in the hall afterwards with light refreshments . There will also be an exhibition of KSC memorabilia . ALL ARE WELCOME STAMPS & SPECS KSC are grateful for the many hundreds of stamps donated from your Christmas post. Don't forget the collection is ongoing along with used spectacles. Please remember in your prayers ERIC LIST who died last Sunday. Eric was a active member of St. Mary Magdalene parish from its formation until he moved to Monmouth Court . He was a member of the KSC for 60 years . Requiem Mass at St. Pancras Thursday 12th Feb 2.pm followed by interment .

PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS ALL WHO ARE SICK AND THOSE WHO HAVE DIED RECENTLY OR HAVE ANNIVERSARIES: John Coppen, Jean Evans, Mary Sanford, Wilma Pipe, Emily Crouch, Lucy Rickarby, Mary Robinson, Mary Drouet, Tori-Anna Williams, Perfitto Burgess, Margaret Mason, Marjorie Dawson, Sydney Jennings, James Hockley, Alfred Bailey, Clesby Cooper, Daisy Curry, Sister Stanislaus Scully, Henry Dukes, Helen Tribe. RIP