Newsletter Sunday March 19th, 2017

Third Sunday of Lent

The Living Water

Christ quenches our spiritual thirst with the living water: the love of  God which is poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit. We pray for those who are prepared for this baptism.

 

MASS INTENTIONS  FOR WEEK  18 – 26 MAR 2017

Sat 18            9am               Josie Keeley RIP (Marlene Burt)
                      6pm               Holy Souls

Sun 19          8.30am        Parishioners
                     10.30am      Geoff Bignall RIP (The Bignall Family)

Mon 20        9am               Lucille de Mello (Alex & Dahlia & Family)

Tues 21         7pm               Arthur Moss RIP (Kathy Connolly)
                     Followed by Adoration and Our Lady & St Pio’s Prayer Group

Wed 22        10am             The Wheatley Family Living and Deceased (Eileen Wheatley)

Thu  23         9am               Eucharistic Service

Fri 24            9am               Olive Saldanha RIP (Sylvia Coutinho)
                     7pm               Stations of the Cross

Sat 25           9am               Wellbeing of John, Paul, Patricia & Kathy (Thelma Leitao)
                     6pm               Parishioners

Sun 26          8.30am        Bill Meade RIP: Birthday (Marie Sullivan)
                     10.30am      Joan Gilby RIP (Teresa)

Sick
Audrey O’Hara, Christine White, Kevin Harper, Ed Jones, John Bird, Gail Noel, Chris Neal, John Edwards, Tony Speed, Elvira Vaz, Geoffrey Hildebrand, John Underwood,  Mary Stubbs,  Una Carpenter, John Harrington, John Larkin, Norma Brooker, Nina Szredski, Nora Lenihan, Angela Gillespie, Ann McDonald, Eileen Weald, Geoff Birch, Maureen Fitzpatrick, David Shaw, Clare Kent.

Anniversaries
Rose Underwood, Peggy Higgins, Moira Deidre Desmond, Douglas Neil O’Brien, Malcolm Colgate, John Hughes, Geoff Bignall.

Feast Days: Mon 20 March  St Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed  Virgin Mary Thursday St Turibius de Mogrovejo, Bishop Sat The Annunciation of the Lord

ROTAS For w/c 20/3: Readers: Sat 6pm Christine Hand Sun 8.30am Larissa O’Halloran Sun 10.30am Ryan Benarte Copying of Newsletter: Mollie Hobson Newsletter Typist: Molly Robins Collection for 8.30am Mass: Mrs T Li/Ray Parishioner Attending To Front of Church on Saturdays: Mark Vaz Eucharistic Ministers: Saturday 6 pm  Ivan Pereira (1) Patricia McQuaid  (2) Sun 8.30am Ann Hyde (3) Peter Whiffen (4) Sun 10.30am Kathy Connolly (5) Marlene Burt (6) Peter Hammond (7) John Stanton (8) Rob O’Halloran (9)  Washing of Purificators:  Molly Robins

OFFERTORY COLLECTION: Sunday 19 March 2017:      
   Gift Aid:   £420.70       Loose:    £ 185.856      Total:   £606.5
This week’s second collection is for The SVP

A DAY WITH MARY  will be held at St Edmund of Canterbury Church, Village Way, Beckenham on Sat 1st April 9.30am until 5.15pm. Please see noticeboard.

ST VINCENT DE PAUL LENTEN APPEAL “The SVP provides an extended family in which we, as brothers and sisters in Christ, respond to the many and varied problems being faced within our communities” (SVP Patron Cardinal Vincent Nichols). The SVP Group would be very grateful to receive donations towards the work of the SVP at home and abroad.

OUR LADY’S FILM EVENING Wed 19th April movie on St Thomas More.. All welcome. 7pm for 7.30pm start.

ITEMS AVAILABLE
Pool table (full size) in need of refurbishment. Needs new cues and balls. You collect. Donation to church would be welcome.
Piano – please view in hall.  In need of serious tuning but aren’t we all.  You collect. Donation to church would be welcome.

Contact Mr Thomas 07769 668644