14th February, 2015 - Vigil Mass (Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time)

WELCOME

Times of Mass and Devotions HA = Holy Angels Church, Ash GU12 6LU HF = Holy Family Church, Farnham GU9 0LH
Sat 14 Feb	5.00pm 5.30pm	HA HA	Sacrament of Penance Vigil Mass	Roisin Miller(RIP)
Sun 15 Feb	9.15am	HF	Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time	Special Intentions of the people of the Parishes
	11.00am	HA		Barbara Lumsden(RIP)
Mon 16 Feb			NO MASS
Tue 17 Feb	9.30am	HF	Liturgy of the Word & Holy Communion
Wed 18 Feb	12.00pm	HF	Ash Wednesday
Wed 18 Feb	7.30pm	HA	Ash Wednesday
Thu 19 Feb	6.15pm	HF	Adoration
Thu 19 Feb	7.30pm		Liturgy of the Word & Holy Communion
Fri 20 Feb			NO MASS
Sat 21 Feb	5.00pm 5.30pm	HA	Sacrament of Penance Vigil Mass	Margaret and Mike Best (RIP)
Sun 22 Feb	9.15am	HF	First Sunday of Lent	Special Intentions of the people of the Parishes
	11.00am	HA

Special Collection

TODAY there will be a Second Collection for the Lourdes Pilgrimage Fund.

Collections for 8th February, 2015

Holy Angels Offertory: £220.35
Holy Family Offertory: £154.70

Sacrament of Penance: Fr Terry is available to hear confessions in the Lady Chapel at Holy Angels from 5.00pm before the Vigil mass every week.

Information

Becoming a Catholic

We will shortly be starting a course for any adults wishing to explore becoming a Catholic. (Please speak to Deacon Robin or Deacon John if you are interested in finding out more).

Ordination to the Priesthood

Deacon Robin will be ordained to the priesthood on Thursday 19th March at 7pm at St. Joseph’s Church, Guildford. Please continue to pray for him as he enters these final weeks of preparation, and put the date in your diary now!

Lent Group sign up: Deacon John will be leading a group at Holy Family on Thursday evenings after the Liturgy and Deacon Robin will be leading a group at Holy Angels on Friday mornings at 10.00am, preceded by Stations of the Cross at 9.30am. We will be using the Diocesan Lent Course which is focusing on the first Reading of the Sundays in Lent. It would be helpful to know numbers of people who might be interested in attending, so please sign the lists at the back if you think you might come.

Ash Wednesday Masses: 18^th February

Holy Family: 12.00pm Father John Nuttall
Holy Angels: 7.30pm Fr. Terry Martin

Ash Wednesday is observed as a day of fasting and abstinence. Fasting means that the amount of food we eat is considerably reduced. (The usual guide is one main meal and two extra small ones, collations.) Abstinence means abstaining from meat and by uniting this to prayer. Those who cannot or choose not to eat meat as part of their normal diet should abstain from some other food of which they regularly partake. The rule of abstinence affects those of fourteen years and up, that of fasting, those of eighteen years and up, until you reach your sixtieth year. Obviously those who are ill or otherwise debilitated are excused!

Fridays in Lent: St. Mark’s Church, Alma Lane, Upper Hale, GU9 0LT. Various talks on the Gospel including a talk given by own Deacon John Edwards on the 27^th February based on The Gospel challenges how we live.(see church notice boards for further info if you are interested in attending)

Diocesan Jubilee Celebration – Sunday 5th July at the Amex Stadium in Brighton. (Put this date in your diaries)

Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice and Andrew Lodge Estate Agents are encouraging those who are selling a house to consider donating their unwanted furniture to the Hospice’s Furniture Showrooms. The Hospice can then sell these items to raise money to fund its work caring for terminally ill patients and their families. The campaign is aimed at anyone who is selling a house – perhaps on behalf of a relative or for probate, or because they are downsizing – and has items of furniture which they no longer want or need. If you have any unwanted furniture, please call the Hospice on 01252 710679 to arrange your free furniture collection.

Baptisms

If you are wanting a child baptised in the next three or four months please obtain a form from the back of the Church and hand it, as soon as possible (even if you cannot complete it all), to either Deacon Robin or Deacon John. You will need to attend an evening’s course and the next course will take place early in February, you will be given the date once we have your basic details. It is recommended that you obtain and read ‘Your Baby’s Baptism – Catholic’ from Redemptorist Books (Product Code: 1028 ISBN: 9780852314111). There is also ‘Your Godchild: “How to be a Catholic Godparent” (Product Code: 1450 ISBN: 9780852313640), for God-parents. These are available from Redemptorist books www.rpbooks.co.uk DABCEC Bookshop Tel: 01293 651165.
email: bookshop@dabnet.org

Prayers

Prayers for the sick: Deacon David Morgan, Newton Abrew, Connie Tewkesbury, Jane Brown and Sharon (sister of Marian Grannell) Thank you

Holy Angels

Liturgy of the Word for children: Please remember that on the first and third Sundays of the month when we offer liturgy of the word for children (from 4yrs up to First Holy Communion) we are requesting that during mass we leave the St Mary’s Meting Room solely for this use. This is to comply with our safeguarding procedures, and makes it easier to offer a better liturgy for the children. If you need to take a younger child out of church for part of the service please use the foyer.

Women’s World Day of Prayer Will take place on Friday, 6^th March at 7.30pm at St. Peter’s Church, Ash. The Christian Women of the Bahamas have put together this year’s Service; themed ‘Jesus Said to Them: Do You Know What I Have Done To you?’ We require two Readers from our Parish. If you are hoping to attend and would be willing to read, please can you kindly either let Gloria Benson know or the Parish Office. Thank you.

Prayer Group: Our Prayer Group takes place once a month on a Tuesday in the Parish Office at Holy Angels Church at 7.30pm for a 7.45pm start.
The next meeting will take place on:-

10^th March, 14^th April and 12^th May, 2015

Holy Family

WOMEN’S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER – 6th March

The Women’s World day of Prayer takes place at the Church of St Joan of Arc, on Friday 6th March at 10.30am. Please come in bright colours and bring all things in bright colours with you if you wish; flowers, pictures of the Bahamas etc. All welcome.

Message from Deacon Robin

In many ways the decision as to when to go away on my retreat was a very practical one, revolving around possible dates for my ordination, and when it would be most practical to go away bearing in mind the imminent arrival of my next child. How lovely, however, that those practical considerations led to a decision to make that retreat also a pre-Lenten one. I will return on Ash Wednesday so that we can begin our journey towards Easter together, with the date of my ordination meaning that I will have the great joy of celebrating my first Holy Week with you as your (very newly minted!) priest.

Conventionally of course one’s pre-ordination retreat would have concluded almost immediately before the actual ordination. Fortunately Lent gives us all the opportunity to make something of a retreat together. A retreat gives us the space and encouragement of particular time set aside to concentrate on our spiritual life, on our relationship with the Lord. So often in the busy lives our relationship with God can become routine, or pushed aside. So we need encouragement like the season of Lent to make us pause and review our life with Jesus. In some ways Lent, as such a time, is more valuable than going away on a retreat. We are called not only to be holy for a few days away, but in the midst of our daily lives. Jesus tells us: ‘when you pray go to your private room and, when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is that secret place.’ As well as our life praying together, receiving the sacraments we need to have that space in our hearts, the place of stillness there that we carry with us throughout the day.

So please take this Lent as an opportunity to review your life, especially in the three traditional areas of prayer, almsgiving and fasting. If life has become so hectic that these have been squeezed out, this is the time to get your life back in balance and give some more time to Jesus.