Month: March 2015

14th March, 2015 – Vigil Mass (Fourth Sunday of Lent)

WELCOME

Times of Mass and Devotions

HA = Holy Angels Church, Ash GU12 6LU   HF = Holy Family Church, Farnham GU9 0LH
Sat  14 Mar 5.00pm
5.30pm		 HA
HA		 Sacrament of Penance
Vigil Mass   		  
Sun 15 Mar   9.15am HF Fourth Sunday of Lent Special Intentions of the people of the Parishes
  11.00am HA     
Mon 16 Mar     NO MASS  
Tue 17 Mar   9.30am  HF Liturgy of the Word & Holy Communion (St. Patrick’s Day)  
Wed 18 Mar        

9.30pm

  HA Liturgy of the Word & Holy Communion  
Thu 19 Mar        

  7.00pm

   Ordination of Deacon Robin at St. Joseph’s Church, Guildford  
Fri  20 Mar   9.30am
  7.30pm		  HA
HA		 Stations of the Cross
Father Robin’s First Mass at Holy Angels Church, Ash		  
Sat 21 Mar 12.30pm
  5.00pm
  5.30pm		 HF
HA
HA		 Father Robin’s First Mass at Holy Family Church, Farnham
Sacrament of Penance
Vigil Mass		  
Sun 22 Mar   9.15am
 11.00am		 HF
HA		 Fifth Sunday of Lent
 Special Intentions of the people of the Parishes
       

 

Second Collection

NEXT SUNDAY for the Easter Flowers.

Collections for 8th March, 2015

Holy Angels Offertory:                                      £205.46
CAFOD Lenten Fast Day:                                 £241.00
Holy Family Offertory:                                     £179.00                    

Please pray: for our First Holy Communion children who will be making their First Confessions next Saturday, 21st March at Holy Angels Church, Ash.

 

 

Information

Deacon Robin’s Ordination – Next Thursday 19th March at 7pm at St. Joseph’s Church, Guildford.

Following the Ordination:

Father Robin’s First Masses will take place at:

Holy Angels: Friday, 20th March at 7.30pm
Holy Family:   Saturday, 21st March at 12.30pm

The intention would be that after both these Masses we have some bring and shared food so we can celebrate this new chapter in our lives together. (Lists are available at the back of both Churches if you would like to provide a dish for sharing) With grateful thanks

 

 

Lent Groups:

Holy Family: Thursday evening 26th March after the Liturgy (Deacon John)
Holy Angels: Friday morning 27th March at 10.00am preceded by Stations of the Cross at 9.30am (Deacon Robin)
Holy Family: Anne Martindale is running a group on a Monday evening. (Please contact Ann for more details).

 

Reconciliation before Easter: There will be an hour of Adoration at each Church during which the sacrament of penance will be available.

26th March        7.00pm-8.00pm Holy Angels
27th March        6.15pm-7.15pm Holy Family

After his Ordination to the priesthood Fr.Robin intends to continue the practice of being available to hear confessions before the Saturday Vigil Mass. We used to have the opportunity to have confession heard before the Sunday Mass at Holy Family, and that Fr. Terry has experimented with being available after both Sunday morning masses. Please let Deacon Robin know what you have found or would find helpful.

As Catholics we are especially asked to confess all serious sin at least once a year before Easter, though it is a good spiritual practice to do so more regularly! Pope Francis has commented wryly that as Catholics we sometimes think of the confessional as a torture chamber, while it is in fact ‘an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs us on to do our best.’ The Pope wisely reminds us that this sacrament is not only the ordinary way to set ourselves right with God after sin but an important source of grace to help us grow in holiness and resist temptation. Please avail yourself of this way of encountering the Lord.

 

Invite a friend or family member to attend Church with you at Easter or to the Ordination of Deacon Robin. This is a good time to share your faith with those around you.

 

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.
Next meeting: 14th April and 12th May, 20

 

EASTER EGGS APPEAL: Our youth group supports the local charity, ‘Step by Step’ and have asked if we could perhaps buy one additional egg when we are out shopping for the young residents at Step by Step. With grateful thanks as always! (Hilary Gray will collect from Holy Family Church and Gloria Benson from Holy Angels Church.)

 

A & B Diocesan Gold Jubilee – Sunday 5th July, 2015

A message from Archbishop Peter Smith: Festival 50 on the 5th July this year will be an important event in the history of the Diocese of Arundel & Brighton. I hope and pray that many of the people of the Diocese will be inspired to participate in the day, especially those who are sick and infirm. I invite you all to join me at the Festival, in the morning from 10am and for the Jubilee Mass at 3pm.

There is limited car parking except for the disabled, we therefore intend to lay on coaches for people to travel to the event. Next weekend there will be a list available at the back of both Churches for people to sign if they are wishing to travel by coach. Please sign the form asap as we need to book the coaches well in advance of this event. With thanks.

 

Baptisms

If you are wanting a child baptised Baptism forms are available at the back of Church. You will need to attend an evening’s course. The next course will be towards the end of April. A date will given shortly.

 

Holy Angels

Church Clean in for Easter – 28th March at 11am.

Help still required to serve Coffee after Mass: We have only had one response to our request for more helpers to serve Teas and Coffee following Mass the First and Third Sunday of the month and need more people please. (Please contact the Parish Office if you can help.)

 

Holy Family

Good Friday Walk of Witness

All Christians are invited to follow the Cross Assemble at the top of The Hart at 11.45am on 3rd April 2015 for a silent procession through the streets of Farnham ending with prayers and a hymn at St Andrew’s Church. Participants are invited to carry a palm or other small cross.

 

Prayers

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

 

Message from Deacon Robin

This is my last weekend with you before my ordination as a priest. It is also the celebration of Mothering Sunday and my birthday! So I have a lot to be thankful for at the moment. All of these celebrations in my life are about family.

As a married priest there is at times an inevitable tension between the two families you have been given, your domestic family, and the family of the Church. Both have a claim on your heart and your time, and you are responsible before God for both of them. This is the danger of the divided heart that St Paul talks about and which the Church is conscious of in guarding the gift of celibacy as the normal way of life for a priest.

For those of us who have been given this particular exception of combining the two vocations of marriage and priesthood there is thus a difficult balancing act. It is one made much easier however by a congregation that is loving and supportive. I have been very encouraged since my arrival here by the way you have accepted and loved us as a family, and made us feel very much part of the church family here in our two parishes. At its best the double vocations I have been called to should inform and encourage each other. That is very much my prayer, that my experience of fatherhood and family life in the domestic sphere will enrich my ministry among you, and that likewise my ministry here with you will enrich my family life as well. I look forward very much to beginning the next stage of my ministry with you as your priest.     Deacon Robin