Newsletter

HOLY ANGELS CHURCH is open Monday – Friday
9am – 1.00pm
For Visits and Prayer.

 

WELCOME

Times of Mass and Devotions
Sat    2 Mar	5.30pm	HA	Vigil Mass	Fr. Ken Freeman (RIP)
Sun   3 Mar	9.15am	HF	Third Sunday of Lent	Women who have suffered brutality in their lives
	11.00am	HA		Special Intentions of the people of the Parish
	3.00pm	HF	Stations of the Cross
Mon  4 Mar			NO MASS
Tue  5 Mar	9.30am	HF	Third Week of Lent	Charles and Kathy Moore (RIP) Nov. List
Wed 6 Mar	9.30am	HA	Third Week of Lent	Grig Family and Relatives (RIP) Nov. List
Thu  7 Mar	7.30pm	HF	Sts Perpetua and Felicity	Clyde Collins & Mary Haines (RIP) Nov. List
Fri   8 Mar	12.00pm	HA	St. John of God	Edna Eleazer (RIP)
	7.00pm	HA	Stations of the Cross
Sat 9 Mar	5.30pm	HA	Vigil Mass	Special Intentions of the people of the Parish
Sun 10 Mar	9.15am	HF	Fourth Sunday of Lent	Henry Savidge (RIP)
	11.00am	HA		Jimmy & Michael Cash (RIP)
	3.00pm	HF	Stations of the Cross

 

Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confessions)
Holy Angels, Ash: First Friday of month after 12pm Lunchtime Mass
Holy Family, Farnham:  First Thursday of month after 7.30pm Evening Mass
Special Services with Confessions at both Churches for Advent and Lent

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament on Wednesday at Holy Family @ 7.00pm (in Church Hall)

 (Parish Office Hours: 9.30am – 1.30pm)

                        Please note:  HF = Holy Family, Heath End, Farnham and HA = Holy Angels, Ash

 

Liturgy

Stations of the Cross

7^th Station:   Jesus falls a Second time

Prostrate on the ground He stumbled,
on the road to Calvary;
Bruised and scorned He now resembled
KYRIE, ELEISON.

 

8^th Station:  Women of Jerusalem weep for Jesus

Is there one here who would not weep
As those women by the road?
Four sake He took wounds so deep,
CHRISTE, ELEISON.

9^TH Station: Jesus Falls a Third time

Jesus falls again in weakness,
Bearing all our sin and pain,
Stumbling on the road to save us,
KYRIE, ELEISON

 

 

Information

Monday-Saturday – 9.30pm to 1pm Holy Angels Church will be open for you to make your own personal Stations of the Cross

Caretaker Required – for St. Polycarps Catholic Primary School, Waverley Lane, Farnham, GU9 8BQ. 25 hours a week over 43 weeks a year. Initial training will be given. (For further information please see Church Noticeboards)

 

Holy Family Church Catholic Parish Farnham, Hale, Weybourne & Badshot Lea

LENTEN LUNCH –  Friday 8 March 2013 12.30pm at Holy Family Hall. Lovely home-made soups, cheese and rolls and coffee. Do come along and enjoy, and have a chat with fellow parishioners.  Donations to J& P Fund.
CAFOD Cards – Hungry for Change available to sign

 

Police Coffee Afternoon – Thursday, 21^st March

Our local Police in Ash will be holding a Coffee afternoon at Holy Angels Church in St. Mary’s Room between 3pm – 4pm. Please come along and get to know your local Officers who will be happy to discuss any concerns or issues you may have.

Our local Police will be using our Holy Angels forecourt also on Thursday 21^st March for road safety training for primary school children.

 

Baptisms

Please make an appointment to see the Priest/Deacon to discuss what you need to do to prepare for your child’s baptism.

 

Prayer Requests

Please continue to remember in your prayers our sick: baby Rosie Partridge and Barbara mother of Sharon O’Brien.

 

Message from Father David

“How are we doing during Lent?”  This was a question our Deacon asked us to consider in his homily last Sunday.  During the past week it is a question I have been asking in schools and as I go about my pastoral visits in the parish.  I have been very interested and sometimes amused to hear the efforts that many of you are making for Lent.  One Lady told me that her husband had given up alcohol between 9am and 9pm.  She found it amusing when he kept looking at the clock and eventually discovered it had stopped and he had “done an extra hour of abstinence” involuntarily.  Some of you have chosen the well tried Lenten Resolutions of giving up sweets, sugar or chocolate.  Some have decided to keep all the Fridays in Lent as CAFOD FAMILY FAST DAYS and to hand their envelopes in at the end of Lent.  One little boy of 6 said he had given up talking to girls for Lent (I couldn’t see how this would help others unless he was over talkative!).  All communities are from time to time troubled with gossip.  One lady who was finding it difficult to cope with gossip said that she would offer a prayer each day during Lent for the person who was troubling her with speculative comments about others.

Cardinal O’Brien may or may not be the victim of vindictive  gossip.  Bishops, Parish Priests, Doctors and Head Teachers and others in positions of responsibility know only too well that they can often be the target of vindictive gossip – often by people who don’t really know them and in some cases people they have never met.  Cardinal O’Brien has done what he asks all his  Priests to do if there is a serious complaint against them – stand down, even when you do not know who is making the complaint or what it is until the matter has been properly investigated.

Please remember Cardinal O’Brien and all in positions of responsibility who are so vulnerable to gossip.

God Bless you all,    Father David

 

A Reflection

“Do not judge others, so that God will not judge you, for God will judge you in the same way as you judge others”. (Matthew: 7 v1)

Dear Lord thank you for this time of Lent.  Help me to see that Lent is a special gift from You that helps me to know myself and to grow in faith. May I use this gift wisely and may it be a blessing upon me and upon my family and friends. Amen.

 

Easter Services

28^th March 2013 – Maundy Thursday

7.30pm Holy Angels Church:       Mass of the Last Supper

29^th March 2013 – Good Friday

9.30am Holy Angels Church:       Children’s Service

3.00pm HolyFamilyChurch:       Passion and Veneration

7.30pm Holy Angels Church:       Stations of the Cross

30^th March 2013 – Saturday Easter Vigil

7.30pm Holy Angels Church:      Ceremony of Light and Mass

31^st March 2013 – Easer Sunday

9.15am HolyFamilyChurch:      Family Mass for Easter

11.00am Holy Angels Church:    Mass of Easter

5.30pm Holy Angels Church:      Sunday Evening Easter Mass