Bulletin - Sacred Heart RC Church

R.C. Parish of the Sacred Heart,
Parish Priest: - Father Jim Dunne.
Address: - Sacred Heart Presbytery,
Great North Road, North Gosforth,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 5EB
Telephone: (0191) 236 3182
Deacon: John Hawthorne: 243 2379
E-mail: bulletin@sacredheartng.org.uk
Web site: www.sacredheartng.org.uk
Primary School: (0191) 285 2437;
www.stoswalds.newcastle.sch.uk
Hall Bookings: Joan Donnelly: 236 5588.
North Gosforth.
Bulletin
15th February 2015
This Weekend: 6th
Saturday
6:30 pm
Sunday
10:00 am
6:30 pm
Sunday of the Year
Dec’d,McKiernan,Coughlan+Boyd Families
Parishioners
Jim Grey (Cramlington) T.& F.B.
Next Weekend: 1st Sunday of Lent
Saturday
6.30 pm Elizabeth Soulsby
Sunday
10:00 am Beatrice Chilton
Sunday
6.30 pm Parishioners
Feasts & Mass Intentions during the Week
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Feb 16
Feb 17
Feb 18
Weekday
Seven Founders of the Servite Order
ASH WEDNESDAY
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Feb 19
Feb 20
Feb 21
Weekday of Lent
Weekday of Lent
St Peter Damian
10.00am
8:00 am
10:00 am
7.00 pm
10:00 am
10:00 am
10.00am
Pat Carroll
For our Priests
Irena Monaghan (M.McK)
Holy Souls
Our Lady of Lourdes (MC)
Nicholas Porteous
Holy Souls
Spiritual Programme (These events take place in the day chapel.)
Monday-Friday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Friday
11:00 - 2:00 pm
7:30 - 9:00 pm
8:00 - 9:00 pm
12 noon - 1:00 pm
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament - for specific times, see rota in porch.
Bible Discussion Group, 2nd Tues each month. Next meeting - March 10th
Prayer Group: Prayer & Praise
’True Life in God’ Prayer group, with adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
READERS
ROTAS
EUCH
MIN
10am CHILDREN’S LIT
Anna & Sarah
10am SERVERS’ TEAM
A: Gabrielle,Francesca,Millie,Philippa
THIS WEEK
1st READING
2nd READING
PRAYER OF THE
FAITHFUL
6:30pm
M Taylor
A Plant
A Rose
1
CHURCH CLEANING
10:00 am
A McLeod
O Dawodu
J Shepherd
4
COUNT
J & J Donnelly
6:30 pm
M Clifford
R Green
P Downey
7
GREETERS
C Brewis / E Henderson
TEA ROTA
E Henderson / H Dixon
COMPOSER OF THE PRAYER OF THE FAITHFUL: J Hawthorne
READERS
ROTAS
10am CHILDREN’S LIT
Sonia & Natalie
EUCH
MIN
10am SERVERS’ TEAM
B: Anya, Zara, Erin, Iris
NEXT WEEK
1st READING
2nd READING
PRAYER OF
THE FAITHFUL
6:30pm
D White
J Turley
M Weston
1
CHURCH CLEANING
J Curry / M Whitehead
10:00 am
F Nilsson
E Posner
A Pritchard
5
COUNT
S Cunningham / J Turnbull
6:30 pm
A Hawthorne
K Hawthorne
P.McCalliog
7
GREETERS
M Ramsay / M Jones
TEA ROTA
S Watson / P Lowery
COMPOSER OF THE PRAYER OF THE FAITHFUL: Fr. Jim
Recently Deceased
Neil Gorman (70) of Gosforth. Funeral at St Charles last Fri. Often here.
Anniversaries
Doreen Fitzgibbon
Edith Newman
Elizabeth Soulsby
Kathleen Williams
Brenda Smith
Joan Garnett
Glyn James
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon them May
they rest in peace. Amen.
Please pray for those who are ill, and their carers:
Doreen Duffy
Julie Bowland
Joyce Bolam
Ray Carroll
G Borgonuovo
Tony Murtagh
Brian Nolan
Laura Tokell
Irene Farnel
Kathleen Larsen
Susan Hope
Steve Antcliff
Julie Yoeart
Pina Bell
Pat White
Eileen Pratt
Margaret Custis
Michelle Wilkinson
Richard
Frank Earl
Baby Dominic
Norman Anderson
Tom Brewis
Fr Richard Harriott
Florence Darby
John Lant
Don Thomas
Joseph Higgins
John Harkness
Jack Steele
Congratulations!
This weekend, we baptize into the Catholic Church:
Ivy Renton, of the Great Park, and
Abigail Samples, of Brunton Park.
Last Weekend’s Collection = £ 380.69
Many thanks for your continuing support.
This bulletin is also on the parish website. If you do NOT wish someone’s name to appear on the internet, please tell us as soon as possible.
LENT STARTS THIS WEEK...
...writes Fr Jim. Ash Wednesday (Feb
18) is not a holy day of obligation, but it
is a day when we are all asked to come
to Mass and offer ourselves to the Lord
in the right spirit. After the Gospel,
there is a short homily, then the giving
of ashes to every person there - of
whatever age or religion. With the ashes
go the ancient, rather blunt words:
‘Remember that you are dust - and into
dust you shall return’.
There is Mass in the parish at 10am
and 7pm. In addition, Ash Wednesday is
(along with Good Friday) still a day of
fasting (just one main meal & a snack
for those 18-65) and abstinence (no
meat or meat products for those over
14). To be honest, it is meant to hurt to teach us self control, to make up for
our sins, and to help us show (just for a
day) solidarity with those in poor areas
who have no choice but to fast.
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‘FORWARD TOGETHER IN HOPE’
Fr Jim writes: Fr Jim O’Keefe and Mr
Tony Sacco lead this project - a noholds-barred analysis of our diocese - so
that serious plans can be made for the
future. They will soon ask each parish to
share in a profile of what goes on in its
area - both positive & negative. The
increasing shortage of priests, plus the
financial problems of some parishes
mean that the survey must be practical
& honest, leading to amalgamations at
the end of it. (The questions: where?
and with whom?) Ged Downey, from our
parish pastoral council, has kindly
volunteered to be our link with Fr Jim
O’Keefe & Tony Sacco. There will soon
be a meeting between them and the
various parish reps.
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LOST and FOUND:
Found: a sticker Lego book (lost at a
panto performance?); a pair of black
suede gloves with a bow; a fingerless
pair of black gloves with sparkles on the
back. Contact Amanda Pritchard ASAP!
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TWO PILGRIMAGES TO MEDJUGORJE
(1) Departing with Jet 2, May 3rd from
Leeds: 7 nights’ Half Board accommodation, guide & transfers for £499. OR:
(2) Join 50,000 young people for the
Youth Festival there, departing 30th
July. Contact Jonathan on 02032-892627
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COMMUNICATIONS PERSON - HELP!!!!
Fr Jim writes/begs...is there anyone
with an internet-link & printer, who’d be
willing to take messages from the
diocese, print them & put them in the
church please? Margaret Young wants to
retire after doing this for many years. I
wish to thank her for such sterling
service to the parish. The diocese wants
the person to be a member of the laity. I
wonder if they don’t trust the priests??!
Anyway, if interested, please tell me.
LENT SPECIAL SERVICES
The Parish “GIFT” (Growing In Faith Together) group resumes this Thursday
(19th) at 7pm in the day chapel. In Lent,
we have a more ’devotional’ style, and
this year we are using a diocesan
programme. The aim is to prepare the
readings of the following Sunday and get a
spiritual message from them. Thus, we
hope to be ready to meet the readings in a
good frame of mind, when we reach the
Sunday Mass.
The ecumenical Lent services & lunches
Traditionally start here at Sacred Heart,
and that is the case on Wed. Feb. 25th, at
12.30pm. Each successive Wednesday in
lent, we go round the other Christian
churches in the area: March 4th: St
Aidan’s, Brunton Park; March 11th: St
John’s, Wideopen; March 18th: St
Columba’s, W’open; March 25th: St John’s
(St John’s is used by 2 different groups.)
This year’s theme: “The Kingdom of God”.
I ask you to try to support this.
Stations of the Cross in Sacred Heart.
These occur each Friday, 10.30am, led by
the laity after Mass; and each Sunday, at
5pm, with Adoration & Benediction, led
by the clergy. After the Sunday session, all
welcome to refreshments in the house.
Please try to support these events. Fr Jim.
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‘WALK WITH ME’: LENT EDITION
We’ll be giving these out at Mass this week
-end. The cover price is just £1; the
booklet has a quote, thought & prayer for
each day. It makes Lent easy...or easier!
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2015 1st COMMUNION PROGRAMME
Fr Jim writes: The next Saturday morning
session is on April 25th, followed by the
liturgy at the 10am Sunday Mass on 26th.
1st Confessions: Thursday, March 5, 7pm.
1st Communions: Sat., June 13, 10am.
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FOOD, etc FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS
Please try to continue offering tinned
food, etc, in the large plastic bins in the
sacristy. There are many who get little (or
no) help from anyone for food & clothes.
In addition, if you could offer some gent’s
shoes (used, but in good condition, and
wrapped in plastic bags) that would be
much appreciated. Many thanks.
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SVP RAFFLE
Annual National SVP Raffle. Tickets 50p
available at back of Church; first prize
£3,000. Ticket stubs and money to be
returned by 21 March 15. Please support .
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1st COMMUNION PRAYER-SPONSORS
Ged Downey writes: Many thanks: we have
enough for all this summer’s children.
FORTHCOMING
EVENTS
Wed. Feb.25: Ecumenical Lent Service &
lunch. Here at Sacred Heart, 12.30pm.
Thu. March 5: 1st Confessions, 7pm.
Fri. March 6 : Women’s World Day of
Prayer. Here at Sacred Heart, 2.30pm.
Tue. March 31: Penance Service, 7pm.
Wed. April 1: St Oswald’s Easter Production, (by Years 4+5); in church, 7pm
Thu. April 2: Last Supper Mass, 7pm.
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NEXT SUNDAY’S READINGS
Next Sunday = 1st of Lent (B):Genesis 9:8-15;
1st Peter 3:18-22; Mark 1:12-15.
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RECYCLING - WITH AMANDA PRITCHARD
Please cut the stamps off your letters
(with a small frame) and give them to
Amanda; she deposits them at Trinity Cafe
to help funds at St Oswald’s hospice.
If you have gift bags, either re-use them,
or give them to her; she sends them to the
RVI for patients with drains after surgery.
(NB: sorry: bottle-bags are NOT suitable.)
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POPE FRANCIS SPEAKS TO US
An authentic faith - which is never
comfortable, nor completely personal always involves a deep desire to change
the world, to transmit values, to leave this
earth somehow better than when we found
it. We love this magnificent planet on
which God has put us. We also love the
human family which dwells here, with all
its tragedies and struggles, its hopes and
its aspirations, its strengths and its
weaknesses. The earth is our common
home, and we are all brothers and sisters.
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PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL
Minutes of the last (Jan) meeting are at
back of church & on the parish website.
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LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR
You may know we fund-raise for the Little
Sisters. We collect old military medals
(any conflict, date, or country), currency
(foreign/old holiday cash), old broken gold
& silver (ear-ring backs, broken chains or
watches) & used stamps from any country.
We really need YOUR help to continue. To
date we have raised about £3000 but more
is needed. What do you get in return? A
share in the prayers & Masses of the
sisters. We can’t carry on alone so ask
your friends & family to help too, PLEASE!!
David & Theresa O'Neill; 0191 264 5771
FR JIM’S NOTES
CHURCH SOUND. If you wear a hearing aid, use the “T” setting for our loop system.
TAILPIECE: Back to the USA: (1) The Lord was worried about our problem with drugs , so he sent some of
the apostles back to get some samples, so he could understand it better. Someone knocked at heaven’s door it was Peter. “I’ve brought marijuana from Colombia” - and he went in. Another knock - it was Matthew. “I’ve
brought cocaine from Bolivia: - and he went in. Another knock - it was John. “I’ve brought opium from Afghanistan” - and he went in. A fourth knock - it was Judas. “I’ve brought crack from New York” - and he went
in. Immediately after he entered, the doors were smashed in. A voice shouted: “Everybody on the floor. This is
the FBI.....” (2) What do you call it when one blonde whispers into another’s ear? Data transfer. (3) How do
students copy the Lord, who miraculously changed water into wine at Cana in Galilee? They change their
student loans into vodka at bars in the city centre...