Our Lady of Lourdes & St Swithun
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Our Lady of Lourdes & St Swithun
C ATHOLIC P ORTSMOUTH Catholic Parishes and Schools in Partnership in the City of Portsmouth 8 MARCH 2015 – THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT - YEAR B Stations of the Cross The Stations of the Cross is a devotion usually recited throughout Lent which recalls Jesus’s passion, death and resurrection. The devotion has a rich history and developed in an attempt to reproduce the Holy places in other lands so that pilgrims who could not travel to the Holy Land could enter into the great mystery of these events in a spiritual and devotional way. Later, when access to the Holy Land was blocked by Muslim Turks, reproductions of the stations began to appear throughout Europe and the devotion became more popular. When we meditate on the events of Jesus’s passion, death and resurrection, we are not only remembering what Jesus did for us but Jesus calls us to an ever deeper union with himself by living out the mysteries of his life. In Matthew 16:24-25 Jesus tells his disciples, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.” These words of Jesus were something that I had always struggled with. However, in 2011, I joined the diocesan pilgrimage to World Youth Day in Madrid. It was here, touched by the Holy Spirit, and through my experience the Stations of the Cross, that I received new spiritual insight into the meaning of carrying the cross. As I approached each station I began to realise that every suffering I had experienced, the Lord also experienced in his passion death and resurrection. For every physical wound, for every false accusation, for every humiliation and many other sufferings, the Lord experienced it all in his own life, and in his passion, death and resurrection. So when we suffer, Christ not only understands the pain we go through but he is truly with us in our suffering. But Christ does not leave us alone to carry the cross; Christ carries the cross with us. How does he do this? Christ is present with us through the sacraments, through the Church, through our family and friends, and those we encounter in our daily lives and in many other ways too. But in suffering there is also hope, where our wounds of suffering are transformed into new life of the resurrection. By taking up the cross we are called to die and reject sin. By doing this we are raised to new life, and through the Holy Spirit we become more Christ like as we become more aware of Christ’s presence in our souls. We also become more aware of the love and freedom he offers us and the call to share it with others. Ansel D'Mello Our Lady of Lourdes & St Swithun Fr Kazimierz Stefek - Assistant Priest: Fr Pawel Przybyszewski tel. 023 9282 8305 – [email protected] Our Lady of Lourdes Bransbury Road, Eastney, PO4 9JY - St Swithun 105 Waverley Road, Southsea, PO5 2PL Pastoral Assistant: Sr Marie Elise Tel. 07747 728734 Parish Secretary: Mrs Clare Shore – Office Hours: Mon 0900-1100 and Tues to Friday 0900-1500 Safeguarding Representative: Val Croughan 023 9234 1682 St John’s Cathedral: Bishop’s House, Bishop Crispian Way, PO1 3HG – Tel. 02392 826170 Cathedral Dean: Canon Dominic Golding VG – [email protected] Assistant Priest: Fr James McAuley – [email protected] Parish Secretary: Mrs Lily Peach – [email protected] – Office Hours: 0900-1600 Monday – Friday Parish Pastoral Assistant: Sister Maura Chin - Safeguarding Representative: Sue Smy 023 9273 0855 Corpus Christi & St Joseph Fr Steven Restori tel 023 9266 0927 – [email protected] Corpus Christi Gladys Avenue, North End PO2 9AZ – St Joseph Tangier Road, Copnor PO3 6JH Parish Sister: Sr Mary Gleavey FMDM 07586 801868 – St Joseph Hall Bookings: Mrs Mary Vale 07897 488254 Safeguarding Representative: Elaine Lindsay 07749 200592 St Colman with St Paul Fr Joe McNerney (Hospital Chaplain) – Assistant Priest: Fr John Humphreys [email protected] - 023 9228 6408 St Colman St Colman’s Avenue, Cosham, PO6 2JJ – St Paul Allaway Avenue, PO6 4DG– tel. 023 9237 6151 Parish Assistant: Mrs Tess Pritchard Office Hours: 0900-1500 Mon to Fri Safeguarding Representative: Irene Taylor 023 9264 0754 or 07914 722708 Pastoral Youth Worker: Dom DeBoo tel 023 9283 6524 mob 07769 185603 – [email protected] PARISHES: Corpus Christi & St Joseph • Our Lady of Lourdes with St Swithun • St Colman & St Paul • St John’s Cathedral SCHOOLS: Primary: Corpus Christi • St John’s Cathedral • St Paul’s • St Swithun’s • Secondary: St Edmund’s Catholic Portsmouth - www.CatholicPortsmouth.org.uk 8 March 2015 – Third Sunday of Lent Year B CONTACT Youth Club (11 – 16) CONTACT AREA NEWSYouth Club, our youth club for young people aged 11–16, runs from 1900–2100 at St Colman’s K;k;k;l Catholic Church. £1 a week subs + tuck shop. Next Session: Wed 11 March ZONED In (Year 6 Youth Club) If you are in school year 6, then we run a youth club for you on Thursday nights from 1830–2000 at Corpus Christi Catholic School with lots of fun activities and equipment. £1 a week subs + tuck shop. In our next session we will be looking at how recycling your unwanted goods can make a big difference to our environment. Next Session: Thursday 12 March YOUTH AND CHILDREN’S MASS We are holding our next Youth and Children’s Mass at Corpus Christi Catholic Church on Sunday 22 March so if you are from St Joseph’s or Corpus Christi please look out for that and then get involved. We will be holding a rehearsal for any children and young people that want to be involved in sign language and our final song at 1000 in Corpus Christi Primary School Hall on Sunday 15 February Feel free to get in touch: facebook: ‘Dom DeBoo Portsmouth’ twitter @Dom_DeBoo_Youth www.catholicportsmouth.org.uk/youth [email protected] tel: 07769185603 THE ULTIMATE FAMILY QUIZ On Saturday 28 March, we will be holding a family quiz at St Swithun’s Catholic Church from 1900–2130 raising money in support of our Pastoral Area youth ministry. Tickets cost £5 for adults and £3 for under 16’s or £15 for a family ticket (2 adults, 3 children) and includes a burger and hot dog meal as well as some cracking prizes for the winning teams. DISCOVERY (13 – 18) We are restarting DISCOVERY for teenagers aged 13–18 to come and explore their faith asking some of life’s deeper questions, with cracking desserts. Our next session will be looking at the theme ‘Why can’t we always have what we want?’ Next Session: Tuesday 10 March RECONCILIATION St John's Cathedral Saturday 1100 - 1145 1700 – 1745 St Swithun Friday 1930 – 2000 Saturday 1030 – 1100 Our Lady of Lourdes Saturday 1730 – 1755 Corpus Christi Saturday 0930 St Joseph Saturday(Before 1800 Mass) St Colman Saturday 1700 – 1730 DIARY Monday 9 March - Our Lady of Peace (Medjugorje) Prayer Group:1100-1200 Jubilee Room, St John’s Cathedral - Bible Timeline Study Course: 1930 St John’s Cathedral Hall Tuesday 10 March - Parent, Toddlers and Baby Group: 0915-1115 St Swithun’s Hall Wednesday 11 March - Lenten course – Catholicism: 1930 St Swithun’s Hall Thursday 12 March - The Search (RCIA): 1900 St John’s Discovery Centre Friday 13 March - Mothers Prayer Group – 1115 Our Lady of Lourdes Church - Guides and Brownies meet 1700–2000 Our Lady of Lourdes Community Room - WCCM – Meditation Group – 2000 Meeting Room, St Swithun’s Hall Monday 23 March - Ascent Group – 1415 St Swithun’s Church Hall SUNDAY NIGHT EXTRA (11 – 16) Sunday Night Extra is our monthly space for you to chill out on a Sunday night with other young Catholics, to eat good food and to explore your faith deeper. It is held in the Cathedral Discovery Centre from 1900–2045 and we ask for a donation of £2 per person towards the cost of food. In our next session we will be exploring the question ‘What does it mean to choose life?’ Next Session: Sunday 22 March YOUNG ADULTS (18 – 30) If you are aged 18–30, then every fortnight we get together in the Cathedral Discovery Centre from 1900–2100 for a meal, talk, discussion time and then prayer, adoration and confessions. In our next session we will be looking at the theme ‘The battle for your soul’ and how being aware of the spiritual world can help us become more alive in our faith. Next Session: Sun 15 March FLAME 2 Thank you to everyone who came to Flame 2 this Saturday. We had a fantastic day out at Wembley Arena with 8000 other Catholics including 172 from Portsmouth Diocese. Well done everyone for your enthusiasm and for making it a great day Please pray for those who are ill, especially: Micheline Thompson, Michael Foster, Pat Needham, John Malbon, Margaret Badger, Rosemary Ashton, Anne Sullivan, Catherine Morgan, Eileen Huddleston, Barbara Mulligan, Harry Murray, Arthur Tobin and Jo Wheeler. For those who have died: baby Tom Denny (Tony Denny’s Grandson) And for those whose anniversaries occur at this time: Selina Fairhall, James Nuttall, Clarice Connor, Kathleen Davies, William Anderson, Mary Kathleen Louise O'Reilly, Paddy Wall, Reginald Sainty, Margaret Driffield, Christina Collins, George Carroll, Mabel Blake, Edward Nolan, Mary Adelaide Small, Eric Daniel O'Neill, Muriel Mary Smith, Frans Anthony Aspinall, Nancie Carter, Christopher Somers, Nora Wellstead, Annie Hadley, Percy Browne, Michael Vahey, Eileen Bosonnet, Patrick Robinson, Christopher Joseph Somers, Robert Thomas Turner, Cecilia Brennan, Mary Barlow, Cornelius Barrett, Winifred Gridley, Fred Amos, Ambrosine Madeleine Marie Mellonet, Daniel Cambridge, Agnes Handen, Mary Thompson, Arty-May "Sammy" Sangwell, Catherine Jane Regan, Adele Romeo Grey, Ivy Holland, Josephine Mary Hall, Shane Patrick Matthews, Stephen Philip Hatton, Paul Andrews, Count Albert de Curzon, Noah Woolffe, Eileen Fowler, John Aylward, Kathleen Dawson, Iris Stout, Georgina Alice Birtwistle, Edward Ingram, Reginald "Reg" Bunting, Phyllis May Heardman, Joseph Bride and Charles William Moss. May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the Mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen WE ACKNOWLEDGE LAST WEEKEND’S COLLECTIONS WITH THANKS: - Corpus Christi with St Joseph: £1195.71 inc SO/DD - Our Lady of Lourdes & St Swithun: £1,269.22 inc SO (69% GA) - St Colman with St Paul: £1,002.40 inc SO (67% GA) - St John’s Cathedral: £2,483.29 inc SO (42% GA) Cafod Family Fast Day: £1,066.34 NEWSLETTER NOTICES If you have articles, news, notices or anything you wish to advertise in this newsletter, please email it to [email protected]. Please ensure that it is received by 1800 on the preceding Wednesday. Catholic Portsmouth - www.CatholicPortsmouth.org.uk Pastoral Area News UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH STUDENTS Today Sunday 8 March at Angela's NEW AREA flat (33, NEWS Brandon Court, Lawrence Road, Southsea, PO5 1PF) at 1345 there will be the Students' Brunch followed by a Talk from Ansel D’Mello (who is studying for the priesthood and currently doing a pastoral year at the Cathedral) about his vocation/journey in faith. Please come along. For further information contact Angela: [email protected] YOUTH MINISTRY VOLUNTEER The Diocese is currently looking for an enthusiastic young volunteer to commit for a period of 2 years on a part-time basis to help out with the exciting youth ministry activities and WYD 2016 preparations. The work required would average between 7 to 10 hours per week mainly during evenings or/and weekends. In return, we will cover the cost and expenses for you to study a Foundation Degree in Youth Ministry at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. The course is part time over 2 years and comprises distance learning along with occasional classroom lectures. Please apply before 30 March 2015 as the hope is that you could start your studies after the summer break 2015 but there is some flexibility on dates. For further info, contact Angie Carroll on 07713 567 161 ASAP. Tel: 023 9284 3030 ASCENT GROUP Monday 23 March 1415 St Swithun’s Church Hall, Waverley Road – The guest speaker this month is Brian Masters from RNLI Education who will give a talk on the workings of the RNLI. CWL NATIONAL COFFEE MORNING The Portsmouth City Section of the Catholic Women’s League are joining in the CWL National Coffee Morning on Sunday 22 March after 1000 Mass in the Cathedral Hall. Everyone is welcome, please bring your friends. GENERAL ELECTION 2015 The Bishops have written a joint Letter to all Catholics in England and Wales encouraging us to participate and vote in the election and offering some key issues and questions for reflection on where candidates stand. Copies are available from the Bishop’s Conference website from Sunday 8 March www.catholicnews.org.uk. Please read the letter and encourage others to do the same. ARCHBISHOP OSCAR ROMERO He was assassinated on 24 March 1980 and many have prayed for him to be acclaimed a martyr. Pope Francis recently declared him this paving the way for his beatification. A Mass to celebrate this will take place on 24 March at 1930 in Immaculate Conception Church, Portswood Road Southampton, S017 3SB. OAKLANDS SCHOOL The Parents Association is presenting “KOJAK REVENGE” on Friday 20 March from 2000. Tickets £10 includes entry into wine raffle. Call/text 07817 606571. The School itself is presenting a production of “OKLAHOMA” from 3-5 March at 1930 in the main school Hall. Tickets through the School’s Finance Office or via online payment system. FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT Saturday 7/Sunday 8 March Orders taken at St. John's Cathedral parish for Real Easter Eggs made with Fairtrade chocolate explaining the Christian message of Easter. Eggs to be distributed on 28/29 March. For more information on these and other events kindly please go to www.portsmouthfairtrade.org.uk THANK YOU FROM FAIRTRADE GIFT AID Please consider Gift Aid for your Sunday offerings. It is of tremendous financial aid to the Parish. For more details please ring the Parish Office. New boxes of envelopes will be available shortly for collection. MASS DUTIES AT OUR LADY OF LOURDES Please would those who help at Mass give Anne, in writing, the dates of those Saturdays they cannot manage in April, May and June, by Saturday March 14th at the latest. Give the note to Anne or place it in the envelope in the stewards' basket. A big thank you to all those who supported the various Fairtrade events around the city during our successful Fairtrade Fortnight. The Church's involvement in Fairtrade is based on Christian witness. Christians are called to love the poor – but also to ask questions as to why they are poor. Fair trade is not about charity, it’s about giving people the dignity of working their way out of poverty, providing opportunity and hope for the future. It’s about developing a different way of buying things, whether we’re choosing coffee or chocolate, tea or t-shirts. Read more at www.portsmouthcatholiccathedral.org.u k/fairtrade/ PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LAND Bishop Philip Egan, together with Mgr Canon Vincent Harvey and Fr James McAuley will be leading the Pilgrimage from 22 Nov - 2 Dec. To book - visit www.portsmouthdiocese.org.uk for electronic enquiry form. Should you wish, do contact the Pilgrimage organisers Deacon Iain & Cheryl MacFirbhisigh: Tel 015 3472 5963 or email: [email protected] Parish News RECONCILIATION SERVICES: 10.30am at Corpus Christi next AREA NEWS Saturday 14 March 10am at St John’s Cathedral on Saturday 28 March LENTEN COURSE – CATHOLICISM Wednesdays during Lent in the Canon Kuner Room, St Swithun’s Hall at 1930. Watching a DVD showing Father Robert Barron you will learn what Catholics believe and why while being immersed in the art, architecture, literature, beliefs and practices of the Catholic tradition. STATIONS OF THE CROSS During Lent there will be Stations of the Cross in St Swithun’s Church at 9.30am and 6.30pm on Fridays and 9.30am on Saturdays and in Polish at 5.30pm on Sundays. LENTEN ALMS As in previous years we will be supporting Murambinda Parish in Zimbabwe with collections being taken this weekend, 21/22 March and 28/29 March. Gift Aiders please use the envelopes provided in your packs. CLERGY ASSISTANCE FUND There will be a retiring collection for the Clergy Assistance Fund next weekend after all Masses. This collection helps raise funds to help the sick and retired Priests of our Diocese when they are in need. Gift Aiders please use the envelopes provided in your packs. CAFOD FAST DAY – THANK YOU Together our parish raised £717.32 for CAFOD’s vital work around the world. With UK Aid Match funding, this means we will have ensured £1,434.64 can be used to help more of our sisters and brothers deal with the devastating impact of extreme weather. Thank you for your generous compassion for those living in poverty. Catholic Portsmouth - www.CatholicPortsmouth.org.uk Liturgical Calendar and Mass Times SATURDAY 7 MARCH First Mass of Third Sunday of S Lent SUNDAY 8 MARCH THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT Exodus 20:1-3.7-8.12-17 1 Corinthians 1:22-25 John 2:13-25 MONDAY 9 MARCH TUESDAY 10 MARCH WEDNESDAY 11 MARCH THURSDAY 12 MARCH FRIDAY 13 MARCH SATURDAY 14 MARCH SATURDAY 14 MARCH First Mass of Fourth Sunday of Lent SUNDAY 15 MARCH FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT 2 Chronicles 36:14-16.19-23 Ephesians 2:4-10 John 3:14-21 1800 0800 0830 0900 0930 1000 1015 1100 1100 1200 1400 1600 1800 1800 0730 0915 1000 1215 0730 0915 1000 1215 1900 0730 0915 0930 1000 1215 0730 0915 0930 1000 1200 1215 0730 0930 1000 1830 1215 1900 0900 1000 1215 1800 0800 0830 0900 0930 1000 1015 1100 1100 1200 1600 1800 1800 Our Lady of Lourdes St Colman Joseph Henry Charlton RIP (FM) St John’s Cathedral St Joseph People of the Parish St John’s Cathedral Wesley Johnson RIP St Swithun Ted and Micheline Thompson's Intentions St Joseph Deceased Members of the Hicks Family St Colman Gunter Zimmerman RIP (MH) St John’s Cathedral Sheila Thompson RIP St Swithun People of the Parish St Paul Mary Miller RIP (PM) Corpus Christi Joe & Pepita Grech St John’s Cathedral Mary Rita Hudson INT Our Lady of Lourdes Mass in Vietnamese QA Hospital Julia & Guy War (PM) St John’s Cathedral People of the Parish St Swithun Mass in Polish St John’s Cathedral Private intention St Colman Nicholas Webb RIP (FM) St Swithun Helen West RIP P St John’s Cathedral Tony and Adelaide de Battista RIP St John’s Cathedral Private Intentions St Colman Maria & Peter Malson (PM) St Swithun Elizabeth Geary RIP P St John’s Cathedral Margaret Golding RIP St Swithun St John’s Cathedral Kevin Baldwin RIP St Colman Marjorie Burton RIP (PM) Corpus Christi Bronagh Davies RIP St Swithun Deceased of Robinson Family F St John’s Cathedral Giovanna & Elia Fenech RIP St John’s Cathedral St Colman The People of the Parish (PM) St Joseph John Broderick P St Swithun Jan Straczak RIP Our Lady of Lourdes St John’s Cathedral Funeral Mass for Josephine Obermaier RIP St John’s Cathedral Kevin Baldwin RIP Corpus Christi Teresa & Thomas McCauley F St Swithun Miss EAE Edmunds, her father, mother & aunt Sarah Ellery RIP P St Colman Private Intentions (SP) St John’s Cathedral Mario Oakes RIP St Swithun Corpus Christi Patrick John William Louge P St Swithun Iris Stout RIP F St John’s Cathedral Rose and Joseph Farrugia RIP Our Lady of Lourdes Reginald Howard Bunting RIP F St Colman Ivy Searls RIP (FM) St John’s Cathedral People of the Parish St Joseph Deceased Members of the MacEachen & Heywood families St John’s Cathedral Cyril Lodge RIP St Swithun Baby Tom Denny (Tony Denny’s Grandson) St Joseph Priests of St Joseph’s Living & Dead F St Colman Joan Hudson RIP (BH) St John’s Cathedral Tony Trigg St Swithun People of the Parish Corpus Christi People of the Parish St Paul John Joseph Cummings RIP (CC) St John’s Cathedral Maturin Bekoin RIP QA Hospital Holy Souls (CC) St Swithun Mass in Polish St John’s Cathedral Monica Harrette Koroma INT F: Foundation – P: Perpetual Catholic Portsmouth - www.CatholicPortsmouth.org.uk