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: [email protected] 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. ______________________ ‘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. __________________________ 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! _________________________________________________________ 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 __________________________ 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. _________________________ ‘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! ___________________ 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. __________________________ 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. __________________________ 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 . __________________________ 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. ___________________________ NEXT SUNDAY’S READINGS Next Sunday = 1st of Lent (B):Genesis 9:8-15; 1st Peter 3:18-22; Mark 1:12-15. __________________________ 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.) __________________________ 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. __________________________ PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL Minutes of the last (Jan) meeting are at back of church & on the parish website. __________________________ 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...
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