ST. ANNE’S CHURCH PILLORY STREET NANTWICH. CW5 5SS Tel: 01270-625494 M hhh Email [email protected] Website www. stannesnantwich.org.uk Mass Times for this Saturday 3 Parish Priest: Rev. John P Daly Permanent Deacon: Rev. P Mascarenhas 15th March 2015 - Fourth Sunday of Lent – B - MOTHERS DAY Mass Times for the Week Saturday 13th Sunday 14th Monday 15th Tuesday 16th Wednesday 17th Thursday 18th Friday 19th Saturday 20th Sunday 21st 6.30pm (Vigil) William Banham & Peter Oliver 10.30am Parish NO MASS OR SERVICE TODAY 8.45am Morning Prayer 9.00am Jackie Bryant 11.30am Exposition & Stations of the Cross 12 noon Cath Banham & Marie Connor 8.45am Rosary 9.00am Anne O’Neill 9.00am Stephen Hignett 6.30pm (Vigil) A Special Son & Brother 10.30am Parish Sacrament of Reconciliation – Saturday 6.00pm or on request. TODAY IS MOTHER’S DAY Mothering Sunday was originally a time when people returned to the church, in which they were baptised or where they attended services when they were children. This meant that families were reunited as adults returned to the towns and villages where they grew up. In time, it became customary for young people who were working as servants in large houses, to be given a holiday on Mothering Sunday. They could use this day to visit their own mother and often took a gift of food or hand-me-down clothing from their employers to her. In turn, this moved towards the modern holiday, on which people still visit and take gifts to their mothers. A PRAYER FOR MOTHER’S DAY All-loving God, we give you thanks and praise for mothers young and old. We pray for young mothers, who give life and count toes and tend to our every need; May they be blessed with patience and tenderness to care for their families and themselves with great joy. We pray for our own mothers who have nurtured and cared for us; May they continue to guide us in strong and gentle ways. We remember mothers who are separated from their children because of war, poverty, or conflict; May they feel the loving embrace of our God who wipes every tear away. We pray for women who are not mothers but still love and shape us with motherly care and compassion. We remember mothers. grandmothers, and great-grandmothers who are no longer with us but who live forever in our memory and nourish us with their love. Amen. Anonymous FIRST HOLY COMMUNION 2015 Preparation for Reconciliation this Sunday 15th March 10.15am in Church. First Forgiveness Wednesday 18th March at 7.00pm. FILL A SMARTIE TUBE FOR LOURDES Now that Lent is in full swing, how about giving up your 20 pences to support the Lourdes Group. This is our 10th Annual pilgrimage to Lourdes, we hope to be able to sponsor two year 11 pupils from St Thomas More School. Take a Smartie tube enjoy the sweets and fill it with 20 pences and return it to Church or the parish office. For a smarties tube please contact Sheila in the office, Ann Alexander or Martin Massey on Tel: 567263. Many thanks for your support. Martin Massey. MARIE CURIE DAFFODILS available at the back of church for the month of March. MASS AND ANONTING OF THE SICK Wednesday 25th March at 12 noon. All Welcome. If you require transport or know of anybody that does please contact a member of the SVP or the Parish Office. NEW GIFT AID BOXES OF ENVELOPES - TO BE USED FROM APRIL 11th / 12th WEEKEND Gift Aid boxes of envelopes will be available at the end of March. If you would like your Offertory contributions to be Gift Aided by using envelopes then please put your name on the sheet at the back of the church. If you do not find a box of envelopes with your name on and would like one, then again please put your name of the sheet provided. Thank you. Introduction We have gathered here as God’s holy people, and we are God’s work of art created in Jesus Christ to live the good life as from the beginning he intended us to live it. So we have to be both thankful for his mercy. And sorry for our failures to live life in that way. Since this is the Fourth Sunday of Lent, today is Mother’s Day – the day when we thank our mothers for all they have done for us, and also express our sorrow for any way we may have hurt them. HEADING FOR READINGS First Reading (2 Chr 36:14-16.19-23). This is the story of the people of God being scattered from Jerusalem and exiled for their infidelity, but even after God still renewed his covenant and moved the heart of a pagan king to rebuild their temple and let them return. No matter how far we feel exiled from God, he is seeking us out. Second Reading. (Eph 2:4-10). Who are we as the Christian community? This reading’s answer is: we are God’s work of art created in Jesus Christ to live the good life as from the beginning he intended us to live it. Gospel (Jn 3:14-21). The human mind think of God as primarily in terms of almighty power and so fears God as ‘punishment’ and vengeance’. We Christians must take our image of God from Jesus – what we say about God is what we see in Jesus – and Jesus says: ‘God sent his Son into the wo5rld not to condemn the world, but so that the world could be saved through him.’ Responsorial Psalm O let my tongue cleave to my mouth if I remember you not. Gospel Acclamation Glory and praise to you, O Christ! God loved the world so much he gave his only Son; everyone who believes in him has eternal life. Glory and praise to you, O Christ! ROTAS FOR NEXT WEEK Mass Reader Communion Ministers Altar Servers 6.30pm A Mann ET & PC Christopher D, Lydia D, Niamh B 10.30am S Burns AP & MHig Katie Q, Lucy Q, Matilda S Linen Rota From 1st March - Mrs E Rogers From 29th March - Mrs F Smith Rosary Intention for the Coming Week The Sorrowful Mysteries Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday The Sick & Suffering Vocations Families Peace The Christian Community Last Week’s Collection £960.52 Thank You THIS WEEK Tuesday – St. Vincent De Paul Society Meeting 6.30pm in the Parish Meeting Room. Tuesday – Pray the Rosary with the Rosa Mystica Prayer Group 11.45am in Church. FEAST DAYS THIS WEEK Tuesday – St. Patrick Thursday – St. Joseph MASSES Envelopes are available in the rack at the back of the church. Please print clearly. WELCOME If you are a visitor to St. Anne’s we invite you to sign our Visitor’s Book at the back of the church. NEW PARISHIONER? You are very welcome. Please complete a New Parishioner Form from the rack in our meeting room. Completed forms should be handed to an apparator or placed on the collection plate. Please ensure bags and valuables are not left unattended. Warning has come to us from the Nantwich Churches of thefts that have taken place. RC DIOCESE OF SHREWSBURY IS A REGISTERED CHARITY NO.23402