Palm Sunday 1st Reading: Isaiah 50: 4-7 Responsorial Psalm 21 Response: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me. 1. All who see me deride me. They curl their lips, they toss their heads. “He trusted in the Lord, let him save him; let him release him if this is his friend.” (R) 2. Many dogs have surrounded me, a band of the wicked beset me. They tear holes in my hands and my feet. I can count every one of my bones.. R) 3. They divide my clothing among them. They cast lots for my robe. O Lord, do not leave me alone, my strength, make haste to help me! (R) 3. I will tell of your name to my brethren and praise you where they are assembled. “You who fear the Lord give him praise; all sons of Jacob give him glory. Revere him, Israel’s sons. (R) 2nd Reading: Hebrews 5: 7-9 Gospel Acclamation: Christ was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross. But God raised him high and gave him the name which is above all names. Gospel: Mark 14: 1-15:47 Communion Antiphon: Father, if this cup may not pass, but I must drink it, then your will be done. “No one’s mouth is big enough To utter the whole thing.” Alan Watts Please pray for the repose of the souls of: Joseph Goodwin, Rose Daly, Christian Johansen, David Bryan, Joan Ann Goodall , Sonia McKenzie, Cecil Hubbard, Margaret Davies. Frances Lavelle-Jones, Joseph Turrell, Paddy Kerrigan, Mary Blacoe, George Francis Murphy, Barbara Gaffney, Eileen Jones, Michael Angelo Gizzi, Mary Humphries, Christopher and Clifford Browne, John Michael Sharkey. Islwyn Hughes, Sheila Mary Butler, Elodia Dekmyn, Michael James Crilly, Donald Garvin, Michael Hassett, George Parker, John McKillen, James Kerr, Joseph Sherlock, Theresa Golden, Margaret Stott , Mary Harrison, Frank Rozario, Anne Goudie, Christine Eddlestone, Jimmy Prendergast, June Pinchon, Pat Loftus, Martin Keane, Janina Majka, Paul Clarke, Robert Herdman, Margaret McCarroll, Louie Gizzi , Joan Norris, Margaret Evans, Ian Yates and Matthew Mark O’Brien Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord, may they rest in peace. AMEN. For the sick: Barbara and Frank Cottington, Josephine Brady, James Warburton, Arthur Jones, Aileen Bull, Joseph Crinigan, Marion Roberts, Norrie and Bill Jones, Lisa Gawn, Brian Harris, Mrs. Whitely, Thomas Nelson, Sonia and Ronnie McNeill, Edith Lowe, Val Byrne, Georgina Wright, Rhoda Gracey, Arthur Underhill, Jack Doyle, Mary Peters, Myra O’Hara, Brian Newell, John, Corina Edwards, John Burke, and all sick parishioners. (Please let us know if you wish to add a name to the sick list, or let us know if people no longer need to be prayed for). Volunteers would be most welcome to help with an Easter lunch for people who are homeless on Easter Sunday. We need you between 11.30am and 2pm. Can anyone make a trifle please ? We need six. Please give your name to Tom Wilkie 855750 or Fr Charles if you can do this. Thanks. Don’t forget this Saturday evening, Amici Del Canto Choir singing in church at 7.30pm “FOR THE FALLEN” Thanks to the KSC for welcoming our guests and doing the refreshments. Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church 119 WELLINGTON ROAD, RHYL DENBIGHSHIRE LL18 1LE Palm Sunday of the Passion 29th March 2015 Year of Mark (ie Year B of the three year cycle of readings) SUNDAY 10.00am - Mass for the People 6.30pm Fifth Sunday Ecumenical Service The experience of exile MONDAY - no service TUESDAY 9.30 am - Madge Ward RIP WEDNESDAY 9.30 am - Margaret Jones Special Intention Holy Thursday, Mass of the Lord’s Supper 8.00 pm - Margaret McCarroll RIP Good Friday 11.15 am Walk of Witness, Rhyl Town Hall 3.00 pm Commemoration of the Lord’s Passion 6.30 pm Prayer around the Cross Holy Saturday Easter Vigil Mass 8.00 pm - Sick, Housebound and Deceased of the Parish (SVP) Easter Sunday 10.00 am - Mass for the People Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturdays10.30am-11.15am and 4.15-4.45pm Open Office Day Thursdays 9.00am—4.00pm For all enquiries or sacraments see as below For Baptism tel 01745354311 Please let Fr Charles know of anyone who is ill or housebound Who would like to receive Holy Communion at home or the Anointing of the Sick for healing Priest: Fr Charles Ramsay Tel 01745 353395 email [email protected] Parish website: catholicchurchrhyl.co.uk ( webmaster Simon Johnson [email protected] ) Diocese of Wrexham Registered Charity No 700426 Parish Finances: The church collection for Sunday, 22nd March amounted to £568.23p of which £306.23pwas ‘loose’ and £262.00 was Gift Aid.. CYTUN News Fifth Sunday Service here at St. Mary’s at 6.00 p.m today - Palm Sunday - all welcome. On Good Friday each year Rhyl Christian churches do a Walk of Witness together. The Gospels ask us to be witnesses, to show people how we value our faith, to let people see our faith in action. We will be assembling at the rear of the Town Hall at 11.15 am, prior to walking en masse to the High Street for an Open Air service. Please come along if you can. Holy Week Photographic Exhibition - Christ Church on Water Street are hosting a photographic exhibition during Holy Week. The photographs follow a journey through Lent with local photographers taking a picture a day connected with a word supplied by Rethink Church. The exhibition can be viewed for its entertainment/artistic/aesthetic value, or be used as a thoughtprovoking meditation. Prego Holy Week prayer leaflets are available at the back of church , a superb way to pray through Holy Week. These are also available online. _______________________________ There is a Beetle Drive on Wednesday, 15th April, at 7.00 pm in St. Mary’s, in aid of the British Heart Foundation. All welcome. We welcome into our parish community Sylvia Hepnar, who is to be baptised after Mass this Sunday. Please pray for her and her family and godparents. Holy Week All are welcome to attend the Mass of the holy Chrism at Wrexham Cathedral. It’s on Wednesday evening at 7.00pm. (You can park in the shopping centre car park at the back of the Cathedral free between 6pm and 10.00pm.) The Bishop will bless the new oils for parishes throughout the Diocese of Wrexham— the whole of North Wales. The holy oils for baptism, confirmation and healing, are then brought back to the parish and displayed throughout the THREE DAYS (Sacred Triduum in Latin). This is a Three Day period of constant prayer for Catholic Christians. Holy Thursday’s Mass of the Last Supper ends in silence and flows into a period of quiet prayer in ‘the Garden of Gethsemane.’ The Good Friday Liturgy of the Cross begins and ends in silence. On Saturday evening, again in silence, we flow into the greatest Mass of the Year, The Easter Vigil, with its four parts, Liturgy of the Word, Liturgy of Light, Liturgy of Baptism and Liturgy of Communion. The Washing of the Feet. At Holy Thursday’s Mass of the Last Supper we re-enact the washing by Jesus of his disciples feet. Volunteers for this are greatly appreciated. Ideally we should all have our feet washed by each other— symbolising our humble service of each other. Please consider joining in with this ? This Sunday evening the Fifth Sunday Churches Together Service takes place here at St Mary’s at 6.00pm on the theme of pilgrimage and exile. Please come along and support this if possible. Weekly Guide to Daily Prayer This is the week we call “Holy” because It is a memorial of God’s saving deeds for us in Jesus. We might be tempted to be sad or conflicted this week. It is not easy to get close to the reality that we are sinners and our Lord and Saviour went through this betrayal, suffering and death for us. So, sometimes, we avoid looking at this week closely and praying with it, because we fear getting into our guilt. The invitation this week is to come closer to the reality of God’s profound love for us. Yes, we are all sinners, but we are loved sinners. We are being invited to be grateful, not to beat our breasts. We are invited, in this spirit, to geel all that we can feel this week. Yes, we will feel some discomfort - after all, we feel discomfort when anyone puts themselves through some sacrifice for us. And the sacrifice here is the gift of his very self so that we might always know how completely Jesus entered into the reality of our human existence - “even unto death, death on a cross.” Even if our work or circumstances require us to be quite busy and involved in many secular things during the Tridium, we remind ourselves that the drama we recall as we celebrate the liturgies this week is that this overwhelming love is for us. The central mystery of our salvation is that, in Jesus, God entered our world completely, experiencing all that we experience, and suffering temptation, loss, grief, humiliation and even an unjust death on a cross. Holy Thursday is a day to wake up and ask for the grace to grow in some sense of the gift of the Eucharist for us. For those of uys who will celebrate tonight, let this be a day of reflective preparation to enter into this Eucharist and come away with a renewed sense of the meaning of his love. On Good Friday we can spend the day with an inner quiet. We can practice this as a day of fast to heighten our awareness of the sacrifice of Jesus..We can pause - sometime between 12 noon and 3.0 pm and simply say “thank you”. If we are able to celebrate with others, let our veneration of the cross be full of intimacy and personal gratitude for God’s mercy and love. Holy Saturday is a solemn day to ask for the grace to imagine Jesus lying in the tomb, in death. It is from this death - the same death that we will all experience - that Jesus is raised. We cannot feel the deepest joy of Easter without spending sometime reflecting on this good news. The Easter liturgy is the fullest celebration of the Resurrection and a renewal of our sense of Baptism., our opportunity to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus, who draws us to the fullness of life with him. Taken from the “Weekly Guide to Daily Prayer” on the Creighton University’s Online Ministries web site. Used with permission. __________________________________ Church Spring Clean Thanks to all of you who did the big church cleanup, inside and outside ,last Wednesday morning. Several remarked how enjoyable it all was. Everybody came to the parish house kitchen afterwards and enjoyed some wonderful pasta and soup—a big thanks to the cooks ! Not satisfied with cleaning the church, they started cleaning and reforming Fr Charles’ kitchen !! Thanks for that