SIXTH WEEK OF THE YEAR A & BEGINNING OF LENT
SUNDAY: PARISH MASS at 10.00am (Live-streamed) Ministries led by young people
Mass with LGBTQ+ community and friends at 3.00pm – all welcome
MONDAY: Seven Holy Founders of the Servites (13th century)
No Liturgy
TUESDAY: Shrove Tuesday
No Liturgy
WEDNESDAY: ASH WEDNESDAY – Day of Fasting and abstinence (ie no meat)
Adoration: 6.30 pm Mass with Ashes at 7.00 pm
THURSDAY: Adoration 11.30 Mass !2.00 noon
FRIDAY: Adoration 11.30 Mass at !2.00 noon
SATURDAY: St Peter Damian, Reforming Bishop (1007-1072)
Adoration 11.30 Mass 12.00 noon
Sacrament of Reconciliation after Mass and 4.00-4.30pm
TODAY [1] With the Sixth Sunday of the Year A we celebrate Jesus, our Wisdom who transforms and fulfils the Law to be solely the Law of limitless Love: a ‘Law’ beyond Law because it invites us the love as God loves! This is the ‘hidden wisdom of God’ and the wisdom that draws us to full maturity in Christ.
[2] This is the Day of Prayer for the Unemployed, especially those such as our asylum sisters and brothers who are denied the Right to Work – denied their human right to work, denied their identity as co-creators with God!
[3] Mass with LGBTQ+ community and friends at 3.00pm – all very welcome
.IMPORTANCE OF SUNDAY MASS: FROM TNE EARLIEST TIMES, SUNDAY WAS THE DAY THAT THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CAME TOGETHER TO WORSHIP GOD AND CELEBRATE JESUS CALL TO COMMUNITY. PLEASE REMEMBER THAT IF WORK PREVENTS YOU FROM COMING TO OUR 10am MASS THERE ARE 3.00pm MASSES AVAILABLE TO YOU TWICE A MONTH – 1st and 3rd Sundays. IT IS SO IMPORTANT NOT TO MISS SUNDAY MASS UNLESS SERIOUS ISSUES PREVENT (LIKE SICKNESS, CARING RESPONSIBILITIES, UNAVOIDABLE WORK). WE MUST RECLAIM SUNDAY AS THE LORD’S DAY!
NEXT SUNDAY [1] The First Sunday of Lent Year A sees Jesus wrestling with the temptations to use His divine power (the Holy Spirit) for self rather than in service of others and obedience to His father’s will. It is not His Kingdom he seeks to build, but the Reign of His Father’s infinite love, building a world where every person is infinitely precious, unconditionally loved. We are entrusted by God to build that world in the loving and serving power of Christ’s wisdom and Holy Spirit.
[2] Each Sunday in Lent we pray the Stations of the Cross at approximately 12.30pm (ie after refreshments following our 10am Mass). We offer this ancient prayer devotion today for much-needed peace in our world.
[3] Cynthia leads a Public Health workshop to explore changes in how blood tests etc will be communicated and how they can be intelligible to patients. 12.30-2.00pm
PRAY FOR THIS WEEK’S PARISH MINISTRY OR MISSION We pray for the Ministry of our Children’s Liturgy of the Word Leaders, who seek to explore the Gospel in a way appropriate for our children 4-8 years old. With the guidance of Mary Hopper, our CLOW leaders work in pairs. This Ministry is a very important foundation for later catechesis (First Eucharist, Reconciliation etc), as well as building up community among our children – the ‘little church’. If you would like to work this way with our children, please contact Mary – more volunteers are needed as we no longer have enough to carry out this ministry weekly.
DIOCESAN PRAYER We pray for parishes in communion for mission of St Stanislaus Dulverton and Sacred Heart, Minehead, served by Fr Rajesh Abraham, Deacons Vincent Woods and Philip Ogilvy, Parish Administrator Loraine Taylor and their communities