FIFTH WEEK OF EASTER
SUNDAY: PARISH MASS at 10.00am (Live-streamed)
Mass with the Catholic Handicapped Fellowship at 3.00pm – all welcome!
MONDAY: No Parish Liturgy
Ethiopian Orthodox Eucharist for their Patronal Festival 6.30am-12.30pm (in St Nick’s Church)
TUESDAY: No Liturgy
WEDNESDAY: No Liturgy
THURSDAY: Feast of the English & Welsh Martyrs (16-17th centuries)
Adoration 11.30am Mass 12.00 noon
FRIDAY: Adoration 11.30am Mass at 12noon
SATURDAY: Adoration 11.30am Mass at 12.00 noon
Sacrament of Reconciliation after Mass and 4.00-4.30pm
TODAY [1] The Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A celebrates Jesus, the Way, the Truth and the Life, whose sacrifice on the Cross and victory over sin and death in the Resurrection has brought us home to the Father. He is the ‘living stone’ the ‘cornerstone’ the ‘keystone’. He gives us Life and calls us to align ourselves with Him, building the Church as the Sacrament of God’s love and Peace.
[2] Mass with the Catholic Handicapped Fellowship at 3.00pm – all welcome.
NEXT SUNDAY [1] On the Sixth Sunday of Easter Year A we celebrate Jesus who promises to send us that ‘other Advocate’, the Holy Spirit. He left us physically only to be with us more profoundly, dwelling in the core of our being though the Holy Spirit poured into our hearts. We are filled with Life overflowing and love never ending.
[2] We mark the Annual Day of Prayer for Victims/Survivors of Abuse – of abuse of every kind. We are asked to prayer today especially for all who have or are suffering domestic abuse. Every form of abuse is contrary to everything Jesus has taught us and must find no place in the Church and the heart of Christians. This inhumanity must be eradicated both in the Church and every culture and society.
PRAY FOR THIS WEEK’S PARISH MINISTRY OR MISSION We pray for our Ministry of Altar Serving. We rejoice in our excellent team of Altar Servers who enable and enhance our Sunday Liturgy. They work so well together they are an example to all our parish of great team work. We wish to train new altar servers (boys and girls of any age after they have celebrated their First Eucharist) on a Saturday – the precise date and time to be confirmed. Please see Richard or Mary.
DIOCESAN PRAYER We pray for the parish in communion for mission of The Immaculate Conception, with Our Lady & St Therese, Painswick, Brownshill and More Hall, served by Fr Eugene Campbell, Deacon Stephen Bentley, Parish Administrator Marilynne Morgan and all their communities.