St Wilfrid’s Catholic Church Burgess Hill with St George’s Retreat - Ditchling Common and St Anne’s Convent - Mill Road Parish Priest: Father Rick McGrath The Priest’s House Station Road Burgess Hill RH15 9EN Tel: 01444 232358 email: stwilfridsbh@btinternet.com Website: www.stwilfridsbh.com Parish Office open: 9am to 3pm Tuesday, Thursday and Friday Sunday 16 November 2014 Thirty-third Sunday of the Year Baptism This weekend we welcome into the family of God Callum Joseph Egleton Sienna Iacurci Isabella Sophie Brailey Lucas Thomas Brailey We offer them and their families our prayers and congratulations. Parish Gift Weekend The collection next weekend will go towards the on-going maintenance costs of the parish. There will be just the one collection. Spare envelopes are available at the back of the Church and if you are a taxpayer, please do consider Gift Aiding your donation. If you would like advice on how to Gift Aid please call or email the Parish office. ‘Station Road’ - Road Closure Station Road is due to be resurfaced from Monday 17 November to Friday 21 November - between the hours of 9:30am - 4:00pm. Although it should usually be open one way, in one direction or the other, there may be times, at random and unannounced, when it is closed in both directions. Therefore, Monday through Friday next week daily Mass will be at 9:00am with no homily, so that those who have driven to Mass can be out of the car-park by 9:20am (..and Fr Rick on his way to St. George’s). Nursery School and St. Wilfrid’s Catholic Primary School parents please also take note. The Funeral Mass of Angela Lawrence will be at St. Joseph’s Church, Redhill, Surrey on Thursday 20 November 2014 at 10am Taizé Evening of Prayer The Taizé Community has inspired generations of young people, connecting with them through its worship and sense of prayer. Not only this, it is a place where young people can encounter a ‘living faith’ together - in an imaginative and often, for them, new way. Please join them at St Paul’s Catholic College, Burgess Hill on Friday 5 December from 6pm till 8.30pm. This is part of a programme that was started a few years ago with the aim of providing young people in our community, not just Catholic, to have a taste of the life of sharing and prayer of the Taize Community. While the focus of the event is for young people, under 25 - it is open to more mature participants from 7pm. For more information please see : www.taize.fr First Holy Communion Prayer Father in Heaven, our children are preparing for their First Holy Communion next June. We ask you to be with them so that they may grow in their understanding of the Scriptures, of the Sacraments and especially of the gift of your Son in The Eucharist. Please inspire parents, grandparents and the children’s catechists to be supportive, thorough in teaching and personal examples of Christian living to inspire all those preparing for First Holy Communion. We ask this in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Advent Gift Service The 4th Burgess Hill Brownies invite you to join them on Sunday 30 November 2014 at 4pm in the Church, to join in the beautiful Advent Gift Service. Our parish children have the opportunity to think of those less fortunate and make their Christmas special by donating a present that will go to another child. Please bring a new, wrapped gift - labelled for a girl or boy with an approximate age suitability. These gifts will be distributed to needy children in time for Christmas and will be much appreciated, thank you. Prayers for the sick Please remember in your prayers those from our community who are unable to join us: Bridget Barr, Rona Blackwood, Bobbie Brodie, Christopher Browne, Carol Budgen, Margaret Close, Walter Deadman, Bridget Elwood, Graham Forster, Carmel Holmes, Elmira Irasga, Maurice Lake, Lubasi Malumo, Kathleen and John McKendry, John Mooney, Val Murray, Val Parris, Eveline Schjerve, Mary Stapleton, Doris Thorne and Brenda Walsh. Please inform the office of any changes so that the Prayer List is kept up to date. Thank you. St Anne’s Prayer Group - Mondays at 7pm at St Anne’s Convent. All are most welcome. Vintage Club - The next meeting will be Wednesday 26 November 2pm in the Parish Centre Candlelight Carol Service At 6pm on 16 December in the magnificent setting of St Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey - in support of ‘The Passage - to end homelessness’ charity. Join the choir in singing and listen to celebrity guests deliver seasonal readings. Tickets 020 7592 1856 and on tickets@passage.ok.uk Parish Safeguarding for The Young or Vulnerable If you have any concerns for someone you know or need advice or help yourself, please contact the Parish Safeguarding Representative, in confidence, at the Parish Office - call or email. Tel 01444 232358 email: stwilfridsbh@btinternet.com Mass Intentions & Service Times - beginning Saturday 8 Nov. Sat 15 5.00 pm 6.00 pm Sun 16 9.30 am 11.00 am 4.00 pm Mon 17 9.00 am Thirty-third Sunday of the Year St Wilfrid’s People of the parish St George’s John Brett RIP St George’s Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Weekday St Wilfrid’s Holy Souls especially deceased members of FOSS 10.00 am St George’s Thomas Smith RIP 4.00 pm St George’s Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 7.00 pm St Anne’s Prayer Group Tues 18 9.00 am 11.30 am 7.00 pm Martha Boyle Luba Jones Weekday St Wilfrid’s Jean-Claude Nankoo RIP St Anne’s Private Intention St Anne’s Rosary Wed 19 Weekday 9.00 am St Wilfrid’s Charles Brunner RIP 10.00 am St George’s Tom McKillop RIP Thur 20 9.00 am Weekday St Wilfrid’s Intentions of Val and Alex Murray 60th Wedding Anniversary 10.00 am St George’s Intentions of Maurice Lake 7.00 pm St Anne’s Holy Hour with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Fri 21 Memorial: The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary 9.00 am St Wilfrid’s Franz Nankoo RIP 10.00 am St George’s Mary Paquette RIP 3.00 pm St Anne’s Holy Hour with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Sat 22 5.00 pm 6.00 pm Solemnity: Christ the King St Anne’s Private Intention St Wilfrid’s People of the Parish Sun 23 Solemnity: Christ the King 9.30 am St Wilfrid’s Well-being of Sr Martha and Sr Felicity 11.00 am St George’s Intentions of Sister Mary Clement Feast Day This Sunday Eucharistic Prayer 2 Confessions Saturday 11.30 am -12.00 noon Flowers 16 Nov Thirty-third Sunday of the Year St Anne’s Private Intention St Wilfrid’s Intentions of Vanessa Rowney 26 Nov 30 Nov November Diary Dates Vintage Club 2pm Parish Centre Advent Gift Service 4pm in the Church Children’s Liturgy 16 Nov Julia Murray Logue Paul Melling Rino Alfieri St Wilfrid’s Parish Centre is available for hire. Please contact the Manager on 01444 242296. Church cleaning 17 Nov Ministries at St Wilfrid's 15/16 November Julie Lavelle Our Schools St Paul’s Catholic College Jane Murray Way 01444 873898 St Wilfrid’s Primary School School Close 01444 235254 St Wilfrid’s Nursery Unit Parish Centre 01444 871107 Sat 6.00 pm Sunday 9.30 am Readers Pat Parrette Peter Happe Richard Kennedy Ministers Philip L’Estrange Andy Razzell Denise Adamson Sam Aaron Mel Baird Martha Boyle Mary Tull Welcomers Pat Tucknott Alec and Rosemary Fulton Tom Boyle St Wilfrid’s Parish is part of the Diocese of Arundel & Brighton Diocesan Trust registered charity no.252878 www.dabnet.org
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