OUR LADY OF LOURDES PARISH NEWSLETTER 36, UTTOXETER ROAD, MICKLEOVER, DERBY. DE3 9GE Tel: 514107 Www.ourladyoflourdesparish.co.uk E.mail: frpaulchipchase@gmail.com Parish Priest: Fr Paul Chipchase 15th February 2015 sixth Sunday in ordinary time (B) Saturday SUNDAY 6.30 pm Eileen Wall RIP 8.00 am Peter Oldfield RIP 10.00 am People of the Parish MONDAY Feria 7.00 pm Exposition & Benediction 7.30 pm Danny Kelly RIP (Beben) TUESDAY Feria 9.30 am Danny Gibbons RIP WEDNESDAY ASH WEDNESDAY 9.30 am Andrew Sellors RIP 6.30 pm Gladys Collier RIP (Co-Workers) THURSDAY Lenten Feria 9.30 am Bob Neville RIP (McIntyre) FRIDAY Lenten Feria 6.15 pm Evening Prayer of the church 6.30 pm Al Winandy RIP SATURDAY Lenten Feria 9.30 am Winnie Rollinson RIP (Hughes) SUNDAY First Sunday of Lent (B) 6.30 pm Bertha & Patrick O’Connor RIP (Barford) 8.00 am People of the Parish 10.00 am Baby Chinasa Okeke RIP (Chilaka) ` 6.00 pm Stations DIARY FOR THIS WEEK Sunday: Coffee after Mass. All welcome Wednesday: Coffee after Mass. All welcome. Women on Wednesday meeting 7.30 pm in the back room of the Parish Centre Saturday: C.T.U. Next Sunday: Sunday School 11.15 am Coffee after Mass. All welcome Confirmation preparation in the Parish Centre at 6.00 pm. Anniversaries: Catherine Heaver, Derek Phillips, Patrick O’Connor, Joseph Ryan Doris Wileman, Kathryn James, James Lyons, Al Winandy John Hutton, Eileen Wall, Johanna O’Halloran, Jan Babik Readers: This week: Next week: Counters: Offertory Sat. Mass: Offertory Sun. Mass: Cleaners: (3) Coffee after Mass: ROTAS Sat. 6.30 pm. 8.00 am. 10.00 am. M. Finch T. Morgan M. Cafferky P. Galley M. Phillips G. & R. Bryant This week: Mr & Mrs Garratt Next week: Mr & Mrs Chilaka This week: Rimmer family Next week: Bennett family This week: Sczomack family Next week: Norman family Mary Choonara, Eileen McArdle, Mary Regan, Elizabeth Lee This week: Norman family, Lowrie family Next week: Bindu and family NEWS AND EVENTS “Lent is a penitential season, a period of examination and reflection. It is a time of repentance and contrition, inviting us all to a deeper conversion and interior renewal. At the very heart of Lent is a new and fresh encounter with God’s love and mercy. The message of Lent, since the very beginning, is the call or invitation to discover personally, deeply and intimately, the height, length, depth and breadth of God's love for us. Only the sure knowledge of God's love can fill us with joy and happiness — the joy of Lent. This is the joy of repentance and conversion. The theme of our Lenten journey is The Joy of Living the Beatitudes. More than anything else we all want to be happy, but how do we know God's happiness in our lives? The answer lies in the Beatitudes. The Beatitudes are at the heart of Jesus' teaching. Through praying and reflecting on them we come to see the face of Christ. In him we find our happiness. Jesus shows us the way to life. Jesus is the Way. He proposes the way of the Beatitudes as the path to true happiness. Throughout his life, from his birth in the stable in Bethlehem until his death on the cross and his resurrection, Jesus embodied the Beatitudes. St Augustine said: 'We all want to live happily; in the whole human race there is no one who does not assent to this proposition, even before it is fully articulated.' And St Thomas Aquinas taught, 'God alone satisfies.' This Lent, then, we set out together to explore the wisdom and light contained in the Beatitudes, because this teaching, which is always new, shows us the way to happiness. The life to which God is calling us, is a life of faith expressing itself through love. As Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati once said, 'To live without faith, to have no heritage to uphold, to fail to struggle constantly to defend the truth: this is not living. It is scraping by. We should never just scrape by, but really live’. God is calling us not to scrape by but to be a happy people, a joyful people, a people of the Beatitudes.” †Vincent Nichols. Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster. Ash Wednesday - Day of Fasting and Abstinence. i.e. just one full meal and two ‘collations’ for adults, except the elderly and infirm - and no meat. Women on Wednesday meeting on Wed. Feb. 18th in the back room of the Parish Centre at 7.30 pm. "The work of Swap Tears for Smiles the local charity trying to improve the life those women and children suffering domestic violence in Derby and Derbyshire.” Confirmation the first meeting will be held next Sunday 22nd February at 6.00 pm in the main hall of the Parish Centre. Frugal Lunches begin on Friday. Many thanks to all who have volunteered to make and serve soup each Friday in Lent. If anyone can either make soup or help in anyway on Good Friday please let us know. This Lent we will be supporting CAFOD's ‘One Climate, One World campaign’, which will focus on tackling the effects of extreme weather by helping people to cope with the aftermath of storms, floods and droughts. Available in the Gathering Area, there is a double CAFOD envelope - Family Fast Day envelope to fill with money saved by fasting on Friday 27th February, and a CAFOD envelope to use to commit to ongoing support. There is also a brown envelope, marked "CUT IT OUT" for your Lenten almsgiving. THIS YEAR, the government will match your donations £ for £ so let's see how we can double our money and collect a huge amount this Lent! Bacon Butties will be on sale after 10.00 am Mass on Sun. 1st March in aid of Zambia. You are invited to join this year’s Lent TalksThe theme running through the four talks will be on the poor and disadvantaged people. 1st March 6.30 pm at All Saints - Modern Slavery in the UK and our response, speaker Archdeacon Christine Wilson: 8th March 6.30 pm our church, City of Sanctuary – The plight of Asylum Seekers, Revd Maureen Priddin: 15th March 6.30 pm the Methodist Church, The Derby Churches Night Shelter – our response to the poor on our streets, speaker Rev Ally Kay. (Date to be confirmed) 6.30 pm at St John’s. Environmental Change and its effect on the poor across the world, speaker Claire Bampton. These talks are organised by Churches Together in Mickleover (CTOG) which is why they are based at the different churches in Mickleover. Your support will be greatly appreciated. Deputy Headteacher- required for Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Carlton, Nottingham. Ours is an outstanding school and we are looking for an outstanding Deputy Head for September. If you are interested, contact Mrs Lee at the school. Details on the school website;www.sacredheart.notts.sch.uk. Closing date 6th March 2015. YMCA Derbyshire’s 2015 Sleep Easy event is taking place on Friday 6th March Derbyshire County Cricket Club. 7pm-7am Will you sleep rough again so that other’s don’t have to? All the money raised goes directly to YMCA Derbyshire projects, impacting your community and helping disadvantaged young and vulnerable people in Derby and Derbyshire to build a future. To sponsor Gillian Sewell, CEO at YMCA Derbyshire please visit: https://secure.artezglobal.com/registrant/FundraisingPage.aspx?registrationID=470139&langPref=enCA&Referrer=%26Referrer%3ddirect%252fnone for further information see poster. Diocesan Spirituality Network details of their programme is available on the notice board. Diocesan Year Book 2015 Copies are available in the Gathering Area, price £3.00. Please put your remittance in the envelopes provided. Contains article on Mary Neville’s ‘Bene Merenti’ Award. Parish Diaries for 2015 are available via the Repository. £1 each. Catholic Parlimentary and Public Policy - Internships 2015-2016. A year’s intensive experience of political and social action in a spiritual context. Further information and application pack: www.cbcew.org.uk/interns. See poster. Free to a good home Frigidaire Mini Oven, free standing, with rotisserie and two hotplates. Ideal for student flat etc. Please contact Fr Paul.