This Week and General Notices
Sunday 22nd January
3rd Sunday of the Year
Year B
Readings
First Jonah 3:1-5.10
Psalm 24
Second 1 Corinthians 7:29-31
Gospel Mark 1:14-20
Psalm response:
Lord, make me know your ways.
Retiring Collection:
Crawley Catholic Schools
Ukrainian Exarchate – Byzantine Rite
Friary 1pm
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and Evening Prayer Dominican Convent, Gossops Green, 5.30pm
Sunday Evening Prayer – 7pm in St. Clare’s Chapel at the Friary Church
The Coming Week
Monday 23rd January
Please note change of Mass times due to clergy funeral
St Edward’s
Mass at 9am NOT 10am
Friary
NO MASS
Tuesday 24th January
Mem: St. Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Wednesday 25th January
Feast: The Conversion of St. Paul†, Apostle
Thursday 26th January
Mem: St. Timothy and St. Titus, Bishops
Friday 27th January
Holocaust Memorial Day
Saturday 28th January
Mem: St. Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church
General Notices
Activity celebrating The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2012
You are most welcome to join us in celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2012 and to pray for the success of the planned encounters among Christians of various denominations in Crawley during the week and those that may not have been scheduled but were meant to happen anyway!!!.
Sunday 22nd January St. Barnabas Pound Hill 4.00pm Service to mark the week of prayer for Christian unity – Shared worship of prayer, praise and joyous hymn singing. All Welcome. With best wishes for a surprising Week of Prayer for Christian Unity! (From Steve).
Child Protection Paperwork.
The next session for signing Child Protection paperwork and meeting with Anne Innes and Krystyna Pickering, the Child Protection representatives, will be on Wednesday 25th January in the Friary Hall from 7.45 – 9.15 pm. Please call Jackie at the Parish Office to make an appointment
Study/Prayer Group
At the Dominican Convent on Sunday 29th January at 3.30pm concluding with Evening Prayer and Adoration.
Candlemas Mass
2nd February 7.30pm at St John’s, Horsham to celebrate Fr. Gerard’s first Anniversary of his Ordination. (We had a joint Mass with Horsham on 8th December)
St. Vincent de Paul Annual Dance
The SVP are holding their annual dance on Saturday 4th February in the Friary Hall from 8pm – 11.15pm. Tickets £5 – are available on 528017 or pay on the door. Dancing to 60’s band ‘The Trappers’. Bring your own drinks and nibbles and enjoy a great evening.
Parishioners in Hospital
If you know of anyone who has gone to hospital, please advise the Friary (01293 524176) as soon as possible and let us know whether you would like us to visit.
Friary Car Park
- Car Park will be closed until 1.30pm for all funerals, Major Feasts e.g. Ash Wednesday, Saints Francis and Anthony.
- Permits to be displayed on windscreens please.
- All cars must have a permit displayed –e.g. 12.15pm Mass goers please see Min. This permit is for Mass only and does not include shopping.
- Absolutely NO shopping Sunday am – we need every space fore the 9.30am and 11.20am Masses.
Thank you for your co-operation – the Car Park team
St. Edward’s Social Club –
Cheese and Wine Social Evening – Saturday 28th January
The Knights of St. Columba are organising another Cheese and Wine Evening at St. Edward’s Club, Pound Hill principally to raise funds for the provision of a Christian education for children in Sudan. Tickets at £10 a head are limited so book ahead.
Further details from Ernie (52737) or Bernie (420092).”
The Priesthood is a Family
The priesthood is a family, sometimes it is easier to see our differences – Fr X might be heavier on the incense than Fr Y and Fr Y is much keener on promoting fair-trade chocolate than Fr X – you get the drift. Families can and do take difference and diversity and even the odd grumble and turn these into love and unity. For the priest, his brothers are an invaluable part of his priestly life. It is at the Altar step in the rite of ordination that his brothers also lay their hands on his head as they pray with their Bishop for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on this chosen man; it is a priest who assists the new priest at the Altar at his first Mass; it is in gathering with other local priests of the deanery to share Parish life and the challenges of being Catholic in this world; it is in sharing in the common purpose of the care of souls and problems of leaky roofs; it is in the wisdom and pain; it is in shared meals and shared prayers that priests have the sense that they have people who understand , people who know and people who can pray. Even the most cantankerous priest has a home and a root in his priestly family.
Recently we have had the sadness of burying our brothers and the clergy team have decided that it is important for us to be present at these requiem Masses so we will only offer one Mass on the day of the funeral –this Mass will be celebrated at 9am in order to allow us time to get there. We have also decided to change the Mass time on deanery days to 9am in order to establish a time that will bed in easily. Thank you for your continued support and please pray for the priests and a Vocation or two from our parish!
With prayers and love
The Parish Team
Next Sunday and Dates for your Diary
Sunday 29th January
4th Sunday of the Year
Year B
Readings
First Deuteronomy 18:15-20
Psalm 94
Second 1 Corinthians 7:32-35
Gospel Mark 1:21-28
Retiring Collection:
CAFOD/One World (Friary and St Bernadette’s)
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and Evening Prayer Dominican Convent, Gossops Green, 5.30pm
Sunday Evening Prayer – 7pm in St. Clare’s Chapel at the Friary Church
Dates for your Diary
St Edwards Social Club
Cheese and Wine Social Evening – Saturday 28th January
The Knights of St. Columba are organising another Cheese and Wine Evening at St. Edward’s Club, Pound Hill principally to raise funds for the provision of a Christian education for children in Sudan. Tickets at £10 a head are limited so book ahead.
Further details from Ernie (52737) or Bernie (420092).”
SVP Annual Dance:
Saturday 4th Feb
The Friary 8pm – 11:30pm, Trapper Band, tickets £5 call 528017 or on the door.
Bring your own drink and nibbles. Do not miss this one?
Please pray for
The sick:
Alfreda Bartosinski, Fr. Tony Collins, Terence Corrigan, Betty Curran, Gordon Ebbs, Shirley Garcia, Bill Harris, Neil Putland, Sue Rowe, Helen Shoults, Irene Storrie & Sharon White
