2nd March 2008 - 4th Sunday of Lent

SUNDAY MASS		Saturday Vigil 6.15pm; 8.30am and 11.00am
		Liturgy of the Word with Children 11.00am
WEEKDAY MASS		Monday 8.00am
		Tuesday - Friday 12.10pm
		Saturday 10am at St Margaret Clitherow Shrine
SACRAMENT OF		Saturday10.40am - 12 noon
RECONCILIATION
EXPOSITION OF THE		Tuesday 9.00am - 11.45am
BLESSED SACRAMENT
STATIONS OF THE CROSS		Wednesday and Friday 11.30am
MORNING PRAYER		Monday - Friday 8.45am
ROSARY		Tuesday - Thursday 11.45am
NOVENA TO OUR LADY		Wednesday 12.40pm
OF PERPETUAL HELP

OUR PRAYERS ARE ASKED FOR Stephen Dyson Taylor, Philip and Mary Banbury, Madeleine and her family, Virginia, Lucy, Baby Laurie, Fr Peter Coleman, Bob Stay, Margaret O'Riorden, Beryl Ives, Gail Kilmartin, Joan Conway, Lucy Wilson, Wilf Craig, Kate Audrey Penaranda, Anne Saunders, Brett Clarson, Derek Piercy, David Allen, Anne McDermott, Jean Geary, Joan Wilkinson, Bernadette Leach, Mel Richardson, Andrew Carr, Eleshia Monohan, and those who are ill or house-bound and all who care for them; all who have died recently and those whose anniversaries occur at this time.

MASS INTENTIONS RECEIVED: Tony Rudling, Deceased of McAuliffe Family, Maureen Banks, John Ezard, Baby Laurie, Peter Murphy, Ellen Calpin, Elizabeth Richardson, Mama Brigitte Touck, Remedios Haber, Pauline Carroll, Kate Lawlor, In Thanksgiving.

LENT

Day of Reconciliation (Confessions)

Next Saturday (8 March) Confessions will be heard from 10.00am - 4.00pm here at St Wilfrid's. This is an opportunity to avail of the Sacrament and a wonderful way of preparing for Easter. Please see the list in the porch of the priests and the times they will be available.

Stations of the Cross Wednesdays and Fridays 11.30am

Lenten Lunches Fridays after 12.10pm Mass

Good Friday Ecumenical Service - 21 March, 7.30pm in York Minster. Preceded by silent witness at Parliament Street Fountain 3.00pm - 5.00pm. The procession of witness to the Minster starts at 7.00pm from the Fountain. Please see poster for further details.

BISHOP DRAINEY visited St Wilfrid's for the first time on Thursday. Thanks for the warm welcome you gave to our chief teacher and shepherd. Also, thanks to all the people who provided the hospitality in the Upper Room.

FIRST COMMUNION PREPARATION : Today at our 11.00am Mass the children celebrate the theme of 'Sharing'

CONFIRMATION PREPARATION: Our young people meet again on Thursday 6 March at 7.30pm in the Upper Room. The Bishop is coming to confer the Sacrament on Wednesday 14 May at

CHRISM MASS - Tuesday 18 March, 12 noon at St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough. Please put your name on the list in the porch if you would like to book a seat on the coach.

MINISTERS OF WORD AND COMMUNION: If you are available for Holy Week and Easter ministry please put your name on the list in the porch.

PARISH FINANCE: Thanks to those who responded to the recent appeal to go on regular giving to the Church. Copies of the recent letter are available in the porch. The retiring collection which has been very helpful to the Church is discontinued - the Finance Committee agreed that this collection be taken from Easter to October.

MANY THANKS to the people who have recently given generous donations to the Church.

ST PATRICK'S DAY this year will be celebrated here at St Wilfrid's with Mass on Friday 14 March at 12.10pm and afterwards refreshments and music in the Upper Room.. All welcome. Because the 17th falls within Holy Week the feast is brought forward this year.

ST PATRICK'S NIGHT CELEBRATION - Saturday 15 March at St Aelred's School, Fifth Avenue. Tickets £5 from Irene Shanks. Please see poster for further details.

A DAY WITH CAFOD - Saturday 8 March, 10am - 4pm at SS Leonard & Mary Church, Malton.

WOMEN'S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER, Friday 7 March. 'God's Wisdom Provides New Understanding' at Central Methodist Church, St Saviourgate at 2pm.

WALSINGHAM ASSOC. Wednesday 12 March at St Georges Church after 12.30pm Mass.

NEWMAN ASSOCIATION - Monday 10 March, 7.15pm at St Bede's Pastoral Centre, Blossom Street. Speaker Marion Tulloch.

FAIR TRADE: Events - Wednesday 5 March, 9-11am Fair Trade Breakfast at St Laurence's Church. Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 March, 10am-5pm Fair Trade Festival Market in Parliament Street.

YORK - A FAITHFUL CITY: The Bishop of Selby will lead these sessions on the Mondays of Lent at All Saints, Pavement, 12.15 - 1.00pm. All very welcome.

YOUTH PRAYER GROUP every Monday after the 7.30pm Mass at English Martyrs.

GODSPELL, Mon. 24 - Sat. 29 March at the Futurist Theatre, Scarborough. See poster.

FINANCE: Gift Aid £206.00 Loose Plate £473.01 Lenten Lunch £73.60