7th March 2004 - 2nd Sunday of Lent

SUNDAY MASS		Vigil 6.15pm; 8.30am and 11.00am
		Liturgy of the Word with Children 11.00am
WEEKDAY MASS		Monday 9am; Tuesday - Friday 12.10pm
		Friday 7.30am & 12.10pm
		Saturday 10.00am St Margaret Clitherow Shrine
SERVICE OF WORD		Monday 12.10pm
AND COMMUNION
MORNING PRAYER		Monday - Friday 8.45am
STATIONS OF THE CROSS		Wednesday & Friday 11.30am
SACRAMENT OF		Saturday 10.30am - 12 noon
RECONCILIATION		(at other times on request)
EUCRARISTIC DEVOTION		Thursday 9.00am -11.30am
ROSARY		Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 11.45am

YOUR PRAYERS ARE ASKED FOR Peter Smythe, Derek Walker, Father Gerald Hurst, John Beever, Jean Geary, Frank Keetley, Reg Buckle, Andrew Carr, Joan & Jim Wilkinson, David Watt, Eamonn Burke, Eleshia Monohan, Nan Brownlow and all who are ill, housebound or in hospital; Esther Pirie, Michael Kearney, Lily Brough and all who have died recently and those whose anniversaries occur at this time.

MASS INTENTIONS RECEIVED Lily Brough, Michael Kearney, Jim O'Connor, Canon Pat Moynagh, A Safe Journey, Peace and Clarity of Mind, Doris Tetley, Tony Rudling, Deceased members of McAuliffe Family, Esther Pirie, Richmond Family, Trudie Berger, Eleshia Monahan.

Please see our Lenten Mass Times.

FIRST COMMUNION PREPARATION 'Forgiving'

Parents Meeting: Thursday 11 March 7.30pm

First Reconciliation: Saturday 20 March

Parish Celebration: Sunday 28 March 11.00am

CHRISM MASS at the Cathedral on Tuesday 6 April. A coach will leave the Memorial Gardens at 9.30am and Our Lady's, Acomb at 9.45am. If you would like a seat, please put your name on the list in the porch indicating your preferred pick-up point. £5. A buffet lunch will be provided at Hemlington for coach parties.

LENT FAST DAY - Friday 5 March. When you give something up and share what you have, you prove poverty is not inevitable. Your envelopes will be collected as you leave Mass today. Please fill in the Gift Aid form if you are a taxpayer.

PARISH FORUM Sunday 14 March, 3.30pm-5pm in the Upper Room. All welcome.

PARISH INDIA PROJECT The box is on the 'gifts' table for last month's fasting. Please read the letter on the noticeboard from Archbishop Thomas.

PROCESSION TO HOLY COMMUNION A suggestion from the Parish Forum - that communicants leave their benches row by row when going to receive Holy Communion at Mass. There is no need for everybody to stand and fill up the entire length of the centre aisles at the beginning of Holy Communion.

APF RED MISSION BOXES will be emptied before each Mass next weekend.

ST PATRICK'S DAY - Wed. 17 March: Mass for Peace will be at 12.10pm.

FAIR TRADE FORTNIGHT 1-14 March ... A taste for life. York Fairtrade City Celebration Service York St John Chapel, Sunday 7 March at 3pm.

WHAT'S NEW IN FAIR TRADE Monday 8 March 7.30pm at St Bede's.

DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES 2004 - 28 May to 4 June by air from Teesside. Cost full board £499- £615 (depending on choice of hotel). Application forms available from the Sacristy or telephone Bowen Travel on 0121 327 5921.

YORK GLEE SINGERS CONCERT - Sun. 14 March, 7.30pm here at St Wilfrid's Church. Tickets £4 or £3 concessions. The group will be singing Durufle's Requiem and Leonard Bernstain's Chichester Psalms and smaller items too. All welcome.

IRISH NIGHT - an evening of music, song and dance, Friday 19 March at Groves Working Men's Club. Tickets £5 including supper available from St Alred's School 422800, or Margaret Walsh 424053. See noticeboard.

FLOWER ARRANGING - Andrew Foster of Deans Nursery at 7.00pm at The Bar Convent Museum on Thursday 11 March. £5 incl. Refreshments. Pay at the door.

FINANCE: Gift Aid £129.50; Loose Plate £557.62; February SO. £1285.75