14th March 2004 - 3rd 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
MASS FOR PEACE		Wednesday (St Patrick's Day) 12.10pm
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, Nigel Hornby, 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; Linda Purcell, Margaret Holman, Raymond Walmsley and all who have died recently and those whose anniversaries occur at this time.

MASS INTENTIONS RECEIVED Peter Boyd, Annie Wilkins, Mary Martin, Nelly Fletcher, Charles Kerrigan, Alice Kerrigan, Eleshia Monahan, Nigel Hornby, Return to health, Special Intention - St Jude.

Please see our Lenten Mass Times

FIRST COMMUNION PREPARATION 'Forgiving' Children meet 10am Sat 20

First Reconciliation: Saturday 20 March 11am

Parish Celebration: Sunday 28 March 11am

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.

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.

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

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

MINISTERS OF COMMUNION - Prayer and meeting, Thursday 25 March 8pm.

PARISH FINANCE Thanks to all who support the parish by weekly/monthly giving through Standing Order or the envelope system. As we come towards the end of the tax year, you may consider increasing your contribution to the Church. If you are not already committed to the parish in this way and would like to be, please fill in one of the forms in the porch and hand it to me or post it through the Rectory letter box.

THANKS to all who worked and supported the fundraising day at St Crux - £377.42 was raised for the Refurbishment Fund.

HUNDRED CLUB Congratulations to our March winners no.7 Maureen Potter £54; no.35 P. & E. Johnson £33; no.40 J. & E. Keogh £21

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 Benistain's 'Chichester Psalms and smaller items too. All welcome.

MONEY FOR OLD CLOTHES! St Wilfrid's PTA are organising the Yorkshire Air Ambulance van to be in the playground 8.30am - 9.30am on Wednesday 17 March - collecting bags of unwanted clothes, shoes, bedding, etc. Money raised will go to the Air Ambulance and the PTA's fund for stage lighting.

YORK NIGHTSTOP provides safe emergency accommodation for vulnerable young people 16-25 years. Volunteer hosts and drivers are needed please telephone 652043.

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 Aelred's School 422800, or Margaret Walsh 424053. See noticeboard.

FINANCE: Gift Aid £92.20; Loose Plate £534.45; Lent Fast Day £646.73