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15th April 2007 - 2nd Sunday of Easter OUR PRAYERS ARE ASKED FOR Bishop John, Beryl Ives, Patricia Hogarth, Mary Bignell, Father Bill East, Gail Kilmartin, Joan Conway, David Watt, Barbara Jones, Russell Jones, Lucy Wilson, Anne Spadone, Wilf Craig, Kate Audrey Penaranda, Nan Thompson, Haley Yagiz, Anne Saunders, Mary Woolfson, Brenda Rogan, Michael Randall, Brett Clarson, Ted Askham, Derek Piercy, David Allen, Anne McDermott, Margot Edwards, Stephen Dyson Taylor, Jean Geary, Bernadette Leach, Andrew Carr, Joan Wilkinson, Eleshia Monohan, Staff and Patients of St Leonard's Hospice, York Hospital and all who are ill or house-bound; Angus Smith, John Harrison and all who have died recently and those whose anniversaries occur at this time.
MASS INTENTIONS RECEIVED Wilf Craig, Michael Duchossoy, Joshua Rayner, Ruth Maisie Twoist, Ann Butterworth, Holy Souls.
THE ANOINTING OF THE SICK will take place today (Sunday 15 April) during Mass at 3.00pm. Please come and support the sick people of our community. BAPTISM CONGRATULATIONS and welcome to Angus and Lily Crossan who are to be baptised today at our 11.00am Mass. A WARM THANK YOU for your greetings and gifts at Easter -very much appreciated. CONFIRMATION PREPARATION Would the young people who attended our meeting on Thursday 15 March please hand in their applications as soon as possible. A meeting for the parents of the candidates takes place on Wednesday 25 April at 8.00pm in the Upper Room. RCIA restarts after our Easter recess on Tuesday 24 April at 7.30pm in the Upper Room. SUNDAY SCRIPTURE meetings resume on Wednesday 25 April at 8.00pm in the Sacristy. APOLOGIES to users of the Loop system. Our unit was stolen during church cleaning in Holy Week. We hope to have a replacement soon. FIRST COMMUNION PREPARATION Theme 'Remembering' Parents Meeting : Thursday 26 April 7.30pm Childrens Gathering : Saturday 28 April 10.00am-11.30am Parish Celebration : Sunday 29 April 11.00am ALTAR SERVERS The Diocesan Youth Service is having an evening for all York Altar Servers in the Father Kelly Room at Our Lady's on Thurs. 26 April, 6.30pm - 8.00pm. Supper, recreation, information and reflection. Please put your name on the list in the Sacristy if you are attending. OFFERTORY ENVELOPES - the 2007/8 boxes are available today. The Parish Financial Report for 2006 is available in the porch. GIFT AID The parish receives more than £500 in the loose plate nearly every week. This is a great help to the parish but if you pay tax you could sign a Gift Aid Form as it enables the church 10 claim an extra 28p in each £1 from the Inland Revenue. Please consider this and help the Church by filling in the form in the church porch. DIOCESAN YOUTH COUNCIL 18-30 year olds meet Tuesday 17 April, 7.30pm at St George's. RCIA - A follow-up to the Information Evenings is a course at Ampleforth. Four Saturday mornings and two full Saturdays 21 April - 16 June. Cost £40. See poster for further information. EXPLORING THE CATHOLIC CHURCH A series of eight video talks at English Martyrs Church Hall on Thursdays 26 April; 3, 10, 17, 24 May and 7, 14, 21 June, all at 8pm. Please see poster for further details. LIVING THEOLOGY DAY - Saturday 16 June, l0am - 4.15pm at English Martyrs, York. A DIOCESAN STUDY DAY Travelling in the Borderlands' exploring the dynamics of transition and change for Parish, Priest and People at English Martyrs, Fri. 18 May or Sat. 19 May, 10.30am - 4pm. A list will be out for names in the coming weeks. See poster in the porch for further details. DAY TRIP TO CHESTER organised by the Ascent Group - Tues 1 May leaving the Memorial Gardens at 8am and Our Lady's, Acomb at 9.20 arriving back in York at approx. 8pm. Cost £8. Please put your name on the list in the porch if you would like to go indicating your pick-up point. PARISH FORUM Sunday 29 April, 3.30pm - 5.00pm in the Upper Room. If you have any items for the agenda please hand them in by Friday 27 April. PARISH FUNDRAISING MEETING - Monday 30 April at 7.30pm. PARKINSON'S DISEASE SOCIETY AWARENESS WEEK Saturday 14 - 21 April. Please see notice of events in the Church porch. AFRICAN SNOW 30 March - 21 April at York Theatre Royal - a play that turns history into a pulsating human story. AMAZING GRACE - behind the song you love is a story you will never forget. Film and book release 23 March. FINANCE Gift Aid £133.00 Loose Plate £1113.85 Holy Places £269.70
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