29th February 2004 - 1st 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 - Thursday 12.10pm
		Friday 7.30am & 12.10pm
		Saturday 10.00am St Margaret Clitherow Shrine
FUNERAL MASS		Tuesday 12.10pm for Jim O’Connor
SERVICE OF WORD		Monday 12.10pm
AND COMMUNION
MORNING PRAYER		Monday - Friday 8.45am
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; Jim O'Connor and all who have died recently and those whose anniversaries occur at this time.

MASS INTENTIONS RECEIVED Jim O'Connor, Frances Dent, Stan and Charmaine Bezuidenhoyt, Peter Murphy, Stixto Sabacajan, Molly Crawford, Brian William Ball, John Butterworth, Brigitte Touck, Canon Pat Moynagh.

Please see our Lent Mass times.

FIRST COMMUNION PREPARATION Theme 'Sharing' During the dialogue which opens the Eucharistic Prayer, we join with the celebrant in giving thanks for the love God shares with us as family. Parish Celebration today (Sunday) at 11.00am

LENT FAST DAY - Friday 5 March. This coming Friday is CAFOD Fast Day. On the tenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda that left 1.2 million people dead CAFOD asks you not to turn your back on those in need. Please take an envelope home and share what you can with those who are less fortunate. Don't forget to fill in the attached Gift Aid form if you are a taxpayer.

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.

PARISH FUNDRAISING DAY at St Crux, Thursday 4 March. Bric a brac; books, plants, etc. are urgently needed (but no clothes or electrical goods) to be left at the Sacristy/Rectory. More especially, your help on the day would be appreciated. Please sign the list at the back of Church indicating when you are available.

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.

WOMEN'S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER - Friday 5 March. Central Service, 2pm at St Michael-le-Belfrey. Prepared by Women of Panama.

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.

FAIR TRADE FORTNIGHT 1-14 March .... A taste for life Fair trade event at St Martin's, Coney Street Friday 5 and Saturday 6 March, 10.30am - 4.30pm. York Fairtrade City Celebration Service York St John Chapel, Sunday 7 March at 3pm.

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 0121 3275921.

WALSINGHAM PILGRIMAGE 13 -16 May. Ring 783304 or 706867 for details.

FINANCE Gift Aid £123.10; Loose Plate £571.43; January SO £1548.75

Aid to the Church in Need Appeal £725.45 Many thanks