THE 6th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - 11th February 2024
My Dear Friends,
When Our Lord cured the Leper, as recounted in our Sunday Gospel reading, it enabled him to be restored to his family and friends as well as to health. By being renewed with the Sacred Body and Blood of Christ at Mass, we are strengthened and united to the family that is God’s One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
SERVICES FOR THIS WEEK
11th February 2024
THIS SUNDAY - THE 6th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Parish Mass at 10.00 am.
13th February
TUESDAY
Mass at 6.30 pm
14th February
WEDNESDAY - ASH WEDNESDAY
Lauds (Morning Prayer) at 9.00 am.
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament at 11.45 am.
Mass with Imposition of Ashes at 12.15 pm.
Vespers at 6.00 pm.
Sung Mass with Imposition of Ashes at 6.30 pm,
15th February
THURSDAY
Lauds (Morning Prayer) at 9.00 am.
Mass at 10.00 am.
16th February
FRIDAY
Lauds (Morning Prayer) at 9.00 am.
Mass at 10.00 am.
Vespers (Evening Prayer) at 6.00 pm.
17th February
SATURDAY
Lauds (Morning Prayer) at 9.00 am.
Mass at 10.00 am.
NEXT SUNDAY - 1st SUNDAY IN LENT
Penitential Procession and Parish Mass
at 10.00 am.
Service of Penitence and Benediction with the opportunity to make Individual Confessions, all at 4.00 pm.
TEA AND COFFEE IS AVAILABLE AFTER MASS ON SUNDAYS - DO JOIN US FOR FELLOWSHIP.
PARISH NEWS
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
ASH WEDNESDAY AND THE BEGINNING OF LENT. Our keeping of the Holy Season of Lent begins this 14th February with the reception of Ashes that remind us that we are God’s creation. He fashioned us out of clay and while acknowledging this through the ash, we also share the hope that, freed from the corruption of sin and death, we may share too in the glory of our Lord’s Resurrection and eternal life.
There will be a Mass with the imposition of Ashes at 12.15 pm and a Sung Mass at 6.30 pm on the day. As disciples of Christ please join us for this marking of our Lenten journey towards Easter.
SPECIAL LENTEN DEVOTIONS ETC.
1st SUNDAY OF LENT
Penitential Service & Benediction at 4.00 pm.
followed by an opportunity for Individual Counsel & Confession
WEDNESDAYS IN LENT after the 12.15 pm Mass
Stations of the Cross
TUESDAY EVENINGS after the 6.30 pm Mass
Lenten Study Group at the Vicarage
CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS COURSE
How to Explain and Defend the Faith
THE HEALTHY CHURCH INITIATIVE. Thank you for taking part in this process which will help us to reflect on our Parish life and identify areas where we can improve our ongoing witness and mission outreach. We are hoping to receive the data results of our survey soon so that we may begin to target our Parish Mission response accordingly.
THE ADULT BAPTISM AND CONFIRMATION CLASS continues. The classes take place after the Parish Mass on Sundays at the Vicarage.
REPOSITORY - CHURCH GIFT SHOP
This is open before and after Mass on Sundays and weekdays selling a wide range of items from religious cards, rosaries, books, crucifixes and icons to mugs, fridge magnets, church diaries, pens and note books.
Items can be seen in the glass case by the font at the back of church and in the glass case in the Vestry Hall. Please take a look.
OUR SUNDAY SCHOOL takes place each and every Sunday. If you have children between the ages of 5 - 12 they will be most welcome from 10 am in the Vestry Hall. Hope to see you there.
IF YOU HAVE ANY PRAYERS or Mass intentions you would like me to offer at Mass or if would like someone added to our parish prayer list of the Sick or Departed.
My contact details are as follows:
Telephone: 07714190663
Email: Vicarstmartin@outlook.com
I am also available in person during Surgery Hour on Saturday’s in Church between 10.30am - 11.30am.
THE SACRAMENT OF CONFESSION AND RECONCILIATION is also available at this time.
Please continue to remember the following in your prayers:
For a good keeping of the Season of Lent in preparation for the joy of Easter.
For our Parish that we may emulate him in our faithfulness to the Gospel and its proclamation and to the care of our brothers and sisters in their need.
For our Bishop Paul and all the Parishes that look to him in the Oswestry Episcopal District.
For our Sunday School and for the children attending.
That the gifts of the Holy Spirit may be ours so that we may grow our Parish and serve the people of Fenny and Bletchley more effectively.
For the success of our ‘Growing Healthy Churches’ initiative.
For the Children who attend our Sunday School.
For a deepening of our faith and a greater commitment to Christ.
For the strength to remain firm in our Christian faith and to give witness to it through our own example.
For the people of Israel and Palestine and for an ending of the conflict there.
For an end of war in the Ukraine and in Somalia and the re-establishment of Peace.
That we may continue to remember, the needs of those so less fortunate than ourselves.
For those at school, college or University, that they may be kept safe and well.
For those who work, particularly those who have families or other dependents.
For the Government, that in this time of rising costs we may see increased integrity within the world of politics.
For peace to reign within our homes and amongst one another.
For the elderly, housebound and those living in residential and nursing homes.
For our Ambulance Service and for our other Emergency Service Staff and for Milton Keynes Hospital and all who work there.
For Father Victor and Father Ian and for all parish clergy as they seek to continue to make present in our midst the Sacrifice of the Holy Mass, the other Sacraments of Christ and offer continuing Pastoral care.
For the Monastic Community of the House of Initia Nova of the Order of Saint Benedict and for its Motherhouse in its new home in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
For it’s Abbot, Michael-John Austin, for all of the community and for those new to its life.
For the Sick:
For Soraya Khajehpour, Diane Hare, Annette Thomas, Derek Albert, Cecile Raven, Doris Weatherley, Yvonne and Denis Simpson, Gary Ashby, Richard Lyons, Heather Burke, June Reid, Nicola Monaghan, Rosalio Eluna, Susan Carter, Pam Wilderspin, Jean Holden, Paul Ward, David Lingham, Sandra Walduck and Eugenius Yung.
For the Departed:
For all the recently departed, for those that rest in our Churchyard, and for Walter Carter, Lech Toporowski, Barbara Judge, Susan Cook and all whose Year’s Mind occurs at this time.
Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord.
And let Light Perpetual shine upon them.
Continued blessings to you all,
Father Victor (Brother Cuthbert)
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