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St Wilfrid’s Presbytery, 1 Winckley Square, Preston, PR1 3JJ (01772) 555244 Fax: 251955
Website: www.stwilfrids.info Email: [email protected]
Parish Priest: Fr Stephen Patterson SJ (554361) Fr. Peter Randall SJ
Deacon: Rev Bill Adams (726653)
Superior of the Jesuit Community: Fr Matthew Power SJ ( 554387)
Sunday Masses: Saturday Vigil 5.35 pm Fr Randall 7am Fr Fairhurst 10.15 am Fr Power 4.30 pm Fr Patterson
Little Church for our younger parishioners during 10.15am Mass Please come for the Tea/ Coffee in the Parish Centre after the 10.15 Mass
Weekday Masses: 8.30 am, 12.15 pm, 5.35 pm
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: each weekday 9 am to 12 noon
Confessions: Monday to Friday: 8.15 to 8.25 am, 11.50 am to 12.10 pm, 5.15 to 5.30 pm Saturday: 8.15 to 8.25 am, 11 am to 12 noon, 2.30 to 3.30 pm, 5 to 5.30 pm
Thank you for Last Week’s Collections: Planned Giving £323.00 Loose Collection £678.54 Total £1001.54
St Wilfrid’s Church and Parish is administered on behalf of Trustees for Roman Catholic Purposes Registered - Charity No.230165.
The Parish is located within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lancaster - Charity No.234331.
YOUR PRAYERS ARE ASKED For those whose anniversaries occur about now: Anne Lord (2013) Mary Balshaw (2014) Mary Webster (2007) Paul Rawsthorn (2001) Bernard Pye Mary & Arthur Damsell, For those who are sick: Helen Cummings, Sally Spence, Maria Allen, Bill Ashcroft, Charlie Ratcliffe, Michelle Spence, Jessica Woods, Phyllis Roache, Joseph Rose, Don & Mary Bell, John Calligan, Marie Hall, Alwyn Suffield, Fr Hugh Ross SJ, Fr Jimmy Langan SJ.
Sun 28th 3rd Sunday in Lent Exod 3:1-8,13-15(Ps 102) 1Cor 10:1-6,10-12 & Luke 13:1-9 Mon 29th Feria 2 Kings 5:1-15 & Luke 4:24-30 Tues 1st St David Dan 3:25,34-43 & Matt 18:21-35 Wed 2nd Feria Deut 4:1,5-9 & Matt 5:17-19 Thurs 3rd Feria Jer 7:23-28 & Luke 11:14-23 Fri 4th Feria Hosea 14:2-10 & Mark 12:28-34 Sat 5th Feria Hosea 5:15-6:6 & Luke 18:9-14
The Pope’s monthly Prayer Intentions for March: Families: That fam ilies in need m ay receive the necessary support and that children may grow up in healthy and peaceful environments. The Persecuted: That those Christians w ho, on account of their faith, are discriminated against or are being persecuted, may remain strong and faithful to the Gospel, thanks to the incessant prayer of the Church.
ST WILFRID’S PARISH NEWSLETTER
28th
February 2016 2016/9 Third Sunday in Lent - Year C
“What have I got to do to make you love me What have I got to do to make you care, What do I do when lightning strikes me And I wake to find that you’re not there?
…And sorry seems to be the hardest word”
Lyrics from an Elton John & Bernie Taupin song about a further, undescribed, breakdown in a lover’s relationship with another. By the end of the song we still don’t know if there is a reconciliation, and we are left wondering, and guessing what might be the outcome of the lyricist’s repentant words.
‘Repentance’ – to return to, to feel sorrow for – is an act called for by God and is at the heart of the Gospel message. It is a foundational dynamic which, when realised, provides the conditions for the world to encounter and experience Salvific, Divine Love. Both John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth began their ministries with this basic principle, while the Psalms also reveal a historic precedence for repentance in stanzas full of poetic and musical desires to restore fractured relationships with God.
‘Repentance’ is a major theme of Lent. There is also a call for us to reflect on the effect of humanity thinking that it can exist without a loving relationship with God, and what the ultimate outcome will be? Much of the world’s mischief is a result of humanity’s inability to ‘return to…’ to ‘feel sorrow for’ previous actions. A world in which saying sorry can indeed seem “to be the hardest word” - but that shouldn’t prevent us trying.
In our faith tradition, God is revealed as merciful and loving, and this is reflected in The Parable of the Fig Tree in today’s gospel. Even though there is a call to cut down the fig tree because it hasn’t been bearing fruit, the decision to delay is meant to represent God’s mercy. This said, however, there is still an opportunity for a related Lenten spiritual exercise. In the context of the world’s relationship with God and Creation, what would be the outcome if by not repenting, by not returning to a loving relationship with God and each other, our experience is to find that “[we] wake to find that [God’s] not there”… nor anything else? SP
Jude Christian Orphanage in Zambia
Quiz Night in the Parish CentreFriday March 4th 7.30pm
Please buy a ticket this weekend if you want a pie supper.Tickets available from Maria Hall, Roy Carter Patrick Rooney,
Geoff Thompson & the Sanctuary Bookshop £5
Items for the newsletter should be emailed to [email protected] by noon on Thursday. If you have any comments abnewsletter or suggestions for improvement please let us know. If you would like to be emailed a PDF copy of the newsletter seemailing [email protected]
Central Preston Churches Lent Lunches each Thursday in Lent at 1pm with a short talk followed by a soup lunch. This Thursday the speaker is Rev Sue Griffiths, the venue is still to be confirmed.
Our Lent Planner Morning Prayer during Lent and an introduction to the Women
make a picture/collage/painting/prayer etc. with your children, for one (or more!) of the stations. These will be placed alongside the traditional station and will help us all to reflect on them from another perspective.
This week: Refugee Monday 29th at 7.20 for 7.30
Joseph, one of our F & J group is leading the Prayers for Peace at 5pm on Friday 4
th
March, if you would like to be part of this session email [email protected] . If you would like to play/sing as this or the Mass that follows at 5.45 please contact Peter Cobb [email protected]
This week Friday after 12.15 Mass and at 7pm. Tuesday at 5.15pm before 5.35 Mass. The SVP are also praying the stations after 12.15 Mass on Tuesday this week, all welcome.
Novena of Grace:
The annual Novena of Grace to St. Francis Xavier will begin on Friday 4th March.
Fr. Tom Shufflebottom SJ will give a Novena reflection each day during the 12.15pm Mass, while a Novena Prayer will be said at the other two Masses.
The Novena of Grace is a Catholic devotion addressed to Saint Francis Xavier, which is usually performed from March 4 to 12. It was instigated in 1633 by an Italian Jesuit, Fr Marcello Mastrilli SJ, who saw a vision of St Francis Xavier after he had received a life-threatening head injury. Fr Mastrilli was on the verge of travelling to Japan to work as a missionary at the time and, in the vision, St Francis urged him to recommit himself to the mission and told him: "All those who implore my help daily for nine consecutive days, from the fourth to the twelfth of March inclusive and worthily receive the Sacraments of Penance and Holy Communion on one of the nine days will experience my protection and may hope with entire assurance to obtain from God any Grace they ask that is for the good of their souls and the glory of God." After his recovery, Fr Mastrilli not only kept his vow and travelled to Japan with a band of 33 Jesuit missionaries where he was martyred, but he also widely publicised St Francis Xavier’s promise and began the devotion of the Novena of Grace which continues to this day.
Pray for Jay Warburton and
Kika Swift married at St
Wilfrid’s on 29th
February.
Thanks to our Red Box holders who collected £1812.71 in 2015.See Poster in Narthex.
Jude Christian Orphanage in Zambia
Quiz Night in the Parish Centre Friday March 4th 7.30pm
Please buy a ticket this weekend if you want a pie supper. Tickets available from Maria Hall, Roy Carter Patrick Rooney,
Geoff Thompson & the Sanctuary Bookshop £5
Items for the newsletter should be emailed to [email protected] by noon on Thursday. If you have any comments about our newsletter or suggestions for improvement please let us know. If you would like to be emailed a PDF copy of the newsletter send a request by
SP/GT/MN
We meet on Sunday 13th March after 10.15 Mass.
New members or visitors are most welcome to join us!
Preston Food Bank: Donations of non-perishable food items may be left in the box in the Parish Centre. We have been asked in particular for things that can spread on toast i.e. jam, chocolate spread etc, long life milk and meals that can rehydrated easily using a kettle like pot noodles.
The Latest Faith & Justice Bulletin is available on the board at the back of church or to download at www.lancasterfaithandjustice.co.uk/newsletter
Lent Lunches each Thursday in Lent at 1pm with a short talk followed by a soup lunch. This Thursday the speaker is Rev Sue Griffiths, the venue is still to be
Our Lent Planner is available in the narthex: it has details of our regular Stations, Morning Prayer on a Wednesday, the Jesuit Resources available to help us during Lent and an introduction to the Wilderness Space. It also has details of the Women’s World Day of Prayer services in the city this Friday 4th March.
On March 18th we will be having our children and families Stations of the Cross. If can you relate the stations to things happening in the world today or in the lives of your children, please feel free to
make a picture/collage/painting/prayer etc. with your children, for one (or more!) of the stations. These will be placed alongside the traditional station and will help us all to reflect on them from another perspective.
This week Friday after 12.15 Mass and at 7pm. Tuesday at 5.15pm before 5.35 Mass. The SVP are also praying the stations after 12.15 Mass on Tuesday this week, all welcome.
Next Parish Magazine is due at Easter, please send in articles etc by March 10th, particularly if you have pictures (we can scan them) or memories of St Mary’s Church or School to share. These memories can be a sentence or two, or a full article. Thanks
Thanks to our Red Box holders who collected £1812.71 in 2015.See Poster in Narthex.
