THE CATHOLIC PARISH

OF OUR LADY AND ST JOSEPH

SHERINGHAM AND CROMER

 

R.C. Diocese of East Anglia: 

A Registered Charity (Charity Commission No. 278742)

 

News-sheet for week beginning

 Sunday, 19th, February, 2012

THE SEVENTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR (Year 'B')

Weekday Readings on Monday and Tuesday for Week 7 (Year II)

and Psalms for Week 3

Ash Wednesday and Thursday, Friday and Saturday:

Proper Readings and Psalms for Week 4

Eucharistic Prayer II at Masses this weekend

 

On Wednesday this week we observe

 

Ash Wednesday

 

Masses (with Imposition of Ashes):

9am at Our Lady of Refuge

10.30am and 7pm at St Joseph's

Dear Parishioners,

 

On Wednesday of this week we begin our observance of Lent.  On Ash Wednesday, there are Masses, with Imposition of Ashes, at 9am at Cromer and 10.30am and 7pm at St Joseph's.  Although Ash Wednesday is not a 'Day of Obligation', it is certainly a very good practice to attend Mass on this day and commend to God our observance of Lent.

 

Ash Wednesday is a Day of Fasting and Abstinence – on this day, we reduce the amount of food (and drink) we take ('Fasting') and we abstain from eating meat ('Abstinence')

 

With the News-sheet last weekend there was issued the full Parish Programme for Lent.  If you did not get your copy then, please take one from the back of the church and keep it by you in the coming weeks.  

 

EVENTS THIS WEEK:

Monday: 

7.30pm: Planning Meeting for Holy Week Liturgies for music and ceremonial personnel at St Joseph's Presbytery.

Tuesday:

11am:  S.V.P. Conference meets at Our Lady of Refuge

Wednesday:

ASH WEDNESDAY

Mass (with Imposition of Ashes) at Our Lady of Refuge at 9am;

Mass (with Imposition of Ashes) at St Joseph's at 10.30am and 7pm

Thursday:

2.30pm:  First Session of the Lent Programme at Our Lady of Refuge

Saturday:

3pm:  First Confessions for our First Holy Communion Candidates at St Joseph's

Next weekend:

Sunday at 3pm:  Stations of the Cross and Benediction at Our Lady of Refuge

Sunday at 3pm:  Stations of the Cross at St Joseph's.

Tickets on sale next weekend for the 'FISH AND CHIP QUIZ NIGHT' at Our Lady of Refuge on Friday, 16th March.  7pm.  £6.50. 

ADVANCE NOTICES

Thursday, 1st March: Unfortunately, because of a revised date for a  Diocesan Meeting, I shall be unable to lead the Lent Programme this afternoon.

Friday, 2nd March: WOMEN'S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER

also on Friday, 2nd March:  CAFOD LENT FAST DAY

Thursday, 8h March: Social and Fund-raising Group meets at Our Lady of Refuge at 2.30pm  (No Lent Talk at Cromer this week)

Friday, 16th March:  Fish and Chip Quiz Night at Cromer:  7pm.  Tickets £6.50. Bring your own drinks.

 

PARISH '100' CLUB

Several more parishioners and friends of the Parish have joined in the past couple of weeks.  Lists indicating the numbers allocated to date and the names of those to whom the numbers have been allocated have been posted on the Notice Boards at both churches.  These will of course be up-dated as new members join the '100 Club'.  The Draw for  February will be made at Our Lady of Refuge after the 6am Mass next Saturday.

 

VISITORS TO OUR PARISH:  You are most welcome and we hope you enjoy your stay with us. We provide Gift Aid envelopes for those visitors who normally use this method for their church giving.  Envelopes are to be found in the pews (and on the window sills at Our Lady of Refuge). Will you please complete in ink or biro with your full name and address, including post-code.    Visitors are most welcome to join members of the Parish for tea and coffee after the Sunday morning Masses (in the Halls adjoining both our churches).

 

Church Cleaning Rota at Sheringham: M. Driscoll & J. Anthony

Church Cleaning Rota at Cromer:  S. & M. Mustoe-Arthur

Counters: SHERINGHAM  This week: P. Bowie

                                                Next week: M. & P. Harrington

                CROMER:  This week:  S. & M. Mustoe-Arthur

                                      Next week: R. McNulty & M. Arnold                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Collections last weekend:  £840.92.

 


SICK AND HOUSEBOUND: At Sheringham: Tess Bonshor, Anthony Gerada, William Glendon-Doyle, Molly Whitlock, Barbara Shannon, Marie Perry, Carmela Boyle, Mary Mayes, Louise Bates, Roger Parsons, Cathy Fisher, Angela Bronne, Geoffrey and Victoria Skittrall, Francis and Eileen Bullock, Win Holt, Norma and John Kelly, Eileen Short, Anne Freestone, Stella Downing, Valerie Butt, Alice Marr, Win Flowerdew, Fred Fisher, Mary Heaney, Ann Hancock, Walter Davies; At Cromer: Pauline Smyth, Josephine Volp, Irene Lang, Bill Horner, Tom Mancini, Margaret Connolly, Charles and Molly Cullen, Mary Fogarty, Margaret Rubidge, Pam Hicks, Len Wilde, Frank McNeillis, Patrick Buxton, Patricia Clayton, Kathleen Heslin, Eileen Crossfield, Barbara Leake, James Moran, Penny Whittaker-Wright, Beulah Carr.

ANNIVERSARIES:  Thomas Sampson (1984), Edward Perry (1999), Emmeline Rolfe (1990), Thomas Mahon (1996), John Cafferky (1996), John Duggan (1978), Marie Therese Lanham (2010), Kate Holt (1938), Marjory Bowke (2005), Mary Sibellas (1991), R.I.P.

 

DIOCESE AND PARISH INFORMATION:

The Bishop:  Sede Vacante

The Parish Priest:  Rev. Denys Lloyd:   58 Cromer Road, Sheringham NR26 8RT Tel:  01263-822036  e-mail: ourladyandstjoseph@btinternet.com

website:  www.ourladyandstjoseph.info

 

Masses this weekend: SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME ('B')

Saturday: 6pm (Cromer) Priest's Intention

Sunday: 9am (Cromer) R.I.P. Michael Dunning;  10.30am (Sheringham) R.I.P. Fr Cyriac Manchevil

Monday: Feria (Sheringham) 9am R.I.P. Mary and Sebastian Coles (Foundation Mass) 

Tuesday:  Feria (Sheringham) 7pm Holy Souls

Wednesday: ASH WEDNESDAY Mass at 9am at Cromer Gillian Blackwell (sick);  10.30am (Sheringham) People of the Parish ; 7pm (Sheringham) R.I.P. Fr John Meehan (PACT)

Thursday: Lent Feria (Holt) 9.30am R.I.P. Nellie Malley and Patricia Moore

Friday: Lent Feria  (Cromer) 9am  R.I.P. Robert Anderson

Saturday: Lent Feria (Sheringham) 9am R.I.P Mary Foundress (Foundation Mass)

Masses next weekend: FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT ('B')

Saturday: 6pm (Cromer)

Sunday: 9am (Cromer) R.I.P. Ernest Wells;  10.30am (Sheringham) People of the Parish

Confessions this week:  Saturday 9.30am at St Joseph's;  5pm at Our Lady of Refuge

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament:  No Exposition this Monday; Wednesday 9.30am – 10am (Our Lady of Refuge)