Fire Marshal
We need to recruit a Fire Marshal for each Mass, this would include a one hour training once yearly and would only be required in the rare occurrence of a fire.
We need a good mix of people that attend different Masses. For more information please contact Andy Harris on 07742433589.
Flower & Craft Festival - Saturday 8th July 2023
We have begun the planning for this year’s Flower and Craft Festival. This year the theme is Parables, Miracles, and Proverbs.
We are hoping that more people will be able to take part this year, especially those who can sew or craft! The book of Proverbs and the miracles and parables of Jesus gives you a very wide scope to choose from. We have already had volunteers for flower arrangements for Jesus calms the Storm, The Feeding of the 5,000, The wedding at Cana, and the parable of the Sower.
If you would like to take part or would like more information or ideas contact me on 01702 474062, or email mcronan@btinternet.com
We would love to fill the church with flowers and crafts.
Jo Ronan
Repository
The Repository is situated at the rear of the Church in the old Baptistry and will be open following the 5.30pm Vigil Mass and after the 9.30am and 11.30am Masses on Sundays.
We have a small selection of cards this week for St. Patrick’s Day, Mother’s Day, and Easter. Arriving in the next 2 weeks we should have a good selection of cards and gifts for First Holy Communion. If you can’t see what you are looking for, please don’t hesitate to ask. After Easter, cards and gifts should be available in time for First Holy Communions and Confirmation.
Repository Volunteers
We are looking for more volunteers to help with the above. With enough people we can then form a Rota so that individuals need only help out on a 2 or 3 weekly basis. If interested please leave your name and contact details at the Parish Office or speak to Cynthia.
Serving the Homeless
Our next event is a Quiz Evening in St Margaret's Church Hall on 11th March, 7pm for 7.30pm. The cost is £5 per person, bring your own drinks and nibbles.
If you wish to book a table (up to 10 people) or a place with another team, please ring any Committee member or Linda Wall on 01702 558217.
Parish Fundraising
Thank you to everyone who supports the 200 Club. The results of the December draw are as follows:
1st Prize £150 199 Mrs F McEvoy
2nd Prize £100 68 Mrs K Franklin
3rd Prize £75 118 Mrs C Haldenby
4th Prize £25 75 Mrs M Whines
We are still looking for new members. The subscription is £5 per month, either by cash, cheque or direct debit. If you would like to join, please fill in a form which can be found at the back of the church or ring Linda Wall on 01702 558217.
There are a number of 200 Club winners' cheques which still have to be paid into a bank account. If you have been a winner within the last five months, can you please check that your winning cheque has been paid into your account. If not, can you please take it to your bank as soon as possible.
Bereavement Support Group
The Group meets on the third Tuesday of every month in the Parish Centre (Bernadette room) at 2pm. Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 21st March.
We are aware that this time may not be convenient for everyone who feels they need support following the loss of a loved one. We are therefore considering a possible change of day and time. For example Saturday morning or afternoon or a weekday morning or evening might be more convenient for people.
The Group is open to people who have experienced loss and bereavement and who feel they might find sharing their experience with others in a confidential and caring environment. We try to ensure that nobody is under any pressure to talk but participants are gently encouraged to express their feelings supported by other Group members and experienced Counsellors. If further information is required please contact the Parish Office or phone Cynthia on 07783 094312 with your name and contact number.
If interested please give your name, contact details, and preference of day/ time to the Parish Office. Thank you.
OLL Ladies Group
Our next Meeting is on Thursday 2nd March in the Parish Centre from 10am. All ladies in the Parish are welcome with a sub of just £1.00 per week plus a Raffle. There is no charge for teas and coffee.
As we are now in Lent we leave it to individuals to decide whether to bring cake or not!! We are planning a repeat of one of our popular mornings of favourite poems, but this time we are including books. So come all you book worms and share some of your favourite books/authors! No problems if nothing to share, just come along and enjoy the company.
CAFOD Family Fast Day Friday 3rd March - Lent Appeal
This Lent, your donations to CAFOD’s Family Fast Day Appeal will help families fighting the climate crisis and ensure that our Church network can quickly respond to emergencies, like the recent earthquake in Syria and Turkey. Give today using the envelope or via electronic payment (both at back of the church), or at cafod.org.uk/give and please join us in praying for CAFOD’s development and emergency response work all over the world.
Missio Red Box Holders
National Novena to St. Joseph 11th - 19th March 2023. See Poster at the back of Church.
If you would like to receive a Novena booklet, email novenamhm@gmail.com or send to Novena Director
6 Colby Gardens Maidenhead Berkshire SL6 7GZ. Joan Caunce, Secretary 01268 757505
World Day of Prayer Friday 3rd March
This year’s World Day of Prayer Service takes place on Friday 3rd March at 10.30am at St Alban’s Church, St Johns Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, SS0 7JY, followed by tea/coffee. Car parking is available at North Road and Cliffs Pavilion car parks.
All are welcome to this years Service which is prepared by the women of Taiwan on the theme ‘I have heard about your faith’
Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School & Nursery
If your child is eligible to attend Nursery, please clink on the link below to find more information about Our Lady of Lourdes School Nursery
Earthquake Relief Charities
Please donate via Aid to the Church in Need or CAFOD websites.
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lent is almost upon us once again!
Dear friends in Christ
Lent is almost upon us once again! On Wednesday the Church will extend the annual and ancient invitation to us: Repent and believe the Gospel! Over the next forty days of Lent we shall enter the spiritual battle using the weapons of prayer, penance and works of charity. One of the good and positive aspects of information technology is the huge array of good Catholic material available to feed and nourish our faith and piety. Choose and use these resources wisely, since not everything that purports to be Catholic is so. As a basic starting point, we should all be aiming to read from the Bible regularly; know the basic content of the Catechism of the Catholic Church; keep up-to-date with the Magisterium (teaching authority) of the Church; and be abreast of Catholic news as furnished by such reliable sources as Vatican News Service, EWTN and Aleteia.
When it comes to the area of penance—there are many more things we can sacrifice than wine and chocolate! We could examine how much time we spend on social media and reduce it; how do we keep guard over what we say—gossiping; try to see someone who is lonely; give time to others; keep our homes/rooms in a orderly way. In matters of charity and almsgiving, we don't need to look very far to realise that we can give easily to those who are suffering right now: in Ukraine and as a result of the recent earthquake. Details can be found in this Newsletter of how to donate through Catholic Aid Agencies.
As Lent comes around again, we have the opportunity to become a new person—this is the meaning of Lent—that we enter a new springtime for our soul. We can live these days ahead of us like any other time, or we can choose to let these waters of Lent renew and refresh us. Even if we feel we may fail by the second day, we can begin again and again! We listen again to the words of the Prophet read on Ash Wednesday: Now, now it is the Lord who speaks—come back to me with all your heart, fasting, weeping, mourning.
May God bless you and give us all perseverance in following Him in this Lenten season.
Msgr Kevin Hale
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sunday 19th February
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Liturgy:
Readings Year A
The Nicene Creed
Preface of Sunday 6
5.30pm Vigil Mass Margaret Riley, RIP (WW)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass John & Pat Moon, RIP (SM)
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Mona Cundick ,RIP
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 20
Feria
9am Mass Special Intentions of the Hill Family (SM)
Tuesday 21
St Peter Damian, Bp, D
9am Mass Annamma Cherian, RIP (Anniv) (BC)
Wednesday 22
ASH WEDNESDAY Day of fasting & abstinence
9.30am Mass Noel Murray, RIP (UO’K)—with children from OLOL school
12 Noon Mass John & Anne Downey, RIP (AD)
7pm Mass Caroline Graham-Males, RIP (Anniv) (SM)
Thursday 23
Thursday after Ash Wednesday
9am Mass Anthony Hayes, RIP (K&LW)
Friday 24
Friday after Ash Wednesday
12noon Mass Intentions of Patricia Thomas (PT)
7pm Way of the Cross & Benediction
Saturday 25
Saturday after Ash Wednesday
10am Mass Michelle Power, RIP (KH)
10.30-11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 26 February
First Sunday of Lent
5.30pm Vigil Mass Luigia Tisi, RIP (TT)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass John Bernard Holland, RIP (MH)
9.30am Mass Jim & Teena Rockell, RIP (Anniv) (K&LW)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Fr Thomas O’Connor, Fr Archibald O’Brien, Deacon Sidney Lewis, Deacon Dwight Hayter, Canon Alosius Roche, Fr Gerard Murphy, Robert Bautista, Fr Gerard Murphy, Mrs Constance Anne, Christopher Keville, Jeanie Reeves, Theresa Daniels, Maria Calame, Amy Cutforth, Eileen Ditton, Grace Angwin, Anthony Warwick, Pamina Edgeley, David Johnson, Mary Latham, Mary Asher, Anna McCall, Adolph Figueredo, Mary Keefe, Frank Blaker, Jim Kenny, Mary Wildman, Joseph Mills, Vincent Sullivan, Dominnick Fanning, Maire Callanan, Lloyd Rodney, William Shanahan, Ernest Tobias. Olive Cale, Rose Cook, Amelia Mullins, Roger Billena, Anne Florence, Marie Bartley, Violet Nottle, Mary Sobota, Beau Winter-Myers, Maddalena Forte & Mary Tyson.
We Pray for our Sick
Christine Reid, Rose D’Souza, Jimmy & Pauline Martin, Ben Dench, James Fegan, Muriel Matthews, David Lesley, Kenneth Biebuyck, Zach Stokes, Andrew Stokes, Noel Conroy, Marjorie Jay, Paul Sutton, John Murphy, Mary Monaghan, Jennifer Biebuyck, Moira Scott, Jill Yates, Leonora Maguire, Brian Mountier, Renata Butler, Margaret Bartle, Tony Downey, Kristy Monferrari, Fred Ring, Ian Irwin, Russell Short, Marie Kharas, Garry Pearman, Patricia Ann Darroch, Patricia Vanner, Amy Louise Fox, Sarah Savage, Bill O’Connell, Janet Weale, Charlotte O’Neil, Ella Williams, David Kislingbury, Mark Shepherd, Eileen Bines, Breege McCaffrey, Mark Hartley, John Lavery, Paul Keane, Rosemary Bragard, Pat Lynch, Ben Wilson, Christian Ryan, Tina Doveaston, Addi Brady, Patricia Fleming, Nicky Wigmore, Rose Craft, Patricia Spikin, Sandra Fagan, Edna Wallace, Beryl Dixon, Nick Evans, Vicky Jack, Mary Boyce, Kristin Hallenga, Anne O’Neill, Cheryl Shallis, Justin Stark, Sheila Netherton, David Blyth, Janet Woods, Lynne Hilkene, June Moncaster, Laura & Anne Breen, Breda Lynch, Maria Clark, Roy Widdecombe, Johanna Lynch, Anthony King, Norma McCleverty, Belinda Balazsi, Johnny Pool, Edward Martin, Joanna Luciani, Pauline Wilsher, Simon Marshall, Kriston Barnes, Hugh Isaacs, Dawn Deleigh, Lorraine Hart, Linda Dean, Georgina Cornwell, Antonella McConalogue, Sharon Levill, Annie Holland, Ivor & Joanne Knight, Brian Beresford, Rebecca Peake, Connor Bourke, Mattia Mollica, Bernadette Lane, Irena Solecki, Ianto Bellis, Marguerite Harris, Andrew Exley, Elizabeth McConalogue, Kean Smith, Keith Maliff, Bradley & children: Thomas Ball, Liam Davis, Connie Price, Albert Chambers, Fergus Grant, Mary Isherwood, Lucy Price, Frazer Gregory & baby Forest Gallagher.
We Pray for the Repose of the Souls of
CHRISTINE WISE RIP who died on 21st January. Her body will be received into the Church on Thursday, 16th March at 5pm and her Requiem Mass will take place on Friday 17th March at 9.30am followed by burial at Hall Road Cemetery.
MARIA FITZAKERLEY RIP who died recently. Her funeral will take place on Friday, 10th March at 10.15am at Sutton Road Cemetery Church, followed by burial at Sutton Road Cemetery.
TERRY COCKERALL RIP who died on 29th January. Funeral details to follow.
ROY BUCK RIP who died recently. Funeral details to follow.
Requiescant in pace
Music at 11.30am Mass on Sunday
Prelude: Adagio for the Elevation in D—Guiseppe Paolucci (1726-1776)
Postlude: Fugue in C— Ignazio Fiorillo (1715-1787)
Response to Psalm
