Concert at Our Lady of Walsingham Church
On Friday 28th April there will be a concert at Our Lady of Walsingham Church at 7.30pm in aid of the Parish Lenten Appeal. Tickets are £3.00 for adults and £1.00 for children. Please come and give your support for this important appeal.
A Message from the Finance Committee
It is our usual custom that the collection taken at the Easter Masses is our personal gift to Father Joe. He does so much for us so let’s show him how generous we can be in return.
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Holy Week & Easter Services
Maundy Thursday – 13th April
Good Friday – 14th April – Fast & Abstinence
Holy Saturday – 15th April
Easter Sunday Masses – 16th April |
Monday 24th April
Father Peters will be giving a slide show (UCM and other Groups) at 7.00pm in Sacred Heart Hall. Tea and biscuits will be available and a collection will be taken for UCM charities. All parishioners are cordially invited.
Quilt Group
Anyone who would like to join the quilt group which resumes on Tuesday 25th April at 24 Crawford Drive, Fareham at 2.00pm, is asked to phone Barbara McLachlan on 01329 239647.
Youth Club News
There will be no Youth Club on Easter Sunday but it will resume as normal next Sunday.
MEANWHILE Youth Club members will be going by coach to Paultons on 20th May to check out the new Cobra 450 metre rollercoaster plus, of course, all the other rides. Those who want to go on the subsidised outing must let John know by 9th April (01489 583629). By the way, if you are aged 11-15 it’s easy to join the club…..just turn up at St Philip Howard Hall any Sunday at 7.00pm.
The Life of Christ - Wintershall
The Friends of Park Place are organising a visit, on Thursday 29th June 2006, to see this outstanding and moving open air play, now in its sixth season. The play’s action moves between three separate parts of the grounds of the Wintershall Estate, near Guildford, starting at 10.15am, with the Annunciation and ending at 4.00pm on the road to Emmaus. A coach will leave Park Place at 8.45am returning by about 6.30pm. The total cost (entrance and coach) is £25.00 per person. Places are limited to 40. Take your own seating, lunch, stout shoes and raincoat – it has never rained before! To book please write to Park Place Pastoral Centre, Winchester Road, Wickham, Fareham, Hants. PO17 5HA or telephone Sister Juliette on 01329 833043.
THE UNION
Thought
for the Week
The tomb is empty. Jesus is risen. This is the message we long to hear. Yet a more careful and complete reading of the Gospel brings us back to paschal mystery reality. Even Easter Sunday is not only about rising, but includes dying. Even on Easter morning when we are exuberant with the joy of resurrection celebration, the Gospel reminds us that the paschal mystery embraces dying as well as rising. “On the first day of the week”, is in contrast to the Sabbath day that the disciples would have kept as devout Jews. Now, the first day of the week, they are about their everyday chores. The first thing on Mary Magdalene’s mind is to do what she could not do on Friday or Saturday after Jesus’ death: properly prepare his body for burial. Then the Gospel gives us more contradictions. It was early morning, but still dark; light and darkness still contend; good and evil are still very much part of our everyday lives. Mary no doubt worried about how to remove the stone blocking access to Jesus’ lifeless body and the Gospel says she found it removed; stumbling blocks give way to grace-filled possibilities in God’s time of new life. Mary finds the body gone and doesn’t know where to find it; Jesus’ risen presence can be found where we least expect it. Disciples run to the tomb in hope after experiencing the absence of their Lord. When they arrive they see and believe that Jesus has risen yet they still do not understand.
Like the early disciples we do not understand yet we sing our continuous Alleluias. What Easter reminds us about resurrection is that it dispels darkness, sin and death but not the Christian requirement to embrace dying to self. Easter teaches us that the new life of resurrection is identical to dying to self. Here is the paschal mystery: we sing alleluia even when dying to self for the dead one rises.
From Living Liturgy
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Easter Greetings Father Joe, Father Charles, Father Richard, Father Tony and Deacon Langford join together in wishing you and your family a happy, peaceful and holy Easter. |
Society of St Gregory
This Society is a national Roman Catholic organisation dedicated to promoting education and information in the fields of music and liturgy. They are holding a Summer School at Worth Abbey in West Sussex from Monday 31st July to Friday 4th August 2006. This year’s theme is ‘All are Welcome: Being the Church without Walls. If you wish to take advantage of this experience please complete the booking form at the back of the church. You will need to book early as places are limited.
Easter Decorations
Easter decorations at both Sacred Heart Church and Our Lady of Walsingham Church will include gift-wrapped pot plants. At the end of the Easter Sunday Masses they can be taken away. Please donate £1.00 per pot to the Lenten Appeal. Thank you.
NEWS FROM PEG
The first PEG Meeting after the Easter Celebration is on Friday 28th April at 7.30pm in the Sacred Heart Hall.
On Thursday 4th May at Immaculate Conception Church in Stubbington there will be an evening with Justice and Peace with various stalls, including PEG. This begins at 7.30pm.
Fair trade sales will take place after all Masses on the weekend of 6th May with St Jude’s School covering the 11.00am Mass at St Philip Howard. Over £240.00 worth of goods have been sold since we began selling the goods.
Parish Lenten Appeal
Thank you to everyone who supported the raffle, cake stall and tombola stall, to those who kindly contributed cakes and chocolates and to others who generously gave donations. A total of £954.00 was raised for the Parish Lenten Appeal. The lucky raffle prizewinners: Rose Thomas, Anne Corr, Kathy Gale, Mrs. Farthing and Andrew Shaw.
Happiness linked to an Encounter
with Christ
Pope Benedict XVI told some 6,500 university students that happiness depends on an encounter with Christ…“For each one of you, as for the apostles,” the Holy Father said, “the encounter with the divine Teacher who calls you friends may be the beginning of an extraordinary venture: that of becoming apostles among your contemporaries to lead them to live their own experience of friendship with God, made Man, with God who has made himself my friend.” He invited the youths to consider Jesus “as one of your best friends, more than that, as the first.” “Then you will see how friendship with him will lead you to open to others, considering them as brothers, keeping with each one a relationship of sincere friendship,” he said. The Pope emphasized that Jesus Christ “is precisely, the incarnate love of God, and only in him is it possible to find the strength to offer human affection and supernatural charity to brothers in a spirit of service that is manifested above all in understanding.” “He who has discovered Christ cannot but lead others to him, as it is not possible to keep a great joy to oneself; it must be communicated,” he added.
Counsellors in the Diocese
The Diocese would like to compile a list of counsellors in the Diocese and perhaps meet occasionally to share ideas and good practice. If you are a qualified counsellor and interested in responding, please contact Patricia Cox and Angela Wills at The Department for Pastoral Formation on 01329 835583.
St Jude's
RC Primary School
Current newsletter here
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Easter Sunday of the Lord's Resurrection 16 April 2006
The Year of St Mark |
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Latin Mass
Experience the peace and prayerfulness of the Latin Mass at St John’s Cathedral, Portsmouth on 23rd April 2006 (Low Sunday) at 1.30pm – male voice schola supporting the use of Gregorian Chant. (Celebrant – our own Father Joe)!
Thanks
Thank you to the Altar Servers, Choirs, Musicians, flower arrangers, cleaners, Sacristans, Readers, administrative staff, Lay Ministers of Communion, Ushers, Liturgists, RCIA Catechists and all who have worked so hard to prepare for and to make this Holy Week and Easter special to our parish. Thank you to the North family for creating the beautiful Altar of Repose. Thanks also to Betty Davison for painting the paschal candle and to all who helped or contributed food towards the celebration after the Vigil Mass.
Father Joe.
The Adoration
of the Blessed Sacrament
Contacts:
Contacts: Fareham - Lily Peach on 077 678 98885, Portchester
- Veronica Reeves on 023 9237 2864 or Rose Andrews on 023 9238 8494.
Adoration at Our Lady of Walsingham Church resumes on Monday 24th April. At Sacred Heart Church Adoration resumes on Wednesday 19th April.
Lourdes
If you are 17 years plus and wish to join the Diocesan Pilgrimage as a helper, please telephone Jane Cadogan 01329 235987 for further details. The pilgrimage takes place from 25th August to 1st September 2006.
15th Fareham Scout Group
The AGM takes place on Wednesday 19th April at St Philip Howard Hall at 7.30pm prompt. A representative from each Beaver, Cub and Scout family is requested to attend. Tea and coffee will be provided.
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Portchester Voluntary Care
The Portchester Voluntary Care Group needs drivers to help with transport to health centres, hospitals etc. For more information please ring 023 9232 1788.Their AGM and buffet lunch takes place on Wednesday 10th May at Portchester Parish Hall, Castle Street beginning at 12.30pm. All are invited to go along and find out more about the Group. If you plan to attend you are asked to ring 023 9237 6475.
Lenten Breakfasts
Thank you to Father Richard for celebrating the Thursday 7.00am Mass during Lent. Following the six Thursday Masses, breakfast was served in the hall to a very loyal group of parishioners. The money raised from the breakfasts amounted to £381.00 and goes towards the Lenten Appeal.
Handcrafted cards and crosses
Thank you to Marian, Barbara and Helmar for making and selling greetings cards and crosses – all proceeds to the Lenten Appeal. The amount raised was £84.00.
Easter Greetings
Fr Manuel sends his love to everyone. This summer he unfortunately will not be coming to us as he is going on sabbatical to Jerusalem but he has promised us that he will be with us as usual the following summer.
Vatican II – 40 years on – who does it call us to be?
The Dioceses of Plymouth and Portsmouth invite you to take a fresh look. The day will be presented by Bill Huebsch (workshop presenter and author of ‘Vatican II in plain English) at St Mary’s, Wimborne Road, Poole, BH15 2EG on Saturday 17th June 2006 from 10.30am to 4.00pm – coffee from 10.00am. The cost is £12.50 and lunch will be provided. Booking forms are available from Eileen Stephenson, Park Place Pastoral Centre – tel. 01329 835583. Closing date for bookings is 2nd June.
Finance
Offertory Collection - £1691.60
Lent Appeal to date - £3655.60
Forthcoming Collection –
7th May – Clergy Training Fund
Are
You New?
Are you new to this parish? If you have recently moved to this area, please
fill in one of the 'Are you new?' forms to be found at the entrance to
the church and return this to Father Joe or to the Parish Office. Alternatively
complete our online form.
Interested
in Becoming a Catholic?
A series of meetings and talks takes place each year for those interested
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