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SUNDAY MASSES
Saturday 29th March - Confessions 4.15pm to 4.50pm , 5pm Mass
Sunday 30th March - 9.15am Family Mass, 11.15am (this Family Mass celebration will include the use of incense), 3pm Stations of the Cross, 5pm Youth Mass
WEEK OF 31st April
Monday 31st April - 11am Mass
Tuesday 1st April - 11am Mass
Wednesday 2nd April - Church closed
Thursday 3rd April - 11am Mass
Friday 5th April - 11:30am Mass (NOTE CHANGE)
SUNDAY MASSES
Saturday 5th April - Confessions 4.15pm to 4.50pm , 5pm Mass
Sunday 6th April - 9.15am Family Mass, 11.15am (this Family Mass celebration will include the use of incense), 3pm Stations of the Cross, 5pm Youth Mass
Fr Simon's Reflections for week of 31st March - 6th April
4th Sunday of Lent C ‘Laetare Jerusalem!’
‘Laetare Jerusalem (Rejoice, Jerusalem)!’ Today, Holy Mother the Church, lightens the penitential mood - the light of Easter shines back into the Lenten Purple, bleaching it a shade of Rose to remind us why we are fasting in the first place – the joy of the Resurrection!
Today is ‘Mothering Sunday.’ While we rightly pray for, bless and thank our mothers, we avoid going too far down the ‘rabbit hole’ of another commercial manipulation trying to make us part with our cash! That isn’t to say that our mums don’t deserve a bit of pampering, but we should be showing our love to them every day! And for those of us whose mothers have died, we can pray an ‘eternal rest’ prayer for them. Traditionally, ‘Mothering Sunday’ was the day, when people in service were given the day off, and being a Sunday, they would go ‘a mothering’, visiting the ‘Mother Church’ (the Cathedral or their parish Church), to the baptismal font where they were baptised and became a child of God. And as ‘pilgrims of hope’ in this ‘Jubilee Year’ we might also visit a ‘Jubilee Church’ today, with St Joseph’s, Guildford nearby to us.
In two weeks’ time, we begin Holy Week, the ‘Great Week’ of our Faith, the one that changed the world and the week that helps us make sense of the effort we put in week-in-week-out to celebrate our Christian faith. As such, we clear our diaries of unnecessary appointments and ensure we are ready to take part in Palm Sunday, the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper (8pm on Thurs. 17th April), the Commemoration of the Lord’s Passion (3pm on Fri. 18th April), and the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night and 1st Mass of the Resurrection (9pm on Sat. 19th April).
‘May we, the Christian People hasten to the solemn celebrations to come’. Fr. Simon
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