NEWSLETTER SUNDAY 7th Oct 2007

Please pray for all the sick in the hospital and in our parish including:  

Kitty Stubbs, Bertha Appleton, Flo Mullen, Jimmy Carson, Christine McDonald, Dennis Lynch, Joe Donkin, Olive Atkinson, Nora Gallagher, Ethel Fagan, Denise Calvert, Ken Hutchinson, Andrea Saward and Paul Tulloch.  Also remember in your prayers Mary Snowden who died during the week.



Please remember in your prayers the following priests of the diocese whose anniversaries occur during the week:

THE CYCLE OF PRAYER-ORDINARY TIME (AUTUMN)

During Ordinary Time from September to Advent we are asked to pray for these intentions: The Spread of the Gospel; the Harvest; the Fruits of Human Work, and the Reverent Use of Creation; Justice and Peace in the World; All Victims of War; Young People; Prisoners and their Families.

HARVEST FAMILY FAST  LIVESIMPLY: GIVE GENEROUSLY  There is a Retiring collection at both Masses this weekend.  As announced last week CAFOD has decided that all the proceeds of the Family Fast will go to their partners in Zimbabwe, so desperate is the situation in that country.  Please give generously.

GREAT NORTH RUN

Eugene and Monica’s daughter Catherine completed the Great North Run.  So Eugene is looking for everyone who sponsored her for CAFOD to pay up!

PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE ADULTS 

All Eucharistic Ministers, First Communion Catechists, Confirmation Catechists, Children’s Liturgy Catechists, Members of the SVP, Legion of Mary, Bereavement Group, and Youth Club Leaders are expected to attend a meeting with the Diocesan Child Protection team on Tuesday 9th October at 6.00 pm in church.  This is ESSENTIAL for your continued ministry.  If anyone has any outstanding child protection / CRB forms or ID documents which haven’t been forwarded to Diane English can you please do so as soon as possible.

OCTOBER DEVOTIONS 

Each Wednesday evening during October at 6.30pm we will  celebrate the Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help and Benediction,  All are welcome. 

JOURNEY IN FAITH  Our Journey in Faith recommences with our third session at 9.05am and 7.00pm on Thursday 11th October.

CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS

CHURCH BANNERS 

We hope you have noticed our wonderful new banners around the church.  This is the offering from the staff and pupils of St. Joseph’s Primary School towards our Centenary Celebrations.  Take time to have a good look at them.  Many thanks to all the staff who helped with them.  But particular thanks to all the children for their ideas and artwork.

CHURCH CLEANING

Volunteers are needed to clean the church for our Centenary celebrations.  Could all volunteers and teams come along on Monday 8th October from 9.30am.  We’ll even serve refreshments.

CENTENARY MASS

We conclude our year of centenary celebrations with Mass at 3.00pm next Sunday,   The main celebrant will be Bishop Kevin and many of the priests who have served here in St Joseph’s as well as the Sunderland Deanery priests will be concelebrating.  The Deputy Mayor is coming and the members of West End Churched Together as well as local councillors have also been invited.  There is no 9.30am Mass that day.  Refreshments will be available after Mass in the Social Centre, so come along and meet friends old and new.  All are welcome.

The Preview Evening for the Flower Festival is on  Thursday 7.00pm.  Father Gordon will open the Flower Festival and the children from St. Joseph’s School choir will entertain us.  Entry is by ticket only at £5.00, including refreshments and will be on sale after Mass this weekend and from Ann Earl 0796 4334 530; Louis Dale 522 6505 and Ian Thompson 567 7784.  Helpers are still needed to greet visitors when the church is open during the festival.  If you can help please contact Ann, Louis or Ian.

FLOWER AUCTION

On Monday 15th October at 11.00 am, flowers and arrangements will be auctioned/sold in church.  All proceeds will go to CAFOD Family Fast.  Please make an effort to support this.  Thank You.

GETTING THE BEST OUT OF LIFE

Do you know your purpose in life?  It needn’t be a struggle.  Is your Faith a matter of coming to Mass once a week and a few prayers when things get tough?  It can be exciting.  Do you want a better life?  Find one hour and start the 8 weeks of Christian Life Programme on Monday 8th October after 7.00pm Mass in St. Cuthbert’s Chapel.  To find out more contact Jean Thompson (.

ANGELUS LUNCH CLUB 

Our next Lunch is on Wednesday 10th October.  At this meeting we will be taking deposits for our Christmas outing to the Wild Fowl Park Washington.

YOUTH MINISTRY TEAM

People willing to act as contact persons for the Youth Ministry Team Mission in St. Anthony’s and St. Aidan’s in November 2008 are asked to attend a meeting in St Benet’s at 7pm on Tuesday, 16th October.

SVP ANNUAL RAFFLE 

Tickets for the SVP Annual Raffle are available at the back of church price 50p per ticket or £5 per book.  First prize is £5,000.

ST. JOSEPH’S

St. Joseph’s invite you to a social evening on Thursday 15th November at 7.00 pm. At South Hylton WMC.  Music by Peter Green.  It is to be a 50-50 DANCE  £3.00 a ticket and all proceeds are to go to CAFOD.

A MESSAGE FOR ALL FRIENDS OF SR. M. WILFRID (RIP) 

There will be a Memorial Mass for Sister on Friday 12th October at 12.05 pm, in St. Mary’s Church Sunderland.  Light refreshments afterwards.  All welcome.  If you can’t come please say a prayer for her.  Thank you

CALLING ALL STUDENTS 

The University Chaplaincy meet every Sunday evening at the Chaplaincy Rooms at St. Mary’s Hall at 7.30pm.  All students are welcome—please go along and meet new friends, for more information contact Father Kevin Dixon at St. Anne’s Church (.

WOMEN’S AGLOW 

The next women’s Aglow meeting takes place in the Chester's on Wednesday 17th October.  The speaker is Michelle MacChiarelli.  Meal and Coffee £5.50 for further details contact Bernadette (

EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS & READERS  Forms for Eucharistic Ministers and Readers for next year’s rota are available today from St. Cuthbert’s Chapel and must be returned by 21st October.

CRICKET HEADLINE 

The new Dennis Cunningham Memorial Trophy was presented by Pat to third time winners—guess who?  R.O.W. put up a great challenge, scoring 52 runs against India’s 78.  Vino scored an unbeaten 24 not out and Bernard and Shilu each took two wickets.  Ellen Emmett presented the runners-up trophy.  Thanks for all the tremendous support on a lovely sunny day.

CAFOD...LIVESIMPLY...FAMILY FAST...FOCUSAFRICA

Nicaragua, Peru, Sudan, Bangladesh, Mozambique............these are a few of the areas world-wide where CAFOD is striving to create a world where everyone gets a fair share of God's creation.  Some are disaster responses, but most are the year-on-year essential restoring of dignity to the destitute, as with FOCUSAFRICA.  Remarkably, this Autumn, CAFOD will devote ALL the donations of FAMILY FAST to the people of Zimbabwe.  Why?  Because our brothers and sisters there are in desperate, critical plight.  Food is short.  One in three is expected to be without food by March,  Many will run out of food very soon.  CAFOD, through its trusted Church ' partners ' in Zimbabwe, who have direct access to the worst affected areas, reaching 18,000 of the most vulnerable families, will provide food, and seeds and tools to produce the next harvest.  CAFOD is our Church's response to the Encyclical Letter of Pope Paul VI in 1967, called The Progress ( or Development ) of Peoples in which he said : '' The time has come ( in 1967 !! ) for more than local, isolated action.  Everyone must act together to tackle every side of the problem of human development. '' LIVESIMPLY is CAFOD's present initiative to achieve real progress through our sharing as a world community and caring for creation.  So please give  generously to FAMILY FAST for our  desperate sisters and  brothers in Zimbabwe either this week or next week.  And pray for them and for CAFOD's work for us.

''Thy Kingdom come : Thy Will be done : on earth as in Heaven''

St. Aidan’s 

There will be an Open Evening at St Aidan’s School on Tuesday 16^th October beginning at 6.30pm for all boys currently in Year 6, who will be attending St Aidan’s in September 2008.  Parents and pupils welcome. For more information please contact the school.

Telephone Numbers

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