Saturday (for Sunday) 88:00pm Private Intention Private Intention

Sunday 23-03-08 9:30am Rowland Batley For the Parish

11:00am For the Parish Tom Ward

WEEKDAY MASSES: Feasts: Intentions:

Monday 24-03-08 9:00am Easter Monday (at St Pancras ) Holy Souls

Tuesday 25-03-08 9:30am Easter Tuesday Anne Ellis

Wednesday 26-03-08 7:00am Easter Wednesday Louis Borg

Thursday 27-03-08 12:15pm Easter Thursday William Smyth

Friday 28-03-08 7:00pm Easter Friday Holy Souls

Saturday 29-03-08 10:30pm Easter Saturday Stan Brownrigg

6:00pm Private Intention

ROSARY AND BENEDICTION: 2nd. Sundays of the month at 6.15pm.

CONFESSIONS: Saturday 11.00am-11.30am & after Evening Mass.

BAPTISMS: SUNDAY; 12 noon by appointment.

Tridentine Latin Masses: 2^nd Thursdays of month 10.30am & 2^nd Sundays of month 5.30pm.

Daily Prayer: Recited Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays in Lady Chapel 9.30am

Rosary: Recited Tuesdays and Saturdays in Lady Chapel after the morning Mass.

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: Saturdays 11.00am – 5.30pm

Filipino Mass: Every 2nd Saturday of the month at 3.30pm

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Sunday 23-03-08, Easter Sunday

Entrance Antiphon – I have risen: I am with you once more; you placed your hand on me to keep me safe. How great is the depth of your wisdom, alleluia!

Responsorial Psalm - This day was made by the Lord; we rejoice and are glad.

Gospel Acclamation - Christ, our passover, has been sacrificed; let us celebrate the feast then, in the Lord. Alleluia!

Communion Antiphon – Christ has become our paschal sacrifice; let us feast with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth, alleluia.

Readings for Next Sunday 30-03-08: 2nd week of Easter: 1st Reading Acts 2:42-47. 2nd Reading First letter of St Peter 1:3-9. Gospel; John 20:19-31.

Parish Sick:, Alfred Elbrick, Tony Kelly, Bishop Michael, Estelle & Martin Gudde, Jacqueline Lewry, Nancy Scicluna, Ted Browne, Anne-Marie Sczepanska, Mary Baker, Giuseppina Sarro, Susan Sweeney, Gerry Tynan.

Recently Dead: Stan Brownrigg, (Funeral service - Thursday 3 April 10:00am)

Anniversaries: Mary Studd, Joan Goldswain, Frank Rigby, Arnold Cachia, Patrick Coughlan.

Offertory Collection. 16-03-08 £1263.94 thank you all so very much. The offertory Collection this Sunday is the normal Easter collection for the Parish Priest.

ROTA LISTS:

Collection Counting: 24-03-08 Miss Cleary & Co.

Readers: Week Commencing: 30-03-08 Week Commencing: 23-03-08

6.00pm Dr Heley Church Cleaning Mrs Joykutty & Mrs Matthew

9.30am Mrs Squirrell Brass Polishing Mrs Gallagher

11.00am Mr Newman Sanders Sacristy Wash Mrs Wincomb

Flowers: Mrs. Peto

REGULAR EVENTS

Thursday Lunches: Light lunches in Hall after 12:15 Thursday Mass, proceeds to Pattaya Orphanage.

Welcome Club: Contact: Anne Routh. Next meeting Wed 26-03-08, Social gathering, Raffle.

Instruction Classes: For Children at non-Catholic schools. Saturdays 9.15am to 10.10am Closed for Easter break. Please note new times, which are an experiment to ease parking problems. Please avoid over runs by having your child here promptly to start at 9:15. Classes start again on Saturday April 12th.

Mothers & Toddlers Tuesdays in hall during school term time only; 10.15am to 11.45am. St Pancras Toddler Group welcomes children from birth to five years (and their grown ups). Contact.

Monday Circle: Easter break- Watch this spot!

Hall Bookings: Mrs Pat Nothard, phone evenings.

1st Holy Communion: Will be on Sunday 8-June-08, 9.30am Mass.

Instruction Classes: Any child that was not baptised at St Pancras, especially if baptised abroad needs to submit a Baptismal Certificate, also as soon as possible, please

Medjugorje Pilgrimage 2008: Booking now for this September, Friday 12 to Friday 19. Cost £415 (includes all transfers, half board accommodation, insurance) plus shared travel to Gatwick. For information, booking your place and enquiries contact Jan Cavanagh.

¯ Young & Musical: We are blessed by having many of our young people in the parish possessing musical abilities. Perhaps we could have a concert for them. If we need a cause, it could be for the Lady Chapel. If anyone aged under 18 would fill in a form giving capabilities, instrumentally or vocally, we can start organising. Contact Fr Leeder.

Offertory Envelopes new collection envelopes started Sunday 24-2-08. Please would you take a new set, particularly if you have signed up for Gift Aid, ensuring you take the same number you have had this last year, and sign your name and address against the same number on the accompanying sheet. You will notice the new numbers go on to April next year to coincide with the end of the tax year. If you are taking envelopes for the first time, please take a box with a number that has not been green highlighted on the sheets where you put your name and address etc.

Concert at St Pancras: “Serenade to Spring” by the Gippswyke Singers and Instrumentalists Saturday 10 May 7:30pm. Tickets £5 from Fr Leeder & Audrey Reading phone. Refreshments available during interval, All proceeds to Lady Chapel refurbishment.

A Practical Day: Theme -“Being a Caring Parish”- Saturday 19th April at Newmarket Parish Centre, 14 Exeter Rd, Newmarket, CB8 8LT. For those involved in visiting or helping older, sick or disabled people in the Parish. Tea/Coffee provided from 10:30 but bring your own lunch. For more info. phone Commission Secretary.

Future Parish Merging: Our Diocesan situation is growing more acute, and the time will be coming perhaps sooner than we thought, when we will have to cut back to two Sunday Masses at St. Pancras. An obvious solution would be Saturday 6pm and Sunday 11am remaining. Thank goodness we have plenty of room in St. Pancras.

Disabled access to Norwich Cathedral: you can help support the building of the Narthex at the Church of St John, Norwich. This new building is being built adjacent to the Cathedral to give disabled access, there will also be a new shop and cafeteria, kitchen and greatly improved toilets and more. Any contribution you make will be enhanced by the tax man at no additional cost to the donor, if the donations can be made by Gift Aid. Contact.

NEW ITEMS

New Statue: Have you noticed our new statue on the cross? It has been put on the cross in time for our Easter celebrations.

Juventutem Chartres Pilgrimage 2008: There is news of the Pilgrimage at Pentecost this year in the poster on the Pilgrimage Board under the choir loft. Of special reference to our youth and teenage parishioners.

PLEASE NOTE: NO MASS ANYWHERE LOCALLY ON EASTER SUNDAY EVENING

HAPPY EASTER TO YOU ALL