After Ash Wednesday the 40 days journey to Easter Commences with opportunities for prayer, generosity and self restraint. Finding a new way to make these practices relevant is part of our effort to engage with the purpose of Lent. We are so fortunate to have the experiences of Spring – warmth and light to stimulate our response.
Bishop Richard’s Weekly Message
Pope Francis Gives Us His Message
Dear brothers and sisters,
We begin our annual pilgrimage of Lent in faith and hope with the penitential rite of the imposition of ashes. The Church, our mother and teacher, invites us to open our hearts to God’s grace, so that we can celebrate with great joy the paschal victory of Christ the Lord over sin and death, which led Saint Paul to exclaim: “Death has been swallowed up in victory. Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” ( 1 Cor 15:54-55). Indeed, Jesus Christ, crucified and risen, is the heart of our faith and the pledge of our hope in the Father’s great promise, already fulfilled in his beloved Son: life eternal (cf. Jn 10:28; 17:3)… For the full message please click here
Prayer For The Pope
We do this daily and when praying the Eucharistic Prayer, we realise we he is always remembered.
Mass Schedule
- Sunday 9th March 10am First Sunday in Lent
- Monday 10th March 8:15am St Mary’s House
- Wednesday 12th March 9:00am Lent Weekday Mass
- Friday 14th March 9:30am Lent Weekday Mass
- Sunday 16th March 2nd Sunday in Lent
CAFOD Fast Day
This coming Friday is a day for Fasting for the projects of the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development. What you might save by your self denial may be returned in the envelope or you may prefer to transfer your gift by card – please click here.
Lenten Reconciliation Service
Thursday 27th March 7-9pm in St Mary Magdalen Church. Upper North Street. Bishop Richard will be leading and there will be Priest Confessors around the Church. See the Poster.
The Vocation of The Permanent Diaconate
An Open Evening Session at St John the Evangelist, Horsham at Friday 14th March at 7pm. More information can be found here.
Soup and Sandwich Lunch
This Thursday 13th March at 12 noon. See the poster.
The Catholic Social Action Network Survey
A survey concerning the two-child benefit cap. If you wish to participate please visit this link.
Diocesan Vacancies
P/T clergy welfare officer
Health and safety officer
For details of these positions please click here.
Canon Oliver Heaney RIP
There is no date yet for Canon Oliver Heaney’s funeral
Forty days and forty nights
You were fasting in the wild
Forty days and forty nights
Tempted still and yet unbeguiled
St Thomas More Church, Patcham, Brighton 