Sixth Sunday
of Easter
19th/20th
May 2012
Parish Council Elections
Nomination
papers will be available at the back of the
Church
from next weekend (19th/20th May).
We will appoint
two men and two women.
Before you
nominate anyone, please ensure
that they are willing
to stand for election.
Further details and the names of those
eligible
for re-election will
be in next week’s bulletin
The Walk With
Me
booklets of daily prayer
for the Easter Season are
available at the back
of the Church.
Price £1
Holy Ghost Fathers
are very grateful for
the generous response to their recent Appeal.
Thank
you to all who contributed
.
(See notice board for their letter of thanks).
Communications
Sunday
Next Sunday (20th) the Annual
Communications Sunday Collection will be taken after Mass.
I am
a Catholic Cards
These cards are available (free) at the back of
Church.
Please take
one.
Prayers and Sympathy
We offer our prayers and sympathy for the
Family and friends
of Brother William’s father Hugh Mountney who
died on the 8th May.
His Requiem Mass is on Tuesday 15th May at 10
a.m. May he rest in peace.
Vocation Discernment Retreat
Father Michael
McCoy, our diocesan Vocations Promoter,
invites anyone thinking
about a vocation to the priesthood
to a Vocation
Discernment Retreat at the Diocesan Youth Village,
overnight on the evening
of Friday 21st July.
The retreat is
free. For further details contact Fr Michael at
frmccoy@googlemail.com.
Once Again
We are proud to
announce that Dorothy’s ‘Never Again’
Plant Sale,
Coffee Morning and Raffle will be on
Sunday 3rd
June at Sunnybank Cottage
Diocesan Festival
The Diocesan
Festival will take place at the
Diocesan
Youth Village during the weekend 29th June – 1st July.
Further details
can be found on the church notice board.
Christian
Aid 2012
This year’s Christian Aid week is May 13th
to 19th.
Please can you sign up for one of our designated
streets by
Signing the poster at the back
of church.
Bereavement Group
Would you like to give some
time to listen, offer comfort, support and understanding
to people in our
ecumenical area who experience bereavement.
It is a difficult time and the hand of
friendship and kindness helps a lot.
If you are interested please contact one of
the support team
Old and Broken Rosaries
A Christian group in Palestine
is giving employment to some young people
in repairing old and
broken Rosaries for later sale and recycling.
If there are any old and/or broken beads in
your home,
no matter how bad,
please bring them in
and they will be sent
off to Palestine.
Holy Island Pilgrimage Saturday 16th June
12.00—Pilgrimage Walk
!2.30pm—Pilgrimage Liturgy St
Aidan’s Church (for those not walking)
3.30pm—Mass (By St Aidan’s
statue outside the Priory)
Due to the crossing times this
year the walk will take place on the island
For further details please see
poster at back of Church
Church
Driveway
If you are driving within the church grounds PLEASE keep to the 15mph speed limit.
Expensive gravel is being displaced by overzealous
drivers. Thank you.
Mission Boxes
Thanks to those who brought in
their boxes.
There are still more to come.
For
those who may be interested
A Latin Mass is
celebrated in St Robert’s Morpeth
on the Fourth Sunday of
every month at 7.00 pm
CRB’s
Thank you for helping us to complete our work on the
CRBs.
It is so important that we comply with the Law to insure
that all our children and vulnerable adults are protected.
Thank you for your cooperation.
If you have any problems or issues please speak to
Pam Slater who is up to date in
these matters.
Security
Please be vigilant
when you are in and about the Church.
Do not leave your
valuables unattended in the church.
Nights of Light
Our Church looks particularly attractive
at present with the flood lighting.
We depend on the Nights of Lights scheme
to fund the lighting of the church.
If you would like to celebrate a
important occasion,
please
consider lighting up our church
If you would like the Church to be lit up for a special
occasion,
please obtain a form from the back of the Church and hand
it with your donation
to Fr Phil, Tim
Sewell, any of the Parish Council,
drop it through the letterbox at the Parish House
or download the form on the Nights of Light page
It’s only £1 per date!
SVP
Alnwick SVP are looking to recruit new members to assist
them in their good works.
If you can help please contact any of the
SVP members.
Thank you.
Car Parking.
Again we ask
parishioners and visitors to park their cars with care
and consideration for
other people and also the church grounds.
If you park of the
streets nearby, please do not cause an inconvenience to the local people,
especially when disabled access
may be needed
We have put a garden
seat near the ramp for those who would like
to rest awhile in the
quiet of the church grounds.
USED STAMPS ARE
VALUABLE.
Please collect all your used stamps for charity.
There is a box at the back of church.
BULLETIN
This
Bulletin is the medium through which information about our Parish,
its people and all its activities is broadcast: its production normally takes about 2 hours
each week.
With the present numbers of helpers this comes around
about once every 6 weeks.
If you could spare the time and enjoy reading and
spotting herrers then perhaps you would enjoy being an editor.
On the other hand, if you have basic word processing
skills maybe the role of
computer operator would give you some satisfaction.
Please contact Fr Phil or Phil Manning to learn more.
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FUNDRAISING
Many ideas of
fundraising are being suggested.
Perhaps you might be able to help in one of the following
ways.
Win the Lottery and pay the lot!
OR
Have a coffee morning or evening
Auction of Promises
Race Night
Brass Band Concert
Quiz Night
...and then there are your own ideas.
We need doers of the suggestions, not just suggestions!
We welcome our parishioners to
join the Sisters for Mass
on TBA.
There is Exposition of the
Blessed Sacrament
every Wednesday from 4pm—5pm
The Costello Centre, formerly known as the Convent Centre
is now open.
If you wish to book the centre, contact the Caretaker,
Paul on his mobile 07845991512
If you are a visitor to our
parish and would like St. Paul's Church to claim the tax back from your
offering,
please use a special Gift Aid
envelope from the back of the church.
Thank you.
It is always good to be able to contact the priest of the
parish when you need information or in emergency.
But the parish house is not always manned.
In the absence of the priest, the number of a contact person
will be on the answering machine
We invite you to join us for a Coffee or Tea after Sunday
morning Mass in the Sacristy
when we can greet our visitors and share our ideas of the
liturgy and other Church
matters. Funds raised
help provide for our Seasonal Celebrations with our older
parishioners and their friends.
IN
HOSPITAL? WOULD YOU LIKE A PRIEST TO VISIT YOU
Parishioners who find themselves in hospital should
inform the staff that they are Catholic
and that they would like a priest to visit them while
admitted.
Hospital staff are not permitted to enquire of a
patient’s religion,
however they will contact a visiting priest for you
should you let them know.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to know when any of
our parishioners have been admitted to hospital.
If you or any of your family are
being admitted to any of our hospitals please let the priest know as soon as
possible.
At the back of the church
there are some hospital referral cards.
We would ask you to have one of these cards at home and
if for any reason you have to stay
in hospital please hand it to the ward sister who will
inform the hospital chaplain.
Please supply the patient’s name, ward and hospital.
Alternatively, a hospital referral card can be completed
and given to Fr. Phil.
A Note from Father Corbett
Due to the unavailability of information regarding
religious denomination of patients
in the RVI, Freeman
and Walkergate Hospitals, patients and relatives
must take responsibility to inform the hospital chaplain.
Tel 0191 232 1892.
The same situation applies to all our
local hospitals and maybe care homes.
If you or a relative are going into hospital or one of
our care homes please let the local priest know.
It will make our work much easier
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