Bulletin Board
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Year A
16th February 2020
Services during the week
St Paul’s Alnwick
Monday 17th —10am Word & Communion
Tuesday 18th & Friday 21st—10am Mass
All Saints, Thropton
Wednesday 19th—10am Mass
St Aidan’s, Seahouses
Thursday 20th—10am Mass
Confessions usually
after the 10am Mass Tuesday to Friday and on request.
Please
remember
St Paul’s Church, Alnwick in your will.
Thank You.
Cribs@Christmas
Photos of the Cribs@Christmas
are now available to view on the website
Go to index then select Photo Gallery.
Lent
Lunches—Alnwick 2020
Dates: Wednesdays 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th March & 1st
April
Time: 12noon—1.15pm at St James’s Church Centre, Pottergate
£3.50 suggested donation per person
All are welcome!
Hosted by Christians Together in Alnwick
Advance
notice for Diary - St Paul’s turn to host
the Lent Lunch
is
on Wednesday 11th March and Volunteers are wanted for soup making
& assisting
on the day - Please see Mary Frater
Lent Bible Study
The Diocese has produced materials for Bible Study during
Lent.
Our group will
meet in the Parish Room on Fridays
beginning
the 28th February at 2.30pm.
Sessions will last about an hour..
If you are interested in coming along, please contact
Christopher
Benjamin or June Etterley.
Alnwick Area Friends of the Earth invites you to
:-
Plant for
the Planet - a public event to discuss what
we
can do about the climate emergency...
on Saturday 29th
February 2020 from 1 - 4 pm at
Duchess's Community High School, Alnwick.
Details on Parish Notice Board.
Church Events
In the 6 weeks between November and Christmas,
seven events
have taken place
which has brought an income of £1580.00 for
Church funds,
with nearly 5000 people attending during that time.
This is
wonderful to have our Church used and filled with
people from across
Alnwick and the area.
Thank you to all those who helped to prepare
the Church and tidy up afterwards
Mary Frater
Peoples Kitchen and Alnwick Food Bank
-please
could all food donations for People's Kitchen and
Alnwick Food
Bank have lids on where necessary.
Thank You.
First Reconciliation and First Holy Communion 2019-20
Please pray for the children.
Meeting and
Mass dates for the programme:-
28 & 29 Mar 20, 25 & 26 Apr 20, 16 & 17 May 20
13 & 14
Jun 20 (First Communion), 4 & 5 Jul
20
Revised Diocesan Academy Policy
The Diocesan Academy Policy has been revised with the aim
that
our
diocesan schools will become academies within one of four
Diocesan education trusts by July 2022.
For further
details, please see Parish Notice Board
Rock Solid Alnwick Spring
Term Programme 2020
Details on Parish Notice Board
St Paul’s 100 Club
The first monthly prizes will be drawn at
Sunday mass on
February 23rd so
there is still time to renew your membership
and we would
welcome new members.
Please see Russell and Jasmine at the back of church
if
you are interested in joining.
Nights of Light
If you would like the Church to be lit up for a special
occasion or
remembrance
of a loved one, please obtain a form from the back
of
the Church and drop it through the letterbox at the Parish House
or download the
form on the Nights of Light page on the parish website.
Minimum donation £1 per date!
Thank
You.
Shoebox Appeal 2019
The shoeboxes we collected last year were sent
with
98,726 others from the UK.
Our boxes were
delivered to children in Liberia,
which is between Cote
d’Ivorie and Sierra Leone.
Many thanks for
your generosity.
Shoe Boxes- “Here we go again”.
It’s now time to start the 2020 appeal so if you have any
empty
shoe boxes or wrapping paper,
please leave them at
the back of church.
Thank you.
Help Wanted
St Paul’s won SILVER this year in Northumberland in
Bloom.
With your help
next year we will win GOLD.
Volunteers please contact Martin on
Alnwick 602736.
St Paul’s
Roof Fund
Donation envelopes are at
the back of church to be returned
through
the Sunday Mass offertory baskets.
Thank you, in
advance, for your donation.
Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle Vacancies
Head of Communications—Full-time.
12 month contract with the potential for the role to become permanent.
Parish Secretary – Our
Lady and St Cuthbert’s, Berwick.
6 hours per week. Closing date for applications 17
February 2020
For further information and details of how to apply
please visit our website www.rcdhn.org.uk or contact
us (0191 243 3301,
emailhuman.resources@diocesehn.org.uk
Alnwick Mercy Associates
The Alnwick Group of Mercy Associates are a small group
who meet on the
1st
Monday of the Month in the Parish Meeting Room at 1.30pm.
Fundraising events
are held to raise money for Altar Breads, Charities
and
most recently we were able to provide a new Altar Cloth.
Anyone interested
in joining would be very welcome.
Fatima Mass
Yvonne Douglas has been to Fatima and is having a Mass
said for all our
parishioners
every month for a year and also every Friday included in the Rosary.
Partnership Day of Reflection
for Ministers of
the Word has been moved to November.
Alnwick food bank
Our statistics for this year show that we have
helped over 600 adults
and
children in the Alnwick district 20%of which were
children
under 5 and 26% aged 6-16.
Our schools
programme is now well established where
we
give parcels in school holidays to families who
request
help for children who are on free school meals.
We have had a
tremendous response from schools and churches
in
the area donating their harvest festival food and in fact we
have plenty of pasta
and beans for many months to come!!,
Without the kind donations from individuals and
organisations we couldn't
provide
the service we do so, on behalf of the trustees, a grateful thank you to
everyone .
Feasts of the Week
Saturday
22nd—The Chair of St Peter, Apostle
USED POSTAGE STAMPS
Please continue to save your used stamps and leave them
at the back of church.
Minutes of Parish
Council Meetings
A folder
containing the minutes of recent Parish Council meetings
is now available at
the back of the Church
St Paul's 100 Club
My
thanks as always to all who give so generously throughout the year.
The
kitchen are constantly feeding and clothing the many needy people on a
daily basis, the numbers are ever increasing.
Well
done to you very kind hearted people.
The
staff at the Diocesan Finance Office have asked every
Parish and Partnership to appoint a GDPR
representative.
Because of the short notice given to try and
fond someone and hand in
contact details to the diocese, Fr Oliver has
notified the diocese of temporary roles for this:
Deacon David will be the GDPR rep for St
Aidans, Seahouses and Fr Oliver will be the GDPR rep
Tea
and coffee will be served at the back of the church
after
Mass and we hope you will stay and chat .
The
coffee/tea at the back of Church
is
very popular, it is great to see people standing round chatting
and connecting as a Congregation, but it would
be wonderful if
a few more could be available to help,
especially at the end.
It only needs 2 to set up, but it is great
when people collect cups etc.,
and take them to be washed and reset up for
the next week.
Very
many thanks to all those parishioners who have supported
the
Gift Aid Donations Scheme during the past year.
The scheme continues to make a significant
contribution to parish funds
and last year we recouped in excess of £6500
from HMRC.
If you are not already signed up, please
consider joining.
The
only requirement is that you should be a UK taxpayer.
Forms are at the back of church or contact
Roisin on 01665 798945.
A
lovely selection of Homemade Jams are on sale at the back of church.
are
grateful to St Paul’s parishioners and friends for their continued support.
Will
you please bring in your Mill Hill Red Boxes for counting.
We
request when parking in the Church grounds,
you do so with due regard to other users.
We ask you do not park near corners as some of
us
are getting a bit older and accidents do
happen.
If
you are parking at the front of Church, please remember
that funeral and wedding cars need extra room.
If you park of the streets nearby, please do
not cause
an inconvenience to the local people,
especially
when disabled access may be needed.
Also
would drivers please let their passengers out,
then park as near as possible to the left thus
enabling other cars
to pass safely without having to drive over
the grass on the right.
We
have put a garden seat near the ramp for those who would like
to
rest awhile in the quiet of the church grounds.
When driving within the church grounds PLEASE
keep to the 15mph speed limit.
Expensive
gravel is being displaced by overzealous drivers.
if
a relative or neighbour has been taken to any of our hospitals,
otherwise we will not be able to visit them.
Did
you know you can pay your weekly offertory donation
via standing order or direct debit.
In these days of internet banking it is so
easy to make
a regular payment to St Paul’s RC Church,
Alnwick.
You can still gift aid your donation by filling in the form at the back of church.
If
you, or someone you know, has recently been bereaved Hospice Care
now provide support either in your own home or
in a mutually convenient place.
For more information see the leaflets in the
back of church
or phone the hospice on 01665 606512.
Our
Quiet Space before the Tabernacle is working well.
Thank you all. Please use it, if you would
like to, before and after Mass,
for silent prayer, in front of the Blessed Sacrament.
The website is http://www.stpaulsalnwick.co.uk/
containing
lots of information about our schools and a
chance to keep up to date with what is
happening.
The
Memoriam Book placed in Our Lady’s Chapel
contains
the names of family and friends of parishioners,
each written under the date of their death.
If you would like the names of your loved ones
included,
please fill in the form at the back of Church
and
place it in the box provided.
Fill in a separate form for each name, please.
Please
be vigilant when you are in and about the Church.
Do not leave your valuables unattended in the church.
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
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
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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!
Have
a coffee morning or evening
...and
then there are your own ideas.
We
need doers of the suggestions, not just suggestions!
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.
In
the absence of the priest, whom can we contact?
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
Parish Room
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. Oliver.
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.
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.
