Bulletin Board
PLEASE NOTE:- There will be NO Printed Version
of the Bulletin in Church until further notice.
Fifth Sunday of Lent
Year A
29th March 2020
Services during the week
St
Paul’s Alnwick
No Word & Communion or Mass until Further Notice
All Saints, Thropton
Thursday --- NO Mass until Further Notice
St
Aidan’s, Seahouses
Friday --- NO 10am Mass until Further
Notice
Please remember
St Paul’s Church, Alnwick in your will.
Thank You.
Diocese Information
Please use the RCDHN link on the top right of the page.
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
Coronavirus
Update—
in view of the
worsening situation, and in line with advice/instructions received,
it
seems sensible to cancel the remaining planned Lent Lunches.
In consequence,
there will be no lunches on Wednesday 25th March or 1st April.
Please let
everyone know, as best you can.
The two weeks we were able to hold our Lent Lunches
raised
£496.60 for our chosen charities.
This will be
divided equally between them, as agreed.
I am sure all will be disappointed but will
understand. Thank You.
Lent Lunches—Rothbury
in view of the
worsening situation, and in line with
advice/instructions received,there will be no lunches on
Rothbury Jubilee Hall on
March 27th
& April 3rd
Thank You.
Stations of the Cross
during Lent.
Every Friday during Lent at 7.00pm has been cancelled.
Partnership Meeting
for
Deans, Chairs & Deacons on Monday 23rd March
has been cancelled
UFN.
Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes 2020
It is with sadness that we have to inform you that the
2020 Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes has been cancelled.
A full statement is available on the Pilgrimage
Website, www.hexhamandnewcastlelourdespilgrimage.co.uk.
If anyone has any
queries about this, please contact
the Pilgrimage
Office for further details.
Saints and Patrons Flower Festival
To be held in St Paul’s from the 13th—16th August.
If anyone would
like a personal flower arrangement at the event,
please
contact Mary Donaghey 01665 510253 mtdonaghey@gmail.com.
On Palm Sunday we will hold a Cake Stall to support the
event.
All money
collected will go to the roof fund.
ALNWICK
CHORAL SOCIETY
PUCCINI;MESSA di GLORIA;
VIVALDI; GLORIA
In ST.PAUL'S CHURCH
On SATURDAY 21ST MARCH AT 7.30
HAS BEEN
CANCELLED
Fund Raising
£250 from sales at the back of church
brings up a total of
£1080 for last year.
Thank you for your continued support .
Elsie Doherty
Microphones of God –
Romero Pilgrimage to Holy Island
The pilgrimage planned for Saturday 4 April 2020
HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Due to flight restrictions in the USA,
the
keynote speaker is unable to travel to the UK.
Gift Aid Donations
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 fundsand last year we recouped in excess of £8000 from
HMRC.
If you are not already signed up, please consider
joining.
The Scheme is open
to ALL UK Taxpayers and if you are eligible
and
would like to take part, please fill in one of the forms at the
back
of church or contact Roisin on 01665 798945.
Lent Bible Study
on Fridays at
2.30pm has been cancelled.
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
Has been cancelled until further Notice.
St Paul’s 100 Club February Draw
1st £50 no.28
Henry & Pam Gormally 2nd £30 no.54
Peter Duffy
3rd £20 no.141 Peter Deeble
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.
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.
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
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
USED
POSTAGE STAMPS
Please continue to
save your used stamps until the church re-opens.
Thank You
Minutes of Parish Council Meetings
A folder
containing the minutes of recent Parish Council meetings
is now available at
the back of the Church
The Peoples Kitchen
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.
GDPR
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
for all the other
Parishes in the Partnership, until we know
what is expected of
the person responsible.
Gift Aid
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.
DRIVEWAY
When driving within the church grounds PLEASE
keep to the 15mph speed limit.
Expensive gravel
is being displaced by overzealous drivers.
Thank You.
PLEASE let us know
if a relative or neighbour has been taken to any of our
hospitals,
otherwise we will not
be able to visit them.
Offertory Collection
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.
Bereavement Support
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.
Space for Quiet Prayer
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.
ST. PAUL’S SCHOOL
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.
Please visit our website.
Memoriam Book
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.
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 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
Minimum donation
£1 per date!
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.
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.
Hospital Referral Cards
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.
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
