We need two people to join the refreshment team at St George’s to serve tea/coffee after mass one Sunday a month. It is an enjoyable volunteering role which is much needed to support the current team.
Author: Jacky
St Wilfrid’s Hospice & St George’s
St Wilfrid’s Hospice & St George’s are having a Lights of Love Service at St George’s Church on Monday 12th December at 7pm. There will be refreshments afterwards in the church hall. Do please come to this wonderfully moving service.
Sunday 13th November 12noon
Sunday 13th November 12noon, afternoon of Rosehip picking and a picnic (weather permitting) near Ringmer. For more information contact Sandra on 07791627368 or [email protected]. The terrain is hilly and you will need gloves for the foraging bit as it can be spiky.
St George’s Charity Breakfast
Last week was a great success. Everyone enjoyed the delicious hot breakfast baps of sausages and bacon and we were delighted to raise £72 for The Royal British Legion. If those who didn’t have cash donation at the time want to give something extra please pass your offering to Sandra. The next breakfast will be 10am Sunday 27th November. The charity will be Polegate Children With Cancer. Everyone is welcome so invite, family and friends if you wish. They are welcome to join us from 10am if not attending mass.
Deanery Mass for Deceased Clergy & Parishioners
Tues 8th Nov (11am) in OLR: With clergy and parishioners from other parishes of the deanery. All are welcome.
Parish Over 50’s Club
Our trip to Headcorn, Monday 7th November (tomorrow). We have a 16 seater coach from Lynns Travel, and have 3 remaining seats, so if you would like to join us, please contact Joan 07873 390944 now. The coach will leave North Street, Hailsham at 9am and return at 4.30pm. You will be given a leaflet (explaining times and venues), when you board the coach. Fr Rory will be coming with us. Please pray for good weather, it will make all the difference.
Bernadette Relic Tour, Worth Abbey
At 1pm we entered into the church, so peaceful and quiet everywhere, one of the Monks said a decade of the Rosary every half hour we were also in time for the “Divine Office” chanted by the Monks. All in all it was a very moving experience.
Prayers
Please can we pray for a three year old child, Nellie Oakshott, who is terminally ill from a condition called MLD (metachromatic leukodystrophy).
November – Month of Holy Souls
If you would like Holy Masses offered for deceased family, friends and all for whom you wish to pray. Please use the envelopes provided at the back of the church. Thank you.
Fr Rory Writes
As this year draws quickly to a close, it is time for a quick and timely review. Two funeral celebrations; one for Margaret and one yet to come for Sue. In these circumstances they give us a good context to make this review as we celebrated the Feast of all the Saints and Holy Souls. Life has great difficulties or challenges. I have to acknowledge that in my life I have been very fortunate, well provided for, and tend to make mountains out of mole hills. But in my ministry I am very aware that this is not the case for many, and life can have great suffering and loss. My best response remains “these are the trials through we triumph, by the power of Him who loves us”. Margaret Piegrome’s funeral service was a very good expression of this. Remembrance of all her contributions to our lives, her willingness to use all her talents and to embrace every occasion to the best of her ability, enriching her and our lives, was her great achievement.
As we draw so close to the end of our year in faith, it is inevitable that we are going to die. We should look forward to the glory of God. For me, I settled for meeting my mum, Maura, that I was so privileged to have as my mum, with my dad who provided for eight children, sent some off to boarding school and lived with great pain and affliction, supported by his faith, and as mentioned his special devotions to the Stations of the Cross.
I am sure that they share the glory of heaven.