Lynne Phair’s September Bike Ride

Please support Lynne Phair’s September Bike Ride from Eastbourne to Amsterdam in Aid of St Wilfrid’s    Hospice.  Lynne will be selling raffle tickets after Mass in St G’s Hall on Sun 17 March & Sun 7 April. The prizes are: 1st prize Electric Bike, 2nd prize Food Hamper, 3rd prize A Wine Hamper.  Tickets will be £2 each.  Or donate to www.justgiving.com/page/lynne-phair-1690041574167  Thank you.

Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday after Mass in St Wilfrid’s Hall, we shall have our “surprise bag sale”, choose a bag for £2 (£1 for children) prize every time.  This year we have more bags to fill.  If you have any bags to contribute, please put them in the box in the porch, empty or full.  Thank you.  The proceeds will go towards items for children’s liturgy.

St Wilfrid’s

It was lovely to see our Altar Servers receive their certificates last Sunday having witnessed them receiving Bronze and 1 Silver Medal for 10 years of altar serving.  How blessed we are in having so many good servers on a Sunday,  trained under the watchful eye of David Hoad.  Also so many children going into the hall for their special service and activities, lets pray that they continue to practice their faith.  Also children attending the lessons in preparation for their First Holy communion.  Thank you to the ladies teaching them, they do a good job for us.

Scripture Reading for Lent

Thus says the Lord: ‘is not this the sort of fast that pleases me – it is the Lord who speaks – to break unjust fetters and undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free and break every yoke, to share your bread with the hungry, to shelter the homeless poor, to clothe those you see to be naked and not turn from your own kin. Then will your light shine like the dawn and your wound be quickly healed over. Your integrity will go before you and the glory of the Lord behind you. Cry, and the Lord will answer; call and he will say. ‘I am here.’’ [Isaiah 58:6-9]

Fr Rory Writes

“Though He was in the form of God, Jesus did not cling to that equality,

but emptied Himself to become as we are.”

He did this for a great purpose.  To bring to us the salvation of God.  He became as we are, the best way to say it to “share our journey”.  At the heart of that journey was the forty days Jesus spent in the wilderness, hence we have this important season of Lent.  As Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, “so the son of man would be lifted high upon the cross”.

So prayer is at the heart of our response.  The best preparation I had when I was going into the seminary; a six year sentence, was the conviction established in the early years of my life.  Pray and pray constantly and never lose heart.  Aspirations are the key building blocks.  Father, Son and Holy Spirit are Jesus, Mary and Joseph, are Jesus mercy, Mary help me, no cross no crown.  These are the trails through which we triumph, by the power of Him who loves us.