Deacon John Writes

Deacon John Writes:

If you are a cat lover some of this will, I hope, resonate with you. If you are not a real cat lover I hope this will, at least, interest you, and, possibly give you some food for thought this week. It is loosely based on a little book with the title “Gospel for cat lovers” by Susan Sayers.

Have you ever thought that praying is like a cat climbing on to the warm lap of the one it trusts and settling there without them getting up whenever the phone rings? Again have you ever thought about what it might be like for a cat waiting to come into the house after being out in a cold night? To a cat it is part of God’s loving kindness when the light comes on in the kitchen when its owner comes down in the morning! Does the cat think of heaven when all the homes in its street think you belong to them and welcome you with food and warm places to sleep? I wonder if the cat thinks of God’s love when it is curls up on the duvet in that warm dent beside a sleeping person. God’s love is like the cat being pleased to see us when we turn the key in the lock and purrs when it is stroked. God knows our sadness and comforts us. This is rather like cats often sensing when someone needs a warm furry friend to snuggle up to. 

A final thought: God’s love is warm, comforting and practical, like fur, wear it constantly, as part of your skin. Like fur, our relationship with God needs regular maintenance. He is the one we can trust because he knows us and understands all our ways.

St Wilfrid’s Harvest Festival

St Wilfrid’s Harvest Festival:  Sunday 27th October .  There is a box in the porch to receive your gifts of tins & packets to go to the Hailsham Food Bank please.  The perishable fruits & veg on display under the altar will be taken after Mass and sold to all of us by the children.  Please be generous as we would like to select a gift for the Third World Countries through CAFOD World Aid.  Thank you.

Knights of St Columba

Knights of St Columba:  The knights are holding their first ever Poinsettia Sale as a fundraiser to ensure that they can carry on with assisting in charitable events including a donation to Children with cancer.  Plants will be for sale at St George’s and St Wilfrid’s after Mass on Sunday 15th December.  However, to avoid disappointment you can pre-order using the order form available at the back of the church.  Your kind participation is greatly appreciated.

St Wilfrid’s Love in a Box

St Wilfrid’s Love in A Box:  This year we will be running the Love in a box scheme run by the Mustard Seed Relief Mission in Eastbourne.  You will find leaflets in the porch from this weekend and this gives full details of what is needed to put into a shoe box for a child and is such a worthwhile cause.  The boxes go to Moldova and are taken to orphanages and children’s hospitals.  A box will be left in the church porch to leave your shoe boxes in.  The last day for receiving the boxes at church will be Sunday 17th November.