Aquinas and Friendship

‘AQUINAS AND FRIENDSHIP’ – Saturday 14 June at St      Pancras church in Lewes – FREE EVENT:

To mark this year’s 800th anniversary of the birth of St  Thomas Aquinas, Father Andrew Pinsent (now a Professor of Philosophy and Theology at the Athenaeum of Ohio in Cincinnati, and a priest of our own Diocese of Arundel and Brighton) will be speaking about ‘Aquinas and Friendship’. The conference will run from 11am until 1pm, beginning with coffee and including an opportunity for questions after the talk.  Until 2024, Father Andrew was Research Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion.

Stella Maris

Stella Maris (formerly called Apostleship of the Sea) is seeking one volunteer from this parish please to help with Sea   Sunday (which falls on 12/13 July this year) in this parish. This is the day when the Church comes together to pray for  seafarers, fishers and their families, and takes a second collection to support the work of Stella Maris. The volunteer will read out the appeal (which Stella Maris will provide) at the end of Masses that weekend. If you can kindly do this, please contact [email protected] or call 07887 893 763.

Related to that, all parishioners are warmly invited to an online webinar being run by Stella Maris on Thursday 19th June from 7:30pm to 9pm. You will hear about the work that Stella Maris has been doing with seafarers and fishers over the past year or so, including the use of the funds kindly donated on Sea Sunday last year. To attend this webinar, please sign up at: www.stellamaris.org.uk/thankyouwebinar

Arundel Cathedral Corpus Christi Trip:

Thank you to all those who have booked already to join us on our parish pilgrimage to Arundel Cathedral on the Feast of Corpus Christi, Thursday 19th June to see the Carpet of Flowers and join in the mass and procession. We have a few seats remaining; these will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

To book: please provide name and contact number to Jean (St Wilfrid’s), Sandra (St George’s). The cost is £20 per person and we will leave Polegate at 1pm. Sandra will contact you with more details by w/c 9th June if you have booked.