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The KSC and SPUC invite you to please continue to pray the Rosary for the Unborn.  The intention for July is for the Church, that its witness for Life may touch the hearts of all people.

Pilgrimage of Reparation and Consecration:  Saturday 20th July, West Grinstead.  Mass at 12 noon.  Bishop Richard will be attending during the afternoon.  For further information please contact: Jozef Bubez Tel: 01444 232974, Jayne Lock Tel 07816 422852, Email: [email protected]

St George’s Readers:  Your guides are at the back of the church.  Please collect as soon as possible.  Thank you.

Apostleship of the Sea – Sea Sunday 14th July

Next week is Sea Sunday, when the Church prays for all those who live and work at sea.  There will be a second collection for Stella Maris, Apostleship of the Sea, the official maritime welfare agency of the Catholic Church.  It provides practical and spiritual support to seafarers visiting our ports.  As it is dependent on voluntary donations, please give generously.  For more information about its work, visit www.apostleshipofthesea.org.uk

Deacon John Writes: 

Do you ever stop to try to work out how strong your faith is, how kind we are to those we encounter? In short, how do we rate in those things that make up a good Christian? Of course we won’t always get it right, but neither will we always get it wrong and if we realise this it will help stop us from getting over-confident when we succeed, and from getting too down-hearted when we fail.

Donald Attwater, in his Dictionary of Saints, says that when the Church declares someone to be a Saint: “It does not imply a blanket approval of all a saint’s words and deeds, their opinions, policies, and politics. Saints are not faultless; they do not always think and behave well and wisely. They are people whose personal daily lives were lived, not just well, but at an heroic level of Christian faithfulness and integrity.” They could say in the words of Saint Paul: “I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me.”

Life really is a series of troughs and peaks and together with the description of a saint as someone who is not faultless should be very encouraging to all of us. This should remind us not to get too depressed or worry too much if we think we are not holy enough. No one is holy enough, but be assured being unholy from time to time is quite normal!

John Wesley gave us some useful pointers to help to get us on the right track so that we can follow the way of Jesus, when he said: “Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.”

Our lives will always be a mix of emotions and we have to find a way to cope with them, to get the balance right. I hope that this article will help.

With my love and prayers.

Monday 8 July. You are invited to a Wine and Cheese Social from 6.30pm.  At 7.30pm Deacon Paul Scholey, a deacon for over 22 years, with a background in housing and homelessness, will talk and ask the question ‘What is the purpose, goal and essential mission of the Church?’ What do Catholics and non-Catholics believe it to be?  Venue: Christ the King Parish Room, 3 Princess Road, Eastbourne, BN23 6HT. Organised by Eastbourne and Bexhill Newman Association. Entrance free. All warmly welcome. Contact Alex 07957632208 or Edward 01424219788 or John 01323 726334

Milk Bottle Tops:  Thank you to all parishioners who collect Milk Bottle Tops.  May I ask you please to wash them first, and to     ensure that only milk bottle tops are included in your bags.  Thank you.

St Wilfrid’s Children’s Liturgy will break up for the summer holidays after the 7th July and restart in September.

Churches Together  Polegate Willingdon and Jevington

Tea in the Tower will take place in the Saxon Tower of St. Andrew’s Church, Jevington, from 11.00 am until 4.00pm on June 29, August 10^th and 31^st.  Visitors will be warmly welcomed to tea, coffee, homemade cakes and savouries.  Teas are free, but donations will be very welcome to help in the maintenance of St. Andrews Church.  This Norman church has been a place of worship for over 1000 years!

St George’s 1st Holy Communion:  Last Sunday at St George’s Fr Chris Benyon conducted a lovely service for the 1st Holy Communion of Keon and Lily.  Thank you to Fr Chris and thanks to all who contributed to the dignity and beauty of the service.  This weekend they will celebrate again and enjoy a feast after Mass.