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Help Needed Please

Help Needed Please:  Due to the retirement of one of our wonderful volunteers, The Link Coffee Shop is in need of a volunteer cook to prepare and serve meals.  If this is something you could possibly help with, please pop in to The Link or phone Kay on 01323 441142.  Thank you. The Link Coffee Shop is part of the Crosslink Trust – Churches working together in Hailsham.

United Nations Lunch

United Nations Lunch:  The United Nations Lunch has been a great success again this year, blessed with lovely sunshine.  Thank you to all who supported with their attendance, supply of donated food and items for the tombola.  Thanks to each and everyone who has helped in this event of fundraising for the church.  The final account will be announced later.

Apostleship of the Sea – Sea Sunday 14th July

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

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.

Cheese & Wine Social

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