Category: Saint George’s latest news

Parish Garden Party/BBQ on 16th July at 12pm after Mass. We will be having a Tombola so are asking for donations of bottles of drink (alcoholic or not) unwanted gifts in good condition (no bric a brac please).  The tickets are £8 adults, Family ticket £18. Food will be provided as will soft drinks, tea/coffee. Please bring your own alcoholic drinks.

Our next breakfast will be on Sunday 25th June, 10am after mass. Charity for June is Foodbank and Audio/Media technology for hall social activities.   All Welcome

A huge thank you to all who walked last Sunday and to all those who sponsored the walkers.  A really special thank you to everyone who contributed to the banquet and helped us set up/tidy away; so many good helpers.  Also, thank you to David for taking the photo’s.  These will be put onto the website once we have consent from parents.  Dennis had brought a collection of his mothers fans, and my they were put to good use, they will be on sale after Mass in St Wilfrid’s Hall. What a wonderful buzz of conversations, people meeting people they haven’t seen for some time, especially our over 50’s who came in for a natter.  The confirmation young people led the walk and had their last rehearsal in our church before being confirmed in Arundel Cathedral on 18th June.  We wish them well.  It was so lovely to see so many devoted young Catholics among us.  The future of our religion is assured with youngsters like them.  Hopefully this will become an annual event with us walking to St George`s next year.   Now it is the time for the walkers who have been sponsored to collect their donations.  Once collected please hand in to Jackie in the office or Jean on Wednesdays or Sundays at Mass at St Wilfrid’s. Mary will be collecting at St Georges. 

A moment of special inspiration and grace from Deacon John’s Homily Sunday last,  ‘The Feast of Corpus Christi’.

Apollo 11 landed on the moon on Sunday, July 20, 1969.  Most people remember astronaut Neil Armstrong’s first words as he stepped onto the moon’s surface: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”.  But few know about the first meal eaten on the moon.  Buzz Aldrin, the NASA Astronaut had taken aboard the spacecraft a tiny pyx provided by his Catholic priest.  Aldrin sent a radio broadcast to Earth asking listeners to contemplate the events of the day and give thanks.  Then, blacking out the broadcast for privacy, Aldrin read, “I am the vine, you are the branches.  He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit”.  Then, silently, he gave thanks for their successful journey to the moon and received Jesus in the Holy Eucharist, surrendering moon to Jesus.  Next, he descended on the surface of the moon and walked on it with Neil Armstrong.  Aldrin’s actions remind us that in the Lord’s Supper, God’s children can share the life of Jesus from any place on Earth, even from the moon.  God is everywhere, and our worship should reflect this reality.  Buzz Aldrin celebrated that experience on the surface of the moon.  Thousands of miles from earth, he took time to commune with the One who created, redeemed, and established fellowship with him.

A very updated, well fit for purpose replacement for the Corpus Christi procession was our sponsored walk with our shared beneficiary, Foodbank.  The great turn out from the candidates for confirmation which takes place this Sunday at Arundel Cathedral was their energy and gift for life.  A new generation for our future is required.

needs more quality donations suitable to sell – puzzles, unwanted gifts, quality books, small nearly new toys, unused stationery, costume jewellery all sell well.  Please leave at the back of the church or under the table in the hall.  

Thank you to all those who supported last week’s Parish Breakfast for Kipling Ward, we raised £150.  Our next breakfast will be onSunday 25th June, 10am after mass. Charity for June is Foodbank and Audio/Media technology for hall social activities.   All Welcome.

Please continue to pray for all students currently finishing their GCSEs and A-Levels exams and our confirmation candidates who will receive the         Sacrament of Confirmation on Sun 18th June at 3pm in Arundel Cathedral.  All welcome at the service.

On the 17th June at 10.30am we need volunteers to come along to the presbytery garden at St Wilfrid`s to check the Gazebos for our garden party on 16th July. We are also asking that all key Holders of the Parish Hall come along for a meeting after at about 12pm.

Hailsham foodbank recently became a charity in its’ own right as the Crosslink Trust (Churches Together in Hailsham) will be no   longer active.  We need to close down our old Lloyds bank   account and have opened a new CAF bank account but haven’t been able to make contact with all of our regular givers to ask them to change their details if they still wish to give.  If you do give monthly to our old Lloyds account and would like to continue supporting us please see our website for the new bank details or get in touch for a new form (and gift aid form if applicable).  We very much appreciate the practical support and prayers of all the local churches.  Thank you Julie, 01323 398358 or [email protected]

This afternoon at 3pm our sponsored walk will take place from St George`s Polegate to St Wilfrid`s in Hailsham.  If you have not yet sponsored anyone you can after Mass at St Wilfrid`s you, have two options. To use the card   machine in the porch or to add your name to Fr Rory`s form which will be in the porch. 

For those who are walking this afternoon please remember to bring a bottle of water with you and also to use sunscreen.

Thank you to all those who are walking  and who have sponsored them, who has supplied cakes and to those preparing and manning the hall for the get-together afterwards.