Category: Saint George’s latest news

Our next open Parish Meeting will be held after the 10.30am Mass at St Wilfrid’s on Sunday 31st July.

There will be a second collection on Sunday 31st July to cover the cost of refreshments after the Centenary Mass on August 13th.

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If anyone has any unwanted photo albums with pocket sleeves to use for the church photo’s, we would be grateful to receive them here at St Wilfrid’s.  Thank you.

This Sunday (17th July) will be the last week for Children’s Liturgy, we will then take a break for the summer and return in September.

Unfortunately due to holidays our July tea is cancelled, so our next afternoon tea will be on 25th August  2022 at 2pm in St Wilfrid’s Church Hall.  All are welcome for tea and a chat.

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Lisa Marie McDonald on 29 June 2022, at the age of 54.  A funeral mass will be held at Christ the King, Eastbourne, on Friday 22 July 2022 at 12 noon. All are welcome.

The Bishops of England & Wales have issued their “National Synthesis Document” which summarises all the concerns and comments made during the listening and consultation process each parish undertook earlier this year. A copy of the document is available in both churches and can also be found on the website of our Diocese https://www.abdiocese.org.uk
There was an open parish meeting at St George’s on 3^rd July to continue looking at the list of suggestions for improving our parish that were made by parishioners during our consultation process. Progress is being made! The minutes of this meeting are now on the noticeboard in both churches.  

Our next meeting will be today, Sunday 10th July after the 10.30am Mass in St Wilfrid’s Church Hall.  All welcome.

The Scriptures this weekend are about announcing the Good News. They remind us that announcing the Good News of the Kingdom by words, deeds, and life is not to be left to others to do.  It is a task for all baptised Christians. Yes it is for us to do. Paul reminds us of this in the second reading that it is  the mission of each member of the Church to bear witness to the saving power of the cross of Christ through a life of sacrificial, self-giving service.

Saint Teresa of Avila wrote this famous set of instructions about what we are to do:

Christ has no body but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks
Compassion on this world,
Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good,
Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world.
Yours are the hands, yours are the feet,
Yours are the eyes, you are his body.
Christ has no body now but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks with compassion on this world.
Christ has no body now on earth but yours. So, this week and every week, let us do our best to do as she has instructed.