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Will take place on Friday 24th January at 11.30am at All Saints Church in Herstmonceux.
 

New & nearly new items needed – the St George’s table sale that raises funds for the charity of the month and youth activities is desperately in need of new items for sale.  Please consider donating anything suitable.  Just leave in a bag at the back of either church marked St G table sale.  Both churches would also welcome any unwanted gifts that are suitable as raffle prizes for fundraising purposes at social events in 2025.
 

Diocesan Youth Project Worker – Part time.  The St Philip Howard Centre, 4 Southgate Drive, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 6RP:  ‍Join the diocesan Central Office Team as our new P/T Youth Project Worker. The successful applicant will be responsible for two major projects – coordination of the CYMFed Faith in Action Awards across the Diocese, and the newly developing Young Adults programme. They will also be required to assist with engaging young people from across the Diocese in theASCENT process (a three-year discipleship process for young people) and offer support to the Youth Adviser in enabling       diocesan attendance at national and international events such as Flame & World Youth Day. E: [email protected]

Closing date: Wednesday 5 February 2025, Shortlisting: Thursday 6 February 2025, Interviews: Thursday 13 February 2025, Crawley.  Here is the job url: www.abdiocese.org.uk/careers/ypw

Community Charity Breakfast – St George’s Sunday 26th January after mass – this month our charity is Linking Lives, we hope you, your family and friends can support this breakfast and vital service to those who are lonely within faith communities in our town.  All are welcome, any friends or family who are not attending mass can arrive from 9.45am in the hall to enjoy the delicious food and company of others.
 

As a Parish Community, we Hope and Pray that the year will see more of our parishioners, their family and friends taking part in our masses on Sundays and also making time to be part of Jubilee recognised pilgrimages near and far. Our Parish social committee and youth leaders will be looking at organising pilgrimages for us locally to Arundel Cathedral, Worth Abbey and the 60th Celebrations of the Diocese on September 20th. We also will be    helping financially towards our youth attending Lourdes in July (we have funds still available from last year’s fundraising for this) applications are currently open on the diocese website. We have a coach of youth attending Flame and will also be organising for as many who are able to, to be part of the walking  pilgrimage which celebrates 50 years this year and ends at Eastbourne.
 

A Year of Hope: An Introduction to the Jubilee Year with the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development:

2025 is a Jubilee year, but what does that mean? Catholic talk show host and author Nana Churcher, and CAFOD’s Simon Giarchi will be hosting Fr Jan Nowotnik (Director of Mission for the Bishop’s Conference), Christine Allen (CAFOD’s Director) and Kayode Akintola (CAFOD’s Head of Africa) and more for lively start to the Jubilee. With a special appearance by Catholic band Ooberfuse. Saturday 18Jan, 10:30am-midday, online. All welcome. Register here for free.

Thurs 30th Jan is our next afternoon tea, 2-4pm.  Theme is “Scottish”, wear a kilt if you fancy! Thinking of joining us? Then just turn up, you will be very welcome.

Request for more young peoples help for any of the social events we organise for our parish.  When the next social event is in our newsletter, perhaps you would get in touch and offer a little help please.  Contact Joan on 07873390944.  Thank you.
 

Epiphany Party & Mass:  What a great success, the new table arrangement was more sociable, much talk and laughter and plenty of party food!  Then into the church for our Vigil Mass including a mince pie by the children of the 3 Kings, very entertaining.  Please take the newsletter home and look out for our next social event.

A message from a parishioner:  “Sending BIG thanks for the   wonderful party.  On arriving the hall looked so appealing and tables beautifully decorated and lovely food and copious cups of tea provided.  The quiz was intriguing, and pass the parcel great fun. It was so nice to see the children being entertained – you thought of everything and I thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon with my newfound friends at St Wilfrid’s”.

To help us communicate all we will be doing effectively, to as many of you as possible, if you have not already done so, please take time to complete the parish contact forms available at the back of church and on our website.