CHRIST CHURCH CARNFORTH
www.christchurchcarnforth.co.uk

Parish Clergy
Rev S Jones (Father Stephen)   Tel. 732948
Rev C Holden (Father Chris)   Tel. 730760
Hon. Assistant Priests
Canon Brian Oddy    Tel. 732048
Canon Brian Pithers   Tel. 424786

21st FEBRUARY 2010
FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT.

As we begin our Lenten observance we are reminded that our faith journey is a path littered with temptation and distraction.  With God’s help, however, we can remain steadfast.  If we fall, we just begin again, trusting in his patience.

• Toilets are to the left out of the main door.
• Please let young children explore.
• Collection during the second hymn.
• Large print hymn books are available on request.

MASS THIS WEEK AND INTENTIONS
Monday  7.00pm  Anglican/RC reunion
 CHAIR OF ST PETER
Tuesday  12 noon  Thanks for our martyrs
 (St. Polycarp)
Wednesday 9.15am  Psychologists     
Thursday      7.15pm  Departed of February
Friday  9.15am         The cathedral’s work
Saturday 9.15am     Walsingham

PRAYER OF THE CHURCH
Morning Prayer: Sun 7.30am, Mon – Sat 8.55am.
Evening Prayer: Sun 4.00pm, Mon – Fri 5.00pm.
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
By appointment only this week.
NEXT SUNDAY: MASSES at 8.00 & 10.00am

TODAY’S ORGAN MUSIC
O Lamm Gottes unschuldig ( O sinless Lamb of God)  (BWV 618)
   J.S. Bach
Passacaglia in D minor
   D. Buxtehude

PLEASE PRAY each day, respectively, for all who live in Longmere Crescent,
Market Street, Midland Terrace, Netherbeck, New Acres and New Street.

HOSPICE SERVICE Fr Chris is conducting this short service (15 mins approx.) at 2.00pm today. 
If you’d like to accompany him, please have a word with him.

SUNDAY EVENING PRAYER will be at the earlier time of 4.00pm for the time being.

STATIONS OF THE CROSS tomorrow at 7.30pm.

STANDING COMMITTEE Wednesday, 7.30pm at the Vicarage.

A MEAL OUT WITH FRIENDS Ladies’ meal out at the Water’s Edge restaurant,
Wednesday this week at 7.30pm.  There is a list in church for you to indicate your desire to go.

DEANERY SYNOD Thursday, 7.30pm at Borwick and Priest Hutton Village Hall, with Bishop Nicholas.

FAMILY QUIZ NIGHT Friday at 6.30pm in the school, with refreshments (real ale, wine etc.). 
Details on posters.  Do come and support this social occasion.

YOUTH GROUP next Sunday at 6.00pm.  Old clothes again, please.

WOMEN’S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER Friday 5th March at Our Lady of Lourdes at 2pm. 
Please let Elizabeth Battersby-Hill know if you could read or if you are planning to attend.

LENT Please consult the Parish Magazine for February for suggestions
for the celebration of a fruitful Lent.

LENT EXTRA has now sold out.

ADDITIONAL CURATES SOCIETY LENT BOXES are available today. 
Please put your name on the list when you take a box.

WEEKLY ENVELOPES New boxes of envelopes will be available soon for the new financial year. 
If you do not already contribute through this scheme and wish to do, please contact John Holland. 
The system is confidential and there is no commitment to a particular weekly giving amount,
and it is an easy way to allow the Church to claim GIFT AID on your giving.

CONFIRMATION If you would like to consider and explore the possibility of being confirmed this year, there will be a meeting in school on Saturday 15th May at 10.00am.  If there are any questions you have before then, please have a word with Fr Stephen.

READERS Please collect your readings from the sacristy.  Thank you.

REFLECTION
Resisting temptation is about sitting light to the material things of this world. 
During Lent, Christians often ‘give up’ some of the things they enjoy. 
This discipline, carried out in the right spirit, is not an act of spiritual
masochism but a means to our being reminded that, one day, we shall have to give up
everything, trusting solely in God for our fulfilment.
SJ

CHRIST CHURCH CARNFORTH
www.christchurchcarnforth.co.uk

Parish Clergy
Rev S Jones (Father Stephen)   Tel. 732948
Rev C Holden (Father Chris)   Tel. 730760
Hon. Assistant Priests
Canon Brian Oddy    Tel. 732048
Canon Brian Pithers   Tel. 424786

14th FEBRUARY 2010
SIXTH ORDINARY SUNDAY.

We say that we trust in the Lord; that, with the psalmist, our ‘delight is the law of the Lord’.  In today’s celebration, we are reminded that we are called to give expression to this interior confidence each day and in all circumstances

• Toilets are to the left out of the main door.
• Please let young children explore.
• Collection during the second hymn.
• Large print hymn books are available on request.

MASS THIS WEEK AND INTENTIONS
Monday 7.00pm  Elizabeth Palmer RIP
Tuesday 12 noon  Penitents
Wednesday 9.15am & 7.30pm  A fruitful Lent     
 ASH WEDNESDAY (Fast and Abstinence)
Thursday      7.15pm  Growth in discipleship
 Thursday after Ash Wednesday
Friday  9.15am  Our school
 Friday after Ash Wednesday
Saturday 9.15am     Universities
 Saturday after Ash Wednesday

TODAY’S ORGAN MUSIC
Prélude à l’Introit de l’Epiphanie
   M. Duruflé

Chorale no.3
   César Franck

NOTES

PLEASE NOTE: The Bishop has lifted the ban on the chalice, and communicants
are asked either to receive the Sacrament in one kind or by actually drinking
from the chalice in the normal way.

PLEASE PRAY each day, respectively, for all who live in King’s Drive, Laburnum Park,
Lancaster Road, Langdale Road, Longacre Close and Longfield Drive.

YOUTH GROUP today at 6.00pm.  Old clothes required.

PATÉ AND PUDDINGS AT Fr Chris’ (10 Croasdale Close) on Tuesday at 7.30pm. 
All tickets have now been sold.

WEDNESDAY IS ASH WEDNESDAY the start of Lent.  Masses at 9.15am and 7.30pm (Sung),
both with the Blessing and Giving of Ashes.  Please be sure to attend,
and get the season of Lent off to a good start.

LENT Please consult the Parish magazine for February for suggestions for
the celebration of a fruitful Lent.

LENT EXTRA – YOUR JOURNEY TO EASTER is on sale in church today.

ADDITIONAL CURATES SOCIETY LENT BOXES are available today. 
Please put your name on the list when you take a box.

WEEKLY ENVELOPES New boxes of envelopes will be available soon for the new financial year. 
If you do not already contribute through this scheme and wish to do, please contact John Holland. 
The system is confidential and there is no commitment to a particular weekly giving amount,
and it is an easy way to allow the Church to claim GIFT AID on your giving.

LENT COURSE starts this week on Thursday at 8.00pm at 10 Croasdale Close  The other dates are 4th and 18th March. 
Sessions finish at 8.55pm, with Night Prayer.  If you are intending to come, please get a companion booklet from Fr Chris.

FAMILY QUIZ NIGHT Friday 26th February at 6.30pm in school.  There are posters at the back of church
– please make this widely known, and come along.  Real ale and other refreshments.

HOSPICE SERVICE Fr Chris will be conducting a short service (15 minutes approx.) at the Hospice next Sunday at 2.00pm.  If you would be willing to accompany him, please let him know.  Thank you.

CONFIRMATION If you would like to consider and explore the possibility of being confirmed this year,
there will be a meeting in school on Saturday 15th May at 10.00am.  If there are any questions you
have before then, please have a word with Fr Stephen.

IF YOU ARE WILLING to go into Footsteps occasionally to share a Bible story with the children
please indicate this on the sheet in church.  Thank you.

READERS Please collect your readings from the sacristy.  Thank you.

REFLECTION
Lent often seems to be regarded by Christians as a gloomy season characterised by negativity. 
But is it the springtime of the church in which we are renewed as we turn to God afresh. 
Thus, Lent is a gift given to us by God through which can order our priorities afresh. 
Yes, Lent is a penitiential season but, for Christians, penitence should be embraced with joy,
for God, in Christ has done all that is necessary for our salvation.
SJ

CHRIST CHURCH CARNFORTH
www.christchurchcarnforth.co.uk

Parish Clergy
Rev S Jones (Father Stephen)   Tel. 732948
Rev C Holden (Father Chris)   Tel. 730760
Hon. Assistant Priests
Canon Brian Oddy    Tel. 732048
Canon Brian Pithers   Tel. 424786

31st  JANUARY 2010
FOURTH ORDINARY SUNDAY

Christian prophecy must reveal something of the love of God. 
It is this love which expresses our concern for the world. 
Let us pray today for the grace to be able to speak and live the truth in love.

A special welcome today to Isla Terri Phizackerley,
who today joins us in the fellowship of the Universal
Church through the sacrament of Holy Baptism.

Today is Education Sunday. 
Please pray for all involved in the work of education.

• Toilets are to the left out of the main door.
• Please let young children explore.
• Collection during the second hymn.
• Large print hymn books are available on request.

MASS THIS WEEK AND INTENTIONS
Monday         7.00pm  Christian youth work
Tuesday      12 noon & 7.30pm   Effective witness
 PRESENTATION OF THE LORD (Candlemas)
Wednesday 9.15am            Home Communicants
Thursday      7.15pm  People of Haiti
Friday  9.15am  Courage in witness
 St Agatha
Saturday 9.15am     Church in Japan
 St Paul Miki and Companions

PRAYER OF THE CHURCH
Morning Prayer: Sun 7.30am, Mon – Sat 8.55am.
Evening Prayer: Sun 5.30pm, Mon – Fri 5.00pm.
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
By appointment only this week.

NEXT SUNDAY: MASSES at 8.00 & 10.00am

TODAY’S ORGAN MUSIC
Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier (Dearest Jesu, we are here) (BWV 700)

Fugue in D minor (‘Dorian’) (BWV 538ii)
   J.S. Bach

NOTES
PLEASE NOTE: The Bishop has lifted the ban on the chalice,
and communicants are asked either to receive the Sacrament in one
kind or by actually drinking from the chalice in the normal way.

EMERGENCY – HAITI EARTHQUAKE APPEAL    Please give generously
Emergency envelopes (GIFT AID) in church
Or call 08080 004 004 (lines open 9-5 Mon- Fri)
Or give online at www.christianaid.org.uk

PLEASE PRAY each day, respectively, for all who live in Highfield Road, Hill Street, Hindburn Close,
Howard Mews, Hunter Street and Hunting Hill Road.

YOUTH GROUP  today at 6.00pm in the school hall.  Youth Leaders meeting to follow at 7.30pm.

ROSARY tomorrow at 7.30pm.  All welcome.

TUESDAY is the Feast of The Presentation of the Lord (Candlemas). 
Blessing and Procession of Candles and Sung Mass at 7.30pm. 
Do please make sure to come and join us as we celebrate Christ as the light of all peoples. 
Refreshments to follow.

LENT begins on 17th February.  Please bring your palm crosses back so that they can be burned to
make the ash for Ash Wednesday.

PATÉ AND PUDDINGS – a chance to feast before the Fast, Shrove Tuesday 16th February,
7.30pm at Fr Chris’ house 10 Croasdale Close.  Tickets £5.00.  Please bring a bottle.

LENT COURSE at Fr Chris’.  Three meetings: 18th February, 4th and 18th March.  8.00pm,
finishing with Night Prayer at 8.55pm.  This course focuses upon the Eucharistic Prayer of the Mass. 
If you are intending to come, please get a companion booklet from Fr Chris.

Dates for your diaries:
Fr Chris’ priestly ordination – here on Sunday 27th June at 10.00am. 
His Inaugural Mass will be at 7.30pm on Monday 28th June.
Great News!

HAVE YOU LOST a pair of black, woollen ladies gloves?  They are in the sacristy.

CAN YOU USE A TV WITH DIGIBOX? If so, Doreen Shipperd is offering the equipment free to a good home.

READERS Please collect your readings from the sacristy.  Thank you.

REFLECTION
The feast of Candlemas on Tuesday reminds us of the common humanity
we share with all people of every race and time.  Christ is for everyone;
it is he and no-one else who is the light to lead us to salvation.
SJ