Weekly Bulletin 27/2/11

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Mar 032011
 

CHRIST CHURCH CARNFORTH
www.christchurchcarnforth.co.uk

Priests of the Parish
Fr Stephen Jones     Tel. 732948
Fr Christopher Holden    Tel. 730760
Hon. Assistant Priests
Canon Brian Oddy    Tel. 732048
Canon Brian Pithers   Tel. 424786

27th  FEBRUARY 2011
EIGHTH ORDINARY SUNDAY

Today, we celebrate God’s love and care for us and for the created order as a whole.   We are called to order our priorities in the light of this.

We extend a special welcome to Frankie Brian Stretch, as he joins us in the fellowship of the Universal Church through holy baptism.  Welcome, too, to his family and friends.

• 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         Stability in the Middle East
Tuesday         12 noon          People of Wales
 ST DAVID
Wednesday   9.15am           Earthquake victims 
Thursday      7.15pm            Teachers and lecturers        
Friday            9.15am            Greater devotion and charity
 St Casimir
Saturday        9.15am           The Children’s Society
 Of Our Lady   

TODAY’S  ORGAN MUSIC
Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ  (BWV 639)
(Lord, hear the voice of my complaint)

Wer nun den lieben Gott lässt walten  (BWV 642)
(If thou but suffer God to guide thee)

     J.S. Bach

DIVINE OFFICE (The 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
Saturday 5.15pm (Fr Stephen) or by appointment.

NEXT SUNDAY: Masses at 8.00 & 10.00am

THANK YOU to all who have offered to serve on the group to consider a new Mission Statement for the parish.  A date will be given soon for the first meeting.

PARISH MAGAZINE for March is available to today for collection and distribution.

STANDING COMMITTEE  Thursday at the Vicarage, straight after the 7.15pm Mass.

WINE-TASTING EVENING and quiz, Friday 4th March at 7.30pm at the Civic Hall, organised by Carnforth & District Twinning Association.  £10.00, including wine and canapés.

PATÉ AND PUDDINGS, Shrove Tuesday (8th March) at Fr Chris’ – a chance to ‘feast before the fast’.  Tickets available today.  Proceeds to the Additional Curates Society.

LENT is now approaching fast – Ash Wednesday is 9th March.  Now is the time be to be thinking about Lenten commitments, and there is a list of parish provision and suggested ways to keep this season in the March Parish Magazine, available today. 

FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT (13th March) There will be Soup and bread served after the 10.00am Mass (£2.00, children free) in support of Christian Aid.  Please sign up on the list in church.  This is a Lenten project which invites us to eat frugally.

LENT COURSE entitled ‘Who are we?’  There will be four sessions, as follows: Tuesdays 22nd and 29th March, 5th and 12th April.   The course will look, respectively, at our identity within the world as a whole and within worldwide Christianity, the threats to this identity and the context for our Christian witness.

CONFIRMATION 2011 Anyone who may be interested in preparing for Confirmation this year should have a word with Fr Stephen.  This will not commit anyone to anything at this stage.

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

Please stay for coffee after the 10.00am Mass.
Please take this bulletin home with you.

 Posted by Father Chris at 3:27 pm

Sunday Bulletin 13/2/11

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Feb 142011
 

CHRIST CHURCH CARNFORTH
www.christchurchcarnforth.co.uk

Priests of the Parish
Fr Stephen Jones     Tel. 732948
Fr Christopher Holden    Tel. 730760
Hon. Assistant Priests
Canon Brian Oddy    Tel. 732048
Canon Brian Pithers   Tel. 424786

13th  FEBRUARY 2011
SIXTH ORDINARY SUNDAY

The law of Christ is a law of love.   It is given to us for our flourishing and well-being.

• 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             Europe
 SS CYRIL & METHODIUS
Tuesday    12 noon         Additional Curates Society
Wednesday 9.15am      Voluntary groups 
Thursday 7.15pm           Active religious orders
 The  Seven Founders of the Servite Order        
Friday  9.15am               General Practitioners 
Saturday 9.15am           Families
 Of Our Lady     
DIVINE OFFICE (The 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
Saturday 5.15pm (Fr Stephen) or by appointment.

NEXT SUNDAY: Masses at 8.00 & 10.00am

TODAY’S  ORGAN MUSIC
Trio Sonata no 3 (BWV 527) second movement
    J.S. Bach
Organ Sonata no 4, first movement
    F. Mendelssohn
CONGRATULATIONS to Lesley and Richard Benson and all the gang on the latest addition to their family, Thomas Edward.
HOSPICE SERVICE next Sunday at 2.00pm.  Anyone wishing to accompany Fr Stephen should have a word with him.  Thank you.
PATÉ AND PUDDINGS, Shrove Tuesday (8th March) at Fr Chris’ – a chance to ‘feast before the fast’.  Tickets available today.  Proceeds to the Additional Curates Society.
EPIPHANY GIFTS A very sincere thank you to all who have contributed to this initiative to help pay for the consumables we use in church.  This has raised over £700.00.  Special thanks to Brenda Trewhitt, whose idea it was, and to Brenda and Fr Chris for organising it.
LITURGICAL YEAR 2011 Fr Chris has prepared a blue leaflet, at the back of church, with a synopsis of the year.  Please take a copy if you would like one.
CONFIRMATION 2011 Anyone who may be interested in preparing for Confirmation this year should have a word with Fr Stephen.  This will not commit anyone to anything at this stage.
READERS Please collect your readings from the sacristy.  Thank you.
SEWING GROUP  Anyone interested in coming along to the sewing group, please see Karen Coe.
2011 FLOWER LIST is in the porch.  If you would like to pay for flowers on any particular Sunday, please write your name in the corresponding space and, when the time comes to pay for the flowers, please use a GIFT AID envelope, marking it ‘flowers’.  Thank you.
‘LIKE TRYING TO GET BLOOD OUT OF A STONE’ We hope to revise our parish mission statement.  Four people have now volunteered for this (creeping up gradually!) but we need a representative group of maybe eight to ten.   It may be that people do not think this an important task and, indeed, we don’t have to do it; and we can’t go on forever trying to constitute this group.  So…if you’re interested please let Fr Stephen know without delay.

 Posted by Father Chris at 12:00 pm

Weekly Bulletin 6/2/11

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Feb 072011
 

CHRIST CHURCH CARNFORTH
www.christchurchcarnforth.co.uk

Priests of the Parish
Fr Stephen Jones     Tel. 732948
Fr Christopher Holden    Tel. 730760
Hon. Assistant Priests
Canon Brian Oddy    Tel. 732048
Canon Brian Pithers   Tel. 424786

6th   FEBRUARY 2011
FIFTH ORDINARY SUNDAY

What impression of the Church do we give to those outside its life?  The common life of the apostolic-period Church was so attractive that others were drawn irresistibly towards it.  It can be so today if our witness has real integrity and if the Christian community as a whole can become more oriented towards unity instead of fragmentation.
 
• 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  Our school
Tuesday    12 noon         The Middle east
Wednesday 9.15am  Social Services 
Thursday 7.15pm         Benedictine communities
 St Scholastica        
Friday  9.15am *  The sick
 Our Lady of Lourdes (Day of Prayer for the Sick)
Saturday 9.15am  Local councils     

DIVINE OFFICE (The 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
Benedictus
   F. Couperin
Passacaglia in D minor
   D. Buxtehude

ROSARY tomorrow at 7.30pm.  All welcome.  Please make requests for prayer following the instructions on the prayer board in church.  Thank you.
DEANERY SYNOD Tuesday, 7.15 for 7.30pm at St Luke’s, Slyne with Hest.
*FRIDAY is the World Day of Prayer for the sick – why not join us (if you can) at the altar at 9.15am and join in prayer with Christian people everywhere?
EPIPHANY GIFTS A very sincere thank you to all who have contributed to this initiative to help pay for the consumables we use in church.  There is still some money outstanding but, with the tax reclaimed through GIFT AID, it has raised over £700.00.  Special thanks to Brenda Trewhitt, whose idea it was, and to Brenda and Fr Chris for organising it.
LITURGICAL YEAR 2011 Fr Chris has prepared a blue leaflet, at the back of church, with a synopsis of the year.  Please take a copy if you would like one.
CONFIRMATION 2011 Anyone who may be interested in preparing for Confirmation this year should have a word with Fr Stephen.  This will not commit anyone to anything at this stage.
FORWARD!plus, the quarterly newspaper of Forward in Faith, is available free in church today.  Please take a copy.
READERS Please collect your readings from the sacristy.  Thank you.
SEWING GROUP  Anyone interested in coming along to the sewing group, please see Karen Coe.
2011 FLOWER LIST is in the porch.  If you would like to pay for flowers on any particular Sunday, please write your name in the corresponding space and, when the time comes to pay for the flowers, please use a GIFT AID envelope, marking it ‘flowers’.  Thank you.
MISSION STATEMENT REVISION We need to revise our parish mission statement.  You can see the existing one on the front cover of the Parish Magazine, but the current guidance on these statements is that they should be short and easily memorable.  Four people have now volunteered for this (creeping up gradually!) but we need a representative group of maybe eight to ten. 
FR STEPHEN is celebrating the 8.00am Mass today, but will then be away for the rest of the day for the second of the two Sunday sessions of a League cricket umpiring course. 

Please stay for coffee after the 10.00am Mass.
Please take this bulletin home with you.

 Posted by Father Chris at 2:16 pm

Weekly Bulletin 30/1/11

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Feb 022011
 

CHRIST CHURCH CARNFORTH
www.christchurchcarnforth.co.uk

Priests of the Parish
Fr Stephen Jones     Tel. 732948
Fr Christopher Holden    Tel. 730760
Hon. Assistant Priests
Canon Brian Oddy    Tel. 732048
Canon Brian Pithers   Tel. 424786

30th   JANUARY 2011
FOURTH ORDINARY SUNDAY

‘Seek integrity, seek humility’, says the prophet Zephaniah.  Jesus offers similar instruction in today’s Gospel.  In an age in which individual personality and ‘image’ seem all-important, this teaching is truly counter-cultural and challenges us at a fundamental level.

• 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
 St John Bosco
Tuesday    12 noon            United Nations
Wednesday 9.15am & 7.30pm*  Effective witness
 PRESENTATION OF THE LORD (Candlemas) 
Thursday 7.15pm             Additional Curates Society           Friday  9.15am   Needy and hungry of the world
Saturday 9.15am     Those who suffer for the faith
 St Agatha

DIVINE OFFICE (The 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
Vor deinen Thron (Before thy throne) (BWV 668)

In dir ist Freude (In thee is joy) (BWV 615)

   J.S. Bach

SCHOOL GOVERNORS’ ECM COMMITTEE Tuesday at 6.00pm.

THE PRESENTATION OF THE LORD
(Candlemas)
Wednesday
Mass at 9.15am as usual
7.30pm Blessing and Procession of Candles and Sung Mass, followed by refreshments.  We shall be joined by parishioners from Warton who belong to our Walsingham Cell.
LITURGICAL YEAR 2011 Fr Chris has prepared a blue leaflet, at the back of church, with a synopsis of the year.  Please take a copy if you would like one.
THE NORTH WEST EARLY MUSIC FORUM will be with us again on Saturday.  There will be an act of worship of a sixteenth century Lutheran character at 6.00pm.  See the Parish Magazine for February for more details.
FORWARD!plus, the quarterly newspaper of Forward in Faith, is available free in church today.  Please take a copy.
READERS Please collect your readings from the sacristy.  Thank you.
SEWING GROUP  Anyone interested in coming along to the sewing group, please see Karen Coe.

EPIPHANY GIFTS
Thank you to those who have already responded positively to this initiative – we have had an excellent take-up.  There are still a few opportunities left.
2011 FLOWER LIST is in the porch.  If you would like to pay for flowers on any particular Sunday, please write your name in the corresponding space and, when the time comes to pay for the flowers, please use a GIFT AID envelope, marking it ‘flowers’.  Thank you.
MISSION STATEMENT REVISION We need to revise our parish mission statement.  You can see the existing one on the front cover of the Parish Magazine, but the current guidance on these statements is that they should be short and easily memorable.  Three people have now volunteered for this but we need a representative group of maybe eight to ten. 
PARISH MAGAZINE Material for next month’s magazine needs to be in by next Sunday at the latest, please, two weeks earlier than usual.
FR STEPHEN is celebrating the 8.00am Mass today, but will then be away for the rest of the day on a League cricket umpiring course (preparing for playing retirement sometime in the not-too-distant future).

Please stay for coffee after the 10.00am Mass.
Please take this bulletin home with you.

 Posted by Father Chris at 11:47 am

Weekly Bulletin 23/1/11

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Jan 242011
 

CHRIST CHURCH CARNFORTH
www.christchurchcarnforth.co.uk

Priests of the Parish
Fr Stephen Jones     Tel. 732948
Fr Christopher Holden    Tel. 730760
Hon. Assistant Priests
Canon Brian Oddy    Tel. 732048
Canon Brian Pithers   Tel. 424786

23rd  JANUARY 2011
THIRD ORDINARY SUNDAY

Christ is the beacon light who dispels all darkness.  In unity of belief, we who belong to him are called to ‘shine as a light in the world to the glory of God the Father’, so that others may be drawn to him.

A special welcome today to Eva Mary Jackson and to her family and friends, as Eva joins us in the fellowship of the Universal Church.

• 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          Growth in prayer
 St Francis de Sales
Tuesday    12 noon            Spread of the Gospel
 CONVERSION OF ST PAUL
Wednesday 9.15am          Our bishops
 Ss Timothy & Titus 
Thursday 7.15pm   Departed of January                                                                                                                                                                Friday   9.15am         Theologians
 St Thomas Aquinas
Saturday 9.15am                Walsingham
 Of Our Lady
DIVINE OFFICE (The 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
Saturday at 5.15pm (Fr Chris) or by appointment.

NEXT SUNDAY: Masses at 8.00 & 10.00am

TODAY’S  ORGAN MUSIC
Andante (second movement, Sonata 3)
   F. Mendelssohn
Chorale Prelude on ‘Dundee’
   C.H.H. Parry

THE WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY continues until Tuesday.
SCHOOL GOVERNORS’ RESOURCES COMMITTEE Wednesday at 6.00pm.
PCC Thursday, beginning with Mass at 7.15pm.  Minutes, Agenda in the PCC file in church.
LITURGICAL YEAR 2011 Fr Chris has prepared a blue leaflet, at the back of church, with a synopsis of the year.  Please take a copy if you would like one.
FORWARD!plus, the quarterly newspaper of Forward in Faith, is available free in church today.  Please take a copy.  It will update you as to where things are up to in the melee which is the current polity of the Church of England.
READERS Please collect your readings from the sacristy.  Thank you.
A BIG THANK YOU to the sewing group, for the new and wonderfully-striking Marian banner they have made, replacing the old worn-out one.  Those involved were Karen Coe, Lesley Simon, Hazel Groom-Hollis, Kath Woods, Doreen Hubbard and Fr Chris.  The group’s next project has been started – anyone interested in coming along to the sewing group, please see Karen Coe.

EPIPHANY GIFTS
Thank you to those who have already responded positively to this initiative – we have had an excellent take-up.  There are still a few opportunities left.

2011 FLOWER LIST is in the porch.  If you would like to pay for flowers on any particular Sunday, please write your name in the corresponding space and, when the time comes to pay for the flowers, please use a GIFT AID envelope, marking it ‘flowers’.  Thank you.
SCHOOL GOVERNING BODY We have yet another foundation governor vacancy.  Please speak to Fr Stephen if you would like to know more.
MISSION STATEMENT REVISION We need to revise our parish mission statement.  You can see the existing one on the front cover of the Parish Magazine, but the current guidance on these statements is that they should be short and easily memorable.  Three people have now volunteered for this but we need a representative group of maybe eight to ten. 
THE NORTH WEST EARLY MUSIC FORUM will be with us again on Saturday 5th February.  There will be an act of worship of a sixteenth century Lutheran character at 6.00pm.  More details to follow.
FR STEPHEN is celebrating the 8.00am Mass today but will then be away for the rest of the day on a cricket League umpiring course (preparing for playing retirement sometime in the not-too-distant future).

Please stay for coffee after the 10.00am Mass.
Please take this bulletin home with you.

 Posted by Father Chris at 6:07 pm
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