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

28th MARCH 2010
PALM SUNDAY

Jesus enters Jerusalem to accomplish his saving work on our behalf.  Today, we are called to be his faithful companions through all the events of Holy Week .

• 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.

THIS IS HOLY WEEK (please note times)
Mon 6.15pm      Sacrament of Reconciliation (Fr S)
 7.00pm     MASS Penitents
 7.30pm     Stations of the Cross

Tue 12noon     MASS The anxious
 6.15pm     Sacrament of Reconciliation (Fr S)
 7.00pm     MASS Those without faith

Wed 9.15am      MASS Those in pain
 6.15pm     Sacrament of Reconciliation
 7.00pm      MASS All clergy

MAUNDY THURSDAY***
*** 7.30pm MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER,  
 PROCESSION TO THE ALTAR OF REPOSE  
 AND SOLEMN WATCH

GOOD FRIDAY***
 11.00am   Stations of the Cross for children
*** 3.00pm     CELEBRATION OF THE LORD’S  PASSION
 4.15pm     Sacrament of Reconciliation (Fr S)

HOLY SATURDAY***
*** 8.30pm     THE EASTER VIGIL  (followed by drinks)

CONCLUDING ORGAN MUSIC
Valet wir ich dir geben (All Glory, Laud and Honour) (BWV 736)
   J.S. Bach

IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY, please take a yellow Preparing for Easter leaflet
and a blue Holy Week 2010 leaflet.

PLEASE NOTE all the times for worship this week, the very heart of the Christian Year. 
Please make a really special effort to attend on at least Maundy Thursday (7.30pm),
Good Friday (3.00pm) and Holy Saturday (8.30pm).

READERS If you would like to help with the readings this week, please have a word with Fr Stephen.  Thank you.

STATIONS OF THE CROSS tomorrow at 7.30pm.

MAUNDY THURSDAY WATCH LIST Thank you to those who have already committed to cover a slot. 
We need more now, so that we have a decent number for each of the half-hour slots.

HELP NEEDED on Saturday from 9.30am with getting the church ready for Easter. 
Many hands make light work, and all help with be appreciated.

EASTER LILIES etc.  Please put your name on the list if you would like to contribute
towards the cost, and please use a GIFT AID envelope if you can.  Thank you.

YOU ARE INVITED to the Vicarage on Saturday evening after the Easter Vigil. 
Please bring a bottle or similar.

PLEASE PRAY FOR our readers, servers, choristers, organist, sacristan and for those
who clean the church and do the flowers.  They do a wonderful job in a demanding week,
and we appreciate all their work.

LENT BOXES Please return these next Sunday and cross your name off the list.  Thank you. 

FORWARD! Plus, the quarterly paper of Forward in Faith, is available in church. 
Please take a free copy.

SCHOOL GOVERNING BODY There is a vacancy for someone to become a Foundation governor
(to represent the parish).  If you might be interested, please see Fr Stephen. It’s an
important role if we wish the school to have a Christian character.

CAR PARK If you come to church by car on Sundays, and are able-bodied, please help us to
fill up the car park from the bottom so that anyone who is infirm has less distance to walk. 
Thank you.

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

YOUTH GROUP resumes on Sunday 11th April.

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 MARCH 2010
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT

Christ’s forgiveness is total and complete, with nothing lacking.  Ours must be, too, if we are to reveal him to those around us.

• 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  Church Officers 
Tuesday  12 noon  Our Walsingham Cell  
Wednesday 9.15am         Departed of March
Thursday      7.15pm   Walsingham
 ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD
Friday  9.15am   Greater obedience        
Saturday 9.15am   A fruitful Holy Week 

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
Saturday at 5.15pm (Fr Stephen) or by appointment.

NEXT SUNDAY: MASSES at 8.00 & 10.00am

TODAY’S MUSIC
Chorale Prelude on [the hymn tune] ‘Rockingham’
   C.H.H. Parry
Herzlich thut mich verlangen (Passion Chorale)
   J. Brahms

Choir: Vexilla Regis (The Royal Banners forward go)
   T. Wingham 

PLEASE PRAY each day, respectively, for all who live in The Grove,
The Parade, Ullswater Crescent, Victoria Street, Warton Road and Wartonwood View.

NOTES

ANNUAL PAROCHIAL CHURCH MEETING today at 11.15am (approx.). 
Please stay and participate in this fairly brief meeting.

PLEASE TAKE WITH YOU TODAY a Preparing for Easter leaflet (if you didn’t last Sunday)
and a Holy Week 2010 leaflet.

STATIONS OF THE CROSS tomorrow at 7.30pm.  Why such a lack of interest in this
tried-and-tested Lenten devotion this year, a devotion in which millions of
Christians the world over participate in?

FORWARD! Plus, the quarterly paper of Forward in Faith, is available in church. 
Please take a free copy.

SCOUT GROUP COFFEE EVENING Tuesday this week, 6-8pm in school.  Raffle, tombola, cakes etc.

MAUNDY THURSDAY WATCH  There is a list at the back of church, arranged in half-hour slots,
so that we can cover the traditional Garden of Gethsemane Watch, from the end of the Mass
of the Lord’s Supper until Midnight.  Please sign up as soon as possible, so that each slot
is covered by several people, remembering that the middle of the period tends to be least popular. 
Thank you.

HOLY WEEK begins next Sunday, and it is hoped that everyone will observe it faithfully and well,
especially at the principal acts of worship on Maundy Thursday at 7.30pm, Good Friday at 3.00pm
and Holy Saturday at 8.30pm.

SCHOOL GOVERNING BODY There is a vacancy for someone to become a Foundation
governor (to represent the parish).  If you might be interested, please see
Fr Stephen. It’s an important role if we wish the school to have a Christian character.

CAR PARK If you come to church by car on Sundays, and are able-bodied, please
help us to fill up the car park from the bottom so that anyone who is infirm
has less distance to walk.  Thank you.

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

LENTEN THOUGHT
Today’s Gospel reminds us that people of faith can be very condemnatory
and judgemental of others.  The next couple of weeks present a real challenge to us
with regard to integrity of life; we may well find that we have no room to criticise
others at all.  Passiontide and Holy Week take us right into the heart of what we
claim to believe and place our hope in.  How will we shape up?  Will we open up a
space that allows others to criticise us on the grounds that what we say with our
lips and believe in our hearts is not shown forth in our lives?
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 MARCH 2010
FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT.

The parable in today’s Gospel speaks of the forgiveness of God and of his joy when people turn back to him, regardless of what has been in the past.

Today, we traditionally give thanks to God for our earthly mothers, for the Church and for Our Lady.

• 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    Theological colleges
Tuesday 12 noon    The United Nations
Wednesday 9.15am              People of Ireland
 ST PATRICK
Thursday      7.15pm  (Vigil)   Len Jones RIP (anniv.)
Friday  9.15am            Fathers and foster-fathers
 ST JOSEPH
Saturday 9.15am      Geraldine Smith MP
 
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
Flutes

Dialogue sur les Grandes Leux

   L. Clérambault

PLEASE PRAY each day, respectively, for all who live in Scotland Road,
Shore Road, Stanley Street, Tarnbrook Close, Towpath Walk and The Drive.

NOMINATION FORMS are out today for elections to the PCC and the office of
churchwarden, along with the list for Sidespersons.  Please help us by being prepared to serve.

SIDESPERSONS NEEDED If you would prepared to go on the rota,
please put your name on the list in church today.

PREPARING FOR EASTER leaflets are available today.  Please take one.

YOUTH GROUP WALK today up Warton Crag, straight after the 10.00am Mass. 
Please bring a picnic.  Members will be dropped off after about 2 hours
(changed time from what was given out last week).

STATIONS OF THE CROSS tomorrow at 7.30pm.

SCHOOL GOVENING BODY meets on Tuesday at 7.00pm.

MAGAZINE MATERIAL is due in by 12 noon next Sunday.

SCHOOL GOVERNING BODY There is a vacancy for someone to become a Foundation governor
(to represent the parish).  If you might be interested, please see Fr Stephen. It’s an
important role if we wish the school to have a Christian character.

WEEKLY ENVELOPES New boxes of envelopes are available today.  Please take yours and anyone’s who
lives near you and who is not here today.  If you do not already contribute through this scheme
and wish to do so, 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.  If you are a regular giver who pays tax and you have not signed a GIFT AID form,
you are not maximising your giving.  If you give under GIFT AID, every pound you give is worth £1.28 to us.

A REMINDER If you would like to consider confirmation this year, there will be a meeting at 10.00am in the school
on Saturday 15th May so that you can find out more.

CAR PARK If you come to church by car on Sundays, and are able-bodied, please help us to fill up the car
park from the bottom so that anyone who is infirm has less distance to walk.  Thank you.

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

HOLY WEEK begins in two weeks’ time!  here are the principal services (please note them now):
Palm Sunday: times as usual (Palm procession at ten).
Maundy Thursday: 7.30pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper, Procession and Watch at the Altar of Repose.
Good Friday: 3.00pm Celebration of the Lord’s Passion.
Holy Saturday: 8.30pm The Easter Vigil.
Easter Sunday: 8.00 & 10.00am.

LENTEN THOUGHT
The parable of the prodigal son is better described as the parable of the forgiving father. 
It conveys to us just something of God’s forgiving love for us whenever we turn to him in true penitence. 
My hope is that the Preparing for Easter leaflet will prove helpful.  The Sacrament of Reconciliation makes
this love tangible for us.
SJ