3Rd Sunday of Lent 2019 Newsletter
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Your giving to your Parish: many thanks What’s on this week PARISH OF OUR LADY AND ST DAVID Gift Aid: £299.00 Intentional Disciples (FID) Non Gift Aid & S.O.: £628.85 Mondays in St Non’s room at St David’s at 2pm on 25th CWMBRAN Gift Aid Standing Order £253.98 March, 1st, 8th & 15th April (Registered Charity No. 242380) Total giving this week : £1181.83 Divine Mercy Prayer Group Mass Count : 362 The prayer group meet on Tuesday mornings after Mass in St CAFOD Family Fast Day £1113.88 David’s. Parish Priest: Canon John Griffiths Tel: 01633 482346 Parish Sick List Union of Catholic Mothers Safeguarding Officer: John Metcalfe Tel: 07977 108478 Tea, coffee Please pray for the sick and housebound especially The UCM meet on Wednesdays after Mass in St Anne’s room. Parish Email Address: [email protected] Prayer Group and a chat in St Anne’s Mostyn Crowley, Joyce Thomas, Hazel McCarthy, Parish Website: ourladyoftheangels.org.uk Mary Lee, Jean Olearczyk, Goff & Rose James, Barbara The prayer group meet on Wednesdays in St Anne’s room at Room after Mass every Parish office Address: [email protected] Berger, Trevor Jenkins, Joan Lawrence, Ian Werrett, 7pm. Please bring a bible Sunday PAC Chairman: Mrs Paddy Landers Tel: 01633 868352 Violet Thomas, Frances Brown, Derek Miller, Sean Intentional Disciples (FID) Head Teacher, OLA School: Mrs S McCool Tel: 01633 484673 th Gilgunn, Anne Savoury, Sr Celsus, Carolyn Gallagher, Thursdays in St Anne’s room at Our Lady’s at 7pm on 28 Head Teacher, St David’s School: Mrs J Weightman Tel: 01633 482580 Christopher Mulcahy, Sr Mary James, Gerry Scully, March, 4th& 11th April SVP President: Dave Stroud Tel: 01633 838542 Nora MacDonnell, Ann Pitchforth, Phyllis Whatley, Lent to Easter 24th March 2019 3rd Sunday of Lent Year C Psalter Week 3 Phoebe Dunn, Sabina Fisher, John & Beryl James, Luke Reconciliation Services - North Gwent Deanery Smith, Becky James, Kay Donavon, Joan Sweeney, Joyce Monday 1st April 7pm at Our Lady and St Michael, PARISH LITURGY AND DEVOTIONS FOR THIS WEEK & Jim Sheehy, Sam Spokes, Brian Gingell , Stella Abergavenny Morning Prayers: Mon, Tues, Thurs & Fri 9.10am, Sat 9.40am Divine Mercy Devotions: Fri 3pm (OLA) Bradley, Meryl Davies, Keith Shepherd, Iverna Ward, Monday 15th April at 7pm in St David’s, Cwmbran Evening Prayer: Fri 4.40 Fr Kevin Paine, Michael Egan, Philomena McCafferty, 3rd Sunday of Lent Year C Bryn Jones, Tina Cordani, Cath Gormley, Robert Hayton, North Gwent Deanery Lenten Station Mass Saturday 5.00pm St David’s Thanksgiving for Recovery of Lisa (MO’B) : Jimmy Szymanski, Margaret Wells, Norma Martin, Jean Archbishop George Stack will celebrate the Station Mass for Veronica & Malcolm Southwood (LR) and Lawrence Crowley, John Smith, Jo & Rees Parlow, our Deanery at St Alban’s, Pontypool on Wednesday 10th April Sunday 9.30am Our Lady’s Trevor Prosser (AO’D) Clare Williams, Kathryn Slade, Margaret Lennon, Mary at 7pm. Please make a note in your diaries. Coach to be 11.15am St David’s Jean Price (DP) Healy, Pauline McGrath, Gwen Phillips, John Fitzgerald, arranged. Monday 9.30am Our Lady’s The People of the Parish Annunciation of the Lord Mary Peacock, Major Stuart Ashman, Sarah Hopkins, CAFOD Cyclone Idai Emergency Appeal Tuesday 9.30am St David’s Arturo Sterini (PR) Pina Rabaiotti, Mario Basini Gazzi, Michael Padfield and The scale of the crisis is such that the Disaster Emergency Wednesday 11.00am Our Lady’s Mary Brennan (B fam): David Bown (TH) all who care for them Committee, of which CAFOD is a member, has launched a full- Thursday 9.30am St David’s Special Intention (Sr S) Catechises scale humanitarian appeal. CAFOD’s Director, Christine Allen, Friday 9.30am Our Lady’s John Kane (SVP) Baptism Course said “The more we see and hear of the destruction caused by th Saturday 10.00am Our Lady’s The People of the Parish The baptism course continues on Wednesday 27 Cyclone Idai, the more shocking is the devastating impact on 4th Sunday of Lent Year C March in St Anne’s room at 6pm the lives of children, women and men. Reports from the Saturday 5.00pm St David’s Fred & Violet Faulkner (PT): Mr & Mrs Tracey (MJ) ground tell us of entire villages submerged and whole families Sunday 9.30am Our Lady’s Kath Crowley (PL) First Reconciliation Preparation missing. “But there are still lives to be saved and communities th 11.15am St David’s Mary Brennan (B fam) Preparation classes continue on Monday 25 March who need our help. We cannot waste any time reaching those 5pm in the parish hall for OLA School Candidates and in urgent need. “We’ve already seen how the Catholic th Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Cycle of Prayers for the Wednesday 27 March at 5pm in St Non’s room, St community has responded, here in England and Wales and David’s Church for St David’s School Candidates St David’s: Tuesday 10am-11.30am Parishes of the Archdiocese through our global church network. CAFOD has made an initial Our Lady’s: Friday 8am -9am: 10am-5pm Prayer Intentions for 3rd Sunday of Lent: £100,000 pledge for Mozambique and £50,000 for Zimbabwe, Confirmation Cardiff Deanery but much more will be needed as the disaster unfolds. “This Confirmation preparation class continues on Tuesday Sacrament of Reconciliation Parish: St Joseph, Penarth, and St Mary, Dinas money will help families who have lost everything to survive March 26th at 6pm in St Anne’s room in Our Lady’s Our Lady’s: Saturday 11am -11.30am Powys. the coming days. Knowing they are not alone will give them church. The Mass of Enrolment will take place on St David’s : Saturday 4.15-4.45pm Parish: Clergy: Rev Canon Joseph Boardman, VG. Rev hope.” We are so thankful for your support of our recent Sunday 31st March at 9.30am in Our Lady’s Church Deacon Elfred Jones. Family Fast Day, which we rely on for our planned projects Stations of the Cross Please pray also for the Schools and hospitals in the over the next year around the world. We don’t make this RCIA Course parish request lightly, but the situation is so urgent, we are asking, if Our Lady’s: Wednesdays at 10.15am (Before Mass) The Course continues on Monday evenings in St Anne’s The National Pilgrim Statue of possible, a second collection be taken to help us support St David’s: Thursdays after Mass room from 7.00pm to 8.30pm these vulnerable families. Our Lady of Fatima RETIRING COLLECTION NEXT WEEK Requiescant in Pace The Statue with relics of the visionaries will visit the The Salvation Army CAFOD Cyclone Idai Emergency Appeal parish of All Saints, Newport on Monday 13th May this Of your charity please prayer for the repose of the souls of The Foodbank is in urgent need of some volunteers Michael Meaney, Pat Parfitt, Clara Bridgeman and Robert year! See notice boards for details of the Visitation to who are physically able to carry donated goods to the Newport parish and Belmont Abbey McConnell and we extend our symphony to their family and upstairs store at The Salvation Army. Please reply to friends Helena Simmonds 07399 336341 .