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th COMMUNION 18.00 I will recount all your Parish Priest This Week (7 Ordinary A) ANTIPHON wonders, I will rejoice in you Rev Fr Daryl George JCL Parish Newsletter and be glad, and sing St Charles’ Presbytery DIVINE OFFICE WEEK 3 psalms to your name, O Chesswood Road the Roman Catholic communities Most High. WORTHING of Holy Family, Lancing ENTRANCE 18.00 706 10.30 SONG FOR THE TABLE : below West ANTIPHON 10.30 ANTIPHON : below & St Charles, Worthing BN11 2AE

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THIS WEEK:

BIBLE READING PLAN The Politics of Peace . . . . .

PENITENTIAL 18.00 Said SUN N U M . 3 4 - 35; ACTS 19:1 - 20 MON NUM.36; ACTS 19:21 - 40 In his fiftieth message for World evil. Does he mean us to roll over RITE 10.30 Said TUE D T . 1 - 2; ACTS 20:1 - 16 Peace Day last month, Pope and allow our enemies to walk all THANKSGIVING 18.00 924 WED D T . 3 - 4:24; ACTS 20:1 7 - 38 Francis said, “… I would like to over us? THU D T . 4 : 2 5 - 5:33; ACTS 21:1 - 16 GLORIA 18.00 Missal Tone 10.30 649 FRI D T . 6 - 7; ACTS 21:17 - 36 reflect on nonviolence as a style It’s very easy for us to love our 10.30 S 532 SAT D T . 8 - 9; ACTS21:37 - 22: 1 6 RECESSION 18.00 847 of politics for peace. I ask friends. Only loving those who

10.30 847 God to help all of us to cultivate are easy to love doesn’t provide FIRST Leviticus 19:1-2, 17-18 READING Financial News . . nonviolence in our most personal very much of a challenge, You must love your neighbour as th yourself. Next Week (8 Ordinary A) Weekend of 12/02/17 thoughts and values. May charity and consequently doesn’t earn us

1st £ 182:88 and nonviolence govern how much of a reward. The challenge DIVINE OFFICE WEEK 4 PSALM 18.00 The Lord is compassion and we treat each other as Jesus poses today is to meet our 2nd £ 54:53 Parish Maint. Fund RESPONSE love. individuals, within society and in enemies with love. Jesus’ advice FIRST Isaiah 49:14-15 10.30 SONG FOR THE WORD : below READING I will never forget you. 2nd Collection . . . international life. When victims of is to meet violence with non- This Weekend 19/02/17 violence are able to resist the violence and to meet force with SECOND 1 Corinthians 4:1-5 READING The Lord will reveal the secret 2nd Parish Charity Fund temptation to retaliate, they acquiescence. If we only love become the most credible those who love us back we are intentions of men’s hearts. Gift Aid members are able to make this collection tax efficient by using ? promotors of nonviolent peace- not doing anything more than GOSPEL Matthew 6:24-34 READING Do not worry about tomorrow. making. “ anyone else, but if we love our SECOND 1 Corinthians 3:16-23 Next Weekend 26/02/17 enemies, we show ourselves to READING All are your servants, but you Music and text of Antiphons from Psallite, © 2005 2nd None belong to Christ and Christ belongs Collegeville Composers Group. Published by Liturgical be true disciples of Christ. Many thanks for your continuing to God. Press, MN56321. In our conflict-ridden world, Used with Permission. Calamus Licence No.0338 generosity to your Parish. today’s gospel has never GOSPEL 18.00 Alleluia, alleluia! If anyone been more relevant. Never has ACCLAMATION loves me he will keep my there been a better time for word, and my Father will Christians to get more involved in love him, and we shall come campaigning for non-violent to him. Alleluia! It is now possible to make an online donation to the Parish strategies. The world has never 10.30 544 via our Homepage: been more ready.

EastWorthingParish.org GOSPEL Matthew 5:38-48 READING Love your enemies. Bite Size . . . Question of the week -

PRESENTATION 18.00 609 Is there some person, some Pope Francis takes his lead from situation in my life through which OF THE GIFTS 10.30 609 Nonviolence means Jesus’ teachings. “If anyone God is calling me to embrace avoiding not only strikes you on the right cheek, Jesus’ revolutionary invitation to SANCTUS 18.00 S 553 external physical 10.30 S 584 But I say to you: love your enemies and pray for turn the other also.” “If anyone transform the world by love? those who persecute you (Matthew 5:44). violence but also forces you to go one mile go also MEMORIAL 18.00 S 554 B internal violence of the second mile….” “If anyone ACCLAMATION 10.30 S 585 C sues you for your outer garment, spirit. You not only give them your undergarment GREAT AMEN 18.00 S 555 refuse to shoot a too.” Jesus tells us not to resist 10.30 S 586 man, but you refuse Before Mass - Talk to God During Mass - Listen to God After Mass - Talk to your friends to hate him. AGNUS DEI 18.00 Said Martin Luther King, Jr. In the event of an emergency when a priest is urgently required and there is no answer at 10.30 Said the above telephone number please ring St Mary’s (200416) or St Peter’s (01273 452654). P A G E 2 Parish Office . . . . . Church Mouse (cub reporter). . . P A G E 7 Parish Deacons: Rev. John Body 762038 The musings of one of God’s smallest creatures on events in and around the Rev. Patrick Moloney Parish over the past seven days . . . . Rev. Phil Richardson 752292 Fr D has been ‘flying around’ this week as he tries to get all sorts of things Office Hours : Monday - Wednesday & Friday 09.30 - 11.30am sorted before having a little break. He has also taken delivery of a new dining table and chairs for the presbytery (the old table and chairs will be transferred to the Holy Fr Daryl’s Surgery this week : None this week, sorry. Family rear office where the present table and chairs have been found to have woodworm in

Newsletter Editorial : Items for possible inclusion in the Parish them!). He has managed to move the chairs over in his car on various trips but will need to Newsletter (if there is room) need to be received (in writing please) at organise something bigger to get the table across (this will now have to wait until his return home). The one carver chair he intends to put in the confessional at the Holy Family since the the Parish Office by midday on Wednesday. chair already there is very uncomfortable when he has to sit for any period of time.

On Monday he had his regular monthly Ministry to Priest’s Support Group, this time in Hythe, General Parish Information . . . . . Kent. It was a very long way away and he didn’t get back home until 21.50 having left at 09.00! Parishioner Registration : Every household within the Parish is As usual the day was very good and he was delighted to hear Fr Tony sounding much more like his old self. requested to complete a ‘Parishioner Registration/Census’ form so that our Parish records may be kept up to date. These forms can be found in On Tuesday all of the clergy of the Worthing Deanery met at St Mary’s, Worthing, for their the church narthex and should be completed fully before being returned monthly Deanery Meeting. One of the ‘hot’ topics under discussion was the possible provision of to the Parish Office. a Deanery Marriage Preparation Course. Fr D and Fr Graham Ricketts have been doing a fair Should you move address within the Parish at any time please complete amount of research into what is available and what might work in our local area. Several Parishes a new form and write ‘AMENDMENT’ across the top of the form. Thank have also found possible couples who would be prepared to undergo training in order to present you. a course. The clergy accepted the plans and we now move on to obtaining the resources that will enable training to begin; the plan at the moment is that a first ‘pilot’ course will take place this Hospital : Parishioners are advised that our local General Hospital autumn. All of this follows on closely from Bishop Richard’s decision that all couples getting (Worthing) in Lyndhurst Road does not give the names of inpatients to married from the diocese now need to give a minimum of twelve months notice before they can the Chaplaincy Department. This means that should you find yourself be married; this is in order that good quality marriage preparation can be undertaken. admitted as an emergency case to the hospital you will need to inform On Wednesday and Thursday Fr D was over at Bishop’s House fulfilling his Marriage Tribunal the staff that you wish the Roman Catholic Chaplaincy to be informed, duties; he was trying to ‘clear the decks’ so that his ‘in-tray’ was empty before going off. On the either yourself or through a relative. Thursday he had a long interview with one of his clients before coming home to go off on a If you are going into hospital as a ‘planned admission’ you are strongly shopping trip to get everything needed for the up-coming ‘Pancake and Quiz Night,’ The last encouraged to contact the Parish Priest well beforehand so that, if opportunity to obtain tickets (£1 a head) will be after this weekend’s Masses at which point appropriate, the Sacrament of the Sick can be celebrated beforehand. numbers will be finalised; if you haven’t got yours yet then you need to do so now. Fr D has Infant Baptism : Infant Baptisms are intended for the children of already got the various questions sorted into different categories (don’t practising parishioners only and are celebrated on five occasions during worry only about three questions on religion) ...... the year after parents and godparents have completed a course of preparation. There can be no celebration without this important course. The dates of the courses for the current year can be found in the CHILDREN’S WORDSEARCH 7TH ORDINARY SUNDAY YEAR A application form in the church narthex (bright green). Baptisms do not take place during the seasons of Advent or Lent.

Sacramental Preparation : Notice of the availability of application forms for First Reconciliation and First Eucharist will be made in the Parish Newsletter between the school Summer Half Term and 31st August each year. Possible candidates for Confirmation should respond to the announcements made in the Parish Newsletter during the Autumn school term. Parishioners are advised that it is very difficult to imagine that any family/individual who is not regularly practising their faith as a member of our community could possibly be ready to celebrate a Sacrament of the Church.

Marriage Preparation : Marriages are celebrated by appointment with the Parish Priest. It should be remembered that in the Diocese of Arundel & Brighton twelve months minimum notice is required before a marriage may take place; this is a requirement of the Church for all marriages that involve a Roman Catholic (even if they are not taking place in the Catholic Church). It is also necessary that one of the parties must have a meaningful connection with the Parish. Marriages do not take place during the seasons of Advent or Lent.

P A G E 6 Lent is fast approaching . . . . . Services For The Coming Week . . . . . P A G E 3 Day Date Where Time Service / Intention Donor Sat. 18th Feb. Ferial Weekday St Charles 17.00 - 17.45 EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT FOR PRIVATE PRAYER St Charles 17.00 - 17.30 RECONCILIATION Shrove Tuesday St Charles 18.00 For the Parishioners Quiz Night & Pancakes Sun. 19th Feb. 7th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A Tuesday 28th February 19.30 Bring Holy Family 10.30 Robert Bryan  R. & F. Hill Your Own Mon. 20th Feb. Ferial Weekday Drink No Service Today Tickets £1.00 Tue. 21st Feb. Ferial Weekday

St Charles 09.30 Morning Prayer of the Church After Mass This Weekend

Raffle Wed. 22nd Feb. Chair of Peter The Apostle On The Last Opportunity! Holy Family 09.30 Morning Prayer of the Church Evening Thu. 23rd Feb. St Polycarp, Bishop & Martyr St Charles 09.30 Morning Prayer of the Church Fri. 24th Feb. Ferial Weekday Holy Family 09.30 Morning Prayer of the Church St Charles 13.00 Funeral Service for Betty & Joy Munro RIP Holy Family PLEASE NOTE : NO EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT TODAY Holy Family PLEASE NOTE : NO RECONCILIATION TODAY Sat. 25th Feb. Ferial Weekday St Charles PLEASE NOTE : NO EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT TODAY St Charles PLEASE NOTE : NO RECONCILIATION TODAY St Charles 18.00 Deacon Pat Moloney Sun. 26th Feb. 8th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A st The Lenten Season this year will commence on 1 March with Ash Wednesday Holy Family 10.30 For the Parishioners

Masses in the Parish (with the imposition of Ashes) on Ash Wednesday will take place as Mass may be offered for both the living and the dead and also for most other intentions. We do our best to try and accommodate specific dates but this can be especially difficult on weekends and at less than three months notice. follows: ‘Mass Intentions’ are published in the Parish Newsletter on the weekend before they are celebrated although sometimes a Requiem Mass will ‘bump’ an intention to a later date. Holy Family, Lancing - 12.00 [followed by CAFOD Fast Lunch] Chair of Peter 22nd February . . . . . St Charles, Worthing - 19.00 “Like the committee us down. Still, the  WEDNESDAY BREAD & SOUP FAST LUNCHES chair, this chair refers office endures as a sign On the Wednesdays of Lent after our rescheduled Midday Mass there will be the to the occupant, not of the long tradition we usual Fast Lunch served in the Holy Family Parish Centre. Donation boxes and the furniture. Its first cherish and as a focus envelopes will be available at the tables during the lunches and all the donations occupant stumbled a for the universal received during Lent will be sent to C.A.F.O.D. for their ongoing work in the bit, denying Jesus Church.” Developing World. We are still looking for volunteers to help - see notice in narthex three times and hesitating to welcome  LENTEN SUNDAY EVENING PRAYER & BENEDICTION gentiles into the new On the Sunday afternoons of Lent there is the usual opportunity to spend some Church. Some of its quiet time in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament and to join in the celebration of later occupants have the Church’s official Evening Prayer. The service lasts for approximately thirty-five also stumbled a bit, minutes. sometimes even failed  WAY OF THE CROSS scandalously. On the Friday (18.35, Holy Family) and Saturday (17.35, St Charles) Evenings of As individuals, we may Lent the traditional Lenten Devotion making The Way of the Cross will be sometimes think a celebrated before our evening Mass. particular pope has let

P A G E 4 Parish Ministries For Next Weekend . . . . . Parish Roundup . . . . . P A G E 5

WELCOME EUCHARISTIC ALTAR CHILDREN’S PRAYERS OF DATE / MASS READERS MINISTERS MINISTERS SERVERS LITURGY INTERCESSION

SATURDAY T. Gear G. Duffy E. Hamilton S, Morris 8 A L. Duffy A. Conroy 25th Feb. N/A N/A 18.00 ST CHARLES P. Dunbar S. Kirk T. Selby H. Gardner B. Southey SUNDAY T. Keenan M. Hoppe B. Southey J. Gardner 8 A No Liturgy th W. Crees C. Wakely 26 Feb. T. Ash School 10.30 Half Term HOLY FAMILY Holy Family, North Road, Lancing St Charles, Chesswood Road, Worthing Mass 10.30 Sunday Mass 18.00 Saturday PLEASE REMEMBER : If you are unable to complete your particular ministry then it is your responsibility to arrange cover with another minister. In this way our Sunday Liturgies will run in a smooth and prayerful way. LENTEN SMALL GROUP 2017 - ‘The Last Things’ This Lent, led by Deacon Phil, we will focus on the teaching of the Church on Heaven, Hell and Purgatory, and what it means for us in our lives as Catholic Christians. We will be using episode 10 of Fr Robert Barron’s excellent series ‘Catholicism’ which will set the issues up for us to discuss, meditate on and pray over. Do come along. There will be 4 sessions, one on each Tuesday in March (7th, 14th, 21st and 28th) at 14.00 in the Gathering Room DEACONS’ THOUGHTS . . . . at the Holy Family. HOW CAN WE RESPOND TO THE CURRENT REFUGEE CRISIS? - A Deanery Refugee Day will take place St Paul reminds us today that we are ‘God’s temple,’ an idea we often at The Barn, English Martyrs Church, Goring Way, BN12 4UD on Saturday 25th February from 09.00 hear but possibly allow to pass us by. It's a very important idea. At a basic – 13.00. We are invited to discuss ‘How can we respond to the current Refugee Crisis?’ Speakers will level it means that we are created and held in being “continuously” by God; our very include Aidan Cantwell – Diocesan Justice and Peace/Social Action Adviser and Mary-Jane Burkett – existence is the result of his constant creative loving of us. That’s the case for every Director of ‘Voices in Exile.’ Please see the poster in the narthex and support our Deanery initiative to discover ways in which we can support the Diocesan action to support refugees in . one of his creatures and isn’t really what St Paul is getting at here. He means that as PLEASE COME ALONG TO OUR TRAIDCRAFT ‘BIG BREW’ AND HELP CHANGE A FAMILY’S FUTURE we are ‘in Christ’ we have the Holy Spirit present within us - as Christians we are spe- - on Saturday 25th February 10.00 - 12.00 at 4 Kings Road, Lancing, BN15 8EA. Raffle, Bring cifically God’s rather than just generally. We are the recipients of Jesus’ promise that he & Buy, Preserves & Cakes, Teddy Tombola. More information available from Heather & Hugh Garrett would send us His Spirit. ([email protected] 764882). CHILDREN'S LITURGY TRAINING - On 24th June 09.30 -13.00 at DABCEC, 4 Southgate Drive, Crawley, And it is a bodily thing, our body is the temple of God. God is uniquely flesh and blood RH10 6RP. The day will be led by Catherine Christmas, Fr. Martin Jakubas and David Wills. For more in Jesus and in a derivative or secondary way in us through our faith and our feeding information contact Ruth Gerun (01293 651164 or email [email protected]). on Him in the Eucharist. There’s nothing airy-fairy about this, it’s physical. A&B LOURDES PILGRIMAGE 2017 - HELPERS AND THE REDSHIRTS - People are now invited to apply

And this has a two fold implication. The folk next to us in the pew are likewise God’s as Helpers for this year’s pilgrimage, also young people in years 10 and 11 are invited to apply now to join The Redshirts for a year of fun, faith and laughter including the pilgrimage to Lourdes with temple and so should be honoured as such. And our own body should be treated and other members of the Diocese from 26th July - 4th August 2017. For more information and application cared for in a way that befits its status which means the right sort of eating and forms see the A&B Lourdes Website. drinking and the right sort of exercise to keep it going. It’s our vehicle getting us to BETTY & JOY MUNRO RIP - Many regulars at St Charles’ will remember these two sisters who for a where we want to go. Look after it! great many years were faithful parishioners. When they became too infirm to attend Mass they were able to receive holy communion at home until, owing to their increasing needs, Social Services moved them to the Mount Hermon Elderly Care Home in Lancing. Sadly on January 5th Betty passed away and on discovering this Joy went downhill immediately and passed on 20th January. Their joint funeral service will be taking place in St Charles this Friday (24th February) at 13.00; it would be Prayers Please . . . . . good to see a large turnout from the Parish for these very faithful sisters. STUDENTS’ SUNDAY 19TH FEBRUARY - ‘Students’ Sunday’ focusses on the work of the ‘Students FOR THOSE UNWELL AT Nelson, Anne Steele, Philip HOLY FATHER’S MONTHLY For those who Christian Movement’. If you are a student, this group helps you to link up with likeminded students THIS TIME: PRAYER INTENTION: whilst you are at university. The website promotes groups that you might like to join, campaigns that Collins, Canon Eric Flood, are unwell……. Anne Godfrey, Kathleen Deacon Pat, Fr John Healy “ ...... that those who you might want to support and advertises both volunteering and paid opportunities. Visit the website Enser, Sheila Bergin, and Canon Gerald Coates. are afflicted, especially the those who have at www.movement.org.uk died recently…. THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE YOUR RELIGION BARNABAS FUND PETITION - Even in countries such as the UK Barbara Sarcoe, Christopher THE RECENTLY DECEASED: poor, refugees and the Browne, Shirley Whelan, Maria marginalized, may find a where sharia (Islamic Law) is not officially enforced, the sharia penalty for “apostasy” leads many those whose Muslims to think it is legitimate to use threats, violence or other forms of intimidation to try to force Rodrigues, Kathleen McKeown, welcome and comfort in ANNIVERSARIES OF DEATH: anniversaries Christians from Muslim family backgrounds to reconvert back to Islam. Despite this the UK Elizabeth Robinson, Gordon our communities.” O’Taney, Joan Camera, John Eileene Butler, Jean Ayres, occur….. government continues to ignore the problem. The British government’s recently published Hate Crime Poetz, Anne Anderson, Win & Edmund Dembinski, William Action Plan makes only a single token reference to anti-Christian hate crime and fails to even the Holy acknowledge the widespread violence experienced by Christians who have converted from Islam. Michael Lyons, Stephanie Murphy, Dorothy Turle, Fr Father’s Prayer Barnabas Fund is launching a major campaign to change this, starting with a petition, which calls on Henry Minter, Fr Michael Spencer, Rosemary Bellamy, Intention…. the British government to take specific actions to tackle this problem. You can find the petition at Eileen Stabler-Smith, Eleanor Alban, Fr Bruce Keller and Fr www.barnabasfund.org/walk-the-mile Jukes, Hamish Paterson, John Michael Reynolds. IMPORTANT DIARY DATE - There will be a ‘Passover Supper’ on Monday 10th April - watch this space!