PAWS FOR THOUGHT ST GEORGE’S YORK YO1 9PZ Tel 01904 623728 Website: stgeorgeschurch-york.org.uk Email: [email protected] Now I’m not very good at the Latin even though I loved it in school! Having said all that, I think we all need a “sursum corda” moment. So, you won’t feel too left out Diocese of Middlesbrough Charity reg. No. 233748 Parish Priest: Canon Jerry Twomey Deacon: Revd Antonio Romano that is a “lift up your hearts moment”. My “sursum corda” moment is when we go out on the streets and clap those who put their lives on the line for us. They have a Like us on Facebook: special ministry and it doesn’t need ordination or celibacy. It is just there. This is the world of faith – the bin men, the cleaners, the shop servers; the drivers of Sunday 19 April 2020 SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER lorries, the post people; the local nurses and doctors and the shoppers for those who are “locked down”; the list is endless. Eucharist is happening all around us. Year A/Office Week 2 The church was never so beautiful, so big and so uncontrolled. God will have his DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY way in the end. Sursum corda my friends. Anam & Jerry

THIS WEEK

Tuesday St Anselm, Bishop and Doctor of the Church LIVE- STREAMING FROM Born in 1033 in Aosta in Piedmont, he entered the Benedictine Order at Le Bec in France THE NATIONAL OF OUR LADY where he taught to students while he himself progressed in the spiritual life. In addition to the regular programme there will be the following: Sent to England he became Archbishop of Canterbury and fought strenuously for the AN EIGHT DAY RETREAT freedom of the Church and was twice exiled. He is renowned for his writings, Monsignor John Armitage will lead an Eight Day Retreat. This will start after particularly in mystical theology. He died in 1109.

Compline at 8pm on Sunday 19 April and finish on Sunday 26 April. Thursday SOLEMNITY: ST GEORGE, PATRON OF ENGLAND

Details of the retreat programme are given on the Shrine website: In the fourth century there is evidence of the veneration of St George in Lydda in

www.walsingham.org.uk Palestine where a church was built in his honour. From the earliest times this

veneration has spread throughout both the East and the West. CATECHESIS The Shrine is very grateful to Father Stephen Wang for allowing us to use his Friday St Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest and Sycamore Programme. We shall be showing the 20 half hour videos, starting Born in Sigmaringen in in 1578, he entered the Order of Minor Capuchin on Monday 27 April. They will be shown at 10.30am and 4.00pm each day. where he led a hard life of penance, vigils and prayer. He was an indefatigable preacher and was sent by the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith to preach in the canton of the in . Pursued by the heretics he suffered VISITORS TO ST GEORGE’S CHURCH ONLINE martyrdom in 1622 at Seewis. Welcome to you all. Saturday FEAST: ST MARK, EVANGELIST We are sorry you are not able to join us at due Mark was a cousin of St Barnabas and accompanied St Paul on to the Covid-19 pandemic but we hope that you enjoy his first missionary journey and later followed him to Rome.He visiting our lovely church online and that when the was a disciple of St Peter and reproduced his teaching in his Gospel. He is said to have founded the church of Alexandria. He pandemic is over you will come in person and is shown here with the Pharos (lighthouse) of Alexandria. worship with us.

During the closure of churches there are many resources online.

Please send BULLETIN items, names of RECENTLY DEAD and ANNIVERSARIES • St George’s Primary School has prepared material for parents and carers for this time of no Masses to [email protected] http://stgeorgesrc-york.org.uk/about-us/junior-chaplaincy or post them through the Rectory door clearly marked BULLETIN on Wednesday • Canon Alan is live streaming Masses from Ingleby Barwick. Information on morning. his parish website, Facebook and Youtube. During the cessation of public liturgy please continue to send MASS INTENTIONS • Bishop Robert Barron who gave the keynote addresses at the Liverpool TO FR JERRY who will hold them over until Mass can be celebrated again with the Eucharistic Congress in 2018 is live streaming Mass every day: faithful present. www.wordonfire.org/daily-mass (plus other resources on the site) • Mass is live streamed from Waslingham: www.walsingham.org.uk

COLLECTIONS/GIFT AID • The Diocesan website lists churches from which Mass is online. Several people who normally use the gift aid envelopes have requested to move to standing order. If youThank contact you Ann from Middleton the Bulletineers on CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE OF ENGLAND AND WALES 07885134115 or [email protected] Mass for the Sick and their Families, NHS Front-Line workers and those working in she will forward the necessary form. Social Care The Catholic Bishops of England and Wales recognise that this time of the Otherwise, gift aid envelopes can be put through the rectory letter box, as can COVID-19 pandemic is affecting every person in our countries. Those who are sick, and cash (preferably in a bag/envelope) their families, are suffering many hardships of isolation from contact with those they Anyone wanting the 2020 envelopes before the church is open again can also contact Ann and we can organise a self distancing pickup! love. Our front-line workers in hospitals and in care homes all over our lands are giving exceptional service to those who are vulnerable at this time. In order to show a spiritual solidarity with all those who are involved in the ways described above, each The SVP meetings: Members will maintain contact with our sick and housebound week from next Thursday, a Catholic Bishop will celebrate Mass in their Cathedral via the telephone. Should you encounter anybody whom the SVP may be able to which will be live-streamed for people to join. This will take place every Thursday at assist, please contact Steve Holder via Canon Jerry. 7.00pm

23 April Cardinal Vincent Nichols Westminster Cathedral 30 April Bishop Richard Moth Arundel Cathedral 7 May Bishop Marcus Stock Leeds Cathedral You can read the Catholic Voice and Bishop Terry’s Pastoral Letter on the 14 May Bishop Robert Byrne CO Newcastle Cathedral Diocesan Website 21 May Bishop Mark Davies Shrewsbury Cathedral 28 May Bishop Terence Drainey Middlesbrough Cathedral