THE CHURCH of the HOLY APOSTLES On Winchester Street, Postal Address: 47 Cumberland St, Pimlico, London SW1V 4LY Website www.holyapostlespimlico.org

14th February 2021 — The Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time– Year B

TIMES OF MASSES Dear Friends Weekday Masses Monday-Friday 9:30am Ash Wednesday is this Wednesday 17th February and Lent begins. If you cannot come to Mass do take to heart Sunday Masses the Cardinal’s suggestion that you pray and do the ashes Saturday 6:00pm Vigil Mass of spiritually at home with your family and “mark” each Sunday other. I have asked each household to set a place apart in Sunday 9.00 am your home as your prayer space during lockdown. Thanks 10.30am Family Mass to R for sending me this picture of his. 12.30pm in Spanish For those of you who have read the Pope’s book “Let us Dream” as part of a Lenten project I invite you to join a Confessions group to discuss the book. I don’t have any more copies Saturday 5pm to 5.30pm but you can get it next day delivery from Amazon. Or by arrangement

The meetings will have to be on Zoom. You will need to have read the book or are Morning Prayer (Lauds) reading it at present as each week the group will be discussing certain pages from it. Monday—Friday 9:15 am Sunday-8.30am I am delighted to say the following people have agreed to lead such groups. They

will meet once a week for 5 weeks. You simply email the leader and ask them to send you an invitation to the zoom meeting.

Rafael Gafoor – 6.00pm Wednesdays starting Ash Wednesday 17th Feb Registered Charity No 233699 [email protected] Sister Rachel Harrington -2.00pm Thursdays starting 18th Feb Parish Priest [email protected] Fr Pat Browne Patrick Van Der Vorst – 7.00pm Thursdays starting 18th Feb 0207 834 6965-Extenstion 3 [email protected] [email protected] James Langford – 4.00pm on Sundays starting 21st Feb [email protected] Priest in residence JudyAnn Masters – 7.00pm Tuesdays starting 23rd Feb Fr Charles Soyombo [email protected] 07448 277 602 [email protected] For those who are NOT reading the book there will be three other groups who will Parish Sister just take some points from the book to discuss. These also will meet for 5 weeks in Sr Louise Callan DC whatever way they have been doing since the lockdown. The group leader will let Mobile: 07786 743810 you have the points for discussion before each meeting. These group leaders are

Parish Secretary Sarah Harcher Clementina Osunde 7pm Monday 15th February: [email protected] 0207 834 6965 -Extension 2 JudyAnn Masters 11am Wednesday 17th February: [email protected] [email protected] John Wilkins 7pm Wednesday 17th February: [email protected]

Hall Manager Mr Jan Bidaud Then towards the end of Lent, on Palm Sunday afternoon I will invite everyone who 0207 834 6965 Extension 4 took part in Austen’s talk and those who have participated in these groups to come [email protected] together again at 4.00pm on Sunday 28th March for a plenary session.

Parish Primary School Westminster Cathedral Primary Have a Happy and Prayer-filled Lent. Yours devotedly School Head Teacher Mr N Scott-Cree Tel 020 7186 0155 Announcements

Action Prayer : In today's first reading we hear how a person LENT 2021 must be labelled as a leper if he has the disease. In the gospel, Ash Wednesday - Ashes Jesus cures the leper who breaks his promise to be silent about Mass at 10.00am and 7.00pm. his cure. Understandably, the leper no longer wants to be If you come for ashes, they will be sprinkled on the top of labelled unclean. So what's the message? Perhaps, God knows your head as dust rather than being put as a mark on your human nature quite well, and will use our nature to help "cure" forehead. our situations. In Let Us Dream, Pope Francis suggests that God Ash Wednesday – Fasting uses crisis’s to encourage us to change and dream of a better Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of Fast and way to be, a better way to live. And that perhaps, the pain and Abstinence. You are asked to abstain from all meat and eat suffering we've experienced, for example during Covid, can MUCH, MUCH less on that day motivate us, instead of allowing it to encourage a retreat into Stations of the Cross indifference or selfishness. So, the Action Prayer this week is to Every Friday night at 7.00pm either here at Holy Apostles or take a 10 minute walk, ask the Holy Spirit to be with you and at St Gabriel’s in Warwick Square contemplate how your responses in this past year could bring This week (19th) we will be at St Gabriel’s. you closer to your dreams. And if there's been a tendency to Cafod Lenten Family Fast Day retreat, ask God to help you see a different path. On Friday 26th you are invited to FAST and to spiritually align Check Fr pat’s letter on the front of Newsletter for the variety yourself with those in the world who are hungry. Then to of groups that Holy Apostles is offering for discussions on “Let give the money you have saved plus any extra you want to Us Dream” during this Lent. give as ALMS for the work of Cafod. This will be collected after Masses on Saturday/Sunday 27th/ 28th ————————————————————————————- Daily Walk? Something positive this Lent. Could you walk Justice & Peace Bidding Prayer: Prisoners Rehabilitation - 10000 Steps either on one day or everyday this Lent? The Anonymous : We pray that all prisoners upon their release have walk could be a sign of your solidarity with all those who do been successfully rehabilitated and intergraded back into their not have access to a safe water source and who have to walk communities. for water each day. Find out more or sign up online at The standing orders including GYE, Virgin Money Giving & one cafod.org.uk/walk and go the distance this Lent . off donations for January came to £7436.00 The Loose plate Blood Donors The NHS Blood and Transplant service is for January was £902.68 & the Offertory envelopes for appealing for donations from people who have recovered January came to £996.20 Thank you all very much indeed. from coronavirus to help save lives as London moves from If you wish to make a payment direct to our Bank Account “medium” to “high” alert. Donating blood plasma is a simple procedure and very similar to giving a normal blood these are the details: donation but the red blood cells are returned to the patient WRCDT Pimlico Sort code 40-05-20 A/C no: 81308416 and the process takes a little longer. The nearest donor centre is at 26 Margaret Street, Fitzrovia. W1. Anyone who Address: HSBC 69 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5EY, REF: Collection/ has had coronavirus, either a test result or the symptoms, Your surname….Or you can go to Virgin Money Giving and give can offer to donate by calling 0300 123 23 23 or through that app. visitinghttps://www.nhsbt.nhs.uk to arrange an Please pray for : Peg Staplehurst age 94 of Shelley House, appointment to donate. whose funeral will be at 10.00am on Tuesday 2nd March. May Men and Women's Clothing and children shoes are needed she rest in peace. at our local Bessborough Family Hub. Drop them off at the The next Pre-Marriage Course for Hub located across from Pimlico Station in the red brick engaged couples will be in February building, Bessborough Women and Children. They have 2021. This one will have to be online plenty of children's clothing. Thank you. via Zoom. It will be 3 sessions 7.15pm. Stress in Your Marriage? – This has been a very difficult year Wednesday 17th February, 7.15pm, Wednesday 24th February and 7.00pm for many couples. Retrouvaille is a program for married Monday 1st March. Please contact couples that feel bored, disillusioned, frustrated, or angry in Sarah at [email protected] their marriage. Some experience coldness. Others for an application form or download one from our website. experience conflict. Most don’t know how to change the www.holyapostlespimlico.org situation or even communicate with their spouse about it. This programme has helped 6,000 couples who were Baptism Course: If you have a baby you would like baptised in experiencing difficulties in their marriage in the past year the coming months there will be a meeting via Zoom on alone. There is no group therapy or group work. For Monday 15th February at 6.30pm. Please contact Sarah confidential information about ‘Retrouvaille’ or to register Harcher on 0207 834 6965 or [email protected] if you would like to attend for the next programme commencing with a Virtual weekend on 25th – 28th February 2021, call 0788 7296983