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This Week (5 Easter C) Gospel John 13:31-35 Parish Priest East Reading I give you a new commandment: Rev Fr Daryl George JCL Parish Newsletter Divine Office Week 1 love one another. St Charles’ Presbytery Chesswood Road the Roman Catholic communities Entrance 18.00 824 Presentation 18.00 833 of Holy Family, Lancing WORTHING 10.30 Antiphon : below of the Gifts 10.30 774 & St Charles, Worthing West part of the Arundel & Diocesan Trust, Sanctus 18.00 Missal Tone BN11 2AE a Registered Charity No. 252878

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10.30 S 586 THIS WEEK: Love Is Catching . . . . . Agnus Dei 18.00 Missal Tone SAINTS & FEASTS - 10.30 S 590 Does it ever seem to you that retaliation ….. every time we make SUN 5 E A S T E R C Communion 18.00 I am the true vine and you MON S T M A R K Jesus can be a little unrealistic? a stand against neglect or greed or

are the branches, says the TUE EASTER WEEKDAY Today Jesus tells us “I give you a apathy. Lord. Whoever remains in WED EASTER WEEKDAY new commandment, that you There are plenty of people who are me, and I in him, bears fruit THU EASTER WEEKDAY love one another. Just as I have already living their lives by Jesus’ in plenty, alleluia. FRI ST CATHERINE loved you, you also should love example. These people are shining SAT EASTER WEEKDAY Children’s 18.00 N/A 10.30 Song for the Table : below one another.” But how can we go examples of discipleship, not be Liturgy 10.30 856 v1 BIBLE READING PLAN - round loving everyone we meet? what they say but by how they Isn’t love reserved to those closest behave. Have you ever been filled Penitential 18.00 Said SUN P S A L M 1 1 1 - 1 1 8 to us … our parents, children, and with so much respect for someone Rite 10.30 Said MON 1 K G S . 1 - 2; PS.37,71,94 TUE PSALM 119:1 - 88 partners? Harder still, how can we that you wanted to imitate them? If Gloria 18.00 Missal Tone WED 1 K G S . 3 - 4 ; 2 C H R . 1 love as Jesus loved? Jesus loved you start to behave in the same way THU PSALM 119:89 - 1 7 6 10.30 S 532 us to the point of death. Surely it won’t be long before others are FRI SONG OF SOL. 1 - 8 SAT P R O V E R B S 1 - 3 following this kind of example is a looking up to you as a role model. 1st Reading Acts 14:21-27 very tall order! Watch out …. love is catching. They gave an account to the church Financial News . . The main thing to remember in of all that God had done with them. following Jesus’ teaching is that he Weekend of 17/04/16 wouldn’t ask anything of us that we Psalm 18.00 I will bless your name for Thanksgiving 18.00 627 1st £ 233:29 couldn’t do. Secondly, we might not Response ever, O God my King. 10.30 627 2nd £ 224:99 Priest’s Education be ready to love each other to the 10.30 Song for the Word : below point of death, but Jesus gives Recession 18.00 322 2nd Collection . . . 10.30 322 us plenty of other lessons in how This Weekend 24/04/16 to love. We’re not talking some Next Week (6 Easter C) 2nd Pope’s Ukraine Appeal impossible ideal or some form of Gift Aid members are able to make idealistic behaviour. We simply need Divine Office Week 2 this collection tax efficient by using to recognise, as Jesus recognised our Parish envelope. that love is a basic human need. 1st Reading Acts 15:1-2, 22-29 Next Weekend 01/05/16 Jesus had a talent for seeing It has been decided by the Holy 2nd Parish Maintenance Fund everyone as an individual. We too Spirit and by ourselves not to saddle need to see people as individuals you with any burden beyond these Gift Aid members are able to make this collection tax efficient by using rather than lump them together essentials. our Parish envelope. Question of the week - into categories. We too need to 2nd Reading Apocalypse 21:10-14, 22-23 Many thanks for your continuing recognise need and respond This week, to whom do I need to He showed me the holy city coming generosity to your Parish. accordingly. Loving someone is a show mercy? How will I show that I down out of heaven. Bite Size . . . decision we make rather than am Christ’s disciple by a concrete Gospel John 14:23-29 the harbouring of fluffy romantic act of practical charity? Reading The Holy Spirit will remind you of all A good character is sentiments found in greeting cards. I have said to you. the best tombstone. Loving someone is about serving the need to be liked, appreciated, Music and text of Antiphons from Psallite, © 2005 Those who loved you 2nd Reading Apocalypse 21:1-5 Collegeville Composers Group. Published by Liturgical forgiven or helped. We follow Jesus’ God will wipe away all tears from Press, MN56321. and were helped by lessons in love every time we seek Used with Permission. Calamus Licence No.0338 you will remember you their eyes. to alleviate someone else’s suffering when forget-me-nots … every time we reject violence and Gospel 18.00 Alleluia, alleluia! have withered. Carve Acclamation Jesus said: “I give you a your name on hearts, Before Mass - Talk to God During Mass - Listen to God After Mass - Talk to your friends new commandment: love not on marble. one another, just as I have In the event of an emergency when a priest is urgently required and there is no answer at loved you.” Alleluia! Charles H. Spurgeon the above telephone number please ring St Mary’s (200416) or St Peter’s (01273 452654). 10.30 264 P A G E 2 Parish Office . . . . . Church Mouse (cub reporter). . . P A G E 7 The musings of one of God’s smallest creatures on events in and around the Parish Deacons: Rev. John Body 762038 Parish over the past seven days . . . . Rev. Patrick Moloney Rev. Phil Richardson 752292 Once again a very busy week around the Presbytery......

Office Hours : Monday - Friday 09.30 - 11.30 Fr D was out at St Peter’s School, Shoreham for half the day on Monday

Fr Daryl’s Surgery this week : Tuesday, 17.30-18.30 supporting the beginning of Adur Valley Parish’s Mission Week, being led by five friars from the

Newsletter Editorial : Items for possible inclusion in the Parish Franciscan Friars of the Renewal (known by many as the ‘skateboarding monks). Two of the Newsletter (if there is room) need to be received (in writing please) at friars came into St Peter’s School and mixed with the children over the lunchtime before the Parish Office by midday on Wednesday. leading an assembly in the afternoon. During the assembly the friars led the children in two or three songs, told them some stories of their lives as friars and then gave the children the opportunity to ask questions (some of which were very deep indeed)! Two of the songs involved a General Parish Information . . . . . lot of moving about so Fr D was glad to climb into his armchair for a couple of hours when he got home.

Parishioner Registration : Every household within the Parish is On Tuesday, after celebrating Mass, Fr D spent some time going over the recent quotations requested to complete a ‘Parishioner Registration/Census’ form so that that he has received for some possible maintenance projects around the Parish this year. He our Parish records may be kept up to date. These forms can be found in thinks he knows what he would like to undertake but will talk with our Parish Deacons when he the church narthex and should be completed fully before being returned meets with them next week for lunch. In the early evening he held his regular Parish Surgery to the Parish Office. and did a little bit more work on populating a proposed website for the Parish with some details Should you move address within the Parish at any time please complete before going over to St Peter’s church in Shoreham for 19.30 to help them out with a Parish a new form and write ‘AMENDMENT’ across the top of the form. Thank Mission Reconciliation Service. He didn’t get home until nearly 22.20 in the evening and after you. making himself something to eat slunk off to bed, very tired.

Hospital : Parishioners are advised that our local General Hospital On Wednesday, after celebrating Mass, his normal day at Bishop’s House was slightly different (Worthing) in Lyndhurst Road does not give the names of inpatients to as members of the Tribunal all came to the office to say a fond farewell to the Tribunal the Chaplaincy Department. This means that should you find yourself Secretary who retired recently over a meal at a local hostelry on the top of Devil’s Dyke. Fr D admitted as an emergency case to the hospital you will need to inform helped to make a presentation from the Bishop (who was sadly unavailable on the day) of the the staff that you wish the Roman Catholic Chaplaincy to be informed, Diocesan St Philip Howard Medal. In the evening Fr D met with the parents of those children either yourself or through a relative. who are preparing to celebrate their First Eucharist to explain what the children would be If you are going into hospital as a ‘planned admission’ you are strongly learning on Saturday.

encouraged to contact the Parish Priest well beforehand so that, if After celebrating a requiem for a long-time parishioner at St Charles on Thursday morning Fr D appropriate, the Sacrament of the Sick can be celebrated beforehand. was at a meeting with several other parish priests who have been working

Infant Baptism : Infant Baptisms are intended for the children of with a developer on a ‘parish friendly’ website template. When he got back practising parishioners only and are celebrated on five occasions during he just had time to eat before going to Shoreham again for a Mission Mass. the year after parents and godparents have completed a course of preparation. There can be no celebration without this important course. CHILDREN’S WORDSEARCH 5TH SUNDAY EASTER YEAR C The dates of the courses for the current year can be found in the 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 and Wales six 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 Pope’s Ukraine Appeal . . . . . Services For The Coming Week . . . . . P A G E 3 All our parishes have received a letter Day Date Where Time Service / Intention Donor from Bishop Richard asking us to hold a Sat. 23rd April St George, Martyr and Patron of England Special Retiring Collection for the Ukraine this weekend (23/4 April) following St Charles 17.00 - 17.45 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament the call of Pope Francis for this collection St Charles 17.00 - 17.30 Reconciliation to take place across the whole of Europe. St Charles 18.00 [Intention] [Donor]

Bishop Richard has now provided us with Sun. 24th April Fifth Sunday Easter Year C additional information about the reason Holy Family 10.30 [Intention] [Donor] for this collection. Mon. 25th April St Mark, Evangelist Pope Francis said during the Regina Caeli prayer: “I am thinking of the ordeal of No Service Today those who suffer the consequences of Tue. 26th April Easter Weekday the violence in Ukraine: of those who St Charles 09.30 [Intention] [Donor] continue to live in lands that are turned upside-down by hostilities that Wed. 27th April Easter Weekday have caused thousands of deaths, and of Holy Family 09.30 [Intention] [Donor] those – over a million – who have been Thu. 28th April Easter Weekday forced to leave due to the grave situation that persists” St Charles 09.30 [Intention] [Donor]

Bishop Borys Gudziak of Paris said to Vatican Radio for the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church: “officially, Fri. 29th April St Catherine of Siena, Virgin and Doctor of the Church ten thousand people have been killed” since the conflict erupted between government forces and Holy Family 18.00 - 18.45 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament pro-Russian separatists two years ago. “Tens of thousands have been maimed or injured: without legs, Holy Family 18.00 - 18.30 Reconciliation without arms, without eyes – paralyzed. There are hundreds of thousands of people with post traumatic shock and 2.5 million people had to leave their homes because five million people were Holy Family 19.00 [Intention] [Donor] directly affected by the war,” he adds. Sat. 30th April Easter Weekday

He goes on to say that half a million people have left Ukraine and two million are internally displaced St Charles 17.00 - 17.45 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament persons. “Remember that Germany accepted 1.1 million refugees (Germany has 80 million people), St Charles 17.00 - 17.30 Reconciliation Ukraine (without the affected areas of Crimea and Donbas), has 40 million. And those 40 million accepted two million refugees. But the GDP of Germany, the budget of the country, is 45 times as big St Charles 18.00 [Intention] [Donor] as that of Ukraine.” Sun. 1st May Sixth Sunday Easter Year C

The Greek Catholic prelate applauds the generosity of Ukrainians and the fact that there is no talk of Holy Family 10.30 [Intention] [Donor] putting refugees in “concentration camps… the people have been absorbed” by local communities. 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. People are exhausted, traumatized, hungry and medicines hard to find ‘Mass Intentions’ are published in the Parish Newsletter on the weekend before they are celebrated although sometimes a But after two years of what he calls a “hybrid war, which is not [a declared war], a stealth war,” the Requiem Mass will ‘bump’ an intention to a later date. population, he says, “is exhausted. There is a lack of medicine, a lack of insulin for diabetics, anaesthesia for people who are operated upon. Many people are having operations without anaesthesia in [affected] areas. The World Malaria Day Challenge . . . . . There are many homeless people. There are people who are losing their minds. They have great 25th April fundraising activity this Donate online at psychological trauma. spring. It might be running Today, the New York Times reported that there are 1.5 million hungry people in Ukraine.” Malaria is one killer disease www.malarianomore.org. we know we can beat! a marathon or it might be uk/get-involved Of the 24 April collection to be taken up at Mass throughout Europe’s Catholic churches, Bishop We’ve already more than something as simple as a Gudziak says “it is always important to help those who are poor and suffering. And this collection will halved child deaths since sponsored tea and do that. It will do it without regard for confessional or ethnic background, or language spoken. It will 2000, but in Africa Malaria biscuit morning. be distributed in a way that it gets to the people who need help.” is still the biggest killer of But even more importantly, he says, “it is necessary for Catholics and Christians and all people children aged under five. of good will in Europe to be reminded about what is happening. When I was at the French Bishops’ We are on the cusp of a Conference three weeks ago, many bishops were surprised that the war is still going on. Because of historical moment – a the situation in Syria and Iraq, all of the attention has been moved to the Middle East and people think world without malaria. It’s the war is finished – that the Russian invasion is no more. But it continues. There is shooting every through commitment and day, there are people killed almost every day. And so it is important that the European community action that we will achieve strengthens its resolve in discussing these issues with Russia to stop the war, to stop the killing, to this goal. If we act now, a stop the flow of refugees.” malaria free world can be-

come a reality. If the war were to continue and the front were to expand, Bishop Gudziak warns, “you could have 5-10 million immigrants fleeing the war, going through Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, to the West. So the The ‘Malaria No More’ situation in Ukraine is very important for Europe. And that is why the Holy Father has appealed to all charity invites schools, local the Catholics in Europe [to turn out] on April 24 at the Holy Mass to make a contribution for helping communities and churches the people but also a contribution which will be one for peace. And of course, summoning everybody to put on their thinking to prayer is very important because we know that prayer moves mountains.” hats and come up with a

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 C. Brotherton G. Duffy M. Ewens Required 6 Easter C L. Duffy F. Brotherton 30th April N/A N/A 18.00 St Charles C. Foster M. Hoppe B. Morris S. Morris E. McKeown G. & L. Duffy Sunday A. O’Sullivan Y. Comaschi T. Paterson I. Murray 6 Easter C T. Selby N. Keenan 1st May B. Southey 10.30 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. EAST WORTHING WOMEN’S GROUP - The next scheduled event for our Parish Women’s Group is a meal at the local ‘Pomodoro e Mozzarella’ restaurant in Worthing. This will be taking place on Friday 13th May (meet at the restaurant at DEACONS’ THOUGHTS . . . . 18.00). For more details and to book your place please contact Teresa Gear (207902). Some more on the Acts of the Apostles. This week we hear about more journeys TOWERS SCHOOL OPEN MORNING - The Towers School are holding an Open Morning on Wednesday undertaken by Paul and Barnabas - always preaching, always encouraging, 4th May (poster in narthex). As a school with an active Catholic community living in the main simply pouring their lives out for the Good News. The crucial point of this was to building, they are fairly unique and would love more Catholic children to have the opportunity to persuade people of the necessity for repentance and to believe in the Son the experience the education that they offer. Lord has sent. And then baptism...... This has been a crucial goal of missionary endeavour LECTIO DIVINA - Do not forget that there are sheets available (yellow) in the church narthex for those through the ages. Why is it so central? parishioners who would like to take up Bishop Richard’s recommendation of prayer using the Sunday Scriptures. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in a recent interview hinted at the idea that the missionary GRANDPARENTS DAY OF REFLECTION: ‘Is Modern Life Toxic for Children?’ A day to explore the pressures on children growing up in a techno-centric world and how we as Grandparents can best impulse has faded over the last decades because we seem to be satisfied that being created support them. Led by Sue Palmer, international speaker and author of ‘Toxic Childhood’ - a ground by God is sufficient. We're all God's children, so the thinking goes, that we don't need to worry breaking book studying the effects of contemporary childhood on child development. On Saturday about baptism or anything specific (and demanding, like discipleship, a focused prayer life and 10th September, 10.00 to 16.00 at The Christian Education Centre (DABCEC), 4 Southgate Drive, regular worship at Mass). Whereas it is true that we are all brought into being by God’s Crawley, RH10 6RP. Drinks will be provided but please bring along a packed lunch. To book your creative act, every one of us, we are NOT necessarily God’s children by adoption. Only by place contact Katherine Bergin (Marriage & Family Life Adviser) telephone: 01293 651152 or email: turning to him in faith and by accepting the baptism that CHANGES us, that makes us and [email protected] marks as Christ’s can we properly begin the real process of becoming more and more like 2016 EASTER DUTIES - ALL Roman Catholics are expected to complete their ‘Easter Duties’ between Him. Ash Wednesday (10th February) and Trinity Sunday (22nd June) this year. This means receiving Holy Communion in a worthy manner, having celebrated God’s forgiveness in the Sacrament of Paul and his companions wouldn’t have bothered themselves, nor would the astoundingly Reconciliation. courageous Jesuits of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and countless others, if they POPE FRANCIS COLLECTION FOR UKRAINE - Pope Francis has asked all Catholic churches in Europe to had believed that all that was needed was to sit back and just accept that being created by take up a Special Collection for the people of beleaguered Ukraine this weekend. God was enough. But it isn’t. Paul knew that and we, perhaps, need to relearn it. Speaking to tens of thousands of Catholics at the end of Mass in St Peter’s Square, the Pope announced the aid initiative, saying: “This gesture of charity, in addition to relieving material suffering, is intended to express my personal closeness and solidarity, and that of the entire Church, for Ukraine.” Pope Francis has called Prayers Please . . . . . attention to the violence in Ukraine on multiple occasions, most recently in his Urbi et Orbi message for Easter where he called for a solution to the conflict. For those unwell at Canon Gerald Coates, Fr Holy Father’s Prayer For those who CATHOLIC WOMEN’S LEAGUE - The regular monthly meeting of our local Catholic this time: Intention: Women’s League will be taking place on Wednesday (27th) at 14.30 in the Holy Dominic Rolls, Fr Eric Flood Anne Godfrey, Andrena are unwell……. and Canon Tony Whale. “. . . . that people may Family Parish Centre. On the agenda this month are the arrangements for our Godfrey, Peggy Dyke, learn to respect creation those who have annual trip to the Corpus Christi Carpet of Flowers/Mass at Arundel Cathedral on The recently deceased: Barbara Sarcoe, Sheila Bergin, Irene Smith. and care for it as a gift of died recently…. Thursday 26th May and our Annual Pilgrimage to Westminster Cathedral later in Maria Rodrigues, Christopher Anniversaries of death: God.” July. Browne, Elizabeth Robinson, Philomena Filsell, Kenneth those whose Janet O’Connell, John Poetz, Hatchard, Denis McKie, Tamar anniversaries Saint Mark -25th April Kathleen McKeown, Gordon Rhoden, Gloria Hodgkinson, occur…..

O’Taney, Eileen Stabler-Smith, Florence Cooper, Frank Paulo, Mark fulfilled in his life what every Christian is called to do: the Holy Win & Michael Lyons, Anne Patrick Cashman, Fr Colum proclaim to all people the Good News that is the source of Anderson, Rosemary Bellamy, Father’s Prayer salvation. In particular, Mark found his vocation in writing. Others Murray, Fr Peter Dorman, Fr Intention…. Stephanie Spencer, Shirley Robert Andrews, Fr Gerald may proclaim the Good News by music, drama, poetry, or by Whelan, Hamish Paterson, Sproston & Fr Christopher teaching children around a family table. Eleanor Jukes, Deacon Pat, Spender.