Our Lady of Peace Parish, Newbridge Meetings & Information Saint of the Week With Sacred Heart, Pontllanfraith & Ss. Anthony & Clare, Risca SVP Annunciation of the Lord The next SVP meeting will take place in the hall in Risca on The feast of the Annunciation is celebrated on March th Monday March 18 at 2.30pm. th Parish Clergy 25 ; nine months before Christmas. Faith Exploration Annunciation is the announcement by the Angel Day Ss. Anthony & Our Lady of The Sacred Heart, Fr. Kevin Paine - The Presbytery, Ashfield Road, th We will meet at 10.30am on 28 March. We will be looking at the Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive a Sundays C Clare, Peace, Pontllanfraith Newbridge. NP11 4RB Gospel of Luke. Son by the power of the Holy Spirit to be called Jesus. Weekdays 1 Risca Newbridge Prayer Group Tel: 01495 243304 - Mobile: 07980 23.69 36 The Angel’s pronouncement is met with Mary’s Fr. Kevin’s email: [email protected] Evening Prayer in Risca on a Tuesday evening at 6.00pm Sunday 24th 11.15am 9.15am 5.00pm (Sat.) Sunshine Club willing consent:- rd Parish email: [email protected] 3 Sunday of Lent Deceased Members of Louise Dyrbus Meryl Sidoli Meet every other Monday at 6.30pm in the Hall in Risca. Come “Here am I, the servant of the Lord, let it be with me the Knott & Moon Parish Deacon Families along and check those pounds!! according to your word” Rev Patrick Maloney - Tel: 01495 75.66.95 This then precipitates the Incarnation of Christ and his Monday 25th Rosary 10.30am Senior Citizens Sol: The 11.00am e-mail: [email protected] We meet in the Hall in Pontllanfraith every Tuesday from 1.15pm to redemption of the World. th Annunciation of Sr. Maria Lanugan 3.30pm. You are more than welcome to turn up for a chat, a cup of Feast day March 25 . the Lord Parish Website - ourladyofpeace.co.uk Tuesday 26th 6.00pm Evening Prayer tea, and a game of bingo. For more information, please contact +++++++++++++ 6.30pm Denise Robert. The Daughters of Charity Word & Sacrament Child Protection (The Vincentian Sisters) Weds. 27th 9.30am Exposition Please pray for… The LCPR – ‘Local Child Protection Rep. for these parishes is 10.00am These do not take ‘Final Vows’ of profession. Their Private Int. All those who receive the Sacrament at home, those Mrs Imelda Mortimer. Should you need to contact her the vows are renewed annually on the Feast of the who are in any need and especially for: Thursday 28th 10.00am – Rosary number is: 07773 649460 Annunciation. At the time of St. Vincent, if they had 10.30am Norah Pritchard, Stuart Coe, Jackie Heather, Christians Together Kathleen Russell, Valerie Griffin, and Ken Randall, taken Final Vows they would have been enclosed in a Holy Souls The next meeting will be held on Saturday April 6th Mike Parker. convent. They would then be unable to work with Stations after Mass in Golden Grove at 10.00am. th 10.00am Exposition If you would like to place someone on the list for him, among the poor on the streets! Friday 29 Justice and Peace 10.30am prayers; please check they are willing for their name to Stations of the Cross Word & Sacrament appear here and forward their na.me to us. The next meeting TBA 6.00pm Stations after Mass Parish IT Saturday 30th 10.00am Please Pilgrimages

Peace Collection 17/03/19 see Fr. Kevin after Mass! Oberamagau Sunday 31st 11.15am 9.15am 5.00pm (Sat.) Planning is underway for a visit to Oberamagau in 2020 to see the rd 4 Sunday of Lent Kathleen Dalton & Eileen Wayne White & Vic Resteghini Parish £ 519.24 Readers & Eucharistic Ministers Passion Play! Details of the Oberammergau Passion Play in Sept 2020 Laetare Sunday Stephens Jeffrey Fletcher are available. A meeting will be held on Saturday March 30th at Can we meet at Our Lady of Peace on Saturday, 6th April. During Lent 3pm in St. Anthony & St. Clare’s in Risca. We will be using the Apostles’ Creed; and Memorial Acclamation 3. Mass is at 10.00am and we will continue until lunch time Walsingham For the Mass we will be using Missal Tones The 2019 Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham will be

SVP Easter Raffle from Monday,14th October to Thursday 17th October. Please do consider this for next year. Have a chat with some of those Some Lent Events! S. Teresa of Avila The SVP are holding an Easter Raffle in aid of Church If you have a Family Fast Day CAFOD envelope you can hand it in either who have been before. No prices for next year as yet, but enquiries are Consider this prayer of S. Teresa when you are thinking about Funds. welcome now. through the collection, or to the Parish CAFOD Rep. what to do during Lent! Tickets are 50p each and there are various prizes to be We are in contact with the Shrine for this Year’s booking and forms and Singing Practice! won. costs will soon be available! We will be practicing for the Sacred Triduum on Sunday afternoons at Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no The draw will take place in Risca after 11.15am Mass on th 4.00pm. Please come along and bring an instrument, if you play; your voice, feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through Sunday April 14 Ladies, do you have any spare double knitting wool that is if you sing; your support, if you would like to know what we will be doing which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are Please give your support to this event. Many thanks. surplus to requirements? If so, please could you bring it along to through the Sacred Triduum. the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are church for Kay Stephens who would appreciate your donations Risca Churches Together the hands through which he blesses all the world. PAC Meeting! The next two meetings of the PAC (Parish Advisory Council) have for making blankets. Lent lunches and a chat at: Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are been arranged as follows: Tuesday, 14th May and Tuesday July 9th Bethany - 28th March the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now after the Mass in Risca. 200 Club High Street Crosskeys - 5th April on earth but yours. ALSO Payments for February are now due. Please put your All start at 12.00 Noon! All are welcome! We need another a rep. from Sacred Heart and Our Lady of Peace. payment in an envelope with your name on it and hand it Is this for you? Could you suggest a name? Mary’s Meals Reconciliation in to your collectors. Many thanks. th We will be having a ‘Soup and Roll’ supper on Friday, 12 April to show a Deanery Reconciliation Services DVD and present some information about ‘Mary’s Meals’.- a no-frills charity will be in the following places: One Mass Only! st Social & Fundraising Committee that attempts to provide some of the world’s poorest children with a meal at on Monday 1 April at 7pm. Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe th a place of education every school day. Learning and food lead to life- St David’s, on Monday 15 April at 7.00pm Meeting Sunday November 24th 2019 changing events! Can you be part of it? +++++++++ The next meeting will be in Our Lady of Peace in Newbridge at 11.00am In the Parish: 7.00pm on Friday, 5th April. Lenten Station Mass Our Lady of Peace Newbridge Before Weekday Masses. Followed by bring & share refreshments in the side Chapel. The North Deanery Station Mass will be celebrated on Wednesday Saturday at 4.00pm at the Sacred Heart. th 10 April at 7pm in St Alban’s Church, . Sunday - before Mass at Our Lady of Peace. Food Banks Sunday - before Mass at Ss. Anthony & Clare. Thank you to all those who help with this. Thought for the Week For those who would like to help but are not sure what items are What we are is God’s gift to us – needed a list has been prepare. Please take one. what we become is our gift to God.