MEETING THE “LIVING GOD” SEMINAR AT HOUSE: Saturday 18th March from 10.30 a.m.-12.00 noon, Speaker: Alan CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY AND ST HELEN Williams, sm. For further information about this seminar or to book a place, HOLY CROSS AND ALL SAINTS please contact: [email protected] or call 265285. Father Martin Boland Father Patrick Daly LENT LECTURES, at the Hall, Epping: “The Privilege of Suffering” - How we understand and cope with it. Speaker: Dr Email: [email protected] Colin Harte on Monday 6th March at 8.00 p.m. Website: www.cathedral-brentwood.org “The Joy of Love - Amoris Letitia” - Pope Francis reflection on the Family and Moral and Pastoral issues. Speaker: Fr Alban McCoy OFM, of St Edmund’s Facebook: www.facebook.com/BrentwoodCathedral/ College Cambridge on Monday 13th March at 8.00 p.m. Twitter: cathedralb “Being a Catholic Doctor in 21st Century England and staying true to the Clergy House: 01277 265235 Catholic Faith”. Speaker: Dr Charlie O’Donnell, FRCP, Consultant on Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care, on Monday 20th March at 8.00 p.m. Deacon Paul: 01277 810321 Deacon Quentin: 01277 200925

JS BACH'S ST. MATTHEW PASSION will be performed, in English, at Chelmsford Cathedral on Saturday 1st April at 7.00 p.m. The musicians and THE FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT (A) soloists are all acclaimed professionals with the chorus being provided by Hutton 5th March 2017 and Shenfield Choral Society and the choristers of Chelmsford Cathedral Choir. Further details can be found on www.hscs.org.uk. Tickets are £18 for the central block and £15 (£6 students and children) in all other areas and are available from www.ticketsource.co.uk/huttonshenfieldchoralsociety or from Pat Clark on 07540 087220 or email [email protected] or on the door.

SION COMMUNITY CHARISMATIC TEACHING WEEKEND From 6.00 p.m. Friday 21st April to 2.00 p.m. Sunday 23rd April. Theme: ’Moving in the Anointing' - What does it mean to be anointed by God and how can we serve Him from that place? This weekend is open to all those wishing to grow in the Charismatic Gifts of the Holy Spirit. Cost: £110 residential, £80 non-residential. Book early as we have limited spaces. For more information [email protected] / [email protected] or call 215011.

MARILLAC CARE in Warley, is looking for an Activity Coordinator to work with our residents assisting with quizzes, crafts, bingo cookery etc. 21 hours over 3 days 10.00 a.m. – 5.00 p.m. (hours can be flexible). Please call 220276 for further information or email [email protected].

DIOCESAN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL ADVISERS The professional duties of the Diocesan School Advisers are to contribute to the achievement of the Church’s mission and ministry in education by, supporting the Director of Education with allocated shared responsibilities; supporting development of high quality educational, religious and spiritual standards in the Diocesan Catholic schools, contributing to the effectiveness of Diocesan services and operations; participating in the formulation of Diocesan education policy; and contributing to effective planning and organisation within the Education Department. Currently we are advertising a number of posts via the Diocesan Please ensure that you are aware of the position of Website. all the emergency FIRE EXIT doors in the Cathedral The Brentwood Diocesan Trust – Registered Charity No. 234092 This time of silence and adoration before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament has CATHEDRAL PARISH NEWS brought many graces to individuals and our parish in previous years so please Parish Office Hours are: 8.30 a.m. – 2.30 p.m. daily sign up on the sheet in the Cathedral narthex/Holy Cross and commit

to one hour of prayer during this time. THANK YOU to everyone for your patience and understanding while the Sanctuary light candles will be available for purchase (£5) after Sunday Masses; Cathedral was being decorated and we celebrated Sunday Mass in the Wessex you will be able to write your intentions on the candle and, then, to bring it and Auditorium. As a community, we are indebted to Brentwood School for their place the candle around the altar during the Forty Hours of Prayer. practical support and help. A number of people have commented on how we have been reminded of the sacred mysteries we are participating in and PARISH LENT SERVICE OF RECONCILIATION will take place on Tuesday 11th April at 7.30 p.m. in the Cathedral. There will be a number of priests  Of the importance of being on time for Mass. available to hear confessions and there is no better way to prepare for Easter.  Of not bringing food and drink to Mass  Of adults and older children going to toilet before Mass begins THANK YOU for the collection on the 26th February: £3,650.76 of which £2,729.76 was Gift Aided and also for the second collection for Maria Ratschitz  Of not using electronic devices during Mass which raised an amazing £944.83 of which £75.00 was Gift Aided. Thank you  Of the value and importance of silence during Mass for your continued generosity.

We should make every effort to bring these good practices back into the PLEASE PRAY for the repose of the souls of June Guttridge and Norah Hayden Cathedral and Holy Cross so that we may worship God in a properly reverent who died recently; June’s Requiem Mass will be celebrated in the Cathedral on and prayerful manner. Thursday 9th March at 1.30 p.m. Norah’s funeral details are not yet known. May they both rest in the peace of Christ and may those who grieve their loss STATIONS OF THE CROSS, where we remember Christ’s passion and death in be comforted by the Lord. special meditations, take place at Holy Cross on a Friday evening at 7.00 p.m. COFFEE after 9.30 a.m. Mass today will be hosted by the Justice & Peace during Lent. Please make a very special effort to attend at least one session of Group; next week will be the turn of CAFOD. Everybody welcome; do come Stations of the Cross during Lent. along for a coffee and a chat.

THE CAFOD LENTEN FAST DAY will take place on Friday 10th March although our parish collection for this is being postponed to the weekend of BIG CLEAN IN THE CATHEDRAL – CAN YOU HELP? Fr Martin is looking for 1st/2nd April. CAFOD works with church networks across the world; this volunteers for the morning of Saturday 18th March from 10.00 – 12 noon to means that CAFOD can reach the poorest people, bringing hope, respecting help spring-clean the inside and surrounding outside area of the Cathedral. If their dignity, and supporting them as they change their lives. If you are a tax you are able and to help, please call Clergy House, sign up on the sheet in the payer, please give using a Fast day envelope. narthex or just turn up on the day and give a hand. Thank you.

FORTY HOURS of adoration and meditation will take place before the Blessed PLEASE NOTE that the deadline for any newsletter articles will now be midday Sacrament from 5.00 p.m. on Thursday 16th March and conclude at 9.15 a.m. on a Wednesday as printing takes place on Thursday. with Mass on Saturday 18th March. It is important that a minimum of five FAIRTRADE CAKE COMPETITION: it is that time of year again! As a people are in the Cathedral at all times, day and night. Please sign up on the 40 Fairtrade parish we will be celebrating Fairtrade Fortnight with our annual hours sheet in the narthex. We are asking Fairtrade Cake Competition taking place in the Parish Hall following the 9.30  Every healthy adult to commit to one hour of prayer a.m. Mass in the Brentwood School. There is a wide range of Fairtrade ingredients available in the supermarket and you are invited to show off your  Every secondary school young person to 45 minutes culinary skills by presenting your Fairtrade Cake at the coffee morning this  Every primary school child to fifteen minutes Sunday 5th March. There will also be lots of freebie Fairtrade products so  The men of the parish to try and commit to an hour from 10.00 please do come along to sample some of the delights.

p.m. – 6.00 a.m. in order to make sure the Blessed Sacrament MISSIO have written to express their sincere thanks for the £852.29 that has and any people are safe. been raised by the parish. STEWARD OF THE GOSPEL NEWS The questionnaire will be available again MASS AT HOLY CROSS ON 18TH MARCH will be offered for James Joseph this weekend as hard copy from the Ushers (please do ask for one) and is also Rogers who was with the Irish Guards (3rd Battalion) in Warley around available on the website. Unfortunately the form cannot be completed on-line. February 1915. He married a local girl called Fanny R Webber at Holy Cross Chris Chandler would be very grateful if you will thoughtfully complete and Church in June 1917. James joined the Royal Dublin Fusiliers with a commission return it to him at Clergy House or [email protected] during the next in January 1917 and was killed in action on 27th March 1918; he is couple of weeks. He will publish the date for the next discussion group very commemorated on the Church war memorial, but is buried in France. The shortly. Webber family lived in Warley and her father was a bandsman/musician.

GIFT AID SCHEME YOUNG PEOPLES SEMINAR – 18th – 21st July at Hinsley Hall, Leeds. Young

As the end of the tax year approaches we are considering our gift aid Catholic people, aged 16–23 years, are invited to apply for a place on this claim. Please get in touch with Lorna Green, the gift aid organiser, on weekend seminar sponsored by the Knights of St Columba on the theme 205923 or at [email protected], if any of the following "Apostleship". Course fee and travel expenses paid by KSC. Apply to Paul circumstances apply to you: Redfearn (01277 224208).

 you are no longer a tax payer or became a non-tax payer in MISS WILLMOTT’S GRAVE which is in the grounds of the Cathedral has 2016/17 looked a little uncared for of late and, after an appeal for help, Shirley and  you wish to leave the gift aid scheme Antony Timmins have been tidying the area and liaising with Essex Wildlife Trust  you signed up to the gift aid scheme, but were unable to members with an interest in Warley Place to install an information board. The grave surround is to be cleaned so that the lettering can be read properly and make payments during the year (please see note below the railing repainted. Some time ago, the grave was planted by the Wildlife regarding this) Trust with plants associated with Miss Willmott, but most of these seem to have  you require a final tax letter for your 2016/17 tax return disappeared. We are grateful to the kind people who have already made  you wish to increase or decrease the amount you donate donations to the cost of this work, and if you would like to add your contribution please e mail [email protected]. As a housekeeping exercise, if those within the scheme are no longer donating, their record is terminated. It can always be reinstated at a NEXT SUNDAY’S READINGS: later stage. Please contact Lorna if this applies to you. New gift aid Genesis 12: 1-4, 2 Timothy 1: 8-10 and Matthew 17: 1-9. boxes will be available to collect in the next few weeks. Many thanks for your continued support. SICK AND HOUSEBOUND PARISHIONERS: If you know anyone who is unable to come to Mass but would still like to receive Holy Communion in their FROM GALWAY TO EMPIRE: A lavishly illustrated talk next Tuesday 7th home, contact Clergy House so we can put them on our Sick Communion list. March at 7.30 p.m. in the Cathedral Parish Hall on the fascinating life of Dr THE ANOINTING OF THE SICK is available to anyone who is gravely ill or Thomas Kelly DSO by David Worsfold, recently captured in his new book about to have an operation, so if you know someone who would like to receive ‘Fighting for the Empire’. Kelly’s remarkable life as a military surgeon took him this important sacrament then please speak to a member of the clergy or ring from Galway to India, Tibet, Persia, Afghanistan, winning the DSO in the desert the parish office on 265235. in WW1 and serving on Atlantic convoys in WW2 as a ship’s surgeon when he was in his 70s. There will be lots of pictures from old Galway, including the albums kept by Kelly’s sister, a nun, who spent her entire life serving the GENERAL NEWS Presentation Convent in Galway while her younger brother led a life of CHURCHES TOGETHER IN BRENTWOOD Lenten Unity Service - Ecumenical dangerous adventure around the world. Find out which former assistant priest Stations of the Cross will be held in St Thomas’ Church on Thursday 9th March at the Cathedral is Kelly’s Great Grandson. Admission is free and signed copies at 7.30 p.m. Please make an effort to join our town’s Christians for this event. of the book priced at £20 will be on sale; 25% of each book sold will be donated to the Cathedral Parish’s charity for 2017, Bridge2Aid. HEALING MASS at Abbotswick to be celebrated by Fr Eamonn Power at 2.30

p.m. on Wednesday 15th March. Please call 373959 or visit ST PATRICK’S DAY will be marked with coffee in the parish Hall after the 9.15 www.abbotswick.org for more information. All are welcome. a.m. Mass on Friday 17th March; everyone welcome. SERVICE TIMES, MASS INTENTIONS Sunday THE SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT (A) 12 March 8.00 a.m. Cathedral Intentions of Valerie Neil and PARISH DIARY 9.30 a.m. Cathedral People o0f the Parish BRENTWOOD CATHEDRAL and HOLY CROSS 10.00 a.m. Marillac Ray Williams R.I.P. 11.30 a.m. Cathedral Alice Jackson R.I.P. Saturday 2.00 p.m. Holy Cross Baptism of Alfie Munday 4 March 9.00 a.m. Holy Cross Bernie McMahon R.I.P. 6.30 p.m. Cathedral Domenica Ambrosi R.I.P.

11.00 a.m.- 12 noon Sacrament of Reconciliation PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR SICK:- Please pray for all our sick and housebound 6.30 p.m. Holy Cross Noreen and Jerimiah Moran R.I.P parishioners and friends, including: Jean Allen, Hermine Bayley, Carmen

Sunday THE FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT (A) Blackett, Colin Blacksley, Joy Breslin, Sr Eileen Bolger, Eileen Brook, Beryl de 5 March 8.00 a.m. Cathedral Intentions of Rita and Sid Curtis Prazer, Lucy Calabritto, John Carroll, Michael Clifford, Sharon Cornell, David, 9.30 a.m. Cathedral Mary Gilsenan R.I.P. Monica Donegan, Baby Arthur Fleming, Rebecca Florendo, Ron Fuhr, Toni Marie 10.00 a.m. Marillac Peggy Kerr R.I.P. Graves, Ann Head, Tom Horan, Rita Hornsby, Ann Hurcumbe, Jess, Billy Jones, 11.30 a.m. Cathedral Gina and Pierino Cavellini R.I.P. James Joseph, Brian Kelleher, Veronica Kelleher, Marion Kelly, Moira Kilgannon, 3.00 p.m. The Rite of Election for the Journey In Keith Lloyd, Kathleen Luton, Bernard Lynch, Tony Maule, Joanne McCann, Anita Faith group at St Antony of Padua McDonald-Liggins, Diarmaid McMahon, Betty McManimon, Elaine Moss, Michael Church, Forest Gate Murphy, Barney O’Driscoll, Kathleen O’Harte, Siobhan O’Leary, Michael 4.00 p.m. Parish Hall Confirmation Session 5 Olejarczyk, Tony and Babs Page, Mercedes Payne, Silvestro Peluso, Debbie and 6.30 p.m. Cathedral Adrian Plackett R.I.P. Brian Perrett, Ruth Pye, James Quilligan, Jacqueline Quinlan, Mary Robinson, Anne Rowe, Pat Shaw, Robin Shenton, Daisy Simpson, Bernard Slater, David Monday Spring, Marie Stack, Sarah Storer, Patricia Swadling, TCT, Eddie Wadsworth, 6 March 9.15 a.m. Cathedral Elsie and Jim Hogg R.I.P. Donald Walker, Maria Wallis, Doreen Watson, Wendy, Monica Whitaker, Louisa Whiteman, and all our sick in the Marillac, Mascalls Park, Brentwood Community, The Beeches, Queens, Nuffield and Hartswood Hospitals and St Tuesday Francis Hospice. 7 March 9.15 a.m. Cathedral Intentions of Nancy Howard CATHEDRAL ANNIVERSARIES: Please remember the following, whose Wednesday anniversaries occur at this time: John McLoughlin, Alfred Hicks, Father Hughes, 8 March 9.15 a.m. Cathedral Deceased Members of Patrick Kelly, Ellen Gibbs, Frank Leader, Maureen Byrne, Kathleen Hicks, Michael Brentwood OFS Doherty, Dorothy Collier, Patrick Lawlor, Colin Martin, Catherine Greaves, 6.30 a.m. Cathedral Choral Vespers Francis Fuller, John McDonnell, Ellen Gilham, Elizabeth Rowe, William Henry

Thursday Stone, John Dillon, Thomas Regan, John Clarkson, Dorothy Verrier, Mrs E A 9 March 9.15 a.m. Cathedral Julie Timm R.I.P. Eldridge, Dennis Lyons, Patricia Drake, Paul Pennell-Buck, Howard Bunn, Lilly 1.30 p.m. Cathedral Requiem Mass for the late Hammond, Florence Distin, Claire Conrad, Sister M Elizabeth, Ian Darroch, June Guttridge R.I.P. Albino Pereira, John Young, Ian Glen, Joan Jones, Mr Carroll, Mr S O’Reilly, 5.30 p.m. Grange Kay Knight R.I.P. Clarence Keary, Florence Bell, Martha Burt, Edward Flynn, Maureen Kenny, 8.00 p.m. Halls Journey In Faith Course Patrick Luddy, Victoria Stone, Eileen Benjamin, June Hammond, Elizabeth Dobson-Taylor, John Bell, John Murphy, Eileen Wild, Alice Jackson, Mary Pond, Friday Lent Fast Day Michael Andrew-Kean, Werner Scheele, Bernard Green, Annie D’Souza, Edward 10 March 9.15 a.m. Cathedral Michael Delaney R.I.P. Bowyer, Nellie Penkul and William Ferguson. 7.00 p.m. Holy Cross Stations of the Cross HOLY CROSS ANNIVERSARIES: Please remember the following, whose Saturday anniversaries occur at this time: Dora Gillespie, Maurice Potton, Frank Dyer, 11 March 9.15 a.m. Cathedral Margaret Regan R.I.P. Mary O’Sullivan, Joseph Breslin, Mary Brewster, Lily Horswell, Fr. John Gordon, 11.00 a.m. - 12 noon Sacrament of Reconciliation Teresa Keely, Len Fisher, Sarah McEvoy, Elizabeth Taylor, Anthony Pillai and 6.30 p.m. Cathedral Sheila Ward R.I.P. Kenneth Hawes.