PARISH LITURGY – MASS TIMES and INTENTIONS

Saturday 6.00 pm People of the Parish

Sunday 9.30 am Roger Peck

Monday [Feria]

9.00 am Susanna and James Sullivan

Tuesday [Feria]

9.00 am Holy Souls

Wednesday [Ash Wednesday. Day of Fasting and Abstinence]

9.00 am Geoffrey and Nora Newbold

7.30 pm Private Intention

Imposition of Ashes at both Masses

Thursday [Lenten Feria]

9.00 am Vincent Conway

Friday [Lenten Feria]

9.00 am Edward Lahive

7.00 pm Stations of the Cross

Saturday [Lenten Feria]

9.00 am Lilly Bane

Confessions: Saturday, 4.30-5.00 pm

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please pray for the sick in our parish and for those who have died: Barbara Service; Neville Poole; Sr Mary Rose; Jane Jones; Mariangela Byrne (anniversaries).

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Last Week’s Collection: £349.49. Thank you.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Annual Finance Meeting takes place after Mass today.

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A Marriage Enrichment Group meets every other month in St Peter’s Parish Centre, Leamington Spa. The next meeting is 21 February from 2 to 4 pm. For further details, ring Bernie or Ann Tierney on 01782 634483

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The Lent Walk With Me booklets and calendars are available at the back of church. Please help yourself.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The CAFOD Family Fast Day is on Friday, 26^th February. Envelopes for your contribution will be available next weekend.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------It would be a kindness if all Christmas wreaths could be removed from the cemetery by the end of this month; thereafter, they will be removed without further notice.

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Is this a Fast, to keep

The larder leane?

And cleane

From fat of Veales and Sheep?

Is it to quit the dish

Of Flesh, yet still

To fill

The platter high with Fish?

Is it to faste an houre

Or ragged to go,

Or show

A downcast look, and sowre?

No: ‘tis a Fast, to dole

Thy sheaf of wheat

And meat

Unto the hungry Soule.

It is to fast from strife,

From old debate,

And hate;

To circumcise thy life.

To show a heart grief-rent;

To starve thy sin,

Not Bin;

And that’s to keep thy Lent

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)