Easter Lilies: If in memory of a loved one you would like to buy a lily for the Church at Easter- please print their name and put it in an envelope from the back of Church with your offering (suggest £3.50)

Children's Stations of the Cross

Next Sunday 7 April - After morning Mass

Our Sunday School Children will lead the Stations

You are welcome to join them -

they would love your support.

Further details to follow.

Collections 24 March - Many thanks

Env £245.91 Loose £282.12 Cafod £36.20

Emergency Message from Cafod

A powerful cyclone has swept through Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, killing hundreds of people - affecting some 2.6 million - thousands with no shelter, food, medicine or clean water. Please, donate right now - the first £2m donated in the UK will be matched by the government - helping to deliver

life-saving supplies to those devastated by Cyclone Idai.£30 provides blankets to keep two families warm £50 could feed a family for a month. £100 could build toilet & washing facilities for a family.

Use the Cafod envelopes from the back of Church

Diocesan Pilgrimage - Walsingham - Sat 8 June

A 33 seat coach from St Patricks is booked - add your name to the list at the back of Church.

(By law children have to occupy a seat)

Our Sunday School children will be making their

First Confession on Monday 1^st April.

Please remember them in your prayers.

We will be judged for whether we shared 'our daily bread,' Pope Francis says : -

"Let's get this in our heads: food is not private property, but providence to be shared with the grace of God."

Francis urges us to think about those who pray the Our Father and are really in need of basic necessities, such as food and water. Think of "the starving children of Yemen," he said, "the hungry children in Syria, the hungry children in many countries where there is no bread, in South Sudan."

Jesus, Pope Francis stated, teaches us to pray not only for our own needs, but for the needs of the whole world, because "if God is our Father, how can we present ourselves to Him without joining hands?"

The 'Our Father,' he continued, "contains an attitude of empathy, an attitude of solidarity. In my hunger I feel the hunger of the multitudes, and then I will pray to God until their request is granted."

The Pope recalled the miracle of the loaves and the fishes, when Jesus takes five loaves and two fishes, which were shared by one generous child, and multiplies them into enough to feed a crowd of thousands. "[Jesus] himself, multiplying that offered bread, anticipated the offering of Himself in the Eucharistic Bread," he said.

"In fact, only the Eucharist is able to satiate the hunger for the infinite and the desire of God that animates every man, even in the search for daily bread."

Based on an article by Hannah Brockhaus - Catholic News Agency

Historic Churches Annual Ride & Stride -

14^th Sept. A diary date - especially for any riders or striders - more information to follow.

Duston Churches Together - Lent Lunches

This week 3^rd April - St Francis

Donations for Cafod & Christian Aid

There is one way only of being happy, not to be ignorant of suffering, and not to run away from

it but to accept the transfiguration it brings.

Henri De Lac

Pope's Prayer Intention - April

for doctors and their humanitarian collaborators in war zones - all risking their lives to save the lives of others.

Please Pray For The Sick

Sara Fox, Mary Ellis, Enzina D'Eramo, Kitty McKenna, Joan James, Jean House, Richard Foster, Margaret Dunne, Ethan A Fernandes, Phil Jacobs, Sinead McDonall, Glenda Smith, Maureen Bicknell, Dominico Piro, James Coutinho, Bridie Weir, Sharon Botterill, Jean House, Anne Thompson, Margaret,Kevin & Mark McKeown, Winnie & John Kelly, Daniel Butcher, Bernadette Bollard, Henry McAteer, Catherine Vince, Catherine Watts, Dominic Fernandes, Chris Brady, Emma Bonfield, Babies Ricardo & Michael, Nora McLoughlin, Annie Jacobs, Jenina Skippen, Michael Folan, Andrea Hughes,Fr Peter Pham, Kath Craven, Jeremy Wilcox, Linda Lane, baby Ioannis Ferao, Margaret Giltrap, Joe Taitt, Sara Quartermaine, Nancy Hughes, Madeline Clark.

Please tell the clergy of anyone in care, hospital or housebound who would like the sacraments. also of any names to be added or removed.

Gift Aid - Planned Giving

Please let Rosemary Earle know -

If you gift aid your offering and have moved,

changed your name or no longer pay tax,

OR

If you are a tax payer, with your consent we can reclaim the tax paid on your offering -

this increases the value of your gift

by 25% at no cost to yourself.

Diocesan Mass for Married Life

12 noon - April 6^th

St Mary's, Woburn Sands MK17 8NN

Bishop Peter will preside and bless those couples celebrating special anniversaries. Please contact 07412151517 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you are attending. Refreshments after Mass.

THE PRAYER TRUST TABLE

popular Lent Prayer booklets and Easter Cards available - cost 20p - at the back of Church.

A wonderful opportunity of fostering prayer at home with family and friends.

CASH FOR TRASH - An easy way of raising funds for CAFOD. A poster lists items that can be put in the orange sack. Help Cafod & help our Planet.

Meditate -Today's parable could be called the parable of the two lost sons. One lost on leaving home - the other whilst staying at home. It's the father who is the image of God - for whom no one is ever lost.

Pray - God of hopefulness you go out of your way to find and bring back the lost. and bring them back. We pray that you will follow us guide us when we go astray.