ST WILLIAM’S PARISH BULLETIN   

                  Tel: $$$$$$$$  Parish Priest:  Fr. Terry Tolan,  847 Ecclesall Road, Sheffield S11 8TL. Deacon:  John Biggins

MASS TIMES & INTENTIONS

Saturday        (27)      6.30pm     Lilian & Michael Smyth (A)     

Sunday           (28)        9.30am     Hilda Bott (A)

                                 11.15am   Robert Evers (A)

Monday         (1)      10.00am   Fr. Thomas Keegan (A)                         ST DAVID     

Tuesday         (2)      10.00am   People of the Parish

Wednesday    (3)      10.00am      REQUIEM – Lawrence Brimacombe                         

Thursday       (4)      12 noon    James Gill (A)                                         (St Casimir)

Friday            (5)      10.00am   Keith Staniforth (A)

Saturday        (6)      10.30am    Memorial Mass – John Rochford

SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT (C): Today we glimpse something of the glory of God in Jesus Christ.  He was transfigured before His disciples.  He invites us to be one with Him, to leave our sins behind & be transformed by His love.

PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS: Sick: Michael Doherty, Bob Kelly, Zish Szewczyk, Rene Hennessy, Margaret Power, Derek Wilkinson, Helen Smith, Margaret Hughes, Mike Barton, Lilian Goode, Bernadette Murray, Eric Skeemer, Claire Butler, Ray & Bertha Adair, Margaret Cotter, Mary Chapman & Margaret Biggins.  Recently Dead: Fr Pat Davis, Lawrence Brimacombe.   Anniversaries: Fr Thomas Keegan, Fr Andrew Daly, Cecilia Simmons, Mary Lambert, Edmund Magill, William Tolan, Mary Blaker, Michael Aherne, Pauline Brazewell, Stan Ogielda, Mary McElligot, Judith Wiley, Paul Haimes, Brian McCormick, Alban Darwin, John Kirkham, Kath Cowan, Catherine Cronin, Vincent Lamb, Winefride Hawksworth, Eileen Porteous, Robert Watson, Ernest Lane, Stephen Lester, Margaret Jowett, Veronica Marray, Mary Windle, Charlie Gallagher, Rosie Boylan, Vera Mitchell, Robert Evers, Margaret Coyne, Geraldine Chapman, Kate Kilcoyne, Beth Birch, Peggy Coyne & Michael Smyth.    May they rest in peace!

OUR SYMPATHY & PRAYERS are extended to Moira Brimacombe & her family on the recent death of her dear husband, Larry.  May he rest in peace.

 

CHILDREN’S LITURGY OF THE WORD resumes at 9.30am on Sunday.

BAPTISMS AND MARRIAGES are by appointment.

THE CHURCH is open daily for visits and prayer.

MORNING PRAYER from the Divine Office is recited 15 minutes before daily Mass.

ADORATION of the BL. SACRAMENT is on Friday from 2 to 7.30pm in Garden Room.

STATIONS OF THE CROSS are recited with Holy Communion on Friday at 7.30pm.

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION (Confession) is on Saturday from 12.30 to 1.00pm.

 

A SERVICE OF COMMITMENT for parents and children preparing for their First Reconciliation Sacrament, will be held at all Masses this weekend. Please bring documents!

CAFOD LENT FAST Collection will be taken at the offertory at all Masses this weekend.  Envelopes are still available on the benches for those who couldn’t get to Mass last Sunday.  Please fill in the Gift Aid slip if you are a taxpayer.

PANTOMIME TICKETS will be on sale this weekend for the production of “Jack and the Beanies-Stalkthis Friday & Saturday  or contact June Meadows on $$$$$$$. Please support!

CAFOD BOXES for Lenten Alms are still available at the back of church/in the porch.  Please gift aid if you can, following the instructions on the slip attached to the box.  Please bring your

box to Mass on Holy Thursday  or at your next Mass if that is not possible.

ST WILFRID’S CENTRE trolley will be in the porch this weekend for tins of ham & potatoes

THE APOSTLESHIP OF PRAYER leaflets for March are available to take home.

LENT EXTRA, the Redemptorist Publication for all the family, is on sale at £1.50.

“KEEPING LENT AT ST WILLIAM’S” is a free leaflet in the porch containing all the events & Services here this Lent.  Please take one.

LENT LUNCHES this year are on Sunday, from 12.30 to 1.30pm. As it is our turn this year to host these lunches of bread & cheese, please sign the list in the porch to help. The proceeds will be “Buckets of pennies for buckets of water” for Third World Children.

THE PREPARATION PROGRAMME for the Sacrament of Reconciliation continues this Sunday at 5.30pm in the Hall for parents and children. Please bring 1baby photo of your child.

BROWNIES meet on Monday in the Centre from 6.00 to 7.30pm

THE GUIDE COMPANY meets in the Centre on Monday this week from 7.30 to 9.00pm

CARERS &TODDLERS will meet this week on Tuesday in the Centre at 10am – $$$$$$$$.

RAINBOWS meet in the Centre on Tuesday from 6.00 to 7.00pm. Contact Julie on $$$$$$$.

THE RECEPTION of the body of  Dr. Lawrence Brimacombe is on Tuesday at 6.30pm.

A JOURNEY IN FAITH is held on Tuesday this week in the presbytery at 7.30pm.

THE HALLAM ASCENT GROUP meets at 1.45pm at Highbury Convent on Wednesday this week. For details contact Sister Clare on $$$$$$$.

ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY meets on Wednesday at 7.30pm in the York Room

“WHEN I SURVEY CHRIST’S CROSS & OURS” is the title of this year’s York Lent Course, which the Churches in Hunters Bar are using on the Wednesdays of Lent.  This week the venue is St Augustine’s, Brocco Bank on Wednesday at 7.30pm. Please come along!

SWYPE is for Y7-Y9 age group, from 6 to7.15pm on Thursday in the Parish Centre.

ST WILLIAM’S SOUP RUN is on Thursday this week. Interested in helping? Tel. $$$$$$$$

“WOMEN’S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER this year is on Friday this week at 2pm ( please note change of usual time!).  The local Service will be at All Saints Church, Ecclesall.  The theme this year is “ Let everything that has breath praise God”, by the women of the Cameroon.  All welcome.

A FAMILY CELEBRATION  of the Sacrament of Reconciliation for First Confessions is at 3pm next Saturday from.  All children, young people & parents are welcome.

 

FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT this year ends next Sunday, when the monthly Fairtrade Stall will be open in the Centre between Masses.  Please do support.

STATIONS OF THE CROSS with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament will be recited next Sunday, the First of the Month, at 4pm.  Please do try to share in these Lenten Devotions.

A PARENTING SKILLS COURSE for those with children aged 5-15years begins on Tuesday 9th March from 7pm at Mother of God Parish Room, for 8 weekly sessions.  The cost is £10.  Booking forms are available in the porch.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PRIMARY SCHOOL requires a Key Stage 1 teacher for September. Visits to the school welcome.  Application forms: http://www.cesew.org.uk  Closing date for applications 17th March. For more info. visit www.immaculate.derbyshire.sch.uk

A CELEBRATION for the 50th Anniversary of Family Fast Day will be held in St Mary’s Primary School, Herringthorpe on Saturday 13th March from 9.30am-1pm. ( Read the whole story in March “Hallam News”).