PLEASE take the newsletter to a housebound or lapsed Catholic neighbour R.C.PARISH OF ST.THOMAS of HEREFORD, WEOBLEY and ST. BEDE, KINGTON

Parish Priest: Dom Simon McGurk, St.Thomas’ Presbytery, 20 Kington Rd. Weobley HR4 8QS. Tel. 01544.318 325 or at Belmont Abbey: 01432.374 721 E-mail : or (personal) Hospital Chaplain: Fr. Matthew Carney of Our Lady’s, Hereford, 01432.265177 DEAN: FR. MATTHEW CARNEY PARISH WEBSITE Contributions to it: 01544.340 681
8thWeek of Ord. Time,Yr.A and ASH WEDNESDAY
Feb.26th– March 4th2017 8thORDINARY SUNDAY Next Sunday Kieran O’Brien, our CAFOD representative, will be speaking at our Masses /
“Look at the birds in the sky: they neither sow nor reap... Look at the flowers in the fields, there today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow. Will not God much more look after you”
TODAY: Special collection for Marriage Care
WE WELCOME ALL VISITORS / Your presence makes us holy
Bid. Prayers: R. Lord, in your mercy/ Resp.Hear our prayer
YES,Children’s Liturgy TODAY

Sat.Feb. 25 MASS OF 8thORD.SUNDAY, Mass at Kington 6.00pm– John Ryan RIP Sun 26 MASS at Weobley 11.00 - The Parish Mon 27 Euch. Service, Weobley, 10.00 am.–Feria Tue. 28 No Mass - ST. DAVID Transferred Feast, Welsh Patron. Wed.Mar. 1 ASH WEDNESDAY. MASS, Kington 12.00, Weobley 5.00pm. Thur. 02 No Mass –St. Polycarp, v.early Church father. Fri. 03 MASS, Weobley, 4.00 – Feria Sat. 04 1st. SUNDAY OF LENT, MASS at Kington, 6.00pm.-The Parish Sun 05 MASS at Weobley 11.00 am. – The Parish

We pray for those of our parish or known to us who are sick or in need of special prayers: Fr. Antony, Elizabeth Kerr, Mary Clement, Brian & Diana Watkins, David Syder, Norman Burrows, Nora Ward, Peggy Davies AND John Trevitt. We remember those of our parish, relatives and friends recently dead: Mo Parry,Amy Uy,Yvonne Fowler, Douglas Chadwick and David Taylor, andanymembers of our Security Forces lately dead on active service. We remember the dead of our parish whose anniversaries occur at this time: Mary Agnes Dunkley (S.’51), William Ferguson (T.’83), Trevor Oakes (W.), Lucy Payton (W.’64), Joseph McGurk (F.’85), Dom Wilfrid Chadwick (F.’93), Finally , we pray for those parts of the world suffering from war, terrorism and civil strife, famine, slavery and disease. We rememberrefugees from hostile regimes and migrants seeking safe havens, or being sent home. Foranywhere ravaged by terrorism and especially for the cities of Mosul, Raqqa and Aleppo.

COLLECTIONS Feb.17th.Kington £81.00p. Weobley £199.73p. ------RECONCILIATION(Confessions):Before Mass at both Churchesor onrequest. Special Reconciliation days are arranged in Advent and Lent. Those unable to receive Communionfor any reason are welcome to come up for a blessing. Place your hands across your chest. ------

Global Warming & Climate Change TIP 22.Choose product s which come with little packagingand buy refills when you can. You will also cut down on waste product-ion and energy use. ------

COMMUNITY SHOP. Final net figure: £1,225.01. Well done all! ------COMING THIS FRIDAY: WOMEN’S WORLD DAY OF PRAYERat St. Thomas’, (RC)Weobley and St. Mary’s (CofE), Kington, Fri. March 3rd. ------

CT.WEOBLEY Bible Study Mon 27 Feb, 7.30 Castle Gate, Weobley. ------

Wanted: Suggestions for post-Alpha parish discussions. ------

‘WALK WITH ME’ Lenten booklets NOW available £1.00 EACH ------ARCHBISHOP’SDEANERY STATION MASS for Herefordshire will be celebrated on Friday March 30th. AT Our Lady’s Church, Belmont Rd, Hereford. Time 7.00 pm (t.b.c.) Please try to be there. ------

ENTERTAINMENT in aid of SS Peter & Paul Church, Weobley on March 17th, 7.30. See poster: ‘DIARY OF A DEAN’.

SPECIAL COMMEMORATION BOOKLETS to mark the centenary of our Archdiocese. Now on sale, price £5.00.

NEW BENEDICTINE and ARCH-DIOCESAN YEAR BOOKS ARE now on sale.£3.50.

Archdiocese. Now on sale, £5.00 each . Very good value.

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------YOUR FOOD BANK NEEDS YOU, Please beespecially generous as Christmas approaches. IMAGINE CHRISTMAS WITHOUT FOOD
THE ART OF DYING WELL Website of the Bishops of England and Wales to help anyin need. See well.org
call for every parish and religious comm-unity to take in one family. CSAN can help anyone wanting to provide a temporary home for a family
ITEMS FOUNDS: PLEASE CLAIM: * 2 umbrellas (umbrellae?), one brown, one black, at back of the church in Kington. * One brown sweater left at Weobley after barbecue. * 1 grey/black check cap in pew at Weobley
The problem is how to turn this into effective action. Community Sponsorship is one way of doing this. Further information, see Fr.Simon. / ------------CHRISTMAS LITURGIES `
MASSES Christmas Eve, 1st. Mass of Christmas, Weobley9.00pm. (No Kington 6.00 Mass that evening.)
Christmas Day, Dawn Mass, Kington 9.00am. Day Mass, Weobley 11.00am.
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fr.his birthplace nr.StWeonards, his lodgings at Treago Castle and Pembridge Castle, the Cwm recusant Jesuit seminary, his grave at WelshNewton, Mass in the church. See Fr. S

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