Roman Catholic Diocese of Clifton - www.cliftondiocese.com Clifton Diocese (a company limited by guarantee) Registered Charity No. 1170168 Church of the, Yeovil Parish Address: 73 Higher Kingston, Yeovil, Somerset, BA21 4AR Also serving Church of St Michael, Lightgate Road, South Petherton, TA13 5AJ Chapel of Our Lady and St Augustine of Canterbury, HMS Heron Royal Naval Air Station, Yeovilton, BA22 8HT Parish Office Email: yeovil.holyghost@cliftondiocese.com Parish Telephone: 01935-423549 www.rc-churchyeovil.org @yeovilcatholic Served by the Missionaries of St Francis de Sales (Fransalians - MSFS) Parish Clergy: Father Jean-Patrice Coulon MSFS; Father Jose Maliekal MSFS Priests resident in the Parish: Father David O Regan; Father Peter Clarke (Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham) Parish Administrator: Sue Chant (Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings) Parish Safeguarding Officer: Awaiting Appointment. The Diocesan Safeguarding Office can be contacted at 0117-954 0993 ROSARY: before weekday Masses at Yeovil, and before Sunday Mass at South Petherton. All welcome. CONFESSIONS: Saturday 9.15 9.45am; 4.15pm 4.45pm ANOINTING OF THE SICK: On request. Please inform one of the clergy if you are going into hospital. If possible, please seek anointing beforehand. BAPTISMS: By appointment. Adults seeking to know more about the Catholic Faith should speak to the Parish Priest, and/or come to the Journey in Faith (RCIA) sessions. SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE: Six months notice for weddings. HOLY ORDERS: Any man considering a vocation to the Priesthood or Permanent Diaconate should speak to one of the clergy.
EMERGENCY SPECIAL COLLECTION THIS SUNDAY: is for the Cyclone Idai Appeal administered by the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD).Your donation will give food, clean water and healthcare to people in desperate need. Gabriel, their expert working with the Church in Mozambique at this time, tells us: We know that Idai has wiped out crops and livestock, damaged water supplies and wrecked sanitation facilities, leaving vulnerable families even more exposed. With the support and generosity of the Catholic community, we can reach the people who really need urgent emergency aid. SECOND COLLECTION NEXT SUNDAY: will be for Aid to the Church in Need which is a Pontifical Foundation of the Catholic Church, supporting the Catholic faithful and other Christians where they are persecuted, oppressed or in pastoral need. During Lent, they are offering Readings and Reflections for each of the Sundays, speaking about one project they are helping. The Reflection for this Sunday is printed elsewhere in the Bulletin. Other Reflections as well as more information about their work can be found at their website www.acnuk.org. Copies of their newsletter can be found at the back of both churches, as well as donation envelopes, which are you particularly encouraged to use for Gift Aid if you are a taxpayer. FILIPINO CULTURAL EVENING: Rose Stephenson writes: 'On behalf of the Filipino community I'm very pleased to say we raised 2,488.00 on the night. We are all very grateful for all the love and support that our friends, families, work colleagues, parishioners and to those who were unable to attend but bought entrance tickets and raffle tickets, have shown to us.. Thank you so much.' MARY S MEALS: Ann White writes: Thank you so much for your donation of almost 720 to Mary s Meals. As you have heard on the news, devastating floods have affected areas where Mary s Meals works in Malawi. As a result, an emergency feeding programme is taking place for over 17,000 people of all ages, on top of the normal school feeding programme. This is only possible because of the support given to Mary s Meals. Please, please, remember the little money boxes, fill them with love, and hand them in the week after Easter. Your generosity will make an immediate difference to a child s life. Isn t that so good to know? Thank you again. CHRISTIAN AID LENT LUNCH AT SOUTH PETHERTON: The final Lent Lunch will be held at the Methodist Hall at 12.30pm on: Wednesday 3rd April (W.I.).
A FUTURE FULL OF HOPE - The Year of Prayer: FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT The parable of the Prodigal Son is so well-known to us that it would be easy for us believe that we don t need to listen because we ve heard it so many times before! We know it! But do we? There is a beautiful and profound message of the immense, limitless love of God in this story. A love which God wishes each one of us to experience. As we listen to this Gospel Jesus wants us to know that whatever mistakes we may have made in life, we are not beyond redemption. We are worth far more than the worst thing we have ever done in life. God is waiting for us to come home. God s love has no limits. God does not have favourites or a list of exclusions as to who is entitled to that love. As we move through Lent, let us have the confidence to turn to God in his loving mercy and allow his tender embrace to heal us and restore us to a newness of life and love. LENTEN DEVOTIONS: Please remember the extra Masses on Wednesday morning at 6.30am and Thursday evening at 6.30pm, and the times of Adoration on early Wednesday morning, Thursday evening and Friday afternoon. Please sign up if you are able to be present to Adore the Lord for an hour. There will be Forty Hours of Adoration from the evening of Thursday 11 April until the morning of Saturday 13 April, with visiting priests available for Confession during the day of Friday 12 April. Father David O Regan will be available between 12 midday and 1pm; Father Peter Clarke from 3pm to 4pm; and Father Louis Beasley-Suffolk from 7pm to 8pm. Additionally, Father Peter Clarke will be available between 3.30pm to 4.45pm on Saturday 13 April at, and Father David O Regan between 11am and midday at St Michaels s. There will be Stations of the Cross at on Fridays at 7pm (except Friday 12 April), and at St Michaels s on Wednesday afternoons at 2:30pm. There is also the Lectio Divina (Bible Meditation) group meeting on Thursdays in the Presbytery at 7pm. LORD'S LARDER - EASTER APPEAL: With Easter in the middle of April this year, the Lord's Larder are able to accept Easter Eggs and Easter Biscuits, which will go out in food parcels for those most in need. Other items currently running short in the Lord s Larder are: Cuppa Soup Jars Meat Paste Tinned Mince Tins of Carrots Tinned Potato Tinned Custard Jars Pasta Sauce Sugar Long Life Milk Cereals Biscuits Tinned Dog Food With your support in February 246 adults and 131 children in need of emergency food parcels in South Somerset were helped. Many thanks for all your continued support. Please remember out of date items, or items that have already been opened cannot be accepted.
AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED - REFLECTION FOR THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT: Sister Luma Khudher an Iraqi Dominican sister of St Catherine of Siena has first-hand experience of persecution when she was forced to flee Qaraqosh in Iraq s Nineveh Plains, after extremists seized the Christian majority town in the summer of 2014. With the rest of her community, she sought sanctuary in the Kurdish capital Erbil, where the Chaldean Catholic Church looked after around 10,000 Christian families. Sadly, 12 elderly Dominican Sisters died in the weeks after they arrived in Erbil. Sister Luma lived as an Internally Displaced Person (IDP) there for more than two years. Her order helped with the pastoral care of displaced families and educating IDP children in Erbil and Dohuk. Aid to the Church in Need helped the Chaldean Church s emergency aid programme and financed the building of eight schools for the Christian families. The Church was concerned that if education was not provided, then the displaced children would be further disadvantaged after the crisis was finally over. WEEK 4 - IRAQ PRAYER INTENTIONS: Sr Luma and the Dominicans All Religious Sisters Displaced Christians It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light. St Catherine of Siena "When the poor one called out, the Lord heard, and from all his distress he saved him (Psalm 33) After the Nineveh Plains were liberated in late 2016, her community were among the first to return to repair their destroyed convents in Qaraqosh. The Sisters continue in their role as teachers including catechesis to returning Christians as well as opening kindergartens and a school. The Sisters faith and the returning Iraqi Christian families resilience provide a message of hope after years of hardship. This Lenten Sunday s responsorial psalm reminds us that despite the suffering in the Middle East and elsewhere that the Church worldwide is called to taste and see that the Lord is good (Psalm 33). ACN benefactors responded to the urgent need of thousands of displaced or refugee Christians and others in need with prayers and by helping with their practical daily needs in Iraq. This Sunday s psalm presents the Christian challenge to follow Christ s example by helping others: When the poor one called out, the Lord heard, and from all his distress he saved him (Psalm 33)..
The charity is also supporting the rebuilding of a number of Christian villages overseen by the Nineveh Reconstruction Committee (NRC), an ecumenical organisation of the Chaldean, Syriac Orthodox and Syriac Catholic Churches. As of November 2018, the NRC has restored 5,746 houses. This year, the charity is funding the continued restoration of the Sisters Immaculate Mary Convent and the reconstruction of a further 1,500 houses in Qaraqosh as well as 500 houses in the villages of Bashiqua, Bahzani and Bartella. A Prayer for the Church in Nineveh Plains from NRC s website states: Lord and God, Hear today the cry of your children, now scattered to the four winds and forced to seek shelter in foreign lands Grant your people now the grace of returning to those places where the tree of their life is deeply rooted. Grant that this tree may bear fruits of peace and enable your people to restore the honour of your Name in those places you gave to them and to their ancestors, and preserve this land for future generations also, so that the praise of your Name may never cease in their churches and in their families. We ask you this, O God, lover of mankind, through the intercession of Mary, the Blessed Mother of God, of the martyrs of the Nineveh Plains and of all who have borne witness to you by their blood. Amen. We remember in our prayers: The Parishes of St Dominic, Dursley and St Joseph, Nympsfield. The Holy Father s Prayer Intentions for April: Doctors and their Collaborators in War Zones: For doctors and their humanitarian collaborators in war zones, who risk their lives to save the lives of others. For all Christians persecuted for their faith. For candidates receiving the Sacraments at Easter. For the people affected across Southern Africa by Cyclone Idai. For all Mothers on Mothering Sunday Last Sunday s Offering: amounted to 512.94. Many thanks for your generosity. Polish Mass: Every Sunday at 4.30pm. The Traditional Latin Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite: Every Friday at 6pm (except August). Mass in the Syro-Malabar Rite: Second Sunday at 2.30pm. Mass at RNAS Yeovilton: Every First Thursday at 12.15pm (except August). Ecumenical Prayer Group: First Monday of the month at the Parish Centre at 7.30pm. Lectio Divina: Every Thursday at 7.00pm in the Presbytery. If you have any items for the Bulletin please send to Sue Chant by Tuesday evening at email: yeovil.holyghost@cliftondiocese.com.
Mass and Service Times for the Week Ahead Saturday 30th March - First Mass of Sunday 5:00pm Pro Populo Sunday 31st March - Fourth Sunday of Lent (Laetare Sunday) - Mothering Sunday 9:00am Celebrant s Intention St Michael s 10:30am For all the Mothers of our Parish 6:30pm Rachel Fear RIP (First Anniversary) Monday 1st April - Weekday of Lent 10:00am No Mass today Tuesday 2nd April - Weekday of Lent 8:00am Celebrant s Intention Wednesday 3rd April - Weekday of Lent 6:30am Edith and Graham Wyatt RIP (Foundation Mass) Followed by Adoration until 10am 10:00am Mary and Archie Lawrence RIP (Mrs M Want) 2:30pm Stations of the Cross St Michael s Thursday 4th April - Weekday of Lent 10:00am Celebrant s Intention St Michael s 12:15pm Intentions of the Personnel RNAS Yeovilton 6:30pm Intentions of Rose Till (Mr and Mrs F Brennan) Followed by Adoration until 10pm Friday 5th April - Weekday of Lent 10:00am John and Jane Mahoney RIP (Foundation Mass) Followed by Adoration (Benediction at 11.15am) 3:00pm Adoration until 6pm (Divine Mercy Chaplet at 3pm) 6:00pm Intentions of Canon Scoles 7:00pm Stations of the Cross Saturday 6th April - Weekday of Lent 10:00am In Reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Followed by Adoration, Rosary and Meditation First Mass of Sunday 5:00pm John and Jane Mahoney RIP (Miss M Mahoney) Sunday 7th April - Fifth Sunday of Lent (Start of Passiontide) 9:00am Pro Populo St Michael s 10:30am Intentions of David and Susan Lewis (55ᵗ Wedding Anniversary) (Mr and Mrs D Lewis) 6:30pm Private Intention