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Our Lady and St Aidan & St Bernadette’s

Parish Communities Parish Priest Fr John McElhone Resident Priest Fr Pat O’Connell

www.wallsend-aidettes.co.uk

E Mail : staidans.parish@btconnect.com 0191 2623820

St Aidan’s Open Church Saturday 17th March

There may be someone you wish to pray for or light a candle on their behalf? The church will be open and warm. Feel free to come in at a time to suit you (10am—1pm) The opportunity is there also to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation 10.30-11.30am if you wish..

CAFOD SOUP LUNCH. Every Friday during Lent at 12 Noon. Come along and enjoy lunch in the company of others and at the same time, provide support for CAFOD, a charity working across the world on our be-half.

Today is Mothering Sunday when we have the opportunity to count

the blessings our mothers brought in to our lives.

Perhaps today we can

think of those for whom parenthood is a struggle,

either emotionally, physically or financially.

Count your

blessings this Lent

FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT Have you remembered to bring your FAIRTRADE ITEM for our foodbank. It is important that we do what we can to support producers in the developing world provide a better standard of living for themselves and their community!

Planned Giving and GIFT AID The new planned giving envelopes will be avail-able from this weekend . Thanks to those who generously support our parishes through the planned giving scheme. If you are a tax payer please consider signing up to the GIFT AID scheme which increases the value of your donation at no extra cost to your-self. The envelope sets will be used from Easter Sun-day 1st April

St Bernadette’s Parish are hosting the Part-nership Penitential Service on Thursday March 22nd at 7pm when the young people of Thomas More school will be involved in pro-viding the musical accompaniment. Please take a note of the date and do all that you can to attend.

Holy Week Services: Palm Sunday Mass at St Aidan’s will be at 9.45am for one week only. St Bernadette’s Mass will be at the normal time of 11.30am Tuesday Evening: Passover Meal starting at 7pm. It is both an act of worship and an educational oppor-tunity. Accompanied children are also invited. Thursday Evening: Mass of the Lord’s Supper (7.30pm St Aidan’s) Good Friday: Solemn Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion and Death (3pm St Bernadette’s) Easter Vigil: and the First Mass of Easter (8pm St Aidan’s) Easter day Masses at their normal times of: 10.00am (St Aidan’s) 11.30am (St Bernadette's)

w/c 12TH MAR

St Aidan’s St Bernadette’s Lenten Opportunities Everyone is welcome to

attend all events

Mon 10.00am

Visit www.wallsend-aidettes.co.uk and listen to the daily reflection

Tue 10.00am

Alan Wynne Visit www.wallsend-aidettes.co.uk and listen to the daily reflection

Wed 9.30am

Patrick O’Sullivan Lenten Talk 7pm St Cuthbert's North Shields

Thu 9.45am

Funeral Mass for Doreen Devlin

St Patrick’s Day Ceilidh

Fri 10,00am

Pat & Alf Todd Soup Lunch St Aidan’s 12 noon

Saturday Open Church St Aidan’s

Sunday 10.00am Jim Gardiner

11.30 am Mary Moran

Visit www.wallsend-aidettes.co.uk and listen to the daily reflection

Last chance to get your Ceilidh tickets—they have sold very well and we are looking forward to a great night on Thursday. Make sure you have your dancing shoes on!

11TH MARCH 2018

North Tyneside General Hospital (Rake Lane) Saturday Mass in the hospital Chap-laincy (10.30am) will resume as from 17th March. New Chaplaincy volun-teers are welcome. Please contact Fr Stephen Watson or Fr Lee Barrett on 2934268. Patients requiring a chap-laincy visit should ask the ward staff to contact the RC Chaplain or relatives can ring the Chaplaincy office.

PASSOVER MEAL. On the Tuesday of Holy Week there will be a Passover Meal in St Aidan’s Parish Room. The celebration of Passover for the Jewish people recalls and celebrates one of the greatest feast in the Jewish Calendar. For us as Christians it provides the opportunity to explore the Jewish roots of our Chris-tian faith and gain a deeper understanding of the Christian-Jewish relationship. The event will provide both a religious and an educational opportunity . If you haven't been to one before I can assure you it is a great ex-perience. Please let me know and I can provide you with some further information and if you are still inter-ested a ticket. Numbers are strictly limited so please let me know as soon as possible if you would like to take part.

Thank you for your generous support of Survive Miva . We are able to send a cheque for £550 from St Aidan’s and £300 from St Bernadette’s. This will go a long way to helping those carrying out missionary work on our behalf.