Dates for your Diary

Monthly Cake Stall: Our next 'Bring & Buy' cake sale will be Saturday 18th
and Sunday 19th April. Thank you for your support and generosity in 'Baking
and Buying' each month, and thanks to the ladies who organise it all and
clear up afterwards. All proceeds help to boost Church funds.
Future dates :- May 16th/17th and June 27th (at Summer Fete)
Parish Council Mtg: Minutes of the recent Parish Council Meeting are on
the noticeboard at the back of the Church.

ST. BENEDICTS R C CHURCH

OWEN STREET, ATHERSTONE,
WARWICKSHIRE, CV9 1DG
Tel: 01827 713177,
Website: st-benedicts-atherstone.org
Parish Priest: Mgr. Paul Watson

Some Ecumenical Events:

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity - beginning 26th April - Service of Prayer
at Trinity Church at 6 pm. Revd. David Poulton to preach. There will be
Weekday Prayers at Trinity Church at 9.30 am. Prayers for Christian Unity
will be at St Benedict's on Friday 1st May at 9.30 am before 10 am Mass.
Joint Service for Pentecost - 24th May at Mancetter Rec, 3 pm. Revd Tony
Tooby to preach.

Finance Secretary: Jo Howe 01827 750214

Newsletter: Brian Ingram 01827 704858
email: brianingramocds@gmail.com

2nd SUNDAY of EASTER

Special Intention

Future Plans

Sat 11th April

7.30 pm

Prayer Group - Fr Paul would like to know if anyone would like to take part in
a regular group for prayer. This could probably take place on a weekday
evening (after evening Mass, if Tues or Thurs). Primarily, it would be to pray
for the parish and to discern God's purposes and the direction He wants to
parish to develop and grow. It could involve some teaching also about
Worship of God, Scripture, Intercession and Spiritual Warfare. As for
regularity - weekly, fortnightly or monthly, as seems appropriate.

Sun 12th April

9:30 am

Mon 13th April

Tues 14th April

7:00 pm

EASTER FERIA

Scripture Group - Reading of Scripture plays a vital role in developing our

personal relationship with God. We speak to God when we pray, but God
speaks to us through his Word. God's Word is essentially Jesus himself, but
Jesus communicates through the Scriptures and the power of the Spirit. If
you would like to learn more about the Scriptures and how we might use
them in our daily lives, then think about joining a group for a regular meeting.
List at the back of Church to express your interest in either or both groups.

Wed 15th April

10.00 am

EASTER FERIA

Thurs 16th April

7:00 pm

EASTER FERIA

Fri 17th April

10.00 am

EASTER FERIA

Sat 18th April

4.00 pm

Sun 19th April

9:30am

We extend a warm welcome to everyone worshipping here this

weekend, refreshments are served in the Church Hall after 9.30am
Mass, please come and join us, ALL ARE WELCOME.

(B)

(A Brookes)
2nd SUNDAY OF

Thanksgiving

EASTER

(M Warren)

No Mass

Michael Wright
3rd SUNDAY OF
EASTER

David Davidson

The Liturgy & the Care of the Church

Readers Next week:

Readers this week:

K. Doran
S. Machin

Offertory Procession this week:

Eucharistic Ministers M Bourne
Church Cleaning Altar Society -

D, Dickens
S. Hall
T. Wilmott

J Wood, M. Simpson, C. Butler & G. Alves

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Confessions - Saturday 11.30am - 12 noon

The Sick and their Carers

Please pray for Father Andrew, Pat & Maureen Burke, Bridie Symmons,
Ada Russell, Winifred Jones, Charlotte Smith, Kath Ford, Ursula Cope,
Patricia Carter, Christina Chetwynd, Olive Fortune and Father Paul.
Please remember our housebound parishioners in your prayers: Marion
Burrows and Marie Aherne .

Anniversaries
We pray for all our deceased relatives and friends especially those
anniversaries fall at this time, John O'Keefe, Madge Harris, Lizzie
Boulstridge, Sheila Adamson, Lewis Baines, Olive Wood and Pauline
Donovan. May they Rest in Peace.

Money Matters
Thank you for your very generous Easter Offering last weekend!
Gift Aid donors - Please see Tracey (Sat) or Jo (Sun) after Mass
1. Please throw away old envelopes. They will not be accepted any
more.
2. If you miss a week through holidays etc... please combine your
offerings together into one envelope. There is no need to submit
multiple envelopes.
3. 14 new parishioners joined the Gift Aid in March! Thank you
4. Donating your offertory collection by standing order is the parish
preferred method and we thank the small but increasing number of
people opting to use this method.

"That in all things God may be glorified St. Benedict

Eastertide
For the next 6 weeks we are celebrating the season of Eastertide. For most
of this season we shall be focusing on the Apostles' encounters with the
Risen Jesus. It is an opportunity to ask ourselves about our own experience
of the Risen Lord in our own lives. We shall see that their experience of
Jesus grew as He explained the Scriptures to them; as He came to them in
the context of a meal (the Eucharist); and as he breathed out the gift of the
Holy Spirit on the Apostles. As well as receiving the Eucharist, our own
personal knowledge of Jesus will grow through reading and letting the Lord
speak to us through the Scriptures - especially the Gospels (why not take
Bible Alive for a daily short Scripture reading); and in particular asking the
Holy Spirit to reveal Jesus to us.
This is the very message that Pope
Francis has been giving to us through much of his writing and his homilies!

More Items
Bible Alive - Easter issue - available at the back of the Church 1.50.
Mass Intentions - At the present time there are no outstanding Mass
intentions to offered at your request. Now that we have returned to celebrating
Mass on most days, please feel free to ask for Mass to be offered for any
intentions that you have.
Unused Rosaries: Do you have unused rosaries tucked away in the cupboard
or drawer, we are collecting rosaries to send out to various missions around
the world, this appeal is being made by The Catenians who have so far sent
out 135,000 rosaries. It would be good if we could give this initiative our
support, spare rosaries can be given to Brian Ingram.
Election debate and question time for North Warwickshire parliamentary
candidates on HS2 and national issues. Conservative, Labour and UKIP
candidates will be attending. 7.30pm, Wednesday 15th April, at the Polesworth
School, Dordon Rd, B78 1QT. Please come along to ask questions and hear
what the prospective MPs have to say.
Two vacancies at the Diocesan Education Service:
Senior Officer for Capital Projects and Place Planning deadline 20th
April 2015
Adviser to Primary Schools deadline 27th April 2015
For further information is available on >>>> http://www.bdes.org.uk/jobvacancies.html