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Earlier this year I once again led a group of Rotarians through the Felixstowe IP11 7HT
battlefields of Cassino and although overwhelmed by the memories of 01394 282561
the awesome battles, I am also conscious of being in the shadow of St E-Mail:

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Benedict and of the world’s foremost Christian monastery he founded sacerdotus@googlemail.com
there. So I ask myself, are there members of our parish who would like Parish Priest: Fr David Hennessy July 19th, 2009
to ‘follow in the footsteps’ of St Benedict? If so, a four day trip could be Website : 16th Sunday
arranged at a suitable time. The trip would also include a visit to St www.saintfelix.org.uk Year B
Thomas Aquinas’s birthplace, a brief introduction to the battlefields and
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Numbers are not important, but should anyone be interested
in knowing more, I should be pleased to give an introduction
at an arranged meeting.
WEEKEND MASS
Tony Pittaccio Tel: 270762, email: antony.pittaccio@btinternet.com SATURDAY
6pm
( Douglas Jones+ )
SUNDAY
One of the deepest forms of poverty a person can experience is 9am
isolation. If we look closely at other kinds of poverty, including material ( Tom McIlwraith+ ) “You must come away to some
forms, we see that they are born from isolation, from not 10.30am lonely place by yourselves
being loved or from difficulties in being able to love. Poverty is often ( Convent ) and rest awhile”
produced by a rejection of God's love, by humanity's basic and tragic
tendency to close in on themselves, thinking themselves to be 11.30am
self-sufficient or merely an insignificant and ( Trimley ) COLLECTIONS LAST WEEK
ephemeral fact, strangers in a random universe. Man is alienated when OFFERTORY: £818.98
s/he is alone, when s/he is detached from reality, when
CAFOD: £194.29
s/he stops thinking and believing in a foundation. All of humanity
is alienated when too much trust is placed in merely human WEEKDAY MASSES AoS: £274.87
projects, ideologies and false utopias. Today humanity appears much THIS COMING WEEK MANY THANKS ONCE AGAIN
more interactive than in the past: this shared sense of FOR YOUR GENEROSITY
Monday: Euch Service
being close to one another must be transformed into true communion.
Tuesday– Saturday:10.00am
The development of peoples depends, above all, on a recognition at the Convent each day The Pope’s latest Encyclical
that the human race is a single family working together in true is now published and can be
communion, not simply a group of subjects Friday, 24th, found by following this link:
who happen to live side by side. at St Felix
12noon www.saintfelix.org.uk/
Pope Benedict XVI: Charity in Truth, Ch 5, para 53.
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PARISH B.B.Q.
Sunday 2nd August
in Parish Garden 1.00 p.m.
Tickets £4.
on sale after Mass TODAY and 25th/26th July
THE TOGETHER CLUB
meet at the Convent at 10.30 a.m. on Thursday
for their outing to Dunwich returning approx 5.00 p.m.
CAFOD
£7,269.22
is the sum given by this parish to CAFOD
in the first six months of this year.
Many thanks for this wonderful generosity
to the world’s poorest people.
THE RELICS OF ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX
will be brought to England and Wales
from September 16th to October 16th 2009.
They will visit 22 cathedrals and churches. In the Diocese of East
Anglia they will be hosted at the
National Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
from the afternoon of 6th October to after the
12 Noon Mass on the 7th October.
A varied Programme will be organised throughout
and there will be an All Night Vigil from 10pm to 6am
with opening and closing Masses to cover the night hours.
We are looking to organise a coach for the deanery;
please let me know soon if you are interested
STRAWBERRY TEA
The Family of Jesus and Mary would like to thank most
sincerely all those who helped with the preparation.
Above all, we are very grateful to all who supported us on the
day. A magnificent profit of £523.49 was made and,
in addition, a very generous donation of £500 was received.
The money will be spent on:
Displaced people of the Swat Valley in Pakistan
The Street children in Mumbai
Poor families in Syria in need of special medical care,
and help in the education of their children.
CWL
The Catholic Women's League would like to thank most sincerely everyone
who helped to make the Italian Evening last Monday evening such a success.
£390.30 was raised and (we hope ) a good time was had by all.
CHILDREN’S LITURGY OF THE WORD
There will be no Children’s Liturgy at the 9am Mass at St Felix during
the month of August. It will resume on Sunday September 6th.
CHILDREN’S RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION CLASSES
Religious Instruction for children attending local non-catholic primary
schools is provided at the convent on Saturday mornings during term
time. Forms are available at St Felix, St Cecilia and the convent for the
registration of new children (in year 1 or above) for classes beginning
this September. Please return completed forms as soon as possible.
PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS ALL WHO ARE SICK AND
THOSE WHO HAVE DIED RECENTLY OR HAVE ANNIVERSARIES:
Sr. Brigid Caulfield, Gertrude Keable, Tom McIlwraith, Mary L’Estrange,
Walter Ashden, Ronald Russell, Stephen McSweeney, Marie McIntee,
Arthur Green, Edward Richards, Maurice Simms, Eric Chambers.
RIP