I try to celebrate Mass every day.

I do this because I 8, Gainsborough Road JANUARY 23rd, 2011

am a priest and part of the covenant a priest makes
with the church at his ordination is to pray the priestly
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prayer of Jesus, the Eucharist and the Liturgy of the IP11 7HT Ordinary Time
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personally, for another reason: The older I get, the less Parish Priest:
confident, in some ways, I am becoming. I don't always
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know whether I'm following Christ properly or even
know exactly what it means to follow Christ, and so I e-mail:
stake my faith on an invitation that Jesus left us on the sacerdotus@gmail.com
night before he died: To break bread and drink wine in
his memory and to trust that this, if all else is uncertain, Website:
is what we should be doing while we wait for him to www.saintfelix.org.uk
return.

Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI

WEEKEND MASS TIMES
Saturday: 6pm
( Noel McTiernan+ )
This proper way of serving others also leads to humility... Christ took the lowest
place in the world—the Cross—and by this radical humility he redeemed us and SUNDAY MORNING
constantly comes to our aid. Those who are in a position to help others will realize
that in doing so they themselves receive help; being able to help others is no merit St Felix: 9.30am MASS THIS WEEK
( FIRST COMMUNION
or achievement of their own. This duty is a grace. The more we do for others, the AT THE CONVENT
CHILDREN )
more we understand and can appropriate the words of Christ: “We are useless ser-
vants” (Lk 17:10). We recognize that we are not acting on the basis of any superi- Convent: 11am Monday-Eucharistic Service
ority or greater personal efficiency, but because the Lord has graciously enabled ( Malcolm Muir+ ) Tuesday—Saturday
us to do so. There are times when the burden of need and our own limitations MASS :10.00am
might tempt us to become discouraged. But precisely then we are helped by the
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knowledge that, in the end, we are only instruments in the Lord's hands; and this
FRIDAY
knowledge frees us from the presumption of thinking that we alone are personally COLLECTIONS
responsible for building a better world. In all humility we will do what we can, OFFERTORY: £736.40 AT ST FELIX
and in all humility we will entrust the rest to the Lord. It is God who governs the CAFOD: £168.15 12NOON
world, not we. We offer him our service only to the extent that we can, and for as PAX CHRISTI: £283.70 { Runnacles Family ( CWL ) }
long as he grants us the strength. To do all we can with what strength we have, MANY THANKS!
however, is the task which keeps the good servant of Jesus Christ always at
work ...

DEUS CARITAS EST, #35 ( First Encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI )

 CHURCHES TOGETHER IN FELIXSTOWE
ASSOCIATION OF FAMILY OF JESUS AND MARY: JANUARY MEETING
UNITY WEEK SERVICE
The next AFJM meeting takes place ALL THINGS IN COMMON
at the Convent on Thursday, 27 January at 7.30pm.
ST JOHNS [Orwell Rd.] 23rd January, 6.30 pm

This year will concentrate on the prayer service .The

groups that have thankfully sprung up through the
CWL would like to thank everyone who supported the Whist Drive. Felixstowe churches will have displays around the
There were only 6 tables but we managed to raise £127 for CWL church which you are asked to visit after the service
charities. Our next meeting is on 14th February at 7.30pm (if you are
not on a valentines date!) and at 8pm we will have a speaker from St.
Elizabeth Hospice.
NEW MEMBERS ALWAYS WELCOME CATHOLIC CHARISMATIC RENEWAL

SATURDAY, 5th MARCH, 2011

10am—4.30pm FOR MORE
BELATED THANKS to all who helped make Christmas Such a won- DETAILS,
derful occasion, despite the weather: Servers, Readers ,Eucharistic FR SIMON PENHALAGAN
SEE POSTER
Ministers, Ushers, Collectors Organists & Singers; those who
cleaned ,decorated and un-decorated, prepared the wonderful
“ WALKING IN THE HOLY SPIRIT” IN ST FELIX
Flowers and trees and anyone who may have been missed . PORCH
Bowthorpe Worship Centre
MANY THANKS Bowthorpe Hall Road, Norwich NR5 9AA

KSC THANK PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS ALL WHO ARE SICK AND
THE MANY WHO SAVED THEIR THOSE WHO HAVE DIED RECENTLY
CHRISTMAS STAMPS. OR HAVE ANNIVERSARIES:
STILL ONGOING, AS WELL AS USED
SPECTACLES Sick: John Daly, Edwina Hughes.

2011 PARISH DIARY IS BEING PREPARED
PLEASE LET JOHN KING HAVE ANY DATES YOU HAVE
Jan Kaziow, Fr John Reffitt, Sr James Cafferkey, Madge Slim,Annie Clarke, Myrtle
Shevlin, Ellen McLaughlin, Jacob Law, Christopher Ashford, William Oliver,
Thomas Brannon, Norah Edlestone, Eileen Whitlum, John Van Tilborgh, Andrew
Toal, Andrew Pawlowski, Terry Leeming, David Dowling, Harold Milner-Walker,
William McGrath, Dorothy O’Mahony, Richard Ascott, RIP