FOURTH  SUNDAY  OF  LENT                                                         Week beginning 3^rd April 2011

                                                                                                                                             14/15 Lectionary A1

Saturday  -   Torpoint       - First Mass of Sunday 6.0 pm          

Sunday    -   Saltash        - Mass 9.0 am  for Susannah & Cornelius O’Brien. Anniv.

                 -   Sclerder      - Mass 9.15 am for Charles McLaughlan RIP

                 -   Liskeard      - Mass 11.0 am for Michael Dawson. Anniv.

Monday    -    Liskeard      - Mass 9.0 am

    Sclerder      - Mass 9.0 am    

Tuesday   -   Saltash       - Mass 9.0 am

    Sclerder      - Mass 9.0 am  for the sick in the Parish

Wednesday-Sclerder      - Mass 9.0 am

Thursday  -    Torpoint      - Mass 9.30 am for the Parish

     Sclerder     - Mass 9.0 am

     Liskeard     - Mass 7pm

Friday       -     Saltash       - Mass 9.0 am 

     Sclerder     - Mass 9.0 am for Holy Souls

Saturday  -    Sclerder     - Mass 9.00 am  for the sick in the Parish

                      Torpoint      - First Mass of Sunday 6.00 pm

      Sacrament of Reconciliation: after weekday Mass & Saturdays after 9am Mass at Sclerder & 5.30pm at Torpoint or on request.

Divine Mercy – A chaplet on the Rosary will be sung in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament after Mass on the 1^st Friday of month at Saltash.

LAETARE SUNDAY –today marks mid-Lent Sunday. It was traditionally the day to visit the Mother Church of the Diocese. Later tradition focused on the Church as our Mother and then Mary as Mother of God. Today we ask God’s blessing on all mothers.

GIFT AID – It is now the end of the tax year 2010-2011. Please would any parishioners who donate by way of Gift Aid please tell Fr.Lock or Nola Venton ( 01579 344070) if they no longer pay Tax so that the Parish does not overclaim on its tax return.

HOLY WEEK & EASTER -  Please take a leaflet with times of all Holy Week & Easter Services.

WELCOME – Today we welcome the Mayor and Town Councillors at 11 am Mass at Liskeard.

CAFOD Family Fast Day collections :    Liskeard £225.70;      Saltash £184.20;

Total £ 627.90                            Torpoint including coffee morning £152;      Sclerder £66

LENT   -   

Saltash Churches Together - Lent talks on Spirituality :Mondays 7.30pm at Saltash Wesley.

The Spiritual and Prayer Life of our churches and the way we order our own private devotions owes much to the heritage left to us by our predecessors, from the spirituality and writings of early church fathers to more recent forms of spirituality. Our Joint Churches Together Lent course will examine some of these to see what we can learn of their practices and examine their relevance to our modern day Christianity. Each topic will be introduced by a knowledgeable speaker and will be followed by discussion and then refreshments.

Speakers : 4^th Apr Judith Pollinger – Julian Spirituality ; 11^th April Nikki Slateford – Taize.

Torpoint Churches Together : House groups : Mons 2pm 28 Liscawn Tce; Tues 10am Cornerstone Church; Tues 2pm 35 Maker Rd; Thurs 7pm 18 Cross Park, Crafthole; Thurs 7pm 103 Carbeile Rd.

Stations of the Cross ; During Lent there will be Stations of the Cross –

Torpoint – Tuesdays 6.30pm;   Saltash – Weds 7pm;   Sclerder – Weds 7pm;   Liskeard – Fridays 6.30 pm

     Liskeard led by: Apr 1^st – Youth; 8^th Euch.Ministers; 15^th Walk with me group.

Friday Lenten lunches in aid of CAFOD in Looe and District.- Fridays  April 8^th at Mike & Sally Lynch 01503 220760; 15^th at Val & Ed Wilson 01503 264080.

UNITED SERVICE  today Sunday 3^rd April 6pm at St.Martin’s Church, Liskeard.

ANNUAL MISSION APPEAL – by the White Fathers. Next w/end 9/10^th April

LENT  DATES  

Sunday April 3^rd – Stations of the Cross ( candlelit)  Saltash 6.30pm  ( for Churches Together). All welcome

Saturday 9^th April – Lent Day of Recollection 10.30-4pm at St.Rita’s Honiton.  See poster. I have booking forms.

Saturday 9^th April – Should Christians be suspicious of advances in the biological sciences ? 10am-2pm at   Plymouth University. See poster or contact 01752 587760 or 01392 671320.

W/end 9/10^th April. Annual Mission Appeal by the White Fathers.

Mon April 11-14^th – Lenten Mission at Lanherne Convent, St.Mawgan, Newquay. “Heroic Virtue”. See poster.

Friday April 15^th – Candlelit Taize Passiontide Worship 7pm S.Nicholas. W.Looe. (refreshments at Riverside)

Monday April 18^th – Lenten Penitential Service 7.0pm Liskeard.

Tuesday April 19^th – Stations of the Cross (candlelit) Liskeard 7pm ( for Churches Together).

HOLY WEEK :

Wednesday April 20^th – Chrism Mass 5pm Plymouth Cathedral. Bishop Christopher and all the priests of the

     Diocese renew their priestly vows and consecrate the Holy Oils for use in the Parishes in the coming year.

Good Friday April 22^nd – Walk of Witness – Saltash – 10 am Wesley, process Fore St to Baptist Church;

 Looe – Service at S.Nicholas, process to Bridge;     Liskeard Parade 12 noon.with hot cross buns. Torpoint 9.30 am. Start at Cornerstone.

MUM’S (re) TREAT – May 20-22^nd at Southgate, Buckfast Abbey. Half board £60. See poster or book: Jillian Wilce, Cardinal Newman House, Wonford Rd, Exeter EX2 4PF. 01392 671320 or e-mail: jillianw@plymouth-diocesan-office.org.uk

SUMMER MASS TIMES – From Sat May 28^th until Sat 25^th September Mass at Sclerder Abbey will be celebrated on Saturday evenings at 5.30 pm as well as Sundays at 9.15 am.

SPUC PRO-LIFE CHAIN OF WITNESS : Sat 30^th April 11am – 1pm along the kerbside on Exeter St. Plymouth(near Wickes). Information : Christine Hudson 01752 224018

A DAY WITH MARY – Sat 30^th April 10am-5.30pm at Lanherne Convent, St.Mawgan, Newquay. See poster.

DIOCESAN CATECHETICAL CAMPS : 24-9^TH July ( years 3-6); 31stJuly – 5^th Aug ( years 7-10) at Grangehurst, Buckfast Abbey. Cost £130 per child. Application forms now available.