St Luke's Parish- Kingston upon Thames

Sunday 3rd February 2008

 

Ordinary Sunday 4 - Quinquagesima

 

Hymns:  372, 55, 341, 468

 

Monday 4th February

2 Sam 15:13-14,30, 16:5-13;Ps 3; Mk 5:1-20

RIP: Rachel Staples

No                    9am Mass

8.30pm             Canbury Singers

 

Tuesday 5th February               St Agatha V & M          SHROVE TUESDAY

2 Sam 18:9-10,14,24-25,30-19:3; Ps 86:1-6; Mk 5:21-end

RIP: Alexander Griffin

9am                  Mass

4pm                  Pancake Party CANCELLED

 

Wednesday 6th February          ASH WEDNESDAY

2 Sam 7:4-17; Ps 89:19-27; Mk 4:1-20

RIP: HM King George VI

9am                  Mass and Imposition of Ashes

10.30am            St Luke’s School Assembly

Noon                 Mass & Imposition of Ashes

8pm                  Mass & Imposition of Ashes      

 

Thursday 7th February 

Deut 30:15-end; Ps 1; Luke 9:22-25

RIP: Winifred Slater

9am                  Mass

 

Friday 8th February

Isa 58:1-9a; Ps 51:1-5,17-18; Mt 9:14-15

RIP: Constance Cook, Nancy Wallace, Rachel Garon

9am                  Mass

9.30am             Mother, Baby & Toddler

11.15am            Murray House

 

Saturday 9th February 

Isa 58:9b-end; Ps 86:1-7; Luke 5:27-32

RIP: Hildred Maguire, HRH Princess Margaret Rose

 

 

Evensong is at 5pm today.

 

 

From next Sunday as we enter Lent we will not sing the Gloria, Allelulia’s will be absent and we will not offer the Sign of Peace as part of our penitential journey to Calvary.

 

As part of your Lenten discipline you may wish to take on something rather than just give-up something. Why not make that extra effort to attend a weekday mass or join in a study group or come to Stations of the Cross?

 

Sunday 3rd February

 

This week we remember in our prayers: those who care for people at home; for seven parishes of the Bermondsey Deanery; for our brothers and sisters at St Agatha’s RC Church; for a prayerful Lent.

 

We pray for those in sickness of body mind or spirit for John Collier, Mary Hayward, Mary Howard, Denys Hodgkins, Ann Guthrie, Tina Guthrie, Luke Guthrie, Emily Horsefield, Tom Hislop , John Hunt, Phyliss Larcombe, Rosemary Leach, Pat Leppard, Phyllis Leppard, Ernest Long, Impy McBain, Hilary Mackeekin , Judith Mitchell, Noel Noble, Kate Pwaisiho,

 

in particular we pray for Anna Kwilecka, Fr Grant Holmes, Baby Florence Gray recovering from major heart surgery.

 

For the recently departed

 

For those whose anniversary of death it is today Kenneth Leach,  and during the week ahead Rachel Staples, Alexander Griffin, HM King George VI, Winifred Slater, Constance Cook, Nancy Wallace, Rachel Garon, Hildred Maguire, Princess Margaret

 

Ash Wednesday

 

Ash Wednesday has been traditionally observed by the Imposition of Ashes where, at the Mass of the day, the sign of the Cross, with the blessed ashes (made of the palm branches of the previous year), is made on the recipient’s forehead as a sign of penitence. One formula that is often used is:

 

Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return”.

 

Ashes remind us of our own mortality and judgement; and, our need for repentance as individuals and as a community.

 

Ash Wednesday is a special day of obligation and every effort should be made to attend Mass. There will be three Masses celebrated here at St Luke’s – 9am, Noon and 8pm.

 

As a family read Joel 2:1-2, 12-17 then spend some time talking about the meaning of the reading. Then, together, silently think about ways you have failed God. On a piece of paper, write a list of the things you have done that you should ask God to forgive. Do not talk about it; but simply fold up the paper and having made a small fire in a BBQ or bowl, place your papers in the fire and make sure they all burn completely.