Second Sunday Of Lent News

Priest-in-Charge Fr John Ainslie (revjohnainslie@gmail.com; 01628 629827)

DO JOIN US AFTER MASS FOR OUR LENT LUNCH: Soup, rolls and bread and cheese served in the Vestry Hall; you are invited to make a donation in gratitude for the lunch, and all the donations will go to our Lent Charity, Mary’s Meals.

OUR LENT CHARITY Our charity this Lent is Mary’s Meals - a charity which provides meals for children in school in the very poorest countries. In this way they provide sustenance for children who otherwise would go hungry, in a way that also encourages children to attend school and get an education which might lift them and their families out of poverty. Collections via Lent Boxes available at the Back of Church, and our Lent Lunch this Sunday.

There are Lent Boxes at Back of Church – do please take one home if you wish, and use it for your loose change and regular donations throughout Lent. Bring it back full on Maundy Thursday !!

Services this week: Mass on Thursday at 10.30am; Mass of Our Lady of Walsingham next Saturday at 10.30am. Join us next Sunday for our Sung Mass for the Third Sunday of Lent.

LENT QUIET DAY: This will be in church on Saturday 14th March, from 10am. Join us for a time of quiet and prayer, with the opportunity to pray in silence before the Blessed Sacrament. Stations of the Cross at 10.30am. The Quiet Day will end with Mass at 12.30.

150th ANNIVERSARY POPPY DISPLAY: This year we are planning a poppy display to coincide with Remembrance Sunday, to include a display outside the church - which will require a lot of poppies! If you are able to knit or crochet or know someone that would like to be involved, there are patterns, some wool for you to take, and further information at the back of the church. Donations would be much appreciated of red, black, or indeed purple wool (purple poppies to remember the animals used in wartime). If we start now, we should have a good number of poppies to use at remembrance Season. If you would like to form a “knit and natter” group to meet regularly and knit together at home, or in the Vestry Hall, over tea/coffee and a chat then please do so, and let us know !! It would be great to see this used as an opportunity for fellowship as well as doing something to make Remembrance 2026 a time to remember! Fr John & Sue Hemings

PARISH PILGRIMAGE TO WALSINGHAM 26th – 29th May. It is now time for you to let me have your £40 deposit please. There are some free spaces, so there is still time for you to sign up if you haven’t already done so (form at the back of church). Thank you. Fr John.

FOR OUR PRAYERS: We pray for the people of Ukraine, and for a lasting and just peace, on the 4th anniversary of the outbreak of war. In our church life we pray for, and give thanks for, our bellringers and the Tower Captains Jacqui Barlow and Mark Elvers. We pray that those who hear the sound of our bells will be reminded of God’s loving presence and be inspired to come into the church, to find here God’s love, healing and strength for their lives.

We pray for those in need, and especially Glynis Reynolds, Yvonne Young, Lindsay Wheeler, Martyn Nash, David Green, Norman Farrington, Phil and Marion, Jacqui Barlow, Joe, Keira, Freya, Isaac and Lexie Nicholson.

We pray for the recently departed, including Linda Merricks and Alexander Dunlop. We remember those who have faithfully served God in this Church in previous generations, and we pray for those whose year’s mind occurs this week: Pat Ormerod, Peter Blagdon-Gamlen (Pr), Gladys Shrubsole.

FROM THE BELLTOWER: Friday, 20 February Norwich Surprise Minor 1 Pam Thomas 2 Emma Jarvis 3 Jane L Kostelnyk 4 Shona Clark 5 Mark Elvers 6 Philip Jarvis (C) Rung in thanksgiving for the life of Edward Stephen Goddard, (Uncle of the ringer of the 3rd bell) 15/02/26, R.I.P.

Sunday, 22 February Springer Delight Major 1 Emma Jarvis 2 Janice Byrne 3 Jane L Kostelnyk 4 Stephen Coaker (C) 5 Rona Joiner 6 Philip Jarvis 7 Pam Thomas 8 Neil Jones Remembering David Levick, 24/2/21, R.I.P.