ST. JAMES
THE LESS AND ST.
HELEN

CATHOLIC CHURCH, Colchester

with

Mersea, Mile End and
Monkwick

Fr  Anthony  McKentey

Fr
Neil
Brett

Fr
Philip Willenbrock

51 Priory
Street , Colchester, Essex,
CO1 2QB

Tel:
01206 866317;   Fax  01206 791213

E-Mail      [email-masked]

www.stjamesthelessandsthelen.org

THE NINTH SUNDAY OF THE
YEAR [A]

March 6th  2011

My dear friends,

During this week, on Ash Wednesday, the Holy
Season of Lent begins.  The Church
embarks on a spiritual journey towards the celebration of Easter.  It seems to me that this weekend is
the time to plan ahead as to how we will give ourselves to this time of
prayer and self-denial.

It is good to begin Lent well by attending Mass
on Ash Wednesday and receiving the ashes as a mark of our repentance.  The prayer booklet “Walk With
Me” is available today price £1 and is a helpful prayer companion
for each day of Lent.  Try to
attend an extra Mass during the week, or Stations of the Cross, which will
take place every Friday night at 7:30pm.  We are alternating these with our neighbours at St James the Great, and the first Stations
of the Cross will be this Friday, 11th March, at St James the
Great, East Hill, though Priory
Street will be leading it as their clergy are
indisposed.

As one of the prayers of the Liturgy says:
“Let us try and do something each day of Lent for the love of
God”.  May God bless our
Lenten journey towards Easter.

May God bless you all,

Fr
Tony McKentey

EVENTS THIS WEEK

Ash Wednesday is a day of Fasting & Abstinence
– See Schedule for all Mass times

Monday 7th
March
7:30pm Mercy
Associates Meeting   see
below

Wednesday 9th
7:00pm  SVP Meeting
Crypt

Thursday 10th
7:30pm  RCIA

“
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7:30pm – 9:30pm  UCM
Crypt

Friday 11th
7:30pm Stations of the Cross – St James the Grt

“
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7:30pm  FHC Programme
Crypt

Saturday 12th
10-12
“
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Hall

Sunday 13th                    2:30pm   Rite of Election  Brentwood
Cathedral

DAILY:   Morning
Prayer 8:15am; Rosary/Divine
Mercy 8:35am. [Wed. 11:15am]

PRAYER
GROUP                                            Mondays
@ 8pm in the Crypt

MEDITATION
GROUP:                                   Tuesdays @ 8pm in the Crypt

EXPOSITION:
Saturdays @ 9.45am – 10.30am

SICK:  Please remember in your prayers: May
Banks, June Bickersteth, Joan Boyden, Frank
Campbell, Nancy Drummond, Charlie George, Cara Maude, Bridie Murphy, Denis
Nolan, Leah Patterson, Hector Silva, Cameron Smith, Olivia Thorpe, Ellen Woodley.
Please also remember Canon Peter Walker and his wife, Caroline.  [Canon Peter is donating a kidney to
Caroline].

BAPTISMS TODAY:  Jamie Runicles
and Eloise Féréot-Langford.  God bless these children and congratulations to their families.

HAVE YOU
ORDERED A DVD OF THE PAPAL VISIT?: If so, please contact the Parish Office as soon as possible to
collect. Cost £5.99. [The Parish has already paid for them with
the Order and there is a waiting list for DVDs not collected].

SECOND
COLLECTION AFTER ALL MASSES
TODAY for our Parish
Development Fund as detailed in last week’s Newsletter.

MERCY ASSOCIATES: meet next at 7.30pm on Monday, 7 March, at Christ Church Court (
tel. 763049).

BRES
SPRING LECTURE:
Understanding the Revised Mass Texts on Tuesday 8th March, 7.30pm. To be held at Cathedral
Conference Centre, Brentwood. Cost £5
per person. To book; [email-masked]
or call 01277 265255.  Please see
poster.

CANONESSES
OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE invite you to a Quiet Day on the 11th March 2011 Theme of the day
‘Launch into Lent’ At 74 Howe Close, home of the Community 10-3pm.
Come for the day or a stretch - bring your lunch, tea and coffee provided
Telephone 01206 867296 or email
[email-masked]  All
welcome.

RITE
OF ELECTION:  Takes place at
Brentwood Cathedral next Sunday, 13th March, at 2:30pm.
We pray for our candidates Claire and Daniel as they journey towards
their reception into the Church at Easter.

LENTEN
LUNCHES; On the Wednesdays in Lent, from 18th
March, in the Crypt after the 12:15pm
Mass, homemade soup and a roll will be available.  Cost 50p and all proceeds to Childcare
[Brentwood Catholic Children’s Society].

MONKWICK
AGM:  Takes place at St
Theodore’s on Wednesday March 16th at 7pm.

BRENTWOOD CATHEDRAL LENTEN
LECTURE:  Wednesday 16th March at 7:30pm. Given by Archbishop
Vincent Nichols and entitled “Living
our Catholic faith in a Secular Age”.  Light refreshments in the Cathedral
Parish Hall will follow.  There
will be no charge and everybody is welcome.

CAFOD:
A reminder that the
CAFOD Lent Fast Day takes place on Friday, March 18th and the
collection takes place after all Masses on the weekend of the 19th/20th
March. Fast Day Envelopes are
available today.

ST
PATRICK’S DANCE: March 19th
7:30 – 10:30pm. Tickets now on sale: Adults £7.50;
children [5/12yrs] £4, available from Frances on 369568 or Nora
503410.  Bangers and Mash supper
plus dessert; live music and raffle.

LENT 2011: Annual Lenten Spirituality Day- The
Road to Jerusalem- ‘Jesus resolutely took the
road to Jerusalem’. Saturday 26th
March  10.00am
-3.30pm with Fr Denis McBride,
CSsR. Cathedral Conference Centre, Brentwood. Cost £10 per person.  Full details on poster in the porch

What does it mean to forgive and to be forgiven? The question of
‘guilt’ and ‘forgiveness’ will be explored in the
context of our image of, and our relationship to God. Tuesday 5th
April 7.30pm with
Sr Helen Costigane, SHCJ.Cathedral Conference Centre, Brentwood.Cost £5 per person

BCYS
SPRING YOUTH GATHER: Years 7-9, Saturday 9th
April. Join us and nearly 100 other young people at Stubbers
Adventure Centre, Upminster, for a day of outdoor activities, finishing with
Mass together at the end of the day. For booking and more information go to www.bcys.net  or call 01277 265286.

PARISH
FOOTBALL TEAM: The league matches have
now finished and the parish football team finished just below halfway in the table.
We are now in the cup (2 mini league of 4 before the
knockout stage - similar to the Champions League format). We played Kingsland
in our first match. We lost 3-2 with Andrew Springford
and Luis Pradal scoring the goals. Our former
manager, Chris Nolan, also played for the first time this season - he now
lives in Spain
and had flown in for the match.  A
Fixtures and League Table is to be found in the porch.  Thank you for your support.
Danny Ferdinand

CHURCH CLEANERS’
ROTA: Thursday, March 10th
.  Team 1.

LITURGY FOR THE NINTH
SUNDAY OF THE YEAR  [A]

6th  March  2011 – [Day for the
Unemployed]

Saturday March 5th

Sunday March 6th

6:15
pm

8:00
am

10:30 am

6:30
pm

Patricia and Peter Pryke
RIP

Madeleine, Harry & Paul Whiteside RIP

Stephen Hilton RIP

Ints: Rev. Peter & Mrs Caroline Walker

Mersea

8:30
am

Canon John Bloomfield
RIP

Mile End

9:15
am

Tony Twomey
RIP

Monkwick

10:15 am

Mr & Mrs K Hurlo RIP [GMcC]

Monday 7th

Ss Perpetua
& Felicity, Mm

Church      7:30
am    Holy Souls RIP

Church      9:15 am    D/Rels:
Mascurine Family RIP

Tuesday 8th

Feria

Church
9:15 am   Ints: Rev. Peter & Mrs Caroline Walker

Wednesday 9th

ASH WEDNESDAY – Day of
Fasting & Abstinence

Church
7:30 am   Patricia Lambe RIP

Church      9:15 am   Jo McEnaney RIP

Mersea     11:00 am  Holy Souls RIP

Church     12:15 pm  Intentions of Ellen Woodley

Church       7:30 pm  Frederick, Elizabeth
& Angelo Lucas RIP

Thursday 10th

Feria

Church      7:30 am   Private Intention

Church:     9:15 am   Dr Roger Sykes RIP

Friday 11th

Y5 - STM

Feria

Church       9:15 am   Mary
and James O’Reilly RIP

Church       6:30
pm   William and Eva Richards
RIP

Saturday 12th        Feria

Church       9:15 am     Ali Auguste
RIP

LITURGY FOR THE FIRST
SUNDAY OF LENT  [A]

13th March 2011

Saturday March 12th

Sunday   March 13th

6:15
pm

8:00
am

Christina Mooney RIP

Ken Oakley RIP

10:30am

2:00pm

5:00pm

Gerry Smith RIP [A]

POLISH MASS

HOLY HOUR

6:30
pm

Marjorie RIP

West Mersea

8:30
am

Brian McGurk
RIP

Mile End

9:15
am

Parishioners

Monkwick

10:15am

Kathleen Brennan RIP

SACRAMENT
OF RECONCILIATION      Saturday 9:45-10:30am
and 5:30-6:00pm

SACRAMENT
OF BAPTISM                     Baptismal
Courses arranged as per Newsletter

SACRAMENT
OF MARRIAGE                At least six months notice is required

SCHOOLS                                                St Thomas More
Head: Bridget Harris   [865722]

St Benedict’s            Head: John O’Hara     [549222]

www.marriagecare.org.uk   or 0800 389 3801.
www.brentwoodvocations.org

The Brentwood Diocesan Trust – Registered Charity No.
234092