Catholic
Church of the Divine Infant of Prague, Syston
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Feb 6-13 Parishes’ Pilgrimage to the Holy Land Lent 2012 Westminster Course: ‘Spark of Light’ Mar 2-4 Youth Retreat at Ampleforth
June 13-18 Diocesan Pilgrimage to Eucharistic Congress in Ireland Regular
events Reconciliation Service Next Dates - usually at 10am or 5.45pm
Parish Notices Small Community meeting 7.30-9pm
Tues Feb 14th The Lent Group Course this year will be "Exploring God's Mercy" by Steven Croft, Bishop of Sheffield. Venues/leaders and times will be on the easel from 5th February. Please consider if you can participate. See Phil Walling if you would like to look at the course book in advance. SMALL CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES
Progress statement, Jan ‘12 We now have Representatives for each
of the six SCCs in the parish. Queniborough-cum-Gaddesby is the
only Community which does not also have a helper/alternate, so can
someone please volunteer? The next step is for the Representatives
to meet as a group to decide what we need to do to establish each
Community, as well as the arrangements for communications with each
household. Once this has been done each Rep will write to you to
set out how we hope to give everyone who wants it both pastoral
support and the opportunity for spiritual growth. Would any parishioners like to advertise their services in the 2013/14 editions of the parishes’ diary? Come and join a friendly group of 60+ people on a Thursday morning 10-12 in the Church Hall, Broad Street. It is £1.50 per session, incl. tea/coffee and biscuits and has a varied programme, incl. speakers, games, quizzes, bingo, etc. More info. ring Aideen on 0116 260 6342. Catholic Schools in the Cyprian Tansi group: de Lisle, Whitwick, Shepshed, Coalville, Loughborough Sacred Heart and St Mary’s are holding consultation forums on Academy status Mon 30 Sacred Heart, Tues 31 St Mary’s and Wed 1 St Winefride’s. All at 7 pm. CATHOLIC PARLIAMENTARY AND PUBLIC POLICY INTERNSHIPS For a decade the Catholics Bishops Conference has organised Parliamentary and Public Policy Internships for recently graduated Catholics. This year there are 8: Five will be placed with Christian MPs at Westminster; two in Public Policy with CAFOD and CARITAS Social Action Network; and one in a media internship at Archbishop’s House Westminster. All internships will run from September 2012 - July 2013 and include accommodation and subsistence allowances. Full details and an application form can be found on our website: http://www.catholicnews.org.uk/interns Completed application forms must either be emailed to interns@cbcew.org.uk or posted to: Michaela Kelly, Head of HR, 39 Eccleston Square, London SW1V 1BX. Closing: 5pm, 29 February 2012 and Assessment days will be 28 and 29 March 2012. If
any parishioner knows of anyone who could maintain our Church
photocopier please speak to Father or Monica, thanks. Fr Mariano’s account is Fr M F Tarrosa FCEM [Filipino Chaplaincy in the East Midlands]. His phone number is 01509 605681. The Filipino Chaplaincy in the East Midlands, based in Sileby, is slowly getting organized in Leics, Derbys and Notts. See website: www.filipinochaplaincyineastmidlands.org. We
really do need
to find a couple of new members of Sysron parish finance committee, possibly
young, possibly Could anyone who has a hymnbook at home bring it back to church,
please Please help raise money for St
Gregory’s, Sileby, whenever you shop online. Meditation Group – Rearsby Convent More people to count the Syston collection would be welcome: 230 1445.- as would a few more people willing to go on the Readers list. Name, date of death and place in the parish where they lived is what you can put on the page to add them to the Remembrance Book. Many thanks to the Newell and Quinn families for paying for the new light shades in the church in memory of Redmond. Age Concern Clothing and books can be taken to Birstall charity shop, which will arrange collections of furniture: 0116 267 2098. Home Help Service 0116 299 2266/ Handyman Service 0116 299 2254 need more workers [paid on an hourly basis]. The parish boundary between Syston and Our Lady’s is going to be changed from the City/County boundary to Humberstone Lane – which is what, I guess, if you thought about it at all, you already thought it was. Some results of the recent von Hügel Institute survey in our two parishes: 84.8% felt school was as important as home for giving moral guidance to children 65.1% thought divorced and remarried people should be admitted to Communion 62.4% thought they could be good Catholics without confession. 62.3% thought the Church should allow divorce and remarriage. 39.2% found the Church’s teaching on contraception hard to accept, and 49.5% thought it should be revisited. 25.0% said they had never heard of the Second Vatican Council- a leg-pull p’raps?
Closed Draw: Cheques payable to : Syston R C Parish Church. Thank you for your support. New members needed (£1 per week per number - draw each month). Can existing members take another number?
The Kungoni Art Centre, Mtakataka, Malawi, from which the Sileby carvings came,
is now available on a new website: www.kungoni.org
Syston Parish Accounts - Click on this link for Syston Parish Financial return to the Diocese of Nottingham for 2009-10 and 2008-09 (Income & Expenditure for the Parish).
The adverse climate for savers has not spared the Diocese: parish Quotas are to be increased from 17.5% to 20% of collection income. The Diocesan Quota, now brings in £1m a year, of which about 40% goes on the Education Service and Diocesan staff costs.
Communion
at home
– even if you’re only housebound for a
few days.
Have you caught anything, friends? Our shared ‘convert class’ meets on Thurs in Sileby, 7.30-9.00pm. Everyone is welcome to come and see how we work. Now is a good time to join, with a prospect of being received into the church next Easter. Is there someone you would love to see in our RCIA? And are you also the only person who could invite them?
Before you buy a Catechism, you could sample it on the Net The paragraphs in the Catechism of the Catholic Church referred to at the top of each week’s bulletin will take you through the whole Catechism in 3 yrs, and prepare you for the Gospel you are going to hear each Sunday.
Add www.WriteToThem.com to your ‘Favorites’ for the time when you will need to email your councillor or MP. All you need is your postcode.
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