Parish Priest

Fr. Patrick Mc Loughlin

Hardie Close, Neasden

NW10 0UH

Tel: (020) 8451 0367

Fax: (020) 8830 3022

Email:

19th March 2017 Third Sunday of Lent (Year A)

Sun / 19 / th / 9:30am / Sr Kevin ‘I’ / 11.30am Dorothy Uku ‘A’
Mon / 20 / th / 9.30am / Mary Pugsley ‘A’
Tue / 21 / st / 9:30pm / Mary Anne Philpot RIP
Wed / 22 / nd / 9:30am / Pauline Sheridan RIP
Thu / 23 / rd / 9.30am / No Service
Fri / 24 / th / 9.30am / Matthew Bulter RIP
Sat / 25 / th / 6.30pm / Agnes O’Sullivan ‘A’ / (
Sun / 26 / th / 9.30am / Mary,Michael, Charlie, Bill Corcoran ‘A’ / 11.30am Alice Heggarty ‘A’

Quite a number of our parishioners, relatives and friends, are ill at home or in hospital; Alex Fernandes, James Otaga, Anne Casey, Maura Fitzpatrick, Kathleen Power, Jean Elliot, Elizabeth Kennelly, Francis Mc Ginley, Baby Charlie Corcoran, Bridie O’Brien. Let us keep them in our thoughts and prayers.

Last Sundays Collection: £568 many Thanks.

DATE TIME READER MINISTER OF THE EUCHARIST

Sat 25th 6.30pm Marian Doyle Frazer Fernandes, Edith Fernandes

Sun 26th 9.30am Violet D’Suza Mercy Ashong, Ruby Boadi

11.30am Mary Cunniffe Joseph Emmanuel, Mary Cunniffe.

Church Cleaning Rota: Alex & Edith Fernandes.

First Communion Class: Wednesday 22nd at 6pm. Reconcilation for Children (First Confession) is now on Saturday 22nd April at 10am. Please note this change of date. First Holy Communion day is Sun 7th May at 11.30am Mass.

Cardinal’s Mass of Thanksgiving for the Sacrament of Matrimony: Westminster Cathedral, Saturday 3rd June 2017 at 3pm.The Archbishop will be inviting to this Mass all couples in the Diocese who are celebrating their 10th, 25th, 30th, 40th, 50th and 60th (and every year over 60) wedding anniversary of Catholic marriage in 2017. There are still some places available for this event.

Parish Priest

Fr. Patrick Mc Loughlin

Hardie Close, Neasden

NW10 0UH

Tel: (020) 8451 0367

Fax: (020) 8830 3022

Email:

Don’t forget you weekly gift to SUFRA our local Food Band on St Raphael’s Estate. There is a real need for this charity and the work it does in our neighbourhood, and is an excellent way of fulfilling our Lenten call to give generously to those in need Do please keep up the good work and thanks to all who regularly give, and plead for more of us to get involved. Their web-site is worth visiting for more information www.sufra-nwlondon.org.uk.

Our Parish Web-site: is now up and running, thanks to Gerogette Del Rosario and Flavion Fernandes. Hopefully it will develop and become a resource not just for ourselves but for all who may go to it. Like any good web-site it will depend on continuous updating with all the news of our parish and the wider community in which we are involved. If you would like to contribute an article or some information you have, do let Fr. Patrick know. Meanwhile go to www.rcdow.org.uk. Then go to ‘Parishes’ on top left of page and type in ‘Neasden’. Our parish will come up. Follow the link to the website. You can now go direct to the site: www.parish.rcdow.org.uk/neasden

Nursery places available for September 2017 at St Margaret Clitherow School, Quainton St, Neasden. Contact school office on 8450 3631 for details or see the website http://webfronter.com/brent/SMC/http://webfronter.com/brent/SMC/

Catholic Singles is an organization which helps single adult Catholics of all agesmeet, either one to one or through social events. Please tel. 0161 941 3498, visit the website www.catholicsingles.org.uk or email

CAFOD: Catholic Fund for Overseas Development Lenten Fast Day was last Friday 10th March. The parish raised £490. Cafod send their grateful thanks for our generosity.

Stations of the Cross: Every Friday in Lent after the 9.30 morning Mass. Lent Penitential Service: is on Wednesday 5th April (Wednesday before Holy Week) at 7.30pm. Do put this date in your calendar and see it as an essential preparation for celebrating Holy Week and Easter.

Various Pilgrimages: Lourdes, Nevers, Lisieux, May 2017: Holy Land, November 2017: Contact Gil Didino at Tangy Tours. Phone 01732886666.