Christ and the Samaritan Woman. Basilica di Sant’Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna. 6th century. Artist unknown

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THE WEEK AHEAD
Third Sunday of Lent, Year A

Weekday Cycle Year II, Psalter Week III

Sunday 15 THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT

8am Angelus & Mass of the Dawn

9am Morning Prayer

10am Sung Parish Mass (for our Parish Community)

5pm Evening Prayer (OH 60, Psalm 40; Genesis 44. 1 - 45. 8)

Monday 16 Feria

7.30pm Mass (for our PCC)

Tuesday 17 St Patrick, b

7.30pm Mass and Address (for the peoples of Ireland)

Wednesday 18  Feria

(for the NHS)

Thursday 19 ST JOSEPH, HUSBAND OF BVM

9.30am Jesus Prayer & Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

10am Mass (for fathers)
 

Friday 20 Feria
(for the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham)

Saturday 21 Bl Thomas Cranmer, b

(for the Lent Quiet Day)

NEXT SUNDAY

MOTHERING SUNDAY

FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT - Laetare

8am Angelus and Mass of the Dawn

9am Morning Prayer

10am Sung Parish Mass

Exodus 2. 1-10; Psalm 34. 11-20; Colossians 3. 12-17;  Luke 2. 33-35

5pm Evening Prayer

PARISH NEWS

MASSES THIS WEEK

Please check ‘The Week Ahead’ as there are some changes to the schedule previously advertised.

DANCING WITH TEMPTATION cancelled

Sadly, owing to the first two sessions being cancelled, this course will not now take place. There will instead be said Mass and an address on the same theme, at 7.30pm on Tuesdays. 

STATIONS OF THE CROSS Friday 7.30pm

This week we join our friends at Ss Peter & Paul’s Church, 342 High Road, for this short devotional service.

LENT QUIET DAY Saturday

Those who have booked for our Quiet Day at the Diocesan House of Retreat leave St Mary’s for Pleshey by cars at 9am. Please let Marcel Firth have your £20 today.

MIRFIELD RETREAT balance due Sunday 5 April

Those booked on the retreat, please put the remaining £200 owed in an envelope with your name on and hand it to Emma Jeffrey no later than Palm Sunday, 5 April. 

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INTERCESSION

OF YOUR CHARITY, PLEASE PRAY FOR

 the sick, distressed and bereaved

Karen Shallow, David Wells, Nancy Banks, Pordou Eweka,
Tony Webb, Barbara Hope, Nazanin Ratcliffe, Peter, Shirley Ellis, Linda Powell, Maureen Holgate, Fr Beau Brandie, John Collins, Linda Joy, Denis Deasey, David Beaumont, Tony Major, 
Linda Decker; Lynne Anderson, Susanne Jones. 

the recently departed

Peter Smith Archbishop, David Greaves

those whose anniversaries of death fall this week

Sunday

Annie Culling

Monday

William Lunn

Tuesday

Florence Turner, Bernard Cassidy, Rhoda Statham

Wednesday

William Jackson, Hilda Row

Thursday

John Dipper, Alfred Taylor

Friday

Martha Holmes

Saturday

Percy Hill