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FELIX PARISH NEWSLETTER

TO WALSINGHAM 8, Gainsborough Rd.,
Felixstowe IP11 7HT
01394 282561
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7th, 2008
ANNIVERSARIES E-Mail: sacerdotus@googlemail.com
Parish Priest: Fr David Hennessy
LED BY Rt Rev Patrick Lynch Website : www.saintfelix.co.uk
Auxiliary Bishop in Southwark. Charles Parry
Sister Peter Clarke
Bob Russell 2005 August 3rd, 2008
WEEKEND MASSES
ALL ARE WARMLY INVITED Jan Rutkowski
18th Sunday A
Dennis Jones SATURDAY VIGIL
Peter Newman 2006 6pm
FELIXSTOWE ART GROUP Clifford Bridges
Albert Brinkley SUNDAY MORNING
ANNUAL EXHIBITION Mary Butters
AND 9.00am
SALE OF PAINTINGS Agnes Penniston-Bird ( Evelyn Mansfield+ )
Eric Pemberton
10.30am: Convent
AUGUST 5th—9th Blanche Vermuellin
( Srs George & Angela )
William Corbett
TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH HALL
ORWELL ROAD, 11.30am: St Cecilia’s
FELIXSTOWE
ANNUAL SPRINGCLEAN
10.00am—7.00pm
round the back & side of the hall
MASS THIS and the front on the Church .
I came across a church in Berkeley, California, recently that had a sign by the car COMING WEEK
park entrance: “St X’s Church welcomes everyone. Be at home! Cars parked with- We will be doing this on
out authorisation will be towed at the owners’ expense.” Sometimes, the Church CONVENT MASS
MONDAY 4th August
can give similarly contradictory signals that God takes pleasure in us, but only if we from 6.30pm
MONDAY, TUESDAY,
are good Catholics, with our lives in order. But God rejoices in us as we are, with WEDENSDAY,
all our botched attempts to love, whether we are married or divorced, gay or ( Albert Brinkley+ ) Any one is welcome !
straight. God takes pleasure in our lives, with all their messiness, with their failures FRIDAY & SATURDAY You can tackle a light or heavy job
and contradictions. as fits your stamina .
10.00am
Please bring tools and gloves .
At the end of Bridget Jones’s Diary, her friends finally persuade the heroine that THURSDAY
“We love you exactly as you are”. The Church must dare to embody that profound
affirmation, knowing that it will provoke the same scandalised reaction that Jesus 5.45pm
endured. Of course the Church has a moral teaching which is profoundly challeng- FRIDAY COLLECTIONS LAST WEEK
ing and which invites us to repentance and a new life. But that transformation ST FELIX
comes as we flourish and bud in the warmth of God’s delight in us. 12noon OFFERTORY: £904.65
( Elizabeth & John
Fr. Timothy Radcliffe,OP., former master of the Dominican order. Campbell + ) CAFOD: £160.69