Sunday 1st March Second Sunday of Lent
Parish newsletter and weekday mass times here
Parish newsletter and weekday mass times here
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Sunday Mass times
Saturday vigil Mass (for Sunday) 5.30pm: St Joseph's Church Sunday morning 8.30am: Our Lady of Fatima Church Sunday morning 10.30am: St Joseph's Church Weekday Mass times: See our parish newsletter here Confessions this week: St Joseph's: Thursday 9.30am and Saturday 4.30pm Our Lady of Fatima: Saturday 10.30am |
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Listening and Fasting: Lent as a Time of Conversion Pope Leo has written a message to us all to help us as we start Lent, explaining the importance of fasting: "Lent is a time to “place the mystery of God back in the center of our lives, in order to find renewal in our faith and keep our hearts from being consumed by the anxieties and distractions of daily life,” the pope said. “Abstaining from food is an ancient ascetic practice that is essential on the path of conversion,” he wrote. “Precisely because it involves the body, fasting makes it easier to recognize what we ‘hunger’ for and what we deem necessary for our sustenance.” |
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Bishop Nicholas will celebrate a Lenten 'Station' Mass in Poole to draw local parishes together and strengthen us in our Lenten devotion This will now be at St Mary's at 11am on Saturday 28th March (there has been a slight confusion over date and venue) |
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Our new statue of the Sacred Heart, kindly donated by a parishioner, has arrived from Italy
It was carved from Linden wood for us once again by Guido Stufflesser (who sculpted our St Joseph)
It was carved from Linden wood for us once again by Guido Stufflesser (who sculpted our St Joseph)
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Pope Leo XIV’s Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Lord, I come to your tender heart today,
to you who have words that set my heart ablaze,
to you who pour out compassion on the little ones and the poor,
on those who suffer, and on all human miseries.
I desire to know you more, to contemplate you in the Gospel,
to be with you and learn from you
and from the charity with which you allowed yourself
to be touched by all forms of poverty.
You showed us the Father’s love by loving us without measure
with your divine and human heart.
Grant all your children the grace of encountering you.
Change, shape, and transform our plans,
so that we seek only you in every circumstance:
in prayer, in work, in encounters, and in our daily routine.
From this encounter, send us out on mission,
a mission of compassion for the world
in which you are the source from which all consolation flows.
Amen.
Lord, I come to your tender heart today,
to you who have words that set my heart ablaze,
to you who pour out compassion on the little ones and the poor,
on those who suffer, and on all human miseries.
I desire to know you more, to contemplate you in the Gospel,
to be with you and learn from you
and from the charity with which you allowed yourself
to be touched by all forms of poverty.
You showed us the Father’s love by loving us without measure
with your divine and human heart.
Grant all your children the grace of encountering you.
Change, shape, and transform our plans,
so that we seek only you in every circumstance:
in prayer, in work, in encounters, and in our daily routine.
From this encounter, send us out on mission,
a mission of compassion for the world
in which you are the source from which all consolation flows.
Amen.