Newsletter - 20 March 2022
Third Sunday of Lent, Year C
You are the heart of Christ
Jesus knew what awaited him when he willingly went to the Passion. He had prepared his disciples for it. He had presented himself as "meek and lowly in heart" and had called those who were burdened and overwhelmed to come to him to lighten their burdens. A blow to the heart of Jesus is a blow to divine love, to the immense compassion that brings about the coming of God to earth.
It is indeed with a heart full of love that Jesus teaches the crowds to give them new hope. It is with this heart that he heals the sick, soothes the suffering, that he gives his flesh and blood as food so that those who taste it may have eternal life. He deliberately places himself in the hands of the priests to offer his life as a ransom. It is with this heart that he dies on the cross and descends into hell to free men from their enslavement to death.
It is out of love that God creates the world and moulds his creature in his image and likeness. It is out of love that he washes the feet of his disciples, for they must be not submissive servants, but friends of their Master. The whole mystery of salvation is summed up in the heart of Jesus.
Father Michael Evdokimov
Excerpt from: Michel Evdokimov, Open your heart, Desclée De Brouwer, 2004, pp. 130-131
Focus of the week - Lent
Adoration and Confession
Monday - Friday 6.00 - 7.00pm
Chaplet of The Divine Mercy Rosary
Before the chaplet we will have readings of meditation from the book of Saint Faustina Kowalska. These will be taking place Monday - Saturday at 10.30am.
Stations of the Cross
These services will be taking place every Friday during Lent at 10.00am and 6.00pm in the period leading up to Holy Week.
Working Party Day - can you help?
Saturday 2 April, 9.30am to 3.o0pm
This week there will be an appeal for people to sign up.
Please do consider putting your name down even if you can only spare an hour.
There will be jobs for all ages and skill levels and refreshments will be provided.
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