St Helen’s church St. Joseph’s Church

Parish Office based at St Helen’s church: Mrs Anne Fearon 0151 924 3417 Liverpool Archdiocesan Trustees Inc. Registered Charity No. 232709

St Helen’s Sunday 21st Easter Sunday 9.45 am Mass for Hugh Alfred Haines (lately dead)

Monday 22nd 10.00 am Service of the Word & Communion

Tuesday 23rd

7.30 pm Novena & Benediction

Wednesday 24th

9.30 am Mass for a private intention (AK) 10.00 Rosary.

Thursday 25th

7.00 pm Mass for Deacon Tony Arrowsmith (lately dead)

Friday 26th

11.00 am Funeral Mass for Lieselotte Robertshaw

Saturday 27th

11.00 Exposition 11.20 Confessions 12.00 Mass for John Troy (R.I.P.)

Sunday 28th Divine Mercy Sunday 9.45 am Mass for Joe O’Callaghan (anniversary) 6.30 pm Mass for Marie Catterall (R.I.P.)

St Joseph’s Saturday 20

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8.30 pm Easter Vigil Mass for Fr Raymund Hewlett OFM

Sunday 21st Easter Sunday

11 am Mass for the people of the parish

Monday 22nd

10.00 am Mass in thanksgiving (PG)

Tuesday 23rd

7.30 am Morning Prayer of the Church

Wednesday 24th NO SERVICE

Thursday 25th

9.30 am Service of the Word & Communion 11.00 am Funeral Service for Tommy Smith

Friday 26th 9.30 Mass for Anne Varney (lately dead)

Saturday 27th 6.30 pm Mass for Deirdre James (lately dead)

Sunday 28th Divine Mercy Sunday

11 am Mass for the people of the parish

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK OF OUR PARISHES: Stephen Wilson, Christine Moore, John Murphy, Christopher Brown, John Regan, Hannah Amelia Regan, Hugh Dillon, Rita Barber, Celia Bradshaw, Sheila Brennan, Margaret Walsh, Joan Bamber, Susan Natsheh, Marie Brownrigg, Peter Holmes, Mary Cookson-Gower, Norah Byford, Joan Pinnington, Joan Doyle, Rachel Cunningham, Reg Fitzgerald, Mary Kilbane, Anthony Belderbos, Ged Manning, Pauline Bent, Barbara Lee, Janet Kinsey, Betty Hennessey, Christopher Cadley, Stephen Deary, Joan Newton, Carol Carroll, Mary & Clare Rimmer, Anthony Greenbank, Celia Ross, David Gratton, Sandra Wilkinson, Winifred Mary Henry, Pauline Holcroft, Tony & Jane Kwok, Mary Birkett, Eileen Albert, Suzie Bell and another sick person.

40, Warren Road, Liverpool, L23 6UE Fr Martin Caddell - 0151 924 2101 Mobile: 07710247633 stjosephsblundellsands@hotmail.co.uk www.stjosephsblundellsands.org Support Sister: Sr Anne Darwin

112, Alexandra Road, Liverpool L23 7TQ 0151 924 3417 sthelenscrosby@hotmail.co.uk www.sthelenscrosby.org.uk Fr Martin Caddell Deacon: Rev. E Douglas

20th / 21st April 2019 Year C

“ Thank you all for your help and support over the busy Easter period. I wish you all a good rest and a very Happy Easter.” Fr Martin

Survive Miva: Next weekend (27/28 April) there will be an appeal on behalf of Survive Miva. This is an organisation which supports outreach programmes in India, Africa and South America. It could be by providing transport to help with medical services, mobile clinics etc, agricultural projects to increase food production and many other ways, which we will hear about next week.

Fr Blaise has been in touch again and sends this message:

“It is with great joy that I share with you the second step done. The water tank tower and a 5000 litre water tank have been fixed. Soon the submersible pump and the solar panels will be fixed. I am always grateful to the Lord and to you for this achievement. Soon I will send the remaining works' pictures. Be blessed always!”

Anniversaries: Terence Mears, Margaret Wright, Betty Hughes, Ronald Amundsen, Ellen Devaney, Veronica Donnelly. Please pray for those who have died recently: Tommy Smith & Lieselotte Robertshaw

OFFICE CLOSED Mon 22—Fri 26 April

Contributions for this newsletter need to reach the Parish Office 12 noon on Thursday. Please provide a contact ‘phone number in case of query.

Thank you. Office hours are: Wednesday to Friday, 10 am to 2 pm. e-mail: sthelenscrosby@hotmail.co.uk

Divine Mercy Sunday : Sunday 28th April St John the Evangelist Church, Fountains Rd, Kirkdale.

2:00 pm Sorrowful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary 2:50 pm Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 3:00 pm Chaplet of Divine Mercy 3:30 pm Divine Mercy Stations of the Cross 4:00 pm Mass Confession available ( 2:00 PM and 4:00 pm)

(St Joseph’s) Don’t forget our £1.00 in an envelope scheme .In aid of Ebola Orphans Last week’s winner: Matthew Fraser

CAFOD SHOP 44, St John's Road Waterloo L22 9QG We are delighted to inform our supporters that the Cafod Support Shop in St John's Road will be reopening in the next couple of months! Thanks so much for your prayers and practical offers of support! The Shop is about to undergo some basic maintenance work after Easter, and volunteers are working towards getting the doors open once again as soon as possible. You can help in two ways! We will need to completely restock the Shop and if you are having a spring clean we are urgently looking for donations of ladies, men's and children's clothing, bric a brac, small electrical goods (in working order) children's toys, costume jewellery, soft furnishing and any other saleable goods. Items can be dropped off at the Shop on one day only at the moment from 10am - 2pm on Thursday 25th April. Further dates will be available but please drop CAFOD a line on liverpool@cafod.org.uk for details. CAFOD would be delighted for more volunteers to help in the Shop! Please phone Pat Murphy tel 0151 931 5778 for more information. Training will be given and it’s a wonderful way of making great new friends - and a real difference!

SPRING CARVERY LUNCH: SUNDAY. 12 MAY WEST LANCS GOLF CLUB

12 for 1.00 PM TICKETS. £25 Contact Anne Clegg: 924 2023/07954557605

Or the parish office: 924 3417

The Newman Association presents: A talk by Ernest Diggory, retired deacon of SS Peter & Paul’s

“The Turin Shroud” Thursday 25th April

7.30pm in St Helen’s parish centre

Quiz night : Friday 10th May St Helen’s Parish Centre—doors open at 7pm

Help to raise money for local pilgrims to travel to Lourdes by Jumbulance with Across. Voluntary bar available, please bring your own nibbles. This year there are 4 groups travelling, two from Liverpool, and one each from Chester and Wirral. Nurses and helpers volunteer their time to support our VIPs throughout the pilgrimage allowing people who couldn’t normally travel to take part. Our quiz master Fred will take us through entertaining rounds of both general knowledge and more challenging specialist subjects to get the grey matter ticking over. There will also be a raffle with prizes that money just can’t buy. (Raffle prizes gratefully received in St Helen’s church office or call Sarah on 07949237251 and I’ll come and pick them up) For more information about Across please visit the website across.org.uk. If you or a relative/friend would like to travel as a VIP or helper, please email anne@across.org.uk

Pro-Life Chain: Friday 26th April, 4.30 to 6pm Gather in car park at SS Peter & Paul’s at 4.15pm All welcome to stand with us in support of the unborn

St Edmund’s Church, will be having Divine Mercy Sunday devotions at their Church on: Sunday 28th April at 2pm with Mass at 4 pm. Sacrament of Reconciliation available.

CAFOD (St Helen’s) pray-fast-give When we send donations to national headquarters we receive an acknowledgement and this usually contains some news regarding action on one of the programmes which is being funded. In a recent acknowledgement we were told of Cynthia in Zimbabwe who has planted a CAFOD funded vegetable garden. She said, “A lot has changed since the garden was planted. Our nutrition is better, we have more diverse food to eat, we are better at preparing our food and our health is better. I can’t imagine life without the garden now.” We do not know how the effects of the recent cyclone have affected Cynthia but last week’s donations of £253 added to those made previously mean that we have been able to send a further cheque for £500 towards this work. This totals £2955 since Family Fast Day. Thank you for your continuing practical response to the needs of those in the developing world.

The Newman Association is holding its annual Spring Lunch on 5th May 2019 at the West Lancs Golf Club at 12.30pm for 1.00pm, comprising a two-course carvery and sweet trolley, priced at £21 per head. The meal is not just for members but is open to parishioners and their relatives and friends to share the lunch. If you would like to attend, please contact either Peter Firth (07879892555 or firth_peter@yahoo.co.uk) or John Potts (07889 841096 or john_potts41@hotmail.com) by latest Mon April 29th.

EASTER CARD CAMPAIGN, 2019 Many thanks to all the parishioners who contributed Easter cards for our fellow Christians in the Holy Land. They are on their way now, but any stragglers will be sent after them. Wishing you all a joyous Easter from your Justice & Peace group.

No Thinking outside the Pew Scripture group this week. If you would like to hear Fr. Tom Cullinan's talk on the Resurrection, please go to http://www.martin-bennett.com and click on 'resources'