The Sick: The Diocese, on advice and under Data Protection Regulations (May 2018), asks us not to name individuals, but to pray for them as a group within the Parish Body as those in particular need.
Recently Deceased: Ellen Flynn
Anniversaries: William Revell, Marie Wall, Don Holland, Brian Searson
HOME COMMUNIONS If you require Holy Communion at home, please contact John Ridge: [email protected], Fr Kentigern or Fr Bernard either by e-mail or leave a telephone message by 8.00pm on Friday evening stating whether you require a weekly visit or a one-off call. Someone will then be in contact to arrange a suitable day and time to visit.
EASY FUNDRAISER Do you regularly shop online? Did you know you could support your church at the same time? For more information speak to Tracey in the Parish Office and see information leaflets in the Hall.
WORLD COMMUNITY OF CHRISTIAN MEDITATION Meets each week: Mondays at 2pm - 3pm in St Ben’s Hall: contact Mary Sturges Thursdays at 8pm - 8 45pm on Zoom: contact David and Sue Walsh Should you wish to join either group contact Mary Sturges 01439788563.
CHRISTIAN MEN OF THE VALLEY Meet each Monday at 8.00pm to share faith, friendship and interests.
FABRIC PROJECTS Works have cost £35000. All contributions to these costs will be gratefully received.
CAFOD Donate to CAFOD’s Israeli-Palestinian Crisis Appeal at cafod.org.uk/ipc or call 0303 303 3030. or to the Sudan Crisis Appeal: cafod.org.uk/SudanAppeal or call: 0808 58 588 85.
MISSION TO MALAWI Maria Toone is now in Malawi working with the Jacaranda Foundation. If you would like to support her efforts you can donate using the following website, https://www.jacarandafoundation.org/donate or by using our digital collection plate.
ASSISTED SUICIDE Assisted suicide committee bias Committee stage of Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide Bill has begun, raising serious concerns about its conduct.
The Committee has been ‘stacked’ with a higher number of MPs who support the Bill
Nearly twice as many witnesses supported assisted suicide than the number who opposed it
Important voices have been excluded, including the Government’s chief Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisor, the British Geriatrics Society and a number of disability rights groups, senior palliative care doctors and legal experts with relevant expertise.
MPs must be aware of the serious issues in the scrutiny of Kim Leadbeater’s Bill. It’s vital they know your concerns and vote against it at Third Reading. Please take action now and visit www.righttolife.org.uk/ASBillAction to write to your MP - it takes just 30 seconds! AELRED PILGRIMAGE Our Gathering Lent Walk is taking place on Sunday 9 March on the SAPT and will be led by Bishop Barry and Archdeacon Amanda. It is part of the Archbishop of York’s Lord’s Prayer Tour and Faith in the North initiative. I do hope that you can come and join us for this Lent Walk in early Spring. We promise you joy, companionship, food for the body and the soul, and a good day’s walk amongst friends. 10am: Welcome, coffee, cakes, and prayers at All Saints Church, Old Byland 10.30am: Commencement of our Gathering Lent Walk 11.30am: Arrival at Saint Mary’s Church, Scawton, prayers 11.45am: Leave Scawton. 12.45pm: Arrival at the closed Church of Saint Michael, and soup and a roll, plus (your own) packed lunch, in Cold Kirby Village Hall opposite the church. 1.45pm: Leave Cold Kirby. 3.30pm: Arrive Rievaulx Methodist Church for tea and biscuits and prayers in Saint Mary the Virgin Church, Rievaulx. 4pm: Procession commences led with Cross and Banner to Rievaulx Abbey for a short service in the Abbey Nave accompanied by the Bilsdale Silver Band. 4.45pm: Hot drinks and sausage rolls in the Abbey Café afterwards.
Our Lady and St. Benedict’s and St Hilda’s Community prayers. Monday 24th February 10.00 a.m. St Ben’s Monday 10th March 10.00 a.m. St Hilda’s Monday 24th March 10.00 a.m. St Bens’s Monday 7th April 10.00 a.m. St Hilda’s
All welcome.
SATURDAY EVENING SOCIAL Parishioners are invited into St Benedict’s Hall after the Vigil Mass on Saturday 1 March to enjoy some refreshments. Come get to know your fellow members of the Community.
PANCAKE LUNCH The traditional Pancake Lunch in support of the work of our SVP Group will take place on Tuesday 4 March in St Benedict’s Hall.
LENT 2025 The Season of Lent is upon us. Please note the times of Mass for Ash Wednesday (5 March): 9.30am with the children of the Primary School 7.30pm
See the Posters giving details of the Lenten Reflections taking place at 7.00pm on Mondays 17, 24, 31 March and 7 April
LENT LUNCHES are starting in the Hall on Friday 14th March at 12 pm. They are preceded by Mass at 11.30 am. Soup and a roll will be served, followed by tea/coffee. There is a sheet at the back of church to sign up for helping in various ways. Lent Soup Lunches will take place on Fridays 14, 21, 28 March, 4 and 11 April.
A LENTEN PENANCE: We have been tasked by the Ampleforth Abbey Trust with clearing and vacating St Benedict’s House by Easter. On Friday 14 March a skip will arrive for debris to be cleared. If anyone is free to assist with this task, there are opportunities to join in on the afternoons of Friday 14 March and Saturday 15 March and the morning of Tuesday 18 March. A sheet for volunteers to sign up will be at the back of the church.
TABLE TOP SALE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED to: (1) HELP SET OUT tables for the Tabletop sale on Saturday 8th March. at 1 pm (2) BRING IN CAKES/BAKES (with ingredient list please) to the hall from 1.30 pm on 8 March. We're going to have a cake sale too! Thank you for your help.
CAFOD LENT FAST DAY For details please see the poster included in this bulletin. As always, envelopes will be collected and counted at Easter.