DOWRY OF MARY PILGRIMAGE

ST. FELIX PARISH NEWSLETTER

TO WALSINGHAM 8, Gainsborough Rd.,
Felixstowe IP11 7HT
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7th, 2008 01394 282561

LED BY Rt Rev Patrick Lynch E-Mail: sacerdotus@googlemail.com

Auxiliary Bishop in Southwark. Parish Priest: Fr David Hennessy
Website : www.saintfelix.co.uk
19th Sunday, A
ALL ARE WARMLY INVITED
10th August, 2008

WEEKEND MASSES
THE ASSUMPTION OF MARY
SATURDAY VIGIL
Without any doubt, a first meaning is that it is Our Lady, Mary, clothed with 6pm
the sun, that is, with God, totally; Mary who lives totally in God, surrounded ( DIAMOND WEDDING
and penetrated by God's light. Surrounded by the 12 stars, that is, by the 12
Bridie & John Kaziow )
tribes of Israel, by the whole People of God, by the whole Communion of
Saints; and at her feet, the moon, the image of death and mortality.
SUNDAY MORNING
Mary has left death behind her; she is totally clothed in life, she is taken up 9.00am
body and soul into God's glory and thus, placed in glory after overcoming ( Schloebler family deceased+ )
death, she says to us: Take heart, it is love that wins in the end! The message MASS THIS
10.30am: Convent COMING WEEK
of my life was: I am the handmaid of God, my life has been a gift of myself to
( Sr George + )
God and my neighbour. And this life of service now arrives in real life. May
you too have trust and have the courage to live like this, countering all the 11.30am: St Cecilia’s CONVENT MASS
threats of the dragon. ( Peter Newman+ )
MONDAY & TUESDAY
This is the first meaning of the woman whom Mary succeeded in being. The 10.00am
"woman clothed with the sun" is the great sign of the victory of love, of the COLLECTIONS LAST WEEK WEDNESDAY
victory of goodness, of the victory of God; a great sign of consolation.
( See arrangements for
OFFERTORY: £667.56 funeral of Sister George inside )
Yet, this woman who suffered, who had to flee, who gave birth with cries of
anguish, is also the Church, the pilgrim Church of all times. In all genera- CAFOD: £155.83 THURSDAY
tions she has to give birth to Christ anew, to bring him very painfully into the 10.00am
world, with great suffering. Persecuted in all ages, it is almost as if, pursued ( Catherine Shevlin+ )
by the dragon, she had gone to live in the wilderness. THE ASSUMPTION OF THE
MANY THANKS TO ALL WHO
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
However, in all ages, the Church, the People of God, also lives by the light of
God and as the Gospel says is nourished by God, nourishing herself with the HELPED WITH THE CLEARING
VIGIL MASS
Bread of the Holy Eucharist. Thus, in all the trials in the various situations of OF THE FRONT GARDEN LAST
at St. Cecilia’s
the Church through the ages in different parts of the world, she wins through MONDAY EVENING.
Thursday, 14th, at 7pm.
suffering. And she is the presence, the guarantee of God's love against all the
ideologies of hatred and selfishness. FRIDAY, 15th
Pope Benedict XVI, Homily, The Feast of the Assumption, 2007 Convent: 10.00am
St. Felix: 12noon
 +
SISTER GEORGE
We extend our prayers and sympathies   EXTRACT FROM A LETTER FROM CAFOD
TO MICHAEL BROOKS, PARISH REP
to the Sisters of Jesus and Mary 
on the death of  Sister George last Sunday evening.   Dear Michael,
May she rest in peace! 
First I want to say a big Thank You for all your kind help and
 

Sister George’s body will be received into the convent chapel on  
support especially in being our local contact for your Parish.
Tuesday, 12th August, at 4pm  
Your presence and support is invaluable especially in ensuring
and there will be evening prayer following.  that our Fast Day Collection is promoted in your Parish. Thank
Her funeral Mass will be at the convent on   You.
Wednesday, 13th August, at 1.30pm,  
followed by burial in Felixstowe.  I thought you might like to be aware that for the first
time ever, CAFOD here in East Anglia has collected
over £510,000 in the year to 3l March 2008. Your own
Parish contributed through Fast bays, Direct Debits,
All disasters stem from us. Why is there a war? Perhaps because now and
then I might be inclined to snap at my neighbour. Because I and my World Gifts and other schemes £18,535 in that year.
neighbour and everyone else do not have enough love. Yet we could fight
war and all its excrescences by releasing, each day, the love which is Incidentally, one of our most important sources of income is
shackled inside us, and giving it a chance to live. And I believe that I will Direct Debits. They assure us of a regular source of funding
never be able to hate any human being for his so-called 'wickedness', that I and mean we can in turn commit to Partners in developing
shall only hate the evil that is within me, though hate is perhaps putting it too countries for several years when starting a programme of
strongly even then. In any case, we cannot be lax enough in what we de-
mand of others and strict enough in what we demand of ourselves.
work or support. This regular giving is therefore a very
important form of support.
Etty Hillesum, A Diary, 1941-43
We average about 15 ‘Regular Givers’ per Parish in East An-
glia, and last year that brought in about £165,000. From your
ANNIVERSARIES Parish we have 15 Givers who generously donated £3,020 last
A woman came home, screeching her year.
John McEvoy
car into the driveway, and ran into the
Sister Patrick O’Sullivan
house. She slammed the door and Stephen Cox I would like to increase this by five new givers per Par-
shouted at the top of her lungs, 'Honey, John Sullivan ish in the coming Year, and if you think some leaflets about
pack your bags. I won the Sandra Lyons ‘regular giving’ being placed at the back of your church might
lottery!' The husband said, 'Oh my Catherine Shevlin help, then please note this on the attached questionnaire. I
God! What should I pack, beach stuff Joseph Coone am enclosing a sample leaflet for your information.
or mountain stuff?' 'Doesn't matter,' she Lilian Hart
said. 'Just get out.' Joseph Malezynski
Eileen Poole
John Malley
Bernard O’Reilly East Anglia, CAFOD
Richard MacNamara