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AND FRIENDS SCENARIO: A card is posted through your Felixstowe DECEMBER 13th, 2009
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Saint Felix Catholic Parish Newsletter

A FESTIVAL OF LESSONS
AND CAROLS
ST JOHN’S, CAULDWELL
HALL ROAD
14th DECEMBER, 7.30pm
ADMISSION FREE
RETIRING COLLECTION FOR
FAMILIES IN NEED, IPSWICH
Coffee & mince pies served
in the church hall afterwards.
door from a company called PDS (Parcel THIRD SUNDAY
Delivery Service) suggesting that they Tel: 01394 282561
OF ADVENT
were unable to deliver a parcel and that Parish Priest:
you need to contact them on 0906 6611911 Fr David Hennessy
(a Premium rate number). e-mail:
sacerdotus@googlemail.com
DO NOT call this number, as this is a mail
scam originating from Belize. Website:
www.saintfelix.org.uk
If you call the number and you start to hear
a recorded message you will already have
been billed £315 for the phone call.
If you do receive a card with these WEEKEND
details, then please contact Royal Mail MASS TIMES
Fraud on 020 7239 6655. SATURDAY 6pm
SUNDAY 9am MASSES THIS WEEK








The meaning of the expression "advent" therefore includes that of 10.30am ( Convent )
visitatio, which simply and specifically means "visit"; in this case it is ( Sr. Ursula+ )
MONDAY—SATURDAY
a question of a visit from God: he enters my life and wishes to speak
11.30am ( Trimley ) Monday: Mildred King+
to me. In our daily lives we all experience having little time for the ( Pinto family intentions) Saturday: Patricia Mary Thraves+
Lord and also little time for ourselves. We end by being absorbed in
"doing". Is it not true that activities often absorb us and that society 10.00am AT THE CONVENT
with its multiple interests monopolizes our attention? Is it not true that RECENT COLLECTIONS
we devote a lot of time to entertainment and to various kinds of AND, IN ADDITION
OFFERTORY: £892.15
amusement? At times we get carried away. Advent, this powerful
liturgical season that we are beginning, invites us to pause in silence CAFOD:£226.22 FRIDAY, 18th December
MASS AT 12noon
to understand a presence. It is an invitation to understand that the
MANY THANKS! at ST FELIX
individual events of the day are hints that God is giving us, signs of
the attention he has for each one of us. How often does God give us
a glimpse of his love! To keep, as it were, an "interior journal" of this
love would be a beautiful and salutary task for our life! Advent invites SECOND COLLECTION TODAY
and stimulates us to contemplate the Lord present. Should not the FOR THE SICK AND RETIRED PRIESTS’ FUND
certainty of his presence help us see the world with different eyes?
Should it not help us to consider the whole of our life as a "visit", as
a way in which he can come to us and become close to us in every
situation? Sylvia and Jenny would like to sincerely thank everybody who
supported the parish party evening and £220 was raised for
Pope Benedict XVI the Bishop's Cambodian Appeal.
Vatican Basilica
Saturday, 28 November 2009
 SCHOLA MASS: on 20th
OUR PARISH CAROL SERVICE
is NEXT SUNDAY, 20th December at 3pm, CHRISTMAS MASS TIMES December the music for
morning mass at St. Felix will
followed by punch and mince pies. be a bit different. Instead of
DECEMBER 24th
the usual hymns, the music will
CHRISTMAS EVE be led by an unaccompanied
CHILDREN WANTED FOR THE CAROL SERVICE.
( Vigil Masses ) singing group ( a "schola"), and
A number of children are needed to take part in the Nativity scenes in this year’s it will be more in the style of
Carol Service on Sunday December 20th at 3.00pm. If there are any children who Convent: 7.00pm traditional plainchant. Some of
would like to take part, please contact Teresa Whitley (tel: 672513), Pauline St Felix: 9pm the music will be unfamiliar to
Mayes or Monica Macdonald (tel: 278258), as soon as possible. There will be a most people, but there will also
short rehearsal at 10am on December 20th, after the 9 o’clock mass at St Felix. +++++++++++
be parts that everyone can join
in to sing; I will explain a bit
DECEMBER 25th more about this before Mass
THE KNIGHTS OF ST. COLUMBA will be distributing Christmas posters this on the day.
weekend .It is most important at this time when the feast is being secularised that CHRISTMAS DAY
the real meaning of Christmas is put across. Please take one and display it in your This is an experiment to try out
window. Please save the used stamps—there is a box for these in the porch at St. St Felix: 9.00am a different style of music which
Felix; also unwanted spectacles are welcome! ( John King ) we might use from time to time,
St Cecilia’s: 10.45am and I don't intend it to
************ completely replace what we
THE KSC are holding their Christmas Dinner at the Marlborough on Dec 15th, normally do. Afterwards, I'd be
SATURDAY, 26th DECEMBER
7 for 7.30pm. Cost is £20 .Contact Tom Brazier 671499 . pleased to hear people's views
10.00am at the convent
as to whether it helped to make
the mass a more uplifting
PARISH SERVICE OF RECONCILIATION IS ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26th / 27th experience, which is really
17th DECEMBER AT 7.30pm. NO BETTER WAY TO PREPARE FOR FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY what I'm aiming for.
THE GREAT FEAST OF CHRISTMAS! WEEKEND MASS TIMES AS USUAL DougBirchall

THE CHURCH WILL BE DECORATED FOR CHRISTMAS ON

DECEMBER 22nd ( 6pm ) AND CLEANED ON DECEMBER 23rd AT 9am.
ALL HELP WILL BE WELCOMED!
We need greenery, holly with berries and other evergreens.
Please leave in the porch next weekend.
2010 CALENDARS are being sold in aid of Battambang Diocese,
Cambodia, with which our diocese is twinned. They cost £5 each and your
support will, as always, be most welcome! They are in the porches. Please
buy the last few!
PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS ALL WHO ARE SICK AND
THOSE WHO HAVE DIED RECENTLY OR HAVE ANNIVERSARIES:
Sick: Jack Gaffney, Stanley Ring
Sr Ursula, Sr Felicitas Arkwright, Sr Joan Swaffield, May Poulton, Georgina
Stephen, Arthur Raffe, Lillian White, Kitty Spencer, Tony Byrne, Olga Searle,
Phillis Ainsworth, Ione Waite, Eileen Ascott, Alphonse Gluba, Helena Hussey,
John Spencer, Albert Scahill, Alice Robinson, Derrick Hockley, Anthony Bowker,
Patricia Thraves, Betty Vickers RIP