Tea and Coffee after Mass. everyone is welcome to come for tea and coffee after the 10:00 Sunday Mass. Please feel free to bring home baked cakes or biscuits, especially if you wish to mark a special event.

Upcoming Funerals.

Thankfully none currently in the diary.

Please pray for those who are sick Julian Ford; Mary Hawes; Pope Francis and Bishop Peter

Church Cleaning 2nd Wednesday of the Month after Mass. All welcome to help clean the church and tidy up outside. Next session Wednesday 12th March.

Lent Confessions Please Note that the Deanery Station Mass on Thursday 20th of March is also an opportunity to go to confession for there will be several confessors, including the bishop, available from 18:00.

Stations of the Cross During Lent various parish groups will be leading the Stations of the Cross on Wednesdays at 19:00. Please speak to Michael Green if you would like to volunteer to lead a group. Please note if you would like to arrange a special Way of the Cross in line with your cultural/ethnic tradition please contact Fr Caulfield before Sunday 23rd March. Times and dates for these foreign language Stations can be negotiated. Please Note Good Friday is not available because of events already planned on that day.

Music group practice for PalmSunday and the Easter Triduum  Practices will be in Church on:
Wednesdays 7.30pm( after stations of the cross)
Thursday  7.30pm &Saturday morning ( by arrangement)  Starting March 12th
Please could anyone or any group wishing to make a contrition from their national/ethnic background please speak to Fr Caulfield or Sandra Morgan before the end of March.  We would be delighted to accommodate cultural or other language contributions but it is necessary that these be properly coordinated to avoid duplication or unnecessary extensions to the length of services.  There will be no Thursday practice on March 20th as there is a mass at Holy family Kings Lynn Or Wednesday 26th March .

Lent Lunches On Friday it has become a custom for us to gather for tea and biscuits after the 12:15 Mass for the dead. During lent this gathering will take the form of a bread and cheese lunch, as we have shared in Lent for the past 2/3 years.

Walk With Me Booklets for Lent
Bishop Peter has written an introduction specific to the Diocese. ‘I have found these booklets most useful as an encouragement to structured daily prayer.’ Bishop Peter Collins. Cost £1 available at the back of church.

Website: Thanks to the excellent work of Marta Krason the new parish website will be going live in time for Lent. We are still fine tuning the site but hopefully it will become a parish asset in the coming months.

https://www.ourladyandstcharlesborromeo.co.uk/
 

Jubilee House Masses 

Tuesday 28th March hosted by Veronica Marsden.

Tuesday 1st April in Elm, Hosted by Launce and Sandra  Morgan

Tuesday 8th April  Queen's Road Wisbech  Hosted by Helen and Rob Willatt

These are the only three who responded to the invitation, unless otherwise stated the Mass will at 19:00. Fuller details nearer the day.
 

Jubilee Pilgrimage Milan As part of our participation in the year of jubilee a pilgrimage to Milan has been proposed. Each person will be responsible for booking their own travel and organising their health insurance and, if needed, Visas. The accommodation will be
booked through the parish office. To assist with this please fill in a form stating the maximum cost you would be comfortable paying per person, per night. The sooner we book the cheeper things will be so the deadline for applications will be Sunday 9th March, the 1st Sunday in Lent. The proposed dates are 03/11/25-08/11/25 see flyer for detail.

Ignite Youth Mission Team
igniteteam@rcdea.org.uk
The Youth Office is at The White House, 21 Upgate,
Poringland, Norwich, Norfolk, NR14 7SH.
Tel. 01508 486236

World Day of Prayer Thus will be held at All Saints church in Walsoken on Friday 7th March at 3pm. Everybody welcome.

Lent Station Mass The Deanery Station Mass will be on Thursday 20th March at The Church of the Holy Family Field Lane, Gaywood, King’s Lynn, PE30 4AX Exposition and Confession 6pm; Mass 7pm; Supper 8pm. 

15th April Chrism Mass 11.30am, St John’s Cathedral (It would be very good if this years Confirmation candidates attend this Mass and whiteness the Bishop consecrate the Oil of Chrism that will be used at their confirmation.) 

Tuesday 15th April Pilgrim (Student) Cross. Mass at OL&SCB 18:30 Volunteers wanted to help with supper and breakfast

3rd-4th May: Ignite Youth Festival St Benedict’s, Bury St Edmunds

Items for the Newsletter if you wish something included in the newsletter please submit it in writing or an email to the parish Secretary by 16:00 on the Wednesday before the edition in which you wish it to be included.

Mass Bags It is a joy to have children with us in church but they can find the Mass challenging and seek distractions. We already have a children's corner at the back of the church and it may be possible to expand the area and make improvements over time. One idea which will be trialed shortly is the provision of Church bags. These bags will have a number of items in them which should help to focus a child. I shall give more detail in future newsletters.

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