“You cannot repent too soon, because you do not know how soon it may be too late.”
The readings for the fourth Sunday of Lent Year C, invite us to reflect deeply on God’s unfathomable mercy and the joy of reconciliation and returning home to God.
Traditionally, the Fourth Sunday of Lent is called Laetare Sunday (Rejoice Sunday).
Anticipating Easter joy, we are invited to rejoice by being reconciled with God through repentance and the confession of our sins and by celebrating our coming home to be with our loving and forgiving God.
Fr. Peter.
PARISH RECONCILIATION SERVICE will be held at the Sacred Heart Church on Saturday 12th April at 12noon, giving the opportunity for individual confession.
HOLY WEEK SERVICES at North Walsham
Maundy Thursday: 7.00pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Good Friday: 3.00pm The Passion of the Lord
Easter Saturday: 8.30pm The Easter Vigil
EASTER SUNDAY: 9.00 am at St Helen’s, Hoveton
9.00 am at St John of the Cross, Aylsham
11.00 am at Sacred Heart, North Walsham
Important new procedure for those attending Faithful Flames from Sunday 4th May. There will be a new admissions form for you to fill out for your children, keeping a record of the number of children in the group and also importantly ensuring correct contact information. Email: faithful.flames2025@gmail.com
Ecumenical Lent lunches are being held in Aylsham: please see poster at the back of the church.
The next St Helen’s Coffee Morning will be on Wednesday 2nd April at 10.30am. Do please bring your friends and drop in to say hello, enjoy refreshments and have a chat. You are all most welcome.
Jubilee of the Sick & Health Care Workers: Mass with anointing at the Cathedral. Bishop Peter warmly invites all those who are sick and those who are involved in health care in any capacity to a special Jubilee Mass at the Cathedral on Saturday 5th April at 11.30am. In place of the annual Mass held around the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, this Mass will give opportunity for the sacrament of the anointing of the sick, and in the Jubilee Year will be enriched by a celebration of the contributions made by the many doctors, nurses, pharmacists, orderlies and others across the Diocese who live out their Christian vocation in care of others.
CHRISM MASS – at St John’s Cathedral, Norwich, is on Tuesday 15th April at 11.30 am. We have a coach, local to North Walsham – remember no parking at the Cathedral, except for blue badge holders. Cost £5 : pickup points: Aylsham 9.30 am; North Walsham 10.00 am and Hoveton 10.30 am. Depart for home 2.30 pm. Please sign your list in your church porch as soon as possible to assess size of coach needed.
Stations of the Cross will take place in each or our churches during Lent. Times will be on the Mass page.
Marriage Celebration Mass. Bishop Peter invites all married couples in the Diocese to attend this annual Mass on Saturday 14th June at 11.30 am at the Cathedral of St John the Baptist in Norwich. All are welcome: those celebrating significant anniversaries (one year, five years and every multiple of five years thereafter, (until 60 years where we celebrate each year thereafter) will receive a certificate from the Bishop. Refreshments follow the Mass. For more details and to register pl go to https://www.rcdea.org.uk/marriage-mass-registration/
We pray for our sick parishioners: Matt Butler, Frances Palman, Mary Bell, Celia Cooper, Marie Barton, Margaret Larkins, Maria Halsey, Joan Macnamara, Richard Skelton, Teresa Fitzmaurice, Joan Gale, Bernadette Saunders, Doreen Rockey & daughter Sandra, Pam Thornton, Inge O’ Toole, Mary Long, Mary Cockburn, Malcolm Akers, Frances Mack, Tony & Amy Heywood and Peter.
We pray for those whose anniversaries occur this week: Barbara Stephen, Ronald Wilders, Alice Bean, Auugustus Heralty, Grace Middleton, Eric Moll and Paul Humphrys.
May they rest in peace.
