The Sacred Triduum....

Ashby

Holy Thursday — 17 April:
Confessions on call: 9.00am - 12 noon
7.30pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Come and go as you will  during the Watch until….
10.00pm Compline

Good Friday — 18 April:
12noon Passion for Ashby: United Act of Witness - Meet at Holy Trinity
3.00pm The Passion of the Lord
Confessions after afternoon Liturgy

Holy Saturday — 19 April:
10.00am Blessing of Easter Food
Confessions on call: 10.30am - 12 noon and 4.45 - 5.15pm
No Mass at 5.30pm
8.30pm Easter Vigil Mass

Easter Day of the Lord's Resurrection — 20 April:
10.00am Mass


Measham

Good Friday — 18 April:
9.30am Stations of the Cross
Confessions after Stations

Holy Saturday - 19 April
No Mass at 6.45pm
8.30pm Easter Vigil Mass

Newsletter for 12/13 April - Palm Sunday

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Vacancy for Classroom Teacher at St Charles' Measham

Click here for details of a vacancy at our lovely Parish School.

Job opportunity - Justice and Peace Fieldworker

Justice and Peace Fieldworker

 

24 hours per week [including some evening and weekend working]

Salary: £14,500pa : Five weeks holiday pa

 

The Justice and Peace Commission works  to promote Catholic Social Teaching and action for social and economic justice, and for peace, throughout the Diocese.

 

The Fieldworker is employed by the Diocese of Nottingham to support and develop the work of the Justice and Peace Commission in parishes, schools, and with other organisations.

 

The Fieldworker is based at Willson House, Derby Road, Nottingham.

Closing date for applications: 12 noon on Monday 28th April 2014.

 

If you would like an informal discussion about the post please contact the Chair of the Commission, Patricia Stoat, on 0115 950 9773 or pmstoat@gmail.com

 

Interviews for the post will be held at Willson House on Thursday 8th May.

 

Application pack available from the Diocese of Nottingham website at:

 

http://www.grasshopper-hosting.co.uk/Diocese/01_Comm/sitsVac.htm

 

Dig Deep with CAFOD this Lent to transform land and lives.

So obvious that I often miss it.

The principles that Fr Barron talks about are very much part of the church's spiritual tradition. If we acted on them our lives and the lives of those we meet every day would be very different. When I begin to think about the heart of what Fr Barron is saying, it all seems blindingly obvious. Why then, do I so often forget it?

Here is a transcript of the talk:

At the heart of St. Ignatius' "Spiritual Exercises" is what he calls the agere contra principle--to "act against" those things that trouble us. Let's say I have a tendency toward overindulging in food, sex, or alcohol. I must find a way to actively battle against that tendency, to actively fast from food, for example. Let's say I'm tempted to badmouth people or be too critical. I need to act against that by, for example, praising people throughout Lent. I might alternatively choose to write a thank-you note, or a note of praise, each day during Lent. In Ignatius' view, sin is like a bent stick that we need to bend back in the other direction--that's the agere contra principle. We see this same idea in Dante's writings, especially in his Purgatorio, which I mentioned yesterday. As the seven deadly sins are being purged, the people on the mountain of Purgatory are forced to oppose the sins they previously indulged in. For instance, the envious are turned outward toward others but their eyelids are sewn shut, forcing them to look inward. The slothful, those who indulge in laziness, are made to run around Purgatory without end. These examples illustrate agere contra. Once we reflect on our attachments, we can begin working in the other direction against them. A second powerful strategy against sin is to perform the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. Venerable Fulton Sheen noted the expulsive power of the good. When wickedness bubbles up within us, we can brood about it and try to manage it directly, or we can expel it by performing good works, by flooding out the bad with the good. Dorothy Day had it right: "Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy." Make sure your life is filled up with those works and it will generate an expulsive power that helps defeat your sin.

Newsletter for 5/6 April - Lent 5

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See also our Lent programme and our Holy Week and Easter times.

More wisdom, and a real challenge from Fr Barron

I found this very challenging. Well worth reading slowly and prayerfully.

In this second half of Lent, ask yourself: are you on the right course? Do you need to adjust your direction?