Llandudno -
Our Lady Star of
the Sea
Parish Priest: Fr Antony Jones STL - Telephone: 01492 860546 [Email]
Sunday, May, 27th 2007 - The Solemnity of Pentecost
Parish Priest: Fr Antony Jones STL - Telephone: 01492 860546 [Email]
Sunday, May, 27th 2007 - The Solemnity of Pentecost
Dear
Parishioner,
Today, Pentecost Sunday, we celebrate our International Mass. I hope it will bring home to us the truly worldwide nature of our Catholic Church and at the same time express our welcome and delight at having so many different ethnic groups within our Parish Family.
The Parish Council will be held on Wednesday, 6th June, at 7:30pm, at Stella Maris. Reports from the Groups represented on the Council should be in the Secretary’s hands by this Wednesday, please. And if you have any matter you would like discussing at the Council, please let Mandy or one of the Reps know by the same day, Wednesday of this week. Thank You.
I shall be discussing with the Council a major change in the objectives of the Guardian Angel Society. Their members agreed, at a meeting held last Wednesday, that they would, at my request, focus their efforts exclusively on visiting the hospital. Representing the Church they will visit every bed in the hospital every week. They will report back to me of Catholics whom they have come across and I or Sister Jennifer will take them the Sacraments.
Sister Jennifer will continue to visit the hospital, as she has been doing now for several years and where she is greatly respected and loved. But the new role of the Guardian Angel Society will mean that the pressure is off her. Should she be unwell, she will know that all the patients have been visited and that the Church is completely up to speed with the Catholic patients who are there.
I am delighted with this development. It will be such a help to Sr Jennifer and will provide essential back-up for the times when she is unable to visit, be she on holiday or unwell. I am truly grateful to her for the tireless work she puts into hospital visiting. I am also truly grateful to GAS who willingly and without any dissenting voice accepted their new role. I am also truly grateful to the SVP who have happily and willingly agreed to take over the visitation of the Care Homes which GAS had formerly been visiting. And I am grateful to Sr Antonia for the care she has consistently shown to the patients in our hospital.
This development means that we have in place a system which will consistently care for the poor and sick people of our parish. We must also mention, as an integral part of this overall care for the sick, the Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion, who take the Blessed Sacrament to the sick every week. We are grateful to them for their love and dedication. Let me remind you of the system we employ. In the course of every month I visit all the sick and housebound people of our parish, giving them the opportunity for Confession or/and the Sacrament of the Sick. During the rest of the month they receive Holy Communion from their own Special Minister, with whom these housebound and often lonely people build up a bond of friendship and trust.
While the SVP visits and cares for the poor, housebound and homebound people of our Parish, GAS will concentrate on caring for the patients in the hospital. Between them, and with the help of the Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion, we have it covered! But we need the help and the prayers of every member of our Parish. If you know of anyone needing any kind of care that we can supply, please let me know. If you would like to be actively involved in either the SVP or GAS, please contact Mr Toni Fossi, the President of SVP, or myself.
God bless you,
Fr Antony Jones
Today, Pentecost Sunday, we celebrate our International Mass. I hope it will bring home to us the truly worldwide nature of our Catholic Church and at the same time express our welcome and delight at having so many different ethnic groups within our Parish Family.
The Parish Council will be held on Wednesday, 6th June, at 7:30pm, at Stella Maris. Reports from the Groups represented on the Council should be in the Secretary’s hands by this Wednesday, please. And if you have any matter you would like discussing at the Council, please let Mandy or one of the Reps know by the same day, Wednesday of this week. Thank You.
I shall be discussing with the Council a major change in the objectives of the Guardian Angel Society. Their members agreed, at a meeting held last Wednesday, that they would, at my request, focus their efforts exclusively on visiting the hospital. Representing the Church they will visit every bed in the hospital every week. They will report back to me of Catholics whom they have come across and I or Sister Jennifer will take them the Sacraments.
Sister Jennifer will continue to visit the hospital, as she has been doing now for several years and where she is greatly respected and loved. But the new role of the Guardian Angel Society will mean that the pressure is off her. Should she be unwell, she will know that all the patients have been visited and that the Church is completely up to speed with the Catholic patients who are there.
I am delighted with this development. It will be such a help to Sr Jennifer and will provide essential back-up for the times when she is unable to visit, be she on holiday or unwell. I am truly grateful to her for the tireless work she puts into hospital visiting. I am also truly grateful to GAS who willingly and without any dissenting voice accepted their new role. I am also truly grateful to the SVP who have happily and willingly agreed to take over the visitation of the Care Homes which GAS had formerly been visiting. And I am grateful to Sr Antonia for the care she has consistently shown to the patients in our hospital.
This development means that we have in place a system which will consistently care for the poor and sick people of our parish. We must also mention, as an integral part of this overall care for the sick, the Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion, who take the Blessed Sacrament to the sick every week. We are grateful to them for their love and dedication. Let me remind you of the system we employ. In the course of every month I visit all the sick and housebound people of our parish, giving them the opportunity for Confession or/and the Sacrament of the Sick. During the rest of the month they receive Holy Communion from their own Special Minister, with whom these housebound and often lonely people build up a bond of friendship and trust.
While the SVP visits and cares for the poor, housebound and homebound people of our Parish, GAS will concentrate on caring for the patients in the hospital. Between them, and with the help of the Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion, we have it covered! But we need the help and the prayers of every member of our Parish. If you know of anyone needing any kind of care that we can supply, please let me know. If you would like to be actively involved in either the SVP or GAS, please contact Mr Toni Fossi, the President of SVP, or myself.
God bless you,
Fr Antony Jones