C.W.L.

8, Gainsborough Rd.,
The next meeting will be on Monday April 20th at 7.45pm in the church Felixstowe IP11 7HT
hall. Parishioners are invited to hear a speaker from Ipswich Health Out- 01394 282561
reach Project talk about working with homeless people. There will be a
collection of tinned goods for the homeless. E-Mail: sacerdotus@googlemail.com
Parish Priest: Fr David Hennessy
Website : www.saintfelix.org.uk
C.W.L. ladies are reminded that their business meeting will commence at
7.00pm. Facebook Group April 19th 2009
facebook.com/group.php? SECOND SUNDAY
Lynne Lanigan will be collecting subscriptions and items of new gid=112120055384 OF
clothing for the Catholic Clothing Guild at this CWL meeting,
or to arrange collection call 448568. EASTER
MASS THIS WEEKEND
SATURDAY
PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS ALL WHO ARE SICK AND 6pm
THOSE WHO HAVE DIED RECENTLY OR HAVE ANNIVERSARIES: ( William Robinson+)
SUNDAY
Elizabeth Flight, Richard Creagh, Jutta Swann, Bernard Moran, Arthur Segger, Edith 9am
Birt, Edwin Driscoll, Francis Elley, Patricia Casserley, Cornelius Lane, Arthur Proctor, ( Marjorie Yelverton+)
Francis Green, Mona Roberts, Owen McGrath, Marjorie Yelverton, Mary Harney,
Gillian Benson, Captain H Ramsbottom, Catherine O’Carroll, Mark Compton, Vera 11.00am
Pawlowski, Roman Nanowski. RIP ( Convent )
11.30am
( Trimley ) MASSES THIS WEEK
Indeed, one of the questions that most preoccupies men and women is this: what
is there after death? To this mystery today’s solemnity allows us to respond that Monday: 10.00am
death does not have the last word, because Life will be victorious at the end. Tuesday: 10.00am
COLLECTIONS LAST WEEK:
This certainty of ours is based not on simple human reasoning, but on a historical Wednesday: 5.45pm
fact of faith: Jesus Christ, crucified and buried, is risen with his glorified body. OFFERTORY: £1,714.68 Thursday: 10.00am
Jesus is risen so that we too, believing in him, may have eternal life. This CAFOD: £ 213.08 Friday:10.00am
proclamation is at the heart of the Gospel message. As Saint Paul vigorously HOLY PLACES: £250.03
declares: “If Christ has not been raised, our preaching is in vain and your faith is
in vain.” He goes on to say: “If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are MANY THANKS INDEED [ Tuesday, 2pm
of all people the most to be pitied” (1 Cor 15:14,19). Ever since the dawn of FOR YOUR GENEROSITY! Funeral service for
Easter a new Spring of hope has filled the world; from that day forward our resur- Helen Samkin ]
rection has begun, because Easter does not simply signal a moment in history, If you have any CAFOD
but the beginning of a new condition: Jesus is risen not because his memory boxes at home, please empty
them and return the money FRIDAY
remains alive in the hearts of his disciples, but because he himself lives in us,
with a note of the amount to
and in him we can already savour the joy of eternal life. 12 noon at St Felix
the sacristy or to Fr David
( CWL intentions )
Pope Benedict XVI, Easter Message, 2009
 THE FAMILY OF JESUS AND MARY
will be holding their Easter Party in the convent on
THURSDAY, APRIL 23rd, 7pm St. Thomas Aquinas discusses another interesting
question. He asks whether or not Jesus should have
lived continually with his disciples after the Resurrec-
tion. His answer is no. He says that Jesus should have
DATE FOR YOUR DIARY been with them a sufficient number of times so that
The Parish Fete will be held on they would be sure that it really was he. But he should
SATURDAY 20th JUNE not have been with them constantly, because, if he
2pm to 4pm. had, they might have erroneously concluded that he
had come back to the same life he had lived before.
More details nearer the time.
There is, you see, always that element of the Resurrec-
Please try and keep this date free
tion that cannot be explained: Jesus is no longer as he
and support the fete
in any way you can. was, he is still who he was. He is the same Jesus (he
even carries the wounds of his passion on his body),
yet he is inexplicably different …
GIFT AID
The parish will shortly be submitting the annual claim for repayment of tax in … What happened when Jesus was raised from the
respect of contributions made under the Gift Aid scheme. It is essential that dead? It is noteworthy that none of the Gospels
parishioners, who donate through the weekly collection under a Gift Aid attempt to describe the Resurrection. They do describe
Declaration, let the parish know if they are no longer paying either income or the crucifixion, for that is something that humans did
capital gains tax at least equal to the amount of tax that the parish is about to to Jesus and as such it is a part of human history and
claim for the tax year ending 5th April 2009.
therefore capable of being verified empirically. The
If you have donated a total of £100 during the year, the parish can claim Resurrection, on the other hand, is something that God
£28.20 – provided you have paid at least £28.10 in tax. For each multiple of did and therefore not a part of human history in the
£100 you donate, the parish can claim that multiple of £28.20 and you must
same sense. It is something that truly happened, but it
have paid at least that amount of tax.
is a trans-historical event, that is, a divine intervention
Please note that you must inform the parish if you change your address or if into human history, and therefore an event that the
you cease to pay tax..
historian as historian can neither prove or nor disprove.
If you have any query, please contact Mike Tehan on 286059.
Thomas H Shannon, The Resurrection

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