Third Sunday of Easter, April 26, 2009

The sun shone today and there was a good attendance at Sunday mass. There is just a week to go until the First Communion celebration. Your prayers are requested for the eight children preparing for their big day.
Mobile phones are piling up. We have 15 - and 50 are needed in all to meet our recycling target. Proceeds to Cafod.
Your pictures of parish history are also needed for the display in June when we celebrate 50 years of the parish.
Our confirmation programme gets underway on Friday. There will be four candidates this time around.
Tickets are being sold for the talk on May 14 about jubilee by David McLoughlin, a well-known speaker. There is a supper too, only for £2. See Brian Davies.
The parish website is off the air because we forget to pay the bill! Normal service should be resumed soon.
Last night's Rugby Male Voice Choir concert is the church was well attended and many said how much they enjoyed it. Well done to all involved.

Easter pictures at Sacred Heart

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Easter pictures

Second Sunday of Easter, April 19th 2009

Here is a picture from our Easter celebrations last week.

Glorious sunshine as we come back together for the second Sunday of Easter. Father Ted preaches about doubting Thomas and trust - trust that he had to have when he abseiled down the cliffs of Dover.

We looked ahead to Saturday's concert in the church by the Rugby Male Voice Choir. About 30 tickets are so far sold for the show which also features folk group The Withered Arm and a parish youth worship group. It's one not to miss, and tickets will also be on sale on the door (priced £5).

Our confirmation programme begins on Friday, and it's only two weeks until First Communion Sunday.

Tickets will be on sale next week for the Jubilee talk on May 14th with David McLoughlin, an entertaining speaker who will talk about Jesus and Jubilee. Tickets are only £2 to include a buffet meal.

Don't forget to bring along soon your pictures from parish events over the past 50 years, and any old mobile phones you have which can be recycled for Cafod.

Easter, 2009

Christ is Risen! Alleluia! A very happy Easter to all followers of this blog, whether you are a current, past or possibly future parishioner.

I am writing this ahead of the Easter Vigil, but I am sure it was a joyous celebration of the great feast of Easter, the high point of the church's year.

Certainly we have been blessed with good attendances at both the Holy Thursday and Good Friday celebrations.

Other parish news - the planned concert by Blagovest, the Russian choir, has had to be cancelled because they have experienced problems with travelling and visas. We hope they will return next year. The Rugby Male Voice Choir tickets are on sale. Please don't miss this concert on Saturday April 25th. It is raising funds for two of our young parishioners to travel to help needy communities overseas.

Palm Sunday, April 5th 2009

It was a lovely sunny day for Palm Sunday and our worship began in the hall with the gospel reading. We then processed around the church and into the main entrance to hear the reading of the Gospel according to St Mark. Inevitably quite a few people had gone away so the congregation was a little smaller than normal.
There are a number of important services this week - a service of reconciliation on Tuesday night, then the Mass of the Last Supper on Thursday, the Celebration of the Passion on Friday (plus Stations of the Cross), and the highpoint of the church's year - The Easter Vigil - on Saturday night at 8.30pm. Please try to get along to the wonderful Easter Triduum if you can.
Another Easter special is the traditional UCM Easter basket which was raffled off in the hall after mass today.
If you enjoy music, don't forget to buy your tickets for the Rugby Male Voice Choir concert in the church on Saturday April 25th. As well as the choir, our youth music group, plus The Withered Arm (a folk group comprising parishioners) will be on the bill. Tickets are a real bargain at £5 a piece with proceeds going to a fund to support Hugh Potter and Maciek Hume who are travelling overseas next year to help communities in need.