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Mass Intentions for the coming week: Saturday – 6.30 – Peter Brewster (RIP): Sunday – 10.00 – Patsy Wall (A):

Monday – 9.00 – Cassie Griffiths: Tuesday – 7.00 – Jim Gardham: Wednesday – 9.00 – Tony Matthews (very ill):

Thursday – 9.00 – Joseph Larvin (RIP): Friday – 9.00 – Patrick Doyle's Intentions: Saturday – 9.00 – The Parishioners:

Saturday – 6.30 – Fr. Tony Storey (B): Sunday – 10.00 – Ronald and Eleanor Smith:

Anniversaries this coming week: Saturday – Stewart Kennedy, Andrew McDonagh, Philip Nicoll. Sunday – Jane Bottery, Agnes Andrews, Catherine Johnson. Tuesday – Maria Sayos de Navarro. Thursday – Rosetta Penna. Saturday – Elsie Abel, Leonard Bezemer, Philip Doherty, Ted Gillyon, Alwyn Drew. Sunday – Sarah Woods-McConville.

Prayers for the sick and housebound: Rolf Hagensen (Tina's dad), Tony Tordoff, Jack Ormiston, Brian Mizon, Norah Ledger, Maureen Burman, Lynn Cleary, Sheila Wiles.

Church Cleaning: We try and do it every second week. At the moment about four people are involved, a few more would make all the difference! It's not as if it's hard work! What about doing it as part of your Lenten penance with the added bonus of having chocolate biscuits and coffee? You can eat the biscuits beforehand and work off the calories as you hoover! Is this 'guilt trip' working? When? This Monday after the morning Mass!

Talk about getting 'caught out'! "Pat, just called on the off-chance. I was in Hull overnight and this morning. All the best. + Terry." I found this note behind the door when I returned from London on Wednesday evening at 11 p.m. I was with forty pupils from St. Mary's College, all drama students, to see two 'shows', 'Oliver!' and 'War Horse'. Oliver! Brought back memories of when I was Fagin a few years ago, this time he was played by Griff Rhys Jones (he didn't do a bad job!). 'War Horse' was recommended to me last year by Mary Sinclair (Vancouver). I passed on the word to the drama department and we managed to get tickets. I believe that it will go on to become the next 'Lion King' or 'Les Miserables' or 'Phantom'. It was awesome and had many of the students in tears (including myself!) but don't tell anyone. We were fortunate to have a workshop the next day with one of the actors from the show. If you get the opportunity to see it, go for it! And thank you, Mary, for the suggestion.

Christening this morning during Mass: We welcome Amy and Pierre Fenner as they bring their first child Leo Jean Jacques to be christened. Some of you will remember Amy as Amy Hawkes. Leo was born in September. Congratulations from us all!

Birthday Boy! Glyn Davies celebrated his Big 50 this week with a Wake at home on Saturday 27^th. Commiserations from us all! And Helen O'Reilly celebrated her birthday last Tuesday in Edinburgh!

Rebel nun to be Australia's first saint: The Pope has approved a rebellious nun as Australia's first saint. Mary MacKillop, who was revered for her work with children, will be canonised on October 17^th. Her parents moved from Scotland to Australia. She founded an order of nuns at the age of 24 and was briefly excommunicated for insubordination. Sounds like my kind of girl!

Parish Passover Meal: Wednesday March 31^st (Wednesday of Holy Week)): Places are filling up fast so don't leave it too late to book your seat! You can drop your form and money into the collections bags or drop it into the house. Remember your name!

Forward in Faith (FIF) Australia has unanimously approved measures for Australian Anglicans to cross to the Roman Catholic Church under the provisions of Pope Benedict XVI's Apostolic Constitution, 'Anglicanorum Coetibus'. Australia is also home to the 400,000-member Traditional Anglican Communion whose leadership petitioned Rome for a facility to convert en masse which led to the creation of the Constitution. The Anglican Church of Australia is the second-biggest religious group in the country, with 18.7 per cent of the more than 20 million people recorded in the 2006 national census. Catholics made up 25.8 per cent.

Cottingham Churches Together for Lent: This Thursday we are at the Methodist Church on Hallgate at 7.30 pm and the following week we at 'at home', again at 7.30 p.m.

CWL Cake Stall this weekend in aid of the Hull Lourdes Sick Fund. Jean and Elizabeth, John and Ray were able to keep in touch with all the Holy Cross goings-on via the internet whilst on board ship! Who would have thought that a few years ago?

"Our search for God and our service to others will never be conducted in a neat world. Life will never submit to our good intentions, will never fall in line, will never stand still long enough to do our bidding. Life will never cease to be a messy affair, and our spiritual journey will never be reduced to a tidying-up operation. God and the others don't wait to enter our life until we have put it all in order. Our journey ... is about finding God and serving others in the midst of the mess. The messiest place of all will be our own soul, our own life, which, despite our best efforts, will insist on remaining human. And it is into this mess, this confusion, that God and others will invite themselves." (John Kirvan 'Silent Hope')

Women's World Day of Prayer: Here at Holy Cross on Friday March 5^th. at 2 p.m. The Leader will be Barbara Avery and the Speaker will be Linda Gillard. The Service has been prepared by Christian Women of Cameroon and the theme is : "Let Everything That Has Breath Praise God". It's of interest to us here at Holy Cross with our connection through Diane and the Twins and their deportation from the parish a couple of years ago. Cameroon is twice the size of the UK. The Portuguese arrived in the 15^th. century followed in the 18^th and 19^th centuries by the Muslim Fulani. In 1884 the area came under German domination. After World War I the League of Nations gave France a mandate for 80% of the land and the British 20%. In 1946 self-government was granted under a United Nations trusteeship. October 1^st 1961 marked the reunification of British Southern and French Cameroon and on May 20^th 1972, the United Republic of Cameroon was born.

Monthly Collection for Diane and the Twins: Your generosity is wonderful! The box will be once again in front of the altar this weekend for whatever you feel you can donate. You've no idea just how much your generosity means to Diane!

CWL Coffee Morning after this coming Friday's Mass in The Garden Room. This tradition has been going on for some time on a First Friday, and is a good way to relax or have a late breakfast of chocolate biscuits!

"A Spirituality for the 21^st Century": Fr Timothy Radcliffe, the former master of the Dominicans, said in Rome last week: "We need faithful questioners, people who dare to float an hypothesis, experiment with an idea, venture into a new way of thinking, not knowing where it will lead. Meister Eckhart said that we only attain the truth if we make 1,000 errors on the way. If the great tree of the Church does not have these leaves open to the world, then we shall end up with what Karl Rahner called the heresy of dead doctrine." He went on to defend the need for a Vatican doctrinal office to "keep us steady as we search", but with a twist. "I believe that its main function should be to stop us succumbing to premature answers. It should keep open the debate until God grants illumination for the next step on the journey."

Diocesan Youth Mission Team: Bishop Terry has asked Fr Paul Farrer (ex-St Mary's College pupil) to establish such a team to work with the very many young people of our Diocese. The team will live in community and work together in our schools and parishes and beyond. In appealing for volunteers, Paul is hopeful that there will be a number of young people who may wish to 'give a year to God' and volunteer for this exciting work. Volunteers will be fed and housed and also given a small weekly allowance. This work is ideally suited to those who may wish to have a year out before or after university. Anyone who is interested enough to complete an application form will be invited to a 'come-and-see' weekend in Middlesbrough and selection will move on from there. You can talk directly to Fr Paul on 01642 814564 or I have some application forms. The Team will start in September. There are some posters in the porch with more details.

"Love in Truth" - The Social Teaching of the Church: contemporary challenges, choices and implications. The second session will be this Tuesday evening at The Endsleigh Centre at 7 p.m. Last week over seventy people came along and we're hoping for an equally good gathering this Tuesday. If you'd like a lift down after our evening Mass there'll be no problem.

Afternoon of Prayer and Reflection: The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul invite you to join them for this Lenten time of reflection. It will be led by Fr Peter Corcoran (well known to all of us at Holy Cross!) and his theme is: "Changing Lives for the Better." IT will be on Sunday 21^st March from 2 – 4 p.m. at The Endsleigh Centre. Everyone very welcome, SVP Members and non-Members.

Oscar Romero – 30^th. Anniversary of his Martyrdom: On March 24^th 1980 Oscar Romero, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Salvador was shot whilst celebrating the Eucharist, assassinated by a government-backed militia because of his Gospel-inspired defence of human rights and speaking out on behalf of the poor.

"Introducing Oscar Romero" – Presentations by Julian Filochowski, Chair, Archbishop Romero Trust in York this coming Saturday, 10.15 – 1 p.m. hosted by York Carmelite Spirituality Group at St. Paul's Church, Heslington (there will be a celebration of the Eucharist at 9.30 am). Julian knew Oscar Romero and is an informed and engaging speaker.

Ecumenical Service of Commemoration at York Minster: Saturday March 20^th. at 11 am. The Presider will be Cardinal Keith O'Brien, Archbishop of Edinburgh and the Preacher will be Most Rev. Dr. John Sentamu, Archbishop of York. Bishop Terry and the Chair of the Methodist Conference will also take part. All are welcome, free of charge – no tickets required. For further information please call 01904 428490.

The Contented Fisherman: A rich businessman was horrified to find a fisherman lying lazily beside his boat, smoking a pipe. "Why aren't you out fishing?" said the businessman. "Because I have caught enough fish for the day," said the fisherman. "Why don't you catch more than you need?" asked the businessman. "What would I do with it?" asked the fisher man. "You could earn more money" was the reply. "With that you could have a motor fixed to the boat, and then you could make enough to buy nylon nets. These would bring you more fish and more money. Soon you would have enough money to own two boats, then you would be rich like me." "What would I do then?" asked the fisherman. "Then you could sit down and enjoy life," said the businessman. "What do you think I'm doing right now ?" said the contented fisherman!

From Fr. Peter at Bo in response to the anonymous gift of £1,000 from a parishioner: "Dear Leo, many greetings to you from Sierra Leone and from the Children of St. Mary's Home. Thanks for the good news of the donation. We keep you in our prayers and keep on praying for all our donors. I will give you an update later about the children and a report on how the money was used. Please extend my greetings to Fr. Pat and all members of Holy Cross. Many thanks and God bless. Rev. Fr. Peter Konteh."

"Somebody scoffed, 'Oh you'll never do that, for no-one has ever done it'.

But he took off his coat and took off his hat and trusting in God, he's begun it.

With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin, if any doubt rose he'd forbid it.

And he started to sing as he tackled the thing that couldn't be done, and he did it!"

And some educational wit: "I owe a lot to my teachers – and I mean to pay them back some day." "My problems all started with my early education. I went to a school for mentally disturbed teachers." (Woody Allen). "We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve years telling them to sit down and shut up." (Phyllis Diller). "One day they opened a Catholic church, which was quickly followed by a pub, a block of shops and eventually a school. The school went up last because there was no profit in it." (Dominic Behan). "I was educated during the holidays from Eton." (Osbert Sitwell). "Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the ignorant by the incompetent." (Josiah Stamp). "He who can does – he who cannot, teaches." (G B Shaw). "When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name it means trouble." (Mark Twain).