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Holy Week and Easter

Monday 30th March

  • Mass: 7 pm – St Alban’s Church

Tuesday 31st March

  • Mass: 9.15 am – St Alban’s Church
  • Penitential Service: 7pm – St Alban’s Church. Several Priests are available for the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

Wednesday 1st April

  • Mass: 9.15 am – St Alban’s Church
  • Chrism Mass: 11.30 am – St Barnabas Cathedral, Nottingham.  During this Mass the priests will renew their promises made at their ordinations. The oil of catechumens, oil of the sick and Sacred Chrism are blessed for distribution where they will be used in the parishes of the Diocese.

The Sacred Triduum

Holy Thursday – 2nd April

  • Mass of the Lord’s Supper with washing of feet: 7.30 pm – St Hugh’s Church
  • Mass of the Lord’s Supper with washing of feet: 7.30 pm – St Alban’s Church
  • Both followed by ‘watching’ before the Blessed Sacrament until 10 pm

Good Friday – 3rd April

  • Day of Fasting and Abstinence
  • Ecumenical witness: 12pm at Co-op car park
  • Solemn Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion: 3pm St Hugh’s Church
  • Solemn Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion: 3pm St Alban’s Church
  • Stations of the Cross: 7 pm Ecumenical Service at The Church on Oakwood

Holy Saturday – 4th April

  • Swieconka – Blessing of Easter Food: 10.30am St Alban’s Church.  The blessing of meat, eggs and bread at the end of Lent is a Catholic tradition particularly popular amongst Polish people. It’s called Swieconka (which is pronounced as: Sh-vee-en-soon-kah).  Fr Paul will bless the baskets of food, prepared and brought to church by families. The idea is that the baskets of food will be taken back home to be shared amongst family and friends on Easter Sunday. Everyone is welcome to come along for this simple informal service.
  • Easter Vigil: with blessing of the fire and lighting of the Easter candle: 7.30pm – St Hugh’s Church
  • Easter Vigil: with blessing of the fire and lighting of the Easter candle: 8pm – St Alban’s Church

Easter Sunday – 5th April

  • Mass: with the renewal of our Baptismal Promises and blessing with the Easter Water: 8.30am – The Church on Oakwood
  • Mass: with the renewal of our Baptismal Promises and blessing with the Easter Water: 9.30am – St Hugh’s Church
  • Mass: with the renewal of our Baptismal Promises and blessing with the Easter Water: 10.00am – St Alban’s Church
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Lots of Masses in the Octave of Christmas

Here is hoping that you have had a wonderful Christmas. We have plenty of masses for you over the next few days.  If you don’t normally come to mass during the week, and you are having a break from work, why not come along to one of our masses and re-charge your batteries:

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  St Alban’s St Hugh’s Oakwood
Friday
(St Stephen)		 26th December 10.00 am No Service
Saturday
(Vigil Mass for Sunday)		 27th December 6.30 pm No Service
Sunday
(The Feast of the Holy Family)		 28th December  10.00 am 9.30 am 5.00 pm
Monday 29th December 10.00 am No Service
Tuesday 30th December 10.00 am No Service
Wednesday 31st December 10.00 am No Service
Thursday 1st January 2015 12 noon No Service
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Christmas at St Hugh’s and St Alban’s

“There is always something very exciting about getting ready for Christmas. If we can enjoy, but look beyond the twinkling lights and the brightly wrapped gifts under the tree, something powerful is taking place. Christmas and the build up to the festivity is about “remembering” – and what we are remembering as people of faith is the powerful arrival of God’s Son, Jesus, on earth.

Picture1What all this means is that God loved the world so much, that he sent his Son to show us just how much he loves us, and through the vulnerable cry of a baby born into unusual and unlikely circumstances, Gods voice of love was heard.

Advent is our spiritual journey to discover that love! We have four weeks to get ready for the great festival of the Christian Church and we can prepare in all sorts of ways; through quiet reflection of the Christmas story, through community prayer at Mass or through a living out of the themes of Advent as each candle is lit on our wreath: Hope, Joy, Love and Peace. Christmas is built around these four words – these are the ‘real’ gifts of the Season and living these will show the effect that God’s presence can have on those who are open to his arrival in our world and in our hearts.

Enjoy the Season. With our prayers,”

Fr Paul & Fr Ka Fai

CAROL SERVICES

At St Alban’s Church:
THURSDAY 18th DECEMBER 2.00 pm
(with children from St Alban’s School)
MONDAY 22nd DECEMBER 7.00 pm
Followed by refreshments
Services of Reconciliation

Thursday 11th December – 6.00 pm at St Hugh’s Borrowash
Tuesday 16th December – 7.00 pm at St Alban’s Church, Chaddesden

The Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession)

At St Alban’s: Saturday 13th and 20th December 5.45 pm—6.15 pm
At St Hugh’s: Available on request.

CHRISTMAS VIGIL MASSES

St Alban’s Church 6.00 pm, Carols from 5.30 pm (Beginning with the blessing of the Christmas Crib )
St Hugh’s Church 7.30 pm, Carols from 7.00 pm (Family Mass)

CHRISTMAS DAY MASSES

The Church on Oakwood 8.30 am
St Hugh’s Church, Borrowash 9.30 am
St Alban’s Church, Chaddesden 10.00 am

Glory to God Image

 

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Holy Week and Easter

Palm Sunday

(At all Masses this weekend there will be the blessing of palms)

Saturday 12th April

  • 6.30 pm St Alban’s Church

Sunday 13th April

  • 9.30 am St Hugh’s
  • 10.00 am St Alban’s
  • 5.00 pm The Church on Oakwood

Monday 14th April

  • Mass: 7 pm – St Alban’s Church

Tuesday 15th April

  • Mass: 9.15 am – St Alban’s Church
  • Mass: 10.00 am – St Hugh’s Church

Wednesday 16th April

  • Chrism Mass: 11.30 am – St Barnabas Cathedral, Nottingham.  During this Mass the priests will renew their promises made at their ordinations. The oil of catechumens, oil of the sick and Sacred Chrism are blessed for distribution where they will be used in the parishes of the Diocese.
  • Mass: 7.00pm – The Church on Oakwood

The Sacred Triduum

Holy Thursday – 17th April

Mass of the Lord’s Supper with washing of feet:

  • 7.30 pm – St Alban’s Church
  • 7.30 pm – St Hugh’s Church
  • Both followed by ‘watching’ before the Blessed Sacrament until 10 pm

Good Friday – 18th April

  • Ecumenical Walk of Witness – 10 am starting from St Philip’s Church, Taddington Road
  • 3 pm – Solemn Liturgy: St Alban’s Church
  • 3 pm – Solemn Liturgy: St Hugh’s Church
  • 7 pm – Stations of the Cross (Ecumenical Service):  – The Church on Oakwood

Holy Saturday – 19th April

Easter Vigil: with blessing of the fire and lighting of the Easter candle:

  • 8pm – St Alban’s Church
  • 7.30pm – St Hugh’s Church

Easter Sunday – 20th April

Mass: with the renewal of our Baptismal Promises and blessing with the Easter Water:

  • 8.30am – The Church on Oakwood
  • 9.30am – St Hugh’s Church
  • 10.00am – St Alban’s Church
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Lent: what’s on this week…

Tuesday 1st April

  • 7.30pm, St Hugh’s Borrowash. Passover Celebration (Canon Mervyn Tower will lead this celebration).
  • 7.30pm, St Alban’s Parish Centre, Chaddesden. Finding God in the Word during Lent: Exploring the Gospel through listening, stillness and prayer.

Thursday 3rd April

  • 12 noon, Methodist Chapel Borrowash.  Ecumenical Prayer Meetings.
  • 7.30pm, The Church on Oakwood. Journeying Through Lent: reflect on the Gospel readings for Lent. Tea & coffee from 7.00pm.

Friday 4th April

  • 7.00pm, St Alban’s Church Chaddesden.  Stations of the Cross (with soup and a roll).

 Saturday 5th April

  • 5.30pm-6.00pm during Lent, St Alba’s Church Chaddesden: Confession.
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Lent: what’s on this week…

Monday 24th March

  • 7.30pm at St. Alban’s Weekday Chapel. Silent Prayer

Tuesday 25th March

  • 7.30pm at St Alban’s Parish Centre. Finding God in the Word during Lent.

Wednesday 26th March

  • 7.30pm St Hugh’s Borrowash, Getting to the Heart of Faith.

Thursday 27th March

  • 7.00pm for 7.30pm start, St Alban’s Church, Journeying Through Lent ‘The Woman at the Well’.
  • 12 noon, St Hugh’s Church Borrowash, Ecumenical Prayer Meetings.

Friday 28th March

  • 7.00pm St Hugh’s Church Borrowash,  Stations of the Cross (with soup and a roll).

Sunday 30th March

  • 3.00pm St. Alban’s Church, Lenten Benediction.
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Biggest downside of being pontiff is the paperwork, Pope Francis says

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By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The thing Pope Francis dislikes most about his job as pontiff is the paperwork, he told residents of an Argentine slum in which he used to minister.

“Paperwork, office work, it’s the thing I always struggled with,” the pope said in response to the question, “What’s the thing you like least about your mission as pope?”

The pope’s remarks came during a pre-recorded televised video message to the residents of Village 1-11-14 — a Buenos Aires’ shantytown inhabited mostly by South American immigrants.

Members of the community radio station, Radio FM 88 of Bajo Flores, conducted the interview with the pope at the Vatican before he left for a Lenten retreat outside of Rome March 9.

The Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, published small portions of the interview March 14.

The station broadcast the question-and-answer interview for residents on…

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