Mass times - Saturday 6.30pm, Sunday 9.30am and St MAry's and St John's Salmesbury 11.15am

Saturday: Confessions: 11.00-11.30am & 6.00-6.15pm

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: Sat:12noon -1.00pm

MORNING PRAYER & MASS: 

Tues/Wed/ Thurs: 9.30am.  Friday: No Mass.

Please keep Fr Watson in your prayers.

Lately Dead: Gerard McCabe (Dublin) Nina Dyer (my first cousin after a long debilitating illness)

Offertory: Envelopes:£4. Loose:£193.33 Total:£618.58

Standing Orders: £58.15. Masses: £50  Many thanks.

Parish Newsletter:  If you wish to have anything noted in the newsletter, please confirm it first with Fr Cribben then notify P Vanden 338491 by Thursday at the latest please.

THE WORD: Thankfully, we do not encounter leprosy in our culture. It can therefore be difficult to enter into the real depth of today’s readings. We have to understand that leprosy meant exclusion, rejection and the end of “normal” life. For your leprosy to be cured would be like being given a second chance at life. What is the cause of exclusion and rejection in our society – or even in the Church? Who are those who must “live apart”? And how can we put into effect in our day those most touching of the words of Jesus, when asked if he wants to cure the leper: “Of course I want to!”? Contemplating exclusion and rejection in our world can be hard work: Saint Paul guides the way: the Christian path is not to work “for my own advantage, but for the advantage of everybody else

GIFT AID ENVELOPES:  These are available at the back of church for occasional offerings and donations.  If you are a taxpayer 25p in every pound can be reclaimed from the Government.  If you are not a member of the scheme, please pick up a pink leaflet from the back of church and join. Being a member of Gift Aid does NOT affect your tax payments, so please make a difference and support your parish.

National Marriage Week:  This year the service will take place here at St. Patrick’s, Walton-le-Dale, this coming Wednesday, 15^th February at 7.30pm. It will be a short service, consisting of renewal of marriage vows, prayers and hymns, followed by refreshments. If any couple would like to renew their marriage vows please see Fr. Cribben. This service is open to all who want to come – widows, widowers, separated or indeed single. It is a coming together of all who believe in God’s love for us through Jesus Local churches are invited, as we all share in the meaning of marriage.

SPPLC  FEBRUARY RESULTS:

1^st            £50         Julie McDonald                     (112)

2^nd           £30         Damian Gilkes                       (  24)

3^rd           £20         Danny & Agnes Martland   (  57)

4^th           £15         Kath Gleave                           (145)

5^th           £15         Eileen Galt                             (  67)

SENIOR CITIZENS: Tuesday, 14^th February at 1.30pm there will be a Beetle Drive.

First Reading: from the book of Leviticus. 13:1-2. 44-46.

The leper must live apart; he must live outside the camp.

RESPONSE: You are my refuge, O Lord; you fill me with the joy of salvation.

Happy the man whose offence is forgiven, whose sin is remitted.  O happy the man to whom the Lord imputes no guilt, in whose spirit is no guile.

But  now that I have acknowledged my sins; my guilt I did not hide.  I said; ‘I will confess my offence to the Lord’, and you, Lord, have forgiven the guilt of my sin.

Rejoice, rejoice in the Lord, exult, you just!  O Come, ring out your joy, all you upright of heart.

Second Reading: First letter of St Paul to the Corinthians.

Take me as your model, as I take Christ.   10: 31 – 11:1

Gospel Acclamation:  Alleluia! Alleluia! May the Father of our Lord |Jesus Christ enlighten the eyes of your mind, so that we can see what hope his calls hold for us. Alleluia!

Gospel: Mark. 1: 40-45

The leprosy left him at once and he was cured.

CARITAS ENVELOPES. These will be collected at the masses this weekend.  If you have forgotten them please remember to bring them next week.

AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED.  We are having a visit from  Chris Robson on 18^th /19^th February, who will remind us of their apostolate.

A Meditation -  The spiritual life is a gift. It is the gift of the Holy Spirit, who lifts us up into the kingdom of God’s love. However, to say that being lifted up into the kingdom of love is a divine gift does not mean that we wait passively until the gift is offered to us. Jesus tells us to set our hearts on the kingdom….. A spiritual life requires human effort…..Here we touch the question of discipline. In spiritual life…. The practice of spiritual discipline makes us more sensitive to the small, gentle voice of God.

Henri J.M. Nouwen – Circles of Love - quoted in this week’s Tablet

Little proverbs

Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car!

Annual Parish Financial Report is on the reverse of the newsletter. The full computerised account has been sent to the Diocese. Margaret Smith is our financial wizard who never misses a trick