What was on in March 2009
Masses on weekend 28th Feb/1st Mar We welcome Monica Conmee from CAFOD, who will be speaking at each Mass this weekend. Please take your Lenten Fast Day envelope today at Mass this weekend. On different days each week of March There will be a Lent course run by Churches Together in Petts Wood. You are strongly encouraged to join one of the five ecumenical Lent groups by signing the list in the porch. The course title is ‘Faith, Hope & Love’ and lasts for the five weeks. The course will be presented by four of the Petts Wood Clergy, in rotation. Please sign up for one of the venues as soon as possible - you must attend the same venue each week in order to hear each topic. Click here for full details of venues, dates, topics and leaders. Saturdays in March Servers' training continues each Saturday morning at 10.30am. It is great to see so many new servers and any child who has made his/her First Communion is welcome to train as a server (contact Nick Babb). Thursday 5th March Pastoral and Advisory Team meet in the Presbytery at 8.00pm. Friday 6th March CAFOD Lenten Family Fast Day. Your offering will be taken up at the second collections of the weekend Masses. Saturday morning 7th March A morning of reflection for all Readers, at St Joseph’s, Bromley. It is hoped that as many of our readers as possible will be able to go. Saturday 7th March Concert at Christ Church, Chislehurst, starting at 7.45pm. Tickets will be available on the door priced £7, with proceeds going to charity. This performance is by the Bromley Ecumenical Singers and their Concert Orchestra. The programme: Cherubini Requiem; Mozart clarinet concerto (soloist Marianne Rawles); and Mozart's "Vesperae solennes". As well as uplifting music, there will be a refreshment interval held in the newly opened Christ Church Centre which adjoins the church. Weekend 7/8th March Linnette Anderson will speaking at all Masses about Traidcraft and Fairtrade goods. There will be an opportunity to buy products from a stall at the back of the church (after 6pm Mass), and the Social Centre (after Sunday Masses). Tuesday 10th March Parish Forum at 8.00pm in the Social Centre. This meeting will receive the accounts for 2008 and reflect together on where we are as a parish. All adult parishioners are asked to attend this meeting if possible. Unfortunately, there is an unavoidable clash with the Lent course at Christ Church URC this evening. Wednesday 11th March Handel’s Messiah – extra rehearsal at 8.00pm Saturday 14th March Free concert, with collection in aid of CAFOD, in the Social Centre at 7.15-9.30pm (with refreshments from 7.00pm). Enjoy an evening with Gerry Coates, Catholic singer, songwriter and poet. Click here for details of the concert and here to visit Gerry's website. Wednesday 18th March St James' School will attend 9.30am Mass in church. Sundays 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd March Rehearsals for Handel's Messiah from 3.30-5.00pm in the church. See details here. Wednesdays 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th March Firm Believers fun-fitness class for all. Wednesdays 7.00-7.45pm in the Social Centre with drinks and chat afterwards. You should bring a towel or mat to lie on. The cost of each session is £4 and all are welcome! Wednesday 25th March Deanery Youth Leaders’ follow-up meeting will be held at St James' starting at 8.15pm. Following the highly successful course held here for the Deanery last year, there will be a special follow-up evening with Jonny Toryusen and Káren North from the Diocesan Youth Service. Would all who attended the course please make a note of this date. All other parish youth leaders are also welcome, even if they did not attend the original course. Saturday 28th March We welcome through Holy Baptism at 1.00pm, Aimee Maria Lynch (8 months), her parents Lorna and Daryl, and godparents Verna and Damien. The Junior and Senior Youth Groups are going on an outing to Gillingham Ice Rink, meeting at the Social Centre at 2.00pm, returning at 5.30pm approximately. Please confirm your place by contacting Suzy Paris. Open to all young people in years 7-10. Saturday/Sunday 28/29th March Handel's Messiah to be performed at St Francis church Petts Wood on Saturday and at St James' on Sunday, commencing at 7.30pm. The proceeds after expenses will be in aid of Harris Hospice Care with St Christopher's Hospice. Tickets priced £5 are on sale at the Rainbow Bookshop in Queensway, Petts Wood - and at the door on the night. Monday 30th March CWL AGM at 8.00pm in the Social Centre. Please make every effort to attend. Tuesday 31st March There will be a Penitential Service with individual confession in the church at 7.30pm, with a team of priests (at least 6) and our folk choir. Everyone is encouraged to prepare carefully (examination of conscience). That includes families, children and young people. Do not worry if you have not been for a long time – take one of the yellow sheets from the porch to help you. Let’s have a full church, and make this a real united parish preparation for Easter.
Email Father Bryan
Site last updated 6th March 2010
Father Bryan Wells | Tel: 01689 827100 | 283 Crescent Drive, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1AY
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Masses on weekend 28th Feb/1st Mar We welcome Monica Conmee from CAFOD, who will be speaking at each Mass this weekend. Please take your Lenten Fast Day envelope today at Mass this weekend. On different days each week of March There will be a Lent course run by Churches Together in Petts Wood. You are strongly encouraged to join one of the five ecumenical Lent groups by signing the list in the porch. The course title is ‘Faith, Hope & Love’ and lasts for the five weeks. The course will be presented by four of the Petts Wood Clergy, in rotation. Please sign up for one of the venues as soon as possible - you must attend the same venue each week in order to hear each topic. Click here for full details of venues, dates, topics and leaders. Saturdays in March Servers' training continues each Saturday morning at 10.30am. It is great to see so many new servers and any child who has made his/her First Communion is welcome to train as a server (contact Nick Babb). Thursday 5th March Pastoral and Advisory Team meet in the Presbytery at 8.00pm. Friday 6th March CAFOD Lenten Family Fast Day. Your offering will be taken up at the second collections of the weekend Masses. Saturday morning 7th March A morning of reflection for all Readers, at St Joseph’s, Bromley. It is hoped that as many of our readers as possible will be able to go. Saturday 7th March Concert at Christ Church, Chislehurst, starting at 7.45pm. Tickets will be available on the door priced £7, with proceeds going to charity. This performance is by the Bromley Ecumenical Singers and their Concert Orchestra. The programme: Cherubini Requiem; Mozart clarinet concerto (soloist Marianne Rawles); and Mozart's "Vesperae solennes". As well as uplifting music, there will be a refreshment interval held in the newly opened Christ Church Centre which adjoins the church. Weekend 7/8th March Linnette Anderson will speaking at all Masses about Traidcraft and Fairtrade goods. There will be an opportunity to buy products from a stall at the back of the church (after 6pm Mass), and the Social Centre (after Sunday Masses). Tuesday 10th March Parish Forum at 8.00pm in the Social Centre. This meeting will receive the accounts for 2008 and reflect together on where we are as a parish. All adult parishioners are asked to attend this meeting if possible. Unfortunately, there is an unavoidable clash with the Lent course at Christ Church URC this evening. Wednesday 11th March Handel’s Messiah – extra rehearsal at 8.00pm Saturday 14th March Free concert, with collection in aid of CAFOD, in the Social Centre at 7.15-9.30pm (with refreshments from 7.00pm). Enjoy an evening with Gerry Coates, Catholic singer, songwriter and poet. Click here for details of the concert and here to visit Gerry's website. Wednesday 18th March St James' School will attend 9.30am Mass in church. Sundays 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd March Rehearsals for Handel's Messiah from 3.30-5.00pm in the church. See details here. Wednesdays 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th March Firm Believers fun-fitness class for all. Wednesdays 7.00-7.45pm in the Social Centre with drinks and chat afterwards. You should bring a towel or mat to lie on. The cost of each session is £4 and all are welcome! Wednesday 25th March Deanery Youth Leaders’ follow-up meeting will be held at St James' starting at 8.15pm. Following the highly successful course held here for the Deanery last year, there will be a special follow-up evening with Jonny Toryusen and Káren North from the Diocesan Youth Service. Would all who attended the course please make a note of this date. All other parish youth leaders are also welcome, even if they did not attend the original course. Saturday 28th March We welcome through Holy Baptism at 1.00pm, Aimee Maria Lynch (8 months), her parents Lorna and Daryl, and godparents Verna and Damien. The Junior and Senior Youth Groups are going on an outing to Gillingham Ice Rink, meeting at the Social Centre at 2.00pm, returning at 5.30pm approximately. Please confirm your place by contacting Suzy Paris. Open to all young people in years 7-10. Saturday/Sunday 28/29th March Handel's Messiah to be performed at St Francis church Petts Wood on Saturday and at St James' on Sunday, commencing at 7.30pm. The proceeds after expenses will be in aid of Harris Hospice Care with St Christopher's Hospice. Tickets priced £5 are on sale at the Rainbow Bookshop in Queensway, Petts Wood - and at the door on the night. Monday 30th March CWL AGM at 8.00pm in the Social Centre. Please make every effort to attend. Tuesday 31st March There will be a Penitential Service with individual confession in the church at 7.30pm, with a team of priests (at least 6) and our folk choir. Everyone is encouraged to prepare carefully (examination of conscience). That includes families, children and young people. Do not worry if you have not been for a long time – take one of the yellow sheets from the porch to help you. Let’s have a full church, and make this a real united parish preparation for Easter.
Email Father Bryan
Site last updated 6th March 2010
Father Bryan Wells | Tel: 01689 827100 | 283 Crescent Drive, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1AY
Home Recent updates Mass times Spiritual resources Prayer intentions 2009 Stations of the Cross Pastoral Help at hand Evangelium Taizé news Homilies Journey in Faith What's on? March 2010 April 2010 May 2010 June 2010 January 2010 February 2010 2009 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 2008 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 2007 December 2007 November 2007 Weekly bulletins Help the parish Duty rotas Parish administration Pastoral & Advisory Mission & Planning Parish Office Property Committee Gift Aid Parish forums 2008 2009 March October Annual calendar Parish groups Group Contacts Catenians Catholic Women's League Children's Liturgy Guides Justice and Peace Knights of St Columba Parent and Toddler Scouts Youth Groups Social Centre Club/Bar Firm Believers fitness Sequence Dancing Development Development news Parish news & events Festival Chorus - see news News Messiah performance Archive Residents' Association Service St John Passion March 2008 St John Passion CD Education St James' Primary School General What's On at school St James' School PTA St James' Pre-School Child protection How to find us About Fr Bryan Wells History of the parish 1937 - 1946 1946 - today Southwark Archdiocese External links Contact webmaster