Ash Wednesday is on Wednesday week, and marks the beginning of the important season of Lent. Please do all you can to get to the service at 7.30pm that day, and begin to think about your own Lenten discipline. Details of additional services and this year’s discussion group are available. The ashes are made from the palm crosses from the previous year. Please return your cross as soon as you can please (there’s a basket at the back of church). Thank you. Fr MIchael Currah RIP Fr Michael sadly died peacefully in the hospice at Edgbaston in Birmingham, where he had been for a fortnight. He was 88. He had been at Holy Trinity from 1988 – 2006, where he and his late wife Mary, were appointed to lead the music and as organist. After his retirement from these posts, he continued to assist as a priest and also played every Sunday evening for Evensong. As a talented horologist, he cared for many clocks in the parish, and restored the clock and chimes here at Holy Trinity, including rewiring the tower and installing a much safer staircase to the ringing chamber from the first level. A requiem will be celebrated here for his repose once his funeral arrangements have been confirmed. May he rest in peace and rise in glory. Outlook George Coles would be very grateful for any copy for the Parish Magazine. It is always much better and nicer if there’s ‘local’ contribution. If you have anything to say, or an experience to share, please let George have it by Wednesday this week, please. Fairtrade Fortnight will run from Monday 24 February to Sunday 8 March 2020. There will be a Tradecraft stall on Sunday 23 February in the hall after the service. Shrove Tuesday There’s a pancake party in the Church Hall on Tuesday 25 February at 7.00pm – all are very welcome. Tickets are available at only £5 for a cooked meal and drinks; available after services. Don’t miss out! Walsingham Pilgrimage The annual parish pilgrimage will take place this year 22-26 June. Please reserve your place as soon as possible; numbers are limited. A deposit of £30 (cheques to Holy Trinity PCC) is required. Please see Jane Laurence for further details. Thank you.
NOTICES Ash Wednesday is this Wednesday. Please make every effort to come to the Sung Mass with Imposition of Ashes at 7.30pm. Stations of the Cross The traditional Friday devotional service (lasting half an hour) will begin on 28 Feb, but this year it will be at 4.00pm, in the church as usual. Finance and Fundraising There will be a meeting at the Vicarage on Wednesday 4 March at 2.00pm for anyone who is interested in helping the church to raise and manage its funds. Fr MIchael Currah RIP Fr Michael’s funeral arrangements have now been made. His funeral will take place at St Christopher’s Church, Ditteridge, Box, on Friday 28 February at 1pm. The Friday mass here that day (12.30pm) will be a requiem for him, and after soup lunch (2pm) a retrospective of his life as a clock engineer will be shown in the church hall, to which all are welcome. Fairtrade Fortnight will run from Monday 24 February to Sunday 8 March 2020. There will be a Tradecraft stall today in the hall after the service. Shrove Tuesday There’s a pancake party in the Church Hall on Tuesday 25 February at 7.00pm – all are very welcome. Tickets are available at only £5 for a cooked meal and drinks; available after services. Don’t miss out! Walsingham Pilgrimage The annual parish pilgrimage will take place this year 22-26 June. Please let Jane Laurence know if you’d like to come; deposits need to be returned to the Shrine by the beginning of March. If you’d like to know and perhaps have never been, please see Fr Julian or Jane. Any items for inclusion in next week’s Notice Sheet to be received at the Parish Office (on paper, by email or phone) by THURSDAY MORNING, please.
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Shrove Tuesday There’s a pancake party in the Church Hall on Tuesday 25 February at 7.00pm – all are very welcome. Tickets are available at only £5 for a cooked meal and drinks; available after services. Don’t miss out!Walsingham Pilgrimage The annual parish pilgrimage will take place this year 22-26 June. Please reserve your place as soon as possible; numbers are limited. A deposit of £30 (cheques to Holy Trinity PCC) is required. Please see Jane Laurence for further details. Thank you. Parish Magazine February’s edition of Outlook is still available; please do take your copy, and perhaps one for a friend or neighbour. Please also give some thought as to whether YOU can offer something written for the magazine; we have a further two pages to fill this year!Access to the Hall The key safe code number has changed; please see Fr Julian if you have been privy to the last, and he’ll let you into the secret!Palm Crosses Ash Wednesday is only a few weeks away (26th – note the date!), and the ashes are made from the palm crosses from the previous year. Please return your cross as soon as you can please (there’s a basket at the back of church). Thank you.Readers’ Rota If you haven’t received the rota, and only the readings, this is now available. Sorry!Soup Rota Copies of the next soup rota are also available today. After the Friday mass, a simple meal of soup (usually packet or tins!), bread, cake and coffee – all for £1 – is served in the hall. Why not come along?Sidespeoples’ Rota If you haven’t already taken your copy, it’s available for collection. If you’d like to be included on the rota (this is an important ministry) please see either Liz Hathway or David Watkins. Thank you.
