ST AMBROSE’S PARISH KIDDERMINSTER
The Rectory, Birmingham Road, Kidderminster DY10 2BY (01562 822839)
OUR LADY & ST PIUS Canterbury Road Kidderminster DY11 4DR (01562 748474)
SACRED HEART & OUR LADY Berrington Road Tenbury Wells
Parish Clergy: Fr Douglas Lamb
In retirement: Revd Thomas Ashcroft, Revd Dr Peter Mason In formation: Charles Duncombe, Adam Nicholls & Richard Tovey
PALM SUNDAY
Psalter Week 2
CTS Sunday Missal p 243
Week ending: 23rd/24th March 2013
FEAST DAYS THIS WEEK: HOLY WEEK
MASS TIMES AND INTENTIONS FOR THE COMING WEEK
St Ambrose’s
Mon:
8.30 am
Joan Wareham (Anniv)
Tues:
9.15 am
Pat Redmond RIP
Wed:
7.30 am
Gene Whitwam RIP
Thurs: 7.30 pm
Mass of the Last Supper (Intentions of Margaret Holmes)
Watching until Midnight
Fri:
12.00 noon Children’s Stations of the Cross
3.00 pm LITURGY of the PASSION
Sat:
8.30 pm THE EASTER VIGIL (Mariantonia Panaro – Anniv)
Sun:
9.30 am
Intentions of Mick & Bernie Galvin
Our Lady’s
Mon:
10.00 am HOLY COMMUNION (Prayer Group)
Fri:
7.30 pm United Service
Sun:
5.00 pm Angela Scott RIP
Sacred Heart
Fri:
11.00 am The Stations of the Cross
Sun:
11.30 am The People of the Parish
CONFESSIONS
St Ambrose’s:
Sacred Heart:
Monday: 9.00 am – 9.30 am Wednesday: 6 pm – 7 pm
By request
MINISTRIES FOR THE COMING WEEK
Altar Servers for morning Mass:
Kamil Lisowski, Lawrence Park
Eucharistic Ministers
Readers
St Ambrose’s:
HOLY WEEK:
Services overleaf
Sun. 9.30 am
R Barber, M Bradley, D David, E Fox, R Tovey
L Farmer
Our Lady’s:
Sun. 5.00 pm
A McDermott, J Newbold, L Whatley
K Nicholls, P Motteram
Sacred Heart
Sun. 11.30 am
T Cole, M Peyton
J Hughes
St Ambrose’s:
Church Cleaners: Team B
Offertory Counters: No counters today, thank you
Please pray for our parishioners who are sick, and for all who have need of our prayers, especially:
Dorothy Atwell, Albert and Elsie Barr, Peggy Baynton, Christina Bickley, Frank Bourke, Matteo Butera, Linda Button, Nora Collins, David Connolly,
Rob Conway, Kitty Cooper, Elsie Corti, Rob Cotgrave, Jane Cox, Eamonn Dalton, Joni Dunlea, Joe Egan, Vera Farley, Sr Maureen Fay, Victoria
Fleming, Sheila Freeman, Anthony Georgieff, Shirley Hale, May Hampsey, Claire Hampton, Margaret Harley, Mary Harris, Rita Harrod, Jim
Heffernan, Christine & Tom Hopkins, Vicki Houghton, Philip Hunt, Jane Jenner, Keeley John, Veronica Jones, Ben Kelly, Marie Lane, Lynda Law,
Felicity Librie, Audrey Little, Eleanor Lloyd, Bridget Locke, Arwen Lockley, Peter McQuillan, Fernanda & Michael Maffei, Marjorie Male, Lee
Maund, Sheila Mikulicz, Peter Mullard, Jean Mulligan, Kitty Murray, John Nangle, Mary Nangle, Andrew Neale, Margaret Norris, Pat Norris,
Beatrice ‘Myrtle’ O’Mahoney, Daniel Oxenham, Joyce Parker, Chris Price, Pat Quinn, Janet Richards, Nancy Ruffinato, George & Sheila Rywacki,
Harold Salter, Jonathan Slater, Cecil Smith, Pearl Stanley, Marie Stokes, Carmen Thomas, Jim Thomas, Frances Tovey, Patricia Virr, Maureen
Walton, George Watkins, Eric Whittaker, Edith Wilkes, May Williams, Julie Wright and Rene Yates.
Entrance Antiphon:
Six days before the Passover, when the Lord came to the city of Jerusalem, the children ran to meet him; in their hands they carried palm branches and
with a loud voice cried out Hosanna in the Highest! Blessed are you who have come in your abundant mercy.
O gates, lift high your heads; grow higher, ancient doors. Let him enter, the king of glory! Who is the king of glory? He, the Lord of hosts, he is the
king of glory. Hosanna in the highest! Blessed are you, who have come in your abundant mercy!
Response to the Psalm. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Gospel acclamation: PRAISE TO YOU O CHRIST, KING OF ETERNAL GLORY. Christ was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a
Cross. But God raised him high and gave him the name which is above all names.
Preface: The Passion of Our Lord p. 266
Eucharistic Prayer: II p. 605
Mystery of Faith: III
Communion Antiphon: Father, if this Chalice cannot pass without my drinking it, your will be done.
The Parish is part of the Archdiocese of Birmingham: Registered Charity no 234216
Website: www.stambrosekidderminster.org.uk
e-mail: stambrosekidderminster@btinternet.com
HOLY WEEK MINISTRIES
Readers
HOLY THURSDAY
Mass of the Last Supper
7.30 pm
First Reading: Exodus 12:1-8, 11 – 14
B Gavan
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 11: 23 – 26
GOOD FRIDAY
Liturgy of Our Lord’s Passion 3.00 pm
First Reading: Isaiah: 52: 13 – 53:12
L Harler
Second Reading: Hebrews 4:14 – 6; 5:7 -9
HOLY SATURDAY
The Easter Vigil
8.30 pm
First Reading: Genesis 1: 1 – 2:2
J Keetch
Second Reading: Exodus 14: 15 – 15:1
Third Reading Isaiah 55: 1 – 11
A Santamaria
Epistle:
Romans 6: 3 – 11
Ministers of Holy Communion:
HOLY THURSDAY: 7.30 pm P Hunt, R Tovey, C Duncombe, A Nicholls, H Scott
GOOD FRIDAY:
3.00 pm T Cole, M Harper, P Hunt, G Bennett
EASTER VIGIL:
8.30 pm A Nicholls, C Duncombe, P Hunt, A Stanley, L Farmer
A Wright
J Walker
C Harvey
D Duncombe
Teas and Coffees: will be provided in the Borromeo Hall after 9.30 am Mass today by the Craft Group. On Easter Sunday, we
should be most grateful for volunteers.
Deanery Services of Penance: The remaining Services of Penance are as follows:
Monday March 25th : St Peter’s Bromsgrove 7.30 pm
Tuesday March 26th : Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Redditch 7.30 pm
Passover Commemoration: Next Wednesday in the Borromeo Hall at 7.00 pm
Holy Thursday: After Mass, the Blessed Sacrament will be taken to the Altar of Repose where there will be a Vigil until Midnight
(Compline 11.40 pm)
Good Friday: 10.30 am:
Procession of Witness in Kidderminster Town Centre
12.00 noon:
Children’s Stations of the Cross
3.00 pm
Solemn Liturgy of the Passion
7.30 pm
United Service in Our Lady’s Church, Habberley
Easter Vigil:
8.30 pm
The Liturgy will begin in the School Memorial Garden. Please pray for Zac Morris who will be
baptised during the Easter Vigil.
The UCM Easter Raffle: will be drawn at coffees on Easter Sunday. All proceeds will go to our project, which is for Kemp Hospice
this year. Tickets are available in the Hall after coffees on Sunday, or from the Piety Stall.
Easter Fun Afternoon: In the Adams Lounge, Easter Sunday 2:00 – 5:00 pm. Bring the kids along for a great afternoon Easter
Bonnet Parade, Easter Egg Hunt and Easter crafts. The bar will be open, with a raffle. Help to support our great Social Club.
Easter Monday: As always, the Archbishop will offer Mass for the men of the Diocese in St Chad’s Cathedral on Easter Monday at
9.00 am. Our CMS members will be helping in the organisation of this Mass and our Servers will attend the Archbishop. All men of
the Parish are invited to meet at St Ambrose’s on Easter Monday for departure at 8.00 am.
Marriage Preparation: New date, venue and time to be on Saturday 6 th April at 10 am at Our Lady & St Pius X, Canterbury Road,
Kidderminster. New couples to contact Fr Lamb at the Rectory. Further details from Peter & Maureen Bowdler on 01299 269233 or
pandam.bowdler@btinternet.com.
Deanery Pilgrimage: The Parishes of the Kidderminster Deanery will travel to Stone in Staffordshire (the early years of the ministry
in this Diocese of Blessed Dominic Barberi). There will be coffee, and a tour of the Church to the tomb of Bishop Ullathorne (first
Bishop of Birmingham), and of Mother Margaret Hallahan (foundress of the English Dominican Sisters). Then we go to St Helen’s,
Merseyside to the Shrine of Blessed Dominic Barberi. We shall have a packed lunch and offer Mass together. Depart from St
Ambrose’s 8.45 am. Cost £11. Return about 7.30 pm (in Kidderminster). Please signs lists TODAY and try to pay before the
Pilgrimage Day, WEDNESDAY APRIL 17th .
Finances:
i. St Ambrose’s Red Boxes: Please leave them at the back of the Church to be emptied. Thank you.
ii. Last week, the Offertory was £924.21 of which £391.54 was in the envelope scheme and £604.67 was contributed
in loose money. Thank you.
iii. Our contributors for the Clergy Training Fund have raised a further £50.
iv. Next Sunday’s Offertory is the Easter offering to the Clergy of the Parish.
Borromeo Hall/Adams Lounge: available for functions of all kinds; parties, receptions etc. Please contact Mary Preston (07513
295817) or Margaret Blizard (07742 730680).
Every Friday: Folk music in the Adams Lounge with visiting musicians/singers and instrumentalists. Free admission 8pm-late.