Newsletter 2nd April 2017

FORTHCOMING SERVICES:
​​6th April 9.15am - Stations of the Cross 
​9th April 9.30am - Palm Sunday 
​14th April 3.00pm ​- Good Friday (Liturgy of the Passion)
NOTICES:
​Annual PCM Monday 10th April 7.00pm in the Church Meeting Area.
​Coffee Morning - every Tuesday as usual from 10.00am.

LATEST READINGS:
First Reading: Ezekiel 37:12-14
A reading from the prophet Ezekiel.
The Lord says this: I am now going to open your graves; I mean to raise you from your graves, my people, and lead you back to the soil of Israel, And you will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and raise you from your graves, my people...

Second Reading: Romans 8:8-11 
A reading from the letter of St Paul to the Romans.
People who are interested only in unspiritual things can never be pleasing to God. Your interests, however, are not in the unspiritual, but in the spiritual, since the Spirit of God has made his home in you....

Gospel: John 11:3-7. 17. 20-27. 33-45
A reading from the holy Gospel according to John.
The sisters Martha and Mary sent this message to Jesus, “Lord, the man you love is ill.” On receiving the message, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death but in God’s glory....

Responsorial Psalm
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 129
Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord,
Lord, hear my voice!
O let your ears be attentive
to the voice of my pleading.
Response: With the Lord there is mercy
and fullness of redemption.
If you, O Lord, should mark our guilt,
Lord, who would survive?
But with you is found forgiveness:
for this we revere you.
Response: With the Lord there is mercy
and fullness of redemption.
My soul is waiting for the Lord,
I count on his word.
My soul is longing for the Lord
more than watchman for daybreak.
(Let the watchman count on daybreak
and Israel on the Lord.)
Response: With the Lord there is mercy
and fullness of redemption.
Because with the Lord there is mercy
and fullness of redemption,
Israel indeed he will redeem
from all its iniquity.
Response: With the Lord there is mercy
and fullness of redemption.