TUESDAY EVENINGS IN LENT!  Tuesday evenings during Lent (after the 7pm Mass) ‘Believe’  is a great set of DVD reflections on the Creed in a six-part series exploring the treasures of our faith as expressed in the Nicene Creed. Take up something this Lent and come along to ‘BELIEVE’!

LENT STATIONS OF THE CROSS will be prayed on Fridays at 12noon during Lent. Do come along and walk the way of the cross.

JOURNEY IN FAITH (RCIA) next meets on Wednesday at 7pm. All welcome to come along and support our candidates for the sacraments.

LENT PARISH PENITENTIAL  Liturgy will be celebrated on Thurs 25th March at 7pm. Several priests will be available to hear confessions that evening. Do put this in your diary please and celebrate the sacrament of God’s love and mercy before Easter.

A MORNING WITH BISHOP DECLAN LANG FOR CATHOLIC TEACHERS TEACHING IN NON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS Saturday13th November from 10.30am – 12.30pm at Alexander House, Pennywell Road , Bristol. To reserve a place please telephone Jenny Fitzgerald on 0117 902 5593.

PARISH PILGRIMAGE 2010 is being considered for late September/October after the Papal visit. Spain/Portugal/Holy Land? Let Fr Michael know!

PAPAL PREPARATIONS  With the prospect of Pope Benedict XV1 visiting this country later in the year, our award-winning website cliftondiocese.com is looking for your memories and photographs of the last Papal visit back in 1982.  As we look forward to welcoming the Holy Father to the UK, tell your story by emailing webeditor@cliftondiocese.com and share your thoughts and experiences of the momentous occasion.

HALL RENOVATION PHASE 3  More ideas for fund raising please!  It is going to be more costly than originally anticipated. Do look at the architect display in the narthex. If you are able to help us with a loan (perhaps interest free) please do see Fr Michael or Jim McLaughlin our treasurer a.s.a.p.

ST PATRICK’S EVENING at Our Lady of Lourdes school hall on Sat 13th March 7.30.  Tickets are £6.  This will include buffet, Irish dancers, music and singing. Proceeds to a new toilet for the disabled at St Patrick’s. More info tel: 07789036649 / 01179606560.

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY...

HOLY WEEK & EASTER LITURGIES Holy Thursday – Mass of the Lord’s Supper at 8.00pm followed by Solemn Watch until midnight (Compline at 11.45pm) Good Friday – Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion at 3.00pm; Holy Saturday – The  Easter Vigil at 8.30pm; Easter Sunday: Mass at 10.30am, Baptismal Vespers at 4.00pm. Do remember that Holy Thursday/Good Friday & the Easter Vigil is ONE liturgy over three days (The Sacred Triduum) Do please try your very best to be present for all of the Triduum.

SPONSORED WALK  in aid of the hall fund from Bath to Bitton and ending up at the beer festival at Avon Valley Railway, there will be another walk on Sat 5th June. Sponsor forms will be available soon. If you can't do the walk then please sponsor people, give lifts to Bath c 9.45 am and/or join us for lunch at Bitton at noon. http://www.avonvalleyrailway.org/events/raf.html

SALTFORD VILLAGE CHOIR SUMMER CONCERT annual summer concert June 11th at 7.30pm.

FIRST COMMUNION BBQ  Solemnity of Corpus Christi 6th June after 10.30am Mass. Do join our first communicants for this lovely afternoon on the presbytery lawn.