WHIST DRIVE

To be held on Monday 12th January, ST. FELIX PARISH NEWSLETTER

8, Gainsborough Rd.,
St. Felix Church Hall at 7.30pm.
Felixstowe IP11 7HT
01394 282561
Tickets will cost £3 and include light refreshments,
but please bring your own drink. E-Mail: sacerdotus@googlemail.com
December 21st, 2008
Parish Priest: Fr David Hennessy
Website : www.saintfelix.co.uk 4TH SUNDAY OF ADVENT
Tickets will be available from the 3rd of January.
Or by phoning Elizabeth - FXT. 279708 or CHRISTMAS 2008
Jenny FXT. 671217.

All are welcome at this event. Don't worry if you

can't play, just come along and someone will help you.

Organised by C.W.L. in aid of their charities.

(This year will include
The Princess Royal's Trust for Carers).
A

very Happy
KITTY SPENCER
PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS R.I.P.
ALL WHO ARE SICK,
THOSE WHO HAVE DIED RECENTLY
AND ALL WHO HAVE ANNIVERSARIES:
Kitty died peacefully in
the course of last week. and Holy
Her funeral is arranged
for Wednesday,
Des Ward, Helena Mitchell, Annie Rooney,
Peggy Waring, Sister Raymond Gibney, Joe Grace,
January 7th, 2pm,
at St Felix. Christmas
Heather Campbell, Keith McGinn, Deborah Hailes,
Robert Di Martino, Edith Thomas, Bernard Fortune,
John Haste, Terence Bloomfield, Min Duck, Gabrielle
to you all
EILEEN ASCOTT
Harrison, Bolleslaw Siedlecki, Norah Cranswick, Edna R.I.P.
Maguire. RIP has also died this week.
No funeral details as yet.

May they rest

in peace!
 COLLECTIONS
OFFERTORY: £640.61
THE DIOCESAN YEARBOOK
CAFOD: £162.37 CHRISTMAS MASS TIMES
is now available in the porch
SICK & RETIRED CLERGY Please make a donation of £3 THIS WEEK
£509.98 if you would like to take one.
Monday –Wednesday
MANY THANKS!
10.00am at the convent
CHURCHES TOGETHER IN FELIXSTOWE
ARE ABLE THIS YEAR TO SHOW THEIR CRIB AT 28 HAMILTON RD, CHRISTMAS EVE
TOGETHER WITH LISTS OF MOST OF THE CHURCH SERVICES .
THE UNITYWEEK SERVICE WILL BE ON Convent: 7.00pm
JAN 25TH 6.30PM AT ST. JOHNS CHURCH.
ALL ARE WELCOME .
St Felix: 9pm

THE FAMILY OF JESUS AND MARY CHRISTMAS DAY

would like to remind all members that there will be no St Felix: 9.00am
meeting in December. We meet again for our Christmas St Cecilia’s: 10.45am
Party on Friday, 9th January at 7pm.
This will replace the January meeting.
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If you want God, and long for union with him, yet sometimes wonder what that means
or whether it can mean anything at all, you are already walking with the God who 26th / 27th December
comes. If you are at times so weary and involved with the struggle of living that you
have no strength even to want him, yet are still dissatisfied that you don’t, you are 10.00am at the convent
already keeping Advent in your life. If you have ever had an obscure intuition that the
truth of things is somehow better, greater, more wonderful than you deserve or de- Friday: Kathleen Mansfield+
sire, that the touch of God in your life stills you by its gentleness, that there is a Saturday: Eileen Hennessy+
mercy beyond anything you could ever suspect, you are already drawn into the
central mystery of salvation. WEEKEND MASS TIMES AS USUAL
Your hope is not a mocking dream; God creates in human hearts a huge desire
and a sense of need, because he wants to fill them with the gift of himself. It is be-
cause his self-sharing love is there first, forestalling any response or prayer from our
side, that such hope can be in us. We cannot hope until we know, however ob-
scurely, that there is something to hope for; if we have had no glimpse of a vision, we
cannot conduct our lives with vision. And yet we do: there is hope in us, and longing,
because grace was there first. God’s longing for us is the spring of ours for him.

Maria Boulding, OSB. The Coming of God