After Sunday Mass - there is tea and coffee in the hall, please stay if you can.

Prayer (sick/departed) list - The list is by the “Venerable Bede” window. Please update the names on it. During the week the list is on the Lady Chapel altar—please feel free to amend the list during the week as well.

Fasting and (partial) abstinence - The 2000-year-long fasting tradition of the Church is rooted in the Old Testament and Jewish observance and so it goes back to thousands of years. It is a venerable and salutary practice that should not be easily dismissed. The Lord Jesus himself practiced it. The most evil spirits can only be defeated by prayer and fasting (Mt 17,21). In the weekly sheet every day will be marked as follows:

fasting — only three meals in a day: one full and two halved ones; abstinence — no meat; partial abstinence — meat allowed for the main meal.

Stations of the Cross - every Friday at 5pm. During Lent we work, with God’s help, both on how much and on how well we pray. The Stations of the Cross is a good way to progress in our prayer life: it adds something extra to our usual prayers, it is a guided meditation that focuses on Christ, it increases our love and affection for God and there is also time for personal prayer at every station.

Lent group - Saturday after the Rosary, at 11am. Please put your name on the list so we can have at least approximate numbers for the handouts and the lunch. This week’s topic: “I thirst” (John 19,28).

First Friday - a day dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Blessed Sacrament is exposed for private prayer. On this day we pray especially for our parish, for the dying, and in reparation for all the neglect and offences Christ receives from us, sinners. Even if only for a few minutes, but do come, light a candle and say a prayer!

Exeter - Please come and join us in Exeter for the Chrism Mass. Many parishes form the Oswestry family how up with great numbers — St. Paul’s should not be a sad exemption. After the Mass in the cathedral, celebrated by Bishop Paul, there is free buffet-lunch and later in the afternoon a short catechesis. The day ends with Benediction. All those coming in cars are happy to offer a lift to anyone.

Parish Magazine - as this month’s issue contains all the APCM reports and sermons for the Holy Week (when there will be no sermons in the church as the various services are already linger than usual), please pick up a copy (for free), even if you normally do not.