Holy Mass in the Shrine at 12.00 noon

on Monday 26th March 2012 to celebrate

the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord.

Please come and join us

Sunday March 18th   2012 at 7.30pm at St John Fisher’s Schoenstatt Centre

Welcome to our Covenant Mass in March. This Covenant Mass falls on the 4th Lenten Sunday, Mother’s Day. Grateful to our own mothers and all they have done for us we want to consider the great gift to us of Mary, Mother of the Lord

Throughout this year we celebrate the gift of the Shrine as a place of Grace. During this Mass we consider a question put by Father Kentenich: “What is the price that has to be paid if the Blessed Mother is to descend here (the Shrine)? Contributions to the capital of grace! We have personally to become living stones (of this Shrine)!” (JK)

Just listening to an hour of economic news and I learned three new words: frictional unemployment, webbinar and cloud computing. Frictional unemployment explains the heartache and uncertainty many people are undergoing at the moment. It does not compare with the wave of destruction in Japan nor with the uncertainty of tenure of life in North Africa but it is very real to many people who will be left behind in the country’s time of recovery. (In the eighties we had structural unemployment which left an enormous number of young people unemployable because we had a country undergoing tremendous change and not all could get on board.) Young people have these issues as real questions which effect their lives directly. Will I get a job? Can I afford to go to university? It leads them to the deeper questions they have to answer as life’s questions: Who am I and why am I here? Will I meet the love of my life and is there somewhere I can make a difference?

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28 people joined us this morning during our Lenten Retreat Mass (which takes place on every Friday in the time of Lent). Even from india people joined us via online stream.

Video from the steram:

The theme of today and this week in the retreat is (God) The Father in my life. This theme found great resonance with those gathered – it’s not easy to transmit such a lot of information so early in the morning – so I have decided to attach a talk that Fr. Duncan gave us a couple of weeks ago about the importance and thinking of the idea of Fathers and Fatherhood from Fr. Kentenich. This weeks material is also available for downlaod.

For the Retreat Material for Week 2 – click here (coming soon….)
For the Retreat Material laid out so you can print it as a booklet – click here
For Fr. Duncan’s Talk – Seven  Secrets of Fatherhood – click here

If you want to find out what we did last week and get the materials from then – click here

Schoenstatt Shrine and Pastoral Centre – St. John Fisher
Part II – God the Father in my Life

Lent is an important time of the year for each one of us and for the Church. Resolutions are an aspect of the time… but what can we do to focus our energy on the religious in the middle of a busy program.

Lent is a good time for a Retreat – not easy in the middle of the working week – but why not try a “Retreat in the world”.

We will be offering a Mass on the Friday mornings of Lent at 6am at the Shrine – well before working time (and there is tea and toast afterwards). If you can’t join us in the Shrine – why not follow the mass on the Internet (http://schoenstatt-tv.de/EN/Livestream.html) - the mass will be repeated their during the day…

At the mass there will be an input and you can receive material to focus your lenten journey for the coming week (if you are there – pick it up / on the web – we will send you and e-mail / don’t have e-mail – we’ll use the trusty post).

For further details contact Fr. Andrew
e-mail: fr.andrew@schoenstatt.org.uk
mobile: 07958 780 649

Masses on Friday,  March 18th and 25th, April 1st (no joke), 8th and 15th.

The Small lenten Retreat began this morning in the Shrine and on the Web. At 6 O’Clock a small group gathered in the Shrine to begin the reatreat. The technology worked without a hitch – we think… What more could we ask for – well tea and toast – and voila…

Many thanks to all who came – we had a lovely mass together on this covenant day.

In the Sermon we thought of Fr. Kenentich who took the time to find God’s will in silence. St. Joseph was a good example for him and for us. At the beginning of our lenten journey we want to seek that silence (the daily exercise in the retreat) and list to God’s word.

Sorry to those who looked on this site for the live feed – next week we will add a link for you.

Well – hope you can join in the retreat in your way – looking forward to next week already.