Bulletin - 1/2 March 2025

Parish Details

Parish of Saint Joseph, Malvern, Worcestershire

Archdiocese of Birmingham, Registered Charity 234216

Address: 125 Newtown Road, Malvern, Worcestershire WR14 1PF

Parish Priest: Fr. Nazarius Mgungwe fr.nazarius.mgungwe@rcaob.org.uk 01684 574250

Parish Administrator: Nazzarena Wood stjoseph.malvern@rcaob.org.uk 01684 574250

PAC Chairman: Edd Hogan, 07500 639308

Parish Safeguarding Rep: Kevin Douglas 01886 832468

Health & Safety, Room Bookings: Sue Stubbings 01684 541716

St Joseph's School - Head Teacher: Thérèse Langford 01684 573016

School Secretary: Charlotte Wilkinson 01684 573016

Co-Chairs of Governors: Chris Park & Maggie Griffiths 01684 573016

Safeguarding

The Parish operates in accordance with Statutory Safeguarding Guidance and the National and Archdioceses policies & procedures at all times. Our Parish Safeguarding Representative is Kevin Douglas. He can be contacted at sg.stjoseph.malvern@rcaob.org.uk or alternatively the Diocesan Safeguarding team can be contacted on 0121 230 6240 safeguarding@rcaob.org.uk if you have any concerns.

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Confessions

Fr Naz hears confession in the Confessional from 10:30am until 11 am on Saturdays or by appointment.

Mass Times

• Sat 1st March

  • 10am - Holy Mass FEAST OF ST DAVID, BISHOP, PATRON ON WALES – World Refugees (Helen Connelly)

  • 1.30pm: Baptism of Brielle

  • 6pm - Holy Mass: EVE OF THE EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - Martin Burger ✟ (Anne & Paul Lewis)

• Sun 2nd 11am - Holy Mass Livestreamed

  • EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - Martin Burger ✟ (Chris & Liz Burger)

• Mon 3rd 12 noon - Holy Mass Livestreamed: Feria in Ordinary Time – Michael Blair ✟

• Tues 4th 7.45am – Holy Mass -

  • Feria in Ordinary Time - Private Intention (Carol Ann Harnett)

• Weds 5th – ASH WEDNESDAY MASSES

  • 9.15am – School Mass – (Intentions of St Joseph's School)

  • 12.00 noon – Pro populo

  • 7.00 pm – (Pro populo) - Livestreamed

• Thur 6th 10am-6.45pm - Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

• Thur 6th 7pm - Holy Mass Livestreamed

  • Thursday after Ash Wednesday - Charles & Sylvia Walker ✟ (The Craig Family)

• Fri 7th - Holy Masses

  • 9.15am - Friday after Ash Wednesday Michael Kelly ✟ (Carol Ann Harnett)

  • 3.00pm Mass at Dalvington Care Home

• Sat 8th 10 am - Holy Mass: Saturday after Ash Wednesday

  • 6.00pm EVE OF FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT Kate & Des McNamara

    ✟ (Johnson Association)

• Sun 9th 11am - Holy Mass Livestreamed

  o FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT Maureen & George Ward ✟ (Helen Connelly)

Holy Mass at St Joseph's is livestreamed on some days via YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@stjosephs.rcparish.malvernuk 

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About This Week's Mass

EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – YEAR C

1st- 2nd March 2025 – Parish Mass Book Page number 144

REASONS WHY SHOULD WE AVOID JUDGING OTHERS

• No one except God is good enough to judge others.

• We do not see all the facts or circumstances or the power of the temptation which has led a person to do something evil.

• We are often prejudiced in our judgment of others, and total fairness cannot be expected from us, especially when we are judging those near or dear to us.

• We have no right to judge because we have the same faults as the one

Let us remember the saying: “When you point one finger of accusation at another, three of your fingers point at you.”.

Pope’s Prayer Intention for March

For families in crisis. Let us pray that broken families may discover the cure for their wounds through forgiveness, rediscovering each other’s gifts, even in their differences.

Please Pray

• For the Sick and Housebound of St Joseph’s Parish: Clare Gray, Anne Wiseman, Anne-Marie Elder and Elizabeth Docker. We include all those in hospitals, nursing homes & their own homes. Our Lady, health of the sick, pray for them. Amen.

• For the Recently Deceased:

  • Martin Burger

  • Michael Kelly

  • Margaret Pauline Stevens: Mass prior to Funeral: Friday 14th March at 4.00pm

  • Bill Carew, Funeral on Thursday, 20th March at 10.30am

• For Those on the Anniversary of their Deaths, especially for the repose of the soul of Jose Antener Pereira Nunnes.

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION AND CONFESSION SESSION – 5.30pm – 6.00pm

The Sacrament of Reconciliation

PARISH MAGAZINE MEETING

Tuesday, 4th March at 2.00pm.

WORLD DAY OF PRAYER – FRIDAY 7th MARCH

This year prepared by the women of the Cook Islands. Services are being held at: The Church of the Ascension, Somers Park Avenue, at 2.00 pm with a choir from Dyson Perrins High School and at The Davenham Chapel, Graham Road at 7.30 pm. There is some parking in the grounds of the Nursing Home. Suitable themed refreshments will be served after both Services. Posters are out in the narthex notice board with information   

LYTTELTON WELL

Please note: - The Lyttelton Well cafe and Bookshop will now be open from Tuesdays to Saturdays from 10am to 3.30pm starting from this coming Tuesday, 4th March.

WELL COUNSELLING SERVICE FUNDRAISING QUIZ NIGHT

Well Counselling Service Fundraising Quiz Night - Saturday 8th March

The monthly fundraising quiz evening will take place in the Lyttelton Rooms Main Hall on Saturday 8th March The doors open at 7pm and the quiz gets going at about 7.30, The cost is £3.00 per head plus a contribution for tea, coffee, squash, biscuits etc Proceeds for the Well Counselling.

WELLSPRING LEDBURY

Saturday 8th March - 10.00am - 4.00pm - Teaching and Ministry Day

HOPE AND HEALING - A Day of Support for the Bereaved - Event Leader Lis Whybrow

For further details and to book visit www.thewellspring.uk/events

DAY RETREAT FOR EXTRAORINARY MINISTERS OF THE EUCHARIST

this will take place at Prinknash Abbey on Saturday, 15th March to be led by Monsignor Patrick Kilgariff. The retreat will be for serving Eucharistic Ministers and new recruits from St Joseph, Malvern, Blackmore and St Joseph Upton. On Holy Thursday, both the serving and new ones will be commissioned to update our records. A full programme of the retreat will be communicated shortly.

DAY OF RECOLLECTION – BELMONT ABBEY

Saturday, 15th March 2025. On behalf of Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta, Andrew Grant has organised a day of recollection at Belmont Abbey, and you are invited; any guests you may wish to bring are also welcome. The day will be led by V. Rev Dom Alexander Kenyon, the Prior of Belmont. The day will cost £40.00 per person including lunch. You can contact Andrew at andrewgrantdl@gmail.com for more information and for menu choices.

OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR VACANCY

We are looking for an Office Administrator for JCJourneys pilgrimage

company www.jcjourneys.com The ideal person ideally needs to be – organised,

efficient, numerate, literate, computer literate, flexible and good-humoured and

Catholic. and wants to come and work in Shelsley Beauchamp !

Please contact jane.roberts@jcjourneys.com

PARISH MAGAZINE COPY DAY

for the next edition is Sunday 16 March. Please send contributions to Margaret Rank merank@btinternet.com or leave in an envelope in the narthex.

WORK EXPERIENCE

The St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP) and CAFOD are offering a week of free residential work experience for 20 young adults in England and Wales. Candidates must be over 18, have completed their first or second year at university and have a passion for social justice. Apply by 20 April. For any queries, please contact KeziaH@svp.org.uk

THE THURSDAY GROUP

will be meeting on Thursday March 6th at 2.00pm for a talk by Penny & John Platts called "Exploring The Caucasus". Please try to attend as this is an important occasion, visitors are most welcome.

WALK WITH ME FOR LENT

For sale in the narthex – £1.00 Voluntary contribution.