OUR LADY QUEEN OF PEACE

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Our parish is coming together, with people from all over Adur Valley volunteering to help with the services. Thank you to all who have offered lifts to people coming from Steyning and Upper Beeding. Please sign up (at CTK) or let the office know if you need a lift. I urge any parishioners from Shoreham who are able to, to please not park in our car park, so we can save the spaces for those that need them. I am looking forward to celebrating as a united parish of Our Lady Queen of Peace. All are welcome. Office contact details: Email: adurvalley@abdiocese.org.uk / Telephone: 01273 452654 (please leave a message on the answer machine).

Thank you to Father Graham for supporting our appeal this weekend. As well as a financial collection, we ask you to consider joining the SVP. It is a wonderful way to put faith into action, and even if you only have a small amount of time to give, please consider joining. You will hear about our work after masses this weekend, but please also chat with existing members to know more about how we provide help, support, comfort and love to people in our parish community and local area. Thank you.

• Mondays online: 7.30pm Rosary • Tuesdays at CTK: 9.30am Stations of the Cross, 10.00am Mass, 10.30am Adoration & Confessions • Wednesdays at SP: 10.00am ‘The Way of the Cross’ with Deacon Simon & Cecilia. Follow the Way of the Cross in prayer, reflection & song. Different images and prayers will be used each week (different from last year). • Thursdays at SP: 7.30pm Adoration, Divine Mercy Chaplet & Confessions • Fridays at SP: 9.30am Mass, 10.00am Stations of the Cross, 10.30am Lent film series (repeated on Saturday mornings), discussion and tea/coffee. • Fridays online: 3.00pm Divine Mercy Chaplet and Stations of the Cross • Fridays at The Towers: 6.00pm Stations of the Cross followed by evening prayer

Visitation of the National Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima and the Relics of Saints Jacinta & Francisco St Peter’s Church, Shoreham-by-Sea, BN43 5WG, 1st March 2025 Come and experience what it is like to visit Fatima. Mass, rosary, meditation, confessions, divine mercy, films and items to buy. 9.45am until 4.45pm Come and be changed. Timetable for the day 09.45 Procession 10.00 Holy Mass including Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary 11.00 Coffee break 11.15 15 minutes meditation 11.30 Recitation of the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary 12.00 Veneration of the Relics of Saints Jacinta and Francisco 12.15 Lunch break (bring a packed lunch; tea and coffee available) 13.30 Exposition/Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Chaplet of Adoration & Reparation, Chaplet of Divine Mercy 14.45 Benediction 15.00 Tea break, talk & video on the message of Fatima 16.30 Enrolment and Investiture of the Brown Scapular 16.45 End of visit All are welcome

Visitation of the National Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima and the Relics of Saints Jacinta & Francisco Come and experience what it is like to visit Fatima. Mass, rosary, meditation, confessions, divine mercy, films and items to buy. 9.45am until 4.45pm (please bring a packed lunch; tea & coffee will be available). All are welcome

Tickets are now on sale for our Valentine’s Afternoon Tea, in the Parish room at St Peter’s from 2.30pm until 4.30pm. Tickets are £7.50, and the money raised will be split between St Peter’s SVP and the Arundel & Brighton Diocesan Refugee Crisis Fund. For tickets speak to Ann Olliver or Pauline Zahoui. You can also get them from the Parish Office. Email: adurvalley@abdiocese.org.uk . All are welcome. See posters in the church porch/hall.

Prayer for Day 1 We bless you, O Lord, Father of lights: from you descends every good thing and every perfect gift. You have made the world and all that it contains, you are the Lord of heaven and earth. You created all the peoples that dwell on the earth. For them you established the order of time and the boundaries of their space. In the heart of human beings, you have placed the depth of eternity. Rebirth in us that unity that our selfishness has fractured in your Church and in the one world around us. God of all consolation, call us to follow you and make firm for us the work of our hands. We praise you through Jesus Christ, your only-begotten Son, in the communion of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Visit CTBI for a newsletter, themes and resources for prayer.

The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) will be holding its annual appeal next weekend. SPUC exists to radically transform culture so that abortion is not only abolished but becomes truly unthinkable. To accomplish this mission, the Society is positioning initiatives in politics, education, legislation, and culture. Through these efforts we will restore a respect for the sanctity of human life to our society. This year’s appeal postcards call on the Government to adhere to the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child. Please be as generous as you can to help SPUC defend unborn babies and their mothers.