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earlier 2021
newsletters listed below
Music during Covid-19 restrictions
on singing, recordings from our choir and other musicians at our
church
newsletter 4th April Easter
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2020 articles + links
are here
'Sunday Message' for
April
Mass readings, antiphon, Gloria, Creed,
Gospel Acclamation & Psalm, with a practical application to the
Gospel.
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live
streamed Masses links
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live Mass directory for England +
Wales
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Walsingham
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childrens liturgy
(with CAFOD)
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newsletter 11th April
Divine
Mercy Sunday
newsletter Sunday 18th April
newsletter
Sunday 25th April
available Saturday mid pm
newsletter
Sunday 2nd May
available Saturday mid pm
Pentecost notes
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Homilies
from Fr. Philip 
‘True Life in
Christ' - A Meditation for Easter 2021 by Canon David Annear,
based on the fourth of our Rosary windows, the Glorious
Mysteries.
video of St
Mary's Catholic Primary School's Lent Mass recorded in church and
watched in school at end of term
If you are isolating and miss seeing the familiar
interior of our church, do watch Penzance's 'welcome video' by Fr.
Philip
Fr. Philip: Please continue the time
of prayer with people of all faiths at 6 p.m. daily for an
end to the pandemic. I ring the church bell for the Angelus each day at 6
p.m.
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Vatican News Network
and on YouTube
The Vatican's website
Vatican: Word of
the day
Plymouth
Diocese: YouTube channel
Plymouth Diocese:
Facebook
Catholic Bishops England &
Wales
Pope Francis -
Twitter
Pope Francis: Urbi et
Orbi - 'To the city and to the world', Easter 2021 +
broadcast
on BBC
Cardinal Vincent Nichols:
Easter message
2021
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Bishop
Mark: Vespers of the Dead in Plymouth Cathedral on 9th April,
praying especially for HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. We
commend his soul to God. Requiescat in pace. video
'Prayer for the day'
with Cardinal Vincent Nichols, BBC Radio 4 on 10th April:
listen "Good morning. Today we mourn the
death of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, a man of such vitality,
determination and noble sense of duty. Who can forget the pageant
on the River Thames marking the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee when he
stood for hours in the rain at her side, not counting the cost? I
recall also, at the Palace of Holyrood House, he stood alongside
the Queen and the Pope, all three in their eighties, each committed
to serving nation or church without regard for age or personal
cost. A little time later, in an interview marking his ninetieth
birthday, Prince Philip said that he would slow down and reduce his
duties, stating that he had ‘done his bit’. Only much later did he
in fact retire from public life. This is how many of us will
remember Prince Philip – always there beside his wife and
sovereign, but active in his own right. This was the life he chose
when he married her, knowing that she would one day be Queen. At
the Coronation he was not crowned of course, but knelt before her
with her hands enclosing his, and swore to be her ‘liege man of
life and limb’. At the Diamond Jubilee the Queen referred to him as
her ‘constant strength and guide’. Lord, we thank you
for the long life which you gave to your servant, Prince Philip, a
life lived in loyalty and service to his Queen and to our country .
As he now rests from his labours may he share in your peace and
rise in glory. Amen"
[ listen
to 'Thought for the day' with Justin Welby, Archbishop of
Canterbury, BBC Radio 4 on 10th April
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Fr. Philip in Newsletter for 18th April: Prince
Philip RIP. Much has been said, shown and written this past
week. Few knew much of his religious faith and thinking. He had on
his own bookshelves 634 books on religion. He founded in 1966 St
George’s House, Windsor, as a place for frank, vigorous discussion
across religious and political divides. He did write “Religious
conviction is the strongest and probably the only factor in
sustaining the dignity and integrity of the individual.” The royal
biographer Christopher Warwick wrote “He was a very religious man
and very questioning when it came to religion.”
Here is a prayer he wrote for a book of prayers in 1998, “O Lord,
the creator of the universe and author of the laws of nature,
inspire in us thy servants the will to ensure the survival of all
the species of animals and plants which you have given to share
this planet with us. Help us to understand that we have a
responsibility for them and that ‘having dominion’ does not mean
that you have given us the right to exploit the living world
without thought for the consequences. Through him who taught us
that Solomon could not compare with the beauty of the flowers of
the field.”
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Photos of progress in building the new North Aisle at
Penzance
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photo
gallery
Penzance is a Grade II listed church
and on the National
Churches Trust website
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Food banks etc &
latest
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Medjugorje 25th March
below
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Lent resource pages + Reconciliation
etc
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Helpful Mask Advice for Holy
Communion: When consuming the host, remember to slip the
elastic off one ear and return it without touching the front
of the mask with your hand. Touching the part you are breathing
through is where you are at most risk of picking up - and then
passing on the virus to surfaces that other people will also
touch.
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newsletter featured links + website info for
2021
Other Jan-March
2021 links and related info's have moved
here | links from
2020 are here
 listen to Holy Saturday Solemnity of the Lord's Resurrection
- our Easter Vigil Mass (edit 55 mins)
ICYMI - in case you missed it! One year
ago: The Irish
Blessing over 300 churches sing a blessing over Ireland and
beyond.
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 Why Pray the Rosary? Bishop Robert Barron’s
introduction to the Rosary - videos + resources. 'Through the
Rosary prayers, we meditate upon the great Christian mysteries of
Jesus’ birth, life, death, and resurrection'.
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Reading
the Whole Bible in a year?! A reading plan can
help: example -
advice -
'Word on the go' for busy Catholics >
scripture crash course - Bishops conference scripture
group
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Support
Local Food Banks and Food
Aid groups:
click
here for latest pdf then scroll down to 'Churches
Together in Penzance Area CTIPA
Foodbank' ... and to 'Hayle Foodbank' - for current needs
& info. Collecting boxes in our churches and local shops and
supermarkets. Money donations also welcomed via
CTIPA ...
('Transformation
Cornwall' is an ecumenical charity that strengthens faith based
social action in Cornwall)
* Penzance
Street Food Project - info is on Facebook
(is part of 'Growing links')
* Food for Families
Penzance CIC info is on Facebook - aiming
to reduce food poverty in Penzance + West Cornwall
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Mary's Meals provide daily school meals to more than 1.6 million
children, in 19 countries across the globe. It costs only
£15.90 to feed a child for a whole school year. MM's
mission is to provide a daily meal in a place of learning to
attract chronically poor children into the classroom, where they
receive an education that can in future, be a ladder out of
poverty.
Giving talks for churches plays a huge part in raising
awareness and raising vital funds. While volunteers are currently
unable to do this, founder Magnus, sent a video message
for church groups. Watch their short
films Child
31 and Generation
Hope.
video -
how Mary’s Meals is feeding hungry children through the pandemic,
with personal reflections on how faith is bringing hope and comfort
~ video "Love
Reaches Everywhere".
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CAFOD World Gifts
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2021 previous Sunday newsletters list
... (2020 list
with featured links)
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January: 'Sunday Message' - January
3rd January - 2nd Sun in Christmastime.
listen to 2nd Jan 5pm Vigil Mass (edit)
10th January - Baptism of the Lord.
17th January - 2nd Sun in ordinary
time.
24th January - 3rd Sun in ordinary
time
31st
January - 4th Sun in ordinary
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February: 'Sunday Message' -
February
7th February - 5th Sun in ordinary
time
listen
to 7th Feb Sunday Mass
14th February - 6th Sun in ordinary
time
21st February - 1st Sunday in Lent - listen to 21st Feb Sunday Mass (edit 37 mins)
28th February - 2nd Sunday in Lent
- homily pdf
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March: 'Sunday
Message' for March
7th
March - 3rd Sun in Lent - homily pdf
14th
March - 4th Sun in Lent - homily pdf
21st
March - 5th Sun in Lent
28th March - Palm Sunday & Holy
Week - homily pdf
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| April: 'Sunday
Message' for April
4th April -
Easter week
11th April - Divine Mercy Sunday
18th April - 3rd Sunday of
Easter
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Pope Francis - Twitter
- "All of us
have spiritual infirmities that we cannot heal on our own. We need
Jesus’ healing, we need to present our wounds to him and say:
“Jesus, I am in your presence, with my sin, with my sorrows. You
can set me free. Heal my heart”.
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LINKS: Plymouth
Diocese YouTube channel \ Diocese on Facebook
\ Catholic Church England
and Wales: YouTube Channel & website \ Vatican News Network
\ Vatican website
\ Vatican
Radio \ Vatican
YouTube channel videos \ Catholic Church UK News \
Pope
Francis on Twitter \ Daily
Mass readings \ Medjugorje messages \ UCB Word for Today \ Vatican Word of the day
what's on
in RC Cornwall:  Camborne-Redruth \ Truro \ Falmouth-Helston\ Bodmin \
St
Austell \ Newquay \ Launceston \ Liskeard+Sclerder
Abbey \\ across the Tamar: Plymouth Cathedral
\ Buckfast
Abbey
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Medjugorje:
message for the world via visionary Marija, March 25th 2021:
“Dear Children! Also today I am with you to tell you: Little
children, who prays does not fear the future and does not lose
hope. You are chosen to carry joy and peace, because you are mine.
I have come here with the name 'Queen of Peace' because the devil
wants peacelessness and war, he wants to fill your heart with fear
of the future - but the future is God's. That is why, be humble and
pray, and surrender everything into the hands of the Most High Who
created you. Thank you for having responded to my call.” ...
more from
Medjugorje
Annual apparition for visionary Mirjana, March 18th
2021. “Dear children. In a motherly way I am calling you to
return to the joy and the truth of the Gospel, to return to the
love of my Son – because He is waiting for you with open arms; that
everything you do in life you do with my Son, with love; that it
may be blessed for you; so that your spirituality may be internal,
and not just external. Only in that way will you be humble,
generous, filled with love and joyful; and my motherly heart will
rejoice with you. Thank you.” After the apparition, Mirjana said,
"I felt beauty and hope in Our Lady's eyes and voice when she gave
the message"
A random older message: June 25, 1987 “Dear
children! Today I thank you and I want to invite you all to God's
peace. I want each one of you to experience in your heart that
peace which God gives. I want to bless you all today. I am blessing
you with God's blessing and I beseech you, dear children, to follow
and to live my way. I love you, dear children, and so not even
counting the number of times, I go on calling you and I thank you
for all that you are doing for my intentions. I beg you, help me to
present you to God and to save you. Thank you for having responded
to my call.”
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May;
available Saturday mid
pm
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and for feedback
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'Let us make room in our heart and
in our day for the Lord. Each Christian family can first of all -
as Mary and Joseph did - welcome Jesus, listen to Him, speak with
Him, guard Him, protect Him, grow in Him; and in this way improve
the world'. ~ Pope Francis.
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Penzance Roman
Catholic Church, 'The Immaculate Conception of Our Lady'. Parish of