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Lighthouse – Illuminate your life in Christ!

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Illuminate your life in Christ on Saturday 26th April, 11.30am at Lighthouse. Join us at St Edward the Confessor Church, Crawley (RH10 7EQ) a day of renewal, worship, teaching, and fellowship. Explore “Proclaim the Lord’s Year of Favour” (Isaiah 61:2) and grow as ‘Pilgrims of Hope’ in this Jubilee year. Uplifting teaching and prayer ministry, Sacrament of Reconciliation, a concluding Vigil Mass for Divine Mercy Sunday.

Doors open at 11.00am. Don’t forget a packed lunch! Drinks and snacks will be available.

For more information speak to Stuart Burman, or go to abcharismatic.org

Holy Week and Easter 2025

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Holy Week and Easter in Worthing and Lancing

Listed below are the services through Holy Week 2025 across the parish of Worthing and Lancing from Palm Sunday (13th April) to Easter Sunday (20th April).

  • PALM SUNDAY, 13th April:
    St Mary of the Angels, Worthing at 9.30am;
    Holy Family, Lancing at 11.30am
    St Mary of the Angels, Worthing at 5.30pm.
  • HOLY THURSDAY, 17th April:
    St Mary of the Angels, Worthing at 7.30pm;
    Holy Family, Lancing at 7.30pm.
  • GOOD FRIDAY, 18th April:
    St Mary of the Angels, Worthing, at 10.00am, Children’s Stations of the Cross
    St Mary of the Angels, Worthing at 3.00pm;
    Holy Family, Lancing at 3.00pm.
  • EASTER VIGIL (Saturday) 19th April:
    St Mary of the Angels, Worthing at 8.30pm.
  • EASTER DAY, Sunday 20th April:
    St Mary of the Angels, Worthing at 9.30am;
    Holy Family, Lancing at 11.15am;
    NO 5.30pm Mass at St Mary of the Angels, Worthing, on Easter Day.

Lent 2025 Reconciliation Services

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Reconciliation

Please take the opportunity to seek reconciliation this Lent and to receive mercy and forgiveness. Below are the reconciliation services available to you across the Worthing Deanery through Lent:

LENT RECONCILIATION SERVICES
Wednesday 9th April, 7.00pm — Our Lady Star of the Sea, East Preston
Thursday 10th April, 7.00pm — English Martyrs, Goring
Tuesday 15th April, 7.00pm — St Catherine’s, Littlehampton
Wednesday 16th April, 10.30am — St Joseph’s, Rustington

The Way Prayer Group Returns for Lent 2025

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The Way Prayer Group Lent 2025

This Lent why not grow in the transformative power of prayer. “The Way” Prayer Group returns for a limited time on Monday evenings at St Mary of the Angels. Do you want to be with a supportive community of prayer, and to deepen your relationship with God? Look no further, and join us through Lent, starting Monday 10th March at 7.30pm. As St Pio of Pietrelcina wrote, “Prayer is the oxygen of the soul.” More information from Stuart Burman (stuartpburman@gmail.com).

Remember, Lent’s three pillars are prayer, fasting and almsgiving–meaning that we’re called to do more than just abstain from a particular food or activity. So come and join us in prayer at 7:30pm in the Lady Chapel at St Mary of the Angels in Worthing,  starting Monday 10th March and running weekly to Monday 17th April.

Animals in Heaven?: A Catholic Pastoral Response

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Animals in Heaven? Fr Terry Martin

Animals in Heaven?: A Catholic Pastoral Response to Questions about Animals: our very own Father Terry has published an enlightening book about Christianity and animals.

From Amazon.com, “Christians of all traditions have often puzzled with the question “Do dogs go to heaven?” Drawing on Catholic teaching, and on his long pastoral experience as a parish priest, Terry Martin expands that concept to consider wider issues around all animals, domesticated and free-living, and why they are here. Within a context of Christian faith, he seeks to understand the place of animals in God’s complex creation and the relationship that human beings have (for good or ill) with those animals. More than that, he looks at the big questions which so many ask about who, under God, animals are and what meaning, if any, animal lives have from a Catholic Christian perspective.”

Order from the church shop or online at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Animals-Heaven-Catholic-Pastoral-Questions/

 

Deanery Reconciliation Services for Advent

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advent wreath

Please take advantage of the many opportunities through Advent to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation. These are:

  • Sunday 15th December, 3.00pm, St Michael’s, High Salvington
  • Tuesday 17th December, 10.30am, Christ the King, Steyning
  • Tuesday 17th December, 7.00pm, Holy Family, Lancing
  • Tuesday 17th December, 7.00pm, St Catherine’s, Littlehampton
  • Wednesday 18th December, 10.30am, St Joseph’s, Rustington
  • Wednesday 18th December, 6.30pm, Our Lady, Star of the Sea, East Preston
  • Thursday 19th December, 7.00pm, English Martyrs, Goring
  • Thursday 19th December, 7.30pm, St Peter’s Shoreham

Holy Mass Christmas 2024

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Christmas 202424th December Christmas Eve

  • St Mary of the Angels, Worthing, Holy Mass with children’s nativity at 4.30pm
  • Holy Family, Lancing, Holy Mass of ‘midnight’ at 7.30pm, preceded by carols from 7.00pm

25th December Christmas Day

  • St Mary of the Angels, Worthing, Holy Mass at 9.30am
  • Holy Family, Lancing, Holy Mass at 11:15am