St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church - Ansdell

St Joseph’s Parish Liturgy Group

Minutes of the meeting on the 6th February 2006

Present: C. Woods (Chair), A. Cawthorn, P. Crean, A. Waters, P. Drake, A. Jones,
K. Moore, E. Kelly, F .Dronsfield, M. Johnson.

Apologies: W. Kruszynska.

A. Cawthorn opened the meeting with a prayer.

A. Cawthorn informed the group that B. Cawthorn wished to resign but would continue leading the Eucharistic Minister group. C. Woods with the unanimous approval of the group wished to record our thanks for his valued contribution.

Minutes of the meeting of the 26th January were accepted as accurate.
Matters Arising
¢ 9.30 am Mass. C.Woods had written to the parishioner involved and his response was noted.
¢ Robert Bamber Singers: F.Dronsfield had put up notices to announce this event. The Singers will be sending their own publicity material, this will be displayed. C.Woods will write to Fr. Flynn and Cannon Turner to invite their parishioners. J.O'Neill will advise the Churches Together in Ansdell group of the date and will distribute posters at their meeting, this week. It was decided to provide light refreshments in the Hall following the service.
¢ Churches Together in Ansdell, Sunday evenings in Lent. We have no further information about this. P.Crean will contact J.O'Neill as, if the group is to help with the service at St Joseph's, we need to know the subject matter and the date.

With Hearts and Minds
P.Drake described the Liturgy Day she had attended, run by Fr Geoffrey Steel and Fr. Paul Johnstone. There had been a very good attendance. The subject matter was similar to that of the parish liturgy day last year with Fr Foulkes. P.Drake shared some literature from the day including a paper on good practise and better practise in celebrating the Eucharist. These will be copied for the group. We were pleased to hear that we fall within the better practise group, but there are several points for discussion and perhaps change. Pauline told us that the music part of the meeting had been excellent, and she reported that Fr.Johnstone, who is based at the Willows, had offered to provide a Music Study day for the deanery which we all felt would be welcomed.
The With Hearts and Minds programme was discussed and the possibility of running this in the Parish considered. We all agreed this would be a priority for the group to discuss with Fr.Harry after Easter. E.Kelly would raise the suggestion of the course at the next Parish Council to gauge reaction.
A.Cawthorn suggested we clarify what the Mission of the Liturgy Group is, and whether we would need to rethink it in the light of the Parish Need Survey responses, and in discussion with the PDT. All members of the group were asked to consider this for our post Easter meeting.

Lent and Easter Services

Reconciliation Service This will be held on Tuesday 11th April at 7.00pm. The children who are making their First Communion will have a service the previous Saturday. We will gather possible orders of service for the Tuesday service, and choose an appropriate one at the next meeting.
Stations of the Cross These will be held weekly on Friday evening replacing the Liturgy of the word at the evening Mass. Various groups will be asked to take part.

Liturgy 3rd March
SVP 10th March P.Drake to inform
Bell Ringers 17th March C.Woods to inform
House Groups 24th March A.Waters to inform
Eucharistic Ministers 31st March Inform at meeting on23rd
Altar Servers 7th April F.Dronsfield to inform

Taize Service It was decided to hold this at Pentecost rather than Lent.

Easter Services
Palm Sunday P. Drake / C. Woods / E. Kelly. will plan this service.
Holy Thursday A. Waters / M. Johnson will meet to plan this after discussing with
Fr. Harry if we need to make any changes.
Good Friday. This service will be discussed at the next meeting.
Easter Vigil. It was decided, after discussion, that the format of this service had proved so popular again last year, that we should repeat it. A. Cawthorn /P. Crean /K. Moore will meet to plan this.
Easter Sunday. C. Woods / E. Kelly will plan this celebration.

Date of next meeting 22nd February at 7.30pm

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