St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church - Ansdell

St Joseph’s Parish Liturgy Group

Minutes of the meeting on the 15th May 2007

Present: A. Cawthorn, A. Waters, A. Zammit, E. Kelly, Fr. Harry, P. Drake, C. Woods, M.Johnson.

Apologies: K. Moore, P. Crean, R. Page.

A.Cawthorn opened the meeting with the prayer to the Holy Spirit. The group then reflected on a Scripture Reading chosen by C. Woods.

The minutes of the last meeting were accepted as accurate.

Taize Service. Friday 25th May at 7.00pm. The service used in 2005 will be used.
CW. will put a notice in the bulletin this week to advertise it.
PD. will inform Our Lady Star of the Sea Parish and EK. will inform St.Peter's Parish.
Fred Dronsfield will be asked by AC. to prepare and put up notices on the doors in church before Friday 18th and Fr.Harry will tell those attending the evening Mass this Friday that the Taize service will replace the evening Mass on the 25th.
J.O'Neill will be asked to inform the other churches in Ansdell, and to ask if anyone would be interested in doing a reading.
Fr. Harry suggested the Methodist Minister be asked to do the Blessing.
CW. will read "The Presence". All readers will use the hand microphone.
Pat Moss and Pat Metcalf will be asked to read the first 4 verses of the Pentecost Novena and Paul Kelly and David Tansey the last three verses.
AZ. Agreed to run through some of the music with the choir on Thursday 17th May.
AC. Will prepare the church at 2.30pm on the 25th. Anyone who is able to, will help. David Long is renovating the Cross for the service.
The Easter Cross will be taken down this Thursday.

CaFE DVDs This is my Body.
The group had had an opportunity to review this resource and agreed that it would be useful.
AW proposed, and it was accepted, that in the autumn, we would invite all those active in the liturgy group, as Eucharistic Ministers, Readers, and Altar Servers and those on the PDT and Parish Council to undertake this course over six weeks. It is hoped we will gain from it ourselves, but will also be able to evaluate if we would wish, and would have the resources, to offer it to the Parish as a whole.
AC. will check that this would have the approval of the PCT.
MCJ will draft a letter to gauge the level of interest in the proposed target audience.
The liturgy group will view one of the talks at the start of our June and July meetings, instead of a Scripture reading, to assess how we will run the sessions in the autumn. AZ will bring a DVD player.
Cath. Kelly will be asked about the availability of evening sessions in the hall.

Date of Next Meeting June 19th at 7.30.pm.

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