The Presbytery, Water Street, Port Talbot, SA12 6LE, Wales
Tel. 01639 882846
Diocese of Menevia
Parish Priest: Monsignor J Cefai, MA, PhD

Fourth Sunday of Easter 2024 — 21 April 2024

Mass Times and Intentions

Saturday Vigil Mass at 5.00pm Cwmavon (Parish), 6.00pm (The Power Family -Joan)
Sunday: 8.30am (P. Intention H. G.), 10.00am (Geoff, Marian, Bill & baby Leslie Grimes, Pat & Charles Waterford, Ernie, Kathleen & Phyllis Ghost, Christina Prendergast)
 
Monday: 11.30am Silent Adoration, Mass at 12 noon (David Rees)
Tuesday: 10.00am Adoration, Mass 10.30am (Irene Cousins)
Wednesday: 9.30am (Elizabeth Morgan)
Friday: 10.00am Adoration Rosary and Mass (Private Intention)
 
Next weekend
Saturday Vigil Mass at 5.00pm Cwmavon (Parish), 6.00pm (Una O’Neill)
Sunday: 8.30am (Denis & Kathleen Madden), 10.00am (Denis Joseph Ryan)

Anniversaries:
David Rees (Birthday).

Recently dead:
Vincent Regan (Funeral 7th. May at 10.00am) RIP.

This weekend is World Day of Prayer for Vocations:
there will be a second collection for Priest Training Fund to support those in the diocese who will be preparing for a life in ministry.
 
First Holy Communion:
Congratulations to our children who made their First Confession this weekend.
 
Annual Torchlight Procession
in honour of Our Lady around the Abbey Gardens, at Belmont Abbey, Hereford, on 15th. May at 9.00pm.  
 
St. Joseph’s RC Junior School:
Governors are looking to appoint an Administration Officer Level 3 and Clerk to Governors, 30 hours per week (term time 39 weeks plus Clerk to Governors Allowance), to commence 2nd. September 2024. Only CES Applications accepted, once completed please return to Headteacher MayC15@hwbcymru.net or sealed in an Envelope to Headteacher by 12 Noon Friday 3rd. May 2024. For further information contact Head Teacher 01639 769743. For the Advertisement (plus Salary etc) please see the Notice Board.
 
National Pilgrimage:
The annual pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of the Taper in Cardigan takes place on Sunday 12th May, this year led by Bishop Peter Brignall of Wrexham Diocese. Poster in Porch.
 
A new Lectionary
will come into use in parishes in England, Wales and Scotland from Advent 2024. Published by the Catholic Truth Society (CTS), changes to the new lectionary, which includes the scripture readings for Mass and the sacraments, will see the English Standard Version: Catholic Edition (ESV-CE) of the Bible and the Abbey Psalter replacing the Jerusalem Bible with the Grail Psalms. The changes are intended to make the biblical translations more faithful to the original languages, using better and more up-to-date biblical scholarship and to use a text which is “more proclaimable”. The Lectionary will have a fully up-to-date Proper of Saints, including the new universal and national feasts that have been instituted since the publication of the last Lectionary, and is currently set to consist of 4 volumes. To accompany the roll out of the new Lectionary, CTS and other publishers will be producing people’s Missals in due course including Sunday, Weekday and Daily Missals.

Food for Thought:
You are my Missionary disciples; you are my light, switch on this light and shine where there are shadows and darkness in your homes and places of work. You are my voice and hands to bless and not to curse others. Be kind wherever you are and always leave blessings and peace behind you.