Mass Intentions

MASS INTENTIONS:

Parishioners are encouraged to book Masses. The Parish does not have enough Mass intentions. One of our spiritual work of mercy is to pray for the living and dead, book Mass for their intentions.

Welsh Pilgrimage to Lourdes - Golden Jubilee

* WELSH NATIONAL PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES:

This year is the Golden Jubilee of The Welsh National Pilgrimage to Lourdes. To celebrate this auspicious occasion, we are launching the “New Friends of Lourdes”, to raise funds to assist as many people as possible to travel with us on this year’s pilgrimage- July 30th until August 4th. Information is available from Mrs. M. Hambly, 10 Gower Street, Port Talbot and on the website.

A Blessed St Joseph's Day

May all the parishioners and visitors to the Catholic Parish of Burry Port & Kidwelly have a very happy and Holy St Joseph's Day.

Our own Bishop Emeritus Mullins, who we are so lucky and fortunate to have in our parish, has a special devotion to St Joseph, who lived such a humble, hard-working and Holy life as an example for us all.

Joseph is the patron of the dying because, assuming he died before Jesus’ public life, he died with Jesus and Mary close to him, the way we all would like to leave this earth.

Joseph is also patron of the universal Church, fathers, carpenters, and social justice.

St Jospeph - Ora Pro Nobis

Happy St Patrick's Day

A very Happy St Patrick's Day to all the parishoners of Burry Port and Kidwelly Catholic Parish, and to all readers of this Parish blog.

St Patrick is the Patron Saint of Nigeria, apparently because it was the Irish who took Catholicism to the African country, and so I am sure all parishoners will wish to say a very happy and blessed St Patrick's Day to our very own Nigerian priest, Fr. Benedict Koledoye.

Peter's Pence Collection

* Peter’s Pence Collection:

There will be second collection for Peter’s Pence on 27-03-11. (Third Sunday of Lent).



Peter's Pence (from Wikipedia):

Peter's Pence is payment made more or less voluntarily to Rome. It began under the Saxons in England and is seen in other countries. Though formally discontinued in England at the Reformation, a post-Reformation payment of uncertain characteristics is seen in some English manors into the 19th century. In 1871 Pope Pius IX formalized the practice of lay members of the Roman Catholic Church - and "other persons of good will" - to provide financial support to the Roman See.

Lenten Walk With me Booklets

* Walk With Me: booklets for LENT are available.

These are invaluable aid for our Lenten Reflection and Meditation.

New Parish Lectures on Catholicism

OUR JOURNEY THROUGH FAITH:

The lecture series “Our Journey through Faith” will begin this Lenten season.

It is an opportunity for us to learn more about our Faith and expound the treasures of Catholicism.

All are welcome to this series of talks. Details will be given to us next Sunday.

Notice Regarding Mass Times

In order to simplify this site, Mass Times etc. will no longer be posted here in this section.

Rather they will have their own stand-alone page (see tabs at the top of the site) where they will be edited/changed every week.

This is in order to stop any confusion between upcoming Masses and old posts.

It will also help us de-clutter the main page, on which news of Parish events and other matters will continue to be posted.

Thank you.

Upcoming Events For Your Diary

SUMMER FAYRE: Will be held on the 11th of June.

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EASTER RAFFLE: Tickets will be on sale in March.

Nearly New Sale

NEARLY NEW SALE AND CAKE STALL on Sat.19th March at 2p.m. in the Church Hall, entrance fee of 50p payable at the door includes tea and coffee.

Donations of good quality clothing, shoes and bric a brac welcome.

St David's & St Patrick's Day Celebration

ST. DAVID’S AND ST. PATRICK’S DAY on the 12th of March at 7:30pm after Mass at Burry Port in the Church Hall.

Cawl Cennin and Irish stew will be served, with Bara Brith and welsh cakes to follow.

Pheobe Sheehan will play Celtic music on her harp. Entrance fee...£3.50p payable on the door.

New Web Site Pages: Liturgical and Social Events

Fr Benedict has said that he wishes this website to have more depth and so become more of a resource for parishioners, visitors and those who travel to our parish, either for an event or for longer periods.

As such more pages have now been added (Liturgical Events and Social Events).

You will find these at the "tabs" just under the title of this site, near the top of each page.

As you will see if you click on the two new tabs, these pages are in their infancy. There are still a number of images and write-ups from the archives still to go on these pages (please be patient as I dig them out, cross-reference dates etc.) and, of course, new events will be added as they happen.

The idea is to make this site a one-click resource for those interested in our Faith and our Parish, rather than a chronological entry 'blog' which users have to search through to find out what we are about and what we do, as a Parish.

The existent pages (Parish History as well as these two new ones) will have to be added to, and as such I would be grateful to any parishioners who have write-ups, articles, photos, scans etc. of anything suitable that they could email to me, pass to me, or otherwise lend/give tome to use for the site.

In so doing, it is hoped that we can add some real depth to this site for parishioners, the Diocese, potential converts, holiday-makers and casual visitors to the site.

If you have ideas for these pages, or for additional pages that might be useful to the site or for any of the above categories of site users, please feel free to let myself or Fr Benedict know.

Lourdes Pilgrimage 2011

WELSH NATIONAL PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES:

This year is the Golden Jubilee of The Welsh National Pilgrimage to Lourdes.

To celebrate this auspicious occasion, we are launching the “New Friends of Lourdes”, to raise funds to assist as many people as possible to travel with us on this year’s pilgrimage- July 30th until August 4th.

Information is available from Mrs. M. Hambly, 10 Gower Street, Port Talbot and on the website.

Mass of Anointing of the Sick

THE ANNUAL MASS OF THE ANOINTING:

The Annual Mass of the Anointing of the Sick will be on February 20th, at st. Therese’s Church, Sandfields, Port Talbot at 3.00pm. All are welcome.

Kidwelly Raffle & Llanelli Passion Play

KIDWELLY RAFFLES:

St. David’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day Raffle tickets are available in the porch; please contact Vera Kenny.
 
THE ROAD TO CALVARY THE PASSION PLAY:

The play is presented by the St. Vincent de Paul Society.

It will come up on Friday 11th May at 7:00pm at Our Lady Queen of Peace Llanlli.

Tickets: £5 adults, £12 family. Please contact Vera and Pat.

Fr. Benedict's Contact Details

NEW EMAIL ID AND FR BENEDICT’S EMAIL AND PHONE NO:

burryportstarofthesea@gmail.com is the new email id for the parish.

Parish Phone: 01554 832520

Parish Priest: New Email

NEW EMAIL ID:

burryportstarofthesea@gmail.com is the new email id for the parish.

Please do use the above id for contacting the Parish Priest concerning the parish matters.

Thanks from Down Under

FAMILY TREE:

Mrs. Theresa Dodd from Melbourne is grateful to those parishioners who remember her grandparents. Thank you... for reaching out to help.

If any others do remember Jack and Bertha Mariti, please do contact Fr. Parish Priest. God bless.

Curry Afternoon: Over £500 Raised

CURRY AFTERNOON:

The CURRY AFTERNOON was a great success. The taste and aroma are lingering in the air still. It raised £553. A HEARFELT THANKS to Shirley, Dilip, Dominic & all the members of the Parish Guild. Thanks to all the visitors from Gorseinon, Llanelli, Pontardulais and non-parishioners from Burry Port. Thanks to all of you who made it to show the parish unity.

Welcome to Rev. Fr. Benedict Koledoye

A Very Hearty Welcome & a Happy Stay...
to Dear Rev. Fr. Benedict Koledoye...

...in Burry Port & Kidwelly Parish. We wish you very many happy and rewarding years of ministry as our Parish Shepherd.