Mass Times and locations * News * Fr Cyril Chiaha Writes
Saturday 29th February
- 6.00 pm Puckeridge: Vigil Mass of the 1st Sunday in Lent
Sunday 1st March: 1st Sunday in Lent
- 9.15 am Buntingford
- 11.30 am Old Hall Green
Monday 2nd March:
- No Mass
Tuesday 3rd March: Lent Feria
- 9.30 am Buntingford.
Wednesday 4th March: Lent Feria
- 10.30 Puckeridge
- 11.00 am Stations of the Cross
Thursday 5th March: Lent Feria
- 9.30 am Buntingford
- 10.00 am Stations of the Cross
Friday 6th March: Lent Feria
- 10.30 am Buntingford followed by adoration and Benediction
- 7.00 pm Buntingford: Stations of the Cross
Saturday 7th March: Lent Feria
- 9.30 am Buntingford
- 6.00 pm Puckeridge: Vigil Mass of the 2nd Sunday of Lent
Sunday 8th March: 2nd Sunday of Lent
- 9.15 am Buntingford
- 11.30 am Old Hall Green
Sacrament of Confession
- Saturday 10-10.30 am Buntingford
- Saturday 5.15-5.45 pm Puckeridge
- or on request
Adoration/Benediction: This takes place every Friday at our Parish church of St Richard of Chichester, Buntingford, from 11-11.30am, that is, after the morning Mass. As always, Adoration provides us the opportunity, time and space to be alone with Jesus in prayer!
Parish Office Hours
- 3.30 to 5.00 pm Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday at Buntingford. Appointments are not necessary during these hours. No parish office on Monday, Thursday
On 7th March 2020 at 10.30am at St Richard’s Buntingford, the children preparing for First Holy Communion will be receiving the Sacrament of Confession for the first time. Please pray for them
Next Buntingford Christian Meditation Meeting will be Wednesday 11th March at 8pm at 20 Hare Street Road, SG9 9HW
Annual Mass of Thanksgiving for the Sacrament of Matrimony Westminster Cathedral, Saturday 30th May 2019 at 3pm: The Cardinal will be inviting to this Mass all couples in the Diocese who are celebrating their 5th 10th, 25th, 30th, 40th, 50th and 60th (and every year over 60) wedding anniversary of Catholic marriage in 2020. If you are celebrating an anniversary, please give your parish clergy the following details: husband and wife’s names, wedding date, full postal address and email (or telephone number, if no email).
Fr Cyril Chiaha Writes:
As we enter into the Sundays of Lent, may we keep in mind the grace and opportunities it offers to us: It is a time of almsgiving, a time to remember the poor and those who have very little in life, a time to share the blessings we receive in order that we may store up for ourselves, not earthly treasure which moths eat, rust corrodes, and thieves steal, but treasure in heaven that lasts.
It is also a time of prayer, a time to lift our minds and hearts to God and to be reminded of his ways, not so that we can forget our own ways but in order that we may find their fulfillment in Him; not so that we may forget the concerns of daily life and focus only on God, but so that the attention we give life may in fact become even deeper and more genuine.
In addition, lent is a time of fasting, a time to deny ourselves the usual comforts and conveniences we are used to, not so that our life will be more difficult, but so that we could appreciate life’s blessings even more.
As you give up something during this season, may you also take on something, perhaps going to daily Mass, Adoration, Stations of the Cross. Have a blessed week!