Sunday Missal:  3^rd Sunday of Lent (Year C) -  Page 217.

Teas and Coffees available after Mass on Sunday and Thursday.

Stations of the Cross will be celebrated on the Fridays of Lent at 7:00pm.

Coffee Morning in aid of Burntisland Twinning Committee: St Joseph’s Church Hall, Saturday 29^th March, 10:30-12:30. £2.50.

Next Sunday is SCIAF Sunday. Message from Archbishop Cushley: “On Sunday 30 March there will be a special collection at all parishes for Papal & Episcopal Charities (including SCIAF). 75 per cent of the collection goes to SCIAF and 25 per cent to the Archdiocesan Care Fund. Last year £38,000 was raised from this collection; £28,500 went to SCIAF and £9,500 went to the Archdiocesan Care Fund. With your kind donations Care Fund grants went to: Bethany Care Trust (Homeless support), Ukraine Project (rehabilitation centre in Ukraine), Across (Pilgrimages for people with severe disabilities) and FAFCE (Promoting Family Life at the UN, EU and Council of Europe). We pray for all those involved in charities which help those in need in the Archdiocese and across the world, including the good work of SCIAF. Thank you for your generosity in almsgiving this Lent.” 

St Joseph’s Day Celebrations: Thank you to all who cam along to celebrate our Parish Feast Day and to the Social Committee fr organising the refreshments in the Hall.

St Joseph’s Parish Trip: Thursday 12^th June, Mass 9:00am; Bus leaves 10:00am. Pitlochry 2hrs, Queens View 20min, Falls of Dochart 30 mins, Lade Hotel Kilmahog. Price, including meal, £40. Please place names on sheet in the porch. Queries contact George Kay 07723 040933.

Holy Year Talks: A series of Holy Year talks take place on the last Sunday of each month at the Carmelite Convent, Hot Pot Wynd, Dysart, KY1 2TF. The next one is on Sunday 30 March at 4:30pm when Canon James Tracey discusses Reconciliation - Forgiveness. The one-hour event includes evening prayer, Eucharistic Adoration and has been organised by the Fife Deanery. All welcome.

Annual Mass: The annual Caritas, Justice & Peace Mass takes place at 7:00pm on Wednesday 2 April at St Margaret’s, East Port, Dunfermline, KY12 7JB. Fr Tom Magill of Motherwell Diocese will preach. All welcome.

Parishioner Tony Caw’s company Educamus Tuition are collecting books which they believe to be inspirational for children and young adults to be included in hampers distributed to less fortunate families in North Lanarkshire this Christmas. Which book inspires you? Please donate it to the less fortunate! 🙂 Books can be left in the church porch, or delivered to: Educamus Tuition Ltd. 25 Oak Street, Kinghorn, Fife KY3 9YS

Anecdote - The Mission is a 1986 film which tells the story of a Spanish Jesuit priest who went into the South American jungle to convert the enslaved natives who had been subjected to the cruelty of Portuguese colonials.  One of the most telling scenes in this film occurs when Captain Mendoza, who had killed his brother in a fit of rage, is seen climbing a mountain with a backpack on his shoulders as an act of penance for his past sins.  The backpack, which contained all the weapons of his former life as a slave merchant, was so heavy that he could not climb higher unless he gave up the backpack.  He was relieved of it when one of the natives, whom he had formerly taken into slavery, came up beside him. He forgave the Captain, cut the rope of his backpack with a sharp knife, and in this way saved Mendoza’s life instead of taking it as his own vengeance.  — The backpack represents sin.  We cannot carry our “packs” of sin with us.  Unless and until we repent, are forgiven, and let them go, “we cannot climb to where God needs us.” — This scene in the movie illustrates this weekend’s Scripture readings, which tell us of a merciful God Who wants sinners to repent and Who uses natural calamities and tragedies in life as loving warnings to awaken His children.  https://frtonyshomilies.com/

Have a good week. Take care. Fr James