Mass times: Eastbourne & Hailsham area

Mass times of all weekend masses in the Eastbourne and Hailsham Area have been added this weekend. maps of all the churches will be added over the next week. Many visitors including Catenians, often have out of date information or do not know of the location of the nearest church. These pages will be useful for them. Details of Divine Worship (Orthodox Mass) and benedictine at local RC Churches will be added in due course.

On Tuesday several brothers will accompany Brother President Phil Goodman to Worthing's 60th anniversary meeting and dinner (black tie). On Friday is the new members information social evening in Lewes. Sunday is the Six Provinces mass at Westminster Cathedral, I will post a report of this next week.

New members in Province 18

Crawley Circle enrolled two new brothers last night at the Goffs Park Hotel. Arundel Circle also enrolled two new brothers at their meeting on the 24th October.

Videos added

The first Video features Cardinal Cormac and Archbishop Williams. More video will be added in the coming months. I also hope to add a welcome video from Eastbourne Circle early in the New year.

Web site news

The website continues to evolve and expand, in response to comments sent to the webmaster the games page has been removed and replaced with an additional City page with the latest financial, economic and business news together with eh FTSE 100 highest and lowest. At the weekend I attedned both masses on Sunday in Lewes to gather support for a new Lewes Catenian Group. A few other Catenians were there and heard an excellent pulpit presentation by Joe Fackler of Seaford Circle. Amgst the other brothers were Patrick O'Donovan, Provinical President Paul Allen, Director Martin Klust and David Tilson of Brighton Circle. A social evening is planned for the 2nd November in Lewes.

The Pope in Naples

-- Under grey skies and a cold rain, Pope Benedict XVI encouraged people to stand firm in their hope that God will hear their prayers for justice and peace. Arriving to celebrate Mass Oct. 21 in Naples' historic Piazza del Plebiscito, Pope Benedict stopped to embrace Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury and other leaders of Christian churches.The religious leaders were in Naples for an Oct. 21-23 interreligious meeting sponsored by the Rome-based Sant'Egidio Community. After the Mass, they were joined by representatives of the Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu and other religions for a meeting and lunch with the pope.Patriarch Bartholomew, Archbishop Williams and Ezzedine Ibrahim, a Muslim scholar from the United Arab Emirates, were among the nine guests at the pope's table. Ibrahim was one of 138 Muslim leaders and scholars who signed an Oct. 11 letter to the pope and other Christian leaders proposing a dialogue based on the shared beliefs that there is only one God, that God loves the people he created and that he calls believers to love others. Catholic News Service

Bob Clarke Obituary added

Today I have added Kevan Regan's excellent obituary on Brother Bob Clarke. I have also updated the links and adding the web links for Polegate and Hailsham Parish. Since the relaunch of the main site, there have been over 800 visits! Many thanks to all those supporting the site, lets hop we will top 1,000 by Christmas. We had our first web visitors from South America (Brazil) and two from New Zealand this week. more pictures will be added over the weekend. I will be at the masses on Sunday in Lewes in order to encourage a Catenian Group to be formed there.

Download your favourite photos

The website galleries and photo albums have been upgraded to allow the surfer to download their favourite photographs as jpegs, rather than having to request copies from the webmaster. This facility is available for the following sets of photographs: Eastbourne Beer Festival 2007, Circle ladies Night Oct 2007, Ten Pin Bowling Sept 2007, Tea party at David Hiley's house.  More will be added soon.

A new page giving information on the President's Charity (SVP) has been added with local content being added later in the week.

EASTBOURNE BEER FESTIVAL

Our annual pilgrimage to the Winters Gardens for the beer festival was a great sucess. The many different beers were tried with scientific diligence and the curry was also great. As always the entertainment/music was far too loud. A set of pictures are being added to the web-site this morning.

Two New Brothers enrolled

From Left to right: Director Martin Klust; Don Withey; Membership Officer Laurence Rigamonte; Circle President Phil Goodman; Provincial President Paul Allen; Jerry Palmer

At last night's Circle meeting two new brothers were enrolled, they were Don Withey and Jerry Palmer. The meeting was conducted in record time with the right level of decorum. We also had three visitors from other circles, they were Peter Fackler, Director Martin Klust and Provincial President Paul Allen. After the meting we had an excellent dinner with ladies. Provincial President Paul Allen also made a presentation to brother David Hiley for his contributions to the sucess of the two annual Catenianian Conferences held in Eastbourne in recent years. The Picture above shows the new brothers. The Circle website has many more pictures.

Head ofice new website

Anyone know how this site is accessed? To log in you need a user name and password. How do members get one? Only contact details are for non-members, members are re-directed to a log-in.......er..

M & T

Jersey week-end

We had a great time in Jersey last week-end. Everyone very friendly and the weather was splendid, as was the food!
At dinner Brother Grand President gave a harrowing account of life in Zimbabwe - he was just back from a visit to the African Circles. He especially asked for everyone to pray for Zimbabwe.

Marcus & Tricia

Lewes Catenians?

The new parish priest of Lewes is keen that a Catenian presence in the parish should become a reality. Seaford Circle together with assistance from the neighbouring Circles of Brighton, Brighton Regency and Haywards Heath will make pulpit presentations at the 6pm Mass on the 20th and at both Sunday masses. There will be brothers on hand at all masses to talk informally to interested gentlemen. If you would like to help contact Joe Fackler of Seaford Circle (I will not publish his contact details here as he will become a victim of sales calling!) His details are in the directory. If it is not possible to form a group then perhaps the result will be more enrolments in the neighbouring Circles.

Circle News

This Thursday's Circle meeting is followed by dinner with Ladies. A reminder that the November meeting of the Circle will be at the Beauport Park Hotel and will be a joint meeting with Seaford and Hastings Circles, followed by dinner- lounge suits.

Foot & Mouth Restrictions lifted in Heathfield

A temporary foot-and-mouth control zone near Haywards Heath, Sussex, has been lifted after laboratory results showed the disease was not present.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the restrictions were lifted on Wednesday morning, having been in place since Monday.

There have been eight foot-and-mouth cases confirmed in Surrey since August.

The European Commission says it plans to ease restrictions on British exports of beef and sheep meat from 12 October.

Russian Orthodox Patriarch and Holy Father to meet

Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia has said a long-discussed meeting with Pope Benedict XVI may be able to take place in the near future.

“Concerning the possibility of meeting Benedict, I don't exclude anything. Maybe not in a month, but in a year or two,” Patriarch Alexy II said,

“But we must prepare carefully and resolve all difficulties.”

However, in an interview with French periodical, La Vie magazine, the primate of the Russian church stated that “a visit by the pope is not being considered,” adding that the Orthodox church “have never rejected the possibility of personal talks with the pope, even in the most dramatic periods in our relations.”

The Russian Orthodox Church has viewed a possible meeting between “the leaders of the two largest Christian churches as real improvement in Orthodox-Catholic relations, not as a formal event to be covered by the world media.

The patriarch said that the priority for the two churches today was to assert the evangelical values and the Christian way of life.

“It is obvious that such tendencies as aggressive secularism, religious relativism, the confining of religion to the sidelines of public life, the propaganda of consumerism and the revision of ethical norms require a joint Christian response, which the Orthodox and Catholic churches must provide."
CathNews Agency, Sydney

Web site Statistics

As of this afternoon, there had been 584 unique hits (The counter does not record surfers simply refreshing their page after the initial visit). This means that in the past 7 days there have been over 270 surfers visiting the revamped and greatly extended site. Including sub pages it now has 45 active page content. I have been publicizing the site around province for the past 6 weeks and apart from Worthing I have been to every Circle. For the first 3 months (April, May, June) There has only been 89 hits, so this is a great improvement. Of the 270 hits this past week, 108 have visited the City News and FTSE 100 pages during their viewing of the site. This is proving to be the most popular page other than the normal Home and Events pages.

Add your comments

The journal is up and running and we welcome your views and ideas, please add comments and they will be posted on to the journal within days.

TEN PIN BOWLING TOURNAMENT

The Circle took over 3 bowling lanes at the Lloyd's Lanes Club last week for the annual Ten Pin Bowling Tournament, organised by Bro Brian Winter. Afterwards a number of us had an excellent dinner at the nearby Toby Carvery. A full photo album of the event has been posted to the website.

For those brothers who have thought of visiting other Circles. maps, driving directions and meeting details of all circles in our province have been added to the Province 18 section . Details of the Bursary Fund and a games page has also been added. Details on the Catenian Vocation Initiative will be posted soon.

On the subject of web sites the all new Catenian Association Web site is now on line at the new address: http://www.thecatenians.com . It has very small print and doesn't work in all browsers such as Opera. There are no links to any Circle web-site, and navigation is very confusing. Still have a look and make up your own mind.