On June 7th at the Christ the King 6pm Mass, for the feast of St. Columba, please pray for an increase in membership of the Order. If you are interested in knowing more, please speak to one of the members and/or look at Knights of St. Columba : Official Web Site at www.ksc.org.uk

A couple had two little boys, ages eight and ten, who were excessively mischievous.

The two were always getting into trouble and their parents could be confident that if any mischief occurred in their town, their two young sons were involved in some capacity. The parents were at their wit's end as to what to do about their sons' behavior.

The parents had heard that a priest in town had been successful in disciplining children in the past, so they contacted him, and he agreed to give it his best shot. He asked to see the boys individually, so the eight-year-old was sent to meet with him first. The priest sat the boy down and asked him sternly, "Where is God?"

The boy made no response, so the priest repeated the question in an even sterner tone, "Where is God?"

Again the boy made no attempt to answer, so the priest raised his voice even more and shook his finger in the boy's face, "WHERE IS GOD?"

At that, the boy bolted from the room, ran directly home, and slammed himself in his wardrobe. His older brother followed him into the wardrobe and said, "What happened?"

The younger brother replied, "We are in BIG trouble this time. God is missing and they think we did it!"

St Thomas a Becket Infant and Junior Schools Summer Fair is being held at the school on Saturday 14th June between 2 and 4 pm. There will be lots of fun activites for children, a great BBQ and stalls to interest everyone. We value the support of all parishoners and welcome you all to come along! Volunteers to help on the day and donations of raffle prizes are also much appreciated (contact the school office 726004/737221)

Please note that this will now be held at 7pm on June 28th and not June 21st as previously advised.

The next meeting will be held in Christ the King Parish Room on Monday 19th May at 7:30pm. All are welcome.

Could Red Box holders from Christ the King & The Holy Rood bring the box in for counting on either the weekends of May 24/25th or May 31st/ June 1st. Thank you for the support and help in the past. Please do remember to collect your box the weekend after it is counted.

The next meeting of the Social Committee is at 7pm on Monday May 19th in the Parish Room.

The eagle-eyed amongst you will have noticed a new web page has been added to the web site. Called 'Barry's Page' it is intended to provided Father Barry with an opportunity to publish anything that doesn't find a natural home elsewhere - be it the newsletter or the homily.

As the administrator of the web site I'm looking forward to seeing Barry's contributions, especially as it requires no involvement from me to get Barry's pieces online. I hope you too will be eager to see what Barry has to say and will make a point of visiting the web site regularly to see what is new on Barry's Page.

For those interested in how Barry can do this with no web site technical knowledge at all, the secret is that the contents of the page are automatically loaded from a word processing document that is saved on the Internet using a facility called Google Documents. So all that Barry needs to know is how to access the document and to use his basic word processing skills.

Who knows, perhaps Eugene and Ita would like to have their own web pages as well. What do you think?

FIRST COMMUNION - Please pray for the following children who will be reeceiving their First Holy Communion on Sunday 4th May at St.Joachim's - Adriana Casquero, Daniel Cleland, Sophie De Freitas, Jasmin Ferreira Drumond, Tamara Ferreira, Drumond, Rosie Holland, Emily Keats, Alex Savvas, Louis Wood, Sherhans Bernardo.

Please remember in your prayers, the young people from our parish who will be receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation next Friday, May 9th at the 7:30pm Mass at Our Lady of Ransom: Jack BAILEY, Joe CUMMINS, Jake CUNNINGHAM, Daniel DALE, Melville D’SOUZA, Olivia EDMUNDSON, Christian GOMES, Joseph GUPPY, Mica JORGE, Toby LOCKYER, Jamie MARTIN, Amber MULDOON, Calum MCGUIRE VAN ROSS, Carlos De NOBREGA RODRIGUES, Emily TAYLOR, and James WICKERS

Lynn’s Travel are running a trip to Arundel Cathedral on May 22nd for the annual carpet of flowers, Corpus Christi Mass and procession into the castle grounds. Depart Eastbourne 1pm. Contact John Carmody (726334) by next weekend if interested. Cost £8.50

The Catholic Children’s Society is seeking to recruit adoptive families for the large number of children who desperately need new parents. It needs Catholic families for single children, groups of brothers & sisters, children with disabilities and children from black and minority groups. All children have particular needs, but all can benefit from family life. If you feel you have something to offer, please ring the Society - a call doesn’t commit you but they would like to hear from you. Contact The Catholic Children’s Society, Linkline House, Hove, BN3 2BD, Telephone: 01273-821234. Please mention ‘Parish Campaign’. Thank you for reading this notice.