NEWSLETTER: 9th/
PARISH PRIEST: Gerald Moorcraft, The
Presbytery
DEACONS: Richard Carr (347623), Sean Duffy (343705), Brian Stoker (290553)
Parish Secretaries: Barbara Nicholson, Polly Sklenar
SUNDAY FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT Year A
6.30
pm The Mullane
Family
8.00
am Private Intention
10.00
am In
Thanksgiving
MONDAY 10.00
am For the People of the Parish Our Lady of
TUESDAY 10.00
am Fr. Philip Swingler’s
Ints. Feria
WEDNESDAY 10.00 am Sr. Olga’s Ints. Feria
THURSDAY 10.00 am In Thanksgiving SS
Cyril, and Methodius
FRIDAY
SATURDAY 10.15
am Service of Word & Communion Feria
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HOLY DAY MASSES at 9.00 am and 8.00 pm: Baptisms/Marriages by Arrangement;
Confessions on Saturday during Exposition at 5.30 pm and at any time at call;
Parent & Toddlers Group – Tuesdays 10 a.m., Catechism Club – Tuesdays 4.00
pm.; Bible Study – Thursdays 7.30 pm (Sept – July) The Retreat; Stations of the
Cross after Mass each weekday.
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ANNIVERSARIES.
Please pray for Pope Pius XI, Edwin Collins, Lilian
Collins, Leslie Emery, Kathleen Ryder, John Barron, Eva May Gar, Lena Morrisroe, Richard Thomas Dominic Hague, Sr. Mary Catherine
Rooney, Olive Donaldson, J Vincent Weitz, Florence
Mary Winifred Cole and Gertrude Tredwell.
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ROTAS FOR NEXT WEEK – 16th/
Mass Sidesmen Eucharistic
Ministers Readers
6.30 pm Toby Bucknall and Brian
& Val Stoker Kath and
Mary
Hill Roger
Beavil
8.00 am Brian & Sandi Janes Iain and Jennifer Bridget Grant &
Wright Jane Blane
10.00 am Suzanne Fitzgerald Alma Broom-Smith Nick Jepson and
&
Sue Bolton & Rachael
Kent Sheila McCaffery
Offertory – The Doran Family, Coffee
– Anne Bowe & Veda Conyers, Church Cleaning – Paula McAleavy & Angela Bailey (week commencing 17th February).
MONDAY, the
Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, is an important day for parishioners of St.
Teresa’s. On
IT IS NOT TOO LATE to have a good start to Lent. It
is still early days! Through prayer,
personal discipline and almsgiving as a community at St. Teresa’s we seek to
awaken in us a better sense of our baptism.
We have been saved! So we are not
to be deluded by the old Devil and he can make the slippery slope seem very
attractive. Now is the time to resist
him as Jesus did with the power of the Holy Spirit.
THANK GOD
for our beautiful church. So many people
have told me over the years that our church, as a sacred space, inspires them
to pray, to meet God. The shape itself
is for many quite wonderful; for me it is made, transformed, by the artefacts
which lift us to God. The Stations of
the Cross, the Triptych, the Sacred Heart and wonderfully the millennium
stained glass windows. A booklet of the
stained glass in our church is nearly ready and I hope it will serve two main
purposes: allow us to look at them, be reminded of their biblical inspiration,
to pray over them and for parishioners who are no longer able to get to church
to have a copy at home. Our Stations of
the Cross booklet was paid for by a parishioner. I wonder if any parishioner would like to
consider paying for the stained glass booklet? Just have a quiet word with me if you feel
drawn to this.
CAFOD Lent Fast Day Lent is a time for personal reflection and for changing ourselves. This
coming Fast Day Friday February 15th
we think about changing the way we relate to creation. In many CAFOD - funded
projects, people are caring for the earth and seeking alternative livelihoods.
This is not about lifestyle – it’s a matter of survival. If we believe creation
is a gift from God to be cherished, then climate change is a dire warning that
we should be treading more lightly on Gods earth. You can help, by giving up
something this Fast Day and donating the money you saved to CAFOD. Fast Day
envelopes will be handed out after each Mass this weekend. They will be
collected back next weekend. Please don’t forget to fill in the Gift Aid
details if you are a taxpayer.
MONEY, MONEY.
Offertory £878.72, Retiring Collection £29.95, Cafod £8.00. Next
weeks retiring collection will be for CAFOD’s Family
Fast Day. God bless your support for your parish.
Love and prayers,