NEWSLETTER:  28th/ 1st March 2009

PARISH PRIEST: Monsignor Gerald Moorcraft, The Presbytery

New Road, Princes Risborough, HP27 0JN.  Tel: 345578
Fax: 274503, E-mail:Geraldmoorcraft85@hotmail.com

DEACONS: Richard Carr (347623), Sean Duffy (343705)

Brian Stoker (290553)

Parish Secretary: Polly Sklenar

Website: www.st-teresas.org.uk
Registered Charity Number 234091

MASS DURING THE COMING WEEK

SUNDAY                   FIRST WEEK OF LENT.                                             Year B

                               6.30 pm     Edward McDonald

                               8.00 am     Private Intention

                             10.00 am     For the People of the Parish

MONDAY              10.00 am     Service of Word & Holy Communion                 Feria

TUESDAY             10.00 am     Derek John Houston                                       Feria

WEDNESDAY        10.00 am     Margaret Collins                                             Feria

THURSDAY            9.00 am     Margaret Ellen Slater                                      Feria

FRIDAY                   4.00 pm     Edmund White   (At Ker Maria.)                       Feria

SATURDAY            10.15am     Service of Word & Holy Communion.                Feria

N.B. The Mass on Thursday morning is at 9.00am , it is a St Teresa’s  School Mass and will be held in Walsingham Hall.

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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) in the Clubroom. Stations of The Cross after each weekday Mass during Lent.

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ANNIVERSARIES.  Please pray for Pietro Malduca, Mary Margaret Lilley, Muriel Morris, Agnes MacFarlane, Gertrude Josephine Kennedy, Henryk Dabrowski, Margaret Kathleen Collins, Teresa Chenusch, Mieczyslaw Sasinowski, Kathleen Madelin, Sr Barbara Street, Winifred Cuff, Hilda Chalfont and Edmund White..

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ROTAS FOR NEXT WEEK –   7th/8th  March 2009

Mass       Sidesmen                    Eucharistic Ministers       Readers

6.30 pm   Peter & Stella                Celia and Alan                  Rhona Carr and

               Stickney                       Sparkes                           Jean O’Brien

8.00 am   Christine Flint &             Catherine Redding             Liz Duffy and

               John Brzezichi               & Val Stoker                     Philip O’Toole

10.00 am The Guerzoni                 Simon Martin and              Therese Daly &

                Family                          Catherine Grose                Paula Cunningham

Offertory – Theresa Aldis, Flowers --- Coffee – Agnes Raw, Church Cleaning – Geraldine Combley & Jennifer Wright (week commencing 8th March).

LENT IS A SUSTAINED  effort to prepare for Holy Week and Easter. Let us encourage each other to persevere. Little sacrifices are better for most of us than big ones. If we work well at being faithful in little things (following the Little Way of our own Patron Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus) then we shall use Lent as a training for being faithful when big sacrifices are expected of us. I hope that every parishioner will want to follow close to Our Lord during Lent and especially during Holy Week and Easter.

 

WOMEN’S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER  is Friday 6th March at 2.00pm here at St Teresa’s. Come and join the worldwide day of prayer, circling the globe for 36 hours. Ours will be one of 5,000 services in the UK alone on Friday. Through this day of prayer, women around the world affirm their faith – and share their hopes and fears, their joys and sorrows, their opportunities and needs. Join the women of our local Christian community, and those in 170 countries, in a service prepared this year by women in Papua New Guinea. Come and pray for ourselves and for each other. Men and children also welcome! Tea and cakes afterwards.

 

PLEASE REMEMBER LENT FAST DAY  Friday 6th March. You will find Lent Fast Day envelopes in the Narthex please pick one up before you leave, and return it next week end.So little can do so much.

 

FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT  The CAFOD group will be selling raffle tickets in the Narthex, for a chance to win one of two Fairtrade food hampers. The proceeds of the Raffle will go to this year’s project, Children of the Congo. The price of a raffle ticket is £1.00 and will be drawn in one weeks’ time.

 

FAIRTRADE GOODS  will be on sale in the clubroom after each Mass this week end and next .

 

CAFOD PROJECT MUSIC EVENT Tickets on sale in the Narthex for an evening of Sacred and Secular music from the Aylesbury Consort of Voices. To be held in the Church on Saturday 14th March at 7.45pm. All proceeds to the Cafod project for 2009 displaced children of the Congo. Refreshments will be served during the interval in the hall. Please come and enjoy the evening.

 

CHURCH DEVELOPMENT DRAW  Congratulations to Anne Bowe for winning 1st prize and to Catherine Redding for winning 2nd prize in February’s draw. If you haven’t renewed your annual subscription yet, please do so by dropping the form and payment off at the Presbytery.

 

STYLE  meet this Friday 6th March in the Walsingham Hall from 7.00pm to 9.00pm, so if you are aged between 11 and 18 come along and join us.

 

CHRISTIAN AID  are holding a lunch on Thursday 5th March from 12.00noon to 1.30pm at the Baptist Church Hall. Three courses plus tea or coffee just £5.50. All are made welcome.

 

MONEY, MONEY.  Offertory £629.80, Retiring Collection £23.38 and CAFOD £4.00  God bless your support for your Church.

 

 

Love and prayers,