NEWSLETTER: 20th/21st December, 2008

PARISH PRIEST: 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 Secretaries: Barbara Nicholson, Polly Sklenar

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

MASS DURING THE COMING WEEK

SUNDAY                  FOURTH WEEK OF ADVENT                              Year B

                             6.30 pm     Alma Broom-Smith

                             8.00 am     Private Intention

                           10.00 am     Joseph Turner

MONDAY            10.00 am     Service of Word and Holy Communion     Feria

TUESDAY           4.00 pm     Tony Chettle  (At Ker Maria)                       Feria

    CHRISTMAS MASSES    

WEDNESDAY      4.00 pm     Private Intention                               The Nativity

                             6.30 pm     For the People of The Parish          The Nativity

THURSDAY         8.00 am     Private Intention                               The Nativity   

                           10.00 am     John Wallace                                   The Nativity

FRIDAY              10.00 am     Richard McAleer                               St Stephen

SATURDAY        10.15 am     Service of Word & Communion            St. John

N.B.  There will be a short (30 mins) carol service before the 6.30 p.m. Christmas Mass on Wednesday.

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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; Rosary each Saturday after Service of the Word & Communion.

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ANNIVERSARIES.  Please pray for John Sheehan, Elizabeth Cox, William Patrick Callaghan, Mabel Anne Evans, Elsie May Powell, Elizabeth Murray, Maria Eleanor Todd, Helen Hatley, Eileen Smith, Francis Gerard Thomas, Elizabeth O’Carroll, Agnes (Mary) Sheerin, John Sheerin and Jan Poloczanin.

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ROTAS FOR NEXT WEEK – 27th/28th December, 2008

Mass      Sidesmen                   Eucharistic Ministers          Readers

6.30 pm  Pat Roberts and          Mark and Susan             Jean O’Brien and

               Celia Sparkes             Houston                          Rhona Carr

8.00 am  Tony Collins and         Iain and Jennifer             Kath and Roger

               John Brzezichi            Wright                            Beavil

10.00 am Suzanne Fitzgerald   Robert Duigan &            Peter Bellini and

               & Eileen Hare              Joanna Knox

Offertory – Ruth Gibbs, Flowers – the Flower Group, Coffee – Madeline Scott & Phyllis Clegg, Church Cleaning – Jan Guerzoni & Jean O’Sullivan (week commencing 29th December).

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CHRISTUS NATUS EST and that’s what fills Christmas with joy. May the Birth of Christ Our Lord spur us to bear witness to him. There are various ways of doing this – it is for each one of us to find the way open to us. May your Christmas cards be truly Christian – the snowman or whatever is not the appropriate picture to send at Christmas – not even a little robin. Bishop Parker, of blessed memory, sent a picture of himself one year to all the priests of the diocese; one wag could not resist the temptation to send a pretty tasteless picture of the Bambino apologising that he did not have a photo of himself to send but explaining that he thought the Holy Child was a more appropriate picture to send at Christmas, Ah well….You can get Christmas postage stamps on line … and I hope that your cribs at home fill a prominent place so that your visitors can see what you are about at Christmas and where your heart is.  Thanks, by the way, for the lovely cards and gifts you have sent to me so far.  I am deeply touched.  You make it a real festive Christmas for me and I know you will remember that the collection at the Christmas Masses is for your priest – even if you plan to be away.

 

WINNERS OF THIS MONTHS CHURCH DEVELOPMENT DRAW  Congratulations to Margaret Giblin 1st prize (£100) and to Richard Carr 2nd prize (£30).  Well done.

 

JUST ONE MORE GIFT.  There are still a few more days before the gifts donated to Saunderton Lodge are distributed, so if you can pick up a label from the tree in the narthex and buy just one more gift then that would be wonderful.  Thank you.

 

STYLE:  Please note that our January get together is to be on Friday 9th January and not on our usual first Friday of the month. The time will also be different as we are arranging a trip to the bowling alley followed by supper at the noodle bar in Aylesbury. All young people in years 7 – 13 are welcome. A sign up sheet will be in the narthex after Christmas.  

 

CHRISTMAS PARTY for St T’s FC is on Sunday 28th December in the Walsingham Hall from 4.00 to 6.00pm. All present members and all new members are very welcome to come along and join in the fun and games.

 

MONEY, MONEY.  Offertory £763.30, Retiring Collection £19.45, Cafod £4.00.  God bless your support for your parish.  

 

Love and prayers,