NEWSLETTER:  25th/ 26th April 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                  3rd Sunday of Easter.                                            Year B

                               6.30 pm   Ray and Margaret Stokes.

                             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     Rebecca Mary Storey                                Feria

WEDNESDAY    10.00 am     Angela McLean               St. Catherine of Siena

THURSDAY       10.00 am     Peter Connely                                            Feria

FRIDAY                4.00 pm     Patricia Maguire   (At K. M.)   St Joseph The Worker

SATURDAY        10.15am     Service of Word & Communion St. Athanasius

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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. Rosary each Saturday after Service of Word and Holy Communion.                                                                                                                          

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ANNIVERSARIES.  Please pray for Tom Bickerton, Joseph O’Brien, David Purdham, Maude Susannah Walshe, Tony and Colin Rayney, Mary Teresa Sole, Anne Plunkett, Margaret Deighton and Emily Eliza Williamson.

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ROTAS FOR NEXT WEEK –   2nd/3rd  May 2009

Mass      Sidesmen                   Eucharistic Ministers.  Readers      

6.30 pm  Yasmin & Tim            Mark & Susan                Krysia Gossage &

               Roberts.                      Houston.                         Margaret Stokes.

8.00 am  Sean  & Liz                 Kath & Roger                 Philip O’Toole &

               Duffy.                           Beavil.                            Jeanny Bambrick.

10.00 am Sheila Smith &           Celia Sparkes &             Oliver Reilly &     

                Helen Brown.             Rhona Carr.                  Val Stoker.

Offertory – Sue Cawdron, Flowers – Sandi Janes and Joanna Knox. Coffee – Shelagh Williams & Patsy Vinton, Church Cleaning –  Jennifer Wright &  Geraldine Combley.  (commencing 3rd May)

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THE SEASON OF EASTER  lasts until the Ascension. Let us try to make it a special time when our thoughts and prayers go to heaven and we seek to avoid sin – especially habitual sin. We can get very used to our own wicked ways – so used that  they do not seem all that sinful. A reading of St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians Ch. 13. can guide us on the way to leading fully Christian lives “Without love I am nothing at all …Love does not take offence and is not resentful.” St. Paul gives us the ideal of the Christian life, and ideals need to be put into practise, especially during the time of Easter. What is impossible to us is possible to our heavenly Father who raised Jesus from the dead. We believe in God’s mighty power to help us over come our servitude to sin.

 

WELL DONE ALL WHO CAME TO LISTEN TO FATHER DANIEL O’LEARY  Personally  I liked especially his gentle manner and his suggestion that we should not try to remember all that he said. The Holy Spirit, if we invite him into our lives, can help us see how Fr. Daniel has helped us. Hooray!

 

AND NOW FOR OUR DREAM WORKSHOP  and Sister Anne Morris will be here Saturday 16th May. The title Sister Anne suggests for the workshop is “Finding God through dreams” Book the date now. Remember that we are like ice-bergs – i.e. most of us is hidden beneath the water line. But we can access our hidden depths through our dreams. Sister Anne will help us interpret them. For the sceptical there are important biblical references to dreams, Joseph in the Old Testament and Joseph in the New Testament.

 

GOOD LUCK  to Stan and Jan Elcock from the Retreat who will set off this Sunday  to Lourdes on a tandem!!  The journey will take aprox three weeks, what a wonderful thing!

 

St. T’s FC  meet this Sunday from 4 – 6pm. In the Walsingham Hall. All young people in years 4, 5 and 6 are invited to come and join the fun.

 

S.T.Y.L.E.  meet again next Friday evening from 7 – 9p.m. in the Walsingham Hall. All young people in years 7 – 13 are welcome. Come and meet with a lively, enthusiastic group of young people for thought provoking fun, games and laughter.

 

CAFOD PROJECT  Tickets are on sale this weekend after each of the Masses for the CAFOD Bingo and Ploughman’s Supper Evening. This will take place on Saturday 9th May at 7.30pm in the Walsingham Hall. Tickets £8 adults, £4 children (5 to 12 yrs) Under 5’s free.

 

CAFOD PROJECT MEETING  is this Tuesday (28th) at 7.30pm in the clubroom. New members are always welcome.

 

LIGHTHOUSE QUIZ NIGHT  is this Saturday 25th April, to start at 8.00pm in the clubroom, £5.00 per person. Bring your own food and just turn up, or

phone Ingrid Gardner on 01844 347996, thank you.

 

MONEY, MONEY.  Offertory £956.23, Retiring Collection £35.18. CAFOD £22.50 and Special Collection for Holy Places £428.68. Next weeks retiring collection will be for The Diocesan Priests Training Fund. God Bless your support and   generosity  for your Church.

 

                        Love and prayers,