NEWSLETTER: 27th/
28th June 2009
PARISH PRIEST: Monsignor Gerald Moorcraft, The Presbytery
DEACONS: Richard Carr (347623), Sean Duffy (343705)
Brian Stoker (290553)
Parish Secretary: Polly Sklenar
8.00
am Private Intention
10.00
am Ian and Vivienne Reid.
MONDAY 10.00
am Service of Word & Holy
Communion Feria
TUESDAY 10.00
am The O’Toole Family. 1st
Martyrs of the Church of Rome.
WEDNESDAY 10.00
am Nicky Flynn Feria
THURSDAY 10.00 am For The People of the Parish. Feria
FRIDAY 4.00
pm Edward & Marie Thompson. (At Ker Maria)
SATURDAY 10.15
am Service of Word & Holy
Communion Our Lady
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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 Catherine
Chisholm, Mary Brookfield, Richard Mostyn, Stephen
White and Francis Zacheo.
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ROTAS FOR NEXT WEEK – 4th/5th July 2009
Mass Sidesmen Eucharistic
Ministers.
Readers
6.30 pm Rhona & Richard Ingrid Gardner & Val
Stoker &
Carr. Olivia Sklenar. Toby
Bucknall
8.00 am Mike & Margaret Catherine
Redding Margaret Solman
Giblin. & Philip O’Toole. & Angela Bailey.
10.00 am Celia Sparkes & Paula McAleavy
& Patrick McAleavy &
Sylvia Bairstow. Phil Hughes. Robert Duigan.
Offertory – Fiona Moran, Flowers – St. Teresa’s
School & Theresa Aldis Coffee –
Sheila McCaffery & Margaret Cripps & Phyllis
Clegg, Church Cleaning – Bridget
Grant. (commencing
5th July)
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SAINT PETER AND PAUL DAY is quite often a day for priestly
ordinations. It is my 45th
anniversary of ordination on the 29th June. I don’t mind telling you
that I have been very happy in my priestly life and the people of God,
especially you, can take a large measure of credit for this. I say especially
because the greater part of my priestly life has been spent here at St.
Teresa’s. Thank you, I thank God for you.
WALKING HUMBLY WITH OUR GOD the title of the DVD which some
parishioners came to see. Bishop Peter explained how serious things
are….declining numbers of priests and indeed of people and the knock on
shortage of financial resource. Our Pastoral Council will be meeting this
Monday (29th) at 8.00pm in the clubroom, and I shall be asking the members to
think carefully of the way ahead for our parish. Bishop Peter has introduced
some new pastoral area’s - basically he has rearranged the
deaneries and reduced the number of parishes in each grouping. At the Pastoral
Council meeting on Monday we shall be looking at how this initiative from the
Bishop might impact on our parish. Each new pastoral area will have a PAL (a
Pastoral Area Link) and for us it is John Lumsdon and
he will be joining us on Monday evening. A diagram showing the new pastoral area’s will be on display in the narthex. Our area Dean
remains Canon Russ.
ST. T’s FC meet again this Sunday from 4.00 - 6.00pm in the Walsingham Hall.
PLEASE COME The young people of St T’s FC wish to invite
all parishioners to join them from 5.00 – 6.00pm this Sunday (28th)
in the Hall for a cup of tea and a cake, and to be ‘entertained’ by the
children as they present to you a few thought provoking drama clips. Their
heart warming efforts are in order to do something to help those children who are far less
fortunate than themselves (our parish CAFOD project) and for this reason a
small contribution will be requested. Some of the children will be outside Mass
this weekend so that anyone who is unable to come but would still like to contribute to their worthy cause can
do so. Thank you.
S.T.Y.L.E. meet
next Friday evening 3rd July.
AN INVITATION to all young people from the ages of
11 – 18 to join the S.T.Y.L.E. group in the parish garden for a BBQ next Friday
3rd July. The evening will start at 7pm in the Walsingham
Hall and will move on to the garden for BBQ, chat, and chill out time. The
evening will finish at about 9.30pm. Please just come along.
CONFIRMATION There will be a meeting on Monday 6th
July at 7.30pm in Ker Anna for those wishing to be prepared for the sacrament
of Confirmation. This meeting will explain why this sacrament is crucial to us
as Catholics and how the structure of instruction at St. Teresa’s unfolds.
Please speak to Jean O’Brien or
Celia Sparkes if you are unable to come to the meeting but wish to be
confirmed.
THANK YOU the cake and book sale following each
of the Masses last weekend raised £208.00 for St. Teresa’s Cafod
Project of 2009, The rehabilitation of child soldiers in the
ST FRANCES CHILDREN’S SOCIETY at the end of
December the Bishop wrote to say that, due to the Government’s initiative to
introduce the Equality Act (sexual orientation) Regulations 2007, and their
unwillingness to allow exceptions to the new regulations, he had reluctantly
decided that the Society could no longer be called Catholic and that all formal
links between the Society and the Diocese would have to be severed, therefore
the green collecting boxes could no longer be processed in the parish. If you
still have a green box at home, and you would like to turn the contents into a
cheque and send it to the Society you will find the address and the charity
number on the top of the box. Thank you.
MONEY, MONEY.
Offertory £672.36, Retiring Collection £42.07. This week end’s retiring collection will be
for Peter’s Pence. Next weeks retiring collection will
be for Day for Life. God Bless your support and generosity for
your Church.
Love
and prayers,