NEWSLETTER: 27th/28th September 2008

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 Secretaries: Barbara Nicholson, Polly Sklenar

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

MASS DURING THE COMING WEEK

SUNDAY                  26th Sunday of the Year                                          Year A

                             6.30 pm     Tommy Burke

                             8.00 am     Sarah Brinkley

                           10.00 am     For the People of the Parish

MONDAY            10.00 am     Service of Word & Communion  The Archangels

TUESDAY         10.00 am     Doreen McManamon                        St. Jerome

WEDNESDAY    10.00 am     In Thanksgiving                             ST. TERESA

THURSDAY       10.00 am     Holy Souls                                Guardian Angels

FRIDAY                4.00 pm     Private Intention  (Ker Maria)  St. Thos de Cantelupe

SATURDAY       10.15 am     Service of Word & Communion     St Francis Assisi

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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) at The Retreat; Rosary each Saturday after Service of the Word & Communion.

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ANNIVERSARIES.  Please pray for Hilary Westron, Kathleen Blundell, Alfred Williamson, Violet Quigley, Jaqueline Lacey, Alice & William Baxter, Veronica Evans, Gordon Gill, Elizabeth Robinson, Angelica Jordan, Winifred Eggleton and Olive Paul.

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ROTAS FOR NEXT WEEK –   4th/ 5th October 2008

Mass      Sidesmen                   Eucharistic Ministers  Readers

6.30 pm  Alice Ward and           Ingrid Gardner and         Robert Duigan and

               Celia Sparkes             Jane Bunce                    Craig Smith   

8.00 am  Brian and Val               Catherine Redding &     Alma Broom-Smith

               Stoker                          Rebecca Wright             & John Roach

10.00 am The Trott                    Theresa Aldis and          Mary Cunningham

                Family                        Margaret Cripps             & Margaret Cripps

Offertory – Fiona Moran, Flowers – Sandi Janes and Joanna Knox, Coffee – Therese Daly, Church Cleaning – Vernica and John McCarthy (week commencing   5th October).

 

OUR PARISH PATRONAL FEAST is kept next weekend.  Please bring what roses you have to each of the Masses.  They will be blessed at the 10 a.m. Mass and taken to St. Teresa’s altar to honour our patron saint.  Once blessed they may be taken by parishioners as a sign of our faith in St. Teresa’s powerful intercession:  “I will spend my heaven doing good on earth!”  After the 10 a.m. Mass next Sunday there will be a celebration in Walsingham Hall or our garden if the weather is fine.  Come and gather around our Patron Saint.  At the end of her life on earth she said, “I am not dying … I am entering into Life.”  That would be a wonderful rose for each of us … that heaven is our true home.

 

ON THE ACTUAL FEAST DAY, Wednesday 1st October, the 10 a.m. Mass will be attended by St. Teresa’s School … all parishioners are of course welcome.  After the Mass the school is holding a coffee morning in support of McMillan Cancer Care.  Please come and support this worthy cause.

 

ST.T’sFC.  All children in Years 4, 5 and 6 are invited to meet this Sunday in Walsingham Hall from 4 – 6 p.m. for more fun, faith and friendship.

 

CHRISTIAN AID.  The season for ‘First Thursday of the Month’ Christian Aid lunches begins on Thursday, 2nd October.  Lunch available from 12.00 noon at the Baptist Church Hall.  New friends will be very welcome.

 

CJM MUSIC.  A day for music in the liturgy to be given by Jo Boyce and Mike Stanley: CJM Music for the whole parish starting at 10.30 for 11.00 a.m. on Saturday, 8th November finishing with the 6.30 p.m. Mass.  More about this in due course but do please put the date in your diaries now.

 

A DAY WITH ST. PAUL on Saturday, 24th January led by Sister Helen who is a Sister of Jesus & Mary.  Sr. Helen lived in Damascus and will be able to bring St. Paul’s life alive for us.  Again, book the date now.  This will be part of our celebration of the year of St. Paul.  I hope, too, that some of St. Paul’s letters will come more alive for us due to the homilies on Sundays.

 

FR. DANIEL O’LEARY will be visiting us on the weekend of 25/26th April.  Again we shall have a day with him on the Saturday and he will preach at the Masses over the weekend.  Daniel is known to quite a few parishioners through retreats at Hawkstone Hall and through his regular articles in the Tablet.

 

CAFOD FAMILY FAST DAY is Friday, 3rd October and the retiring collection next weekend will be in aid of the Fast Day.   Cafod envelopes are in the narthex.  Please take one home with you now and bring back next weekend.

 

NEWMAN NIGHT WALK from Oxford to Littlemore to commemorate the anniversary of John Henry Newman’s reception into the Church will be held on Wednesday, 8th October.  Please see notice in the narthex.

 

MONEY MONEY   Offertory £762.81, Retiring Collection £24.00. Cafod £4.00.  God bless your support for your Church.

 

Love and prayers

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