NEWSLETTER: 30th / 31st
July 2011
PARISH PRIEST: Father John White, The Presbytery
DEACONS: Richard Carr (347623), Sean
Duffy (343705)
Brian Stoker (290553)
Parish Secretary: Polly Sklenar
SATURDAY 6.30
pm For The People of The
Parish.
SUNDAY 8.00 am
In Thanksgiving, Marion Arthur.
10.00 am
Mgr Gerald Moorcraft R.I.P.
MONDAY 10.00 am Ian
Reid R.I.P. St Alphonsus Liguori
TUESDAY 10.00
am Mgr
Gerald Moorcraft. R.I.P. Feria
WEDNESDAY 10.00 am
Dolores Bird. R.I.P. Feria
THURSDAY 10.00
am Ruby
FRIDAY 4.00 pm
Doreen McManamon & Sr.
Marie Paula R.I.P.(
K.Maria) Feria
SATURDAY 10.15
am Fr.
Frank Galvin. R.I.P. Transfiguration of The Lord
N.B. The 10.15 am Mass on Saturday is our ‘Once a month
Saturday morning Mass’.
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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 3.45 pm.; St T’s FC First Sunday of each month 4.00 to 6.00pm (yrs
4-6) in the Clubroom; STYLE First Friday of each month 7.00 to 9.00pm (yrs
7-13) in the Clubroom; Bible Study – Thursdays 7.30 pm (Sept – July) in the
Clubroom. Saturday morning 10.15 am Mass once each month.
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ANNIVERSARIES. Please pray for Charles Hammond, Teresa Scholastica Callan, Dolores Bird,
Michael Schmidt, Sheila Hawes, Mary Saunders, Paul Davis, Wilfred Stokes,
Doreen McManamon, Michael Joseph Cotter, Rupert
(Jack) Neelands, Joseph Gaham
and James Boylan.
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ROTAS FOR NEXT WEEK – 6th/7th
Aug 2011
Mass Sidesmen Eucharistic Ministers Readers
6.30 pm Anne Harding and Thea Van Dam and Majella Hurley and
Celia
Sparkes. Therese Daly. Ingrid Gardner.
8.00 am
Gladys
Hajdukiewicz
Kath
and Roger Bridget Grant and
and
Madeline Scott. Beavil. Jane Blane.
10.00 am Sheila Haines and Joanna Knox and Nick Jepson and
Margaret Cripps. Margaret Cripps. Sheila
Haines.
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Offertory The Doran Family. Flowers Fiona & Jan.
Coffee Liz & Sean Duffy. Children’s
Liturgy Summer Break. Church Cleaning Paula McAleavey & Angela Bailey. (commencing 7th
Aug)
THE GIFT OF LIFE “Everyone who thirst’s, come to the waters”. (Isaiah 55) The Gift of God’s sustaining life is given freely to all who thirst for it. In the Gospel, Jesus feeds the five thousand. Similarly we should not deny the gift of life to those who need it whether it be the unborn or the elderly. Life is a gift from God. Thus today we celebrate a Day for Life and our Retiring Collection is for the Anscombe Biothetics Centre and other Life related activities. (small cards with more information are available in the Narthex.)
ECUMENICAL WITNESS A special “Thank you” to everyone who was involved in ‘Lighthouse’ this week. It is good that the Christian Churches should bear witness to their Faith in this way, not only by the message we preach but by what we do for others, Christ founded one Church. Thank you again for your contribution to this outreach project.
The Liturgy of the Word – THE WORD OF THE LORD/THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD - now we will no longer say “This is the Word of the Lord” at the end of a reading. If you think about it, it makes good sense, because the passage we have heard is only part of the whole Word of God, just part of the entire Gospel of Christ. We will spend our whole lives trying to discover all the riches of God’s word, so it is not just this reading that matters, there is so much more for which to give God thanks. This shorter form is also the way we find this text in Latin and many other translations.
ST T’s FC B.B.Q. THIS SUNDAY will be in the Presbytery Garden. Kick-Off is at 4.00pm to finish at 6.00pm. Food, fun and games.
St T’s FC and STYLE will take a summer break and start again in September
(Happy holidays to you all.)
PRO LIFE PRAYER WITNESS On Wednesday August 3rd. This prayerful Witness will take place outside Stoke Mandeville Hospital (adjacent to the main road, marked Entrance 4) please join us as we pray in reparation for the killing of unborn children.
THE BIBLE STUDY GROUP will start again on Thursday September 15th.
IF YOU WERE NOT HERE LAST WEEKEND and you are a key holder for any of the parish building’s could you please fill in a couple of details on the form on the notice board in the Narthex so that we may update our records, thank you.
THIS WEEKENDS RETIRING COLLECTION WILL BE FOR Day for Life. The proceeds assist the work of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre and other life-related activities supported by the Church.
MONEY……OFFERTORY.£484.45 Thank you. RETIRING COLLECTION. None. CAFOD’s Emergency Appeal £50.00, thank you. CAFOD £5.00.
God Bless you for your continual support and generosity for your Church
Father
John
.