MASS DURING THE COMING WEEK                                                                                                                 CORPUS CHRISTI.                      Year C        

SATURDAY             6.30 pm     Sue & John Bolton  In Thanksgiving.          

 SUNDAY                8.00 am    The Parishioners of St. Teresa’s.

                             10.00 am     Evelyn & William McCauley.  R.I.P. Anniversary.

MONDAY              10.00 am     Bernard Crawley’s Intentions & Welfare.          Feria

TUESDAY              10.00 am     Theresa Aldis.                                               Feria

WEDNESDAY        10.00 am     Dennis Haines. R.I.P.                                                Feria

THURSDAY           10.00 am     Kitty Sheehan.  R.I.P.                                        Feria          

FRIDAY                   4.00 pm     Cedrick Fletcher Randall.  (At K. M.) Sacred Heart of Jesus        

SATURDAY           10.15 am     Service of Word & Holy Communion. Immaculate Heart of Mary

SATURDAY             6.30 pm     The Roberts Family.

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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 3.40 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 Nora (Mary Louise) O’Carroll, Paul Mary Kenyon, Norah Horner and Cedric Fletcher-Randall.

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ROTAS FOR NEXT WEEK –   12th/13th  June 2010

Mass      Sidesmen                   Eucharistic Ministers  Readers                           

6.30 pm     Reg Barnes and          Celia and Alan                  Liz Duffy and

                Marie Pennell.              Sparkes.                          Jeanette Hyde.

8.00 am   Sandi and Brian            Catherine Redding &         John Roach &

                Janes.                         Margaret Solman.             Anne Bowe.                    10.00 am  Patrick McAleavey &      Fred Cripps and                                   Ruth Gibbs &                  

               Paula Cunningham.        Julia Cripps.                     Rob Duigan.    

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SIGNS OF HOPE  We are seeing the birth of contemplative films. The Cannes Film Festival has given second prize to a movie Carthusian Monks: ‘Into the Great Silence’. It presents the mundane and quiet life of the Monks. Large crowds of youthful audiences across Europe have watched it. Another film about Carmelite Nuns in Notting Hill: ‘No Greater Love’ was produced last year and it is attracting large audiences. The third film ‘Of Gods and men’ is based on real events that happened in North Africa in 1990. The setting is a Cistercian Monastery where eight French monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers. Then an Islamic fundamentalist group gets working in the area. Despite the fear and uncertainty the monks decide to stay. The film builds up to the inevitable tragedy of seven monks being murdered. It is an engrossing meditation on religious convictions in a violent world.

We ask ourselves why these films in an apparently post-Christian Europe are drawing appreciative audiences? Seemingly people are drawn to the tranquillity and the happiness of religious life – a sharp contrast to their own harassed and hectic lives. They may also be captivated by community life in an age of extreme individualism where so many feel isolated and lonely. I think they are drawn to Jesus, the centre of monastic life who gives meaning and purpose to reflective people. All of us are bombarded by strange, weird, unreal ideals and lifestyles that the real world portrayed in the films has a magnetism all its own.                       From reviews the films are worth seeing.

 

PAPAL VISIT, RETIRING COLLECTION   The parishioners of St Teresa’s have shown their love for Pope Benedict and given generously, a total of £873.58 has been sent on to the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales as our offering toward the Papal Visit, thank you.

 

PLEASE COLLECT  all new rota’s from the Narthex this week end.

 

AS YOU WILL SEE FROM THE ENCLOSED FLYER  the young people in St T’s F C  (St Teresa’s Faith, Fun and Friendship Club) are holding a Table Top sale after each of the weekend Masses on the 19^th and 20^th of June in the Walsingham hall. All proceeds are for our Parish CAFOD Project. Please come and support our young people and our Parish Project. Thank you.

 

S.T.Y.L.E.   meet up on Friday (June 11^th) We hope as many young people as possible will be able to come in order to plan a Fund Raising Event during the Advent term. Another concert has been suggested, so if you are attending a senior school do come along with performing, organising and back stage ideas. 7.00pm – 9.00pm in the Walsingham hall.

 

THE SEWING GROUP   On Thursday 15^th July there will be a beaded jewellery workshop. This will be held in the clubroom at 10.30 am, if you would like to attend please telephone Monica Raper on 01844 275930.

 

 MONEY. Offertory £564.67. Retiring Collection for The Papal Visit £873.58 thank you. CAFOD £5.00.  

God Bless you for your continual support and generosity for your Church.

 

Blessings on all St Teresa’s parishioners and visitors.        

                                   Father Tom