NEWSLETTER: 8th/ 9th May 2010

PARISH PRIEST: Father Tom Kenny, The Presbytery

New Road, Princes Risborough, HP27 0JN.  Tel: 345578
Fax: 274503, E-mail:presbytery@st-teresas.org.uk

DEACONS: Richard Carr (347623), Sean Duffy (343705)

Brian Stoker (290553)

Parish Secretary: Polly Sklenar

Website: www.st-teresas.org.uk
Registered Charity Number 2340910

  MASS DURING THE COMING WEEK                                                         Sixth Week of Easter.                                 Year C

SATURDAY             6.30 pm     Dorothy Reynolds R.I.P.

 SUNDAY                  8.00 am    James Flynn R.I.P.

                  10.00 am    Our Younger Parishioners.

MONDAY 10.00 am    Service of Word and Holy Communion.          Feria

TUESDAY          10.00 am  Service of Word and Holy Communion.  Feria

WEDNESDAY 10.00 am Service of Word and Holy Communion.       Feria

THURSDAY 10.00 am Service of Word and Holy Communion. Our Lady of Fatima      

FRIDAY      4.00 pm    Holy Souls.    (At Ker Maria) St. Matthias

SATURDAY 10.15 am Service of Word & Holy Communion.     Feria

 

We celebrate the Feast of the Ascension next Sunday instead of this Thursday.

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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 James Gaham, Shaun Ferguson, Margaret Mary Harnett, Madeline Bramble Green,Hermine Pocksteiner, Patricia Crossley, Harry George Kipping, Sheila Margaret Small, Mary (Alice) Collins, Mary Wilmot and Joseph Robert Plunkett.

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ROTAS FOR NEXT WEEK –   15th/16th  May 2010

Mass  Sidesmen          Eucharistic Ministers Readers                    

6.30 pm     Reg Barnes and                         Ingrid Gardner and Yasmin Roberts and

             Shelagh Williams.                            Val Stoker. Toby Bucknall.

8.00 am                           Christine Flint and   Anne Bowe and   Angela and Michael

             John Brzezichi.  Philip O’Toole       Bailey.                    10.00 am  Celia Sparkes and     Joanna Knox and                             Margaret Cripps and       

             Sylvia Bairstow. Richard Carr.       Sheila Haines.

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Offertory Marie Pennell, Flowers Fiona and Jan Coffee – Margaret Cripps and Monica white, Children’s Liturgy Caroline Male, Church Cleaning – Bridget Grant. (commencing 16th May)                             

 

REPARATION AND ATONEMENT  The scale and horror of recent scandals in our church have made the past month or so a difficult time to be a Catholic. The shame, the shock and the disappointment with errant individuals and the cover-ups by the institution have upset us all deeply. However, the sheer numbers who attended Holy week and Easter services have given us hope. The exodus from our churches predicted by the media has not happened. While saddened by what has occurred, most Catholics have not lost faith in Jesus Christ, or in their local church or their local priest.

But as our Bishop’s have written in their statement; ‘we are all bound together in the body of Christ, the sins of the few touch us all’ We are asked to devote time to prayer and petition before the Blessed Sacrament in reparation and atonement to God, our loving Father.

On Friday the 14th May, from 7.30 to 8.30pm there will be a Holy hour with Exposition, prayers and Benediction. Please try to be there, if at all possible. The Lord will bless us.

 

WINNERS OF THE MONTHLY DEVELOPMENT DRAW  for April are Stefanie Bucknall 1st prize and Theresa Aldis 2nd prize, well done to both (cheques are in the post)

 

THE PASTORAL COUNCIL MEETING  will not be held this Monday evening (10th) as Father Tom hopes to take a short break (Ash permitting) All members will be informed when a new date is confirmed.

 

BORN FOR THIS  the team at Cjm Music have written to say “please accept our thanks for the wonderful way in which you hosted Born for This. You certainly made hospitality your special gift, may God bless your parish richly as you undertake your ministries”

 

CHRISTIAN AID LUNCH  Friday 14th May 12.00 to 1.30 pm at Princes Risborough Community Centre. Tickets are £5.00 for adults and just  £2.50. for children. There will be, Bring and buy-Plants-Books and Cakesfor sale.

 

FLOWER FESTIVAL  at St Dunstans Church in Monks Risborough 14th-17th May to celebrate 1100th anniversary of the birth of St Dunstan. A celebration of flowers and music in the oldest recorded parish in England.

 

THE SEWING GROUP   Thursdays 10.30 in the clubroom.

 

ST TERESA’S CAFOD PROJECT GROUP  will be in the Narthex after each of the Masses this weekend selling tickets to the first fund raising lunch of 2010. The date for your diary is Sunday May 23rd  at 12.00 noon in the Walsingham Hall. The tickets will be £8 per adult, £4 for age 12 or under (under 5’s go free) for a two course lunch. (Family tickets available)

 

MONEY. Offertory £680.25. Retiring Collection £31.82  CAFOD £3.00 Next weeks retiring collection will be for Mass Media. God Bless you for your continual support and generosity for your Church.

Blessings on all parishioners and visitors.        

                                          Father Tom