NEWSLETTER: 10th/11th May 2008

PARISH PRIEST: 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                  PENTECOST                                                         Year A

                             6.30 pm     James Flynn

                             8.00 am     Private Intention

                           10.00 am     Margaret Steven’s Intentions

MONDAY            10.00 am     Patricia Crossley                                        Feria

TUESDAY         10.00 am     Ivan Kightley                                               Feria

WEDNESDAY    10.00 am     Lawrence Delaney                          St. Matthias

THURSDAY          6.00 pm     Teresa McDonald                                       Feria

FRIDAY                4.00 pm     Joe Daly  (Ker Maria.)                                Feria

SATURDAY        10.15 am     Service of Word & 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) The Retreat, Rosary each Saturday after Service of the Word & Communion.

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ANNIVERSARIES.  Please pray for Hermine Pocksteiner, Patricia Crossley, Harry Kipping, Sheila Small, Mary Collins, Mary Wilmot, Joseph Plunkett and Agnes Chisholm.

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ROTAS FOR NEXT WEEK – 17th/18th May, 2008

Mass      Sidesmen                   Eucharistic Ministers          Readers

6.30 pm  Reg Barnes &             Brian & Val Stoker          Yasmin Roberts &

               Shelagh Williams                                               Toby Bucknall

8.00 am  Tony Collins and         Sean Duffy and              Angela & Michael

               John Brzezichi            Betty Cresswell              Bailey

10.00 am Celia Sparkes &         Alma Broom-Smith &     Margaret Cripps &

               Sylvia Bairstow           Rachael Kent                 Liz Duffy

Offertory – Marie Pennell, Flowers – Sandi Janes and Joanna Knox, Coffee – Marissa Stoner and Monica White, Church Cleaning – Bridget Grant and Maria Cressner (week commencing 18th  May)

 

DEVOTION TO OUR LADY is central to our Catholic Faith … because she is the Mother of God.  It is clear from St. Luke’s Gospel that that was the message that the Angel Gabriel brought to Mary but it took a good four hundred years for the Church to proclaim her to be the Mother of God, Theotokos, at the Council of Ephesis in 431 AD.  Right from the moment of her saying yes, be it done unto me according to your word, she became the Mother of God but it took the Church centuries to work it out and formulate it.  Cardinal John Henry Newman put it wonderfully in his “Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine”.  It took the Church ages to realise that there were seven sacraments - they issued from the saving sacrifice of Our Lord’s Death and Resurrection - but it took the Church many hundreds of years to understand this and to define it.  That’s good and encouraging news for us: it takes time to develop our understanding of our faith.  Here we see the Holy Spirit active in the start of the Church at the First Pentecost right throughout the centuries until our present time.  In St. John’s Gospel our Lord says of the Advocate, the Comforter, that He will make all things clear for you.  Our Blessed Lady was not assumed into heaven in 1950, the year of the proclamation of the Dogma of the Assumption by Pope Pius XII.  The Assumption took place at the end of Mary’s life on earth but it took the Church many centuries to grow in her understanding of this and proclaim the Dogma.  What is true of the Church is also true of us as individuals … we grow in our understanding of our faith by the power of the Holy Spirit.  Think of the children preparing to make their First Holy Communion in two weeks time and let us all keep them in our prayers.

 

ST.T’Sfc had great fun working on ideas to raise money for the CAFOD project to help reintegrate the child soldiers in Sierra Leone.  Next weekend you will be able to see the results!  A few hand made items will be on sale after the Saturday 6.30 p.m. and Sunday 10.00 a.m. Masses and you will have the opportunity to ‘Name the Teddy’ and ‘Guess How Many Sweets in the Jar’.  Please do support them in this enterprise.

 

LIGHTHOUSE LUNCH 23rd May, 12 – 2 p.m.  This popular and prestigious event will again be held in the marquee in the presbytery garden.  This is the main fund-raising event for Lighthouse during the year so please help support Lighthouse by enjoying a delicious meal in friendly company.  Tickets £20 from Ingrid Gardner (01844-347996).  All proceeds to Lighthouse Risborough. 

 

WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY this year looks at the important role that the media plays in the lives of individuals and society at large.  The Holy Father says that: ‘Truly, there is no area of human experience, especially given the vast phenomenon of globalization, in which the media have not become an integral part of interpersonal relations and of social, economic, political and religious development.’  This week’s retiring collection is in aid of this cause and there are leaflets available in the porch for those who wish to know more.

 

MONEY MONEY   Offertory £819.60, Retiring £20.50 and CAFOD £5.00.  The Retiring Collection this weekend is in aid of the Mass Media.  God bless your support for your Parish.

Love and prayers,