NEWSLETTER: 14th / 15th May 2011

PARISH PRIEST: Father John White, 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

        FOURTH WEEK OF EASTER.  GOOD SHEPHERD SUNDAY.   Year A        

SATURDAY           6.30 pm    Laurence Delaney R.I.P.                      

SUNDAY                8.00 am    For The People of the Parish.                                                                                                       

     10.00 am    Special Intention.                                   

 MONDAY           10.00 am    Theresa Clegg.                                                         Feria                               

TUESDAY            10.00 am    Eleanor Mayston’s Intention.                              Feria

WEDNESDAY      10.00 am    For The People of the Parish.                                          Feria

THURSDAY         10.00 am    Jeanny Bambrick. R.I.P.                                       Feria                                                                                                                   

FRIDAY                 4.00 pm                                           (At Ker..Maria).               Feria                                                                        

SATURDAY        10.15 am     Service of Word & Holy Communion.          Feria                                                                               

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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. Rosary each Saturday after service of Word and Holy Communion. .  

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ANNIVERSARIES.  Please pray for Stan and Jake Hall, Agnes Chisholm, Eva Agnes Kelso, Bernard Alexander, Margaret McAleer, Frances Gertrude Blackburn, Patrick Fitzgerald, Beatrice Davis, Joseph Hiff and Maria Lee.

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ROTAS FOR NEXT WEEK –  21st/22nd May 2011

Mass       Sidesmen                     Eucharistic Ministers      Readers                             

6.30 pm    Steve and Darryl          Majella Hurley and            Shelagh Williams and

                 Roberts & Family.       Marie Pennell.                  Jeannette Hyde

8.00 am    Mike and Margaret        Jennifer and Ian                Bridget Grant and

                 Giblin.                         Wright.                              Theresa Aldis.                                            10.00 am  Val Stoker and                                   Phil Hughes and               Brigid Hilton and

                 John Bolton.                  Paula McAleavey.             Nick Jepson.                   

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Offertory Philippa Lane. Flowers Patsy & Monica Coffee Anne Bowe & Veda Conyers.  Children’s Liturgy Debbie Bixley.  Church Cleaning Isobel & Denis Audley (commencing  22nd May)

 

TODAY  the fourth Sunday of Easter, Good Shepherd Sunday is the day chosen as the World Day of Prayer for Vocations to Priesthood and Consecrated Life. Pope Benedict has written to us this year on the theme “Proposing Vocations in the Local Church”. He reminds families and parishes and associations of their responsibility to help children and young people “grow into a genuine and affectionate friendship with the Lord”. During his visit, the Holy Father addressed young people at Westminster, asking them to look into their hearts, each day, to find Jesus, the source of all true love. Please pray for those who may be considering a vocation to priesthood or religious life, that they may look into their hearts, hear the Lords call and follow it courageously.

He also addressed those who have already chosen to enter the seminary; “You have done a good thing. Because people will always have need of God, even in an age marked by technical mastery of the world and globalization: they will always need the God who has revealed himself in Jesus Christ, the God who gathers us together in the universal Church in order to learn with him and through him life’s true meaning and in order to uphold and apply the standards of true humanity” (Letter to Seminariuns, 18 October 2010)

 

PARISH CENSUS  If you were not at any of the Masses last weekend, or, if when we got to you we had run out of forms? Please fill one out this weekend, they are in the Narthex, pens are supplied, please do not take it home, spend a minute or two in the Nartex completing it and leave it in the box provided. Thank you for your help in doing this.

 

CAFOD PROJECT SPONSORED WALK   This Sunday May 15th (see poster outside church) All walkers meet at Whiteleaf Cross Car Park at 1.45pm to start the walk at 2.00pm latest. If you cannot walk with us but would like to sponsor us there is also a form in the Narthex where you can write your name and how much you would like to give. Money raised is for the small town of Musha in Rwanda.

 

MEMBERS OF THE PASTORAL COUNCIL The next meeting will be held on Monday 23rd May at 7.30pm in the Clubroom. 

 

CONFIRMATION MASS  Bishop Peter will be here for us on Wednesday 25th May for the 7.00pm Confirmation Mass. Twenty three of our young people will be Confirmed at that Mass. Please come along and be a part of this wonderful commitment of Faith shown by St Teresa’s young people.                                                                      

 

CONGRATULATIONS  to the winners of the May Church Development Draw. 1st Prize to Theresa Aldis and 2nd Prize to Joan Brenchley, well done to both of you, cheques are in the post.

 

ROTAS   Thank you to the parishioners who have come forward to offer their help. We still need more good people to add their names to the lists, so please, if you can help, just  speak to John or Sue Bolton on 343424 or to Polly in the Presbytery office, thank you.

 

SECOND HAND CHRISTIAN BOOK SALE  last weekend went really well and raised £104.60, so thank you. There will be another sale after the 6.30pm and 10.00am Masses on 11th and 12th of June. Could you start putting to one side any Christian books you might like to donate, especially children’s Christian books. If you would like them collected, phone Louise Sharman on 07590 09431. All proceeds to the Church Building Fund.

 

MONEY. OFFERTORY.£792.01 Thank you. RETIRING COLLECTION. None CAFOD £…. This weekends Retiring Collection is for the Diocesan Priests Training Fund.

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