ST. TERESA’S NEWSLETTER:   27th/28th March, 2010

PARISH PRIEST: Fr. Tom Kenny, The Presbytery,

Princes Risborough. Bucks. HP27 0JN  Tel: 345578, Fax: 274503

DEACONS: Richard Carr (347623), Sean Duffy (343705), Brian Stoker  (290553)

Parish Secretary:  Polly Sklenar

E-mail: presbytery@st-teresas.org.uk : Website: www.st-teresas.org.uk

Registered Charity Number 234091

mass during the coming week

SUNDAY                          PALM SUNDAY                                                                             Year C

                                        6.30 pm      Holy Souls

                                        8.00 am      Kathleen Dervish   R.I.P.

                                      10.00 am      For the People of the Parish

MONDAY                         8.00 pm      Ann and Eric Doherty   R.I.P.                                        Feria

TUESDAY                     10.00 am      Michelina Sammio    R.I.P.                                            Feria

TUESDAY                       8.00 pm      Mass of Reconciliation                                                         

WEDNESDAY              10.00 am      Requiem Mass for Dennis Haines                                Feria

HOLY THURSDAY                             MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER                                      

                                        8.00 pm      James Bowe.    Anniversary      R.I.P.

                                                           Reception of the Holy Oils blessed at the Chrism Mass.

                                                           Re-dedication of the Eucharistic Ministers, Stripping of the Altar, Watching at the Altar of Repose ‘til 10.30 pm.

GOOD FRIDAY            10.00 am      The Office of Readings and Morning Prayer

                                      11.00 am      Procession Of Witness from the Library

                                        3.00 pm      SOLEMN COMMEMORATION OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD

                                        7.30 pm      Stations Of The Cross

HOLY SATURDAY     12.00  noon   Confessions.

                                        9.00 pm      THE EASTER VIGIL AND THE FIRST MASS OF THE RESURRECTION   Jim Power’s Intentions.                                                        

 

N.B. The mortal remains of Dennis Haines will be received into the church at 6.00pm on Tuesday evening.                                                                                                       

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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 Clubroom.

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ANNIVERSARIES.  Please pray for James Peter Ryan, Violet Mary Amato, Ted Kearney, Milly Slack, Mary Nurick, James Ronald Sweeney, Meryl Gamunon, Isabel Rutherford, James Brambley, Clara Edith Higgins, George Robert Gradwell, Sister Kathleen Druce and James Bowe.

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ROTAS FOR NEXT WEEK –   3rd/ 4th April, 2010

Mass          Sidesmen                            Eucharistic Ministers            Readers

6.30 pm                                                   NO 6.30 p.m. MASS (see Easter rota in Narthex)

8.00 am      Sally Tricket and                  Catherine Redding &               Angela Bailey &

                   Madeline Scott.                    Rebecca Wright                      Jean O;Brien.            

10.00 am    Richard Carr &                     Theresa Aldis &                       Mary Cunningham &

                   John Bolton                          Eileen Hare.                             Margaret Cripps.

Offertory – Fiona Moran, Flowers – Members of the Flower Group, Coffee – Terese Daly Church Cleaning – Veronica & John McCarthy (week commencing 4th April).

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LEADING FOR A CHANGE   was a conference for Year 12 students held last week at Blackfriars and St John’s College, Oxford University. It was sponsored by CAFOD and the Charles Plater Trust. Its theme was ‘Conflict and Peace Building’ and its aim was to encourage into action the 120+ young people who attended to work together, in their school groups, in order to bring forward inspired young leaders. We were approached at St Teresa’s and asked if we could send two of our young people to lead an hour long workshop. On behalf of our youth group, STYLE (St Teresa’s Youth Linking Everyone) Kian Guerzoni and Emilie Daly agreed to attend and they spoke most enthusiastically and professionally on the planning, organisation and result of the concert they organised at St Teresa’s 18 months ago, which raised over £1700 for the reintegration and rehabilitation of child soldiers in Sierra Leone. We are very grateful to Kian and Emilie and all the young people who took part in the concert as the good it has done has been far reaching in so many ways. Kian and Emilie were presented with an Oscar Romero crucifix to bring back to our parish and this will soon be displayed for you all to see. Our grateful thanks, once again to Kian, Emilie and all the young people who are showing themselves as inspired young leaders and who are clearly making a positive difference to our world.

 

CAFOD ‘GIVE IT UP FOR LENT’ BOXES    For all of those parishioners who were good enough to take away a self assembly CAFOD box and fill it!  could you now please return them, you could either leave them in the Narthex or drop them in to the Presbytery on week day afternoons. Thank you.

 

THE PROCESSION OF WITNESS  on Good Friday morning.  Those who want to give a witness to Our Lord on Good Friday are asked to muster outside the Library at the top of the High Street at 11.00 a.m.The procession will then head for the War Memorial in Market Square for a short service.Please come, It’s a wonderful thing to do and to be part of.

 

MAKING READY FOR EASTER   can you help with the great Easter clean up of our church? Just a little dusting or hoovering? This Maundy Thursday (1st April) at 10.00am, the more people who come and help the less time it will take. Please speak to John Roach or just turn up,that would be wonderful. Thank you.

 

S.T.Y.L.E.   there will be no S.T.YL.E. meeting on Friday 2nd April as it is Good Friday. The next get together will be on Friday 7th May and will be an outing. Further details will follow later.

 

THE SEWING GROUP  will take an Easter break and will meet up next on 15th April at 10.30am in the clubroom.

 

CHRISTIAN AID  On Thursday 1st of April at the Baptist church Hall from 12.00 noon to 1.30pm there will be a three course lunch with tea/coffee for just £5.50. It will be the last lunch this season, all are made

welcome.

 

MONEY  MONEY  Offertory  £594.07, Retiring £34.50 and CAFOD  £3.50.  On Good Friday there is the usual Special Collection for the Shrines in the Holy Land and the collection at the Easter Masses is the customary Easter offering for your priest.  God bless your support of your Church and of your priest. 

 

Blessings on all parishioners and visitors this Easter

Father Tom