NEWSLETTER: 29th/30th November 2008
PARISH PRIEST: Monsignor Gerald Moorcraft, The Presbytery
DEACONS: Richard Carr (347623), Sean Duffy (343705)
Brian Stoker (290553)
Parish Secretaries: Barbara Nicholson, Polly Sklenar
SUNDAY FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT Year B
6.30
pm For the people of the Parish
8.00
am Private Intention
10.00
am Mark and Helen Roach
MONDAY 10.00
am Service of the Word & Holy Communion Feria
TUESDAY 10.00 am For Richard and
Rhona Feria
WEDNESDAY 10.00 am
THURSDAY 10.00 am Alma
Broom-Smith Feria
FRIDAY 4.00 pm In
Thanks giving (At Ker Maria) St Birinus
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 4.00 pm.; Bible Study – Thursdays 7.30 pm (Sept
– July) at The Retreat; Rosary each Saturday after Service of the Word &
Communion.
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ANNIVERSARIES. Please pray for William Coughlan, James P. Heffron,
Patrick Fitzgerald, Patrick Stewart, Brendon Sheerin,
Muriel Lord, Sister William Mary, Francis Lambell,
May Walford, Stephen Cox, Thorold Hazelden
and Yvonne Lena Rozenas.
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ROTAS FOR NEXT WEEK – 6th/ 7th
December 2008
Mass Sidesmen Eucharistic
Ministers Readers
6.30 pm Steve and Darryl Marie
Pennell and Liz Duffy and
Roberts
& family Christine de Lauriston Olivia Sklenar
8.00 am Teresa Aldis and Celia Sparkes and Margaret
Solman
Tony
Collins Philip O’Toole & Angela Bailey
10.00 am Vivienne Reid & Val Stoker and Kian Guerzoni
&
Sheila
McCaffery Eileen
Hare Rachael Kent
Offertory – The
Guerzoni family, Coffee
– Angela Bailey, Church Cleaning –
Barbara Nicholson & Pat Roberts (week commencing 7th December).
ADVENT THE ACCEPTABLE TIME begins this weekend. It is a time for letting the Lord find us, letting him
knock on our door, listening and opening it…We do that in many different ways
1.
We
can try to be better Christians at home, in our Parish… wherever we are.
Remember we are not simply church goers…we are disciples of Jesus. Especially
when the going is tough.
2.
We
can draw on Our Lord’s strength in our life of prayer…Does our daily prayer
need a bit of a brush up? I find it a good thing to have a few prayers I say
every day. You might like to try this out: “Guide my heart Almighty God that I may
remember your presence day and night”. Our
hearts can be full of things which do not matter. Advent is the time for a clear out. Don’t
forget that on Tuesday evenings at 7.30pm in the Church there will be an
opportunity to reflect on and pray with the readings for the coming Sunday’s
Mass… Just one hour of your time!
CHANGE OF DATE Father Daniel O’Leary has asked if
he may change the date we agreed and advertised in the newsletter from 25th April 2009 to18th
April 2009, just one week earlier. I hope that lots of parishioners will want
to come and hear Father Daniel speak. He is inspiring as readers of the Tablet
will know, as well as those who have met him.
St.T’sFC: meet 15 minutes earlier this Sunday at 5.45 p.m. so
that we can watch the turning on of the Christmas tree lights on the green
opposite our church at 6 p.m. We will
then return to Walsingham Hall and continue with a
variety of activities in an Advent/Christmas way. All children in Years 4, 5 and 6 are welcome
to join the fun.
STYLE: meet next Friday evening from 7 – 9 p.m. in Walsingham Hall. All young people of senior school age are
welcome. Come with warm coats and a
little pocket money as we may walk down the High Street to see the Christmas
lights and join the Risborough jollities!
CAROLS AT RISBOROUGH ‘LIGHTS’ The lights go on for all of us this Friday, 5th
December. We thank all those who have joined this merry throng in past years, but it would be wonderful to gather many
more folk from all churches to join in with the town folk of Princes Risborough
in celebrating the real meaning of Christmas. We gather at 6.00pm in the
CHRISTIAN AID are holding a lunch on Thursday, 4th
December from 12.00 noon to 1.30pm
at the Baptist Church Hall. A three
course lunch plus tea or coffee will
be £5.50. New friends will be very
welcome indeed.
THIS SUNDAY 30th November, Churches Together are holding the Advent Service at
MONEY MONEY Offertory £734.20, Retiring Collection £46.66 and CAFOD £4.00.
God bless your support for your Church.
Love and prayers
.