St Teresa of the Child Jesus
Catholic Church
Princes Risborough
NOTICES
EMMAUS GROUP
Our bereavement support group will meet this Sunday, November 30th, and Sunday, December 28th, in the Clubroom. If you need a lift, please contact Jean 07588401608. All welcome. To find out more about the Emmaus Bereavement Group click here
Please Note
There will be no morning mass on Tuesday 2nd
December.
PLEASE JOIN US!
Parish and CAFOD Christmas Draw and Cake Sale, NEXT Sunday 7th December: AT LEAST three wonderful festive hampers will be won. Come along to the Walsingham Hall after the 9.30 mass. Together with the draw and carols with the choir, there will be tea, coffee and mince pies, a home-bake cake and
craft stall, plus a children’s activity table - So something for everyone to enjoy!
CHRISTMAS DRAW TICKETS:
It’s not too late to buy your tickets for the fantastic Christmas hampers. Payments and stubs should be returned this weekend to ensure inclusion in the draw. A box is available for these in the narthex. If you have forgotten to bring them back, please put them in a marked envelope through the presbytery door this week.
CALLING ALL BAKERS!
If you are able to bake for next weekend’s cake sale, we would be very grateful. Please bake anything you fancy - biscuits, cakes, mince pies, sausage rolls, etc. - then bring them along to the Club Room before either Saturday evening or Sunday morning mass. Thank you.
ADVENT CAROL SERVICE
St Joseph’s Thame Sunday 14th December at 4.00pm St Joseph’s Church, Brook Lane, Thame, OX92AB. With mince pies and mulled wine in the Hall afterwards. Everyone is welcome.
CHURCHES TOGETHER RISBOROUGH
Advent Service: On Sunday the 30th of November - 1st Sunday of Advent - we have our CTR Advent Service at 3.00pm. This year it is St Dunstan's, Monks Risborough, hosting the Advent Service. Everyone is warmly invited to join the service.
PROJECT ELF
This year, the parish is supporting Project Elf - a Christmas project run by Pact (Prison Advice Care Trust), the national Catholic charity which supports prisoners and their families. We are taking up a collection of presents for the children of the men at Aylesbury Prison. Gifts will include "funky"/fun socks for boys or girls aged 4 through 16 years old, as well as sweets and choclate slection boxes. Please take a post-it note from the tree in the Narthex (available from Saturday, 21st November) and deliver the present indicated to the box provided. Presents need to be in by the 11th of December at the latest to allow enough time for all gifts to be passed by secruity and for the prisoner fathers to wrap the gift for their child prior to the famiy visit days being held in the prison before Christmas. Please see further informatoin, which will be available in the Narthex. Please be as generous as possible and help give the children and their fathers in prison a Happy Christmas.
ONLINE ADVENT RETREAT:
Online Advent Retreat: Monday 1st Dec, 7.30pm Disrupted by Grace, week 2, Dr Avril Baigent will be joined by Michelle Moran who will continue exploring Jesus' more disreputable ancestors.
Michelle will be unpacking the story of Rahab for us whilst exploring the presence of grace in our lives. Watch week 1's Advent Retreat and register here: https://northamptondiocese.org/grace/
MONEY MATTERS
Please remember that the easiest way to ensure our income covers our costs is to GIFT AID your offertory, if you don’t already do so. It will immediately increase the value of your offertory by 25% at no cost to you, and we can backdate your claim by up to 4 years! Gift Aid forms are in the perspex ‘Money Matters’ leaflet stand on the second
table as you enter the Narthex. Please complete one
and return it to the presbytery.
• If you already make your offertory by standing order or direct debit, please complete the first part of the form.
• If you make your offertory by cash and wish to donate by standing order, please complete both parts of the form
• If you make your offertory by cash and wish to donate by direct debit, please complete the first part of the form. The parish bank account details are Nat West –
sort code 600611 and account number 43714634
• Alternatively, you can use the DONA machine and set up Gift Aid on the machine. If you aren’t sure if you have completed a Gift Aid form in the past, please email :-
parish.stteresapr@northamptondiocese.org , and
we will check our records.
St Teresa's is on Facebook!
If you would like to join our Facebook group e mail StTeresasParish@groups.facebook.com
or visit
From the Diocese:
Keep up to date with news
from across our Diocese and receive updates straight into your inbox. Simply visit:
https://northamptondiocese.org/#signup
Donation Giving Methods
St. Teresa’s now has a website for online donations. Please Click on the 'Donate' button at the top of this screen.
You can now also make donations at church using a card payment terminal in the narthex.
Housebound
If you are aware of anyone who is sick or housebound, please let Father Lijo know so that a visit can be arranged and for them to receive Holy Communion, if requested.
Please e-mail (parish.stteresapr@northamptondiocese.org) or leave a message at the Presbytery.