CATHOLIC PARISH OF OUR LADY,
STOWMARKET
www.ourladys-stowmarket.co.uk
R.C. Diocese of East Anglia: Registered Charity No. 278742
Parish Newsletter for the Week beginning Sunday, 10 th January 2010
The Baptism of the Lord
Sunday Readings of Year C; Weekday Readings: Year 2
and Divine Office: Week 1 - First Week of the Year (from Monday)
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Welcome to Mass on the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. The Asperges (Rite of Blessing and Sprinkling of Holy Water) at the beginning of Mass and a Pastoral Letter from Bishop Michael recall our own Baptism. Copies are available at the back to take away for your own study and prayer.
RETIRING COLLECTIONS
The Retiring Collection today is for the Parish Fabric Fund.
Next Sunday will be Peace Sunday and there will be a diocesan collection for PAX CHRISTI, the international Catholic movement for peace and justice, which promotes reconciliation and a culture of peace and non-violence.
SOME NEWS FROM BISHOP MICHAEL
Please continue to remember Bishop Michael in your prayers for the sick. Unfortunately his cancer is showing “increased activity” in his bones and he has just had the first of ten sessions of chemotherapy. We pray for the success of this treatment and for Bishop Michael as he endures it.
Bishop Michael thanks all of you who sent Christmas cards to our Catholic brothers and sisters in the Holy Land and Cambodia.
CHILDREN’S CATECHISM CLASSES begin again today at 9.20 am.
ST EDMUND’S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL
Mrs M. Kemble, Headteacher of St Edmund’s Catholic Primary School in Bury St Edmunds, would like to advise parents of children born between 01/09/05 and 31/08/06 that they need to submit an application form by 15th January to be considered for a place in September 2010. Details are on the poster on the notice board.
THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Mrs Lily Preston of Debenham who died on 2 nd January aged 90 and whose Funeral Mass will be celebrated in Our Lady’s Church on Wednesday, 20 th January at 12 noon.
THE SCRIPTURE PRAYER GROUP :
The Group meets on Tuesdays at 1.30 pm in the Parish Centre.
LAST SUNDAY’S COLLECTIONS:
Woolpit: £169 and Stowmarket: £511. Santal Mission: £452.
The Christmas Offering amounted to £2489.75. Thank you all for being so generous.
USED STAMPS: Don’t forget to save your used stamps from your Christmas mail for St Elizabeth’s Hospice. You can leave them in the envelope in the church porch.
WORLD YOUTH DAY 2011
An invitation from the Diocesan Youth Service: Join an estimated two million young Catholics and the Pope in Madrid! If you will be 16 or over by August 1 st 2011 or are interested in coming as an adult helper, download an information pack at www.catholiceastanglia/youth
2010 CHURCH DIARIES Just 40p in the box provided please.
2010 EAST ANGLIA DIOCESAN YEARBOOKS:
A few copies are still available. Please place £3 in the box provided.
LEARNING TOGETHER Catholic Adult RE in East Anglia
Copies of the Spring Programme can now be picked up from the back of the church. The first session will be on 6 th February at St Laurence’s, Cambridge.
WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY
The 2010 Week of Prayer begins on Monday 18 th January. Like last year, there will be daily prayer sessions at the URC Church at 9.30 am (apart from Sunday) and there will be a United Service on Sunday 24 th January at 5.30 pm at the Salvation Army Citadel on Violet Hill Road. Rev. Richard Edwards, retired URC minister, will be preaching at 10.15 am Mass in Our Lady’s that Sunday. Please try to give the Week of Prayer all the support you can by joining in prayer with our fellow Christians.
AFTER CHRISTMAS, IT’S TIME TO SAY A BIG “THANK YOU” to everyone who contributed to our Christmas celebrations, beginning with the very well attended and successful Family Crib Service and Party. Our Lady’s Church was even more beautifully decorated than last year and special thanks are due to those who cleaned and prepared the church (and cleared the snow and ice) and to our florists, to all our musicians, choirs and singers who excelled themselves at both churches and to all the ministers, readers and servers. May God bless you all and your families.
Thank you all for your great kindness to me, for your prayers for my mother and myself and for the very generous Christmas Offering and all the delightful presents, cards and greetings. All we need now is some better weather to warm us up and cheer us all in 2010.
MASSES THIS WEEK: FIRST WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
Saturday 6.00 pm (St Mary’s, Woolpit), Private Intention
Sunday 8.30 am, Parish ; 10.15 am, Audrey Smart RIP
Monday – Feria: No Mass today.
Tuesday – St Aelred of Rievaulx: 6.30 pm, Stephen Cytacki RIP
W ednesday – St Hilary: 8.00 am, Maria Eliza de Souza RIP
Thursday – Feria: 10.00 am, Private Intention (Caroline)
Friday –Feria : 8.00 am, William Ladd - sick
Saturday – St Fursey: 10.00
6.00 pm (St Mary’s, Woolpit), Bonnie Fitzgerald & Family
SUNDAY – SECOND OF THE YEAR
8.30 am, Parish; 10.15 am, Alex Grzedzicki RIP
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION: Saturday, 10.30 – 11.00 am or on call.
EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT THIS WEEK:
Thursday, 9.25 – 9.55 am; Friday, 2 – 4.00 pm (Benediction at 3.45 pm)
SICK AND HOUSEBOUND - Bishop Michael Evans, Amanda Arrowsmith, Joe Balfe, Eva Bernsanetti, Gwen Boyle, Joan Cage, Michael Chilvers, Bridget Conlon, Betty Cytacki, Doreen Davies, Elaine Devlin, Sheila Dobey, Evelyn Donohoe, Tony Duggan, Charles Egerton, John and Diana Emeney, Bob and Marra Emmett, Joe Flinter, Helen Forbester, Ian Forbester, Ann Foster, Kathleen French, Louis Gillespie, Roy Hayward, Frank Hewitt, Ann Hewlett, Angela Hurst, William Ladd, John Laney, Samuel McCoy-Dudman, Terrence Mizzi, Lydia Monai, Bryan Moore-Smith, Catherine Neuman, Ellen O’Sullivan, Ivy Parish, Barbara Phillips, Molly Punchard, Charles Quinn,Moira Reeve, Veronica Ritzema, Patricia Rushton,Josephine Scrivener, Vicki Simler, Andrew Simler, Ettie Smith, Betty Stephenson, Pat Tierney, John Tomlinson, Melanie Vickers, Mandy Wall, Jack & Sylvia Weston, Anne Wilce, Yvonne Wood, Margaret Yates.
ANNIVERSARIES OF THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED:
Maria Eliza de Souza, Margaret Quinn, Gabriel Brooks, James McGuire, Audrey Smart, Stefan Cytacki, Cyril Freman, Bridget Dunn, Elizabeth Barnes, Kevin Peck, John Francis, Elizabeth Dunbar, Michael Murphy and Ann Brown. R.I.P.
PARISH INFORMATION:
Parish Priest: Rev. David Finegan: Tel: 01449-612946
E-mail: ourlady.stowmarket@btinternet.com
The Presbytery, 29 Lockington Road, Stowmarket, Suffolk IP14 1BQ
P.P.C. Chairman: Mr. Allan Scott Tel: 01449 741747
Centre Bookings: Mrs. Diane Wilson: Tel: 01449-672527
By e-mail: dianewilson@mypostoffice.co.uk
Marriage Care: Tel: 0800-389-3801 (Ipswich and Colchester Centre)
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