FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT (YEAR A)
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News
PARISH FINANCES Weekend 26th February: Loose £747.58. Envelopes £553. Standing Orders £446, Total £1,746.58. Many thanks for your generosity.
CAFOD LENT FAST DAY is Friday, 10th March. CAFOD envelopes are attached to this weeks Bulletin, and there will be a retiring collection next weekend. Please be as generous as you can.
Florence is a hard-working mother who is devoted to her family. A few years ago, she was only just making enough to feed her family. However, CAFOD’s partner, the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, recognised how determined Florence was to stand on her own two feet and so they gave her 500 tiny fish, tools and training to build a pond and farm fish. By selling some of the fish at market, Florence was able to give her children a future – she was able to send them to school. Please support this Lent Fast Day, to ensure more people like Florence can turn tiny fish into something amazing. For more information visit cafod.org.uk.
PLEASE REMEMBER the sick of our Parish: Hannah Millrain, Baby Findlay James William Conway. Marie Philps, Christopher Browne, Sienna Manley, Robert Ferguson, Maria Rhodes, Tim Webb, Peter Webb, Julie Fritz, Chris Potter, Jeremy Best, Nathan Le Roux, Joe Gartland, Kathleen Magee, Nora Fitzgerald, Giacomo Fenech, Malcolm Glenn, Vincent Do Rosario, David Archer, Catherine Bryant, Martin Waters, Patrick Porter, Carole Tearle, Carol Borowski, Fr Dennis Watters, Ann Messenger, John Fernandes, Alison Roach, Maisie McFarlane, Simon Holwell, John Norman, Raffaele D’Orsi, Eddie Phillips, Rahil Deans, Lawrence Deans, Ronald Deans, Iris Khan, Angela Brown, Mary Hughes, Jane McMahon, Abid Ali, Joan Langer, Caroline Tembe, Joanna Deverill, Sabah Ali-Marat, Deacon Douglas Denny, Annie Dias, Michele Di Gangi, Daisy Wingrove, Mary Morrissey, Mary Green, Michele Deluca, Lynn Arnold, Graham Loudon, Ann Cronin, Mabel McCulloch, Phyllis Wallbank, Joanna Glowski, Rosemary Conry, Ann Gurrie, Kathleen Jemmett, Fr David, Jerry Ellis, Jim Scott, Kathleen Richardson.
WE WELCOME the children from Class 5LS, Our Lady of Peace School who are joining us at the 9.30am Mass on Tuesday.
STATIONS OF THE CROSS will be celebrated during Lent as follows :
- Each Thursday in St Andrew’s Church after 9.30am Mass.
- Each Friday at 7.30pm in Our Lady of Peace Church (please note not on 17th March).
- On Friday, 17th March and 14th April at St Gilbert’s.
WELCOME to Tim Mahoney who has been appointed as the new Caretaker at St Andrew’s by Cippenham Shared Church Trust (CSCT). We wish him well in his duties as Caretaker.
FOUND in the candle money box at St Andrew’s a silver ring, please claim from Shelagh at St Andrew’s.
ST ANDREW’S CHURCH CIPPENHAM SHARED CHURCH TRUST Fundraising for our new boilers. Our industrial boilers are now 25 years old. We are unable to source spare parts for them, so they need to be replaced. One is broken and the other three keep having problems. We need to raise £18,000 for four new boilers and for them to be installed. We are asking for donations from both congregations.
This can be in the form of cash or a cheque made payable to CSCT Ltd, please drop through Vicarage door, or give to Shelagh Whitehouse or one of the CSCT Trustees. You may also donate by Bank Transfer, pay to: A/c Name CSCT Ltd A/c No 71397486 Sort Code 40-42-09. With your name and the word boiler in the reference field.
If you are a Tax payer, please do fill in the form on the reverse of the attached ‘flyer’ so that we can claim back 25p in £1. If you are unable to give money, please could you give your time in trying to fundraise, there will be various fund raising activities happening over the coming months, please try and support them.
Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. Corinthians 9:7.
SLOUGH FOODBANK #40 FOR 40 By giving up 40 pence a day for the 40 days of Lent you can raise enough to help support a local family in crisis this Easter. In essence, for 40 days throughout Lent, 40p per day is put aside to donate to Slough Foodbank. The £16 saved becomes £20 including Gift Aid, where applicable. This is a huge help towards their £100 per day overheads and operational costs.
Please find an old jam jar or similar container and start collecting, then bank the contents and send a cheque, together with the Gift Aid form if applicable, to Slough Foodbank, PO Box 4703, Slough, SL1 0ZL. Gift Aid forms available in the Church porches. Alternatively you can donate online at slough.foodbank.org.uk/donate-money
ST GILBERT’S MISSION Small plastic bottles are available in the Church porches for any loose change you would like to donate to the St Gilbert’s Mission Project. Please return full bottles to either St Gilbert’s or Our Lady of Peace.
WALK WITH ME – a Lenten Journey of Prayer books, are available in the Church porches, priced £1.
NORES has Word of God Year A books available at £2.50 each. At the start of a new liturgical year, beginning with the first Sunday of Advent, there are books for purchase to help Readers with their understanding of the Gospels: Robin Cooper’s The Word of God, Year A Matthew’s Gospel. These are available for £2.50 each including p&p (paperbacks with 165 pages). Please send a request together with a cheque payable to RE Service to NORES, 33 Westbourne Rd, Luton, LU4 8JD. Please remember to include your return address.
DIOCESAN DIRECTORY Copies available in the Church porches, priced £2.50.
OUR LADY OF PEACE CHURCH ‘DEFECTS LOG’ BOOK There is a ‘defects log’ book on the bookcase in Our Lady of Peace Church. If you find any defects which need to be investigated in the Church please make a note in the book.
CHURCH LINEN We are very grateful to all who help with the Church linen throughout the year, but more volunteers are urgently needed, if you would like to help with this Ministry please speak to Denise or Yvonne.
ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT every Monday at Our Lady of Peace from 7.00pm to 8.00pm. All welcome to join in Contemplating the Face of Christ through prayer, praise and stillness. There is also Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament at St Andrew’s every Thursday from 8.30am – 9.30am. All welcome.
ROSARY The Rosary will be said after the 9.30am Mass at St Andrew’s each Thursday.
MASS OFFERING FORMS are available in the Church porches which you can complete for any Mass intentions you wish to have offered. Please return the form, with your offering, in an envelope and hand to Fr Andy or Yvonne, or leave in the Sacristy or Presbytery.
PARISH MASS BOOKS We are now using Volume 1 of the Mass books for Year A (yellow cover). As with Year B and Year C, books if you would like to donate £1.95 for one of these books, or £7.95 for the large print books, please feel free to do so, and we will enter into the book a dedication for your intention. Just put into an envelope the offering and the name(s) you wish inscribed in the book(s) and hand to Yvonne at the Sacristy or Presbytery: for a deceased person please add ‘RIP’ to the name or names; for someone alive, please add ‘Intention’.
CAR PARKING Please when parking at Our Lady of Peace we ask that you take care not to block pavements or the corner of the road leading into St Michael’s Court. It is very difficult for residents of St Michael’s Court to access Lower Britwell Road when cars are parked on the corner obstructing the view onto the road. When using the car park please drive in as far as you can to allow us to use all the available spaces.
SICK & HOUSEBOUND CONTACT Maura Potter, is our Pastoral Co-ordinator for the sick and housebound, email Maura using this link or telephone 01628 666278. If you, a relative, friend or neighbour are sick or house bound and would like to receive Holy Communion please ring Maura on 01628 666278.
If you are a commissioned Eucharist Minister and would be willing to join the team who take Communion to our sick and housebound parishioners then please contact Fr Andy.
HIRING/USING ST ANDREW’S All proposed events, bookings or cancellations in any part of St Andrew’s Church must be made via Kerry Kipping, 07928 526927 to avoid duplications.
HOLY FAMILY BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP A monthly meeting held on the first Saturday of each month, facilitated by parishioners. Please contact Fr Kevin on 01753 543770, or email using this link for further information, or visit the Holy Family, Langley website.
Holy Family Church – 226 Trelawney Av. Langley | SL3 7UD
ARE YOU REGISTERED WITH THE PARISH? If you previously completed the census forms for the Together in Faith Campaign then you will be registered, If not registration forms are available in the Church porches, or e-mail Yvonne or phone the presbytery.
SUBMISSIONS FOR THE PARISH WEBSITE/WEEKLY NEWSLETTER can be sent to Yvonne (Click on this link for the email address). Items on paper and print are also accepted and can be given to Yvonne or Fr Andy or delivered to the Presbytery. The deadline for items for the printed bulletin is Thursday 12 noon.
Appointments
ST JOSEPH’S CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL, SLOUGH Maternity Cover from April 2017 to January 2018: FOOD/TEXTILES TECHNICIAN 18 hours per week, term time plus 5 Inset days. 8.30am–3.00pm Tuesday-Thursday. Scale C, point 14. Pro-rata equivalent to £7,220 p.a. Full details on poster in Church porch. Information pack available from the school or can be downloaded from the website http://www.st-josephs.slough.sch.uk/?page_id=106. Closing date Monday, 6th March 2017.
ST ANTHONY’S Catholic Primary School and Nursery is looking for a Class Teacher for September. All information can be found on their website: http://stanthonys.slough.sch.uk
News Links
- Diocese News
- The Vine (Journal of the Diocese of Northampton)
- News from the Catholic Church in England & Wales
- Videos on Vimeo from the Catholic Church in England & Wales
- Catholic Church in England & Wales Flickr photo album
- News from the Vatican (in English)
Readers & Extraordinary Eucharistic Ministers Rota
11th – 12th March
Saturday 6.00pm – Sandy McCabe and Mike Connolly.
Sunday 9.45am – Readers : Peter Koenig and Karen Rakowska. Eucharist Ministers : Irene Ali, Georgia Clark, Barbara Bryant, Audrey Truman, Melissa Whatley.
Sunday 11.30am- Aldous and Claire.
18th – 19th March
Saturday 6.00pm – Patsy Murphy and Pat Parker.
Sunday 9.45am – Readers : Maura Potter and Alexcia Ossei-Williams. Eucharist Ministers : Jennifer Ossei-Williams, Michelle Ossei-Williams. Peter Koenig, Lisa Mennone, Pearl Eatwell.
Sunday 11.30am – Millie and Kerry.
Upcoming Events
ST VINCENT DE PAUL group meet at 2.00pm on Tuesday, 7th March 2017, in the Sacristy at Our Lady of Peace. New members would be welcome. If you know of anyone who would like a visit from the SVP please advise Yvonne.
Our Lady of Peace Church – Lower Britwell Road, Burnham | SL2 2NL
SVP (England & Wales) website | Contact the Presbytery
BAPTISM PREPARATION COURSE The next Baptism Preparation course that Deacon Marek will be running begins on Wednesday, 8th March at 7.00pm and will be held in the Sacristy at Our Lady of Peace. If you wish for your child to be Baptised over the next few months, you will need to attend the course. This is especially important for first time parents. If you have not already advised that you will be attending, please contact Yvonne on 01628 605764.
Our Lady of Peace Church – Lower Britwell Road, Burnham | SL2 2NL
CIPPENHAM SHARED CHURCH TRUST AGM on Tuesday, 7th March 2017 at 7.30pm in St Andrew’s. All welcome.
St Andrew’s – Elmshott La/Washington Drive, Cippenham, Berks | SL1 5RE
CIPPENHAM SHARED CHURCH TRUST AND CATHOLIC WOMEN’S LEAGUE will be holding five Lenten lunches on Thursdays during Lent, to raise money for Iain Rennie Hospice at Home, Catholic Women’s League and Cippenham Shared Church Trust. They will be held in St Andrew’s at 12.30pm, and will consist of soup and bread. The first one will be on Thursday, 9th March.
St Andrew’s – Elmshott La/Washington Drive, Cippenham, Berks | SL1 5RE
NOVENA TO ST JOSEPH from 10th-18th March at St Joseph’s Church, Maidenhead. Each year the Mill Hill Missionaries prepare for the Feast of St Joseph, their patron, with a special Novena of Masses and prayers to ask for God’s blessing on their Society and the missionary outreach of the Church, as well as for the intentions of all those who support their work. All are invited to attend.
Masses are as follows : Friday, 10th March at 7.30pm, Saturday, 11th March at 10.00am, Sunday, 12th March at 10.45am, Monday, 13th to Friday, 17th March at 7.30pm and Saturday, 18th March at 10.00am.
If you are unable to attend but would like to join in from home by praying the daily Novena prayer, you are welcome to send in your petitions and/or to request a Novena booklet. Please write to Fr Liam Cummins, MHM, St Joseph’s Missionary Society, 58 Cookham Road, Maidenhead, SL6 7HT, or email Fr Liam using this link.
St Joseph’s Church – 36 Cookham Road, Maidenhead, Berks | SL6 7EG
CHURCH CLEANING Saturday, 11th March at 8.30am. Please try and spare an hour to help.
Our Lady of Peace Church – Lower Britwell Road, Burnham | SL2 2NL
LENTEN RETREAT Saturday, 11th March at St Anthony’s Church, Slough, beginning with a Mass at 9.15am and finishing around 4pm, with a shared lunch. The day will be led by the Daughters of St Paul, and there will be a chance afterwards to purchase some books that the Daughters will bring along with them from their bookshop. Please see poster for more details and programme for the day.
St Anthony’s Church – Farnham Road, Slough, Berks | SL2 3AE
ST PATRICK’S DAY Friday, 17th March – we will once again be celebrating St Patrick’s Day with an entertaining evening at St Andrew’s – this will be a fundraiser for St Andrew’s to help towards the cost of the new boilers. Come along and celebrate an evening with a traditional supper of Irish Stew, Irish Bingo, a raffle and music. There will be a Licensed bar. Tickets on sale from this weekend at all Masses priced £10 for adults, children free under age 10, £10 over age 10. Donations of raffle prizes welcomed, please leave in the box in St Andrew’s or give to Yvonne in the Presbytery.
St Andrew’s – Elmshott La/Washington Drive, Cippenham, Berks | SL1 5RE
FIRST HOLY COMMUNION CLASSES The next session is on Saturday, 18th March from 9.30am – 11.00am at St Andrew’s Church, Cippenham. Please continue to pray for our children so that they will grow in their appreciation of the sacraments of Confession and Holy Communion.
St Andrew’s – Elmshott La/Washington Drive, Cippenham, Berks | SL1 5RE
VOCATIONS WEEKEND The Diocese of Northampton will be holding a vocations weekend for men who would like to explore a vocation to the Priesthood. The weekend will be held at Northampton Cathedral from the 7th-9th April 2017. Accommodation will be provided. For more details please contact Fr Mark at the Cathedral on 01604 714556. Please remember our students and those attending the weekend in your prayers.
Northampton Cathedral – A508 Kingsthorpe Rd, Northampton | NN2 6AG
Mass Times & Intentions
4th – 12th March
Saturday 4th March | FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT
5.15pm-5.45pm Our Lady of Peace – Confessions
5.15pm Our Lady of Peace – Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
6.00pm Our Lady of Peace – Mary Harris RIP (Walsh family), Philomena Rosario RIP
Sunday 5th March | FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT
9.00am St Gilbert’s – Neville Cooper RIP (Cooper), Howell & Ceinwen Roberts RIP (O’Donnell) **
9.45am Our Lady of Peace – Massimo Calignano, Andy Madden RIP (Oates family) ** ♦
11.30am St Andrew’s – Nora O’Donovan RIP (Whitehouse), Ellen & Grinton Sepala RIP (Sepala & K Ratna), People of the Parish ♦
Monday 6th March
9.30am Our Lady of Peace – Antonia & Vincent RIP (Rosario) Anne Spells RIP (Anniversary) (Whitehouse)
7.00pm Our Lady of Peace – Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
Tuesday 7th March
9.30am Our Lady of Peace – Sick and retired and deceased Mill Hill Missionary Priests (Rosary Group), Nathan Le Roux & Family Intentions (Denise)
Wednesday 8th March
9.30am Our Lady of Peace – Service of Word and Holy Communion
Thursday 9th March
8.30am St Andrew’s – Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
9.30am St Andrew’s – Christopher Herman RIP (Kelly), Bernadette D’Souza RIP (Almeida)
10.00am St Andrew’s – Stations of the Cross
10.30am Our Lady of Peace – Mothers Prayers
Friday 10th March
9.30am Our Lady of Peace – London & Slough Run Shelter (Rosary Group)
Christine Dilley RIP (SVP)
7.30pm Our Lady of Peace – Stations of the Cross
Saturday 11th March | SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT
5.15pm-5.45pm Our Lady of Peace – Confessions
5.15pm Our Lady of Peace – Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
6.00pm Our Lady of Peace – Christine Dilly RIP (Sansom & Rosary Group), Zenaida Nicdao RIP (Stella)
Sunday 12th March | SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT
9.45am Our Lady of Peace – Deceased Leone family (Leone), Siobhan Smith RIP (McGlynn) ** ♦
11.30am St Andrew’s – David Whitehouse RIP (Anniv) (Whitehouse), Anna O’Rourke RIP (Anniversary) (O’Rourke), People of the Parish ♦
** Tea and Coffee available after Mass.
♦ Children’s Liturgy for ages 4-7 during Mass.
Morning Prayer is prayed before every weekday Mass and the Rosary is prayed after Mass: all are welcome to join us.
Our Lady of Peace Church – Lower Britwell Road, Burnham | SL2 2NL
St Andrew’s – Elmshott La/Washington Drive, Cippenham, Berks | SL1 5RE
St Gilbert’s – Eton Wick Rd, Eton Wick, Berks | SL4 6JH
Our Lady of Peace 