PARISH OF OUR LADY IMMACULATE,
WHITSTABLE
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Parish Priest |
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Rev. Father Kevin
St.Aubyn |
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Presbytery |
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37, Kingsdown Park,
Whitstable. CT5 2DE |
Tel:272758 |
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Permanent Deacon |
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Rev. Dan Mulcahy |
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Address |
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Willow Cottage,
Ridgeway, Chestfield. CT5 3JT |
Tel:792660 |
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Parish Social Centre |
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15a, Castle Road,
Whitstable. CT5 2DY |
Tel:275319 |
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Parish Social Centre |
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Custodian/Bookings: Mrs.
Annemarie McCabe |
Tel:282162 |
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Gift Aid Organiser |
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David Wiles c/o the
Presbytery |
Tel:272758 |
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Parish Secretary |
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Mrs. Joan Ryan |
Tel. 272758 |
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e-mail address Parish website Diocesan website EWTN Catholic TV:
Notices for the bulletin |
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For e-mail enquiries please see website www.rcourladywhitstable.org.uk Sky Channel 589 To be submitted please
by 7.30pm on Wednesday |
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FOURTH SUNDAY OF
THE YEAR: Cycle B 29th
January, 2012
MASS INTENTIONS &
SERVICES:
SATURDAY (First Mass of Sunday): 6.00pm:
Jeremy
Francis, RIP (Austin) SUNDAY: 8.30:(C’field): Queene Liad and Jonathan Kingham 10.30: All our Parishioners MONDAY: 9.00 : Eucharistic Service TUESDAY: St.
John Bosco, Priest 9.40 : Morning Prayer 10.00 : Welfare of Marjorie and Patrick Phelan WEDNESDAY: 6.00pm:
Edmund
and Lynne Rau, RIP THURS : THE PRESENTATION OF OUR LORD. FEAST 10.00:
Welfare
of Newman Family (St.Mary’s Staff) ADORATION of the Blessed
Sacrament 10.30 – 12.00 :
2.30 – 3.30 : 5.30 – 7.00 |
HYMNS : 59 (vv. 1 – 4) :
813 : 319 CREED
: 469 FRIDAY: St.Blaise, Bishop & Martyr. “First Friday” 9.40 : Morning Prayer 10.00 : Margaret James, RIP After
Mass – The Blessing of Throats SATURDAY: 11.00 : Father Jack Kavanagh, RIP Confessions :
11.30 – 12 noon : 5.30 – 5.45 Next weekend’s Masses 6.00 : All our Parishioners 8.30 : (C’field) : Eileen (“Bobby”) Boorer, RIP 10.30 : Deceased members of the Bushe Family |
TEAS AND COFFEES : this week by the
ROWLSTONE FAMILY and next week by the
BUCHANAN FAMILY
.
PAPERS : we have both the Universe and Catholic Times on sale, both at £1.30p. It would be good if
parishioners could purchase their papers on a regular basis. Thank you.
QUIZ NIGHT: takes place this Saturday, 4th February. Tickets are £6.00 to include a
“Ploughman’s Supper” and soft drinks.
Please bring your own alcoholic drinks.
Prizes
for the Raffle welcome. Let us make
this another great social success for our parish community!!
PARISH ADVISORY COUNCIL: meets at 8.00pm on Thursday in the Parish Social
Centre. It would be good to formulate future plans at this meeting.
CONFIRMATIONS : The confirmation
programme for this year will start at the beginning of Lent. Young people aged
12 or older by November this year can come forward for confirmation. We
have an interesting and exciting programme planned. Learn more about your
Catholic faith, meet old friends and make new ones, join in an interesting
social programme, become an adult Christian. All those wishing to join, please
contact the catechists in the first place by phone: 274710, or e-mail joannawaller@btinternet.com.
SICK: Your kind prayers are asked for the sick
and housebound of our parish including, Frances
Harvey, Jo Woodbine, Alex Forbes Turner, Josephine Godfrey, Francesco Bede-Cox,
Roger Allier, Mary Churchley, Madeleine O’Connor, Michael Spruzen, Katherine Harris, George
Somerset, Ronnie Haines, Nell Hurley, Sylvia Hale, Sarah Steventon, Philip and
Keggy Diamond, Eileen Churchley, Frances Alderson, Ursula Dadd, Geoff Barrett,
Kam Wetherly, Tom O’Sullivan, Pauline Butterworth, Oscar O’Sullivan, Rosemary
Ames, Nicholas Watson, Marie Sims, Diana Haley, Angela Page, Catherine Drury,
Mike Bushe, little Barnabas Newlyn, Ivy Austen, Michael Byrnes, Ann Gilheaney, Cecil
Humphery-Smith, Jennifer Somerset, Joan Whitwell and Father Timothy
O’Conner(Westminster Diocese).
ANNIVERSARIES: please pray for Gladys McNaughton, Christopher Taylor, Mary
Waldock, Richard Burke, Lilian Whittle, Erika Pritchard, Gwen Dash, “Marge”
Walker, “Nina” Worthington, “May” Samuel, James Lacy, Tony Valente and Rosl
Obermeier whose anniversaries occur
about this time.
FINANCE : Thank you for your weekly offertories:
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Mass |
6.00 |
8.30 |
10.30 |
Overall |
Gift-Aided |
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Collection |
£292.54 |
£199.38 |
£407.94 |
£899.86 |
£611.90 |
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Attendance |
112 |
55 |
230 |
397 |
Not Gift-Aided |
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Average |
£2.61 |
£3.62 |
£1.77 |
£2.26 |
£287.96 |
CHURCH CARERS : JENNIFER AUSTIN and ANNEMARIE GANDA.
PARKING OUTSIDE OUR LADY IMMACULATE CHURCH : at Saturday evening 6.00pm Mass and Sunday mornings
10.30am Mass it will be most helpful if car drivers would park as close as
they reasonably can to any car already parked outside the church. This will
lead to the economical use of space and allow the maximum number of cars to be
so parked. We usually leave a gap for “dropping off “directly outside the
church. Thank you in advance.
30TH ANNIVERSARY OF “FAMILIARIS CONSORTIO”: Pope John Paul II’s encyclical on Family Life.
A
celebration of this event will take place at Amigo Hall(next to our St.George’s
Cathedral, Southwark) on Saturday, 11th February. Arrivals: 1:30pm, 5:00pm end. There are
workshops on different aspects of the subject. Admission is free but please
contact the organisers and book your workshop in advance. E-mail: marriagese@tiscali.co.uk
Just
a few information forms are available on request.
CALLING ALL COOKS!: most
parishes have a voluntary group that can put on meals for such occasions as
Clergy Deanery Meetings and various celebrations. Can we fill this gap? Any
offers of helping and organising this?
SVP TWINNAGE- SUDAN APPEAL: for
the SVP Baby/Young Children feeding Christmas appeal.The total from Whitstable
parishioners came to £2,019. In light of the current economic
situation I find this wonderful but typical of the generosity of our
parishioners. Once again a bigl “thank you” for the starving children of
Sundan.
David
(Wiles) National Sponsorship Officer, International Relations Committee,
SVP(England and Wales)
ICONS: a talk organised by Canterbury Gregorian
Music Society takes place from 10am -12:30 on Saturday 11th February
at the Franciscan International Study Centre, Giles Lane, Canterbury. Members free, non-members £5.
E-mail:h.nattrass@sir-robert-mcalpine.com
PILGRIMAGE TO ROME 29 October -2 November: Catholic
Schools in Dover are organising this Pilgrimage to mark the Golden Jubilee of
St.Edmund’s Catholic School. Application
forms may be had on request from the sacristies of our churches.
CATHOLIC INTERNET RADIO: it is proposed that this
initiative be bases at St.John’s
Seminary, Wonersh, Guildford. It is to
be called Heart Gives Unto Heart(HGUH) and is
planning a wide mix of programmes. Volunteers needed!! Contact points;
www.heartgivesuntoheart.co.uk and gerry.coates@blueyonder.co.uk
MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER :
the Archdiocese of Southwark is seeking to appoint a Media and Communications
Officer to work in the Commission for Schools and Colleges with effect from 1st
March, 2012. Further information and application packs are available from Donna
Gray at the Commission on donna.gray@rcsouthwark.org.uk or by telephoning 01689 883341. A notice about this post
may be seen in the porch.
A BEGINNING EXPERIENCE WEEKEND:
for widowed, separated and divorced will be held at The Friars, Aylesford on 23rd
– 25th March, 2012. Beginning Experience is a ministry led by a
trained team of volunteers – these special weekend gatherings encourage
participants to share their need and deal with the natural process of grief and
loneliness. For further details please see notice in the porch or contact :
Freda 01322 401243 : Helen 01293 88181877
Or
Sandra 01293 783965. Closing
date for applications is 20th February,2012.
NEXT SUNDAY : is EDUCATION SUNDAY and
there will be a Special Collection for CATHOLIC EDUCATION SERVICES.
May God bless you,
Father Kevin