EAST HENDRED CATHOLIC PARISH St Mary’s East Hendred St Patrick’s East Ilsley Fr. Tom Taaffe EpV Fr. Terence FitzPatrick OSB stmaryseasthendred@fsmail.net www.catholichendredandilsley.org.uk Week Commencing Sunday 12th October 2008 Sunday Cycle A Weekday Cycle 2
The Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time SUNDAY MASSES: St. Mary’s, East Hendred 9.30am People of the Parish St. Patrick’s, East Ilsley 11.15 am People of the Parish WEEKDAY MASSES Wednesday 12.15pm St Mary’s East Hendred Minnie Rafferty(FM) Friday 8.30am St Amands Chapel, Hendred House Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament takes place every Friday between 3 and 4 pm. in St. Amand’s Chapel, Hendred House. Anniversaries Damien McRandall, Sr. Elizabeth Dunn, Dorothy Eyston, Henry Atkinson, May they rest in the peace of the Risen Lord
CAFOD There will be a second collection after Mass today to support the work of CAFOD. We have already have £160 from donations made at Mrs Jane Curley’s funeral. There will be a second collection after Mass next week to support Mission Sunday. GATHERING TOGETHER IN CHRIST A group of us meet once a month to read the bible, discuss and pray. Everyone is welcome. Next meeting dates; Thursday 6th November, Tuesday 2nd December, Wednesday 7th January, Thursday 5th February and Tuesday 3rd March. For more information contact Denis Smith, 01235 765564. FIRST HOLY COMMUNION If your child is 7 years old and would like to make their first Holy Communion next year please contact Catherine Eckold 01235 833483. The programme will begin in the new year. ROSARY GROUP At our last meeting on the 7th October, The Feast of the Holy Rosary, we decided we would meet every Tuesday at 7pm in St. Amands Chapel during October. Which of course is "The Month of the Rosary" Do join us."
St Amand’s Catholic Primary School St Mary’s Road, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8LF Tel: 01235 833342Fax: 01235 861320 HYPERLINK "http://www.st-amands.oxon.sch.uk" www.st-amands.oxon.sch.uk On Wednesday the staff and pupils did sponsored walks for several charities including Cafod and Mission Together. It was a lovely day and the older children walked for about 6 miles, up to the Ridgeway and back to
school. Everyone enjoyed the day, despite the muddy bits! The younger children did a shorter walk around East Hendred. We will let you know next week how much we raised. Don’t forget our Open Day this week (Thursday 16th) – it would be great to see lots of people coming to visit our school. You will be able to see classes in action, talk to governors and have a coffee with cakes baked by our excellent staff. Visitors will be welcomed at various times throughout the day: 9.30-10.30; 1.30-2.30; 4-5.30pm. We look forward to seeing you then. Dates for yourthDiary Wednesday 8th October – Sponsored Walk Thursday 16th October – School Open day Saturday 18 October – PTA Autumn Ball St Amand’s is your local Catholic primary school, with a free school bus from Wantage, Grove and Didcot. You are
welcome to visit at any time. Please phone Debbie, the school Administration Officer to make an appointment. Applications are also welcome from children new to the area for other classes. Please remember our school in your prayers.
ST MARY’S LITURGY COMMITTEE Will meet this Wednesday 15th, October in the Parish Rooms at 7.30pm. APF RED BOXESPlease bring your box to church or hand to your promoter. A NEW WEBSITE FOR THE PASTORAL AREA Representatives of all the parishes in the Thames Isis Pastoral area met in Didcot on Tuesday 16th September to review and discuss plans for a new website which will serve the needs of the Pastoral Area and each of its constituent parishes. Advised by the Diocesan Web Development Consultant we addressed basic questions about what we wanted the website to do. We were agreed that it needed to provide information to parishioners as well as present an attractive face of the Catholic Church to outsiders and inquirers. Mindful that not everyone has access to computers, we see this as an exciting opportunity to improve our communications, internally and externally and hope that the leadership team of the Pastoral Area will commission the work at its next meeting. If you are interested in seeing an example of the kind of website that is being proposed take a look at HYPERLINK "http:// www.3rivers.org.uk" \t "_blank" www.3rivers.org.uk and let Denis Smith know what you think. Hopefully the site will be launched before Christmas.