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Masses, Intentions & other services
Of all women you are most blessed
Check mass intentions online at bit.ly/mass-intentions
Christmas Offerings There is one collection at each of
23rd December • Advent Four • Visitors the Christmas Masses, which is your offering for your
parish priest. Envelopes are available from Church if
Sat 22 5pm Michael Crofts RIP
you wish to make use of them. Offerings can of course
Sun 23 8am Irene & Bert Owen RIP
be made at other times: Thank you the many gifts,
10.30am Marie Mallen RIP
cards and assurance of prayers which have already been
Mon 24 4pm Jeff Chapman & William Chapman RIP received.
6:30pm Norma & Ron Rowley RIP Archbishop Bernard’s Christmas message can be
Tue 25 10am Parish and People seen here: http://bit.ly/2CtjYhg
Wed 26 10am Altar Servers Parish Christmas Cards are now available - take one
Thu 27 9:15am Thanksgiving for Faith and Friends or more to give to friends and neighbours!
(NPP) Walk with Me for Advent Booklets for daily readings
Fri 28 9.15am James Perry RIP and Family Calendars are now available. Help
Sat 29 10am Shelagh Gleve RIP yourselves (donations welcome)
Christmas Masses Rota for Ministers and Readers.
30th December • Holy Family • Joseph Please check for your name on the rota at the back of
Sat 29 5pm Sanders & Perry Families RIP the Church. Copies of the readings are available from Fr
Sun 30 8am Maria Rowland Peter.
10.30am Parish and People
Christmas Card for Aid to the Church in Need
As in the past, there is a Christmas Card from
Saints & Holy Days Sunday, Advent Four, Tuesday, Christmas
parishioners to all parishioners, in order to raise funds
Day, Wednesday, St Stephen, Thursday St John the Apostle,
for Aid to the Church in Need. Add your name to the
Friday, Holy Innocents, Saturday, St Thomas Becket, Sunday,
list at the back of Church please, and a donation for
Holy Family.
ACN will be collected in due course. Thanks to Gill
Children’s Liturgy (usually) Sunday at 10.30am Mass Dockery for organising this.
Exposition (Holy Hour) Saturdays 9am to 9.50am
Baptism Sunday 23rd December 12noon, Amelia Rose Seresinhe Christmas Services
Rosary 8.50am before Mass on Thursday and Friday
Morning Prayer 9.40am Saturday Christmas Eve
Confessions usually Sat 9-9.50am, 10.30-11am, 4.30-4.50pm. 4pm Nativity Mass
Parish Income 16th Dec £440.90 (£158.70 Gift Aid), Poor Children: please come as a Nativity Character
Parishes £268.03 (£28.75 Gift Aid).. Thank you! Adults: wear your Christmas Jumper!
Correction: The Songbirds raised £2400 for MIND during 2018 6pm Carols,
and £265 for Our Lady of Lourdes at their concert on 11th
December. 6.30pm Mass of Christmas Night
Christmas collections: 24th/25th Dec the onnly collection is
your Christmas Offering for your priest Christmas Day
Diocesan Newsletter for December: bit.ly/2PGQ7VI 10am Mass of Christmas Day
Thank you to all who have helped decorate the Church for
Christmas. Many decorations have been put in place bit by bit Family Christmas Party in the Centre, Sunday
during December. And - though the flowers should not adorn December 30th from 6pm. No charge, but please add
the Church until Christmas, we think they are so stunning that your names to the list in Church this weekend if you
we have put them in Church already this weekend!
hope to come. There will be fund raising on the
Happy Christmas!! evening and you will be invited to make appropriate
donations.
Please submit notices and items for publication to Fr Peter by hand, by text 07766 335591 or by email to priest@cannockcatholic.org
23rd December• Fourth Sunday in Advent
It was 200 years ago today … Please Pray … Celia Hurdiss, Dee Fellows,
David Holt, Theresa Hadley,
In 1818, a roving band of actors were performing in towns … The Holy Father's Prayer Dr Peter Hayward, Fr Pat
throughout the Austrian Alps. On December 23 they Intention: That people who Farrelly, June Weatherby.
arrived at Oberndorf, a village near Salzburg, where they are involved in the service … for those in our parish
and transmission of faith, receiving communion at
re-enacted the story of Christ's birth in the small Church
may find, in their dialogue home: Mary Kirby, Norah
of St. Nicholas.
with culture, a language Perry, Peter Clamp, Don and
Unfortunately, the organ wasn’t working so the actors suited to the conditions of Breeda Hinton, Gerry
presented their Christmas drama in a private home. The the present time.
Marriott, Billie Wyles, Maria
Christmas presentation of the events in the first chapters … During this time of Wacławski, Catherine
of Matthew and Luke put Pastor Josef Mohr in a Advent, and the Christmas Holloway, Bernard Deakin,
contemplative mood. Instead of walking straight to his season, please pray for Iris Robertson, Mary Casey,
house that night, Mohr took a longer way home, over a Christians in Bethlehem, the Christine Rogers.
hill overlooking Obendorf. birth place of Jesus, that the ... for those undergoing or
From that hilltop, Mohr looked down on the peaceful Season's Blessings may bring recovering from treatment or
them peace and joy. otherwise in particular need
snow-covered village. Revelling in the majestic silence of
… for all victims of abuse, of our prayers: Anne
the wintry night, Mohr gazed down at the glowing scene.
and for all those involved in Costello, John Morris, Fr Paul
The Christmas play he had just seen brought to mind a
the work of the Independent Chamberlain, Peter Garnett,
poem he had written a couple of years before, about the
Inquiry into Child Sexual Hannah Newborough, Peter
night when angels announced the birth of the long- Abuse (IICSA) Clamp, Kevin O’Mahony,
awaited Messiah to shepherds on a hillside. Mohr … for our country, the LeeAnn Lister, Ray Bishop,
decided those words might make a good carol for the government and all involved Audrey George, Mitek
next day, Christmas eve. However, he didn't have any in the difficult discussions Karasinska, Geoff Tipping,
music to which the poem could be sung. and negotiations which have Fred Houghton, Josie Riley,
So, the next morning, Mohr went to the church organist, come about after the James B, Helen, Michelle &
Franz Gruber. He gave Gruber a few hours to come up referendum to leave the Chris Bell
European Union: that there
with a melody which could be sung to the a guitar. And
may be wisdom and a
The Holy Souls
by the evening, Gruber had composed a simple but
concern for all in society, …. for the departed souls of
instantly memorable musical setting for the poem. It no
especially the most our parish and our families
longer mattered to Mohr and Gruber that their church
vulnerable … for those who have died
organ wasn’t working. They now had a Christmas carol
… for Sr Felicitas, standing in recently: Tony Nunn, Tom
that could be sung to the guitar. for Sr Jacinta while she is on Murphy, Molly Dawes.
The carol quickly spread far and wide, and has become a holiday and for Sr Jacinta, for … for those with
constant feature in Christmas masses and Carol Services many blessings as she spends anniversaries about this
ever since. Christmas back home in time: 24 Catherine Ponton,
On Christmas Eve 2018, Silent Night will celebrate its Nigeria Dorothy Heaton, 25 Josie
200th birthday. May we ever sing this beautiful carol with … for the sick or Irving, Robert Allen, 28 Rona
full hearts, with thankfulness and hope. housebound: Brendan Ballance, Philip Palmer.
Shannon, Don McCulloch,
Thanksgivings
St Mary’s Centre 01543 579364 Mary Rowley, Helen Pawłak,
Kath Turner, Stella Skillen, … for Christmas!
Sunday Carvery 12-4pm £6.95
Wednesday Carvery 5.30-8pm 2 for £10 Winifride Haynes, Annette … for family and friends!
Thursday 5.30-8pm 2 for £10 (OAP £4 each) Mason, Doris Crabb, Joanne … for our schools, their staff
Friday 5.30pm-8.30pm from 2 for £10 Jeavons, Nicola McCulloch, and pupils
ALL FUNCTIONS CATERED FOR
Full rota is at bit.ly/cannockparishrota