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Society of St. Vincent de Paul (SVP):
Is asking for help. From time to time two or three times a year, the SVP have furniture offered them. They usually know of people in need of such articles. They do not however, have access to suitable transport for items such as beds, tables or wardrobes. If anyone does possess, or have access to, suitable transport and would be willing to help when the need arises, please contact any SVP member or our Parish Priest.
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Renewals for next year's membership can be made after Sunday Masses. Please support this lottery if you can, and so help to perform regular maintenance to our church during the coming year.
St. Joseph's Weekly Parish Newsletter
Would you like to have a copy of the weekly newsletter emailed to you each week. If so then please email myself to get added to the group - anne-thompson@stjosephsnewbury.org.uk
Thank You
Staff and pupils at St Joseph’s School would like to extend a huge THANK YOU for your most generous support for our forthcoming trip to the Wintershall estate. We are taking all 30 of our Year 6 pupils to the Catholic retreat in Surrey to see the outdoor performance of ‘The Life of Christ’. It is our hope that experiencing the daily events of Jesus’ life in this peaceful and refreshing setting will enable them to renew their faith in preparation for the challenges of transition to secondary school in September. Your extremely generous retiring collection has enabled us to make this event possible. Thank you! Please look out for news of our trip in the school Faith in Focus newsletter Summer 2 issue.
Papal Visit To Britain. 16th – 19th September 2010
There are 114 invitations for the Diocese to the 5 Papal Events in September. If you wish to attend, please contact Fr. Pat as soon as possible.
Papal Visit – Involvement Of Young People
There are 6 places for the Pastoral Area for the Papal Youth Event. If you wish to be consWeekly News;etteridered for this event, please let Fr. Pat know as soon as possible.
Newsletter Items
If you have items you wish to be published in this newsletter please email Doreen at doreengrn@yahoo.co.uk by Thursday 7.00pm to ensure it is included in the next publication.
St Joseph’s RC Primary School
Summer Fayre Saturday, 26th June, 12 noon to 3 pm.
St Joseph's Race Night
The race night raised around £800 (the actual amount will be confirmed). Many thanks to all who participated and made this event so successful.
Proceeds will be split between Parish Funds and the
Canon Zollo Memorial Fund.
St Joseph’s RC Primary School
St Joseph’s RC Primary School invites you to a special Mass on the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Friday 11th June at 10 am in St Joseph’s Church. This will be followed by the blessing of the School’s new statue of the Sacred Heart, which will stand in the garden at the front of the school. Refreshments afterwards. All welcome.
PRAYERS FOR REPARATION & ATONEMENT
There will be Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament after Mass until 11.00am, as part of the Bishops of England & Wales suggestion for reparation, forgiveness and atonement for the crimes of child sexual abuse, for the four Fridays of May. It will begin next Friday 7th May.
Congratulations
To the 52 young people from the Pastoral Area, who received the sacrament of Confirmation from the Bishop at Douai Abbey last Friday night.
Papal Visit 2010
During the recent Ad Limina Visit, the Holy Father announced his forthcoming trip to the UK.
Sadly there is already opposition headed by the Secular Society of Great Britain to this visit. You are asked to sign the supporting petition as we welcome the Holy Father to our country.
www.petitiononline.com/PopeinUK/petition.html
First Communion Programme 2010
The next session for children will be at 10.00am on Saturday, 8th May in the Church Hall. It will finish at 12.00noon.
Rotary Charity Walk
The Rotary Charity Walk is planned for the 16th May - this year for a change we thought that we would organise a walk around Newbury town and its environs so it should be great for both the able bodied and for those in wheelchairs and child buggies. The walk will include a quiz. This is a great opportunity to generate sponsorship for a favourite charity CAFOD, SVP, Christian Aid, St Josephs church or school etc.
If anyone is interested to walk a few miles and generate some funds, please speak to Chris Bartlam at the 11.00 Mass or email ctbartlam@googlemail.com
The retiring collection following CAFOD’s Family Fast Day
Raised £563-00p. Thank you all very much for your generosity
Mass of the Chrism, St. John’s Cathedral, Portsmouth. Tuesday 30th April 2010 at 11am.
A coach will leave Newbury to celebrate Mass with the Bishop, priests and people of the diocese of Portsmouth. Mass will begin at 11am.
The only pick up point this year is St Francis de Sales Church at 8.45am, single fare £10.00, per family £15.00. It may seem a little early to be leaving but it takes a good 1hr and 15 minutes to get to Portsmouth. We should arrive in time to visit the Discovery Centre Book Shop and to get a seat in the Cathedral. The coach back to Newbury will leave at 3pm. We will need to have names as soon as possible as seats are limited to 29. Please put your name and phone no. Names will need to be in by Wednesday 24th March latest.
West Berkshire Area Pastoral Council
Minutes from the most recent meeting are posted on the notice board at the back of the church. Please have a look at the topics being discussed. If there are any pastoral issues you would like raised at the next meeting, let Pauline Mason, your Parish representative have the details.
The Retiring collection for Haiti
The Retiring collection for Haiti was £1,098 – 26p. Thank you all very much for your very generous response.
A further £250 – 00p was given from the money collected from the tea/coffee group at the end of the 11.00am Sunday Mass. Thank you all for your great generosity.
The Children’s Liturgy Of The Word
The next one will be at the 11.00am Mass on Sunday 28th March, Palm Sunday – the Sunday of the long Gospel Passion reading.
Together magazine Easter 2010
Wanted - articles, notices, photos, adverts for Lent/Eastertide events etc for the next edition. Deadline for contributions is 14th February (to together1@live.co.uk). (Maximum 800 words with single spacing between words, sentences, lines to save editing time.)
2010 Diocesan Directory
Are available at the back of the Church.
St. Vincent de Paul (SVP) Christmas Appeal – Thank You
To everyone who contributed so very generously to the appeal last Sunday. £606-38 was given. This is very great generosity on all your parts, which will aid the SVP in its work of helping needy local families to enjoy some Christmas fayre and to cope with winter fuel bills. Thank you on all recipients behalf, whom we are sure are very appreciative of your help.
Parish Quiz Night
Thank you to all who supported this venture in any way. The profit from the Quiz Night and the Raffle amounted to £1201-76p. Thank you all very much.
There will be photographs on the website soon.
CATHOLIC CHURCH REGULATIONS: SWINE FLU EPIDEMIC
Please click here for an update to the regulations that were put in place for the Swine Flu Epidemic. The restrictions that were put in place have now been relaxed.
Parish Pilgrimage To Lourdes 2010
The Parish Pilgrimage to Lourdes will now be from Monday 5th July 2010 until Friday 9th July 2010. The cost is £488-00, which includes flights, transfers, full board and en-suite room and spiritual programme. Travel Insurance is extra at £23-00. A coach to and from the airport will be organised, and the cost of this will follow.
Please email anne-thompson@stjosephsnewbury.org.uk if you would like to find out more details.
St Joseph’s School are collecting Tesco or Sainsburys school vouchers.
Please help them to obtain free computers, sports equipment
and much more
by donating the vouchers you have earned.
Car Parking
During the past few weeks the car parking has been somewhat chaotic. Please park in front of the Hall and the Presbytery. If you are one of the last into the car park, please make sure that you are one of the first out, so as to not hold up people at the end of the Mass. Please show patience and consideration to all users of the car park on Sundays
Canon Zollo Memorial Fund
During the past week I received three post cards from Lourdes, from the children who were sponsored to go on the recent HCPT pilgrimage. They all enjoyed their time. Thank you to all who have contributed to this fund in the past.
St Vincent de Paul Collection – Thank You
To everyone who contributed so very generously to the appeal last Sunday. Because of your wonderful response we will be in a good position to help so many. A thank you letter from the Newbury St. Vincent De Paul Conference is displayed on the notice board at the back of the Church. Thank you once again.
Thank You
Can I thank you all for sharing in my 10th anniversary party of coming to this parish in 1998. I was truly humbled and delighted to share this occasion with you all, and completely surprised to receive a signed London Irish Rugby shirt. The only disappointment is that I was told that I couldn’t display it over the altar. But thank you to all who attended. It was a wonderful evening - Fr. Pat
Photographs from the evening are now on the website - click here
Calling all singers and instrumentalists!
The music group is looking for new members, both singers and instrumentalists, of any age. We are looking to swell the ranks of our choir and also incorporate more musicians (any instruments but especially violins, recorders, flutes and clarinets). We play at mass approximately once a month. Rehearsals take place an hour before mass and occasionally mid-week. Being in the music group is great fun and NOT an onerous time commitment, so why not come along. If anyone would like to find out more, or knows of anyone who would like to participate but is too shy to ask, please contact Mark Craig or Father Pat (01635 40167).
Rosary Group
Will be meeting on Tuesday 1st December at 2.00pm in the Church. Everybody welcome.. Please note the change in the time. With the winter weather beginning to draw in, we thought we would try this new time. We're hoping this new time will give the opportunity to those who may not be able to come during the evening. However, as always everybody is welcome.
Single/unattached/bereaved Catholics Group
We're a very friendly local group and meet regularly for meals and other activities. Sorry, we're sold out for this month's Murder Mystery evening, but are taking bookings for quiz and dinner at a local hotel in October. For details of this event, or for more information, ring 0118 9475782, or email
readingcatholicfriends@yahoo.co.uk Hope to see you soon!'
Lourdes Pilgrimage
A very successful pilgrimage to Lourdes has been completed. The prayers and intentions of the parish were prayed for each day.
Click here to view some photographs taken on the Pilgrimage.
A Big Thanks
The Pastoral Area Liturgy Advisory Group and the Celebration Planning Group would like to thank and congratulate the many people from our parishes, schools and religious orders whose hard work made such a success of the Area Celebration on Sunday at Douai. The flowers, the liturgy, the community displays, the drumming workshop and other activities show what can be done with the whole Area working together rather than as separate communities. Thanks also to the 500 or so people who joined in the Together Celebration and enjoyed a picnic lunch and activities in the Abbey grounds followed by Mass celebrated by Bishop Crispian with the Abbot of Douai. As Bishop Crispian said in his homily, we proclaim the Gospel to those who are looking at the Catholic Church from the outside by the way we live and work together among ourselves and in the locality. This is our baptismal responsibility. The Lord was with us on this Celebration Day. What next for the Area? The Pastoral Area Pastoral Council will have this question on the agenda for their next meeting.
Prayer Cards For Mass
By the various entrances to the Church there are prayer cards with an English translation and the main prayers of the Mass in Polish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Hopefully they will be of help. Please return them to the stands at the end of Mass. I am grateful for the help of Fr. Dominic Golding of St. James’s Church, Reading for providing the originals
Welcome To Our Parish Leaflet
Is available from the various entrances to the Church and lists the activities that are happening here. There is also a census page, would you please fill this in and drop it through the Presbytery door.
Change In Car Parking Arrangements
There is a change in car parking in Hawthorn Road (across the road from the Church, behind the Fire & Ambulance Station). This will now become Residents Parking Only from 8.00am until 6.00pm, and that means, we can no longer park there. We do have an obligation to be good neighbours and I would ask everybody to respect that.
Unfortunately there are still some parishioners, who do not have a residents parking sticker who are still parking there illegally. I would ask them to stop doing that.
Launch of St. Joseph's Newbury Website - 18th May 2007
Welcome to our new site, we welcome any constructive criticism to content and look. If you have any suggestions for news or any other content we look forward to hearing from you.
Please email Anne Thompson
St. Joseph's School Newsletter
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Noticeboard
There is a noticeboard on the right hand side of the main door of the church it contains all the service times and intentions for the coming week and it is updated every Friday night.
West Berkshire Community Hospital
Fr. Pat is the Catholic Chaplain and if you know of anyone going into hospital and you would like him to visit, please inform parishpriest@stjosephsnewbury.org.uk