Next Abbey Concert 22.11.08
Singscape
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34th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Year A
23rd November, 2008: Christ the King
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Please pray for those whose anniversaries are at this time: |
22.11.08 Edwin Allum
23.11.08 Cornelia Lunnemann
24.11.08 Teresa Lowe, Dino DiMarte
25.11.08 Derek Hartley Russell, Elizabeth Melvina Terry
26.11.08 Mary Barrett, Mark Konya
28.11.08 Mary Duffy, Eileen Mary Green, Mary Slatter, Winifrid Stamp, Mary Harle
29.11.08 James Walsh |
Douai Abbey Library: |
Details of the new Library appeal can be found here |
Friday Self-denial Group: |
This is the last Sunday of the year for the Group and your new envelopes will be distributed. Proceeds from the past year have been shared between Fr. O'Donnell in Malawi and a programme to help the victims of the floods in Uganda. Anyone who is not a member of the Group and would like to make a donation to either cause, please contact Sandra, Christine or Margaret. Press and TV coverage on the plight of the people of Zimbabwe has prompted us to support a charity there next year. Further information in a couple of weeks, but in the meanwhile please consider how you might be able to help. Thank you - S. Brewester. |
Youth Day of Recollection: |
13.12.08 from 09.00 - 18.30
The Youth Team have organised a Day of Recollection for youngsters in Years 6-13. The day will give them an opportunity to prepare a Service of Reconciliation, attend Lazer Quest and spend time with youngsters across the parish before joining the community at St. Luke's for evening Mass. Lunch and snacks will be provided (£15.00 pp)
For further details and to book a place on the Youth Day of Recollection, please contact one of the youth team in your Church or ring the Parish Office 01189 715350. Closing date 19.11.08. Book soon as places are limited. |
Youth Weekends: |
17/19.01.09, 14/15.03.09, 11/12.07
The Youth Day of Recollection will be followed by three residential weekends at Douai Cottages in 2009. Youngsters will have an opportunity to prepare their own liturgies and take part in offsite activities (ice skating, bowling etc.) as requested last year. Further details to follow nearer the time.
To book a place on the Youth Weekend (17/18.01.08) contact one of the youth team in your Church or ring the Parish Office 01189 715350. Closing date 14.12.08. Book soon as places are limited. |
From Fr. Hugh: |
Since my time helping in the chaplaincy at Ready Gaol, I have been supporting as best I can a young prisoner called Andy. He is now at Bullingdon Gaol, an adult prison and much tougher than Reading. Through it all Andy turned his life around, growing in self-knowledge, self-control, faith and the practice of daily prayer. He is now a fully practising Catholic, free from drugs and alcohol and taking all the vocational courses he can prior to his release. He has developed his artistic talent as a form of constructive self-expression. He hopes on release to work as an inner-city youth minister.
Christmas is especially difficult for prisoners and no less for Andy. His mother is too ill to visit him and he maintains contact with her by 'phone. However, out of his meagre prison earnings, he must pay for these 'phone calls as well as for his art supplies.
It would be a gracious act of Christmas charity if you could spare even just £1 to give him so that he can telephone his mother this Christmas and have a long chat with her. Perhaps he will also be able to obtain some art supplies. Any money collected will be pooled and sent to him as a surprise, in the name of the Douai Abbey Parish, in the form of a postal order which is the only way money can be received in prison. Just £25 would give him a good 'phone call with his mother and allow him to buy some paper, paint and charcoal for his art work. So any amount, however small, that you can spare will greatly assist him. If you care to donate, please give your contribution to Fr. Benedict, Fr. Hugh or send a cheque made payable to Douai Abbey Parish to the parish office. Please also remember him in your prayers.
Thank you. |
Oberammergau 2010: |
Are you interested in going on a group tour which will include at least one day in Oberammergau to see the play? The options available are
- 7-day trip by coach (May to September)
- Flights plus a minimum of 5 days in Germany/Austria (June to September)
Prices start at £800 per person. Please telephone Jennifer Smith on 01189 834070 to register your interest. A meeting of those interested will be held in January, 2009. |
Two Christmas Concerts 06.12.08 |
1) St. Nicholas' Church, Newbury, at 19.00
The Oxford Pro Musica Singers with Newbury Young Musician of the Year 2008 Finalists.
In aid of the Newbury and District Cancer Care Trust and Macmillan Cancer Support
Tickets £18.00 available from Drewatt Neate, Market Place, Newbury
Enquiries Celia Rose 01635 200874
2) Sports Hall, Wellington College, Crowthorne
ANGELS: the children of Tiger Kloof South Africa in a concert of inspiring Gospel and Choral music with traditional dance. For further details see www.angelschoir.org or 0780 1022 763
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