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www.saint-anne-nuneaton.co.uk St Anne’s Roman Catholic Church Camp Hill Road, Chapel End, Nuneaton CV10 0JP St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church Spring Hill, New Arley CV7 8FE Priest: Fr Stephen Day, 93 Camp Hill Road, Chapel End, Nuneaton CV10 0JP Tel. 02476 392365 E-Mail [email protected] THIRD OF ADVENT 15th December 2013 The Mass is on p7, the Readings are on p88 Mass Times & Intentions Saturday 14th Vigil Mass at St Anne’s 5.00pm The People of the Parish SUNDAY 15th ADVENT 3 Mass at St Joseph’s Mass at St Anne’s 8.30am 10.30am Viv Melvin RIP Anne Price Monday 16th Advent Feria Mass at St Anne’s 9.30am Ferrante & Melkis Fams Dec’d Tuesday 17th Advent Feria ~ ~ ~ Wednesday 18th Advent Feria Communion Service at St Anne’s 9.30am ~ Thursday 19th Advent Feria Mass at St Anne’s 9.30am Iris Sabec RIP Friday 20th Advent Feria Holy Hour and Benediction Penitential Service & Confession Mass at St Anne’s 6-7pm 6-7pm 7.00pm Hughes Family RIP Saturday 21st Advent Feria Confession Mass at St Anne’s 9-9.15am 9.30am John Burrows RIP Vigil Mass at St Anne’s 5.00pm William & Winifred Sheffield RIP SUNDAY 22nd ADVENT 4 Mass at St Joseph’s Mass at St Anne’s 8.30am 10.30am The People of the Parish Kathleen Brooks HARK! A HERALD VOICE IS CALLING, CHRIST IS NEAR...

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www.saint-anne-nuneaton.co.uk

St Anne’s Roman Catholic Church Camp Hill Road, Chapel End, Nuneaton CV10 0JP

St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church Spring Hill, New Arley CV7 8FE

Priest: Fr Stephen Day, 93 Camp Hill Road, Chapel End, Nuneaton CV10 0JP Tel. 02476 392365 E-Mail [email protected]

THIRD OF ADVENT

15th December 2013 The Mass is on p7, the Readings are on p88

Mass Times & Intentions

Saturday 14th Vigil Mass at St Anne’s 5.00pm The People of the Parish

SUNDAY 15th ADVENT 3

Mass at St Joseph’s

Mass at St Anne’s

8.30am

10.30am

Viv Melvin RIP

Anne Price

Monday 16th Advent Feria

Mass at St Anne’s 9.30am Ferrante & Melkis Fams

Dec’d

Tuesday 17th Advent Feria

~ ~ ~

Wednesday 18th Advent Feria

Communion Service at St Anne’s 9.30am ~

Thursday 19th

Advent Feria Mass at St Anne’s 9.30am Iris Sabec RIP

Friday 20th Advent Feria

Holy Hour and Benediction

Penitential Service & Confession

Mass at St Anne’s

6-7pm

6-7pm

7.00pm

Hughes Family RIP

Saturday 21st Advent Feria

Confession

Mass at St Anne’s

9-9.15am

9.30am

John Burrows RIP

Vigil Mass at St Anne’s 5.00pm William & Winifred Sheffield RIP

SUNDAY 22nd ADVENT 4

Mass at St Joseph’s

Mass at St Anne’s

8.30am

10.30am

The People of the Parish

Kathleen Brooks

HARK! A HERALD VOICE IS CALLING, CHRIST IS NEAR...

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FINANCE Gift Aid Not Gift Aid

First Collection £237.70 £160.20

Building Fund £106.00 £37.80

If you pay income tax there is no good reason not to join Gift Aid and a very

good reason to join —the tax man adds 25% to your giving! See Fr Stephen

For Your Prayers... The sick, especially Margaret Donnelly, Mary

Jones, Betty Mackey, Eric Nelson, Margret

Tubman, Teresa Nish, Marion Burrows, Jane

Goodyear, Jeanna Hill, Yvonne Campbell, Terry

Garretley, Fr Andrew McCann, Simon Smith,

Stella Smith and Gerard Collins.

All the faithful departed, especially Archie Lin-

coln and Pearl Norton whose anniversaries fall

this week, and John Burrows and Nelson Man-

dela recently departed

Madeleine McCann and her parents

The people of the Philippines

The nation and people of South Africa

Those without work or home this Christmas

This Weekend Coffee after 10.30am Mass at St Anne’s

Children’s Liturgy during the 10.30am Mass

This Week NO First Communion Class on Monday.

Classes resume on 20th January

Local penitential services are this week—see

box on opposite page. Plenty of opportunities for

confession before Christmas in addition to usual

Next Weekend The Fourth Sunday of Advent

Coming Soon Christmas Mass Times will be as usual: Christ-

mas Eve 5.00pm Vigil Mass of Christmas at St

Anne’s. A Mass especially for children. Midnight

Mass, at St Anne’s, preceded by carols from

11.30pm, Christmas Day 8.30am Mass of the

Dawn at St Joseph’s, 10.30am Mass o f the Day

at St Anne’s

Walsingham Pilgrimage 2014: 3rd—5th Oct

Cleaners St A E & F Pollard St J P Fletcher & B Garratley

Collection Counters George & Doreen

Atherstone Fr Stephen is saying the 6.15pm Mass at Atherstone

on Saturday: this is the last time for a while as other

priests have become available to help. Please con-

tinue to pray for Fr Andrew’s speedy recovery

Organists at St Anne’s Unfortunately injury and family illness are reducing

the availability of both our organists. Kate Deeming

has a broken foot and Anthony Bell’s brother in law

and mother in law have had to be taken into hospi-

tal back home in Newcastle-on-Tyne. We shall be

all right for Christmas we think, but in the mean-

time we may be singing a little less and unaccompa-

nied a lot more at St Anne’s. Please pray for all

who make music in our churches.

Chapel End URC Closing Service We have been invited to Chapel End URC’s final

service before the church closes. Sunday 5th Janu-

ary 2014 at 3.00pm. Please pray for the congrega-

tion as they face this difficult time

December Charity Lunch A total of £144 was raised and has been sent to

Crisis at Christmas, helping the homeless receive

food, shelter, medical care, advice, support, and

training over Christmas. Thank you! Next :Feb 7th

Flowers: No flowers in Advent

THANK YOU for your giving

Second Collection for Poor Parishes

£108.40

Advent “Walk with Me”

Booklets Available Please do make a donation towards the cost of £1 but

most of all please take copies for your-

self, family and friends.

The Parish Christmas Card is now out. Full details of Christmas

Masses and services.

Please take and spread!

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Sunday’s Readings...

I saiah calls on even the wilder-

ness to rejoice, since the Lord is

on His way. This news should give

us courage and hope, and the blind seeing,

the deaf hearing, the lame leaping and the

dumb speaking will all be signs of God’s pres-

ence. John the Baptist, now chained and kept

lonely in his prison cell has fearlessly pro-

claimed Christ’s coming. But even he has a

moment of doubt, and sends word to ask Je-

sus who he is. But the blind are receiving

their sight, the lame walk, the deaf hear and

the dead are raised. Of course God has come

in Jesus. And with words of praise and en-

couragement the messengers are sent back to

John. This Sunday – traditionally known as

“Gaudete” Sunday from the opening words of

the old Latin introit for the day, “Rejoice” -

calls us to remember that the Lord is very

near. Amid the world’s trouble and suffering,

He comes close and wonderful happenings

occur in His pres-

ence. Perhaps the

greatest of those

is happiness for

those who do not

lose faith in Him!

Once again, the temperature drops but heating bills rise so to help keep

our bills down—

PLEASE KEEP THE INNER CHURCH DOORS SHUT!

An Extract from “The Joy of the Gospel” by Pope Francis

I invite all Christians, everywhere, at this very moment, to a renewed

personal encounter with Jesus Christ, or at least an openness to letting

him encounter them; I ask all of you to do this unfailingly each day. No one should think that this invitation is not meant for him or her, since “no

one is excluded from the joy brought by the Lord”. The Lord does not dis-appoint those who take this risk; whenever we take a step towards Jesus, we come to

realize that he is already there, waiting for us with open arms. Now is the time to say

to Jesus: “Lord, I have let myself be deceived; in a thousand ways I have shunned your love, yet here I am once more, to renew my covenant with you. I need you. Save

me once again, Lord, take me once more into your redeeming embrace”. How good it feels to come back to him whenever we are lost! Let me say this once more: God nev-

er tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy. More extracts to follow. Full text at www.vatican.va as Evangelii Gaudium

PENITENTIAL SERVICES FOR ADVENT: THIS WEEK

Monday 7.00pm at Our Lady of the Angels

Tuesday 7.00pm at Bulkington

Friday 6.00pm at St Anne’s

The regular Advent times for Confession at St Anne’s are

Fridays 6.15-6.45pm Saturdays 9.00-9.15am Other places or times

by appointment—just ask! It doesn’t matter where we go to make a

confession, it matters that we make a confession!

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S T JOSEPH, husband of the Vir-

gin Mary, foster-father of Jesus,

blessed are you! Guide us to your

Immaculate wife and her Divine Son,

that fathers may be as loving as you,

mothers as cherished as Mary and

children kept as safe as the infant

Jesus in your care.

Pray with us! Pray for us! Intercede

for us, who are placed under your

patronage!

Confession At St Anne’s on Fridays, 6.15-

6.45pm, Saturdays 9.00-9.15am.

Other times or places by

arrangement—see Fr Stephen

Baptism By arrangement with Fr Stephen.

Speak to him after Mass. Baptism is

on a Sunday at 12.30pm

Exposition &

Benediction of the

Blessed Sacrament St Anne’s on Fridays, 6-7.00pm.

S T ANNE, Mother of the Virgin

Mary, Grandmother of Jesus,

blessed are you! Take us by the hand

and turn us towards God, the Father,

source of love and life; the Son, Jesus

the Redeemer; and the Holy Spirit

who lives in our hearts.

Pray with us! Pray for us! Intercede

for us who are placed under your pat-

ronage!

The Parish of St Anne, which includes St Joseph’s Church, is part of

the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham, Registered Charity Number 234216

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING ONLINE? Raise money for the parish online by

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Come Lord Jesus! You came as one of us

through Mary. Come again! In your word. In your sacra-ments. In our hearts. In your people. In me. At the end of

time. Come Lord Jesus!