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23rd January 2011. THIRD WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME. YEAR A1

Mass Times and other Liturgies

Date		Services	Notes
22nd January	Saturday	5:00 pm Mass 1st Mass of Sunday	Memoria of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mass Intention: Available
23rd	Sunday	11:00 am Sung Family Mass	Mass Intention: For the Parish
24th	Monday	9:30 am Mass	St Francis de Sales Mass Intention: Jack, Lali and Orlando Cardozo
25th	Tuesday	7:30 am Mass	Conversion of St Paul Mass Intention: Jill Butler RIP
26th	Wednesday	No Mass 10:00 am Mass in Gillingham	St Timothy and St Titus
27th	Thursday	9:30 am Mass	St Angela Merici Mass Intention: Available
28th	Friday	9:30 am Mass 3:00 pm Holy Hour	St Thomas Aquinas Mass Intention: Mary Enright RIP
29th	Saturday	9:30 am Mass 1st Mass of Sunday	Memoria of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mass Intention: Private Intention Mass Intention: Available
30th	Sunday	11:00 am Mass	Mass Intention: For the Parish

Confessions - Confessions - Confessions - Confessions - Confessions
Shaftesbury	Saturdays	10:00 am	1st January - NO CONFESSIONS 8th January - Confessions as usual
Tisbury	Saturdays	10:30 - 11:00 am 7:00 - 7:30 pm
Marnhull	Saturdays	10:30 am

Times of other nearby Sunday masses are on the board outside the church and will appear on the website soon.

Churches Together in Shaftesbury Unity Service
This Sunday, 23rd January, there will be the usual annual unity service held by the Churches Together in Shaftesbury, 10am at the Shaftesbury Christian Centre.  This will be a non-Eucharistic service and as today's sermon notes, attending this service will not satisfy a Catholic's Sunday Mass obligation. That said, if you attend the Saturday evening Mass or the Marnhull Sunday 6pm Mass you'd have fulfilled the Sunday Mass obligation and could attend the ecumenical service. Your presence and support at the ecumenical service is something to be commended and would be a positive ecumenical gesture.  Thanks.

Congratulations to Bishop Christopher Budd
This week Bishop Budd celebrated the 25th anniversary of his consecration as our bishop. The major Mass at the cathedral was attended by people from all across Dorset, Devon and Cornwall .  Many of us will have known his kindly manner and pastoral care. To have a bishop caring for the same diocese for this long period of time has given the diocese stable and considerate oversight.  This year he will reach the canonical age of retirement (his 75th year) and has announced that he'll be submitting his retirement to Rome . However, the process of choosing his successor is likely to be lengthy and it could take some years.  Let us pray in thanksgiving for the good that Bishop Budd has done for us and pray in earnest that a worthy successor will be appointed.

Unity Service at St Edward’s: 7pm, Tuesday 25th January
CORRECTION! CORRECTION! CORRECTION! Tuesday not Wednesday!
The usual St Edward’s service to close the week of prayer for Christian Unity will take place 26th January.  The new Anglican minister at St James, Rev. Simon Chambers, will be preaching and Deacon Michael Hughes will be leading the service

New Translation: September Launch Date!
After months of hearing very little about the new translation of the prayers we use in the Mass, our bishops have now told us that we will begin using it this September. 
The English and Welsh bishops have set up a website: http://www.missal.org.uk/ and more detailed information is available from the American bishops: http://www.usccb.org/romanmissal/.  In September all the prayers that are said by the congregation will change to the new corrected translation.  Other prayers, i.e. ones said by the priest that vary in different Masses, will be introduced with the launch of the full missal in Advent.
To help prepare the parish for the new translation we've ordered a DVD course that we'll be showing in the parish hall.  The course will explain why the changes are coming, what the changes are etc.  We're planning to show this on Thursdays evenings.  More information when the DVD arrives.

Knights of St Columba: Introduction Meeting re-scheduled: 6pm, 29th January
As previously discussed, the Knights are hoping to establish a group in our parish.  Following their appeal here in November they will be having an introductory presentation evening explaining more about what they do, what is involved in being a member, and how becoming a member would benefit you.  The meeting will be on Saturday 29th January, after the evening Mass.  Men interested in knowing more, and their families, are invited to attend.  Please give serious consideration to attending as it would be great benefit to the parish if we were able to set up such a group here.  (This event is re-scheduled from December when it was cancelled due to the snow)

St Edward’s Christmas Party: January 2011
This year’s children’s party at the Royal British Legion Hall in Shaftesbury was tremendous fun.  31 children from the Parish attended the party, ranging from a few months old up to 11.  The disco was brilliant, playing the right sort of music and at the right volume so that the children could dance and the adults chat over a cup of tea.  The games were run superbly by Sophie who succeeded in getting all the children to take part. 
Tea was delicious with everyone contributing a dish.  We started off with lots of sandwiches, sausages, pizza, sausage rolls etc, then moved on to yummy biscuits and lots of scrumptious home made cakes. Then there was ice cream for those that did not think they had eaten enough!
There was time for some more dancing after tea and a final game, possibly the highlight of the party for adults and children alike; the loo roll race….  Two teams of children had to mummify their adult in loo roll while a particular song was played.  The winning team being the one that managed to cover the most of their adult when the song had finished.  A big thank you to Father Dylan and Nick Allhusen who were volunteered and accepted graciously!
A big thank you to everyone who helped to make it such an enjoyable evening.  It was a real case of ‘many hands make light work’.

Youth Group Re-Started
Following the Christmas break, the Youth Group re-started last Saturday 8th January. We meet every fortnight 6.30pm-8pm for a mixture of catechesis, prayer and social time. Future meetings: 22nd Jan, 5th Feb, 19th Feb, 5th March, 19th Mar, 2nd April, 16th Apr.

Parish Diaries Not Coming
Sadly it seems that the company that normally provides us with the free parish diaries has let us down: the diaries have not arrived and their phone number has been disconnected.  We will use another company next year.  My apologies. Fr Dylan

Prayer Intentions - Please pray especially for Sheila Ratcliffe; Emma Reed; Daniel Hill; Mark McDonagh; Lucy Donnelly; Christine Burton, and Elizabeth Harrison in your prayers.  If you fall ill and need Holy Communion brought to you please let Fr Dylan know (Tel. 852125).  Similarly, please let us know the names of sick people we should be praying for – please ask their permission for us to mention their names publicly. 

Thank you for your prayers and for the work of the Church.  The collection last week came to:. £567.33. Please make any donations by cheque payable to “Shaftesbury RC Parish PRCDTR”.  Thank you.

 

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Pope Benedict XVI’s Intentions for January 2011

General That the riches of creation be preserved, valued and made available to all, as a precious gifts from God to mankind.     Mission That Christians may achieve full unity, bearing witness of the universal fatherhood of God to the entire human race..