Parish News
MASS TIME CHANGE
There will be no 9.30am Mass on Tuesday at Our Lady of Peace due to the Requiem Mass for William (Bill) Brophy at 10.30am. Mass on Friday 10th February will be celebrated at 7.30 pm, instead of 9.30 am.
Mass Times & Intentions
DECEASED
Please pray for the repose of the soul of William (Bill) Brophy who died on 27th January, his Requiem Mass will take place on Tuesday, 7th February at Our Lady of Peace at 10.30am, followed by burial at Slough Cemetery. Please also pray for the repose of the soul of Patrick Powell who died on 27th January, his funeral service will be on Wednesday, 8th February at 2.00pm at Slough Crematorium. Finally, we are asked to pray for the repose of the soul of Monty Barry (Maureen), wife of Alan Barry, first headmaster of Our Lady of Peace School, who died recently. May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in peace. Amen
PARISH FINANCES
Weekend of 28th – 29th January: Loose £664.73. Envelopes £466.90. Standing Orders £250. Total £1,381.63. Thank you for your generosity.
TOGETHER IN FAITH
If you pledged to donate to the campaign on our commitment weekend and you have not returned the pledge card sent to you in December, please could you return as soon as possible as we have to record this with the Diocese. If in the Christmas period you have lost the pledge card please contact Yvonne who will provide you with a further copy.
» Together in Faith (Diocese of Northampton website)
CONGRATULATIONS
- to Teagan Ellie Stone who will be Baptised on Saturday, 11th February. Please pray for Teagan, her parents Clarke and Sarah, and her godparents.
READERS & EXTRAORDINARY
EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS ROTA :
11th – 12th February
Saturday 6.00pm - Helen Murphy and Mike Connolly.
Sunday 9.45am - Readers : Liz Bamber and Martin Walker. Eucharist Ministers : Melissa Whatley, Valerie Barlow, Teresa Hillier, Andrea Barry and Lisa Mennone.
Sunday 6.00pm - Marie Oke and Cyndi Yeoman.
The rotas are available here on the Parish website.
GOLDEN JUBILEE AT OUR LADY OF PEACE SCHOOL
Celebrations are being planned to mark 50 years of Catholic Education in the Burnham Parish of Our Lady of Peace. It will be 50 years ago this year that the first School building was opened to pupils aged 5-11. Former pupils are invited to share their memories and any photos of their time at the School, please contact Maureen Waters at the Infant School or via this email link (click here). Details of the planned events will be published on the School website.
Infant School website
CHANGES AT OUR LADY OF PEACE
INFANT AND JUNIOR SCHOOLS
This August the Head teacher of Our Lady of Peace Infant school, Mrs Margaret Dickinson, will retire. She has excelled in her leadership of the school and with her staff has made it a place of high achievement. We will have an opportunity to thank her as a parish in the summer.
This has meant that the Governors of both the Junior School and the Infant School have begun reflecting upon the best way forward for the two schools. The two schools already work in close partnership ensuring that they both offer the best opportunities and education to the children as they move through the different stages of education. There are a number of options which take into consideration the fact that Catholic schools are encouraged to work more closely together. The first is to allow the schools to remain as they are and seek to employ a new Head teacher for the Infant School. The second would form a Hard Federation of the two schools - one Head teacher leading both schools. The third would combine both schools into one Primary school. You will find in the porches of the churches a document which sets out the three options in greater detail. It is an Informal Consultation Document. If you would like to know more about the options, please take one: you may wish to express your own views. If so, fill out the form and return it to either school marked "Attention Clerk to Governors". All submissions need to be returned by Thursday 9th February 2012.
I would also like to point out that neither of the Governing Bodies have as yet taken any decision as to what the outcome should be. The guiding principle remains for them the best interests of the pupils and maintaining our Catholic commitment to the staff of both schools.
The Informal Consultation Document can be downloaded here as a pdf (412KB)
Infant School website | Junior School website
ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
Tuesdays 7.30 - 8.30pm, Our Lady of Peace.
Come and experience God's Healing Grace in Prayer, Praise and Silence - all are welcome to adore the Lord Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.
CLEANER
A reliable and hardworking lady in this area is looking for some house cleaning work. Please contact Veronica Thomas on 01296 696795.
MUSICIAN NEEDED
- for the Music Group – someone to play the piano and/or the guitar. The Group play at 9.45am Mass every two weeks. Please contact Fr David on 01628 605764.
FIRST HOLY COMMUNION CLASSES
The next session is on Saturday, 11th February from 10.00 – 11.30am at St Andrew’s Church, Cippenham. Please continue to pray for our children so that they will grow in their appreciation of the sacraments of Confession and Holy Communion. Please note the Parents Meeting that was scheduled to be held on 9th February at 7.30pm will now take place on Thursday, 23rd February at 7.30pm in Our Lady of Peace Church.
CHILDREN'S LITURGY 9.45am MASS
A few years ago the Children's Liturgy for the Sunday 9.45am Mass at Our Lady of Peace sadly had to close for a while. A dedicated team of parishioners and myself have started to put together a new programme, composed specially for our parish, so that we can begin to celebrate the Children's Liturgy at 9.45am Mass every Sunday. Are there any parish parents/grandparents and others who may wish to assist as helpers or catechists? Contact Fr David: 01628 605764.
Contact the Presbytery
PARISH MASS BOOKS
We are now using Volume II of the new Mass books for Year B. As with Year A books if you would like to donate £1.95 for one of these books, or £7.95 for the large print books, please feel free to do so, and we will enter into the book a dedication for your intention. Just put into an envelope the offering and the name(s) you wish inscribed in the book(s) and hand to Fr David or Yvonne: if for a deceased person please add 'RIP' to the name or names you wish us to pray for; if for someone alive, please add 'Intention'.
THINKING OF BECOMING A CATHOLIC?
The next meeting is on Thursday 9th February at 8.00pm in Our Lady of Peace Sacristy.
Catholic Faith website - Support (New site, see 'Courses', 'Baptism')
RCIA Network website - Resources
Contact the Presbytery
CATHOLIC PARLIAMENTARY
AND PUBLIC POLICY INTERNSHIPS
For the last nine years the Catholics Bishops Conference has organised Parliamentary and Public Policy Internships for recently graduated Catholics. This year we are looking to offer 8 internships: Five interns will be placed with Christian MPs at Westminster; two in Public Policy with CAFOD and CARITAS Social Action Network; and one in a media internship at Archbishop’s House Westminster. All internships will run from September 2012 - July 2013 and include accommodation and subsistence allowances. Full details and an application form can be found here on our website. Completed application forms must either be emailed to this link or posted to: Michaela Kelly, Head of HR, 39 Eccleston Square, London SW1V 1BX. The closing date is 5pm on 29th February 2012 and Assessment days will be 28th and 29th March 2012. If you interested in this opportunity, please contact direct.
catholicnews.org.uk/interns
SUBMISSIONS FOR THE PARISH WEBSITE
- can be sent to me (Fr David) at my e-mail address (Click on this link for my email). Items on paper and print are also accepted and can be given to me or delivered to the presbytery.
Dates For Your Diaries
CATHOLIC WOMEN'S LEAGUE (CWL)
-will be holding their AGM meeting on Monday 6th February at 7.30pm in the sacristy of Our Lady of Peace. All are welcome.
CWL website | CWL in our Parish
ST VINCENT DE PAUL
The next meeting will be on Tuesday, 7th February at 2.30pm in the Sacristy of Our Lady of Peace. New members are always welcome.
SVP website | SVP in our Parish
MEETING FOR FIRST HOLY COMMUNION
CATECHISTS AND HELPERS
- will take place this Tuesday, 7th February at 7.30pm in the Sacristy of Our Lady of Peace.
BIBLE STUDY GROUP
The group will meet on Tuesdays at 7.30pm at St Andrew's in Cippenham.
For further information, please contact Bob Bryant on 01628 543650.
St Andrew's website
OUR LADY OF PEACE CHOIR
The choir meet on Wednesday evenings from 7.00pm to 8.30pm at Our Lady of Peace Church. You will be most welcome.
For more information please call Brid Vaughan on 07540 013181.
CAFOD
The Indian Ocean Tsunami: eight years on
Tuesday, 14th February, between 5pm - 6.30pm.
You are invited to the launch of an exhibition of photographs and a film commemorating the Indian Ocean Tsunami and the response by CAFOD and our partners.
The Pavilion, 5th floor, CAFOD, Romero House, 55 Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7JB.
CAFOD website
SHARED EVENING PRAYER AT ST ANDREW'S
As part of our growing good relations with our Anglican brothers and sisters at St Andrew's Shared Church, we have agreed to hold every month a shared service of evening prayer. The next Service will be on Sunday, 19th February at 4.00pm and it will be Evensong lead by the Anglicans.
Washington Drive, Cippenham | SL1 5RE
St Andrew's website
READING THE WORD OF GOD
Training Course at St Edmund Campion Church, Cedar Avenue, Hazlemere HP15 7DW, to be held over three consecutive Tuesday evenings between 7.30pm-9.00pm on 6th, 13th and 20th March. Contact 01582 723312, email NORES by clicking on this link or pick up one of the application forms in the Church porches at Our Lady of Peace.
Cedar Avenue, Hazlemere | HP15 7DW | 01582 723312
NORES website
Mass Times & Intentions
4th February - 13th February
Saturday 4th February | FIFTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR
6.00 pm Our Lady of Peace - Peggie Connolly RIP (Anniv.) (Connolly)
Sunday 5th February | FIFTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR
9.00 am St Gilbert’s - For the Parish
9.45 am Our Lady of Peace - Elaine Brennan intentions
11.30 am St Andrew’s - Molly Curran (100th Birthday)(Rowe)
6.00 pm Our Lady of Peace - Bob Taylor RIP (Taylor)
Monday 6th February | SS Paul Miki & Companions
9.30 am Our Lady of Peace - Ena Lobo RIP
Tuesday 7th February | Feria
10.30 am Our Lady of Peace - Requiem Mass: William (Bill) Brophy RIP
7.30 pm Our Lady of Peace - Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Wednesday 8th February | Feria
9.30 am Our Lady of Peace - Colin Brignall RIP (Brooker)
2.00 pm Slough Crematorium - Funeral of Patrick Powell RIP
Thursday 9th February | Feria
9.30 am St Andrew’s - Hannah Seaton Intentions
10.30 am Infant School - Margaret Murphy-Hall RIP (Brogan)
Friday 10th February | St Scholastica
7.30 pm Our Lady of Peace - Joe Rooney RIP (Brophy)
Saturday 11th February | Our Lady of Lourdes
9.30 am Our Lady of Peace - Soc Condron RIP (Brown)
Saturday 12th February | SIXTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR
6.00 pm Our Lady of Peace - Ann Stocker RIP (Murphy)
Sunday 13th February | SIXTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR
9.00 am St Gilbert’s - Tom Condon RIP (Anniv) (O’Donnell)
9.45 am Our Lady of Peace - For the Parish
11.30 am St Andrew’s - John McRory (Connolly)
6.00 pm Our Lady of Peace - Alice Phelan RIP (McCarthy)
At Our Lady of Peace, Morning Prayer is prayed before every weekday Mass and the Rosary is prayed after the Mass: all are welcome to join us.
CONFESSIONS
Saturdays 5.15 - 5.45 pm at Our Lady of Peace.
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