Good News!

Catholic Parish of St Mary & St Thomas More

2 Hallcourt Crescent, Cannock , WS11 0AB
Parish Priest: Fr Peter Weatherby tel: 07766 335591
Deacons : Rev Michael Vickery, Rev Paul Hender
2nd December • Advent Sunday Parish Sister: Sr Jacinta Mariette / Sr Sebastian
Welcome to everyone at Mass today, especially if you are Stafford Hospital Chaplaincy: 01782 676400
new to our church or haven't been to Mass for some time. New Cross & Cannock Hospital Chaplains: 01902 695098
Practising Catholics, clear in conscience that they are St Mary’s Centre (Meals and Functions) 01543 579364
properly prepared, may receive holy communion. Others priest@cannockcatholic.org & www.cannockcatholic.org
are invited to come forward for a blessing. If so, please Cafod Representative : Jo Burrowes
place your hand on your heart to indicate this to the priest, Safeguarding: Jo Burrowes & Ann Hinsley
deacon or minister. (Birmingham Diocesan Trust: Reg Charity No. 234216)

Masses, Intentions & other services
 Your liberation is near at hand!

Check mass intentions online at bit.ly/mass-intentions
Advent and Christmas
2nd December • First Sunday of Advent • Hope
Parish Christmas Cards are now available - take
Sat 1 5pm John & Helen Prendergast
one or more to give to friends and neighbours!
Sun 2 8am Maria Rowland RIP
10.30am Mary Bosworth RIP Walk with Me for Advent Booklets for daily
readings and Family Calendars are now avaialable.
Mon 3 No Mass Help yourselves (donations welcome)
Tue 4 7.30pm UCM (Advent Mass) Sun Dec 2nd 4.30pm Advent Light
Wed 5 9:15am Matteo - that his health will improve celebration at Our Lady of Lourdes, Hednesford. A
(School Mass) short service of light, then a procession to the
Thu 6 No morning Mass grotto!
1.45pm Holy Souls (at St Thomas More School)

Choir practices for Christmas Eve services every
4pm Reception of the body of Tom Murphy
Tuesday 6pm in Church. All welcome!
Fri 7 10:30am Funeral Mass Tom Murphy
Sat 8 10am Parish and People Wed 5th Dec 6pm Reconciliation Service 

For candidates for first holy communion and
9th December • Advent Two • Preparation confirmation, their parents: everyone else is very
Sat 8 5pm Michael Crofts RIP welcome!
Sun 9 8am James & Hannah Whitehouse RIP
10.30am Marie Harris RIP Sun Dec 9th is Bambino Sunday 

Please bring your Baby Jesus to Mass on Saturday
Saints & Holy Days Monday St Francis Xavier, 5pm or Sunday (8am, 10.30am) for him to be
blessed!
Tuesday St John of Damascus, Wednesday St Birinus,
Thursday St Nicholas, Friday, St Ambrose, Saturday Sun Dec 9th 6.30pm Christmas Concert 

Immaculate Conception at St Mary’s. St Stephen’s Gospel Choir entertain
and inspire again. Admission £5 per adult, £1 per
Children’s Liturgy Sunday at 10.30am Mass
child, pay on the door.
Journey in Faith is on a break till the new year.
Dec 13th 6pm Christmas Reflection

Exposition (Holy Hour) Saturdays 9am to 9.50am led by St Thomas More School (note start time!)
Funeral 11am Friday 7th Dec, Tom Murphy funeral Dec 21st 1.15pm Christmas Carols 

mass (into Church Thursday 4pm) led by St Mary’s School
Baptism 2nd Dec 12noon, Joshua Embury & George
Metcalf; 1pm Conall Patrick Bing
Rosary 8.50am before Mass on Thursday and Friday Christmas Services
Morning Prayer 9.40am Saturday Parish Christmas Cards now available from
Church: please distribute some to friends,
Confessions usually Sat 9-9.50am, 10.30-11am, neighbours and family.
4.30-4.50pm, but no morning confessions on 1st.
Christmas Eve 4pm Nativity Mass; 6pm
Parish Income 25th Nov £624.10 (£271 Gift Aid),
Carols, 6.30pm Mass of Christmas Night
Catholic Youth Service £231 (£89.15 Gift Aid).
Christmas Fair £2,500. Thank you! Christmas Day 10am Mass of Christmas Day
Second collections: this weekend: Christmas Family Christmas Party in the Centre, Sunday
Flowers, 9th Dec Carpet Fund, 16th Dec Poor Parishes December 30th from 6pm. Tickets available
Fund, 25th Dec Christmas Offerings. soon!

Please submit notices and items for publication to Fr Peter by hand, by text 07766 335591 or by email to priest@cannockcatholic.org
2nd December• First Sunday in Advent

St Mary’s Centre 01543 579364 Please Pray … Holt, Theresa Hadley, Dr

Peter Hayward, Fr Pat
Sunday Carvery 12-4pm £6.95
… The Holy Father's Prayer Farrelly, June Weatherby.
Wednesday Carvery 5.30-8pm 2 for £10
Thursday 5.30-8pm 2 for £10 (OAP £4 each) Intention: That people who … for those in our parish
Friday 5.30pm-8.30pm from 2 for £10 are involved in the service receiving communion at
and transmission of faith, home: Mary Kirby, Norah
ALL FUNCTIONS CATERED FOR
may find, in their dialogue Perry, Peter Clamp, Don and
with culture, a language Breeda Hinton, Gerry
The contactless

BBRR!
suited to the conditions of Marriott, Billie Wyles, Maria
terminal is now
the present time.
Wacławski, Catherine
available for
… for all who have lost their Holloway, Bernard Deakin,
donations to parish funds
lives, or their loved ones, or Iris Robertson, Mary Casey,
(but not yet for second
Yes, we know it is cold! their property in the terrible Christine Rogers.
collections and Gift Aid).
For safety reasons the fires in California
The machine is set to ... for those undergoing or
boiler is not operating … Brendan Shannon who is
receive £2, but you can give recovering from treatment or
during Saturday 5pm and sick
increase this to £5 or £10 otherwise in particular need
Sunday 8am masses. It
by tapping the button. … Tom Murphy RIP of our prayers: Fr Paul
should be working fine in
… for all those who are Chamberlain, Peter Garnett,
time for the Sunday Songbirds Carols Dec 11
persecuted for their faith, Hannah Newborough, Peter
10.30am Mass. 7.30pm. Come and enjoy a
that they will be given Clamp, Kevin O’Mahony,
glass of mulled wine and a
Diocesan Education courage and hope to LeeAnn Lister, Ray Bishop,
Service: A Day for mince pie with Songbirds
persevere Audrey George, Mitek
Practising Catholics in Harmony at Our Lady
… for all victims of abuse, Karasinska, Geoff Tipping,
Aspiring for Leadership of Lourdes Centenary
Positions in Catholic Hall. Donations on the and for all those involved in Fred Houghton, Josie Riley,
Schools in the Diocese. door to be shared by Our the work of the Independent James B, Helen, Michelle &
bit.ly/2TEsikD Inquiry into Child Sexual Chris Bell
Lady’s and MIND.
Abuse (IICSA) The Holy Souls
Advent is the time of promise; … for our country, the
…. for the departed souls of
it is not yet the time of government and all involved
our parish and our families
fulfilment. We are still in the in the difficult discussions
and negotiations which have … for those who have died
midst of everything and in the recently: Tony Nunn, Tom
come about after the
logical inexorability and Murphy, Fr Petroc Howell,
referendum to leave the
relentlessness of destiny … European Union: that there Kathleen Morrell, Mary
Space is still filled with the may be wisdom and a Bricklebank, Edna Mooney.
noise of destruction and annihilation, the concern for all in society, … for those with
shouts of seIf-assurance and arrogance, the especially the most anniversaries about this
weeping of despair and helplessness. But vulnerable time: 3rd Maria Rowland,
round about the horizon, the eternal realities … for the sick or 5th Kenneth Morgan, 8th
stand silent in their age-old longing. There, housebound: Don Margaret Jordan, John
shines on them already the first mild light of McCulloch, Mary Rowley, McCape
the radiant fulfilment to come. From afar Helen Pawłak, Kath Turner,
sound the first notes as of pipes and voices, Stella Skillen, Winifride Thanksgivings
not yet discernible as a song or melody. It is- Haynes, Annette Mason, … for the devotion of all
aII far off still, and only just announced and Doris Crabb, Joanne Jeavons, those who work for help the
foretold. But it is happening today. Nicola McCulloch, Celia poorest and those in greatest
Hurdiss, Dee Fellows, David need.
Fr Alfred Delp (1907-1945) Martyr and Priest of Advent
Full rota is at bit.ly/cannockparishrota

Readers Ministers Readers Ministers
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ROTAS Sat 5pm Sat 5pm Sun 8am Sick Visiting Sun 10.30am Sun 10.30am
Counters Stole Washing

December Gail & David Javier Eileen Clancy, Team 4

2nd Françoise Gray Korzonek Shirley Gonzalez-Fritz Julie Kennedy M. Powell, 

D & M Hibberts M & B Briggs Nancy Costello
Advent 1 Cath Hunt C Bridges, C Weatherby Wendy Pat Johnston, S. Nelson M Simpson
YEAR C Jackson Owens Sister Jacinta

December D Bruce, C Team 5

P & C Garnett
Jo Burrowes & G. Keeling, 

9th Josie Morris Hunt Michael A & R Hinsley A Spencer
Schools Nancy Costello
Advent 2 Clare Jackson Teresa Smith Burrowes C. Bridges V Brookes, M
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