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CATHOLIC PARISH OF MELBOURNE and CASTLE DONINGTON
Our Lady of Mercy and St. Philip Neri, Church Street,
Melbourne DE73 8EJ
Website: www.mcdparish.com
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Church of the Risen Lord, Castle Hill,
Castle Donington DE74 2LD
Reg. Charity No. 1134449
St. Mary’s Rectory, Church Street, Melbourne, Derby, DE73 8EJ
tel: 01332 862631
email: [email protected]
tel: 01332 850447
email: [email protected]
Parish Priest: Fr. Anthony Axe OP
Deacon: Rev. Paul Boshell
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21ST DECEMBER 2014
LITURGICAL YEAR : SUNDAY B / WEEKDAY 1
READINGS:
This week: 4th SUNDAY OF ADVENT: Samuel 7:1-16; Psalm 88; Romans 16:25-27; Luke 1:26-38.
Next week: HOLY FAMILY: Ecclesiasticus 3:2-14; Psalm 127; Colossians 3:12-21; Luke 2:22-40.
Week after: EPIPHANY: Isaiah 60:1-6; Psalm 71; Ephesians 3:2-6; Matthew 2:1-12.
MASSES & LITURGIES
Saturday, December 20th
5.00 pm Castle Donington
VIGIL MASS
Clive Watts RIP
Sunday December 21st
9.00 am Castle Donington
10.30 am Melbourne
4th SUNDAY OF ADVENT
Clive Watts RIP
David Hately RIP
Monday, December 22nd
9.00 am Melbourne
Gordon Bellamy RIP
Tuesday, December 23rd
6.00 pm Castle Donington
Peg & Tom Murray RIP
Weds., December 24th
10.00 pm Melbourne
MIDNIGHT MASS
First Mass of Christmas
People of the Parish
Thursday, December 25th
9.00 am Castle Donington
10.30 am Melbourne
CHRISTMAS DAY
Clive Watts RIP
Fred Axe RIP
Friday, December 26th
NO MASS
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Saturday, December 27th
5.00 pm Castle Donington
VIGIL MASS
Sunday December 28th
9.00 am Castle Donington
10.30 am Melbourne
HOLY FAMILY
Monday – Thursday
Dec. 29th - January 1st
NO MASS
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Friday, January 2nd
Mass at Sudbury Prison
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Dorothy Anne Sharpe RIP
Agnes Heffron RIP
Saturday, January 3rd
5.00 pm Castle Donington
VIGIL MASS
Clive Watts RIP
Sunday, January 4th
9.00 am Castle Donington
10.30 am Melbourne
EPIPHANY
Margaret Gilby Hogan [intentions]
George & Olive Crisp RIP
PADLEY CENTRE FOOD BANK: LAST DAY FOR DONATIONS: TODAY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21st.
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MULLED WINE: Help needed to set out glasses, heat the wine and mince pies and serve them.
Preparation can be done any time during the day. Wine and pies heated during Midnight Mass.
Please don’t leave this to Father Anthony again.
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THIS WEEK: Today, Sunday, 21 December, 6.30 pm: Festival of Lessons and Carols.
The traditional Christmas choral service in the Anglican Church, Melbourne. Moving readings and
glorious carols wonderfully sung with mulled wine afterwards. All parishioners are invited.
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THANK YOU OF THE WEEK: To everyone who helped prepare our children for the Christmas
Pageant last week and to the children who presented it to us. Well done!
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CHRISTMAS SERVICES
Christmas is on a Thursday this year so the services over the period will be arranged as follows:
Sunday, December 21st
Wednesday, December 24th:
Thursday, December 25th:
Masses as usual for a Sunday
Christmas Eve: Midnight Mass at 10.00 pm in Melbourne
Christmas Day: Mass at 9.00 am in Castle Donington
Mass at 10.30 am in Melbourne
Sunday, December 28th
Masses as usual for a Sunday
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COFFEE MORNING: Blow away those post-Christmas blues and come to the Coffee Morning in
Melbourne, Saturday, December 27th, St. Mary’s Hall, 10.00 – 12.00.
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THE SICK: Pray for the recovery of our sick parishioners and friends, including Margaret Sutton, Marie-Claire
Kerr, Ian Dingley, Eleanor Wake, Edwin Knight, Pete Webb and Mario Delicata. Remember, too, our parishioners
in care homes and pray for everyone who cares for the sick.
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PRAY FOR: the repose of the souls of Robert Coady, Olive Lee, Gladys Doheney, Margaret Ross,
Bill Kenyon, Patrick Whitty, Johanna Walker, John Chamberlain, Kitty Ronan, Mark Audinwood and
James Blythe, whose anniversaries are this week.
Next week’s anniversaries: Nickolaj Marczuk, Celia Seals, Stephen Baxter, Bernard McEntee, Tony Coffey, Norma
Filamor, Bridget Gorman, Annie Fitzgerald, Joan Barber, Mary K Redmond, Janie Spillane, Freda Hassall, Ellen
Moore and Nancy Johnson.
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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
December
24th Mulled wine after Midnight Mass
January
15th PPC Meeting [CD]
18th Christian Unity Service
20th Melbourne Churches Together
February
20th Greaves Coffee Morning [CD]
17th Shrove Tuesday event
18th Ash Wednesday – Lent begins
March
29th Palm Sunday – Holy Week
April
5th Easter
23rd Richard III Night
7th Pool Cottage Service
May
27th Fashion Show
June
TBA
August
Barbecue
September
1st Pool Cottage Service
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ONLY JOKING:
Daddy, is that Santa’s carbon footprint?

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