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Collections & Standing Orders

St George’s: £904 & £995 St Teresa’s: £186 & £230

Thank you for your generosity

Upcoming Special Collections: 3rd December: Poor of the Diocese 25th December: Parish Priest 28th January : Racial Justice

Diocesan Prayer Link: St Gregory the Great, Cheltenham,

Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary & St Thomas More.

Parish Priest: Monsignor Bernard Massey Assistant Priest: Fr David Savoury bernard.massey@cliftondiocese.com david.savoury@cliftondiocese.com

Parish Administrator: Carolyn Kirby St George & St Teresa Parish Office: Tel: 01823 272700 Hours: Monday - Thursday 9.30am - 1.00pm & Friday 10.00am - 5.00pm Email: taunton.stgeorge@cliftondiocese.com Website: www.tauntoncatholicchurch.co.uk

Permanent Deacons: Rev Trevor Jones: 01823 270935 Rev Ed Channing: 01823 251253 trevor.jones@cliftondiocese.com edward.channing@cliftondiocese.com

Churches: St George’s, Billet St, Taunton, TA1 3NN St Teresa’s, Eastwick Rd, Taunton, TA2 7HF

We remember all those who have died recently especially:

Margaret Kilcullen, Nora Dool, Josephine Ferguson, Mary Nickolls

Declan Shorthall, and those whose anniversaries

occur at this time: Mary Auty, Ted McCabe, Georgina Tuck,

Eric Hill, Edward Wilson, Mrs Wilson, Margita Jakes, John Grimoldby,

Gordon Phelan, Ronald Cunningham, Mr Rooker, Maurice Clasby, Olga Audsley, Kathlyn Thomas, Angela Pacey , Henry

Davey, Alan Thistlethwaite, Sara Frounks, Pam Richards, Kathleen Wright, Owen

Piper, Janet Lindsay, Phyllis Hill, Terence O’Rouke & Jerzy Komarnicki

By the time most of you read this I will have done my interview on BBC Radio Bristol’s Sunday Breakfast Show. Lucy, who is the presenter, has spoken to me on a number of occasions about current events relating to the church. Today the show should be about the conviction for genocide of Ratko Mladic. You may be aware that I served as an Army Chaplain and spent 6 months in Bosnia and Croatia during the early part of that conflict. I saw, at first hand, some of the results of the so-called ethnic cleansing, in and around different locations in Bosnia. I also visited Sarajevo on several occasions and because it was considered too dangerous, I was never allowed to say overnight. On one instance, the only plane I could get took me to Zagreb for the night. Prior to my flight back to Split where I was stationed, I was driven around Sarajevo in an armoured Range Rover which had a 2 inch windscreen with a rifle bullet stuck in the middle of the screen. I have photographs of the Winter Olympics Training Ground which was converted into a graveyard. When I saw it again, about 2 months later, it was filled with hundreds of new graves. Ratko Mladic led and organised the deadliest of assaults on this city. When inhabitants left their homes and the shelter of the buildings to get food to eat, they ran for their lives between the junctions in the road. Each day, life was a struggle and fraught with danger. I well remember talking to representatives of the Intelligence Corp who were eager to gather evidence on the atrocities that were discovered; they were convinced that one day justice would prevail. This week in The Hague, it did. The power of evil can never ultimately overcome the power of God’s love

and peace. Mgr Bernard

CONFESSIONS & ROSARY St George's: Confessions Thursday: 12.00-12:20pm Saturday: 10:00am-10:30am & 5:00pm –5:20pm Rosary : Thursdays: 11:45am & Saturdays:10:00am St Teresa’s: Confessions by request

Sat 25th 5:30pm St George’s Christ the King Dympna & Douglas Barter RIP

Sun 26th 8.00am St George’s Christ the King Marie-Madeleine Coste

Sun 26th 9.30am St George’s Christ the King Veronica Twort RIP

Sun 26th 11.00am St Teresa’s Christ the King Sheila Whittaker RIP

Mon 27th 9.30am St George’s Ordinary Weekday Margaret Kilcullen RIP

Mon 27th 2.30pm St George’s Ordinary Weekday Funeral Service for Josephine Ferguson

Tues 28th 9.30am St George’s Ordinary Weekday Margot Murphy RIP

Wed 29th 9:30am St George’s Ordinary Weekday Jim Davy RIP

Thurs 30th 12:30pm St George’s St Andrew Alan Thistlethwaite RIP

Fri 1st 10:00am St Teresa’s St Alexander Briant Michael William Everitt RIP

Fri 1st 11:30am St George’s St Alexander Briant Funeral Service for Declan Shorthall

Sat 2nd 9.30am St George’s St Osmund Michael William Everitt RIP

Sat 2nd 5:30pm St George’s First Sunday of Advent Majella Walsh RIP

Sun 3rd 8.00am St George’s First Sunday of Advent Peggy & John Coleman &

Una Thatcher RIP

Sun 3rd 9.30am St George’s First Sunday of Advent Patrick Twort RIP

Sun 3rd 11.00am St Teresa’s First Sunday of Advent People of the Parishes

MASS TIMES FOR THE COMING WEEK

There will be a second collection this

weekend for the Catholic Youth Service

St George’s Music Group & Choir Practices for Advent & Christmas

The Choir and Music Group are now practicing music for Advent and the Christmas Season. If you sing or play an instrument please come along & take part you will be very welcome. - Choir practices will be held on Wed 29th Nov, Thurs 7th & 21st December. - Music Group practices will be held on Fri 1st Dec & Wed 13th December. - Christmas Carol Service practice for singers & instrumentalists will be held on Thursday 14th December.

All practices will be at 7.30pm – 9pm in St George’s Church.

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION If your child is in Year 3 or

above and you would like them to make their First Holy

Communion in June then please complete the Yellow

First Holy Communion Application Form at the back of the church and return it to

the Parish Office ASAP There will be a meeting, where

at least one parent needs to attend, on Tues 28th Nov at

7.00pm in St George’s Church. You are welcome to bring the

children with you - if it makes it easier for you to attend.

“The nearly new Paperback Bookstall ”

The next stall will be held on Sunday, 3rd December. We are

always glad to received good quality books to sell in the Parish Centre; please bring them in at any time.

‘Be still and know that I am God’ (Ps 6 v10). In stillness and silence

lies a loving way of being with God. If you wish to try it, a Prayer of

Silence group will be starting up in January. For more details, please phone either Rev Ed Channing

on 251253 or Wrio Russell on 421796

Carols by Candlelight at St George’s Church

Sunday 17th December at 4pm This will be followed by mulled wine & mince pies in the Parish Centre. There will be a practice for singers and instrumentalists 7.30pm – 9pm on Thursday 14

th December & on

the day of the Service from 2.45pm, both in St Georges Church.

Do you support Catholic Schools & the right of Catholics to send

their children to them? Then we need you to make your voice

heard. The Government is making a critical decision on whether to

overturn the admissions cap which prevents Catholic Schools from allowing all Catholic pupils

to attend. They have acknowledged that this policy

discriminates against Catholics & promised to abandon it. Ask them not to U-turn on their promise to Catholics. Visit:

catholicnews.org.uk or search for ‘Catholic Education’ to write to

the Government & urge them to drop their policy which bans new

Catholic Schools.

SVP ADVENT SOUP LUNCHES will begin again on Thursday 7th December - together with 14th &

21st December - 1pm to 2pm in the Parish Centre. Everyone welcome

& all proceeds go to charity.

CHRISTMAS GIFTS & CARDS FOR GOOD CAUSES AVAILABLE FROM:

- Catholic Centre Bookshop: Please support your church & pay us a visit for cards/gifts etc. Opening times: Sunday, 8.30 -11.30am - Clifton Children’s Society Christmas card catalogues are available in the church. - Multi Charity Christmas Cards are now available from The Taunton Visitor Centre, Market House, Taunton. - CAFOD World Gift Christmas catalogues are available online or in the church.

There will be a Funeral Service for Josephine Ferguson

on Monday 27th November at 2:30pm at St George’s Church;

there will be the usual 9:30am Mass on this day.

ST GEORGE’S MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION & READERS The rotas for Eucharistic Ministers &

Readers for January, February & March 2018 are being prepared. Would

Readers & Eucharistic Ministers please advise Anthony Brown of their unavailable dates by Monday

4th December. Tel 01823 480441; email: aabrown.battens@gmail.com

The funeral service for Nora Dool (Josephine Pentney’s mother)

will be held on Friday 8th, December at 12 noon at

Taunton Deane Crematorium.

TWO MEETINGS FOR ADVENT on 'Transformation' with Deacon Ed Channing on Monday 11th & Monday 18th December, 3pm to

4.30pm at St Teresa’s Church. Will include silence, Scripture,

teaching, discussion & Exposition. All welcome to attend.

Why not come for a Roast Lunch & Pudding

at St George’s Catholic School on Wednesday, 13th December

at 1pm? Cost: £3 per person. FFI please take a leaflet &

return it together with your payment to either St George’s School

or The Parish Office. This will hopefully become a regular School/Parish event.