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St Alban’s, St Joseph’s and St Peter’s Catholic Churches
Three Rosminian Parishes United in One Faith
21st - 27th DECEMBER 2014
FOURTH WEEK OF ADVENT
(CYCLE B)
Christmas Blessings
ST ALBAN’S PARISH
Cameron Street, Splott, Cardiff CF24 2NX
Tel: 029 2046 3219
www.stalbanssplott.co.uk
newsalbans@gmail.com
ST JOSEPH’S PARISH
New Zealand Road, Gabalfa, Cardiff
CF14 3BR
Tel: 029 2041 1819
www.saintjosephs.org.uk
saintjosephs@ntlworld.com
Thank you for all the help so generously given
throughout the year. It is really appreciated.
A very Happy Christmas to you all from the
Rosminian Community at St. Alban’s,
St. Joseph’s and St. Peter’s Churches.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
“Behold God made man, Jesus Christ, full of love.”
(Blessed Antonio Rosmini)
CHRISTMAS OFFERINGS AT ALL ROSMINIAN PARISHES
Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st December are normal collections.
Those on Wednesday 24th and Thursday 25th December will be for
the formation and maintaining of the Rosminian students. If you are
a tax payer and would like your offering to be gift aided, please use a
brown “Rosminian” envelope available at the back of the Church.
Please complete the details and sign the declaration. If you are a
member of the Gift Aid scheme, you will find the brown Rosminian
Christmas envelope in your pack.
“WALK WITH ME” - A Journey of Prayer for Advent & Christmas
Copies of this pocket-size booklet are now available in all churches
at £1 each. Archbishop George Stack, Bishop Tom Burns and
Bishop Peter Brignall have written a foreword and recommend it as
an aid to prayer. Proceeds go to Church funds.
CHRISTMAS SERVICES & MASS TIMES FOR THE THREE
ROSMINIAN PARISHES
Our Newsletter Team are taking a very short break over Christmas
so Masses are only shown up to 27th December in this edition. For
all other Masses over the Christmas period, please see details in
your own church. The Newsletter will next be published on the
10th/11th January and the team (Anne, Cathy, Lyn, Ray and
Romilly), wish you all a very happy and peaceful Christmas.
ST PETER’S PARISH
St Peter Street, Roath, Cardiff CF24 3BA
Tel: 029 2048 3394
www.stpeters-roath.co.uk
stpeterscardiff@gmail.com
St. Peter’s Hall
Tel: 029 2049 4425
Parishes of the Archdiocese of Cardiff
Registered Charity No 242380
Served by Rosminians www.rosmini.org
SAFEGUARDING REPRESENTATIVES
St Alban’s - Maggie Suller 07899 748377
St Joseph’s - Chris Mullane 07747 057163
St Peter’s - Theresa Hurley 029 2041 0092
PARISH TEAMS
St Peter’s
Fr Philip Scanlan, Fr. Michael McCarthy,
Fr Jim McKnight & Rev. Robert James
St Alban’s
Fr. Saji Dominic, Fr Joe Mullen,
St Joseph’s
Fr Ambrose Maliakkal, Fr Edward Cody,
Deacon Mark Howe,
Br Brian Butler
ST ALBAN’S PRIMARY SCHOOL
Tel: 029 2046 2915
www.stalbanssplott.co.uk
ST JOSEPH’S PRIMARY SCHOOL
029 2062 1625
www.stjosephsprm.cardiff.sch.uk
ST PETER’S PRIMARY SCHOOL
Tel: 029 2049 7847
www.stpeters.website-express.co.uk
CORPUS CHRISTI HIGH SCHOOL
Tel: 029 2076 1893
www.corpuschristihighschool.co.uk
ST ILLTYD’S HIGH SCHOOL
Tel: 029 2077 8174
www.stilltyds.org.uk
ST DAVID’S CATHOLIC SIXTH FORM
COLLEGE
Tel: 029 2049 8555
www.st-davids-coll.ac.uk
St Alban’s
Parish Notices
St Joseph’s
Parish Notices
CHRISTMAS
GREETINGS
Wishing all Parishioners
a Happy and Holy Christmas
and a Blessed New Year.
Fr. Saji., Fr. Joe and Fr. Chris
take this opportunity to wish all
Parishioners a Happy & Holy
Christmas and a joyful New Year.
They also thank you for the
cards and gifts received.
PARISH & SCHOOL CAROL SERVICE
Congratulations to our Schoolchildren
for their performance at the Carol
Service on Monday. Many thanks
also to the teachers and assistants
who prepared them for this Service.
Grateful thanks to St. Alban’s Band
who provided the music for this most
enjoyable celebration.
Fr Ambrose, Fr Cody,
Br Brian, Deacon Mark
ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
Please note that there will be no Adoration on
Wednesday, 24th December (Christmas Eve) or
Wednesday 31st December (New Year’s Eve).
SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION - 2015
Candidates who wish to receive the Sacrament of
Confirmation next year are asked to collect a form
from the Sacristy and return it fully completed. A
series of lessons will begin in the New Year for the
candidates to prepare for this Sacrament.
THE CHRISTMAS PLAY AND FAYRE
Will be held on Sunday, 21st December at
11.00 am in the Hall. Donations of bric-a-brac,
books, toys, canned food or drinks, etc. all
welcome. Please contact Maggie or Theresa if you
would like to help out.
CHRISTMAS DRAW AND SOCIAL will be held in
the Hall today, Saturday, 20th December after the
evening Mass. Please come along to support this
event.
APF ‘MISSIO’ BOXES
The Missio boxes are now due to be emptied so,
could all those who have boxes, please leave them
in the Presbytery. The empty boxes can be
collected from the Church Shop the following
weekend. If you wish to have your box collected,
please contact Peter Maunder on 2021 6481.
HALL BOOKINGS
A booking form has been created to regularise Hall
bookings. All Hall users are required to complete
the form and return it to the Presbytery or Parish
Office. Conditions of Hire are shown on the form.
This Week’s Events/Meetings
Saturday 7 pm
Christmas Draw &
Social
Church
Hall
Monday 6 pm
Legion of Mary
Presbytery
Monday 7.30pm
UCM Meeting
Presbytery
Tuesday 7.00pm
Divine Mercy Meeting
Presbytery
CONFIRMATION
27th JUNE 2015 at 6.00 pm
There will be a meeting for parents
and candidates in the New Year details to follow. Classes for this
Sacrament will start in March on
Saturdays from 4.00pm - 5.30 pm.
THE GIFT AID SCHEME
Gift Aid is a way of benefitting the Parish at no
extra cost to you. It is for UK tax payers and,
instead of putting your weekly offering directly
into the collection bag, you use individually
numbered envelopes so that contributions can
be recorded and a claim made from the Tax
Office. You do not need to contribute a fixed
amount or to pay every week of the year. The
amount you give and how often you pay is
entirely up to you. If you are a taxpayer and are
not already Gift Aiding your offerings, please
give serious consideration to joining the scheme.
There are sheets at the back of the Church with
further details.
WE DO CARE!
Are you sick, housebound or lonely? Do you
know any parishioner who is? If they would
like a visit in hospital or home, perhaps with
Holy Communion, please contact Bro. Brian,
leaving your name and contact details.
LIBRARY NEWS
We have two new additions to the
DVD Library: “Cold Comfort
Farm” and “The Fellowship of the
Ring”. If you are up-dating your
private collection with Blu-ray
discs, we would welcome any
unwanted DVD’s for the library.
This Week’s Events/Meetings
Monday 7.30pm
UCM
Meeting Room
St Peter’s
Parish Notices
Fr. Philip, Fr. Jim, Fr. Michael and Rev.
Robert wish to thank all those who
have sent cards and presents at this
time. This is greatly appreciated and
we now send to each and every one
our heartfelt thanks and greetings for Christmas and
the New Year. May we all keep in our hearts for the
weeks ahead the mysteries we have just celebrated.
Dates for your Diaries
Saturday 20th December
CHRISTMAS DRAW AND SOCIAL in St.
Alban’s Church Hall after the evening Mass.
Sunday 21st December
Christmas Play and Fayre at St Alban’s
Church Hall starting at 11.00 am.
Wednesday 7th January
SECOND COLLECTION
There will be a collection after all Masses today for
flowers to decorate the Church this Christmas.
Over Christmas, we warmly welcome all who
wish to come and share in our adoration of God
made Man, whether they are Catholic or not,
practising or not, curious or committed.
THE CRIB
Parishioners are welcome to bring in Poinsettias to
be part of the Crib between Sunday 21st and
Tuesday, December 23rd (at the latest). If you
wish to link this with the remembrance of a loved
one, the name can be attached to the plant, all
names will then be collected and placed in a basket
in front of the Crib over the Christmas period. The
poinsettias should be taken home after Christmas
but must be cleared by the Epiphany (January 6th).
PLEASE NOTE THE TIMES OF MASSES OVER THE
CHRISTMAS PERIOD AS ON THE INSERT SHEET IN
EACH COPY OF TODAY’S NEWSLETTER
KEY CLUB
The Key Club has closed for the holidays and
restarts on 11th January. We wish you all, children
and parents, a very happy Christmas.
ADORATION
There will be no Adoration on Wednesday, 24th
December (Christmas Eve) or Wednesday 31st
December (New Year’s Eve).
SACRAMENTS OF RECONCILIATION AND
HOLY COMMUNION - If your child is in Year 3 or
above and does not attend a Catholic school but
would like to receive these Sacraments, please
leave your contact details with any of the priests.
Induction meeting - Sunday, 11th January, 2015 at
10.30 am. May we remind parents of children now
preparing for the Sacraments to make sure that the
excitement of Christmas does not fade away in the
weeks ahead so that weekly attendance at Mass
will become an essential part of life, both now and
into the years that lie ahead.
Opening night of Jack and the Beanstalk
presented by St Peter’s Players in St Peter’s
Hall at 7.00 pm.
Continues through to
Saturday 10th January. Tickets £7.50/£4.50
from
07779
088623
or
info@stpetersplayers.com
Sunday 11th January
The Key Club (Children’s Liturgy) restarts
at the 9.30 am Mass following the Christmas
break
Induction Meeting for parents of children
who do not attend Catholic schools but want
to receive the Sacraments of Reconciliation
and First Holy Communion at St. Peter’s
Presbytery at 10.30 am.
A Prayer for Christmas Eve
Loving God, Help us remember the birth
of Jesus that we may share in the song of
the angels, the gladness of the shepherds
and worship of the wise men.
Close the door of hate and open the door
of love all over the world. Let kindness
come with every gift and good desires
with every greeting. Deliver us from evil
by the blessing which Christ brings and
teach us to be merry with clear hearts.
May the Christmas morning make us
happy to be thy children, and Christmas
evening bring us to our beds with
grateful thoughts, forgiving and forgiven,
for Jesus’ sake.
Amen.
Mass Times & Intentions
SAT 20th & SUN 21ST DECEMBER FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT
St Alban’s
6.00 pm
Paul O’Leary
St Joseph’s
6.00 pm
Rosaria Spiteri
St Joseph’s
9.15 am
Fr. John Doman
St Peter’s
9.30 am
Anne & Nelson Perreault
St Alban’s
10.00 am Mary Frost & Family
St Joseph’s
11.00 am All Parishioners
St Peter’s
11.00 am Baby Joseph Cassar
St Peter’s
12.15 pm Spiro Sueref
Sacrament of Reconciliation
St Peter’s
St Joseph’s
St Alban’s
St Peter’s
St Joseph’s
Friday
Saturday
Saturday
Saturday
Sat
After evening Mass
12noon - 1pm
12noon - 12.30pm
12.15 - 1pm
5.45pm (before 6pm Mass)
Adoration
St Alban’s
St Joseph’s
St. Peter’s
St Alban’s
Monday
Wednesday
Wednesday
Friday
St Peter’s
Mon - Fri
St Peter’s
Mon - Thurs
Rosary & Benediction
MON 22nd DEC - Fourth Week of Advent
St Peter’s
8.00 am
9.15 am
Private Intention
St Peter’s
9.30 am
DM of the Ianni & Zurlo Families
St Peter’s
11.00 am Requiem Mass for Jana Saliba
St. Albans
7.00 pm
John Bodenham
TUES 23rd DEC - St. John of Kanty, Priest
St Peter’s
8.00 am
Cyril & Bridget George
St Joseph’s
9.15 am
Private Intention
St. Albans
9.30 am
DM of the McGrath Family
St Peter’s
9.30 am
Josephine Camilleri
WEDS 24th DEC - Vigil: The Nativity of Our
Lord Jesus Christ
St Peter’s
8.00 am
All Parishioners
St Joseph’s
St. Joseph’s
9.15 am
6.00 pm
Expectant Mothers
Christmas Vigil: All Parishioners
St Peter’s
6.30 pm
Vigil: DM of the Bishop Family/
Philip Driscoll
St Alban’s
8.00 pm
Vigil: Michael & Theresa Collins
St. Joseph’s
11.30 pm Carols followed by Midnight Mass All Parishioners
St Peter’s
11.30 pm Carols, followed by Midnight Mass James & Edith Clarke and William
& Elsie Steele/ Stefan Olshansky
Rosary daily after 8am Mass
and before 7.00 pm Mass on
Friday.
Morning Prayer
DM of the Camilleri Family
St Joseph’s
6 - 7 pm ( St Joseph’s Chapel)
9.40 am - 3.30 pm
10 am - 8 pm (St David’s Chapel)
8.30 - 9.30am (St Joseph’s
9.15am (St David’s Chapel)
Please keep in your prayers
OUR RECENTLY DECEASED - R.I.P
Jana Saliba, Rita Barry
ANNIVERSARIES
St Albans: Giuseppe Oliveri, Robert Tamlin, Patrick O’Leary,
Stephen Rees, John Cook, James Brooks, James Britton,
Mary Eccles, Margaret Riordan, Michael Brown, William Stallard,
William Legge, Sandra Walentin, Catherine James.
St. Joseph’s: Elizabeth Driscoll, Cornelius O’Brien, Paul Breen,
William Fitzpatrick, William Marchant, James Mahoney,
Jim Fitzgerald, Terry Rees, Michael Lawson, Sheila Hipkin,
Fr. Bill Fearon IC, Debra Darmanin, Fr. Bernard Holland,
Daniel O’Brien, Pat North, Nora Kavanagh, Peter Catris,
Rachel Atkins, Margaret Carter.
St Peter’s: Ellen Downing, Edith Pearce, Paul Breen, Catherine
Healan, Ellen Walsh, Michael Sweeney, John & Margaret Jones,
Gillian Britton, Mary Hillier, Mary Goodyear, Rosemary Kelly,
Josephine Watkins, Alex Grace, Trevor Lewis, Chris Neale,
Ralph Broughton, Tony Gibbs, Baby Joseph Cassar,
Cyril George, Elena Abela, Sheila Hennessy, John A. Martin.
THURS 25th DEC - THE NATIVITY OF OUR
LORD JESUS CHRIST
St. Peter’s
9.30 am
Norman Willis/DM of Neale Family
St Joseph’s
10.00 am All Parishioners
St Alban’s
10.00 am For all Parishioners
St Peter’s
11.00 am David Stafford, Elizabeth &
JohnBallinger & Grace Dawe/
James & Edith Clarke & William &
Elsie Steele
St. Joseph’s
6.30 pm
Vocations to the Priesthood
FRI 26th DEC - St. Stephen, the first Martyr
St Joseph’s
9.15 am
Altar Servers/James Mahoney
St Alban’s
10.00 am Pauline Hawkins
St. Peter’s
10.00 am Anna & Mostyn Wade
SAT 27th DEC - St. John, Apostle & Evangelist
St Joseph’s
9.15 am
Private Intention
St. Peter’s
10.00 am GE Fr. Michael Cronin
St Alban’s
6.00 pm
Maggie & Christie Keane
St Joseph’s
6.00 pm
All Parishioners
BAPTISMS
Xavier Manleon Letellier at St. Alban’s Church
at 12 noon on 21st December
Hannah Weaving at St. Joseph’s Church