ST THOMAS MORE PARISH This parish is part of the Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham Registered Charity No. 234216

112 Knoll Drive, Stivichall, Coventry CV3 5DE 024 7641 1900 E-MAIL: stmcov@gmail.com

WEB: www.stmcov.org and on TWITTER: @StThosMore A Parish of the Coventry Catholic Deanery

WEB: www.coventry-catholicdeanery.org.uk LIVESTREAM WEBCAM www.mcnmedia.tv/camera/st-thomas-morecoventry/

MASS TIMES & INTENTIONS

SUNDAY 12th Nov

32nd Sunday Remembrance

Sung Mass Confession Mass

9.00 am 5.30 pm 6.00 pm

Cornelius O’Shea (RIP) Jayatunge Ilangasekera (Anniv)

Monday 13th Feria

Mass Holy Hour of Exposition

9.00 am 7.00 pm

Dec’d daughter of Holy Spirit

Tuesday 14th Feria

Mass 7.30 pm John Francis McCarthy (Mem Mass)

Wednesday 15th Feria

Mass 9.15 am Mary Finnegan (Anniv)

Thursday 16th

Feria Mass 9.00 am Matthew Cullen (RIP)

Friday 17th Feria

Eucharistic Service 9.00 am ~

Saturday 18th Of Our Lady

Mass Holy Hour & Benediction Confession

9.00 am 9.30-10.30 9.30-10.20

Hussey/Merrick families (Anniv)

SUNDAY 19th Nov

33rd Sunday

Sung Mass Confession Mass

9.00 am 5.30 pm 6.00 pm

Charles Cullinane (Anniv) Nancy Orme (RIP)

12th November 2017 Mass on p7, readings on p152 of the Parish Mass Book There is a loop hearing system in church.

PARISH CONTACTS PARISH PRIEST: Rev Fr Stephen Day Tel: 024 7641 1900 stmcov@gmail.com PARISH DEACONS: Rev Mr Pat Jeary Tel: 024 7641 2564 Rev Mr Leo Poole Tel: 024 7641 9731 PRIMARY SCHOOL HEAD: Mr Morgan Williams Tel: 024 7684 9910 www.st-thomasmore.coventry.sch.uk SAFEGUARDING REPS: Claire Rutter Tel: 024 7641 2535 Alison Cullinane Tel: 024 7644 1436 GIFT AID CO-ORDINATOR: Tony Curristan Tel: 024 7641 1280 PARISH ADMINISTRATOR & Amanda Kelly Tel: 024 7641 4473 ROOM BOOKINGS: email: amandafriswells@btconnect.com

NOVEMBER: Month of the Holy Souls Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord

and let perpetual light shine upon them

This Weekend

• 32nd Sunday of the Year: Remembrance Sunday 9am Mass will be of requiem with a commemoration of parishion-ers who have died the past year.

• Refreshments available after both Sun-day Masses. Tea, coffee and conversation.

This Week

• Tuesday: Tuesday Society— 2.00 pm in MRR. Coventry in the ‘60’s.. All welcome. Mass for the Deceased Clergy of Coven-try 7.00pm Sacred Heart Church BAZAAR PLANNING MEETING 8.00 p.m. Please come along and offer your support.

• Wednesday: Adoration Prayer Group 1.30pm in the chapel. Refreshments follow. Stepping Stones Parent & Toddler Grp— 1.30 pm in school Community Rm Justice & Peace Meeting—JPII 8.00 p.m. Live Simply Parish - for all interested in working towards this CAFOD award. For more information see cafod.org.uk/livesimply or call Kevin on 0781 2211828

• Thursday: Extend Gentle Exercise MRR 10.00 a.m.

Next Weekend

• 33rd Sunday of the Year Coming Soon

• Fri 1st Dec Parish Christmas Bazaar. Please look out possible draw and tombola prizes, bottles, gifts and so on. The Draw tickets are available—first prize £250, sec-ond £100! Please take some to sell, buy some yourself and promote this parish fundraiser!

Readers’ Rota This week... 9.00 a.m. Laura Martin & Ernest Hackett 6.00 p.m. Anthony Buckley & Andrew Colby Next Week... 9.00 a.m. Mary Wilson & Clive Robinson 6.00 p.m. Caitlin McBride & John Burns

CLEANERS NEEDED! Young or old, please offer to help! Our hard working and happy band of cleaners work their magic on Tuesday mornings from about 8am onwards. Just turn up and you’ll be warmly welcomed! Thank you!

MASS INTENTIONS A reminder that we have a great many inten-tions and the demand for Sundays (esp 9am) is very high. At the moment there are no free Sundays till February. Please consider being willing to share your intention (indicate this on the intentions envelope): this is all that can

be done to create more opportunities AS THE TEMPERATURE FALLS...

...and gas bills inevitably rise, one thing we can do to try to beat the cold and not be wasteful is please make sure the church doors are kept shut, inside and out! Our 49 year old heaters cannot cope with open doors. Thanks

COVENTRY WINTER NIGHT SHELTER IS LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS

From 1st Dec, volunteers needed, please visit http://hopecoventry.org.uk/projects/coventry-winter-night-shelter/, or contact Bernardo on cwnscoordinator@gmail.com, 07450 693897. St Osburg's is hosting the night shelter on Wednesday/Thursday - if you can help please contact as above or phone Louisa Hopkins 07828 739064 if you would like to find out more. We are particularly looking for people to help with the night shift 10pm - 7am at St Os-burg's, working alongside experienced volun-teers. Training session on Thurs 16th Novem-ber at The Welcome Centre, 47 Parkside, CV1 2HG,. Everybody is welcome, no need to regis-ter or to have applied. You will find more infor-mation on our Facebook page: Coventry Winter Night Shelter. Thank you.

CALLING ALL GARDENERS! MONDAY 13th November @ 1.30 p.m

We have lots of bulbs that need planting around the front of church to help prepare for our Jubi-lee Year. Please come along to help and per-haps bring some more bulbs with you.

PARISH PIETY SHOP Advent calendars, advent candles, scented Christmas candles, cards, nativity sets, calen-dars, diaries and all manner of Christmas good-ies now in stock. Have a browse after Mass.

FINANCE… Thank you for all that you give in time, money or effort. Last week First Coll: £1014.10 Johnson Fund: £521.84 Month’s Standing Orders: £624 In 2016 it cost £1,589 a week to run the parish. (In 2015 £1,510, in 2014 £1,966)

LOURDES PILGRIMAGE 2018 Andy & Alison are now planning next year’s pilgrimage to Lourdes, dates are 26 May - 1 June. There are still a few places left on the Lourdes pilgrimage departing on 26th May from Stansted into Lourdes and returning on 1st June. Cost is £700. For further information con-tact Andy or Alison on 02476 441436.

Parish Christmas Bazaar Friday 1st Dec in the School Wanted: bottles, nearly new items,

gifts, cakes… Planning Meeting: Tue 14 Nov 8pm JP2 Rm

Sunday’s Readings…

T he early Christians believed

that Christ’s return to earth

would be very soon: two thou-

sand years later we are still wait-

ing. This is not a reason for doubt or disappoint-

ment: Christ’s first coming was eagerly awaited

by many who never saw it, as the Old Testa-

ment bears witness. Some early Christians be-

gan to fear for those who died before Christ’s

return, but St Paul points out that all shall meet

Him, for our earthly death is not the end of life,

but a change in life. Jesus tells the story of the

five wise and foolish bridesmaids. None of them

doubted the groom’s arrival, but not all of them

were ready when it happened. Some of them

just expected everything to be all right but did

nothing to make sure it was! All Christians need

to be ready for Jesus by prayer, and acts of faith,

love and mercy. Then He will recognise us as

friends when He comes again. This is of course

a theme of Advent, that begins in a few weeks.

2018 JUBILEE • SOLEMNITY OF MARY, MOTHER OF GOD, Mon-

day 1st January 11am First Mass of the

year.

• PARISH MISSION: 17th Feb-4th Mar 2018.

• ST THOMAS MORE’S DAY MASS & FLOWER FESTI-

VAL: Friday 22nd June 2018.

• THANKSGIVING MASS WITH THE ARCHBISHOP: Fri-

day July 20th 2018.

• PILGRIMAGE TO ROME: Week beginning 22nd

October 2018. New date

• PARISH JUBILEE DINNER: evening of Friday 9th

November at the Village Hotel.

MISSION 2018 - 17 FEBRUARY - 4 MARCH -

PLEASE PRAY! We now have a Mission Prayer, thanks to the Mission Prayer Group. It will be used formally at all worship soon. Please begin to use it now in your own prayers.

D ear Heavenly Father we thank you for the many gifts you have given to us through

Your Beloved Son Jesus Christ, especially for our Baptism. Help us to respond to your great Love. Most Holy Spirit, grant us a new and deeper relationship with Our Lord Jesus Christ, who calls us to follow Him always. Let us rediscover the joy of knowing Jesus our Friend and Broth-er, who is so close to us in the Blessed Eucha-rist. May He show us how to be true witnesses to the Good News of the Gospel, enabling us to share His Gifts of Love, Joy and Peace. May our parish community be a beacon of Hope for all who seek the Way, the Truth and the Life. We ask Mary, the Mother of Jesus and our dear Mother, to walk with us on this journey and help us to open our hearts to receive this Love. Our Lady of Coventry, Pray for us. St Thomas More, Pray for us. “There is nothing more beautiful than to be sur-prised by the Gospel, by the encounter with Christ. There is nothing more beautiful than to know Jesus, and to speak to others of our friendship with Him”. Pope Benedict XVI

FATIMA CENTENARY Sunday 26th Nov Is the end of the Centenary Year commemorating Our Lady’s apparitions at Fatima in 1917. At St Peter’s, Leamington

there will be exposition of the Blessed Sacra-ment from 3pm to 4pm, ending with the ro-sary and procession of the statue. Light re-freshments follow. St Peter’s is a pilgrimage church for the Birmingham archdiocese during the Fatima Centenary Year.

St Peter Apostle Catholic Church, Dormer Place, Leamington Spa, CV32 5AE

Information: Peter Dimambro 01926 428399 Email mdimambro@hotmail.co.uk

ST THOMAS MORE MASSES LIVE ON THE WEB

Our Masses are available to watch live over the internet atwww.mcnmedia.tv/camera/st-thomas-morecoventry/ We have an average of 400 viewers each week joining us at Mass

ARRANGING A WEDDING

Congratulations on your engage-ment! Please speak to one of the clergy in the first place to make ar-rangements for your wedding. You will need a meeting with the Parish Priest to go through all that needs to be done. About six months’ notice at least is desirable: but it’s never too soon.

ARRANGING A BAPTISM

(CHRISTENING) for BABIES & YOUNG CHILDREN

Congratulations on the birth of your child! Baptism is arranged by ap-pointment. It usually happens at 12.15 p.m. on a Sunday or at either Sunday Mass. Parents should collect a form after Sunday Mass. For the baptism of children over four and of adults see the parish priest.

MAKING YOUR CONFESSION

Confession, the sacrament of recon-ciliation, is available on Saturday mornings 9.40 a.m.-10.20 a.m., on Sundays before 6 p.m. Mass and by arrangement with the parish priest. Our God is a God of mercy!

ADORING THE LORD EXPOSITION

There are regular opportunities each week to pray before the Blessed Sac-rament exposed on the altar. Satur-days from 9.30 a.m. (following Mass) and Mondays 7.00 p.m.

If you need to ask anything that can wait until Sunday—we

guarantee you can catch the clergy in church then! Otherwise contact

details are on the front of this sheet

For Your Prayers... THE SICK & SUFFERING: Mike Perry, Vicky Hobbs, Mark Pearson, Muriel Rutter, Anne Kenny, Patricia Hugenin, John Magee, Cynthia Walton, Ivor Sanders, Steve Foster, John Walker, Hildegard Atherton, Tom Ashley, Jim Slattery, Roy Haslam, Caroline Fitzpatrick “Fitz”, Suzanne Martin, Liam Mee, John & Hel-en McDonnell, Teresa Mellon, Cecil & Margaret Dowson, Madge Vowles, Carl Smith, Mary Mor-ris, Beatrice Upham, Felix Rooney, John & Jeanne Gould, Charlie Addison, Joanne Bazen, Maisie Taylor, William Begley, Sylvester & Kitty Budkiewjez, Pam Brown. Our Lady of Lourdes, health of the sick: Pray for us!

IMPORTANT: As announced, the list of the sick has now

been updated. If anyone needs to go back on or be added PLEASE just let us know.

RECENTLY DEPARTED: Muriel Grimmet, Ken Stone, Norah Curristan ANNIVERSARIES: James O’Shea, Patrick Brennan, Thomas Deegan, Ann Redmond, Michael Carr, John Tomkins, Carol O’Sullivan, William McCrea, John O’Malley, Maureen Ro-wan, Alan Beer, Thomas Burke, Annie Wise-man, Joseph Garry, Eveline Hopkins, Elizabeth McGuckin, John McCarthy, John Comer, Antho-ny Casey, William Brennan, Celia Adams, Mi-chael Haran, Harry Bradley, Madge Jennings, Kathleen Petherbridge, Rose Stretton, Annie-Mary Duffy, Francis Chambers, Mary Finnegan, Gordon Cook, Katherine Alford, David Boyle, John Brooks, Amelia de Longhi, John Hynes, Mary Birch, Tony Griffin, Paddy Gray, Kathleen Sturman and all the faithful departed Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord and let per-petual light shine upon them

• The Parish Mission next Lent

• Peace in the world

• Those who suffer through war

• Members of the armed forces

This wonderful Catholic charity, run from a shed in

Argyll, is currently having all donations doubled by three generous benefactors. Please give to support the feeding and educating of children in Africa—

it will be doubled! Visit marysmeals.org.uk to give online or cheque to Freepost, MARY’S MEALS.