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Welcome to St Peter’s, Eynsham
 | Our church is situated at the far end of Abbey Street in Eynsham and serves the surrounding villages including the Hanborough's, Freeland, Cassington and Stanton Harcourt.
The address is St Peter's, Abbey St, Eynsham, Witney, OX29 4HR Tel: (01865) 881613
Directions: (from the A40) Turn onto the B4449 signed Standlake at the roundabout and then turn immediately first right signed Eynsham Village only. Follow this road right into the village, and in the centre of the village go straight across the junction into Lombard Street and then straight across the next junction into Abbey Street. Proceed along until you turn left into the church car park. For a map that locates the church click below.
Anyone is welcome to pray in our Church or come to Mass. You do not have to be a Catholic. Come and see what a Mass is like.
The Tolkien Room (our small Hall) is for hire to the public. Contact : Dani Bint 01865 464320 Waynebint@msn.com
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Our Priest in Charge is Fr Martin Flatman
 | Fr Martin is also the Catholic Chaplain at Oxford Brookes University. He became our Priest in this Parish on Thursday 20th October 2005.
His email address is : meflatman@brookes.ac.uk
He is always willing to respond to any questions or requests for prayer by email or to arrange a meeting.
He sends his weekly Homily all over the world. Email him if you would like to receive it. It can also be read below. |
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Times of Mass and other Liturgies
 | SUNDAY MASS is at 10.00am also Saturday (for Sunday) at 7.30pm
MASS on Holy days of Obligation is usually at 9.30am and 7.30pm
Confessions are on Saturdays from 6.45pm to 7.15pm during Holy Hour or by arrangement with the priest
Weekday Mass is normally at these times
Monday 5.30pm,(Bank Holidays 10am) Tuesday 7.30pm,
Wednesday 9.30am, Friday 6am
Different times for Weekday Mass in July as follows
Monday 29th June Mass 5.30pm
Tuesday 30th June - Tuesday 14th July NO WEEKDAY MASS
Wednesday 15th July Mass 9.30am Friday 17th July Mass 6.00am Monday 20th July - Wednesday 22nd July Normal times Thursday 23rd July Mass 6.00am Friday 24th July NO MASS
Silent Prayer with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament on Saturdays with Holy Hour from 6.30pm (join in as you arrive) and Benediction at 7.15pm.
Bible study and prayer : Thursday evening at 8pm in the House. Drinks and chat from 7.30pm. Just drop in but not on Thursdays 2nd and 9th July
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Fund raising for St Peter's Church
The roof of our house and sacristies was completely replaced at a cost of £80,000 in 2007. We did great work to raise over £50,000 of this but were still left us with a Parish Debt (Interest Free) of £27,500. This Debt is a series of loans from other parishes or parishioners and we pay some of this back annually. We have now paid back the first instalment of £4100 reducing the Debt to £23,400. Thanks if you have helped with this.
We are asking anyone who can to help us pay off these Loans by giving more to the Church regularly and by Gift Aid if they are tax payers, and to support our various fund-raisng events. Look out for our monthly second-hand bookstall.
Another way to raise money for us is available as you shop. The following site has been set up and allows people to log in and shop online. By doing this a percentage of the sale will be donated to St Peters (how easy is that)!
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Our Catholic Primary School
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This Week's Newsletter
 | Saints Peter & Paul 28th June 2009
The Readings
Peter discovers the power of God (Acts 12:1-11)
Paul speaks of a life of service to God (2 Tim 4:6-8.17-18)
Peter proclaims Jesus as the Christ and is given authority
(Matthew 16:13-19)
SUNDAY MASS 10.00am with 1st Communions
Children between 3 - 8 have their own Liturgy for the first half of Mass.
Refreshments after Mass in the Tolkien Room.
MASS & EVENTS THIS WEEK
NOTE changes for the next few weeks. See Poster with details on the Church door or further up this Website under Times of Liturgies
THE CHURCH IS OPEN for prayer every day
Morning/Evening Prayer 15 minutes before Mass
MONDAY MASS 5.30pm
THEN NO MASS on WEEKDAYS till Wednesday 15th July.
SATURDAY Holy Hour from 6.30pm
Evening prayer 6.30pm Benediction 7.15pm
MASS (for Sunday) 7.30pm
NEXT SUNDAY MASS 10.00am
HOMILY Email Fr. Martin if you want it sent. It is also posted on the Parish Website
Last Sunday’s collection = £ 483.52
Plus monthly standing orders of £341.
SECOND COLLECTION
TODAY for Peter’s Pence.
NEXT SUNDAY for Day For Life.
PRAY for the sick and housebound Mary McCarthy, Helene Plumb, Pat Wymer, Paul Smith, Edmund Zeally, Izabella Rodzynkiewicz, Carmella Smith, Liam Neeson, Nuala O’Donnell, Jeanne Smale, Joan Lacey, Margaret & Ray Edwards, Paul Morrill, Bill Mowl, Steve Martin and Dot Walker.
PRAY for the dead especially for Patrick Bayliss, Emily Coles, Edward Long, Mary Hopkins and John Albert whose anniversaries occur this week.
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Can someone volunteer to transport the visiting priest from/to Blackfriars in Oxford on Sunday 12th July for the 10 a.m. Mass. Please see Father Martin TODAY.
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OUR GARDENS (along with other Eynsham Gardens) will be open TODAY Sunday 28th June from 2.00pm to 6.00pm but you are WELCOME free after SUNDAY MASS. Enter via the Tolkien Room and Meadow. Note that the Church pays for the basic upkeep, all other extra plants and features (like a Moat!!) are paid for by Father Martin or have been received as Gifts.
THANKS for all who supported THE FETE we raised about £1000
We have a display of flowers at the FLOWER FESTIVAL in St Leonard's Church, Eynsham on the weekend of 4th and 5th July
FLOWER CRISIS
We still need more volunteers, male or female, for the FLOWER ROTA but we now have 2 volunteers and 2 more who want to learn how. Thank you. Money is provided for flowers.
Please Note that we now have a stand with votive candles beside the Statue of The Sacred Heart at the back of Church.
ON THE NOTICE BOARD
Advert for Catholic Youth Worker for Oxfordshire
Full time job. Applications by July 17th
Advanced notice:
The OHCT Ride or Stride is on Sat 12th September.
THE ROTAS for July, August & September are on the noticeboard. Because it is the main holiday period, please look at them and arrange a swap if you cannot do your turn.
St Peter’s Club : June Draw
£50 57 Sue Hutton
£15 42 Jane Mitchell
£19 75 Bernard Elliot
£5 78 Stephanie Tucker
ROTA for this Sunday (next in brackets)
Welcome: Theresa & Steve Rogers
(Shirley Wong)
Readers: Parents of 1st Communion Children
(Helen Cannons & Carol McCall)
Offertory: 1st Communion children
(Cannons Family)
Ministers: C & M Ryan, R Elliot, J Moody
(P Pineo, M Blackman, S Day, F Flatman)
Coffee: Moira Deane & Helen Cannons
(Rosemary Hart & Maureen Nicholas)
Cleaning: Shirley Day & Valerie Phillips
(Gallaghers & Tricia Hicks)
Flowers: Alexis Bell (Janet Moody)
Counting: Anne & Vincent Goodstadt
(Sara Ruane & Anne Smith)
Grass: Ambrose Doherty (Alan Burton) |
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History of St Peter's Eynsham
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CAFOD
 | We support CAFOD : The Catholic Fund for Overseas Development. This is the official overseas development and relief agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales with links to Caritas International. We have just had a special Collection for the Emergency in the Congo. Use the link to get more details of their work |
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Permanent Deacon
Rev Mr Chris Blackman was appointed to assist in the parish from September 2004. He also shares the RC Chaplaincy at the John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospitals in Oxford with Fr Aldo Tapparo (St Anthony of Padua)
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This Month's News
OUR JUNE NEWSLETTER
OUR SUMMER FETE is on Saturday 27th June from 11.00am till 3.00pm. This is your chance to come and support St Peter’s as we continue to pay off our £20,000 plus debt. Please bring things for us to sell – Books & Films, Toys & Games, Bottles & Jars and Bric-a-brac beforehand and Plants and Cakes on the day. What a setting for a summer celebration! The grounds and gardens will have to look perfect, and there will be various stalls and a BBQ to tempt you to spend. Do come.
EYNSHAM OPEN GARDENS is on the same weekend which explains why our gardens have to look good. The Presbytery Garden is open, along with many other gardens in Eynsham, from 2.00pm to 6.00pm on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th June and teas will be served here at St Peter’s. You pay for entrance to any garden and it gives you entrance to all the others and the money goes to charity.
CORPUS CHRISTI is the great festival in which we give thanks for the way God has given himself to us in the bread and wine of the Last Supper. Jesus said “This is my Body.. this is my Blood” and so this is what we believe they become. Paul wrote that this is the way “We proclaim his death”. In England we celebrate this on Sunday 14th June which includes a special Procession and a ceremony called Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at the end of our Sunday Mass.
FIRST COMMUNION SUNDAY when five of our children take Holy Communion for the first time is 2 weeks later on Sunday 28th June. It will be a very full church that day and I know they will all look very good indeed. A Happy Day. It is also the day we celebrate our Patron Saint St Peter, and his fellow apostle St Paul.
OUR RE-ORDERED CHURCH ENTRANCE has been widely approved. The new Notice Boards are much easier to access and leave more room for the welcome area and also have enabled us to create a more fitting space for our Statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. There will soon be a larger low table for the Children’s library.
THE SACRED HEART which is celebrated on a Friday at this time every year allows us to think about the love of Jesus in a special way. Of course, we see that love every time we look at Jesus on the cross, but since this is also an image of his death we can sometimes forget this. The image of Jesus showing us his heart has thus become special for many Catholics and traditionally is placed near the entrance to a church or a home as a sign of welcome. This year the Feast is on Friday 19th June. I wonder if anyone other than the regulars will get up early for the 6.00am Mass on that day when we will also bless a new candle stand for us to use at our statue?
OUR NEXT COFFEE MORNING is on Wednesday 3rd June from 10.00am. We are still seeking this and lots of other ways to pay off our Debt so if you have any ideas of what you can do to raise money for us, please get on with it. There will not be a Coffee Morning in July or August.
BILL ROCHE died on the 19th April. He had been connected to Eynsham for 48 years for he married Anne, a local Eynsham girl in St Peter’s when it was largely a wooden hut. His grandson Daniel Waite gave a moving tribute to his granddad, and we heard hints of his career in football and his love of the game, as well as his love of painting, as his portrait of Fr. Tolkien bears witness, and to his singing in church. Others remember him as a hairdresser on the base at RAF Brize Norton and later in Oxford City Centre. Our love and sympathy to all the family. May he rest in peace.
THE CHRISTIAN AID QUIZ NIGHT last month was a very happy occasion when people from all the churches gathered in the Baptist Church Hall to raise a bit of extra money for Christian Aid. Members of St Leonard’s prepared a Ploughman’s Supper, and St Peter’s provide the QuizMaster and the soft drinks. The Baptist team had dubbed themselves as “Dim but Nice” but they managed to win convincingly. £145 was raised for this very good cause and some people gift-aided their contribution.
THE CANCELLATION OF SOME WEEKDAY MASSES in June and July needs watching out for, so consult the weekly Newsletter or the Website. This is because Father Martin will be at the University Chaplains Conference for a few days, and then later will be taking his annual holiday. Saturday evening and Sunday Masses will continue as usual but Holy Hour on Saturday nights before the Evening Mass may sometimes not take place.
ALL THOSE INVOLVED IN TEACHING THE FAITH are invited to a special meeting on Wednesday 24th June at 7.30pm in the Tolkien Room when Catechists from other parishes will join us for a session on how to teach prayer. Fr.Martin will give a talk and there will be lots of time for sharing ideas.
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Our Catholic Nursery School
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HOMILY FOR THIS WEEK
HOMILY : SS.Peter & Paul 2009
This Sunday in Eynsham some of our children will be making their 1st Communion. If you can remember back to your 1st Communion I hope it was a special day for you, but I hope also that you can look back on it as just one step in your growing realisation of the importance of God in your life. What follows is more or less what I will be telling the children.
Today you are taking your first step as a Christian who is a member of the Catholic Church to be a follower of Jesus. Your next step in a few years time will be Confirmation and then lots of other steps as you become a grown-up Christian. Remember to be proud say “I am a Christian. I am a Catholic”. Sometimes, as you get older, this may be hard to say because you will be worried that people will laugh at you or make fun of you. This happens to all of us – grown-ups as well as teenagers and children - and sometimes it will feel easier to keep quiet about it – to make it a private thing. I hope that you will be brave enough to put up with this just like so many good Christians in other countries in the world all the way back to Jesus himself, and to his first friends whom we remember today – St Peter and St Paul.
Making your Communion today and every Sunday is the most special way that God has given to you to be close to him and to receive his power to help you to be brave like this. Like St Paul in our 2nd Reading today, (2 Tim 4:6-8) we all have to realise that being a Christian, living our life as a Christian, is like running a race. If we are going to have any chance of winning, we have to try to be fit, to eat good food, to take exercise, and to push ourselves really hard when the race takes place.
Like our parents, God doesn’t mind whether we win or lose the race as long as we try our best. St Peter was given a big job to do for Jesus, as we heard in the Gospel (Matt 16:13-19). He was given the job of being the leader of the Church, the first Bishop and so Jesus calls him a Rock. But like us, Peter wasn’t always very good at being a Rock. He wanted to be brave, but at least twice in his life, he got scared and gave up. But each time, God gave him another chance. God knew that it is much better for us to have a leader who can be weak like us, rather than someone who is always strong and makes us all feel weak. So God always forgave Peter, always encouraged Peter, and so he was able to carry on the work of telling people the marvellous message that there is a God, and that he loves us.
We are all like Peter. Sometimes you will not get things right in your life. Sometimes you will not be good Catholics and will be tempted to give up. But the grown-ups here today will tell you that even though we have all failed Jesus at times, we know that it is always worth carrying on, because to be close to God is the most important thing in the world. Now being close to God is not just like a race, it is also like a long journey by car or train or plane. There will be times when you speed along and all seems to go well, and there are other times when there is a traffic-jam, or you are stuck at the airport, or something else goes wrong and you wonder why you bothered ever to set out.
Making your 1st Communion is your first stage on that journey but there are lots more things to come, lots more things to learn, as you get older.
All the grown-ups here will tell you that facing up to the hard things in life, and with the help of God getting through them, is actually in the long run really worth doing. The important thing is to look for the ways God will help you, through the thoughts he puts into our head as we pray, through the support and help of friends or family, through the courage and skill that we will find deep inside us that we never knew we had until, faced with a real difficulty, it was there for us.
So be like St Peter all the way through your life. Keep on even when you get things wrong, or things go wrong for you, and discover all sorts of new ways in which God will be with you for ever.
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We are building our own parish website....
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Margaret Stevens is the first photo we have! |
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