• Newsletter: Fourth Sunday of Advent 2025
  • Newsletter: Fourth Sunday of Advent 2025

Newsletter: Fourth Sunday of Advent 2025

21st December 2025

Fourth Sunday of Advent 2025

21st December 2025

Saturday 20th December
5.30pm Mass at St. Osmund.

Sunday 21st December
9.30am Mass at St. Teresa. 11am Mass at St. Osmund

Monday 22nd December
No Mass

Tuesday 23rd December
11.40pm Rosary, 12pm Mass at St. Osmund

Christmas Eve
Wednesday 24th December
4pm Christmas Vigil Mass at St. Teresa
5pm Christmas Carol Service at St. Osmund
5.30pm Christmas Vigil Mass at St. Osmund

Christmas Day
Thursday 25th December
9.30am Christmas Mass at St. Teresa
11am Christmas Mass at St. Osmund

Friday 26thDecember
9.30am Mass at St. Osmund

ConfessionsSt. Osmund – after 5.30pm Mass on Saturday
St. Teresa – after Thursday Mass at 12pm,

MASS INTENTIONS

LATELY DEAD

Winifred Haynes, Hannah BrownJohn

ANNIVERSARY

Eileen Galvin, Patrick Coffey, Hannah Holmes

SICK

Jane Rose

BAPTISMS

Please speak first to Father Emmanuel after Sunday Mass, who will give you a form to fill in and submit back to him.

Parents must attend Mass before a date can be agreed for baptism. Baptism preparation meetings take place once a month on a Wednesday at 7 pm. The next meeting will be in the new year.

SOCIAL COMMITTEE

Next meeting is to be arranged with Fr. Emmanuel. 

Parish Homily

Fourth Sunday of Advent 2025

The sermon will be available in full from
5.30 pm on Saturday, 20th December 2025

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CHRISTMAS SOCIAL EVENT: We thank all those who participated in the Christmas fundraiser Event at St. Teresa last Sunday. Thanks also to those who helped to organise it.

RAFFLE: The list for the winners in the raffle draw at St. Osmund is in the porch, the winners can pick their prizes up after mass on Sundays or weekdays.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS for 2026 to be decided by St. Osmund social committee. Flatcappers concert. Irish dancing display, with (maybe) an Irish dance night. Fish and chips some Friday lunch time. Coach trip-maybe to Skipton market which is open on Fridays.

HALL is available for hire (as long as you don’t make too much noise and make the neighbours complain! ! )

ST. TERESA SALE OF LAND: They have done a survey-mining, health and safety, gas monitoring, chemical soil testing, asbestos quantification, on the land at back of church and found a few issues. There was a pond there, and the builders doing the racecourse estate dumped all their waste materials in it instead of disposing of it properly. Asbestos has been found, so it will devalue the land a bit.

CHRISTMAS CHARITY APPEAL: Our Parishioner & Parish Representative Ged Tucker works for www.jigsawbury.org who are having a Christmas crowdfunding appeal. Please see the link below if you would like to contribute. https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/jigsaw-burys-christmas-fundraising-campaign

FR. EMMANUEL’S LEAVE: Fr. Emmanuel will be going for his annual leave on the 29th of December to come back on the 6th of February. Another Priest Fr. Ernest Attah will be coming for Masses on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, and there will be Eucharistic services on Wednesdays and Fridays.

Father Emmanuel Chukwujekwu

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