ISSUE THREE: SPRING 2008 news from your West Berkshire Pastoral Area This Lenten edition brings you information on the schools in our area and all of the Holy Week and Easter services in our eight churches. Blessed Hugh Faringdon Secondary School is in Reading. It was established in 1958 to serve the families of the wider Reading and West Berkshire areas by providing Catholic education for students of all abilities. We work hard to create a faith-based community placing great value on the quality of the relationships and providing many opportunities for spiritual development through our lay chaplaincy. In 2005, the school was designated as a Performing Arts College. We are a popular school, having built close working partnerships to benefit our students with local parishes, primary schools, Reading Universities and a range of businesses. The recent Diocesan inspection described Blessed Hugh Faringdon as ‘an uncompromisingly Catholic school with a very good community life Students performing at Blessed Hugh Faringdon School based on Gospel values’. - Mr Paul Barras, Head Teacher. who work in partnership with our Governors and parents to Contact details 0118 957 4730, [email protected] educate our children, helping them grow and develop. You are www.hughfaringdon.reading.sch.uk invited to share in the school’s Mission: To educate our children by: St. Finian’s Catholic Primary School is in Cold Ash, a rural area, Following in Jesus’ footsteps, recognising the Holy Spirit in north of Thatcham. There are around 182 pupils on roll. We achieve ourselves and each other, nurturing our God given gifts, all in a excellent academic results, well above national average in both key community with Christ at its centre. Our school family are proud of stages and our children are generally high achieving, confident, their Catholic faith and the fundamental part it plays in their daily articulate and able to conduct successful relationships with both lives. We have annual visitors’ mornings but welcome visitors at adults and peers. Behaviour is good and the children are very other times of the year.- Mrs Alison Webster, Headteacher. spiritually and morally aware – they support and care for each Contact details: 01635 43455, [email protected] other, and live up to our school motto ‘Love by Truth’ in their St. Paul’s Catholic Primary School is situated in Tilehurst, to actions and their words. the west of Reading. The school is 37 years old and comprises A school Working Party has been set up to ensure the fulfilment of well-maintained and resourced buildings. It enjoys an excellent plans to build new premises due to the possible move in the future reputation in the locality and development work to extend the of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary (FMM). We will continue in number of teaching areas and associated facilities continues in our present accommodation until 2011, allowing time to focus on order to meet the demand for places at our school. the new build. The future is full of hope for St. Finian’s and the past St Paul’s is an innovative school where staff and governors are has a richness on which to build.- Mrs Liz Housden, Head Teacher. very committed and dedicated to the needs of our delightful Contact details: 01635 874892, [email protected] children. There is a close co-operative relationship between all St. Joseph’s Catholic staff, parents and governors. Working with my deputy, Angela Primary School is in the Hartley-Kane, the staff and governors, we offer an opportunity heart of Newbury and to touch lives and inspire imagination and creativity, an serves the parishes of understanding of the power of education to draw out the St. Joseph’s, St Francis de God-given potential of others, a sense of belonging to a Sales and the Sacred community rooted in faith with high quality professional Heart, Lambourn. We have development and pastoral care, an experience of a learning 196 children on roll and community founded on love, co-operation, solidarity, truth, justice, myself and Jamie Carroll, and the common good, a community of colleagues which offers Headteacher, Alison Webster, Chair of Governors my Deputy, lead a team of support and shares experiences. - Ms Julia Feeney, Headteacher. Graham Spellman and children receiving The Healthy Schools Award from Tim Kuhles SIP, WBC dedicated caring staff, Contact details: 0118 942 2003, [email protected] 4 3 THAMES ISIS A Easter services for our West Berkshire Pastoral Area St Joseph’s St Mary’s St Bernadette’s Fr Padraig Faughnan Fr Benedict Thompson OSB Fr Benedict Thompson OSB 105 London Road, Newbury RG14 1JP Upper Woolhampton, Reading RG7 5TQ Horseshoe Road, Pangbourne RG8 7JH Phone: 01635 40167 Phone: 01189 715350 Phone: 01189 715350 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.stJosephsnewbury.org.uk Website: www.douaiparish.org.uk Website: www.douaiparish.org.uk Mass Times Mass Times Mass Times Sunday: 8:30 am & 11:00 am Sunday: 9:00 am Sunday: 9:00 am Weekdays: Tuesday - Friday 10:00 am Weekdays: None Weekday: Tuesday 11:00 am (not during Holy Sacrament of Reconciliation Sacrament of Reconciliation Week and Easter Week) Saturday: 10:20 -11:00 am After each Mass or by appointment Sacrament of Reconciliation PANGBOURNE After each Mass or by appointment WEST Holy Week and Easter 2008 Easter 2008 CENTRAL Lenten Penitential Service Easter Sunday 23rd March Holy Week and Easter 2008 St Francis de Sales Monday 17th March at 8:00 pm Easter Mass 9:00 am Maundy Thursday 20th March Fr Eamon Walsh BERKSHIRE M4 Mass of the Last Supper with Washing of Feet, & WEST Warren Lodge, Warren Road Holy Thursday 20th March Procession of the Blessed Sacrament to Wash Common, Newbury RG14 6NH Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7:30 pm the Altar of Repose 8:00pm READING Douai Abbey Church of Our Lady Phone: 01635 40332 M4 Watching at the Altar of Repose and St Edmund, King & Martyr Good Friday 21st March Email: [email protected] 8:30 pm until 12:00 am Midnight Rt Rev Dom Geoffrey Scott - Abbot Solemn Liturgy of the Passion of Our Lord Website: www.StFrancisDeSales.org.uk 133 Good Friday 21st March Upper Woolhampton, Reading RG7 5TQ (Lay led Service) 3:00 pm Phone: 0118 971 5300 Mass Times Stations of the Cross 9:30 am Easter Sunday 23rd March Fax: 0118 971 5303 Saturday: 6:00 pm - Sunday: 10:00 am Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 3:00 pm Easter Mass 9:00 am Email: [email protected] Weekday: Tuesday - Saturday: 10:00 am Holy Saturday 22nd March Sacrament of Reconciliation The Blessing of Food 11:00 am Mass Times Saturday: 5:00 - 5:30 pm THEALE The Easter Vigil 8:30 pm Sunday: 11:00 am St Luke’s Weekdays: 7:45 am Holy Week and Easter 2008 Fr Benedict Thompson OSB LODDON Easter Day 23rd March Sacrament of Reconciliation Lenten Penitential Service Walk of Witness Englefield Road, Theale RG7 5AS The Resurrection of the Lord After each Mass or by appointment Tuesday 11th March at 7.30 pm on Northbrook Street after Phone: 01189 715350 VALLEY the Ecumenical Service Masses 8:30 am & 11:00 am Email: [email protected] Holy Thursday 20th March at the Methodist Church at Holy Week and Easter 2008 Website: www.douaiparish.org.uk Passover Meal 6:00 pm 10:30 am on Good Friday Maundy Thursday 20th March Mass of the Lord’s Supper 8:00 pm 21st March Mass of the Last Supper with Washing of Feet, Mass Times Procession of the Blessed Sacrament Saturday: 5:30 pm Watching at the Altar of Repose after Mass to the Altar of Repose 8:00 pm Weekday: Wednesday 10:00 am (not S until Midnight THATCHAM during Holy Week and Easter Week) N Good Friday 21st March Good Friday 21st March Solemn Liturgy of the Passion of Sacrament of Reconciliation W Children’s Stations of the Cross 9:30 am A4 Our Lord 3:00 pm After each Mass or by appointment O Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 3:00 pm D NEWBURY Music & Meditations 8:00 pm Holy Week and Easter 2008 Music and Reflections H WOOLHAMPTON Holy Saturday 22nd March Good Friday 21st March "They laid Him in a tomb" 7:30 pm BURGHFIELD T The Easter Vigil 9:00 pm Solemn Liturgy of the Passion of R Our Lord 3:00 pm Holy Saturday 22nd March Easter Sunday 23rd March O The Easter Vigil 8:00 pm Easter Mass 11:00 am Easter Sunday 23rd March N Easter Day 23rd March Easter Mass 10:00 am The Resurrection of the Lord Mass 10:00 am St Oswald’s Our Lady of the Assumption Fr Benedict Thompson OSB NORTH WEST E Abbey Park, Clayhill, Burghfield Common R Fr Ignatius Maddineni I RG7 3HQ HAMPSHIRE 7 Bath Road, Thatcham RG18 3AG H Phone: 01189 715350 S WASH COMMON Phone: 01635 863430 (Off) / 864416 (Presb) St Paul’s Catholic Primary School Email: [email protected] P Email: [email protected] Ms Julia Feeney - Head Teacher Website: www.douaiparish.org.uk St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School City Road, Tilehurst, Reading, RG31 4SZ M Mrs Alison Webster - Head Teacher Mass Times Phone: 0118 942 2003 A Mass Times Newport Road, Newbury RG14 2AW Saturday: 6:15 pm - Sunday: 10:00 am Fax: 0118 945 4924 H Phone: 01635 43455 Weekdays: Mon, Tues, Thur & Fri: 9:30 am Sunday: 11:00 am Email: [email protected] T Weekday: Thursday 10:00 am (not during Holy Fax: 01635 552859 Sacrament of Reconciliation Website: www.westberks.org/schools/stpauls S Week and Easter Week) Email: [email protected] Saturday: 10:30 - 11:00 am A Sacrament of Reconciliation Website: www.stjosephsprimaryschool.org.uk Breakfast Club - Weekdays: 8:00 - 8:50 am E After each