Immaculate Conception, Oadby

celebrates the Birth of Christ

In preparation for the Masses of Christmas;

our Crib is ready,

Flowers, candles and altar cloths

are all freshly prepared,

Mass sheets and hymn lists

are all to hand as people enter.

 

Vigil Mass at 6pm

Carols starting at 11.30pm

Mass during the Night at Midnight

Dawn Mass at 10am



Work finishes for Christmas...

The main doors...

 inside...

 and outside

but in daylight like this...

 

 Getting ready for Mass this weekend

 

...and the kitchen is getting ready for

the first Sunday morning teas and coffee



Children's Liturgy

Nativity story 2012

On Sunday 16th December the children from our Liturgy group gathered to perform their Christmas Nativity. Through Scripture, Hymns and mime they told the story of the Birth of Christ for the assembled parishioners and friends,

The weekend comes, warmer and wetter than the past few days

 Just as well our new doors have arrived

 and all (well nearly all) the glass is fitted

 the space is being cleared for painting and carpeting next week

the ktichen is nearly ready for the cooker and dishwasher 

and the toilet is nearly ready too 

Monday 10th December

Year Six from

St John Fisher School

Come to sing at Church

Children from our School, St John Fisher Catholic Voluntary Academy, came to our 10am Mass and stayed on to sing some of their favourite season hymns and songs.

 

The lights go on

the new, larger parish room almost fully lit

views of the kitchen

The Season of Advent starts

Today is the First Sunday of Advent

The first candle on our Advent Wreath was lit

to symbolise our journey of preparation

waiting for Christ's coming -

his return in glory at the end of time -

his first coming among us

when he was born in the stable in Bethlehem -

we do this by our recognising

his daily coming to us at Mass and in one another

December begins
... work continues

... the  partition gets doors

... new lights in the ceiling

... a new window replaces the boarding 

... and a boiler for the water to make tea and coffee

in the new kitchen



At the end of the ninth week

The door frame and partition going up

New wider doorway to the new access toilet 

... and a water heater for the toilet and sacristy

 New plaster on the ceiling drying out

kitchen units - the kitchen sink is in

... another (BIG) water heater just for the kitchen

... sleek new light fittings going up on the dry plaster ceiling

... and our electric meters renewed and neatly wired

thanks to the engineer from SSE

Kitchen progress



 

the serving hatch and door taking shape

the kitchen units in place 

 

 

and the cooker and dishwasher...

... are waiting patiently in the church.

 

 

Meanwhile we have a new door opening

into the confessional

(that's the one on the left,

not the narrow (old) one on the right)

 

while inside the heating pipes are being fixed 

 

and the work on the disabled toilet continues.

 

And we had the old parish room used as a

polling station on Thursday 15th November

Friday and the Kitchen is taking shape

I know it looks a mess now...

it looks better in daylight

 

 

that steel pipe is holding the ceiling up now

 

and now the new confessional is taking shape

and from the other side the new door

from the church is ready to be opened