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Fr Teddy O'Brien MSC, the Parish Priest for St Anne's Catholic Church, Wappenbury and the Chapel of Our Lady of the Angels, Princethorpe College, warmly invites you to attend any or all of the services over the Christmas season at the churches indicated below:

Sunday 18 December 2022
8.30am      both Masses celebrated at
                 St Anne's, Wappenbury, CV33 9DW
10.30am 

Saturday 24 December 2022
Family Christmas Mass         
5.00pm      Princethorpe Chapel

First Mass of Christmastide   
9.00pm      Princethorpe Chapel
(Please note there will be no Midnight Mass)

If you wish you can use the link here to let us know you would like to celebrate either of the two Masses on Christmas Eve with us.

Sunday 25 December 2022
Mass of Christmas Morning   
9.00am      both Masses celebrated at
                 St Anne's, Wappenbury, CV33 9DW
10.30am   
 
Sunday 1 January 2023
8.30am     both Masses celebrated at
                St Anne's, Wappenbury, CV33 9DW
10.30am   

Sunday 8 January 2023           
8.30am     St Anne's, Wappenbury, CV33 9DW
10.30am    Princethorpe Chapel

For any further information or to read the Parish newsletter please visit the link to St Anne's website here

Thank you
 
 

Friday 20 January - 7.15pm - 9.15pm

We are delighted to invite parents of pupils in Year 9 and 10 to the Headmaster’s Year 9 and 10 Parents’ Quiz and Chinese night, which will take place in the Refectory on Friday 20 January from 7.15pm to 9.15pm. Tickets for the Parents’ Quiz are available on a first come, first served basis, including the Chinese supper, and are £10 per head. Payment for tickets will be charged to the Trinity Term school fees.

The PTA will be running a pay bar and our new Headmaster, Mr du Toit's quiz will hopefully not be too testing! 

It should be a very enjoyable evening for all and enable you to meet and socialise with fellow parents, as well as some staff and members of the PTA.  

If you would like to reserve your place, and to enable us to plan our catering, please click here to complete and submit a brief form by Friday 13 January.

We very much hope you are able to attend and we look forward to seeing you on Friday 20 January.

Wednesday 25 January - 7.00pm

Our December book was Landlines by Raynor Winn, the third of a series of books in which she charts her extensive walking projects with her husband Moth whose Parkinson’s related illness benefits hugely but unaccountably from these expeditions. This one begins with the challenges of the Cape Wrath Trail through remote areas of Scotland, after which the couple tackle the challenges of the Pennine Way. The writing is vivid and engaging with plenty of human interest stories along the way. The writer explores the benefits to both mental and physical health of walking and evokes the impact of the natural world upon wellbeing whilst not shirking from the physical discomforts and logistic challenges of long expeditions. We all found the book uplifting in different ways.

We will be meeting again on Wednesday 25 January in the library at 7.00pm. On this occasion we will be discussing The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje and, as a bit of a lighter read, The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams. Please join us whether or not you have read these particular books. We are a friendly and unpretentious group of readers, always open to new suggestions, so it is always good to welcome newcomers.