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LIVE SIMPLY
Live Simply
Suggestions taken from the Live Simply Guide chosen by those present at the first meeting on the 1st December,
they will be discussed at the second meeting on 14th January 2015.
- Outdoor space. Seed bank, cuttings, planting trees, schools link.
- Growing flowers not buying, parishioners grow flowers for alter.
- Feast of St Francis – Poor Clare harvest, animal.
Social group – Rich man/poor man
Supporting Poor Clares 8th February – second hand clothes, schools – recycle jam jars for homemade jam, , greeting cards
- Climate change quiz
- Supporting local furniture re-use organisation – sign posting
Tools for self-reliance – promoting for parish to share
Outdoor mass
Sharing of equipment – parish sharing of resources through drop and collect eg buggies, prams etc
- Cafod World Gifts (First Holy Communion)
Spiritan projects – speak to Father Mark for suggestions
Already in our Parish
- Fair trade
- Bicycle and buggy park – awareness increase
Hosted shelter at church for first time with Father Mark’s agreement. Regular volunteers – couldn’t offer hall
Harvest festival – Poor Clares
Foodbank – raising food
Volunteers for (Saturday workers)
SOCIAL CLUB SUMMER HOLIDAY
The Parish Centre Bar will be closed during August. Last Friday evening is 25th July and the last Sunday is 27th July. We look forward to welcoming you again on 5th September.
The Social Club is opened every Friday 9 – 11pm and Sunday 12noon – 2pm. We are looking for volunteers who can spare 2hours a month, please contact Sally: stpeterssocialclub@live.com
AGM
Social Club AGM – Tuesday 7th November 2014 – 8pm, parish centre. Come along and have you say or purely to support the parish social. If you have ideas or topics, please contact us on stpeterssocialclub@live.com This is your club!
PARISH ANNUAL SUMMER FAYRE
PARISH ANNUAL SUMMER FETE – Sunday 15th June 10.30am – 2.30pm
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Every Wednesday during Lent at 3pm in Church
Every Friday during Lent at 7pm after Adoration
Hall Refurbishment 2013
Our parish hall has undergone a huge refurbishment in 2013.
Sound proofing has been installed in the ceiling. Acoustic sound panels have been installed. The bar area has been revamped. The kitchen has been re-tiled. A new heating and water system installed. Alarmed fire exit door. Automatic lighting in all toilets. New entrance doors. A new storage cupboard. A new chair storage holding 84 chairs. Complete decoration in tasteful colours.
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Along with the Feast of the Immaculate Conception (December 8), the Assumption is a principal feast of the Blessed Virgin and a Holy Day of Obligation – one of the most important feasts of the Church year.Though it was al-most universally believed for more than a thousand years, the Bible contains no mention of the assumption of Mary into heaven – we have no real knowledge of the day, year, and manner of Our Lady’s death. The first known Church writer to speak of Mary being taken up into heaven by God is St Gregory of Tours in 594. On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII declared as a dogma revealed by God that ‘Mary, the immaculate perpetually Virgin Mother of God, after the com-pletion of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into the glory of Heaven’. Likewise, the Second Vatican Council taught in the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium that ‘the Immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all stain of original sin, was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, when her earthly life was over, and exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things (n. 59)’.
Thoughts on the Gospel – Sunday 30th June 2013
No looking back
‘Once the hand is laid on the plough, no one who looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.’ This seemingly uncompromising position by Jesus is a call to set our eyes clearly on the establishment of the Kingdom. If we look back – if we have doubts and want to return to the world of comfort and injustice – then we are not yet ready for the difficulties of bringing about the Kingdom of God. It reminds us that although God invites us all to enter into the Kingdom, we have to make ourselves ready in our own hearts and minds to want to be part of the Kingdom.
Thoughts on the Gospel – Sunday 23rd June 2013
Who do you mean?
There are a couple of billion people in the world today who call themselves ‘Christians’ – followers of Jesus Christ. However, if you were to ask each of them, ‘Who do you say Jesus is?’ you would get thousands – even millions – of different answers. When I speak about Jesus, his teachings and values, I have certain characteristics and beliefs of and about Jesus in mind. I can’t be certain that the person listening has those same concepts. Just because we use the same language doesn’t mean we’re talking about the same thing!