This week's news

Haven Home Support

Last week at our Friday Community Café, St Patrick's Women's Group from Redfield together with Father Antonio who hails from Brazil, came to visit us with a special gift for Haven Home, the orphanage and school in India.... a massive cheque for £1,000!
We cannot thank them enough for their generosity.

Martyn Poole, who organises the café as well as aiding our links to Haven Home in India said: "The cheque from St Patricks for £1,000 was so very generous. I was blown over by the sum they raised by having a cake sale.
The sum of £1,000 here in UK is the equivalent of £10,000 in India! The cost of living is a lot less compared with the UK.
I was so pleased to hear that all our children at Haven Home passed their final exams and will be so surprised when they are told that, thanks to St Patrick's funding, they can go to college to study Nursing, Teaching and Engineering for the full time of their courses and accommodation at their chosen colleges. Their education, if they stay and practice in India, will never make them rich but will take them out of poverty.
Years ago St Augustine's chose Haven Home as their charity with the objective of building a 7 classroom school - this was achieved and we see the results every year of children being educated. A thing we take for granted in the UK.
If any of our Church Family would like to know more, I have DVDs showing what Haven Home is today all thanks to people's generosity."

Thanks, once again, to everyone at St Patrick's Church community who supported the Women's Group.

School day!

Can you help out out on Saturday 8th June (9-3) in our school grounds, to help tidy up and repaint some of the outdoor areas?
They would love to see you if you can spare some time...

Only 2 week's to go until our annual Summer event - St Augustine's Community Catch up!

Join us on Saturday 15th June from 11-3 in the school grounds.

WONDERFUL NEWS! We are delighted to announce that Kelly's Donkeys will be joining us at our Summer Community Catch-Up!
Come along and meet the team and the beautiful donkeys from Kelly Donkey Sanctuary to find out about their work with rescuing and caring for the donkeys. Their lovely animals are involved with many things, such as educational workshops, visits for children, attending local events, and providing therapy sessions for care homes & schools for special educational needs.
We are so pleased that they will be at our event - and the younger children will even be able to have a ride!

You'll be delighted to know that "Sav's Super Whippy - Bristol’s Best" will, once again, be there to sell us all ice creams, ice lollies and their famous Super Whippy trays! (He is also donating a prize to our Tombola stall so look out for that!)
Great to have you on board again Sav!

See you all there - pray for hot, sunny, ice cream weather please!

Many many thanks to all who joined in our cream tea and planting session on Sunday, with a blessing for our parish on the Feast of St Augustine.
It was a great occasion and many plants have been nestled in among the buttercups by the garage.

Diocesan Day

This year’s Diocesan Day will take place on Saturday 6 July at St Bernadette’s Secondary School, Whitchurch, Bristol.
The focus of our day will be on Hope – especially in relation to the Jubilee Year ‘Pilgrims of Hope’.

All are invited to join Bishop Bosco as we explore the theme of Hope together. We will look at where our hope lies, as well as our experiences of pilgrimage and where we might journey as a Diocese in 2025.
The day will start at 9.30am with refreshments and will include Mass as a central part of our day. Please bring a packed lunch. We will finish by 4pm.

Everyone is welcome but places are limited, so please book early. To register for the day please click the Eventbrite link: https://cliftondiocesanday.eventbrite.co.uk
You will be most welcome.

Mary's Meals

Mary's Meals are asking for help with their campaign in Tigray, where right now, there are children working all day in the hope they’ll earn a piece of bread, but it’s not guaranteed because the person they’re begging from is starving too.

The horrors of the aftermath of war are still present. Services to help people deal with the trauma they have lived through are few and far between in a society where everything from homes to hospitals has been looted by soldiers.
But now, in this third year of catastrophic drought, the horror of starvation has the potential to be even worse.
Hunger doesn’t kill you quickly. It saps you of everything you have first, slowly. And communities are enduring this right now.
If you are in a position to help Mary’s Meals to reach more children in Tigray, please visit them online today: https://bit.ly/3wNL0yB

Thank you for your Reflections for Feast of Corpus Christi Year B Deacon Vincent.

1st Reading from book of Exodus 24: 3-8
Moses reads the Law (Torah) to the people who agree to observe all God’s words and decrees, and Moses seals the Covenant they make by sprinkling the people with the blood of the Sacrifices taken from the altar supported by twelve pillars (representing the twelve tribes of Israel). The First Covenant is sealed with the blood of animals at the foot of Mount Sinai. It is a precursor of the Covenant God’s son will make with the twelve Apostles in attendance, but the blood spilt will be Jesus’ own blood.

Psalm 115: 12-13, 15-18.
We continue the theme of the Cup of Salvation, the spilt blood, which has now been named as the Cup of Salvation. The Covenant with God is our means of Salvation, it is combined with the Lord’s name and the fulfilment of our vows, our covenant promises. This song rings out the wonder of the Covenant drawn up on Sinai, but again prefigures Christ’s covenant of his blood poured out for many.

2nd Reading from the letter to the Hebrews 9: 11-15.

This letter here is expressing how the blood of goats or bulls and a heifer were sprinkled on those who had incurred defilement to restore them to holiness. The author of Hebrews is saying that the blood of Christ is far more effective because he offered his very self as the perfect sacrifice for our redemption. We are continuing the interconnection with that first Covenant on Sinai and Christ’s sacrifice of himself for us. It was only required the once for our eternal redemption because we stand at the foot of the cross every time we celebrate the Last Supper with Christ in the Eucharist.

The Holy Gospel according to Mark 14: 12-16, 22-26.
Jesus here presents himself as the Passover Sacrifice, he is, in fact, the Lamb of God, who presents himself as our food and drink for the journey, by replacing the lamb of sacrifice with himself. The gift of the Eucharist is for our redemption and purification from defilement. It is a re-enactment of the sacrifice of Calvary, whereby he offers us himself, body, blood, soul, and divinity in this celebration of the Last Supper. We have the opportunity for an intimate encounter with the living Lord. This is a gift beyond all others, it is the source and object of the sacramental life of the Church. It is freely given to each and every one of us to make us a holy people for Jesus to present to the Father.

May God’s Spirit set us on fire with Love of Our Blessed Saviour. Deacon Vincent.