This week's news

Don't forget - this Friday's Mass at an earlier time of 7pm is a special celebration at the end of the Season of Creation and the Feast of St Francis. Then we can join together for 'cider and cheese' nibbles and drinks in the hall. Everyone is invited.

This Sunday - Come and join together in prayer, at this Harvest time, for the issue of food poverty at Christ Churchm Downend at 6.30pm. All are very welcome.

Peace Walk

On Saturday 14th September many of us took part in an Ecumenical Creation prayer walk around the neighbouring churches in our area. The weather was kind and some people did the whole walk and some joined us to do half. We started at the United Reformed Church in Mangotsfield, walked to St James Church Mangotsfield, Resound Bristol, Badminton Road Methodist Church, then to St Augustine's, Downend Baptist Church, Christ Church Downend, Pendennis Good News Church, God's House International Centre - GHIC, Staple Hill Methodist Church and finishing at The Salvation Army Staple Hill.
Staple Hill Methodist Church offered us lovely refreshments as they celebrated their Heritage Day.
It was a really prayerful walk and a good opportunity to see inside our neighbouring churches that we might often walk by.

In this #BlackHistoryMonth we can find out more about the contributions of our Saints and Blessed or Venerable people in order to recognise and celebrate their work.

The Bishop's Conference of England and Wales have a section on their website which highlights some of our Saints in more detail.

Laudato Si Education Centre

Thank you to Bella who has shared these pictures of the recent day in the beautiful Laudato Si Education Centre in Salford and the meeting with Bishop John Arnold who sponsors it in his own Bishop's palace grounds.

 

We are delighted to launch this year's COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS EVENT!

On Saturday 16th November our annual community afternoon is back!
Join us from 12noon-3pm in the school for festive fun
~ come & have lunch, enjoy mulled wine, Irish coffees & delicious cakes,
~ get some Christmas shopping done at our amazing stalls, (more info on who is joining us, very soon!)
~ play fun games & ‘try your luck’ on the bottle stall & tombola,
~ have your face painted, decorate biscuits or try some crafts,
~ listen to some talented musicians,
~ have something mended at Bella’s ‘stitch it’ stall
~ & more.
There’ll even be an early visit from the big guy in red! (We've booked him before he gets too busy!)
Invite your friends and family and come along for a lovely afternoon, celebrating our wonderful community together, all whilst raising money for our School/PTFA, our Pre-school, our Parish and the Guiding units and other charities ❤️

(If you would like to help with the event please contact the office.
If you can donate a bottle or new gift for the tombola stalls please bring items to the presbytery. We’d also love donations of cakes on the day (please label ingredients))

CKC news: We are so pleased to have our Community Kitchen Cupboard up and running as it is clearly providing a need to those in the area. Many items have been taken over the past few weeks and we are glad to be able to help out.
We are currently very low/out of toilet rolls, tinned fruit, tinned custard or rice pudding and tinned ham/meat so if you are in a position to be able to buy an item like this and pop it in the box at the base of the cupboard for us to sort out, we would be very grateful. Thank you to all who have donated so far.