Season of Creation
As the Season of Creation starts we can look forward to events helping to celebrate & pray for our beautiful planet & learn more about how we can care for it, with God at the centre of all things.
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“Future generations will never forgive us if we miss the opportunity to protect our common home. We have inherited a garden; we must not leave a desert for our children.”
The joint statement made by Pope Francis, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury.
“Creation cries out in suffering. We acknowledge the urgent call to action, and we acknowledge that we can only respond to it on the basis of faith. The Season of Creation is a source of strength and communion, encouraging us truly ‘to hope and act with creation.’”
Rev. Dr Anne Burghardt,
Lutheran World Federation General Secretary
The joint statement made by Pope Francis, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury.
“Creation cries out in suffering. We acknowledge the urgent call to action, and we acknowledge that we can only respond to it on the basis of faith. The Season of Creation is a source of strength and communion, encouraging us truly ‘to hope and act with creation.’”
Rev. Dr Anne Burghardt,
Lutheran World Federation General Secretary
Watch the short video about the Season here (YouTube)
We thank you all for your generous sharing of produce this weekend as the Season of Creation began. There were an amazing amount of fruit and vegetables shared out, plus lots of items to help those who visit our Community Kitchen Cupboard and those we meet on the Soup Run. We are so lucky to be part of such a generous community!
Keep sharing your garden/allotment produce during this season and please help yourself to things left in church.
We thank you all for your generous sharing of produce this weekend as the Season of Creation began. There were an amazing amount of fruit and vegetables shared out, plus lots of items to help those who visit our Community Kitchen Cupboard and those we meet on the Soup Run. We are so lucky to be part of such a generous community!
Keep sharing your garden/allotment produce during this season and please help yourself to things left in church.
How very appropriate, in this Season of Creation, to have jars of honey from our Church bees! Thanks to the gentle & skilled work of Matt at Beekind Pest, he managed to extract the honeycomb when safely relocating the colony, and we now have a few jars of our own HOLY HONEY!
What to do with them, was the question.... and we've decided to hold a 'silent auction' to help towards the costs of the extraction.
So, if you would like to be the proud owner of a jar of exclusive "St Augustine's Holy Honey", please put your bid in an envelope and hand it into the parish office marked 'Holy Honey', with your name and contact telephone number. The 2 highest bidders will each get a sweet reward!
Last date for bids will be Friday 3rd October as the Season of Creation ends.
What to do with them, was the question.... and we've decided to hold a 'silent auction' to help towards the costs of the extraction.
So, if you would like to be the proud owner of a jar of exclusive "St Augustine's Holy Honey", please put your bid in an envelope and hand it into the parish office marked 'Holy Honey', with your name and contact telephone number. The 2 highest bidders will each get a sweet reward!
Last date for bids will be Friday 3rd October as the Season of Creation ends.
We hope you will BEE lucky!
Annual Peace Walk marking the start of Season of Creation.
A walk with Fr Barnabas and a small group of Parishioner 'pilgrims' took place after Sunday Mass on 24th August. Walking from St Augustine's to St John Fisher's in Frenchay. This was a third annual walk to meet with the Orthodox community that currently worship there, in celebration of the feast of the transfiguration, which they were celebrating, under the Julian calendar.
The pilgrims arrived in time to catch the last half hour of their 2 hour (!) Sunday service and listen to their lovely Slavonic harmonic singing. We joined with the Russian community in a concluding 'veneration of the cross ceremony' and then enjoyed a hospitable chat with their visiting/presiding priest and their deacon over tea and Russian potato 'pasties'. We were given an explanation of the many beautiful Icons on display which, interestingly, included a number of the ancient British isle saints, that they share and honour with us.
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