A warm welcome to Fr Hugh Purcell, celebrating the 9.30am Mass at St John Vianney’s – while Fr Jock celebrates in St Ninian’s
THE POPE’S VISIT: A SPECIAL BOOKLET – ‘MAGNIFICAT: LITURGIES AND EVENTS OF THE PAPAL VISIT OF POPE BENEDICT XVI TO THE UNITED KINGDOM’. Cardinal O’Brien and Archbishop Vincent Nichols write: ‘To enable us to participate in the Visit, as prayerfully and as fully as possible, whether we are present at one of the venues where the Holy Father will be or whether we participate at home through the television, radio or internet, a special Prayer Book for the Visit has been produced. This Prayer Book contains the texts for the liturgies, together with articles to explain the context and background to the other parts of the Visit. The Prayer Book includes suggestions for community celebrations in preparation for the Pope’s visit. It also contains a short form of morning and evening prayer. When the Prayer Books are distributed, we invite anyone who wishes to make a donation towards its production and distribution. The Prayer Book has been very generously subsidised by Magnificat, with contributions also from Gabriel Communications and the CTS, with whom it has been produced in collaboration with the Bishops’ Conferences of Scotland and of England and Wales. However, a suggested donation of £2 for each copy would go a long way to help defray the costs being borne by the Church. We hope that you will find this special Prayer Book a valuable resource for the Visit of Pope Benedict. Please prayer that the Visit of the Holy Father will renew the hope and strengthen the faith of the people of the United Kingdom.’
AFRICAN LINKS: Launch Exhibition – Today – St Mary’s Cathedral Hall – 9.00am-5.00pm
The Twende Pamoja Trust was set up to support the development of relationships between communities and schools here and in the Kilimanjaro District of Tanzania. St John Vianney’s School has a partnership with Mulo Primary School and Holy Rood High School has a partnership with Lombeta Secondary School. There has been a wide range of exchange visits over the last 25 years in both directions. A group of young people from Holy Rood have just returned after spending the summer there working in the schools that have partnerships with schools here. At the end of their visit they climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money to set up an education fund for young people who cannot go to school because of family poverty. Pamoja Art is a company set up by the Trust which sells artworks from Scottish and Tanzanian artists. All the profits from the company will go to support the partnerships that exist and to encourage the development of creativity in young people here and in Tanzania. There will be a Launch Exhibition in the Cathedral Hall (next to John Lewis) this Saturday 4th (9.00am-6.30pm) and Sunday 5th September (9.00am-5.00pm). You would be most welcome to call by if you are in the area.
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Pilgrimage to Ars: On Wednesday 4th August 2010, we celebrated the feast of St John Vianney. This marks the end of a year during which we commemorated the 150th anniversary of John Vianney’s death. As part of this special year, during April a group from the Cluster parishes and beyond set out on a pilgrimage to Ars. We have put together an account of the pilgrimage and if you would like to read it, please click on the following link:
Link to pilgrimage account
There are also some photographs – please click on this link to see them: Link to photographs
All photographs are in a PowerPoint presentation. If you don’t have Microsoft PowerPoint software, you can download a free bit of software that will allow you to view these photographs. Please click on the following link to download the software:
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If anybody else has photographs from the ordination or celebrations in the Cluster, and they would like to share them, please email them to: johnvianney@blueyonder.co.uk