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Dear friends in Christ, Our Annual Parish Garden Fete is this coming Saturday (20th June) at 2pm! Once again, it should be a great afternoon of fun and delights. Books of raffle tickets for our Grand Draw are available in the glass porch for you to sell to your family and friends. We still need donations of bottles for the bottle stall, plants for the plant stall and cakes for the cake stall! Next weekend we have a mission appeal from the Comboni Fathers. One of their priests will be here in person to make the appeal. Their founder, Bishop Daniel Comboni (1831-1881) was canonised on October 5th 2003 by Pope Saint John Paul II in recognition of his decisive role in bringing the Gospel to sub-Saharan Africa in the second half of the Nineteenth Century. Today almost four thousand Comboni Missionary priests, brothers, sisters and lay people of forty-four nationalities follow in the footsteps of St Daniel Comboni in bringing the Good News of Jesus Christ to the ‘poorest and most abandoned’ in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Next Sunday, 21st June, is the Day for Life with the theme, “The Wonder of the Child in the Womb.” The theme also recognises the loss of children who died before birth and the grief of their parents. The bishops’ message and prayers can be found on the Day for Life website: www. dayforlife.org. Next week I will be attending my aunt’s 80th Birthday on Saturday and so will be up in Newcastle from Monday to the following Monday. Fr Patrick will be looking after the Parish while I am away and will be available on the Parish telephone number.
NEEDLE NEEDS: Help is needed, initially for some napkin-hemming for the Monk’s Refectory. If you are able to help please contact either Fr Augustine, Fr Patrick or Fr Christopher.
LEARN TO PRAY: At The Chapterhouse, Belmont Abbey, Saturday, 27th June, 11.00am to 4.00pm. A day of teaching on prayer, led by CCO founder Andre Regnier. Open to anyone who wants to deepen their prayer life – no previous experience needed. Part of the CCO (Catholic Christian Outreach) three-week Diocesan Mission across Cardiff-Menevia - running from 19th June to 5th July. More details at: rcadc.org/a-mission-for-the-whole-diocese-cco-comes-to-cardiff-menevia
WELSH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA CONCERT: Friday, 3rd July in OLSM Church, Abergavenny at 7.30pm. "Mozart in Abergavenny." Tickets £20, or £35 including drinks reception after concert. More information is available on the parish website: www.olsm-abergavenny.co.uk
CAFOD EVENING: On Friday, 26th June at 7.00pm, CAFOD South Wales will be bringing to St Michael’s Centre in OLSM parish, Abergavenny two of their partners and associates from Columbia in South America - Gerardina Cardozo Aragon and Tania Ruiz Cardona. They will be speaking about the challenges in the Colombian Amazon (deforestation/destruction of their common home, extractivism (oil, illegal gold mining), the ongoing armed conlict, violence against women, impacts of climate change) and what they are doing in their diocese to resolve the issue with the support from CAFOD.
