CLEATOR PILGRIMAGE TRANSPORT: SVP are kindly providing transport to this on Sunday 8th September, leaving church 12 noon, returning by 5.30pm approx. Please sign up on the sheet by Friday 30th August.

BOARBANK HALL run various courses throughout the year, mainly on a donation only basis. ST AUGUSTINE’S CONFESSIONS, 16th – 20th September, ‘THINKING SCRIPTURE’ study week & holiday, 28th September. They also welcome individuals, families and groups from parishes, schools, etc. to the GUEST HOUSE for holidays, recollection days, residential courses & retreats. For more information please take a leaflet, Google ‘Boarbank Hall Allithwaite’ or tel: 015395 32288.

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Thursday 15th August is a Holy Day for The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Masses are at 12.15pm and 7pm.

PRAYER MINISTRY After every 10am Sunday Mass two members of the congregation will be available to pray with individuals. Whether it is for a special intention, concern for a friend or relative, a need for healing or a big event approaching you can ask Jesus to minister to you through the intercession of others. Prayer Ministry will continue through the Summer as normal.

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YOUTH AT THE MANOR events are coming up – please take a look at the Castlerigg Manor notices in the church porch. You can visit http://www.castleriggmanor.co.uk for all sorts of information or contact Fr John on 017687 72711, email: director@castleriggmanor.co.uk
YOUTH 2000 at Walsingham, 22nd – 26th August, coach £40, Festival ticket £95 includes camping, food & admission. Ages 16 – 35.
THE BIG WALK: The young people, age 16+, are invited to walk in pilgrimage from Honister across Haystacks into Ennerdale then on to Cleator, beginning at Castlerigg on Friday 6th September – a great opportunity to make new friends and triumph over a physical challenge. The walk is about 10 miles each day and concludes with the Mass at Cleator at 3pm. Contact Fr John – 017687 72711.
LANCASTER YOUTH – YOUR VOICE: A day of listening with Bishop Paul and the Youth Service, Saturday 14th September, 10.30am – 2.30pm, Our Lady’s College, Lancaster.

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EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS: We are re-commissioning all our Eucharistic Ministers at the Masses this weekend and will be welcoming a couple of new ones too.

CLEATOR PILGRIMAGE:  Our Lady, Seat of Wisdom Sunday 8th September, Mass & Blessing of the Sick at 3pm with Bishop Paul Swarbrick. As well as a beautiful replica of the Lourdes grotto there is, in the grounds of the shrine at Cleator, statues of the Cure of Ars and St Therese of Lisieux. The pilgrimage will be an opportunity not only to honour Mary the Mother of God, but also these two great saints, and to ask their intercession for healing and consolation.

Everyone is invited especially those who are sick. For further details contact St Mary’s Priory on 01946 810324 or email stmandstj@gmail.com

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EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS: The second session for ministers will be in the parish centre on Tuesday 16th July at 7.30pm. Following these sessions there will be a renewal of commitment at a Mass on Sunday. Fr. Hugh

HCPT (Hosanna House and Children’s Pilgrimage Trust) is the charity that I go to Lourdes with, taking children with disabilities. There are two annual trips, one at Easter and one in the summer. In our region (Lancaster diocese) we are struggling to build groups and if anyone is interested in finding out more about it, and helping to create a group, do get in touch. Fr. Hugh

LOURDES PETITIONS: Zoe is going to Lourdes in 10 days with the diocese and there is a box for petitions on Our Lady’s altar which she is happy to take.

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Please welcome Sister Ruth Percival at Masses this weekend who will be making an appeal on behalf of the sixteen Missionary Congregations of Sisters working out of England & Wales, giving us a small glimpse into the life of a missionary today.

Eucharistic Ministers: There will be two sessions for ministers this week and next as I mentioned last Sunday. Both are at 7.30pm in the parish centre – the first one is on Tuesday 9th July, the second on Tuesday 16th July. Following these sessions there will be a renewal of commitment at Mass on Sunday. Fr. Hugh

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HOLY HOUR WITH EXPOSITION FOR PRIESTS AND VOCATIONS: Friday 5th July, 11am, with Deacon Bernard Everyone welcome to come along for prayers, reflections, quiet music & times of silence, sorrowful mysteries of the Rosary and a short Benediction & Blessing.

CATCH UP/STEP UP CLUBS SUMMER ACTIVITY MORNING: The Summer Activity Morning for all young people who attend either the Catch Up or Step Up Club will take place NEXT SATURDAY, 6th July, 10.30am – 12.30pm. This will be at Better Leisure Centre, Kendal in the main sports hall. There will be games, activities and Dominoes pizza! Please contact Mary, Iain or Fr. Hugh for an information letter and consent form if you haven’t already received one.

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Seven of us met up at Oxenholme Station and set off to lobby MPs in London about climate change.

We were going to join the Cafod delegation of the Climate Change Coalition and see if we could keep climate change at the forefront of MPs minds even with Brexit and Party leadership battles going on. To remind them that this is far more important than any of that.

The target is to get greenhouse gas emissions down to net zero by 2045, though some hope to reduce it faster. Mrs. May has of course promised much, which is wonderful, but the next leader has to be as keen as she now seems to be.

We met up with three more at Lancaster and then finally in London with the coach loads that had come from all over the country, including two from Preston. Young people have already been leading much of the campaign after the stirring words of Greta Thunberg and many were there.

We arrived a little late but tubed down to Trafalgar Square and were there in time to join the Walk of Witness as it set off to Parliament Square, down Whitehall and past Downing Street. Plenty of banners and chanting, especially from the younger members, all enthusiastic.

Just beyond Parliament Square is Church House and there we joined the Interfaith Forum that they had held for us. Rowan Williams spoke about the irrationality of not changing our way of life to save the planet we live on. The Muslim speaker spoke about how the Quran calls on us to live justly and in harmony with God’s gift of creation, there was a Buddhist often on Radio Four, a rabbi who told an ancient story about how we are attacking the planet as some scripture characters attacked God’s animals in the scriptures. Most movingly a young Quaker, who gave examples of how she is trying to change her life in the face of climate change.

We were late by then and raced off to Parliament Green to meet Tim Farron, our MP, who was already in full flow when we got there and answering questions from a variety of groups from the constituency, and very well indeed.  He is very much on side.  He had already been to the children’s section to greet the impressive children from Grasmere School.

Around us MPs were meeting with people from all over the country.  Some met their MPs inside Parliament instead.  Different MPs passed us including Rory Stewart.

About 16,000 people gathered and around a good number of MPs but sadly not all by any means.

Having achieved our aim for that day, we wandered back to Euston after a picnic lunch, on a glorious day passing through St. James’s Park, by Buckingham Palace, through Green Park, and once more onto the tube.

SURVIVE-MIVA APPEAL: This weekend we welcome John Allinson who will give a short talk on the work of Survive-Miva. The Missionary Vehicle Association provides funds for essential transport for health outreach work in isolated areas, and for the Church’s pastoral care in places of difficult access. Please support their appeal this weekend. For information on other ways in which you can support please take a yellow leaflet available in church. Thank you.

SVP LAKES TRIP including Afternoon Tea at Rydal Hall is Sunday 7th July leaving church 12.00 noon, return 4.30pm approx. Sign up by NEXT SUNDAY, 30th June.

LADYEWELL SHRINE PILGRIMAGE led by Bishop Paul Swarbrick will be Saturday 20th July beginning with Mass at 11am, St Mary’s Church, Fernyhalgh followed by the procession with Benediction at the Shrine. Please see poster in church.

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CONGRATULATIONS to our Confirmation Candidates on their Confirmations at Lancaster Cathedral this weekend: Erin Winkley, Catherine Connolly, Seb Roth, Shane Victor, Johnny Voortman, Kinga Glejdurova, Joseph D’Arcy, Conor Heffernan, Daniel Plavec & Diego Musone; James Corrigan from our Sedbergh parish and Ewa Banahewicz, Piotr Czechura & Marcel Cybulak from our Windermere parish. Many thanks to Mary & Iain Biddle for their work as catechists.

DAY FOR LIFE SPECIAL COLLECTION: Day For Life is celebrated yearly by the Catholic Church focusing this year on victims and survivors of domestic abuse. It is a day dedicated to raising awareness about the meaning and value of human life. Proceeds of today’s collection will be used to give grants to projects supporting this work. Please take a special prayer postcard from the back of church.

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