Eucharistic Services St Bede’s Chapel - Eucharistic Services will be held on Monday July 21st and Wednesday July 23rd at 9:15. There will be no further services until August 25th & 27th.
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Holidays await our tired teachers.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. Carl Jung
A special good luck and big thank you to Matthew Grehan-Bradley on his retirement ( Matt, let’s hope St Leonard’s loss will be this parish’s gain- tickets now available for the parish choir concert in September). Our best wishes to Sharon Daley as she leaves St Joseph’s for new pastures. Thanks to both Matthew and Sharon for their many years of service to the education of our children.
How disappointing to hear that Climate Change and Renewable Energy is not going to be a priority with our new Durham Council especially as the prediction is that the unusually dry weather we are experiencing of late will be a more common feature in the future.
“One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and is now used for agriculture or urban development. The polar icecaps are shrinking and the desert areas are increasing. At night, the Earth is no longer dark, but large areas are lit up. All of this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit. But human demands and expectations are ever-increasing. We cannot continue to pollute the atmosphere, poison the ocean and exhaust the land. There isn’t any more available.” Stephen Hawking, Physicist & Author
“We need to strengthen the conviction that we are one single human family.”
Pope Francis.
ENCYCLICAL LETTER LAUDATO SI' ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME
The Summer break means most church activities will take a breather. Our marvellous groups of helpers also need a breather. Thanks to everyone for their continued support and we look forward to a return to action in September with our Parish Pilgrimage to Holy Island.
“Leave me alone with God
As much as may be.
As the tide draws the waters
Close in upon the shore,
Make me an island, set apart.
Alone with you, Oh God,
Holy to You.
Then, with the turning of the tide,
Prepare me to carry your presence
To the busy world beyond.
The world that rushes in on me.
Til the waters come again,
And take me back to You.
St. Aidan of Lindisfarne.
A Chorus, by Elizabeth Jennings
Over the surging tides and the mountain kingdoms,
Over the pastoral valleys and the meadows,
Over the cities with their factory darkness,
Over the lands where peace is still a power,
Over all these and all this planet carries
A power broods, invisible monarch, a stranger
To some, but by many trusted. Man's a believer
Until corrupted. This huge trusted power
Is spirit. He moves in the muscle of the world,
In continual creation. He burns the tides, he shines
From the matchless skies. He is the day's surrender.
Recognize him in the eye of the angry tiger,
In the sign of a child stepping at last into sleep,
In whatever touches, graces and confesses,
In hopes fulfilled or forgotten, in promises
Kept, in the resignation of old men -
This spirit, this power, this holder together of space
Is about, is aware, is working in your breathing.
But most he is the need that shows in hunger
And in the tears shed in the lonely fastness.
And in sorrow after anger.
St. Joseph’s
The end of year Mass will be happening on Wednesday 16th July at 10am. All are welcome to attend.
St. Joseph's Summer Fayre, will we happening on Wednesday 16th July at 2.45pm. All are welcome to attend.
Year 6 Leavers assembly will be happening at 9am on Thursday 17th July in the school hall. All are welcome to attend. We will also say farewell to our Year 6 children at 3pm in the school yard.
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