16th FEBRUARY 2014 – 6th SUNDAY OF YEAR A
ST AUGUSTINE’S
30 Coniscliffe Road
DARLINGTON DL3 7RG
PARISH BULLETIN
CAFOD warmly invite you to their Fast Day Speaker Tour with partner Patrick Jamiru,
Director of Caritas Kenema, Sierra Leone. The focus for Lent Fast Day will be Sierra Leone
so this is a great opportunity to hear first hand stories from Patrick’s work there. Please join
them at 7pm on Wednesday 19th February at Christ the King, Trenchard Avenue, Thornaby or
Thursday 20th February at St Joseph’s Parish Centre, High West Street, Gateshead.
To book a place please contact CAFOD Hexham & Newcastle – Tel: 0191 384 4847 or email:
hexhamandnewcastle@cafod.org.uk
ST. AUGUSTINE'S PRIMARY SCHOOL
 School Gardening Club
Thanks to parents and parishioners, school has a good stock of child-sized gardening
equipment, gained through the Morrisons voucher scheme. Unfortunately we no longer
have anyone to run an after-school gardening club. We would be delighted to hear
from any parishioners who would like to get involved with this activity. Adults would
need to have or be willing to apply for a DBS - for safeguard. If you could help, please
contact school. Tel: 01325 380819.
DIOCESAN CHOIR & DIOCESAN CHURCH MUSIC ASSOCIATION
After a very successul 'showcase' of Music in Autumn 2011 that introduced new musical Mass
settings to the Diocese; the Diocesan Choir, in conjunction with the Diocesan Church Music
Association are back with a workshop for all singers, musicians and organists who are in
search of developing their repertoire during the seasons of Lent, Holy Week and Easter.
The session will be facilitated by Philip Robinson, secondary RE adviser and Diocesan Choir
Leader, and Rev Fr. Peter Carr at St. Mary's RC Cathedral, Newcastle on Thursday 27th
February 2014 at 7pm.
Accessible psalms for Lent, Holy Week and Easter, as well as processional music and Mass
settings for the seasons, will be introduced.
The Diocesan Choir will be there to help lead, and demonstrate pieces throughout the
session. Regardless of whether your church has a four-part choir, a cantor or a music group,
there will be music for everybody to take away and use in their parish. If you are a music
leader within your parish, why not bring your choir or group and learn the pieces together?
Participants are welcome to turn up on the night, but it would be appreciated if you could book
places by contacting: saint.cuthbert@talktalk.net or by telephoning 0191 4142654, so that
numbers can be ascertained.
We look forward to seeing you there.
CONFIRMATIONS
Congratulations to the young people from our parish:
Jonathan Abbott, Mitzi Aguirre, Christian Brown, Marta Debicka,
James Frank, Alex Kirton, Emily Knights, Javier Loren, Reuben Oatley,
Bridget Upton and Helen Woolley
who were confirmed by Bishop Seamus on Thursday evening.
DATE FOR DIARY
Parish Council Meeting will take place on Monday 10th March at 7.00pm in the Presbytery.
Any issues/questions please contact
 Jim Cunningham - Jcunningham@staugustineschurch.org.uk
Barbara Morgan – info@staugustineschurch.org.uk
EASY 4U2 COOK
A beginners’ cookery course is starting on Tuesdays at 10.30am at the Kings Centre,
Whessoe Road – each course lasts for 6 weeks. For more information please contact
469884
SAINSBURYS – ACTIVE KIDS 2014
If you aren’t collecting these vouchers for your own children/grandchildren, please accept
them at the checkout and put them on the collection basket on a Sunday and they will be
shared between Paradise Playgroup/St Augustine’s School/Carmel Academy. Any vouchers
are greatly appreciated.
EVENTS IN THE DIOCESE
Please see the noticeboard for details of events taking place in the diocese. This includes a
day for people being received into the Church and all who would like to deepen their
preparation for Easter which will be held at St Thomas Aquinas Church 12th April 10.30am3pm . Refreshments available but take a packed lunch. To book a place contact 0191 243
3313.
Diocesan Festival Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 June at Youth Village, Consett “The Joy of the
Gospel”.
Various Days of Reflection at St Aiden Church on Holy Island.
CARMEL DIVINE RETREAT CENTRE, Nunnery Lane, Darlington, DL3 9PN
(formerly: Carmel Convent)
Perpetual (24 hours) Exposition of The Blessed Sacrament is held in the Chapel.
Holy Mass, in English, is celebrated daily Monday to Saturday at 07.30 am.
Bus: Arriva bus service Number 3 to MOWDEN from Darlington Town Centre stops near
Carmel Divine Retreat Centre, Darlington.
CATHOLIC PARLIAMENTARY AND PUBLIC POLICY INTERNSHIPS
For the last eleven years the Catholics Bishops Conference has organised Parliamentary and
Public Policy Internships for recently graduated Catholics. This year we are looking to offer 8
internships: Four interns will be placed with Christian MPs at Westminster; one in a
parliamentary support role within the Bishops’ Conference Secretariat; one in each of the
Catholic Agencies (CAFOD and CSAN) in a public policy role; and one in a media internship
in Archbishop’s House Westminster.
All internships will run from September 2014 - July 2015 and include accommodation and
subsistence allowances.
Full details and an application form can be found on our website:
https://www.cbcew.org.uk/interns
Completed application forms and references must either be emailed to interns@cbcew.org.uk
or posted to: Michaela Kelly, Head of HR, 39 Eccleston Square, London SW1V 1BX. The
closing date is 5pm on Wednesday 26th February 2014; the Assessment days will be 1 st and
2nd April 2014.
If you know anyone who may be interested in this opportunity, please encourage them to
apply.
COFFEES AFTER MASS - FEBRUARY
Come along to our coffee mornings after the Sunday morning masses during February
in support of the Happy Wanderers Handicapped Club. We will be having a tombola
each week and a cake and pie sale on the last Sunday - 23rd February.
THE GREAT NORTH PASSION – A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY FOR GOOD FRIDAY 2014
At the beginning of February the BBC and its partner The Cultural Spring will be releasing
details of how you can be part of an ambitious and unique event to be broadcast live on BBC
One, on Good Friday 18th April. This will be a huge event, live from the north east and
broadcast throughout the UK.
‘The Great North Passion’ will be a unique retelling of the Passion story and will weave
together music and performance interpreting the universal themes of Good Friday,
through art, massed singing, stories and reflections and will centre around a huge
cross made from shipping containers and sited in Bents Park, South Shields.
Several of these containers, representing some of the universal themes of the Passion story,
will be placed in locations across the North East in the weeks running up to 18th April. In each
of these communities local people will work with artists to explore the meaning of specific
Good Friday themes.
Members of each community will then come together with thousands of others in Bents Park
on 18th April to take part in this one-off occasion to mark the events of the first Good Friday.
You are warmly invited to register your interest in taking part in the live event. More
details will be released in early February. The BBC is looking for experienced and
enthusiastic singers to join a massed choir and there will be other special opportunities
to get involved in this exciting project. In the meantime, please do register your interest
by emailing
mailto:thegreatnorthpassion@bbc.co.uk%3cmailto:thegreatnorthpassion@bbc.co.uk>
- you will then receive further details directly.
PADDINGTON BEAR
2nd February
9th February
Money in Bank
Total Collected
£
4.55
£
6.32
£
142.17
£29,583.85
are you new to the Parish and don’t understand what the above collection for Paddington
Bear means. In October 2000 Paddington Bear’s relatives in deepest Peru asked the young
and not so young to help Joe Plumb, Projects Coordinator of The Peru Mission from our
Diocese, help raise funds for his work in Peru. Empty film canisters which can hold twentyfive 2p coins are kept in the Porch at the back of Church. (Coins to the value of more than 2p
can be used if you so wish.) Full canisters can be returned each Sunday to the Paddington
Bear basket inside the Church. The running total from October to 2000 to now stands at
£29,583.85. This is an ongoing fund raising project. It would be fantastic if we could achieve
£30,000 by the end of this year.