2nd SEPTEMBER 2012 – 22ND SUNDAY OF YEAR B
ST AUGUSTINE’S
30 Coniscliffe Road
DARLINGTON DL3 7RG
PARISH BULLETIN
BREVIARY WEEK 2
Fr Michael Higginbottom
Fr Seamus Doyle
Tel: 01325 266602 Fax: 01325 253363
www.staugustineschurch.org.uk
email: info@staugustineschurch.org.uk
Office Hours:
Mon/Tues 9.30 – 12.30
Thursday 9.30 – 2.00
Friday
9.30 – 2.00
Hospital Chaplains
Darlington Memorial Hospital
Rev Dc Jurgen Muller – 743029
RVI/Freeman/Newcastle General
Fr Michael Corbett - 0191 232 1892
WORD FOR TODAY
Keeping the commandments will not save us,
for the law is only there to prevent us from
doing wrong. It cannot make us good. Today
Jesus challenges us to examine what our real
motives are when we gather for our worship
and when we live our Christian lives.
SURVIVE MIVA – Missionary Vehicle Assocation
will give an appeal this Sunday. They are the only UK-based Catholic Lay
Association funding transport in the developing world. See their website
www.survive-miva.org.
CAFOD SAFARI SUPPER – Saturday 15th September
The CAFOD group are organising a Safari Supper on
Saturday 15th September.
What is a Safari Supper?
The Safari Supper is organised in pairs. Each pair provides one course of the
Supper for two other pairs at their own home, either a starter, main course or
pudding. At the end of each course each pair is given an envelope to say where
they go for their next course. They then move on to a different address from the
other pairs. The idea being that you have 3 courses in three different locations
with six other pairs of people. Oh! And you don’t get to know who you are
meeting at each house!
At the end of the evening everybody involved in the Safari Supper then moves on
to a final venue where we all meet up for a party and raffle.
This is a great way to meet lots of people in the Parish, and a fun way to raise
money for CAFOD at the same time.
The cost to enter is £25 per pair, all of which goes directly to CAFOD.
Places will be limited to 40 pairs, so if you are interested in participating, please
secure your place by contacting Stuart Sanderson on 07585 900750.
YOGA AT THE PARISH CENTRE – 6.30 TIL 8, MONDAYS, £5
Perhaps now is the time for you to try out or revisit yoga? Experience the effects
of this ancient system on your balance, strength and flexibility. Newcomers to the
class are very welcome – both beginners and improvers.
Call Karen Johnston, BWY trained teacher of Hatha Yoga, on 01325 487282 or
email karenjohnston41@hotmail.com for more information.
ALTAR SERVERS MASS
There will be a Diocesan Altar Servers Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral on 6th October
at 11.00am. It is hoped that all Altar Servers will attend, please give your name to
one of the Senior Altar Servers.
GIFT AID
There are letters available at the back of Church thanking those parishioners who
contributed their weekly/monthly offerings through the gift aid scheme for the
last financial year. We have reclaimed back £9,209.87 for the year 2011/12. If
anybody is a taxpayer and would like to join the Gift Aid scheme please contact
the office – Mrs Barbara Morgan – who is the Gift Aid Organiser for the parish.
Northern Cross will be on sale this Sunday 2nd September after all Masses.
58 were sold in August.
CLUSTER NEWS
 Holy Family
As from 5 September the Medjugorje Prayer Group meetings will take place
after Mass each Wednesday in the Church Room.
RECENT COLLECTIONS
Over the past few weeks we have had several collections after the masses, these
have been for:
Day for Life
£318.97
Apostleship of the Sea £35.51
Peters Pence
£259.26
Batamma Satram at Holy Family £1,459.30
THANK YOU for your continued generosity.
TRAINING IN PASTORAL CARE AND PASTORAL COUNSELLING
This will take place at St Augustine’s Presbytery. These courses are immensely
helpful for anyone working in the listening/caring professions or anyone wishing
to develop self-awareness.
Module 1 (Listening to self and others) will be covered over three half-weekends
(Friday evening/all day Saturday):
- September 21/22
- October 19/20
- November 16/17
The cost is £150 for the three half-weekends.
For further details please contact Rachel McGovern on 465619 or
rachel.cruse@ntlworld.com
if there are insufficient numbers to run the course this Autumn we hope to
run it some time next year-so do please register your interest.”
The Cloister Café and Restaurant at St Mary’s Cathedral is re-opening under
new management from Monday 3 September.
Opening times: Mon – Sat 8.30am – 5.00pm, Sunday 9.00am – 2.00pm.
Feel free to come in, have a look around the newly-fitted premises, and meet
the staff.
Browse through the new menu: daily specials (two dine for £11, with free tea
and coffee), hot and cold drinks, hot and cold snacks, selection of cakes and
pastries.
REFLECTION – Cleanness of heart
Today pollution has become a big issue,
and rightly so.
People want clean water, clean air, and clean food.
But we should be even more concerned
about the most dangerous pollution of all, namely, evil.
Pride, anger, hate, lust, greed, envy …
All these are dangerous pollutants.
So what must we do?
We must purify the source; the heart is the source.
it is the well-spring from which
all our thoughts, words, and deeds flow.
If the heart is clean, all that flows from it will be clean.
Blessed are the clean of heart: they shall see God.
YEAR OF FAITH - DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGES
 Pilgrimage to the Holy Land 6th-13th May 2013
Led by Bishop Seamus Cunningham info & forms from Fr Peter Stott
 Annual Pilgrimage to Lourdes 26th July-2nd August 2013
Led by Bishop Seamus Cunningham info & forms from Fr Peter Stott
 Pilgrimage to Rome and Assisi 20th-27th October 2013
Led by Bishop Seamus Cunningham info & forms from Fr Michael McCoy
Pilgrimage to the Holy Land 6th - 13th May 2013
2 nights in Bethlehem, 2 nights in Tiberias & 3 nights in Jerusalem.
Including Visits to:
Bethlehem, Shepherd's Field, Jericho, Dead Sea, Bethany, Tiberias, Capernaum, Sea of
Galilee, Tabgha, Mount Tabor,Cana, Nazareth, Jerusalem, Mount of Olives, Mount Zion,
Gethsemane, Via Dolorosa, Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
Flights from Manchester to Tel Aviv
Manger Square Hotel in Bethlehem http://mangersquarehotel.com/ (2nights)
Golan Hotel in Tiberias
http://www.golanhotel.com/
(2 nights)
Gloria Hotel in Jerusalem
http://gloria-hotel.com/
(3 nights)
COST £1260 (not including Insurance or Single Supplement )
More information: Fr Peter Stott at St Joseph's, North Shields 0191 257 5801
COURSES IN THE DIOCESE
 Fr Richard Leonard SJ who lectures at the Jesuit Theological College in
Melbourne as well as visiting Professor of Communications at the Gregorian
University in Rome will be giving a series of workshops and talks. He has
had many published works including ”Where the Hell is God?”
He will be at St Robert of Newminster School Washington on Thursday 27th
September 7.30pm – 9.00pm.
 Preparing for the Year of Faith – Vatican 11 Fifty Years On.
A series of 5 talks held on Thursdays, 11, 18 and 25 October and 8 & 15
November at St Robert of Newminster School Washington 7.30pm –
9.00pm.
DIOCESE OF HEXHAM AND NEWCASTLE
‘The Power to be me’ – a Day of Reflection for Men with Rev Chris Thomas from
the Diocese of Liverpool : Saturday 20 October from 10.30am – 4.00pm in St
Joseph’s Parish Centre, Gateshead Metro Station.
SVP
 September is SVP Awareness month, there are various posters up at the
back of Church about the work that the SVP does and also leaflets on
becoming a friend to the SVP.
 Raffle tickets are also available at the back of the Church. Please take one
and return to the Piety Shop by 18th November.
PREMIER CHRISTIAN MEDIA –Petition
In order to preserve the innocence of our children and to protect them from
material that could cause physical, mental or moral harm Premier Christian Media
are asking us to petition the Government to make it compulsory for Internet
Service Providers to block pornography at source so that it can only be accessed
by an adult exercising an active choice.
For more information visit www.safetynet.org.uk. There are some sheets at the
back of church to sign.
COFFEES AFTER MASS
Provided by Rachel McGovern
for the
Bridge Pastoral Foundation