Reflection
I tell you little children, not to hurry across the years. All that age has for you is a field of worry, a sea of tears, a mountain hard to climb where many fall and why should you not wander pure and small? Romance around our early morning lingers but not for long and beauty moves no more her magic fingers o’er cords of song. Sweetness will pine amid the sunless glades and innocence be gathered to the shades. I tell you, little children, not to squander sunny hours. Too soon will come the storms of lie, the thunder and leaden showers. O children, you are growing up too soon and you will weep the morning when ‘tis noon.
Patrick Kavanagh
Cafod Appeal
Tom Delamere will speak to us at both Masses this weekend for CAFOD’S Harvest Family Fast Day appeal. Please remember to bring your CAFOD envelopes and put them in the plate any Sunday.
Mission Sunday
The weekend of 19th /20th October is Mission Sunday and there is a mandatory Second collection for the World Mission. My apologies that these three collections have come so close together.
I try my best to space them out, but sometimes it doesn’t work!
Mission Appeal
Next weekend, 12th / 13th October, Sr Dymphna will be making an appeal on behalf of her Congregation’s Missionary work and there will be a second collection to help her with that work. The Bishop has given her congregation permission to make that appeal.