Sunday 27 July 2008

CREATE! Exhibition - Every Tribe and Tongue


It's nearly time for our 4th annual celebration of arts and crafts. This year, the CREATE group which meets at Marksway Scout Hut has taken on responsibility for the event. In addition to our usual, wonderful array of work by local artisans, Linda Herbert has been very busy and has managed to secure some funding to enable more workshop activities to take place. We have subtitled the event Every Tribe and Tongue to fit in snugly with Liverpool's Capital of Culture events so we hope to see diversity in all its forms celebrated. There will be the hugely popular WORD evening taking place on Wednesday evening (6th August) so dust off your favourite poetry book, write your own poems or get practising that musical instrument. There may well be a little glass of something to calm those nerves!

Much as it would be nice to think that all of this fabulous midsummer activity is organised by the CREATE! fairies, it actually takes a lot of hard work. We would be so grateful if you were able to spare an hour here or there to look after the church and perhaps serve some refreshments. It is a wonderful event to be part of and always brings with it its own rewards. We also need strapping people to set the whole thing up on Monday and help dismantle on Saturday. If you can help in any way, please email the team at or sign up on the list on the table at the back of church.

The event takes place from Monday 4th August to Saturday 9th August in the church. We look forward to seeing you, as an artist, as a visitor or even if you fancy coming along to do some art work in the wonderful ambience of our lovely church.

Entry form download PDF
Entry form download Word Document

Poster


CREATE illustration courtesy of www.lumaxart.com, shared through a Creative Commons licence.

Saturday 26 April 2008

Going for a Song...

If we play our cards right, we could pay off our church debt and finance a church hall...always assuming Fr Pat and Rev. Jeff are up to the job...

Click here to find out how.

Thursday 27 March 2008

!Felices Pascuas! 2008

Here is the latest message from Srs Jacinta & Marie:

Queridos Amigos,

Greetings from El Valle where all activities are now underway after the long school holidays. Already we are in Holy week and that has been brought home to us by the death of María Fernanda who had only completed one and half years and died last Friday. A group of us went to the house on Friday to pray for her and the family and on Saturday we accompanied the little coffin to the graveyard in the Valle. It was so sad to see the little grave and to lower the small coffin within. Please remember the family in your prayers. And so we continue to accompany Christ in his passion.

We continue with our services on Holy Thursday and Good Friday and Easter Sunday we have 5 adults for Confirmation and First Communion and a child for baptism so little by little the evangelization of the Valle is bearing fruit. Gracias a Dios.

I have just come from the Valle where we celebrated the Eucharist with the children from the College 250 in all and they were quite well-behaved!! As I work with the pastoral group, the priest asked me to say a few words during the homily.

Our Comedor (dining room)is going well and we are now opened 5 days a week with a group of mothers cooking each day and washing up. A new person has taken the role of co-ordinating everything which is a great help to us. Thanks to Appel du Pauvre for helping us with the funding and our Sisters in England with the Christmas appeal which provided funds too.

The Arco Iris Club (Rainbow Club) for children of 2 to 5 years is well subscribed. We have 22 children. Three mums help us with this and at the moment we are awaiting a new salon (thanks to a donation from Ireland and the Columban priests) the children will use this and leave the space they are now occupying for the Comedor. This should be finished in May. Buildings do not take long to construct.

Our classroom is open again for homework and reading and we have about 30 children each day and some come too on a Saturday to read a book so it is all go but we are happy that the response is so good.

We hope to run, with the help of teachers from Saint Marcus, a course on hairdressing. This begins next Tuesday,(no holidays for Easter here in Perú). So far 15 have enrolled and more will come on the day. Another couple are coming to teach craft work so the saloon is well used.

So we are on our journey towards the Resurrection and each one of you will be remembered in our prayers.

Marie and I are kept busy but we are pleased to be and there is time too to relax and get away now and again. One needs to see some greenery from time to time.

The light is coming slowly but surely. You need patience and much hope but the posts are now near the Capilla.

Next week we welcome our friends Fran and Tim from Austalia who will be spending 2 weeks with us. Fran will be able to see how much has changed since her last visit.

Hope you all have a very good Easter and t hank you for all your help so that we can continue our mission here in Jicamarca.

Con mucho carino a todos,
Jacinta and Marie


If you want to see photos of the work done at the project, there are two blogs which can be accessed by clicking on the links below:
www.thejicamarcaprojects.blogspot.com
www.thejicamarcaprojectsvalle.blogspot.com

Wednesday 19 March 2008

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Friday 4 January 2008

Remember the lonely...

Worth more than all of the material things that we may receive at Christmas, the best gifts must be time to spend with loved ones. But, of course, this is not true for everyone. I have just received this e-mail which reminded me of the way in which I sometimes take for granted the warmth of relationships with family and friends:


Dear All,

I am writing to Christian relations, friends, and contacts to draw attention to a news story that appeared in the press this morning. Below is a link to the article published in The Daily Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=505923&in_page_id=1770

May I ask you to pray that Olive will be welcomed into Heaven by her creator who has valued and loved her as nobody on earth appears to have done for many years. Perhaps you might also ask your parish priest/ church minister to make a brief mention of Olive, the sad end to her life, and the plight of others like her when addressing his congregation.

In Christ,

TM