CAFOD Family Fast Day Appeal this Harvest
September 17, 2025
Please donate to our Family Fast Day parish collection to share God’s abundant gifts with our global neighbours as they find lasting solutions to poverty and climate challenges. Your generosity offers “signs of hope” in this Jubilee Year, helping build more water tanks in communities like Waré’s in Ethiopia where women have to walk for hours to get water. Use the CAFOD envelope in church, donate online at cafod.org.uk/envelope or call 0303 303 3030. You can also text CAFOD to 70560 to donate £10.
The annual Diocesan mass count will begin this weekend and taken at both weekend Masses for the next four weeks.
Please note that we no longer accept donations of second-hand clothing. If you have any, please use charity shops or other donation points, e.g. at supermarkets. Thank you.
This year, Evangelii Gaudium Sunday will be celebrated in our parishes on 21st September 2025. This year, the Church has been celebrating a significant anniversary. It’s 1,700 years since the Council of Nicaea. This great gathering of Bishops from around the Church began the work to formulate the creed we proclaim Sunday by Sunday. It is the content of this creed that is our mission, so that we may know and love God in this life, in order to be happy with him forever in the next. The creed begins with a profound proclamation, “I believe…” This is the theme for Evangelii Gaudium Sunday 2025 A second collection will be taken this weekend to support the work of the Bishops’ Conference Mission Directorate. Find out more on the Catholic Bishops of England Wales website: Evangelii Gaudium Sunday
We are currently having technical issues with our card reader and we are not able to take card payments in the parish. We are sorry for the inconvenience. We are trying to get it sorted. If you would like to make your weekly collection, please bring cash to Mass or donate to the parish online via this link to our Goodhub page .
Stella Maris Sea Sunday THANK YOU for your very generous donations during July this year to the Stella Maris Sea Sunday collection to support seafarers worldwide. The total donated in the parish was £315.45 plus the Gift Aid contributions. I am also aware that some of you donated directly by text and online so the total from our parish will be significantly higher –a wonderful response which will make a real difference. Thank you too for the many gifts placed in the box for seafarers which I reckon was worth at least another £100. An amazing response. The seafarers are always so pleased that you remember them through your gifts and your prayers. May God bless you all. Thank you again. Barbara Thomas, Stella Maris Ship Welfare Visitor, Cardiff & Newport New Paragraph