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PARISH EVENTS & PHOTOS

Parish Pig Race ~ Friday 20th May 2011

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I am grateful to Niall Pembery for the pictures.

Holy Family Parish held a Pig Race evening to raise funds for parish building works on Friday 20th May 2011.Each race was sponsored by local businesses and parishioners and each pig that ran was also sponsored and named. We held 9 'Pig Races' and 1 Celebrity Race and as you can see from the pictures, there were a variety of 'celebrity animals' present. The Tote took over £300! We divided the takings on the tote 50% for the Parish and 50% for the winners. Each race averaged a win of a few pounds. In the cost of the ticket for the evening, of which we sold 50, was a ploughman's supper and free wine / beer / soft drinks. It was a very fun evening with everyone entering into the spirit of the event. £1450 was raised for the Holy Family Parish Repair Fund. It was the most fun you could have watching adults and children cheering on 6 battery operated pigs! No animals were badly treated as a result of this event! We hope to run a similar event in the autumn. Fr Eugene was the starter and commentator for each race.  Fr Eugene Campbell

CAFOD LENTEN HUNGER LUNCHES 2010

Click here for the Interview of Fr Eugene with www.cliftondiocese.com

Click here for the podcast of Fr Eugene's Interview with www.cliftondiocese.com

Cafod Hunger Lunch 2010
St Joseph's Pastoral Centre, Bradley Stoke.
Cafod Hunger Lunch 2010
St Joseph's Pastoral Centre, Bradley Stoke.

PARISH CONFIRMATION PHOTOS 2009

WOMEN'S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER 2010
Holy Family Church



Women's World Day of Prayer 2010

Some 42 women from the local Christian Community met together with some of the women from Holy Family.

In a service to celebrate - Women's World Day of Prayer.

It was completely organised and celebrated by those present, 

a celebration of readings, prayers and many hymns.

The address was given by Rosalee from one of the local Christian Churches.

following the service, the ladies went into the Holy Family Parish Centre for refreshments.

  PARISH 5-A-SIDE
Adult soccer group meets every Wednesday at Filton College Pro 5 Outside Courts for 5 or 6 a-side football (depending on how many turn up).
 Very friendly but quite competitive.
Current ages range from 14/15 to very old!!
Just turn up on a Wednesday just before 7pm and bring a white and dark t-shirt.
We’d be pleased to see you. Time 7-8pm. Cost £5 (£3 for those in full time education).

  PARISH SKITTLES TEAM
Compete in the Bristol Catholic men’s league during the Autumn and Winter months.
Same ages as the football above. (perhaps a bit older!!). Again we’d love to see you.

Grotto Mass

PARISH PILGRIMAGE LOURDES 2009

Lourdes Group 2009

We took part in the various processions, including the Blessed Sacrament Procession with the Blessing of the Sick and Torchlight Procession.  We took part in an International Mass at the Podium which is in the Prarie Field opposite the Grotto. The music was led by the musician and singers from the Diocese of Birmingham and included a Calypso version of the Ave Maria! We visited the Baths and bathed in the waters. Many of the group visited the Boly Mill and the Cahot where St Bernadette's family lived in good times and bad. We celebrated Mass with the anointing of the Sick in the Shhepfold Chapel of St Bernadette in the Cite Ste Pierre on the outskirts of Lourdes. This was a very special day for one of our pilgrims, as he made his First Holy Communion there at the same age as St Bernadette, 14 years old.

Deacon Don proclaiming the Gospel

English Speaking Mass at the Podium

Sheepfold ~ Cite Ste Pierre

Torchlight Procession

Fr Eugene with other priests at Mass

We took an afternoon trip to Bartres, where St Bernadette was fostered as a baby and went back to work as a shepherdess. It was a week filled with emotions and surprises, topped off with the story of St Bernadette and Our Lady the Immaculate Conception. Everyone enjoyed the week and said we should make it a regular event in our parish life.

We lit a candle for your intentions!

EASTER SUNDAY  2009  ECUMENICAL SUN RISE SERVICE
 

At 6.15am, Easter Sunday, in the middle of the roundabout on Patchway, Fr Eugene Campbell, Deacon Don Cramer-Barnicoat and members of Holy Family Parish, joined for the first time, Rev David Byrne and members of St Chad’s Ecumenical Parish and Rev Andy Thomas and members of Patchway Baptist Church, for a Resurrection Service. This was the culmination of the ‘Walk of Witness’ that all three churches took part in on Good Friday, when they carried a Cross through the local area and erected it in the middle of the roundabout with a Red cloth. This Sun Rise Service celebrated the Resurrection Gospels and the changing of the cloth on the Cross from Red to White in silence. The Cross will remain in place for the next few weeks as a reminder to those travelling that way, especially to the Mall at Cribbs Causeway, that the Risen Cross even affects their lives, and the Cross is a symbol of hope.

Rev Eugene Campbell ~ Holy Family Presbytery, Southsea Road,
Patchway, Bristol, BS34 5DP ~ 0117 908 1247