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Langley
Foundation
11 Dec 05
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We held a
Bring and Buy at one of our normal meetings and raised
£70.
We were put in contact with Trish Bond, who is
Stewardship Development Director of St Ann's Catholic
Missionary Church.
We understand that Trish and her fellow workers
co-ordinate all the assistance given to the many parishes
which suffered so badly in the hurricane. We
elected to help a parish in Biloxi - St Michael's - they
were desperately in need of chairs in order to have a
Mass at Christmas.
This appealed to us especially because we had recently
had our wonderful Jubilee Mass at St Bernards and we
thought of all the chairs that we had! I received a
lovely E-mail from Trish when she received the money and
also from a guy called John Scott who is the man who
actually goes to St Michaels and helps the parish in
practical ways. He was SO grateful for our help and said
that this parish had lost everything in the
hurricane.
We felt so humble and so grateful for what we have in our
Parish that we approached Fr Kevin and asked his
permission to involve the Parish in a fund-raising
activity. He (lovely man that he is!) allowed us to
hold a Bring and Buy at the 9.30 and 11 am Masses just
before Christmas when we raised just over £330.
We were overcome by the generosity of our parishioners
for their custom and their donations. |
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