St John Fisher & St Thomas More
Roman Catholic Church

Traidcraft

Please see news here of Traidcraft’s trading position from Robin Roth (CE0), with hopeful news of plans to slim down and keep trading in 2019.

Diocesan Justice & Peace Commission newsletter

In April’s newsletter read about:
-A write up of our Day of Reflection about Climate Change
-the visit of the new CAFOD Director, Christine Allen, to meet Bishop Marcus, CAFOD volunteers and members of the J&P Commission
– Memories of campaigns and visiting speakers from years past were brought to mind in our ‘Looking Back’ Lent lunch joint event with CAFOD in the Leeds Diocese
-A new film resource about Israel/Palestine that can be borrowed from the J&P office
–Rollout of our Family Poverty workshops starts
plus our usual events summary and reflection.

Kim’s poem for corporal David O’Connor

Kim wrote this poem just after David’s funeral. He was Kim’s brother’s eldest son. He was a corporal in the Royal Marines. He was killed while on active service in Afghanistan on 24 October 2012. He was 27 years old.

CAFOD – El Salvador and Columbia

Our parish has supported CAFOD’s work with the Puentecitos community in El Salvador for the last 3 years.  We raised £491 from book sales in the church foyer and £2,511 from our parish team running the 2015 Great North Run.  Read here about the amazing projects that have been completed, helping to improve people’s income and food production in this very poor region of the country.  From January 2019 our parish has been supporting people in Magdalena Medio, Columbia through CAFOD’s HandsOn programme.

Parish Meetings

Dates for future parish meetings are below, all start at 7:30pm

Knights of St Columba

You can find out more about the work and the history of the Knights of St Columba (KSC) here.  An application form to join our parish KSC can be downloaded here.