The church should be aware of the scale of domestic abuse in the community and be playing as big a role as possible in combating it. This was the theme emerging from the recent diocesan annual Safeguarding Conference.

At the Sunday masses today, Steven Connolly from the Parish Council told us about some of the events taking place for Preston Guild and invited us all to get involved including:

1. The Churches' Procession on Monday 3^rd September 2012

2. Workshops to help prepare for the Churches' Procession

3. Support for a visit from Hodovo by 2 adults and 7 children

4. Fundraising activities to support the visit from Hodovo and the cost of decorating the floats, including a sponsored walk and family BBQ

Below is a presentation that was shown in church and sign-up sheets are located at the back of church for all of these events and activities.

The period between Easter and Pentecost is the ideal time in which to focus on the coming of the Holy Spirit. In the Liturgy of the Word at Mass we have the unfolding of the story of the early Church as told by St. Luke in the Acts of the Apostles; it is almost a breathless account of the action of the Holy Spirit at work in the faithful lives of the Apostles and those early Disciples.

As part of Preston Guild a group of local churches are organising a community based initiative in July and are asking for our help in order to serve our city.