In the run-up to Christmas, please spare a prayer for the Truro Street Pastors, an ecumenical initiative under Churches Together in Truro. These volunteers patrol our streets after closing time at weekends, looking out for the spiritual and physical wellbeing of late revellers and rough sleepers alike in the small hours of the night.
Category Archives: Caring
Cornwall Christmas Box 2022
The popular Cornwall Christmas Box scheme is happening again this year, inviting locals to make up or contribute to Christmas boxes each containing all the makings of a Christmas dinner for a family of four, complete with trimmings. Last year, parishioners either donated their own box or gave a contribution which volunteers used to buyContinue reading “Cornwall Christmas Box 2022”
A Visit to the Arctic
November is the month of Remembrance. This year, in addition to all the previous wars, we now have Ukraine and Russia to grieve. And there is the loss of our Queen. Sometimes, grieving with appropriate support and rituals, is all we can do in the face of certain losses. And for me coming out of a smallContinue reading “A Visit to the Arctic”
Root & Branch Event
FR. HANS ZOLLNER, SJ Wed. 2nd Oct, 19.00 London Time. REGISTER HERE Hans Zollner, SJ, is a theologian, psychologist and psychotherapist. He is Ordinary Professor and Director of the Institute of Anthropology Interdisciplinary Studies on Human Dignity and Care (IADC) at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He has been a member of the PontificalContinue reading “Root & Branch Event”
Parish Soup Lunch
Friday 18 November St Piran’s Church Hall from 12 – 2pm. (while soups last) selection of home-made soups, plus bread etc. Bring a friend! (FREE – Donations go to SVP)
“THE LETTER: a message for the earth”
“a clarion cry to people everywhere: we have to act together, we have to do it now.” (Cardinal Czerny) “The Letter” was released 3 weeks ago as a Youtube Original film to wide critical acclaim. It highlights the key concept of dialogue by arranging a meeting between Pope Francis and a variety of voices fromContinue reading ““THE LETTER: a message for the earth””
A Foodbank Advent
Truro Foodbank invites us to follow the principle of an Advent Calendar in reverse – and a month early! They suggest we put a non-perishable item in a box on each of the first 24 days of November. “It would be such a help to Truro Foodbank to have the items at the beginningContinue reading “A Foodbank Advent”
Welcoming the stranger
Urgently Required: Truro house for refugee family TCRS (Truro Community Refugee Support) is looking for a home for a refugee family who are rebuilding their lives in the UK. They are currently being housed in a hotel waiting to be relocated. If you have a house in a state of disrepair, we have a teamContinue reading “Welcoming the stranger”
Cornwall in Ukraine
The personal connections that we in Cornwall, and indeed in our parish, have with the war in Ukraine serve to remind us of our bonds with our brothers and sisters in Christ, everywhere. Dr Matthew Barber, son of Tony, left a few weeks ago to start a voluntary placement with UK Med in Chernivtsi, WesternContinue reading “Cornwall in Ukraine”
Across the Channel:French Synod National Synthesis
“We dream of a Church […] that is ready to move with changes in our society, freed from some of the burdens in the way it works, advancing resolutely towards unity, where people can speak freely, always attentive to the little ones and those who have been cast aside, a praying Church that trusts inContinue reading “Across the Channel:French Synod National Synthesis”
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