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: Living
Truro’s Big Sing 2022
2 December 2022 at 7:30pm in Truro Cathedral Congregational carol singing plus songs from Cornwall Children’s Choir, Pelynt Male Choir and the Salvation Army Band. All welcome to this joyful FREE event. Retiring collection in aid of Christian Aid’s Christmas South Sudan Appeal
Who’s in the pew?
Hello Fellow Parishioners of St Piran’s. My name is Tony Chapman. I moved to Truro in August last year although I had already spent a great deal of time in the West of Cornwall as my mother lives in St Keverne on the Lizard Peninsula. In my lifetime I have moved around the UK quiteContinue reading “Who’s in the pew?”
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””
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”
Synod Watch: update
Austen Ivereigh gives an insider’s look at the process of producing the National Synthesis in a The Tablet feature here. Registration on the website is required to read the article, but it is free and easy. Pax Christi, the international Catholic nonviolent initiative, undertook their own ‘listening’ process with participants from 26 countries. The resultContinue reading “Synod Watch: update”
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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