Sea Sunday

Seafarers and fishers play a vital role in all of our lives, but they often work in difficult, hazardous conditions. This Sunday is Sea Sunday. It is the day when the Church prays for all those who live and work at sea. Your support will make a big difference to seafarers and fishers in need. You can donate via the retiring collection in church, by visiting www.stellamaris.org.uk/donate, or by texting ‘SEA’ to 70460 to donate £5. This collection is vital to enable Stella Maris to continue its important work, so please give generously. Thank you. A video which gives examples of the work of Stella Maris to help seafarers can be found at https://youtu.be/V3vuH5AL0AM.

Young Adults’ Holy Year Pilgrimage to Rome

A small representative band of young adults from our diocese will be making a Holy Year Pilgrimage to Rome at the end of this month. Karol Gorlo from our own parish will be a part of this group. He is appealing for support in helping him cover some of pilgrimage cost of £1,300. Please contact Canon Kristian if you would like to help Karol or speak to Karol directly.

Diocesan Vacancy – Safeguarding Case Worker: Victim Support

The Diocese is recruiting a Safeguarding Caseworker to work within the Diocesan Safeguarding Team reporting to the Head of Safeguarding. The main purpose of this role is to provide dedicated support to victims and survivors of abuse. The role requires the person to work with individuals and groups, identifying needs and ensuring that the people we work with remain safe and empowered. The postholder will be responsible for positively promoting a high-quality safeguarding service, in particular reaching out to victims and survivors.

If you have relevant professional experience gained with working with a victims’ charity or in a role such as IDVA or ISVA, together with the ability to act as a key representative for the Diocese of Plymouth, the Diocese would like to hear from you. The post is 3 days, 21 hours per week, located at St Boniface House, Ashburton.

To apply, please send an email to recruitment@prcdtr.org.uk to obtain an application form and job description. Applications are by covering letter and application form. The closing date is Monday 28 July 2025.

Pretty Muddy Race for Life for Cancer Research UK

Our parishioner, Ewelina Zychlinska, is taking part in the Exeter Pretty Muddy Race for Life next Saturday, 19 July, to raise money for Cancer Research UK. If you would like to donate to her fundraiser, please go to this link.

Updating the Parish Database

Under the General Data Protection Regulation, it is necessary for us to ensure that the data the parish holds on our parishioners is up to date. We therefore need to ask each person/family to fill out a new census form at regular intervals. It has been some years since the parish database was last updated, so new census forms are available over the next few weekends. Many of you have already returned your forms. Could those who have yet to return theirs please do so as soon as possible. There are additional forms available for those who still need to take one. If you know of anyone who does not attend church regularly, but who would still like to be included on the database, please take a form for them to complete and return.

Message from the Laudato Si’ Group

We reflect with so much gratitude and joy on the pilgrimage walk from Tiverton to Crediton on 24 June. We are grateful to the many people who made it possible, to the people who walked with us some or all of the way, to those who provided welcome rest and refreshment at each stage of the walk, and to those who joined our Pilgrim Mass of celebration in Crediton. We were blessed to be able to honour Pope Francis’ invitation, walking the beautiful mid-Devon countryside in joy and as pilgrims in the footsteps of St Boniface. There are plans already to try and do a parish pilgrimage in June next year and perhaps annually, if this is something people would like to do.

Unbound: Freedom in Christ Prayer Conference

Negative thoughts, repetitive sins and unhealthy relationships? Destructive habits, idols, and false identities? Resentments and bitter wounds that never seem to heal? What if you could reach out and touch God’s love and never be the same? The Unbound: Freedom in Christ Conference on 20/21 September in St Boniface RC College, Plymouth, will empower you to break the powerful chains in your life, so that you can walk in the fullness of freedom. Unbound is a non-confrontational freedom and inner healing ministry which helps people worldwide reclaim their true identity in Christ.

Trained ministry teams will be on site. Author and co-founder, Matt Lozano, will be speaking live from the USA. The conference will include Mass, Confessions, Adoration, praise and worship and refreshments. Tickets are £40 via the link below. Booking essential as tickets will not be available on the door. Over 18’s only. For more details, please contact 01752 701660 or 07940 453607/ Book your ticket at https://givealittle.co/c/5dBfepB2Akl3YpEkxi3Qr1/.

200 Club

Congratulations to Ann McKinney who won the £30 prize and to Ewelina Zychlinska who won the £20 prize in the July draw. If you would like to join this on-going fund raiser for as little as £1 a month, please speak to Simon Coombs or Sheelagh Bourdon at St Andrews or Siobhan Gilroy at St Boniface. 

SVP National Raffle

Members of the SVP will be selling the Society’s summer raffle tickets over the coming weeks. They cost £1 a ticket and come in books of 5. There is a first prize of £5000, a second one of £1000 and 15 additional prizes of £100. The Parish SVP group will receive 50% of the ticket sales to support its work, so please be generous.