Sunday 24 July 2016

Timeos Trust Cheque Presentation

Peter Frisby and Manus McDermott present the cheque to David and Helen Skipp



Following the recent Alternative Benny O’Shea Golf Classic, Brothers Manus and Peter were able to present a cheque for £1,200 raised at the event to David and Helen Skipp, co-trustees of the Timios Trust. They asked David for a little information on how the Trust will use the funds. His reply below gives an interesting insight into the trust.

Dear Peter,

You asked for info concerning the people we are helping with our bursaries and the type of projects with which they are engaged.

One person whom we will be supporting with a travel bursary is a young doctor who will be going for nine months on board “Mercy Africa”. This is the largest boat of the Christian charity”Mercy Ships”. These are fitted with hospitals and operating facilities and they sail around the coast of Africa providing medical care to some of the world’s poorest people.

The base for this ship will be Cotonou, Benin West Africa where approximately a third of the population live below the international poverty line of US$1.25per day. There is a high infant mortality rate and major problems with the management of malaria, tuberculosis, maternal health and HIV.

We will be helping this young doctor with a contribution to enable her to get to Benin so that she can join the ship.

Another recipient of an award is a young man who is going to northern Thailand to work in an orphanage . He will also be working with young people who have moved to the city of Chiang Mai teaching them English communication skills. He is going under the auspices of a well established missionary society.

The applicants that we have are from all backgrounds and Christian organisations. We ask however that they are going to undertake work of a practical nature so showing their faith in positive practical ways, and over the years we have helped some 300 people to travel to their areas of work.

I hope that this gives a flavour of our Trust’s work. There are more stories of the experiences that these volunteers have gained and what they have been able to do on the web site www.timiostrust.com

Provincial Mass for Vocations, Worth Abbey, 24 July 2016

Worth Parish very kindly consented to dedicate the 9.30 a.m. parish mass today to be offered for Vocations to the Priesthood, Diaconate and the Religious Life at the request of the Provincial Council of the Catenian Association in Sussex.

The Association is acutely aware, as are many ordinary Catholics, of the very serious shortage of vocations today and it is imperative that we do all we can to assist. The Association Circles do this through regular prayer at our meetings, by the offering of a mass sponsored by a Circle somewhere in the world each day of the year and through fundraising to asist in training at our colleges and seminaries. Last year we raised £7,500 for diocesan and national funds.

We earnestly ask for your continuing prayers and support for Vocations, that God will ever increase His harvest and that our Catholic Christian communities will continue to be able to call on a parish priest of their own in the future - something which has been being eroded steadily in recent times.



A major attraction was a book of photos from this blog

The Provincial Vice-President representing the formal side of the Association
A bit short on the donations?
Anyone up for a best caption competition?

Nigel Corby, Provincial Marketing Officer, does some marketing

Books do furnish a room

Saturday 23 July 2016

Barbecue at The White Horse, Maplehurst, 22 July 2016

Brother President Peter Mullarky introduces his guests from China

Ralph Streamer contemplates the delicious barbecue

Brother President on his third speech of the evening (not counting the song)

Nearing the end of an excellent evening

Tuesday 19 July 2016

Diocesan Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation, West Grinstead - 17 July 2016


 The Catenians of the Province were responsible for providing stewards for this important diocesan event. Crawley Catenians provided four out of the "magnificent seven" who volunteered.

Brother Desmond Boksan-Cullen talking to Bishop Richard, who has just noticed the paparazzi

Brother Tony Sefton liaising with one of the Shrine stewards

Fr. David Goddard teaching the history of the Shrine

Sorting the bags

They also serve who only sit and wait

Friday 15 July 2016

Chichester Circle Barbecue, Itchenor Yacht Club - 12 July 2016

Light over the harbour after the rain

Mike Newman and Lucy Forster
Just the first course


It would be nice to win a raffle just once - Connie and Bill Beckett

Sunday 3 July 2016

President's Sunday, St John the Evangelist Horsham - 3 July 2016

Brother President Peter Mullarky welcomes everyone to his Sunday
Louise Martin

Brother Mike Georgeson and Brother-to-be Alan Rew

Bernard Smith relaxes after playing the organ for the Mass


Val Coomber

Mike Georgeson and Gerry Lydon

Tony Sefton with the remains of the refreshments

Brother President prepares for action

Moira Key, Ann Mullarky and Iris Jordan

Carolyne and Joe Wycliffe

Mark Calloway and Richard Emms

Brothers Peter Mullarky, Philip Gidman and Tony Sefton hatch a plot

Lucy Forster works, while Maria Streamer and Irene Innes share a joke