On Sunday August 15th St Joseph's CAFOD group and about twenty-wo parishioners met to walk the Year of Mercy pilrimage for the world's sixty plus million refugees . Our parish priest , Fr Paul Haines , joined us . We were inspired by a deep mutual concern for the terrible plight of those displaced by war , famine and persecution . We wanted to make a special prayer vigil for them , and were further inspired by the very moving prayers and powerpoint pictures on the CAFOD site .
We created a display board with the pictures and placed it in front of the altar beside the Lampadusa Cross which we were priveliged to borrow .
With Helen leading carrying the cross , we did two stages in the church grounds and five in church . We followed CAFOD's suggested format closely .
We all had tea and cakes in the hall afterwards with many people saying how moving they had found the pilgrimage. They were visibly touched .
We didn't do any fundraising that day because we wanted to focus on the prayerful support of the refugees .
As a group we are very proud of our achievement for the refugees .
We created a display board with the pictures and placed it in front of the altar beside the Lampadusa Cross which we were priveliged to borrow .
With Helen leading carrying the cross , we did two stages in the church grounds and five in church . We followed CAFOD's suggested format closely .
We all had tea and cakes in the hall afterwards with many people saying how moving they had found the pilgrimage. They were visibly touched .
We didn't do any fundraising that day because we wanted to focus on the prayerful support of the refugees .
As a group we are very proud of our achievement for the refugees .
