Our Summer Fete in Liskeard Public Hall

On Saturday 3rd August 2024 at Liskeard Public Hall Our Lady and St Neot Catholic Church, Liskeard we held our summer fete – a big thank you goes out everyone who helped, donated and attended. It was a very successful, joyful day, and an amazing amount of money was raised for the Parish. The Lady Mayoress of Liskeard attended along with representatives from all four of our churches, Liskeard; Saltash; Sclerder Abbey, Looe and Torpoint and lots of local people came along to joint in the fun. Congratulations to everyone involved!

We have been called by the Diocese of Plymouth to turn away from violence and embrace peace and reconciliation: “The Southwest of England has long been a place of welcome. Our beautiful countryside and wonderful coast have been havens for those fleeing violence and discrimination. The realisation that we feel helpless as individuals in the gigantic, global upheavals in our time disturb that peace and bring fear and anxiety not only in family relationships or friendships, but also discrimination in different races and cultures and those of different faiths.

What can be done? We Pray!! Jesus tells us to “treat others as we would like them to treat us”. This is our hope. This is our prayer.
When we pray – God listens. When we listen – God talks. When you believe – God works. When you can’t pray – God knows {What’s in your heart}.
When we have nothing to give, lets us give him that nothingness! The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says through us. Prayer does not demand we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if were a prayer.

The more we go around, the better we understand how very necessary it is for us to pray for the work we do, to make the work our love for God in Action. The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.

Strengthen our resolve to work for reconciliation and peace within our communities.
Help us not to harden our hearts, to redouble our efforts to welcome the stranger and to reach out to those in need.

Thus, God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him. Let us put ourselves into his hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via {wonderful way}, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that he will bring us to that which is not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us!