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This Lent, your donations to CAFOD’s Family Fast Day appeal will help hardworking people like James the fisherman in Liberia with resources, tools and training to feed their families for good. Give today using the envelope or online at cafod.org.uk and please join us in praying with James that our sisters and brothers around the world have what they need to feed their families. Use the envelope in church or give online at cafod.org.uk

This appeal film has some background on the great work Cafod is doing in this area…

With the First Sunday of Advent we begun the new Liturgical Year (This is Year B, II). The expected coming of Christ is the most joyful season of the Year.
 

Advent contains four Sundays, and the last (the Fourth Sunday) is also the Vigil Day of Nativity of Christ. This accumulation of festivities results in an unusual situation with our normal liturgical calendar.

Our plans for Christmas are:

Advent ends….

Christmas begins…..

On the 15th of August, we celebrate the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This holy day of obligation will be celebrated with Mass in Totnes at 10am and in Kingsbridge at 6pm.

Because of Mary’s participation in the Incarnation of Christ, she is honoured as a unique member of the Church. Just as Solomon brought the Ark of the Covenant into the Temple, Mary, as the Ark of the New Covenant, was brought up into heaven. The Ark that John saw in Revelation 11:19, just before his vision turned to the ‘woman clothed in the sun’, is the full realisation of the Ark that God asked Moses to build to house His presence on earth. This older Ark contained the tablets of the law, as well as the miraculous bread that fed God’s people in the desert, and Aaron’s rod that proved God’s power and authority. The Ark of the New Covenant “is the daughter of Zion in person, the Ark of the Covenant, the place where the glory of the Lord dwells.”

Join us to celebrate she through whom God dwelled in man.

Masses for Ascension day this Thursday (18th May) will be 10am in Totnes and 6pm in Kingsbridge.