Saint Augustine of Canterbury News List<![CDATA[Hospital Rota]]>08/01/2010
DATE
SUNDAY 9:00AM (ENGLISH MARTYRS)
2010
Visit Gloucester Hospital
       
]]><![CDATA[Minister Rota]]>08/01/2010
DATE
SATURDAY 6:30PM
SUNDAY 11:00AM
2010
Assist at Altar
Assist at Altar & Visit sick/housebound
             
 
IMPORTANT NOTES
1) As a result of the Diocesan advice concerning Swine Flu it has been necessary to issue this amendment to the Eucharistic Minister rota. Please keep the original rota issued, because if the all clear is given before this rota expires we will revert back to the original one.
2) Until advised otherwise we only have one minister at each Mass distributing the consecrated Host and this must be given in the hand. Ministers are also reminded to wash their hands before and after Mass.
3) For the 11am Mass the first Minister listed above will assist with distribution of Communion during Mass and all three will assist with visiting the sick and housebound as usual.
]]><![CDATA[First Holy Communion Programme]]>08/01/2010

Our 2009 - 2010 First Holy Communion Programme has now started. As the course progresses we will give you information at the start of each meeting, at parents meetings and via letters, as well as through web page.

]]><![CDATA[Reading Rota]]>22/09/2009
DATES
SATURDAY
6.30  P.M
SUNDAY
11.00 A . M.
1ST READING
& RESP. PSALM
(Entrance Antiphon &
Comm. Antiphon)
2ND READING
+ ALLELUIA
and G . I .’s
1ST READING
2ND READING
and G . I.’s
2ND READING
and G . I.’s
         
]]><![CDATA[About Saint Augustine of Canterbury]]>01/07/2009

Augustine of Canterbury (c. first third of the 6th century – 26 May 604) was a Benedictine monk who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 598. He is considered the "Apostle to the English" and a founder of the English Church.

Augustine was the prior of a monastery in Rome when Pope Gregory the Great chose him in 595 to lead a mission, usually known as the Gregorian mission, to Britain to convert the pagan King Æthelberht of the Kingdom of Kent to Christianity. Kent was probably chosen because it was near the Christian kingdoms in Gaul and because Æthelberht had married a Christian princess, Bertha, daughter of Charibert I the King of Paris who was expected to exert some influence over her husband. Before reaching Kent the missionaries had considered turning back but Gregory urged them on and, in 597, Augustine landed on the Isle of Thanet and proceeded to Æthelberht's main town of Canterbury.

Find out more about Saint Augustine

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