St Patricks Church Grangetown Cardiff

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St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Grangetown, Cardiff, is part of the Cardiff Deanery of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cardiff.

This Church opened on St Patrick's Day March 17th 1930.

St Patricks RC Primary School is in Lucknow Street, Grangetown

It has close links with the Church.

The school website. http://www.stpatricks-primary.co.uk/

St Patrick's School -February Newsletter

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"Everyone who believes in the Son will have eternal life"

Today Jesus tells the crowds: “I am the bread of life.” Jesus also says that anyone who comes to Him will never hunger, nor thirst. Did the crowds truly understand what Jesus was saying? Did they realize that Jesus was not speaking literally? Jesus was not talking about food and drink that we consume. Rather, Jesus was speaking of our “spiritual” hunger and thirst.

Ask yourself: What is it you hunger for? Is it love, friendship, financial stability, a healthy and happy family? We human beings have many hungers. However, we often try to satisfy our deepest hungers with money, material things, people, or even food or drink. Yes, these things do satisfy us to some extent. However, our deepest hunger is for God! We can have all the money in the world or a multitude of friends but if God, Jesus or the Spirit is not part of our lives, nothing else will ever satisfy!

Today, ask yourself: What do I truly thirst for? What do I long for? Most likely, we long and hope for many good things. Do I long for God? How do I experience that longing? The reality is: no matter how much we have or how many people we love, truly only God alone will satisfy our hunger and our longing! Today, will I choose to spend time with God?

The SVP Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela

One of our Parishioners on behalf of the SVP made the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. She walked 76 miles. She walked with other pilgrims , following in the footsteps of many many thousands of other pilgrims over the years.

SVP Pilgrims

The scallop shells guide the pilgrims on their way. The shell’s lines represent the many different Camino routes across Europe, all converging at Santiago de Compostela.

Many legends and myths surround the origin of the scallop shell’s connection to Saint James and the Camino. One story says Saint James saved a knight who rose from the sea covered in scallop shells. Another version tells of a knight’s horse falling into the ocean and resurfacing, covered in shells as Saint James passed by. These tales helped establish the shell as a lasting spiritual emblem of the pilgrimage.

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The name Santiago refers to the Apostle James the Greater (Sant Iago means ‘Saint James’). James, son of Zebedee and Salome and brother of Saint John the Evangelist, who spent some years converting people on the Iberian Peninsula to Christianity. After returning to Palestine in 44 AD, he was beheaded by King Herod Agrippa I. The king forbade to bury him, but James’ two disciples, Theodore and Athanasius stole the body and brought it, in a sarcophagus of stone (or marble), across the Mediterranean Sea, to the Iberian coasts, into the port of Iria Flavia (which is present-day Padrón). They buried his body there in secret.

In 813, a hermit named Pelagius observed shooting star-like mysterious lights pointing to a wood. He reported this to the bishop of Iria Flavia, who went to the spot and discovered a tomb in which three bodies rested: Saint James and his two disciples. The field was consequently named campus stellæ, which means ‘field of stars’.

According to tradition, the cathedral was built on the exact place where the tomb of Saint James the Greater had been found. The construction took place between 1075 and 1122, with several halts. It was consecrated in 1128.