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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Weekday in the Third Week of Eastertide

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1/9

We do not live by bread alone,

but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.

Shortly after the feeding of the 5,000 people, His disciples saw Jesus walking on the sea. The next day, the crowd of people that was gathered realized that Jesus had not got into the boat with His disciples. Where had Jesus gone? They were anxious to find Jesus and to hear Him teach. Did they also hope that Jesus might perform another miracle and once again feed them?

When the people realized that Jesus was no longer in the area, they got into boats and crossed over to Capernaum, where they found Him. The people asked: “Rabbi, when did you get here?” Jesus did not answer their question. Rather, He challenged them saying: “You are looking for me not because of the signs and wonders I have done. No, you have come to me because you ate until you were satisfied.” Jesus then tells them: “Do not work for food that will spoil. Work for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you!” The people then asked Jesus what they could do to accomplish the works of God? Jesus replied simply and succinctly: “This is the work of God: believe in the One God sent.”

Do we truly believe in Jesus, the One God sent to us? Do we believe in Him with our whole hearts and our whole beings or do we simply believe with our minds? Our minds have the ability to accumulate a great amount of information and understand it. However, belief comes from the heart. The heart may understand and believe a truth that the mind simply cannot comprehend.

Belief is not logical. Belief cannot be proven. Belief requires us to trust what our hearts know and understand. Belief and faith are the greatest gifts we ever will receive! Do we appreciate those gifts?

The SVP Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela

Chris has reached her destination : the Basilica at Santiago de Compostella. She has 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.