Praise God! Our School plan has been approved!

Today Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Education, has announced that he is putting St Michael's School in Truro  forward to the next stage for conversion into one of the nation's first 79 Free Schools. It will be the first Catholic Free School.

So many of you have been praying for this over the past 8 weeks. Your generous prayers have been answered. Cornwall will now, please God, have its very own Catholic State Secondary school.

Especial praise must go to the steering committee who have worked with ferocious and unstinting enthusiasm to put all the paperwork together.

Now the hard work will begin in a new way....
Here is the building in Camborne where we hope to take up residence. It was once the Girls' Grammar school.

More here from:
BBC Cornwall
BBC Radio Cornwall (One hour 8 minutes into the programme)
The Politics show (30 minutes into the programme)
St Michael's School website

Prayer for Iranian Christian threatened with death

A young parishioner, our new Redruth rep. for the charity Aid to the Church in Need, has asked that this story be posted on the blog.

This Christian Pastor,Yusuf Nadarkhani, is 35 and married with two children. His 'crime' is that he converted to Christianity at the age of 19. The death threat will be lifted if he renounces his faith which he has repeatedly refused to do.

Christians in the West are being asked to support his cause, especially through prayer.

Full details are here.

Mary's Meals

This year we are supporting a new charity for our autumn fast day on Friday.

'Mary's Meals' provides daily meals in school for over 500,000 children in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. As you can see, it was set up by two scottish catholic brothers in 2002. 
"Mary’s Meals is named after Mary, the mother of Jesus, who brought up her child in poverty".