 The diocese worked with the Guildford Deanery and the Jesuit Ministries to organise a two-day School of Prayer in St. Peter's School on 30th November & 1st December 2019. Over 90 people took part, more than had been expected, and the feedback was very encouraging. The Sunday session included instruction in methods of prayer, with emphasis on the 'Prego Group' approach for prayer meetings, in which the following elements are suggested (download the booklet below):
A 'School of Prayer' booklet (download below) also mentioned four 'Anchor Points':
A mobile app was also mentioned, for those who might find it convenient to have a guide to daily prayer on their phone or tablet. The app is called 'Pray as you go' and is available on the Play Store for Android and the App Store for iPhone/iPad. Pray as you go is also available for computers here: pray-as-you-go.org/  Deacon Jon Harman, Diocesan Specialist Adviser, Formation and Spirituality (*) * The aim of the diocesan Spirituality and Formation team is "to assist parishes to form adults into missionary disciples of Jesus Christ". Four key areas of work are:
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 Just in time for National Youth Sunday, join our Youth intern Pippa for her video diary showing two days in her hectic life.
Watch the video here. Congratulations to Pippa and Aseel for a great job! P.S: Wondering what a 'vlog' is? Don't worry, it just means you are probably a little older than Pippa. It means 'video blog', or log, or something... :-)  Big '0' celebrants (left to right): Maureen Durston, Fr. Sebastian Paul, Greg Melly, Kitty Grant, Alastair Anderson, Harvey Palmer, Howel Lewis, Val Sagar, Frances Allen, Alan Hughes, Catherine Hughes, Norman Barber. Photo: Rosemary Gardner. Keeping up a long-standing tradition, a group of parishioners celebrating '0' milestone birthdays hosted a party in St. Pius Hall on 23rd November 2019. The Big '0's being celebrated ranged from 40 to 90, and perhaps it is not too indiscreet to mention that Fr. Sebastian was at the lower end of that scale!
 There was a full house in St. Pius' Hall for the latest Film Night. This time the film was "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society", set in occupied Guernsey during the Second World War.
 Across the parish wreathes were laid on behalf of the Catholic Community.
A message from our friends Carole and David Hudson at the Project Peru charity:
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and to learn more about the amazing work of Project Peru.  Alan Hughes with Ahlam and Hasan at the fundraising dinner Thanks to Alan Hughes and Michael Combes for this account of the fundraising dinner which took place in St. Pius Hall on 19th October 2019, and of the CPG Refugee Support Fund.
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