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FR. RUFUS PEREIRA COMES TO ST DAVID’S
CATHEDAL, CARDIFF
 Following
the very successful healing weekend with Ros Powell at St David’s
Cathedral in the spring, the Welsh NSC have decided that instead of
their usual national conference they will have a weekend with Fr Rufus
Pereira at St David’s on 12th-13th September 2009. This will include
two public healing and deliverance evenings on the Friday and Saturday
at the Cathedral and a private 3 day “Healing (and inner healing)
and Deliverance” seminar for priests, religious and lay people
involved in ministry or leadership in the Church. See page 21 under
“Coming Events”. Fr Rufus, who is a world wide renowned exorcist,
is a priest from Mumbai in India. His visit is being seen as very providential,
as in July 2004 thousands of witches from all over the UK gathered at
the Cardiff International Area only 200 yards from the cathedral for
the Conference of Witches of the United Kingdom and spiritual warfare
is needed for Wales at this time.
The St David’s Events Team, which came together
to organise
the Ros Powell meeting in May plans in the future to meet
monthly as a committed core for fellowship and prayer and
development. Their vision is to put on other events at the
cathedral and reach out to the city. Seeing the success of the
May weekend, Canon Peter Collins, the dean of St David’s
Cathedral has given his permission to the group to put on four
events for 2010. The first of these will be the Fr Rufus weekend
when they will be working together with the Welsh NSC. St
David’s Cathedral is in the heart of Cardiff City Centre, but
it is always hard to arrange refreshments as it does not have a
hall. The events team, however, led by Spiro Sueref got round
this by purchasing a 12m x 6m marquee which they erected
in the Cathedral courtyard. This was so successful that the
Cathedral is now considering levelling the floor there to make
it easier for the marquee in the future.
More information of the above from the Welsh NSC
website www.ccrw.org.uk or www.jesus4usall.com
Brighton Celebrate feedback.
Helen Wells, one of the organising team tells us what
happened
I thought it would
be easier the
second year
organising it, as
you have some
e x p e r i e n c e
of what to do
and to expect,
but it was the
opposite. It was
really hard, and
everything that
could go wrong
seemed to. By the beginning of May we only had 150 people
booked on and we needed 360 to break even. I was feeling really
low. It’s times like this you wonder, is it this difficult because
it is
going to be great or should I be doing something else?
We stepped up the prayer, however, and in the next few
weeks
over 200 people registered so by the time the weekend happened
we had 361 people. The atmosphere was amazing, and the team
was wonderful and everybody pulled together. Jenny Baker’s
and David Payne’s talks were fantastic and John Vaughan Neil
challenged people so much with his talk that 60 people turned up
to his seminar on evangelisation.
We handed out a “What Now?” form and lots of
people responded. Our idea now is, starting on 19th September, to hold
monthly “Infusion” evenings for families between 6-8pm on
Saturdays with praise and worship, and teaching and ministry. For the
first one we have invited Jo Gilbert from the Lay Community of St Benedict.
We want to encourage some of the younger and less well known people
and grow our own speakers. We were very blessed this year in the music
in this regard to see the younger ones come through in the worship ministry.
It really blessed us to see these 18 year olds leading us in praising
the Lord.
EUCHARISTIC OUTREACH AT APPLEBY HORSE FAIR
Margaret Doran and Anne Casey, two members of the Travelling community,
for the second year running organised a Eucharistic outreach at the
famous Appleby Horse Fair in June. The fair dates back to 1685 and every
year thousands of gypsy, Roma and travelling families congregate there
for a fun weekend where horses are shown and traded and all kinds of
entertainment and traditional culture is on offer. A couple of years
a go Margaret had a prophetic dream in which she saw a tent with the
Blessed Sacrament being exposed at the heart of the encampment and she
felt God calling her to do something to bring this about. Using their
own resources, and with the help of Charlie Connor from Youth2000 and
his two brother priests, Fr Augustine Marie CFR and Fr Philip Connor,
the two women last year managed to have the prayer tent at Appleby for
the first time. Even Bishop Patrick O’Donaghue came. Nothing like
this had ever happened before.
This year seven priests came to help, including
the Connor brothers and the local parish priest of Appleby Fr Alex,
who was very enthusiastic about what he saw. As well as adoration of
the Blessed Sacrament all night, nine traveller children made their
First Holy Communion and had a huge celebration. There was also a Eucharistic
procession through part of the camp. Lance Thwaytes, the mayor of Appleby,
who is a devout Catholic also expressed his support. The women hope
this will be an annual event and will grow.
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CITY MISSION TO GALWAY
The Creideamh Faith Festival, which took
place in Galway 4th- 19th July, was a great success. The event
was organised by the Tine Network of Catholic Leaders and parishes
in Galway and was inspired by the City Missions that have taken
place over the last few years in Paris, Brussels, Vienna, Lisbon
and Budapest whereby some of the new communities and lay ecclesial
movements worked with parishes in city wide evangelistic events.
The faith festival included things such as street drama in Eyre
Square, live music, mimes and chat in Lynch’s Café.
Fr Pat Lynch also offered Life in the Spirit Seminars at the Franciscan
Abbey. The An Tobar Nua Café was also a focus and had workshops
on marriage and discussions as well as performances by Flip and
Sammy Blaze, HipHop and Rap artists from Dallas, Texas. There
were also Mission style evening services at two parishes by the
Franciscan Friars of the Reneweal and the Ceili Community and
adoration was offered every night by YOUTH2000. There was also
a programme for children which included a 5 a side football tournament
for 7-14 year olds and on Saturday the Franciscan Friars of the
Renewal staged a Catholic Underground night. These began in New
York City and the idea has spread round the world. The evenings
combine the prayer of the Church, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
and a opportunity for Catholic artists to perform using music,
poetry, visual arts, drama and film.
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MIRACLE EVENING IN LONDON
The Cor Lumen et Christi community held the first
of a new mission of Catholic Miracle Services in the evenings,
at the Friends Meeting House in London on 25th June. They had
felt the Lord telling them to stop their monthly Yes meetings
and instead step out and organise larger outreach meetings in
central London. As this was the first one they were not sure who
would turn up, and as they were praying before the meeting started
at 7pm there were only a few hundred in the hall. Gerard Pomfret
from Goodnews Books, however, who was there commented, “It
was amazing though. By 7.30pm people were flooding in and they
had to be sent up to the galleries. I would guess there were about
760-800 people there. I couldn’t believe it.”
The music was provided by Godfrey Birtill, an evangelical
worship leader, known for his prophetic and energy fuelled style
of music. Because it was such a hot evening the doors of the hall
were wedged open, and the main building doors too, ensuring that
his music drifted onto the street. Gerard was on the bookstall
near the door. “His music was so powerful that people were
literally coming in off the streets as they walked by wanting
to know what was going on. I would say at least a couple of dozen
people came in to ask questions and some of them stayed and we
told them about the monthly day of renewal and Cor et Lumen’s
other events.”
Gerard said that one of the ladies in his prayer
group in Milton Keynes was healed of deafness in one ear and there
were many others. Scores of others came forward to testify that
the Lord had instantly healed them of a physical condition. The
most striking healing of the night, however, was of a young Polish
woman who was healed of 12 cancerous tumors including one the
size of a golf ball in her hand. Following a prayer by Damian
Stayne, commanding the cancers to disappear, the tumour on her
hand vanished and when she went to the doctors the following day
for a scan, she found that all the other tumours in her body had
gone too. She was so touched by what had happened that she signed
up to do the Philip Discipleship course offered by Cor et Lumen
Christi to the Polish community in London. (See p 23) In addition
to praise, preaching and prayers for miracles, there was almost
an hour of prayer for a fresh out pouring of the Holy Spirit and
an altar call in which about 30 people gave their lives to the
Lord, many for the very first time. The next miracle evening will
be this coming autumn on 8th October. at 7 pm.
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