A 'Double Do'!

On Sunday August 27^th  Terence Donnelly, a Catenian Bursary Trustee, was warmly welcomed by Fr. Michael Murphy at St. Mary’s Fleetwood. 

The occasion was the presentation of a Catenian Bursary cheque to a Fleetwood parishioner, Matthew Steen. That weekend the Church looked absolutely magnificent for the Fleetwood Flower Festival and the displays had been set up by the local Church flower arrangers and Members of the former Fleetwood Flower Club to celebrate 150 years of worship in St. Mary’s

Matthew applied to the Catenians for a Bursary grant to help him with a six month volunteer project teaching Science in a town called Dodoma in Tanzania. Tanzania was formerly a British colony called Tanganyika and is perhaps most famous for having the highest mountain in Africa, 

Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Matthew’s project has been organised by the Jesuit missions and he

will be living and teaching in Dodoma. He will be teaching biology in the local secondary school and he will be like many others because most of the country’s education is provided by volunteers. Matthew received a cheque for £900 to help with this project.

The Catenian Bursary Fund was set up to help Young Catholics to help others. Each year the Catenians distribute over £120 thousand pounds to help others. We recently supported many of the students who went to Lourdes with both the Lancaster and Liverpool Dioceses, of whom 500  were willing to help others less fortunate themselves.

At the 10.30 Mass Fr. Murphy was offering his Mass to celebrate the 25^th Wedding Anniversary of his cousins, Bernard and Margaret Pendleton.

It was truly a fitting celebration for both Matthew’s family and the Pendletons.