SUPPORTING OUR PARISH

The best way to support our Parish is through prayer. Please keep all the Parish in your prayers, especially our sick and those in need.   At the Offertory of the Mass we support the work of the Parish by our giving in the collection. The offerings support the work of the Church and provide for our priests. If you are a tax payer your gift can earn an extra 25p in each pound; If you are interested please contact Mary Heverin via the parish office (01208 72833).    

Many of our social events, our catechetical courses and our meetings take place in our new Parish Centre in St Mary's Road, Bodmin, a few 100 yards from the church.   The rooms are available to hire when they are not in use by the parish and the money raised supports our work. 

The Parish Centre

Click here to find out charges for booking the Parish Centre

Click here to download a Booking Form

Click here to read the Terms and Conditions of booking the Parish Centre

Please ring the Parish Office first on 01208 72833 to check availability.

Here are some photographs of the rooms which are available: 

The Main Hall 

The Blue Room   

The 'Chapel' and its adjacent small kitchen area 

 The Main Kitchen

The Parish Centre was bought by the parish from the Sisters of Mercy in 2004.  The Sisters had occupied the building for over 100 years.  Known as 'Bethany', it was first a school, then a medical facility for severely handicapped children and latterly, a respite home for suffers from AIDS.  In 2004, it was for sale on the open market and the parish, knowing they needed and had long prayed for such a facility, placed a bid for it.  It was a huge step of faith and they won the bid by a small margin.  The parish then faced the task of raising c£600,000 to pay for it and to refurbish it.  The presbytery nearby was sold to defray part of the cost, and Fr Guy moved into one of the two refurbished flats in the centre itself.  The other was in due course let.  The large meeting rooms downstairs are used by the parish and by local groups as described above.  Amazingly, the whole debt was fully paid by Eastertide 2008, a remarkable achievement and a witness to God's faithfulness.

The Cemetery of the Sisters of Mercy