CAFOD Family Fast Day Appeal

Please donate to our Family Fast Day parish collection on 5th October to share God’s abundant gifts with our global neighbours as they find lasting solutions to poverty and climate challenges. Your generosity offers “signs of hope” in this Jubilee Year, helping build more water tanks in communities like Waré’s in Ethiopia where women have to walk for hours to get water. Use the CAFOD envelope in church, donate online at cafod.org.uk/envelope or call 0303 303 3030. You can also text CAFOD to 70560 to donate £10. 

First Holy Communion 2026 - CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS 3rd November 2025

Applications are now open for

First Holy Communion 2026

for children who have been baptised

in the Catholic Church

and who are in Year 3 or above.  

If you wish your child to receive

First Holy Communion next year

please download the following:

  Letter to Parents  (important dates) and the  

 Application form which has to be completed and returned to the Parish Office by 

Monday 3rd November 2025.

Application forms are also available from the Parish Office, OLOL School Office 

and in Church on Sunday.

For more information please contact the Parish Office

  Tel: 0117 9498743   

Email: bristol.ourladyoflourdes@cliftondiocese.com

CONFIRMATION 2026

Bishop Bosco will be celebrating Confirmation on Thursday 2nd July 2026 at St Paul's Church, Yate, at 7.00pm.  

Preparation sessions will begin next year in St Augustine's Parish Hall in Downend.  Candidates must be of secondary school age (11-18 years).  Download the Application Form / Programme Dates or pick a paper copy from the Parish Office or church (on the table in the porch).  

Completed forms should be returned to the Parish Office - please remember to include an email address which will be used for all communications and please include a copy of the candidate(s) baptism certificate if they were not baptised within our Parishes in Communion

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 30th Nov 2025