St Bede's College

May 19th, 2010

St Bede’s College presented a cheque for £3,000 to Fr Pat Clarke to help him fund his mission for Street Children in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Fr Pat is a member of the Holy Ghost Fathers and runs a Centre for Culture and Arts in the retreat centre known as ‘City of the Angels’.  The place provides a safe haven for the children of the many shanty towns and helps to keep them from entering a life of crime.
After being presented with the cheque Father Pat spoke to the assembled children. “Dom Bosco said that there is no such thing as a bad young person, only one that we adults have failed to love sufficiently.  This becomes obvious time and time again when we encounter the generosity with which young people, given a chance and a worthwhile cause, prove that they want to transform the world they have inherited into something where there is justice for all and not only for the privileged few. The students of St Bede’s are to be congratulated on what they have done for the sake of our shanty town children. Long may they continue to shine a light into the darkness of a too often greedy and cynical world, by their example of solidarity and transforming hope. May God bless them, their teachers and their families now and always.”
Headmaster Michael Barber said, “The College has been supporting Fr Pat’s work for just over eleven years and we are keen to develop our links with Fr Pat and the important work he does in São Paulo.

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