The children from St Francis school gathered in the garden of St Francis of Assisi church around 9.15am where they were  each be given a flag of a different country to represent the Holy Spirit coming to all peoples. The children then processed into church, where they gave their flags to the stewards at the foot of the sanctuary and the flags will be placed next to Our Lady's statue. When all the children had processed in, two children, along with Father Pat,  crowned the statue of Mary our Mother of the Church.

Mass was then continued, led by the children, together with parishioners from St Francis and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. 

The children had learnt, without script, parts of the Mass in different languages. 

The Mass began with the Sign of the Cross in the Indian language of Telugu, the Lord of Mercy is in Portuguese; then the Bidding Prayers will be prayed by the Polish children in the school, a child from the Telugu speaking state of India and two adults from each parish praying the prayers in Italian and French, followed by the choir singing the Hail Mary in Italian. 

The Sanctus was sung in English, the Memorial Acclamation in French and the Lamb of God in the Indian language, Malayalam.

At the end of MAss Fr Pat thanked everybody who had  helped with the Mass and all those who had attended.

Photo GAllery by Con McHugh

YouTube Mass Recording

Parish Website, St Francis of Assisi Bedworth