Meeting is next Sunday 14th September 2:30pm - 4pm @ St David's Chapel (Use side entrance off St Peter's Street) If you would like some support or feel able to support others, please join us for a cuppa and a chat.. just come. Or for more information please phone/text 07566 735 162 Email stpeterslisteners@gmail.com

This Sunday 7th September , Pope Leo XIV will canonize Bl Carlo Acutis in St. Peter's Square in Rome, together with Bl Pier Giorgio Frassati. Bl Carlo Acutis was born in London in 1991. But he moved to Italy with his parents a few months after his birth. Even though his parents were not particularly religious, but from a very early age, Carlo had a great love for the Eucharist. Although like other teenagers who wore jeans and trainers, played video games, loved computing and websites and enjoyed football, it was obvious that Carlo lived his life for Christ. He used the internet to spread his faith as he created a remarkable website which presents Eucharistic miracles from across the globe. However, after being diagnosed with untreatable leukaemia, Carlo died when he was only fifteen. He was beatified in 2020 following a miraculous healing of a Brazilian child – a healing attributed to his powerful intercession. Here are some of Bl Carlo Acutis’ inspiring quotes: “All people are born as originals but many die as photocopies.” “Sadness is looking at ourselves, happiness is looking towards God.” “The Eucharist is the highway to heaven.” “I offer all the suffering I will have to suffer for the Lord, for the Pope, and the Church.” ‘God’s Influencer’ - a short biography of Carlo Acutis is available for £7.50 from the Church Shop

The tenth World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, will be celebrated on 1 September 2025. It is the official start of the Season of Creation, a time of sustained prayer and action. During this season we are encouraged to pray and engage in community events in order to deepen our relationship with God, our neighbour and the earth we share, being ever more attentive to the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor. The theme of the Pope’s message is ‘ Seeds of Peace and Hope ’: “...In proclaiming the Kingdom of God, Jesus often used the image of the seed. As the time of his Passion drew near, he applied that image to himself, comparing himself to the grain of wheat that must die in order to bear fruit...In Christ, we too are seeds, and indeed, “seeds of peace and hope”. The prophet Isaiah tells us that the Spirit of God can make an arid and parched desert into a garden, a place of rest and serenity...They remind us that, together with prayer, determination and concrete actions are necessary if this “caress of God” is to become visible to our world...Now is the time to follow words with deeds. “Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience” (Laudato Si’, 217). By working with love and perseverance, we can sow many seeds of justice and thus contribute to the growth of peace and the renewal of hope. It may well take years for this plant to bear its first fruits, years that, for their part, involve an entire ecosystem made up of continuity, fidelity, cooperation and love, especially if that love mirrors the Lord’s own self-sacrificing Love...I pray that Almighty God will send us in abundance his “Spirit from on high” (Is 32:15), so that these seeds, and others like them, may bring forth an abundant harvest of peace and hope…”

Your donations to Gaza since the start of the conflict have been a vital lifeline. Right now, CAFOD's partner, Caritas Jerusalem, is delivering essential medical treatment to displaced people and providing medicines to treat chronic illnesses. We have helped 1,400 households with cash to buy supplies in the last month and we are currently feeding 2,000 people with new stocks of flour and rice. Despite restrictions on aid coming into Gaza, CAFOD's local partners are working tirelessly to help people. Find out more at cafod.org.uk. Thank you for backing our work through holding collections for our Family Fast Day appeals and continuing to pray for peace in the Middle East.

Join the Fightback! As you probably know, in the space of just one week at the end of June, MPs voted to legalise assisted suicide and to decriminalise abortion, allowing for abortion up to birth. These are threats that we should all care deeply about. SPUC invites you to join in the fightback, to make your voice heard and to stand up for the most vulnerable. Please fill out one of the postcards at Church porch, and SPUC will send you information about what you can do for the cause.

Opening Times Saturday : Before and after 5.30pm Mass Sunday : Before and after 9.30am Mass until 11.30am Mass begins We now have new stock available including many different Rosaries, new Bibles, statues  and a large selection of first Holy Communion and Confirmation gifts and cards.

Come to the Quiz ! The Parish is holding a quiz in support of the Motor Neurone Disease Association Wednesday 9th July The Community Hall, Bedford Street 6.30pm Admission fee: £5 Please support this charity. For more information contact Peter on 07906 101015

Bidding Prayers - Pentecost Sunday Today the bidding prayers will be said in the many different languages of the Parish Community. Nationalities in the Parish We have 40 nationalities in our Parish. Let us give thanks to God that from every part of the world, He invites and gathers us together to join His one big family - the Holy Catholic Church. The Our Father Please say in your own language if you wish.

On Thursday, we meet the parents of the First Communion class for the third time At the weekend we will be just 2 weeks away from Pentecost Please find below a short introduction for parents/ carers and parishioners to a taster session based on the Sycamore programme It gives joining details for a Zoom session on Wednesday 4th June It provides a short reading from Acts as well as a chance to view the kinds of questions that we could use in Breakout rooms. I have downloaded the three Pentecost films. Each last 5-7 minutes. People who join the Zoom session will watch each followed by a short breakout session,The breakout will be facilitated [ parishioners/ teachers ]