Season of Creation 1 September – 4 October
Webmaster • September 6, 2025
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…”
For the over 55s in the Community Hall, Bedford Street. Wednesdays 1.30pm - 4pm Community Cuppa afternoon involves entertainment (organised by parishioners and guests), quizzes, bingo, raffle and plenty of cake and beverages.
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
Eucharistic Miracle of Augsburg, Germany 1194 A woman from Augsburg who was particularly devoted to the Most Holy Sacrament, received Holy Communion. After Communion, without being noticed, she put the Host in a handkerchief, took the Blessed Sacrament home and placed the Eucharistic Species in a container of wax inside a cupboard. In those days it was very difficult to find Tabernacles in the Church so as to be able to practice Eucharistic worship. Only in 1264, with the introduction of the Feast of Corpus Christi did such devotion become commonplace. Five years passed and on 11th May 1199, the woman, tormented by remorse, confessed to the superior of the convent of the Heilig Kreuz (Holy Cross), Fr Berthold, who had her bring the Host back. The Priest opened up the wax covering that enclosed the Host and saw that the Holy Eucharist had been transformed into bleeding Flesh. The Host appeared "divided into two Parts connected together by the thin threads of the bleeding Flesh." Fr Berthold went immediately to the Bishop of the city of Udalskalk who ordered that the Miraculous Host be "transferred, accompanied by the clergy and by the people into the Cathedral and exhibited in an ostensorium of crystal for public worship." The miracle continued: the Host began to grow and to swell up and this phenomenon lasted before the eyes of all from Easter Sunday until the Feast of St John the Baptist. Following this, Bishop Udalskalk had the Host brought back near the convent of the Heilig Kreuz and proclaimed that "in memory of such a memorable and extraordinary event," there should be a special commemoration each year in honour of the holy relic. In 1200, Count Rechber donated to the Augustinian Fathers a rectangular chest of silver with an opening in the front for the placement of the Host of the miracle. Besides the Eucharistic miracle, other extraordinary incidences took place, such as the apparition of the Host with Baby Jesus dressed in white with radiant face and His forehead encircled with a crown of gold, or in another case the bleeding of the crucifix of the church, or the apparition of Jesus blessing the assembly of worshippers. In the course of the centuries, several analyses were completed of the Holy Particle that have always confirmed that human Flesh and Blood are present. Today the Convent of the Heileg Kreuz is taken care of by the Dominican Fathers. (Reference: http://www.miracolieucaristici.org)
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Monday 8 September Mass at 10am All are welcome!
“Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple… any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.” (Luke 14:27,33) O God, by whom we are redeemed and receive adoption, look graciously upon your beloved sons and daughters, that those who believe in Christ may receive true freedom and an everlasting inheritance. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Tuesday 23rd September 7pm Front room of the Presbytery All are welcome to attend If you have any topics to discuss and are unable to attend please contact Parish office.
Saturday 6th September Bethel Convention Centre nr Birmingham Hosted by Anointed Fire Catholic Ministries Speakers include John and Aleksandra Stayne, (Cor et Lumen Christi) and dynamic youth ministry music. Talks, mass, confession, prayer ministry, healing in adoration. All ages including children streams and teen/ youth meetings Buses available (venue just off motorway) Contact Madeleine Jeremy 07791503857
PARISH AFTERNOON TEA Thursday 4th September 1pm at the Community Hall, Bedford Street. Cakes, sandwiches, savouries, coffee/tea, a glass of fizz/bucks fizz. £12.00 Sign-up list will be available after Mass this weekend.
Holy Communion (3) Ah, how God longs for us to be with Him everyday. St Peter Eymard said, "Jesus has prepared not just one Host, but One for everyday of our life. The Hosts for us are ready..." St Therese of Lisieux wrote to another Sister, "It is not in order to occupy a golden ciborium that Jesus every day comes down from Heaven, but it is to find another Heaven, namely, our soul, in which He takes His delight," and when a soul well able to do so does not want to receive Jesus into its heart, "Jesus weeps." Just listen to what Jesus said to us all: "...Keep your heart pure when you receive Me, but even there is speckles of dust (venial sin), I will cleanse it. Come to Me, all who are thirst, for I will drench you. Do not be afraid, for I am with you, until the end of time. Let me have all your burdens, for I am meek and lowly in heart, my yoke is easy and my burden is light." "Take It and eat It (the Holy Communion), for It will give you Eternal Life. Why are you refusing It? Why are you running away from It? Come back, all of you, to your Father's Embrace. There is your home, there is where you will find peace and joy. Do not be afraid, be in union with God is the greatest happiness you will find on earth. Come to Me, let me fill you, with all I have got...they need to know My Goodness, My Love to them, they run away because they don't know this Love. They do not know this Love, they seek other happiness in this life and that will only lead them astray. Tell them about this Love, this greatest Love on earth... Take every opportunity to have Me, be with Me, for you will experience something that you can never imagine, only to you and you alone. Come, my children, come to Me." Therefore, let us remember each time to make suitable preparation before we approach the Altar, and receive Our Lord frequently in Holy Communion with real devotion and love and true humility. (References: *Jesus Our Eucharistic Love by Fr Stefano Manelli *Litany of the Most Blessed Sacrament)