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)

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…”

“But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.’” (Luke 14:13-14) God of might, giver of every good gift, put into our hearts the love of your name, so that, by deepening our sense of reverence, you may nurture in us what is good and, by your watchful care, keep safe what you have nurtured. 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.

Saturday 13th September 10am-2:30pm All Hallows Church, Miskin Free lunch provided Welcome all mothers, grandmothers, and women with hearts for children Arranged by: Nora Woodward and Sr Susan Armond on behalf of the Archdiocese. Learn about establishing your own Mothers' Prayers group with the UK national coordinator. Discover how these small, faith-filled groups began under the Holy Spirit's guidance and now flourish in 120 countries.

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.

Holy Communion (2) Can you imagine? The created in union with the Creator. The Creator within the created. "He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood dwells in me and I in him." (John 6:56) Our distance with God at that moment is not a million miles away, but it is zero distance. At that moment, He is no longer that Almighty King who sit high up in Heaven, He become a kindly Father, a longing Lover. We share and converse with Him who we are, what we got, what we have gone through, what we want to ask for...He exchange with us His Love, His Blessings, His Grace, His Answers… If you truly believe then you will understand how beautiful and how wonderful this is. Communion with God, is like a man finally knows his roots, like a lost child finally find his mother; then one finally knows the meaning and purpose of life. One may also easily finds the word 'communion' sounds like 'come-union', and indeed Holy Communion is a Divine Invitation, therefore we need to prepare ourselves carefully for such an important and holy moment. How? If you need to find your best dress or suit to go to a wedding, then for a spiritual feast you will also need to make sure your spiritual garment is beautiful and clean enough to attend - your soul. To do so, we must examine our conscience, and if conscious of a grave sin then we must go to Confession. And when we worthily received Our Lord in the Holy Eucharist, this deepen union with Christ can transform our lives, not only it preserves, increases and renews the life of grace received at Baptism, strengthen our charity, even cleanse us from past sins and preserve us from future sins even mortal sins. (Reference: Catechism of the Catholic Church)

Pope Leo XIV at the Mass for the Jubilee of Young People at Tor Vergata in Rome on Sunday 3 August “It is truly beautiful, especially at a young age,” the Holy Father said, “to open wide your hearts, to allow him to enter, and to set out on this adventure with him towards eternity.” St Augustine, reflecting on his intense search for God, asked himself: ‘What, then, is the object of our hope…?’ Asking whether our source of hope is the earth or something beautiful that comes from it, he argued that these items were not, but rather ‘the One Who made them,’ ‘He is your hope.’ Like Augustine’s search for meaning, the Pope acknowledged the young people at times ponder similar questions, “There is a burning question in our hearts, a need for truth that we cannot ignore, which leads us to ask ourselves: what is true happiness? What is the true meaning of life? What can free us from being trapped in meaninglessness, boredom and mediocrity?” Pope Leo recalled the young people have had many beautiful experiences, adding that through all this, “you can grasp an important point,” namely the fullness of our existence does not depend on what we store up or, as we heard in the Gospel, on what we possess. Rather, he reminded, fullness has to do with what we joyfully welcome and share. “Buying, hoarding and consuming are not enough. We need to lift our eyes, to look upwards, to the ‘things that are above…'”  “Dear young people, Jesus is our hope,” Pope Leo insisted. “It is He, who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives… to commit… to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal…Let us remain united to Him, let us remain in His friendship, always, cultivating it through prayer, adoration, Eucharistic Communion, frequent Confession, and generous charity, following the examples of Bl Piergiorgio Frassati and Bl Carlo Acutis who will soon be declared saints.” Hence, he invited, “Aspire to great things, to holiness, wherever you are. Do not settle for less. You will then see the light of the Gospel growing every day, in you and around you.”