1/ CAFOD Family Fast Day   This Lent, live out the Gospel call to love your neighbour. By fasting and giving what you save, you join in Christ’s compassion and help another family put food on the table. Your donation can help families around the world grow food in difficult conditions – such as on flood-resistant floating gardens or using solar-powered water pumps in times of drought.

The 2nd collection will be this weekend Sun 1st March & there are many ways to donate & bless others with your support.  Take a CAFOD envelope, donate through the 2nd collection, use the card machines at the back of the church’s,  online at cafod.org.uk/envelope or call 0303 303 3030. Text CAFODLENT to 70085 to donate £10.   www.cafod.org.uk 

A group of generous supporters has offered to match online donations to our Lent Appeal up to £378,000     www.cafod.org.uk 

 

 

 

 

2/ SHOUT Helps those who are really struggling to feed their families and the homeless. If you can spare an extra item from your shopping, please donate it to SHOUT Worthing – Soup Kitchen. There are boxes for food donations at the church entrances of St Mary’s.   Holy Family also support a similar charity.

 

3/ CARBON FAST JOURNEY This lent In the Bible, caring for creation is God’s first instruction to humans. This Lent, a time when Christians traditionally fast and focus on God, we encourage you to take up our Lent challenge – living more simply and finding new ways to cut your carbon footprint.

How the Carbon Fast works Each week will feature a different theme designed to help us take climate action. Sign up below and beginning on 18th February, you will receive a weekly email containing some key facts, suggestions for how you could reduce your carbon footprint, and a reflection. Sign up at  Carbon Fast for Lent | Climate Stewards

 

 

 

4/ Live Simply Tip of the week Fit more active travel into your day and daily routine. As the weather warms up, it’s worth considering what journeys can be made by walking or cycling. Could you get off a stop early to walk the rest of your journey, take a relaxing stroll home, or hop on a bike and enjoy a cycle friendly route? If you prefer exploring outdoors on foot, find out if there’s a local Ramblers group.

 

 

 

 

 

 5/ LiveSimply “The future demands that we learn to collaborate more and to grow together.”  Pope Leo XIV (drawing new maps of hope)

CAFOD’ s latest PowerPoint demonstrates the progression that Live Simply has made over the years, inspired by the Live Simply journey through Living Simply, Living Sustainably and Living in Solidarity and Its culmination in an Eco award. This leads to bringing about the Common Good and the HOPE to come, that is, “…encouraging a culture of encounter and collaboration” LS#71

Pope Francis summed this up in Laudato Si, “Creation accounts suggest …that human life is grounded in three fundamental and closely intertwined relationships, with God, with our neighbour, and finally with the very earth itself, …all it takes is one good person to restore HOPE.  (LS#71)

Just one good person is needed!

St Mary’s is a LiveSimply church & we hope Holy Family will soon become one.  LiveSimply PowerPoint    CAFOD_What_is_livesimply_presentation.pptx

 

 

 

 

 

1/ CAFOD Family Fast Day is Fri 27th Feb  This Lent, live out the Gospel call to love your neighbour. By fasting and giving what you save, you join in Christ’s compassion and help another family put food on the table. Your donation can help families around the world grow food in difficult conditions – such as on flood-resistant floating gardens or using solar-powered water pumps in times of drought. The 2nd collection will be Sun 1st March & there are many ways to donate & bless others with your support.  Take a CAFOD envelope , donate through the 2nd collection, use the card machines at the back of the church’s,  online at cafod.org.uk/envelope or call 0303 303 3030. Text CAFODLENT to 70085 to donate £10.   A group of generous supporters has offered to match online donations to our Lent Appeal up to £378,000  www.cafod.org.uk

 

 

 

 

2/ SHOUT Helps those who are really struggling to feed their families and the homeless. If you can spare an extra item from your shopping, please donate it to SHOUT Worthing – Soup Kitchen. There are boxes for food donations at the church entrances of St Mary’s.   Holy Family also support a similar charity.

 

3/ CARBON FAST JOURNEY THIS LENT In the Bible, caring for creation is God’s first instruction to humans. This Lent, a time when Christians traditionally fast and focus on God, we encourage you to take up our Lent challenge – living more simply and finding new ways to cut your carbon footprint.

How the Carbon Fast works Each week will feature a different theme designed to help us take climate action. Sign up below and beginning on 18th February, you will receive a weekly email containing some key facts, suggestions for how you could reduce your carbon footprint, and a reflection. Sign up at  Carbon Fast for Lent | Climate Stewards

 

 

 

4/ Live Simply Tip of the week How does walking and cycling help to protect the environment? Here are five ways that walking and cycling can help protect the environment 1. Reduces air pollution  2. Creates a need for more green spaces 3. Boosts biodiversity 4. Reduces noise pollution 5. Inspires behaviour change

 

 

 

 5/ From Worthing 4 Refugees Many thanks for your continued prayers for the refugees who are making their home in this area. Please pray on the following lines:

• we give thanks for the success of the Worthing 4 Refugees Christmas event and pray for future trips and events
• we give thanks for all who give their time to teach English and we pray for this ongoing provision
• we pray for the family who are facing eviction from their home and for them to be provided with appropriate and long-term housing
• we pray for those with outstanding asylum claims, that they may have good outcomes and be dealt with soon
• we pray for the ongoing work of Worthing 4 Refugees in supporting displaced people but we ask for Jesus to intervene in situations when we are powerless to help
• we pray for the people of Ukraine on the 4th anniversary of the invasion and we pray for peace in all areas of conflict

With all good wishes and thank you again for your prayers.

 

1/ CAFOD is inviting parishes across our Diocese to join their “Big Lent Walk” fundraising challenge, walking 200km during the 40 days of Lent and bringing the gift of clean water to our brothers and sisters like Mortikana, aged 70, from southern Ethiopia. CAFOD – Catholic international development charity

 

2/ Live Simply Tip of the week  Do your washing once a week when possible with a full load  at 30 degrees.  Then hang out on the washing line to dry naturally Zero Waste Home

 

3 / SHOUT Helps those who are really struggling to feed their families and the homeless. If you can spare an extra item from your shopping, please donate it to SHOUT Worthing – Soup Kitchen. There are boxes for food donations at the church entrances of St Mary’s.   Holy Family also support a similar charity.

 

 

 

4/ CAFOD The people of Sudan have suffered enough – urge the UK Government to act decisively now After 1,000 days of conflict, Sudan has reached breaking point and is now the world’s worst humanitarian and displacement crisis. But the world’s governments — including the UK — have failed to respond with the urgency, leadership and determination needed. Please sign the petition to Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper The people of Sudan have suffered enough – urge the UK Government to act decisively now

5/ CARBON FAST JOURNEY THIS LENT In the Bible, caring for creation is God’s first instruction to humans. This Lent, a time when Christians traditionally fast and focus on God, we encourage you to take up our Lent challenge – living more simply and finding new ways to cut your carbon footprint.

How the Carbon Fast works Each week will feature a different theme designed to help us take climate action. Sign up below and beginning on 18th February, you will receive a weekly email containing some key facts, suggestions for how you could reduce your carbon footprint, and a reflection. Sign up here Carbon Fast for Lent | Climate Stewards