1/ Parish projects we are at the end of our financial support to our present parish projects.
We are now looking for new projects. At present we have overseas projects in Jamaica & Africa, does anyone know of a project in South East Asia? We also need some local or national projects to support. If anyone knows of any that could be considered please contact a member of the Justice & Peace Group.
2/ 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.
3/ Green Christian is a group of ordinary Christians from all backgrounds and traditions. Inspired by our faith, we care for creation through prayer, action and encouragement. The parish have membership & there’s magazines available at both churches https://greenchristian.org.uk/about-green-christian/
4/ 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 of the Angels. Holy Family also support a similar charity
5/ What is Ethical Investing? Ethical investing is an investment strategy where the investor’s ethical values (moral, religious, social) are the primary objective, along with good returns. With suspicious and illegal investment deals on the rise, many investors are starting to insist that companies they invest in are socially responsible. This means treating their employees with respect, creating healthy products, and services and keeping away from unethical business practices.
6/ A farewell manifesto for Pope Francis, who chose people over palace
Praise Be the One Who Walked Barefoot in the Corridors of Power
You have died, beloved Earth-brother in robes,
but your life cracked open a door no empire could close.
You, Pope of the Poor,
you who kissed the feet of prisoners,
who refused the gold for the dust,
who walked not above, but among—
we remember.
You spoke the unspeakable in the halls of domination.
You called capitalism by its true name:
extraction, desecration, a slow crucifixion of the Earth and her peoples.
You held up not a sword, but a mirror—
and kingdoms trembled.
You sat with the wounded.
You named the wounds.
You refused to look away.
You dared to speak of the sacred in the soil,
to call the Earth “our common home”
not as metaphor, but as mother.
You remembered what the Church forgot:
that God walks with the trees,
that the Spirit weeps in the polluted rivers,
that resurrection begins in the compost heap.
You stood with the silenced,
you dared to name the sins of the West—
its greed, its colonizing logic & nuclear gospel.
You made the Vatican shake
with the sound of your refusal to comply.
And though the institution tried to robe you,
your true vestment was a life of mercy,
of risk, of humble defiance.
We do not canonize you, we walk with you.
We continue.
Let this be your eulogy:
Not gold and myrrh, but seeds.
Not incense, but uprising.
Not monuments, but movements.
You are not gone.
You are compost now, and compost is holy.
You are in the roots of the sacred resistance.
You are in every hand that plants justice.
You are in the breath of those who still dare to say:
Another world is not only possible—
She is already here,
and She is rising.
Rest, prophet of the poor.
We’ll take it from here.
Azul Thomé
