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1/ Parish Project Uganda photos – There is a notice board in the Lady Chapel at the side entrance to the church with a selection of photos showing how our Parish donations are helping the Parish & people of St Faustina in Uganda.
Please take time to see the photos and read Fr Sylvester’s letter to us. There is also information leaflets to take.

A similar photo exhibition will be on display at Holy Family

2/ Faces of Resilience on Sunday 15^th June 2-5pm at Our Lady Star of the Sea Church Hall, Vermont Drive. East Preston, BN16 1JU. Come and see photographs and listen to a ‘Living Book’, vividly telling the stories of Ukrainian women fleeing war and seeking refuge in the UK. Join us in prayer in the church at 3pm for refugees, people seeking asylum and peace in our world.

 

 

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 of the Angels. Holy Family also support a similar charity

 

 

4/ LIVE SIMPLY Tip of the Week  Introducing more plant-based meals into your diet is one of the best ways to cut your carbon footprint, and it’s often a healthier choice too. Why not add some meat-free alternatives to the dinner table this summer? Lots of supermarkets now offer great meat-free BBQ options, so why not try some plant-based alternatives on the grill over the holidays – or try eating meat-free one day a week or opting for a vegetarian option whilst eating out. Whatever you get up to this summer, remember your actions and everyday choices make a difference – and influence those around you to take action too. This goes hand-in-hand with calling on leaders to act. Together, we can build a greener, fairer world that will help people in poverty who are hardest hit by the climate crisis.

 

 

 

5/ Refugee Week 16^th to 22^nd June On Wed 18^th June there will be Vigil for Refugees after the 10am Mass at Holy Family. We are going to spend time together reflecting on the plight of the refugee.  We will pray together & have time for personal reflection and silent pray. Please see Refugee Exhibition “THE STATIONS” on display at both churches www.refugeeweek.org.uk

 

1/ Parish Project Uganda photos – There is a notice board in the Lady Chapel at the side entrance to the church with a selection of photos showing how our Parish donations are helping the Parish & people of St Faustina in Uganda.
Please take time to see the photos and read Fr Sylvester’s letter to us. There is also information leaflets to take.

A similar photo exhibition will be on display at Holy Family

2/ Sainsburys Fairtrade Tea in 2017 Sainsburys decided to stop selling Fairtrade tea, this caused major demonstrations by groups outside of their stores including some of our our church members.  Sainsburys to their credit have relented & are now selling their brand of Fairtrade tea again.

 

 

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 of the Angels. Holy Family also support a similar charity

 

 

4/ LIVE SIMPLY Tip of the Week Buy Ethically  Buy things that align with your values and support people you value (local traders, Fairtrade social enterprises, up and coming artisans) and you’ll use your purchasing power for good.

 

2025 Jubilee Pilgrimage of Hope – Join Us, and Spread the Word Bookings have recently opened for our 2025 Walking Pilgrimage, the Jubilee Pilgrimage of Hope, taking place from 9th to 24th August 2025. Join us in celebrating 50 years of walking pilgrimages, 60 years of the Arundel & Brighton Diocese, and the Holy Year proclaimed by Pope Francis. Crossing varied terrain across Surrey and Sussex, the route visits every Deanery in the Diocese, together with churches of many denominations that we pass on the way. The pilgrimage is open to all.  You can join for a day (or less), a few days, or the whole 2 weeks. Organised entirely by volunteers, our pilgrimages are very affordable.

https://thepilgrims.org.uk/wp/2025-jubilee-pilgrimage-of-hope-join-us-and-spread-the-word/?ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2_17_2022_14_56_COPY_05)&mc_cid=0fd4448198&mc_eid=24d11430c0

 

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 of the Angels. Holy Family also support a similar charity

 

 

3/ Lidato Si Week 24 to 31 May.    10 years ago, Pope Francis wrote Laudato Si’, setting out a bold vision for our common home. We look ahead to an even brighter future. The next chapter of Laudato Si’ begins with us. It unites thousands of people worldwide with a common goal: the protection of Creation. By participating, you become part of a global movement of faith and action. Your voice and actions have an impact when joined with those of many others. See www.laudatosiweek.org/

 

 

4/ Live Simply Tip of the Week Make use of the warmer weather to air-dry your clothes! Air-drying could reduce your carbon footprint as well as your electricity bill.

 

Landmines In the 90’s, there were major campaigns throughout the county to rid the world of landmines.  Princess Diana was very prominent & was a major force behind the campaign.

Locally members of our J&P group, held a demonstration in 1991 in Worthing town centre with a display of various types of dummy landmines and also a simulated landmine field, where people could experience what it would be like for farmers & people in countries to walk where landmines had been indiscriminately dropped or laid.
The global landmine treaty has saved countless lives- but some European countries are thinking of quitting it.  Mines stay behind for decades after wars end, killing and maiming innocent kids. Leaders meet in Geneva in just weeks – let’s tell them to keep their promises and stay in the treaty!

You can add your name to this petition at  https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/landmine_ban_1_0/?&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social_share&utm_campaign=54167&share_location=post_action & please forward to as many of your contacts as you can for them to also sign.

 

 

 

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 of the Angels. Holy Family also support a similar charity

 

 

 

3/ Live Simply Tip of the Week The assessment from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says things are poised to get worse…but also makes it clear that the future of the planet depends in large part on the choices that humanity takes today.

 

 

 

4/ Fairtrade  Did you know that women make up the majority of people producing our food? From farms and factories to offices, women are present in every part of the supply chain  – but they rarely receive a fair share for their work.  Despite their hard work, 70% of the approximately 700 million people living in poverty are women. This isn’t fair and needs to be addressed. We can help turn this situation around by purchasing Fairtrade goods wherever we see the Fairtrade symbol on an item, there’s over 6,000 to choose from.  St Mary’s is a Fairtrade Church.

 

5/ Christian Aid Week 2nd Collection – is this Sun 18^th May a 2nd collection & will take place after all Masses please add the Gift Aid section to the envelope if a tax payer.  You can also donate via the card machines or online at www.christianaid.or.uk

 

 

 

 

 

1/No Mow May is here – let’s give power to the flowers!
Approximately 97% of flower-rich meadows have been lost since the 1930s, and with them, vital food and habitat needed by wildlife. So to give nature the boost it deserves, Plantlife’s No Mow May campaign urges everyone to pack away the lawnmower and let the wildflowers grow freely! Whether you’re in a town or the countryside, it’s super easy to take part. No lawn is too small! Even the smallest wild patch can provide vital food needed by bees and butterflies, connecting us with nature and giving nature the best start to summer.
Join in by letting the wildflowers grow and be part of the No Mow Movement

 

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 of the Angels. Holy Family also support a similar charity

 

3/ LIVE SIMPLY Tip of the Week – Treat your greens Save water with every meal by washing your vegetables in a bowl, instead of under a running tap. Then keep your houseplants happy by giving them a drink with the discarded water. Provided by Friends of the Earth http://www.foe.co.uk

 

 

 

 

4/ Fairtrade  Worthing has a new Fairtrade Directory for 2025.  See https://www.ttworthing.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Fairtrade-Directory-2025-final.pdf  St Mary’s is included as we are a Fairtrade Church

 

5/ Christian Aid 2nd Collection – Next Sun 18th May a 2nd collection for Christian Aid Week will take place after all Masses

 

1/ No Mow May is here – let’s give power to the flowers! 
Approximately 97% of flower-rich meadows have been lost since the 1930s, and with them, vital food and habitat needed by wildlife. So to give nature the boost it deserves, Plantlife’s No Mow May campaign urges everyone to pack away the lawnmower and let the wildflowers grow freely! Whether you’re in a town or the countryside, it’s super easy to take part. No lawn is too small! Even the smallest wild patch can provide vital food needed by bees and butterflies, connecting us with nature and giving nature the best start to summer.
Join in by letting the wildflowers grow and be part of the No Mow Movement:
https://www.plantlife.org.uk/campaigns/nomowmay/

 

2/ 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/   

 

3/ LIVE SIMPLY Tip of the Week Plant for our precious busy bees.  Bees & insects are crucial to our environment because they pollinate plants & provide the best pest control for plants.  Get in your garden this spring& plant bee-friendly flowers such as sunflowers, heather & hellebores or give the children the job.  If every garden in Worthing & Lancing did this we could provide a super highway for insects from the sea to the downs.

 

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/ Justice & Peace Meeting the next one is on Thurs 8th May at Holy Family Lancing, 7pm start. All welcome to join us

 

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

 

 

1/ Worthing Deanery Justice and Peace Group are having a Mass for Peace to highlight the conflicts going on around the world. It will be held at St Michael’s, Hayling Rise BN13 3AL on Thurs 24th April at 6.30pm.  There will be a display and refreshments in the parish centre afterwards. All are welcome to join us. The service will be live streamed for those not able to attend St Michael’s Catholic Church Worthing – YouTube

 

2/ LIVE SIMPLY Tip of the Week Make your own compost. Shop-bought costs over £4.00 for 20 litres. A heap in your back garden is absolutely free.

 

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 of the Angels. Holy Family also support a similar charity

 

4/ 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.

 

1/ Worthing Deanery Justice and Peace Group are having a Mass for Peace to highlight the conflicts going on around the world. It will be held at St Michael’s, Hayling Rise BN13 3AL on Thurs 24th April at 6.30pm.  There will be a display and refreshments in the parish centre afterwards. All are welcome to join us. The service will be live streamed for those not able to attend

 

2/ Fairtrade Easter Eggs with the Easter message will be on sale at St Mary’s & Holy Family price £6.00

3/ LIVE SIMPLY Tip of the Week Reduce packaged cleaning products. Nowadays, there seems to be a plastic-packaged product for everything. This can quickly add up to a lot of plastic bottles in your cupboards –- and eventually your bin. Could you find a local refill store to refill your supplies, or find a refill service online?

 

 

 

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

 

1/ Worthing Deanery Justice and Peace Group are having a Mass for Peace to highlight the conflicts going on around the world. It will be held at St Michael’s, Hayling Rise BN13 3AL on Thurs 24th April at 6.30pm.  There will be a display and refreshments in the parish centre afterwards. All are welcome to join us. The service will be live streamed for those not able to attend

 

 

 

2/ Emergency Appeal After the serious earthquake that has hit Myanmar the J&P group have made a donation from funds we receive from the parish. In an area already affected by conflict buildings have been damaged, so it’s likely to be devastating. Many buildings have also been effected in Thailand. Through CAFOD, we can provide the emergency help that affected families that will need – food, water and shelter. If anyone wishes to make a personal donate please go to https://cafod.org.uk/give/donate-to-emergencies/myanmar-earthquake-appeal

 

 

3/ Fairtrade Easter Eggs with the Easter message will be on sale at St Mary’s price £6.00

 

 

4/ LIVE SIMPLY Tip of the Week Don’t take your health for granted. Not taking care of your health today is a guaranteed way to make your life more complicated in a few decades. The habits for good health are delightfully simple: move your body, eat real foods, live a life of beauty.

 

 

 

5/ 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