1/ 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!. There are boxes for food donations at the church entrances of St Mary of the Angels. Thank you
2 Jubilee Year Start your Jubilee journey today. Grab your very own free copy of CAFOD’s Little Book of Big Hope – it’s filled to bursting with prayers, reflections and inspirational stories to help you celebrate the power of hope. It can be downloaded Read CAFOD’s Little Book of Big Hope
3/ Columban Missionaries have launched their 2024/2025 Schools Media Competition, which has the title: ‘Jubilee: Pilgrims of Hope’. Encouraging creativity and faith engagement with issues in the world today, this year’s competition welcomes both written and image entries until the 7th February 2025, with winners being announced on the 10th March 2025. Cash prizes will be awarded to the winning entrants and the first prize is an impressive £300. The competition is targeted at students aged between 13-18 years old. Pope Francis has decreed that 2025 will be a year of Jubilee Jubilee 2025 The theme he has chosen is ‘Pilgrims of Hope’ and he urges us to look for signs of hope in the world around us and work for peace and justice. For more information http://www.columbans.co.uk
4/ Worthing Borough Council vote to endorse a call for a Fossil Fuel Treaty Many of us signed the petition during Season of Creation in August. See the report in Inside Magazine News – Inside Publications
5/ Climate Justice & Human Rights Explained This hard-hitting video (4.5 minutes) featuring Greta Thunberg takes us from colonial times to present day showing radial injustice & oppression that’s always been around & swept under the carpet by the media https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwJAb9aAItI
