1/ CAFOD Lent Appeal – Family Fast Day collection Please donate to our Family Fast Day parish collection and be a pilgrim of hope with CAFOD this Jubilee Year. You’ll be supporting communities suffering the impacts of war, poverty and climate change to find solutions and hope. Please take an envelope including filling in the Gift Aid section if a UK tax payer & return it next Sunday when there will be a 2nd collection or through the contactless machines/card readers at the back of the church, otherwise you can donate online at cafod.org.uk/envelope or call us on 0303 303 3030. You can also text CAFODLENT to 70085 to donate £10.
2/ CAFOD – Overseas Aid Budget: As mentioned, the Prime Minister has announced that the aid budget will be cut again, to its lowest level since 1999. In some of the most vulnerable places on earth, more people will die and many more will lose their livelihoods. Please contact your MP and call on the UK government to stand by our sisters and brothers around the world https://cafod.org.uk/campaign/latest-campaigns
3/ Parish projects we are approaching the end of our financial support to our present parish projects. We are now looking for new projects. We intend to continue to support projects nationally, locally and abroad. Any parishioner who knows of any that could be considered please contact a member of the Justice & Peace Group. Thank you to those who have already responded, we are still looking for more.
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/ LIVE SIMPLY Tip of the Week Notice what’s going on around you. You can wait until you’re retired and you’ve quit the rat race, but then you’d have missed out on a lifetime of savouring the ordinary pleasures of life: the sound of birds chirping, the feel of the wind, the taste of fresh fruit.