1/ Creationtide Service – A retired Anglican priest living at Ramsay Hall in Byron Road, invites any parishioners from St Mary’s who may be interested to a non-eucharistic Ecumenical Creationtide Service being held on 13th October at 3pm in their chapel, their Chichester Diocesan Environment officer will be speaking on the theme of ” We are here to take care of God’s creation” and it will be followed by refreshments.
2/ The Season of Creation 1st Sept to 4th Oct during the churches annual ‘Season of Creation’ 1st Sept to 4th Oct.’ all Christians celebrate and respond to the needs of our world. This year Pope Francis calls us to “Hope and Act with Creation” and particularly urges us to act to protect our environment. This ‘Season’ will be used to encourage Parishes and all Faith groups to endorse & promote the ‘Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty’ (FFNPT). This initiative calls for a global effort to urgently transition to renewable energy, end expansion of fossil fuels, and fairly phase out production in keeping with what science shows is needed to address the climate crisis and protect our world.
Hundreds of organisations, including the European Parliament and World Health Organisation, supported by scientists and academics around the world have signed up to endorse the Treaty and join the call for world leaders to agree to phase out fossil fuel use at their next Climate meeting in Nov.
A growing number of national governments has already endorsed the need for a Treaty but the UK has not.
More information at- https://fossilfueltreaty https://seasonofcreation.org/ Home – Global Justice Now
3/ Live Simply Tip of the Week Take time to pray and give thanks—Spend time every day to pray, to give thanks, and to savour the things that you do have
4/ The Columbans Adopt a Tree. This is one of our Parish Projects. It’s a joint project between the Higaonon indigenous people on the island of Mindanao, Southern Philippines and the Missionary Society of St. Columban. Last Wednesday the Columban rep for the island of Mindanao spoke about the project on a Zoom call direct from the Philippines. You can listen to the recording of this inspirational project here https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/25v11k4Gz91mJJIn6LNtZjMIjYo0ay9i_G2sB2y5WKmUTwpwHpteCpIX41kJSqrn.toqeQtjys_0lTGSO
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