My Calendar
Week of Nov 16th
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Armistice Day Armistice Day
11/11/2024
So what about the silence?
Here's how this poem came to be written:
A PRAYER FOR THIS DAYLord of the nations -
We remember with grateful hearts
the men and women of our country
who went forth to protect the liberty we enjoy
but who did not return!
Help us recognise the debt we owe them
so that we may strive, in our own lives,
to protect the freedoms
that were won at so great a cost.
And so we commit to your safekeeping
those who have died in war;
those whose memory we treasure;
those who have sacrificed themselves
in the service of humankind.
Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord
And let perpetual light shine upon them.
May they rest in peace. AMEN
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Transgender Awareness Week Transgender Awareness Week
13/11/2024 – 19/11/2024
World Kindness Day World Kindness Day
13/11/2024
Love this video - it's well worth investing 5 minutes and 44 seconds to watch it!
Now, how about doing something about it? There are a load of ideas below:
CLICK HERE FOR PLENTY OF IDEAS!
CLICK HERE FOR A VIDEO PRAYER FOR TODAY
Loving God,
If I cannot be brilliant, let me be kind.
If I cannot change the world, let me inspire just one other to do so.
If I cannot give away riches, let me be loving.
Let me be known for kindness, for it is the greatest glory.
Amen -
Transgender Awareness Week Transgender Awareness Week
13/11/2024 – 19/11/2024
World Diabetes Day World Diabetes Day
14/11/2024
So how does having diabetes affect lives?
CLICK HERE for a short quiz to highlight symptoms of diabetes.
Here's a really great 6 minute video of Things Not To Say To Someone With Type 1 Diabetes.
A PRAYER FOR TODAY
Loving God,
we hold before you all who are living with or are affected by diabetes
and ask you to ease suffering and to quiet fears.
We give thanks for their fortitude and ability to organise
and ask you to give them strength and encouragement.
We pray for those researching treatments and cures,
that they will use their skills and knowledge,
finding the inspiration to make diabetes a thing of the past.
We pray this in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. AMEN.
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Transgender Awareness Week Transgender Awareness Week
13/11/2024 – 19/11/2024
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Transgender Awareness Week Transgender Awareness Week
13/11/2024 – 19/11/2024
Anniversary of the murder of 6 Jesuits and their 2 companions in El Salvador Anniversary of the murder of 6 Jesuits and their 2 companions in El Salvador
16/11/2024On the morning of November 16, 1989, an elite battalion of the Salvadoran Army entered the grounds of the Jesuit University of Central America, with orders to kill Father Ignacio Ellacuría—an outspoken critic of the Salvadoran military dictatorship—and leave no witnesses.
When it was all over, the soldiers had killed six Jesuit priests, a housekeeper and her 16 year old daughter in cold blood. The Jesuits Massacre is one of most notorious crimes of El Salvador’s 12-year civil war, which left over 75,000 people dead including most famously Archbishop (now Saint) Oscar Romero.
A PRAYER FOR TODAY
God, Creator of life and human dignity,
we celebrate the witness of your martyrs
for faith, for peace, and for justice.
Have mercy on the souls of these departed ones and grant them peace.
May the memory of the Jesuits and the members of the Ramos family
who died in El Salvador in 1989
help us move to a deeper understanding of the demands of justice
and guide us to speak your truth to those in power.
Give us the courage to raise our voices for those who suffer oppression and violence.
Grant us your joy as we work to bring your kingdom to this world. Amen.
© Education For Justice www.educationforjustice.org
International Day for Tolerance International Day for Tolerance
16/11/2024
International Day for Tolerance
Here's a quite wonderful video (4 mins 17 secs)
Which of these people do you:
- most admire?
- most agree with?
- most want to be like?
Perhaps tolerance is a simple as following the teaching of Jesus to "Treat others as you'd like to be treated!"
A PRAYER FOR TODAY
While the United Nations designates today an International Day for Tolerance,
we know that you, God of all people, call us to something higher,
to something beyond mere tolerance.
We pray that you would enable and empower us to be people of love and compassion,
who actively seek the good of the other and work to to that day when people from all tribes and tongues might come together in peace, embracing and delighting in our differences.
Amen
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Transgender Awareness Week Transgender Awareness Week
13/11/2024 – 19/11/2024