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Week of Oct 18th
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14/10/2019(1 event) Week of Prayer for Prisoners |
15/10/2019(2 events) Week of Prayer for Prisoners International Day of Rural Women International Day of Rural Women This day recognizes the role of rural women, including indigenous women, in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty. Rural women and girls play a significant role in agriculture, food security and nutrition, land and natural resource management and unpaid and domestic care work. Women also collect firewood, process foodstuffs by hand, and collect water; 80% of households without piped water rely on women and girls for water collection. Rural women are at the front of the battle lines when natural resources and agriculture are threatened.
Just imagine not being able to go to school because you have to walk 5 miles to collect water for your family.Just imagine being late every day for school because you have to scavenge for firewood in increasingly far distant places.Just imagine not being able to do your homework because there is no lighting in your village.Just imagine facing the prospect as a young girl of being denied education because you have to marry someone much older than you.
AN INVITATION TO PRAYER You are invited to pray: for rural women and girls - that helpful technology and infrastructure will help them in the daily tasks they undertake for their families; for access to education where this is denied for whatever reason; for attitudes towards equality to spread and develop that all people might benefit from the riches of this world.
We pray this in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. AMEN St. Julie: pray for us, protect us and bless us.
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16/10/2019(2 events) Week of Prayer for Prisoners World Food Day Food - the very stuff of life! Give us this day our daily bread! You are what you eat!
Here's what the Pope tweeted on 16th October 2019! It's World Food Day and it's always uncomfortable to be reminded that children will go to sleep hungry to night! Here are just a few statistics from the Food Aid Foundation:
Have a look at this 30 second clip: It seems so big but we can do stuff. We can contribute to charities that work overseas. CAFOD springs to mind.
Don't forget too that we can contribute to the local Micah Foodbank for our local people who go hungry - often unnoticed. You might think it's all too big a problem to make a difference but change starts with the individual and it's never a bad time to do a good thing!!! God bless!
HERE'S A PRAYER VIDEO (1:15) FOR TODAY Creator God, We give thanks today for all who produce, prepare and serve food. We give thanks for their diligence in ensuring that what we eat is safe to eat. May they be rewarded fairly and feel appreciated for their efforts and expertise.
Guide us all in our food choices. Help us to consider sustainability, animal welfare and the elimination of wasteful practices.
God who provided manna from heaven, where there are hunger emergencies help us respond generously; guide decision-makers in leading just and compassionate societies where all are looked after and no-one goes hungry. We ask this in your Holy Name. AMEN
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17/10/2019(2 events) Week of Prayer for Prisoners International Day for the Eradication of Poverty |
18/10/2019(1 event) Week of Prayer for Prisoners |
19/10/2019(1 event) Week of Prayer for Prisoners |
20/10/2019(1 event) World Mission Day This is the day in the Church Year when we are reminded to live out the final words of Jesus in Matthew's Gospel. That's a pretty awesome challenge but we start in the here and now - where we are and who we're with simply by 'treating others as we'd like to be treated' and by helping them 'live life in all its fullness.' We take comfort from the promise that Jesus is with us always - to the end of time! A PRAYER FOR WORLD MISSION SUNDAY Loving God, you call us to proclaim your Good News. Help us to respond with joy to this call. Guide us and give us strength to follow you in all our encounters with our fellow human beings especially those at the margins of society and those that suffer in mind and body. Through our loving words and actions may we continue to become messengers and co-creators of your Kingdom. May the Holy Spirit inspire us through the model of our Holy Father, Francis, who shows us the way. Amen |