LENTEN JUSTICE STATIONS OF THE CROSS
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The monthly Prayer intention for November is: At a time when many local families are wondering how to feed themselves over Christmas, we pray that we may do all we can to help by giving our time or donating food to organizations that support them
About Us ‘Justice and Peace’ activities are seen as an integral part and expression of our love of neighbour and an intrinsic part of our Christian way of life. In other words, to be concerned about the lack of justice and peace is a necessity for us all. The monthly meeting exists to consider Justice and Peace issues, usually on the 4th Monday of each month (except August and December) in the parish centre of one of the three Catholic Leamington churches (see the list opposite for the venues of future meetings)*. This is an open meeting for any parishioner to take part. [*Since Covid restrictions began, meetings have been held by Zoom until recently] Our meeting does not see itself as a separate group of the parish, but rather a meeting of the wider Catholic Leamington parish to consider issues relating to justice and peace. Therefore, any parishioner is welcome to attend at any time. It is held to learn about issues of concern and feed information back to the parish, making recommendations or facilitating activities in response to these issues. In this way we hope to raise the level of awareness amongst parishioners. The meeting does not involve itself directly in fundraising or aid activities but rather areas of concern such as:
We cannot do everything, but rather choose those issues that are of particular interest to those attending the meetings. Unfortunately this may mean that we cannot participate in campaigns or projects that are current at any particular time. In particular, note is taken of input from:
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News On the weekend of Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th November two appeals will be launched at all masses in Catholic Leamington: the SVP will be asking for food and other items for their Christmas hampers, and SPAN for donations to buy supermarket vouchers, in both cases for distribution to needy families in the Catholic Leamington area. Details will be announced at masses that weekend, will be given in leaflets available then, and are in the November issue of Catholic Leamington EXTRA magazine. Future meeting dates in 2023: Notes of previous meetings 18 September 2023 (Last meeting) 31 July 2023 26 June 2023 15 May 2023 24 April 2023 20 March 2023 20 February 2023 23 January 2023 28 November 2022 (Zoom) 31 October 2022 13 September 2022 18th July 2022 (Zoom) 27 June 2022 (Zoom) 25 April 2022 (Zoom) 21 March 2022 (Zoom) 21 February 2022 (Zoom) 22 January 2022 (Zoom) 15 November 2021 (Zoom) 18 October 2021 (Zoom) 20 September 2021 (Zoom) 19 July 2021 (Zoom) 28 June 2021 (Zoom) 17 May 2021 (Zoom) 26 April 2021 (Zoom) 15 March 2021 (Zoom) 15 February 2021 (Zoom) 18 January 2021 (Zoom) 30 November 2020 (Zoom) 26 October 2020 (Zoom) 29 September 2020 (Zoom) 27 July 2020 (Zoom) 29 June 2020 (Zoom) 24 February 2020 20 January 2020 Review of the Year 2022/2023 - Review of the Year 2021/2022 - Review of the Year 2020/2021 - Review of the Year 2018/2019 - Review of the Year Links
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We have all our documents, including notes of our meetings, on our GoogleDrive The email address used for the group is cl.jandp@gmail.com and there is a Google Group email sharing group that you can join by emailing cl.jandp@gmail.com, in order to get email notifications and updates. |