LENTEN JUSTICE STATIONS OF THE CROSS

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Prayer intention for October:  We pray for the success of the meeting of nations for CUP26 in November and that Governments will accept their responsibilities and there will be real commitment by all to combat climate change .

​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.
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:
  • World Development
  • Poverty in the UK
  • Fairtrade and trade justice
  • Peace in the Holy Land
  • The effect of climate change
  • Care of the environment
Which may mean that we look at issues that some may consider to be ‘political’.
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:
  • The Birmingham Diocesan Justice & Peace Commission
  • Catholic Agency for Overseas Development: CAFOD
  • Pax Christi
  • LiveSimply
  • Action by Christians Against Torture: ACAT
The work already being undertaken in the Parish by SPAN, St Vincent de Paul and other groups is recognised and the meeting wishes to support and encourage these rather than doing anything in parallel or conflicting with them; and hopefully to cooperate with other local churches or other groups given the opportunity to do so.
News
The COP26 UN Climate Change conference will run from 31 October to 12 November in Glasgow. Saturday 6 November is the COP26 Coalition's Global Day of Action: in Leamington there will be a meeting at 12 noon that day in the Pump Room Gardens to demand that the heads of government deliver climate justice. See https://actionnetwork.org/events/leamington-global-day-of-action-for-climate-justice-nov-6 for details and updates.

Future meeting dates in 2021: 
Next Zoom meeting 15 November 2021, 7 for 7.15 pm ​(email jenarmstrong@talktalk.net for a link)

Notes of previous meetings
18 October 2021 (Zoom) (last Zoom meeting)
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 (last physical meeting)
20 January 2020  


Review of the Year 
2020/2021 - Review of the Year
​2018/2019 - Review of the Year
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Links
Some websites of note:            www.sp4climate.net

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.

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