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Pope to Youth of Lebanon: “If love has a time limit, it is not truly love.  Conversely, friendship is genuine when it places ‘you’ before ‘I.’ This respectful and welcoming way of looking at others makes it possible for us to build a greater ‘we,’ open to society as a whole and to all of humanity.”

"The Church, if she wants to be Christ’s Church, must be a Church of the Beatitudes, one that makes room for the little ones and walks poor with the poor, a place where the poor have a privileged place (21)." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #LiveTheGospel #RememberThePoor

"The longer I live, the more I see God at work in people who do not have the slightest interest in religion and never read the Bible and would not know what to do if they were persuaded to go inside a church." #DorothyDay

'I was not the right kind of Jew,' says US Jewish teen deported from Israel (RNS) — Since its founding in 1948, Israel has welcomed American Jews and encouraged their immigration. Now certain Jews supporting Palestinians, like Leila Stillman-Utterback, are deported.

Since its founding in 1948, Israel has welcomed American Jews and encouraged their immigration. Now certain Jews supporting Palestinians, like Leila Stillman-Utterback, are deported.
religionnews.com/2025/11/11/i...

With everything Sama’a is going through, this app deleted her account again and now she has this one. Please donate if you can, and share widely.

tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily

What a photograph.

“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”

Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

This week’s Newsletter includes a short piece on the roll of the Subdeacon in our Parish Mass at St. Andrew’s, #Leicester LE2 7DH, as well as info about exciting forthcoming events.
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Tens of thousands of people evacuate to safety as typhoon approaches eastern Philippines - World News Philippine officials ordered tens of thousands of people to evacuate to safer grounds and prohibited fishermen from venturing out to sea in an east-central region Monday as a typhoon approached from the Pacific. Authorities warned of torrential rains and potentially deadly storm surges of up to 3 meters (nearly 10 feet).

Tens of thousands of people evacuate to safety as typhoon approaches eastern Philippines #Philippines

Pope Leo at Canonization Mass: “The Lord listens to us, embraces us as we are, and transforms us. Those who reject God’s mercy, however, remain incapable of mercy towards their neighbor. Those who do not welcome peace as a gift will not know how to give peace.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

No words necessary - cartoon says it all.

A soft blush of pink

16th October 2025. 07.35

Forthcoming online lecture by Oliver McTernan:
“The Gaza War and the Dismantling of the Rule-Based International Order - The Global Consequences

Print featuring three bottles of different shapes in a row all filled with blue flowers and resting on a surface with a busy pattern in blue

'Cool blues' by Vicky Oldfield, contemporary UK printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

St Andrew’s Anglican Church, Jarrom Street, #Leicester, LE2 7DH - some of what’s going on during October.

Harvest Festival Mass and celebration of Fr. Johannes’s 5th anniversary of being our Parish Priest - Sunday 28 September 1030 @ St Andrew’s Jarrom St, #Leicester. LE2 7DH
(Between Royal Infirmary and DMU).

All welcome to join us

Jesus♥️Caritas

Today’s “prayer table” at home - a focus for my Morning Prayer, Intercession and Adoration. I prayed today for all my followers on here and other social media, as well as for those who had asked for particular intentions, and for the Church and the world.
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Jesus♥️Caritas

A photo of the image of Our Lady of Walsingham (Anglican Shrine) which I took recently, when my partner and I visited.

Today the Church keeps the Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham

I belong to an online Walsingham Prayer Cell, daily asking her prayers for requested intentions, for the Little Sisters of Jesus who live there and for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

O Blessed Mary, Mother of God,
Our Lady of Walsingham,
intercede for us.

The sun peeps through a slash in the cloud.

23rd September 2025 07.06

My partner’s two aunts, retired now, came over from Malaysia decades ago and worked all their lives for the NHS. They have “indefinite leave to remain”. Having served this country for decades, would Farage et al threaten them with deportation? Yet another outrageous policy proposal from Reform.

In 1917, Britain denied Palestinian national rights, paving the way for over a century of dispossession.

Recognition is long overdue - but it alone won’t end Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, which continue unabated with the UK's complicity.

I pray the Lord will have mercy on his soul.
Jesus, mercy. Mary, pray.

I’m Roman Catholic. Baptized as an infant. This is embarrassing.👇

Black History Month

Black History Month - October 2025

Resources for churches

An opportunity for all Christians in Britain and Ireland to celebrate the ongoing contributions that Black people have made on these shores.

Resources include sermon, reflection, prayer and more.

ctbi.org.uk/resources/bl...

Funded by Christian Aid's partner CFTA, a team cook up nutritious meals of bean stew and rice for displaced people in the Khan Younis area of Gaza.

Sunday 21 September 2025

A Call to Prayer and Public Witness for Peace in the Holy Land

CTBI is supporting member churches, Bodies in Association and partners in a call to prayer and public witness on Sunday 21 September 2025, UN World Peace Day.

ctbi.org.uk/news-and-eve...

A photo of Pope Leo XIV with a quote: "I express my profound closeness to the Palestinian people in Gaza, who continue to live in fear and to survive in unacceptable conditions, forcibly displaced – once again – from their own lands."

With attacks intensifying on Gaza City, Pope Leo XIV has expressed his closeness to people being displaced.

He reiterated his call for a ceasefire, the release of hostages, and respect for international humanitarian law.

https://cafod.org.uk/news/emergencies-news/middle-east-conflict-explained

Hildegaard of Bingen

“Most glorious and holy God,
whose servant Hildegard, strong in the faith,
was caught up in the vision of your heavenly courts:
by the breath of your Spirit
open our eyes to glimpse your glory
and our lips to sing your praises with all the angels”

(From: @cofe CW)

But whenever we do it, it’s guaranteed that we will be told it’s “out of context”, which is supposed to somehow justify the nastinesses.
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