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St Bernadette Relic Tour - 4th/5th October 2022. 
 Please see the programme for the visit of the relics to the Diocese of Hallam.  Each year our diocese goes on pilgrimage to Lourdes.  Next month, Lourdes is coming to our diocese.  All are very welcome.  Registration is useful but is not required and you can attend any of the liturgies at the Cathedral and St-Peter-in-Chains, Doncaster.  For more information on this national event please visit www.hallam-lourdes.com<http://www.hallam-lourdes.com> and www.stbernadette.org.uk<http://www.stbernadette.org.uk> . This short video trailer gives more information too https://www.youtube.com/w

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GOOD GRIEF

THE LITURGY OF THE WORD

                   SEASON OF CREATION

Hello everyone,

We would like to highlight the Season of Creation this year - the weeks between The World Day of Prayer for Creation on September 1st and the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi on October 4th - and encourage care for the poor and for the earth to be brought to our prayers and practical efforts during this time.
Recent heatwaves, drought and fires in the UK and Europe are bringing the results of our overconsumption and lack of care for the earth closer to our attention. But climate change has been affecting our brothers and sisters in 'far-off' places such as Sudan, Somalia and Bangladesh for many years, with encroaching desert, drought, and devastating heatwaves and floods. Millions of families in Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan are now facing a terrible food crisis. 
The following text from the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference introduces the theme for this year's Season:

Listen to the Voice of Creation
The theme for the Season of Creation 2022 is “Listen to the Voice of Creation”. “I have heard their cry…I know their sufferings…Come, now! I will send you…I will be with you” (Ex 3: 1-12). The burning bush is the Symbol for the Season of Creation 2022. Today, the prevalence of unnatural fires are a sign of the devastating effects that climate change has on the most vulnerable of our planet. Creation cries out as forests crackle, animals flee, and people are forced to migrate due to the fires of injustice. On the contrary, the fire that called to Moses as he tended the flock on Mt. Horeb did not consume or destroy the bush. This flame of the Spirit revealed God’s presence. This holy fire affirmed that God heard the cries of all who suffered and promised to be with us as we followed in faith to our deliverance from injustice.
In this Season of Creation, this symbol of God’s Spirit calls us to listen to the voice of creation, to the voices of those who suffer the impacts of climate change, to the voices of those who hold generational wisdom about how to live gratefully within the limits of the land. These are voices of the Earth. The global Christian family is called to awaken to the urgent need to heal our relationships with creation and with each other and to encourage our parish communities to do the same, “for we know that things can change!” (Laudato Si’, 13)
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​Background to The Season of Creation from the Bishops Conference of England and Wales can be found here, along with links to resources on Live Simply, making the parish green and decarbonising:
Season of Creation - Catholic Bishops' Conference (cbcew.org.uk)
 
From the lead Bishop on the Environment, Bishop John Arnold, comes the following urgent message:
https://youtu.be/CqkUbJhN_WM
 
And for joining in worship with our brothers and sisters across the world during this year's season:
Global Catholic Church preparing for Season of Creation - Laudato Si' Movement (laudatosimovement.org)
 
With hope and trust in the Holy Spirit,
Angela and Columba.
                        MASS TIMES AT ST VINCENT'S SHEFFIELD
            (Any changes will appear on Latest Bulletin to the left).           
SUNDAY:  9.30am and 6 pm
MONDAY: (No Mass unless it's a major Feast or Solemnity)
On the First Monday of every month, however, and Bank Holidays Mass is said at St Michael's Chapel, Rivelin Valley Road, Sheffield (S6 5GL) at 10.30am. 
TUESDAY: 7.00pm  
​WEDNESDAY: 9.30am
THURSDAY: 9.30am
FRIDAY: 9.30am 
SATURDAY: Mass at the Mission Hub at Solly Street 11am (normally)
Confessions on Saturday from 10am to 10.45pm and on Tuesday after the evening Mass.
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This is a street artists view of the New 'state of the art' St Vincent's Mission Hub at Solly Street. It houses the University Chaplaincy and is also used as a Diocesan outreach Centre for youth evangelisation. It even boasts of a chic Italian Cafe serving an array of coffees and tasty light bites. It originally was the Victorian boys school which was opened in the 1860's shortly after the Vincentian Order arrived in the city to establish the parish. Mass is once more being said in it's original habitat of Solly Street after a lapse of twenty-four years. Long may it remain that way. The place is utterly transformed. Covid, of course has restricted activities at the venue but gradually things are being normalised. Fr Paddy
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A prayer for Afghanistan
Compassionate God,
We hold in your presence the people of Afghanistan.
Be a shelter for those who have been displaced.
Be a comforter for those who are mourning.
Be the peace for those who are afraid,
Be near to those who are hungry.
Be healing for those who are sick.
Be the strength of those working to bring hope.
Open our eyes and hearts, so we may stand in solidarity, and reach out in love to our brothers and sisters. May they know they are not forgotten and that we hold them in our hearts whilst they search for the path to peace?
Amen.
Vocations Prayer

​Loving and generous Father, it is You who call us by name and ask us to follow you.  In particular, you call some to serve You as ministers in your Church.  Bless our diocese of Hallam by raising up faith-filled and dedicated priests, deacons and religious.  Bless our families and choose from our homes those who are needed for Your Mission.
Blessed John Anne: Pray for us. 
Blessed Robert Ludlum: Pray for us. 
Blessed Nicholas Garlick: Pray for us. 
Blessed William Richardson; Pray for us.
​Mary, Mother of Perpetual Help: Pray for us.
​ PRAYER FOR UKRAINE
Loving God, We pray for the people of Ukraine for all those suffering or afraid, that you will be close to them and protect them. We pray for world leaders, for compassion, strength and wisdom to guide their choices. We pray for the world that in this moment of crisis, we may reach out in solidarity to our brothers and sisters in need. May we walk in your ways so that peace and justice become a reality for the people of Ukraine and for all the world? Amen.
MEMORARE
Remember O most gracious Virgin Mary that never was it known, that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help or sought thy intercession, was left unaided.
Inspired with this confidence I fly unto Thee, O Virgin of Virgins my mother.  To thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful.  O mother of the Word incarnate do not reject my petition but graciously hear it and grant it. Amen.  (Saint Bernard)
For the happy repose of HM The Queen

Almighty God, You are the author and sustainer of all human life;
grant that your servant, Elizabeth our Queen,
to whom you granted a long and happy reign
as Monarch of these lands
may be forgiven her sins and rewarded with that eternal life
promised to all those born again
in the water of baptism and power of your Spirit.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit
God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
Eternal rest, grant to her O Lord,
and let Perpetual light shine upon her.
May she rest in peace.
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www.journeyto2030.org  (resources developed by young people responding to Pope Francis’ call for ecological conversion). See also theecg.org
www.indcatholicnews.com/news/42701 (Talk by Anna Marshall, 6th form student at St. Mary’s Chesterfield, in which she questions our ‘flawed idea of success’ as a society. Delivered at the National Justice and Peace Conference 2021).
www.laudatosi.org (formerly the Global Catholic Climate Movement).
www.justice-and-peace.org.uk 
Catholic international development charity