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                   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.

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 
                        MASS TIMES AT ST VINCENT'S SHEFFIELD
            (Any changes will appear on Latest Bulletin to the left).           
SUNDAY:  9.30am and 6 pm
MONDAY: On the First Monday of every month 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
I've asked the following to be read out at the meeting Tuesday evening 26th July in  Walkley Ebenezer Church Hall on Greenhow Street (6.30pm 8pm) regards the unwelcome 'planters' recently installed on Sackville Road. (Fr)
To whom it concerns,
 
St Vincent's church and parish centre is a thriving community hub which hosts not just religious events but celebrations of every kind involving people from the local Crookes community and indeed beyond.  The planters recently placed on Sackville Road are not helping us in this regard at all.  Not just are people, especially the elderly, finding it awkward to get here but these planters make things a headache for funeral corteges, wedding cars and the like to reach their destination and negotiate their way round the adjoining narrow streets which are usually choc-a-block with parked cars. The person who decided on these planters may have overlooked the fact that there is a church and parish centre nearby with lots of activities going on nearly every week.  With communities fractured as a consequence of the recent pandemic restrictions, building them up again is a priority for most churches in the area, not just ours. Since these planters are very unpopular with most local people, please can those responsible consider removing them?  Bye and large people living in the area will be very grateful and relieved.  Thank you.
 
Yours sincerely
Fr Paddy Walsh
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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.

THE LITURGY OF THE WORD

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)