CAFOD
CAFOD is the Catholic Agency For Overseas Development. For more information or if you wish to help our work please contact Rosalia by email: markandrosalia@btinternet.com
Family Fast Day – Lent Appeal, Friday 3rd March 2023
This Lent, your donations to CAFOD’s Family Fast Day Appeal will help families fighting the climate crisis and ensure that our Church network can quickly respond to emergencies, like the recent earthquake in Syria and Turkey. Give today using the envelope or at cafod.org.uk/give and please join us in praying for CAFOD’s development and emergency response work all over the world.
Thank you.
Syria-Turkey Earthquake Appeal
CAFOD is responding with support of provision of food, water, shelter, medical assistance and winter kits for survivors. Your donations in recent months have made that quick response possible. Let us join CAFOD in praying for our sisters and brothers affected by the earthquakes and the winter weather. Your support for CAFOD throughout the year allows our Catholic agency to act quickly when disasters strike. For more details visit CAFOD’s Syria Turkey Emergency Appeal online at https://cafod.org.uk/give.
CAFOD’s Lent prayer: A special Lenten fast
Give up harsh words: use generous ones.
Give up unhappiness: take up gratitude.
Give up anger: take up gentleness and patience.
Give up pessimism: take up hope and optimism.
Give up worrying: take up trust in God.
Give up complaining: value what you have.
Give up stress: take up prayer.
Give up judging others: discover Jesus within them.
Give up sorrow and bitterness: fill your heart with joy.
Give up selfishness: take up compassion for others.
Give up being unforgiving: learn reconciliation.
Give up words: fill yourself with silence, and listen to others.
CAFOD BOOK SALE – THANK YOU
Thank you to all those who helped to restart the CAFOD Booksale in the church porch. (It wasn’t me!) Thank you to Greg who has counted and sent off the monies raised –an amazing £55.57 over the last three months. A reminder then that the ongoing Booksale is in the church porch on the bookshelves near to the Tree of Life. Money for the books you purchase may be placed in the blue tin – also on the bookshelf. If you have a book to donate just pop it on the shelves. Please do not leave bags of books as we try to keep the books within the confines of the bookshelf. I will have a sort out and remove any that have been there for some time.
Thank you, Rosalia
COP26 – Glasgow 1 -12 November 2021
With the eyes of the world on the UK, we must urge the Prime Minister to make sure communities hardest hit by the climate emergency are listened to at COP26 – sign our petition now at cafod.org.uk/reclaim
Visit the CAFOD website to read more about what you can do.
Click on the Campaigns tab to take you to COP26 climate summit and this will take you to many ways you can be involved – a petition to the PM, a second urgent petition to Rishi Sunak and always important a prayer chain. The petitions will take you two minutes to sign and submit. CAFOD has been informed by politicians that these actions do make a difference. So, it really is time to forget our own comforts, our own safe way of life and to think about future generations and those who are living in those areas most affected by climate change. The time is now, another ten years is too late.
Thank you,
Regards Rosalia.
CAFOD Walk for Water challenge – Lent 2021
Thank you to members of the parish who sponsored us in our Walk for Water 2021 challenge. The Walk certainly gave us lots to think over, ponder and pray about. The total we raised to help improve the water situation for our brothers and sisters was £625.
Our joint step total was 942,552. Thank you,
Mark and Rosalia
Information and forthcoming events
The Leeds office is situated in Hinsley Hall, Leeds. It provides information on local and national events and how to get involved. See https://cafodleeds.wordpress.com for more details.
Climate change
CAFOD works with other agencies to call for action on climate change. Its campaign One Climate, One World is calling for politicians to work together to:
- prevent climate change pushing people deeper into poverty
- support the transition from polluting fossil fuels to sustainable energy for all
News
Pope Francis’ on Thought for the Day for climate change
Dear BBC listeners, Good Morning. “Climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic have exposed our deep vulnerability and raised numerous doubts and concerns about our economic systems and the way we organise our societies. “We have lost our sense of security and are experiencing a sense of powerlessness and loss of control over our lives. “We […]
Under the Gaze of God
Fr David Williams C.P. (who lives in Otley) has written a book which may be of interest to our parishioners. It is available from Amazon books.
Fr Michael – “A Golden Priest”
Fr Michael – “A Golden Priest” We at SS John Fisher and Thomas More are one of the lucky ones. We have the privilege and joy of celebrating a priest’s Golden Jubilee. Congratulations Fr Michael! Fr Michael as an altar boy at St Patrick’s, Fr Michael at his Ordination Mass […]
A poem to celebrate Fr Michael’s golden jubilee
From Us to You The Lord asked you to follow Him and serve with grace and love To minister to those in need of blessings from above To watch His flock and guide us and to teach us how to pray To understand the Gospels and to follow in His way This task accepted graciously […]
Youth take part in Father Michael’s Golden Jubilee Mass celebration
At Mass, on Sunday 7th March at SS John Fisher & Thomas More church Burley-in-Wharfedale, we gave thanks for and celebrated the Golden Jubilee of a Golden priest. Exactly 50 years ago, Father Michael Mahady was ordained a priest at St Patrick’s Church, Leeds on a wet Sunday in Lent. Father Michael celebrated his Golden […]
Catholic Care – Annual Review
Catholic Care’s 2020 annual review has been published, you can read it here. This is Bishop Marcus’ summary of its amazing work. “Despite all the phenomenal challenges and restrictions of the last year, the leadership, staff and volunteers of Catholic Care have diligently continued to provide an outstanding range of services and support to people […]