Jubilee Year of Hope – Talk Two
Thursday 23rd October 7pm.
‘Hope in the Bible’ by Nicholas King (Jesuit Priest, Farm Street Church).
This Week
Twenty Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
19/10/2025
On 10th October, the Holy Father Leo XIV released his first Apostolic Exhortation ’Dilexi te’.A document that is worth a read, https://www.vatican.va/. An Apostolic Exhortation is a teaching document from the Holy Father, which aims to encourage a particular virtue or activity and often developed themes of the Church’s social teaching.
Dilexi te means “I have loved you” (Rev 3:9 )and echoes the title of Pope Francis’ last encyclical letter Dilexit Nos (he loved us), on devotion to the Sacred Heart. The Exhortation is addressed ‘to all Christians on love for the poor.’
This exhortation is all about God’s love for the most vulnerable and marginalised people in our society. This is affirmed with many examples from the scriptures, the saints and religious orders, as well as in the development of Catholic teaching within our world. It also describes the multifaceted nature of poverty as well as lacking material resources. Deacon Peter
Today we celebrate World Mission Sunday. By supporting Missio – the Pope’s charity for world mission – we stand united as God’s global family, in prayer, solidarity and action. Please pray for the missionaries bringing God’s compassion, peace and justice to those in need.
Let us do all that we can to support them, as we share in God’s mission and respond to Pope Leo’s call for us to be ‘a missionary Church that opens its arms to the world’.
Therefore, please give as generously as you can to the second collection after Mass today. Please also consider setting up a Direct Debit and Gift Aid your donation, as many of you did following the visit of Fr Philip Adede in February. You can do this by visiting https://missio.org.uk.
For those families that still have the “Red Boxes” at home and would like to have them collected, please contact the Presbytery or Declan Tierney: .
Thank you again for all your support.
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