Notes from Fr. Claro
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time
28th September 2025
The Season of Creation Prayer for the Care of Creation. The 2025 theme is “Peace with Creation,” a period of prayer and reflection on the importance of ecological stewardship and harmony with the natural world. This runs from September 1 to October 4, the Feast of St. Francis, the patron saint of ecology.
PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL (PPC) can be found here.
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Events
Warm Space Friday Lunch 11am 10, 24 Oct, 7, 21 Nov, 12 Dec.
CAFOD Family Fast Day Appeal this Harvest
Please donate to our Family Fast Day parish collection to share God’s abundant gifts with our global neighbours as they find lasting solutions to poverty and climate challenges. Your generosity offers “signs of hope” in this Jubilee Year, helping build more water tanks in communities like Waré’s in Ethiopia where women have to walk for hours to get water. Use the CAFOD envelope in church, donate online at cafod.org.uk/envelope or call 0303 303 3030. You can also text CAFOD to 70560 to donate £10.
Each year, the World Day of Migrants and Refugees (4-5 October 2025) invites us to express our Christian concern, care and solidarity with migrants and refugees. It offers us a moment to reflect on the journeys and hardships that many are forced to undertake to escape war, poverty and hunger. This year, we mark the 111th celebration of WDMR with the theme ‘Migrants: Missionaries of Hope’
See: https://portsmouthdiocese.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Resource-Guide-for-the-Jubilee-of-Migrants-and-Refugees-2025_compressed-1.pdf
Recommended Book to Read
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In his first major work since The Universal Christ, one of our most prominent spiritual voices offers a wholehearted and hope-filled model for living today, grounded in the timeless words of the Hebrew prophets. How do we live compassionately in a time of violence and despair? What can we do with our private disappointments and the anger we feel over an unjust world? In his most personal book yet, Richard Rohr turns to the writings of the Jewish prophets, showing how some of the lesser-read books of the Bible offer us a path forward today. The prophets’ writings echo the spectrum of human development. Beneath their initial fervor and their forceful words, there lies a profound lamentation about our shared human condition and the pain of the world. Yet, in their astute critiques of culture and institutions, and their movement from anger and lament to wholeness and hope, the prophets embody what Rohr calls holy disorder – a distinct approach to confronting malevolence and recognizing the wholeness of every living being. Drawing on a century of Biblical scholarship and written in the warm, pastoral voice that has endeared millions to Rohr, The Tears of Things breathes new life into ancient wisdom and paves a path of enlightenment for anyone seeking a wholehearted way of living in a hurting world.