A new liturgy resource has been published by the Justice & Peace Commission in conjunction with the Leeds Pax Christi group. It has the title of ‘Remembrance is not enough’. Copies of this booklet have recently been sent to all parishes and to all high schools. As Bishop Marcus puts it in his Foreword, “The […]
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17 Apr – A Carmelite approach to Justice
This was originally scheduled to take place in March but for a variety of reasons this was not possible.Having to re-arrange the date of this event meant that there were less people who were able to go. However, the dozen people who were able to attend had a delightful day – helped by some lovely […]
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Joe Burns. Joe has been involved in social justice issues for many years and is currently Treasurer of Pax Christi UK.
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Eucharistic Lessons from El Salvador
In November 2017, Steve Atherton, the Justice & Peace worker in Liverpool went on the Romero Pilgrimage to El Salvador. The picture below was taken by him in one of the churches in central San Salvador. He related how, when he first caught sight of it, he was puzzled – it looked as though there […]
30 Oct – First World Day of the Poor 19 Nov 2017
Pope Francis has instituted a new ‘World Day of the Poor’, inviting us “to embrace the culture of encounter” and to understand that sharing with those living in poverty “enables us to understand the deepest truth of the Gospel”. In his message for the first World Day Pope Francis asks all of us, whatever our […]
20 Sep – A Carmelite Approach to Justice
On Saturday 16 September the Commission held a Day of Reflection with the Carmelite nuns at their Wood Hall monastery, near Wetherby. We made the practical arrangements and they did the hard work of putting together talks and time for prayer – as well as devising a programme that left some space for silent reflection. […]
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Joe Burns. Joe has been involved in social justice issues for many years and is currently Treasurer of Pax Christi UK.
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Lest we forget…
With the demise of the Soviet bloc in the late 80’s the fear of a nuclear holocaust receded for a few years only to be replaced by a fear that a terrorist group of some sort would get its hands on such a weapon. More recently, with the likes of the expansionist Vladimir Putin, the […]
20 Apr 17 – Icon of Peace Completes its tour of Yorkshire
In the last three weeks of its time in the Leeds Diocese the Icon of Peace was in Leeds, Garforth and Cottingley. Between 27 March and 02 April it was at the Holy Rosary Church on Chapeltown Road in Leeds – part of the parish of Our Lady of Unfailing Help. They had an event […]
22 Mar 17 – Icon of Peace ‘Progress’ through Yorkshire
This is an update based on the parishes where the icon has been used so far. It arrived in the diocese just in time to be taken to John Henry Newman parish in Crossgates to be welcomed at the Sunday evening mass at St Theresa’s church. The first thing to say about the icon is […]
13 Jan 17 – Icon of Peace now fully booked
As reported in December, the Pax Christi Icon of Peace will go on an ‘8 week tour’ in the Leeds Diocese. All the available time slots have now been filled and the J&P Office will shortly be sending out resource material about how the Icon can be used. The details of the different places are […]
05 Dec 16 ICON OF PEACE TO GO ON ‘DIOCESAN TOUR’
The Icon of Peace is a large sacred painting that was made in the Monastery of St John in the Desert, near Jerusalem, and was gifted to Pax Christi International in 1999. The icon depicts Christ as the source of reconciliation, liberation and peace. It is an icon symbolising in itself the living connection between […]
17 SEP 16 – J&P Day of reflection
The Commission organised a Day of Reflection on 17 September in Settle. For those coming from farther parts of the diocese (i.e. most of us!) it was a lovely day for travelling into the Dales. The church (St.Mary & St.Michael) and associated hall are not much to look at from the outside but they provided […]