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07539 266411.
Cluster News
3/4 July
Our Weekend Masses
For details of days, times and how to book please go to
our dedicated page.
Live streamed Masses here
Brothers and sisters,
Today’s readings bring us a message of trust in God. Let’s acknowledge God’s limitless compassion.
Fr. Alex
Lockdown Liturgy:
14th Sunday B
Children's Liturgy:
14th Sunday B
Next Bereavement Service
Sat 10th July @ 9.30am in St Gregory’s
You need not book in advance but your details will be taken for Test & Protect purposes on arrival.
Candles are lit for family and friends of the cluster who have died in the last month or if there’s an anniversary of a loved one please say when you arrive.
If you would like more information,
email Jacinta or phone her on 664 5581.
9th July – Gracemount Open Day - Free Event
A full day of workshops, music, dancing and enjoying the garden.
When? Friday July 9th 11am-4pm (split into different activities throughout the day)
Where? Gracemount Community Garden, near the Mansion building (The Mansion, 47 Gracemount House Dr, Edinburgh EH16 6FD)
Who? Everyone. Fill out the
booking form. If you are unable to complete the booking form please email us at
volunteerourgracemount@gmail.com Find fuller details
here.
‘Echo Tribe’: Youth Eco-awareness Month,
South East Edinburgh
Who: An invitation to all children in the age group of: Primary 1 – 7
When: Every Tuesday in July, starting on the 6th finishing up on the 27th
What time: 11 – 12.30pm
FREE to attend! Full details here
Justice Matters: The climate emergency - from just last week
See On 29 June a month’s rain fell on Somerset in a matter of hours, and torrents flowed down streets. We do know such events are more likely and more intense because of climate disruption due to emissions of greenhouse gases. In Western Canada and the USA temperatures reached 49 degrees Centigrade with the heat causing more than 100 deaths.
In Madagascar repeated droughts have led to failure of crops and starvation. World Food Programme Executive Director, David Beasley said “Families are suffering and people are already dying from severe hunger. This is not because of war or conflict, this is because of climate change. In Madagascar, as in some other countries, climate disruption is a major cause of refugees fleeing from where they had once been at home."
Reflect In the US some of their bishops expressed a wish to deny President Biden the Eucharist, due to his policy on abortion laws. I saw no reported appreciation of him having taken major steps to respond to the climate emergency and to COVID and to build back better. Safeguarding the Earth seemed a secondary concern.
A later report indicating a wider discussion about Eucharist is now likely and you might like to read Pope Francis paragraphs 100 to 102 of Gaudate et Exsultate.
How do you see the links between seeking justice, engaging in politics, care for creation and Eucharist?
Act Let us pray for the ecological conversion of all the Church… and include ourselves as individuals, parishes and society. By ecological conversion we mean that our ongoing growth in relationship with Christ will also transform how we respond to being human and part of the Earth.
3 specific thoughts from the Eco-Circle. Our parishes could join EcoCongregation Scotland; we could reduce use of gas and petrol; if we have pensions we could seek that they are divested from companies producing fossil fuels. And a fourth – join us! https://seecat.org/justice-and-peace/jp-events/
mike.mineter@gmail.com
You are held in prayer
Please remember in your prayers
those who are sick:
Annette Sibbald, Christopher Mackinnon, Gilmour Forrest, Ashley Hammond,
Maureen Lawson, Bailey Bruce McCann, Grettel Calvo Mendez, Leah Gunn,
Betty Dickinson, Annette,
Peter Robinson, Catherine Hart,
Karen Devlin, Vo Van Tu,
Scott Fraser, Thea Maung,
Maureen McEvoy. Helen McCann,
Anne Doig, Sr May Lewis,
Jessie and George Ritchie,
John Skinner, John McGinley,
Fr Eugen, Evelyn Levine,
James Duffy, Ronan Boyle,
Hazel Martin, Mary Boyle,
Mary Dias, Catriona McAuley,
Elaine Hepburn, Marie,
Sophie, Roney Fernandes,
Christopher Browne, Xaverina Rodrigues, Anne and Helen,
Sacred Heart sisters in Uganda
I am the Resurrection and the Life
We remember in love
Those who have died recently:
Johnny Greeney,
Lynn Richardson,
Ann Nolan,
Sr. Monicah Nthanze Muthini
Anniversaries
St Gregory's
James Mushett, Theresa Meehan,
Lyndsay O'Hara, Harry Salvona.
St John Vianney's
Mary Packwood, Peter Martin Solomons,
Owen Healy, Paul Korotkich,
Jean Nixon, Patrick Boyle,
Jimmy Connolly, William Hutton,
Edward Bruton, Rita Deegan,
Michael Egan, James O'Donnell,
John Lawson, John Dodds,
Joan Conway, Michael McGeever,
Mary MacKenzie, Mary Watson.
Our Remembrance Gallery is in memory of the loved ones we have lost during the pandemic. If you wish a loved one to be included, go here to find out how. You will also find information on what help our Cluster Bereavement Group offer for anyone who has been bereaved.
For those without internet access
If you know a parishioner without internet access please tell them about our podcast. For the cost of a local call, 0131 357 6463 they can hear our Lockdown Liturgy (available on Sunday).
United in prayer:
Tues 2.45 & Weds 7pm
Our Prayer Foundation invite us all to join in 30 min of silent prayer. For an example of an opening prayer see
here.
For prayer requests email
The relevant food bank for the cluster is: 47 Southhouse Broadway EH17 8AS Phone number 664 9353
Needed this week:
- Sponge puddings,
- Pasta 'N' Sauce,
- Tinned rice pudding
- Tinned Custard,
- Small packets of Fruit juice any flavour packs of three.
Entitlements Page
What help are you entitled to?
There are many benefits and grants to which people are entitled. Please check our entitlements page. Let us also know of others. Scottish Child Payment: £10 a week paid monthly for each child under 6.
The Fund has been set up to help Fr Eugen in Romania. If anyone would like to give a gift, click on the
down arrow
above for details
Divine Renovation & Alpha International
Casting our nets
Thu 15 July @ 4pm by Zoom. Jesus calls us to "Put out into deep water and cast your nets for a catch" (Luke 5:4). How can we best follow Jesus' compelling command? Peter Herbeck and Fr. Justin Huang will be discussing ways to
create a culture of invitation in your parish and how to open and grow our communities.
Register here
Prayer for the Climate
Creating God,
earth and air and water are your creation,
and every living thing belongs to and is loved by you,
you saw everything you had made
and declared it to be good.
Have mercy on us
as climate disruption confronts us.
Give us the will and the courage
to simplify the way we live,
to reduce the energy we use,
to share the resources you provide,
and to bear the cost of change.
Forgive our past mistakes,
grant us wisdom in present controversies.
In your mercy, recreate our hearts
that we might partner with you
to renew this damaged world.
We come to You...
help us to care for
and to be good stewards
of our breathtakingly beautiful world
which you have given us.
Amen
Thanks to Clare Roller