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Each day during Refugee Week, we offer Mass with prayer and reflection. Today, we pray for all who work to support and welcome Refugees and Asylum seekers The Thought (Matthew 6:24-34) In a memoir called, ‘In the Wars,’ Dr Waheed Arian, tells the story of his childhood caught up in the war in Afghanistan, finallyContinue reading “Beyond the mountain”

Each day during Refugee Week, we offer Mass with prayer and reflection. Today, we pray for all who arrive in our city and communities seeking sanctuary and safety The Thought (Matthew 6:19-23) When far right groups descended on a Welsh town in response to the arrival of refugees, concerned residents met them head on –Continue reading “What’s your treasure?”

Each day during Refugee Week, we offer Mass with prayer and reflection. Today, we pray for for good relationships between people of different faiths The Thought (Matthew 6:7-15) On 17 July 1757, Benjamin Franklin wrote to his wife after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck.  “Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vowContinue reading “What would you build?”

Each day during Refugee Week, we offer Mass with prayer and reflection. Today, we pray for our care of and concern for the world The Thought (Matthew 6:1-6,16-18) Millions of people are displaced because of the climate crisis.  The UN Refuge Agency says that “As extreme weather and environmental conditions worsen with global heating, theyContinue reading “Our shared home”

Each day during Refugee Week, we offer Mass with prayer and reflection. Today, we pray for those who are homeless and all for whom ‘home’ is not a safe place to be. The Thought (Matthew 5:43-48) “Have no fear of perfection,” said the artist Salvador Dali, ‘you will never reach it.” Yet, it’s the strivingContinue reading “No place to call home”