Padley Chapel will feature in the Art Trail by Rail that Hope Valley Climate action is organising on 27 September. The chapel will open from 10:00 am to 4:00pm and will host an art group as well as talking to … Read More
‘A Care of Creation Retreat: The Joy of Limits on 4th – 10th October 2025 The retreat is led by Sr Margaret Atkins of Boarbank Hall (canonesses of St Augustine) and John Paul de Quay of the Ecological Conversion Group.The … Read More
In a statement to mark this year’s Season of Creation, the Lead Bishop for the Environment for the Bishops’ Conference, Bishop John Arnold, has called for Catholics in England and Wales to take action to address the environmental crises of our … Read More
St Vincent’s Sheffield Laudato Si’, unusually for an encyclical letter, had an immediate effect on many people’s attitude towards caring for our common home, the Earth. Our parish joined the world-wide effort to understand more clearly the close link between … Read More
In September 2022 a group of St. Vincent’s parishioners came together to consider how we might use Cafod’s Live Simply Award to help us live our faith as a parish community. We would need to form a plan based on … Read More
‘People seek God outside and above creation, in abstraction and purity and complexity. But the creation story of Genesis, the Incarnation in Luke and Matthew, and the Cross in all the Gospels tells us that the reverse is true……. God is … Read More
Dear Brothers and Sisters, On 1 September, we embarked on another Season of Creation, concluding 4 October, on the Feast of St Francis, Patron of Ecology and a much loved Saint in the Church. The Season of Creation is a … Read More
Two information links: Decarbonisation of Church Buildings The first relates to practical guidance on the decarbonisation of church buildings. Many of the laity will be interested in seeing that such guidance exists, published by the Diocese of Salford, working with … Read More
General Election There is an abundance of election information emitted by mainstream and digital media, much of it unhelpful for clarifying one’s decision regarding voting. With regard to care for creation, here are three themes to consider:Let’s ignore the whole thing … Read More
A new document on disarmament and the ethical use of weapons has been released by the International Affairs department of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. Called to be Peacemakers is a document that presents a Catholic approach to … Read More
