Day of Recollection

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Day of Recollection

By CAFOD in East Anglia

Date and time

Sat, 31 Jan 2015 13:30 - 17:30 GMT

Location

Our Lady & St Etheldreda RC Church‎

Fred Archer Way Newmarket CB8 8LT United Kingdom

Description

Join us and meet parish contacts from across the diocese on Saturday 31 January. Together we can prepare for Lent and an exciting spring.

This Lent our focus will be on Burma (now called Myanmar) and this afternoon you can hear directly about the projects CAFOD supports and how the people of this country are making progress, albeit slowly, from political persecution toward democracy.

We will also look toward the coming General Election in the UK. Through a range of activities we will add our voices to those of our partners in calling for decision makers to act and increase global resilience to the worst effects of climate change.

Twice a year, parish volunteers from across the diocese meet together. This is a moment of recollection, as we turn to face the coming season of Lent and we are re-energised in our parish ministry, encouraging our fellow parishioners to support their brothers and sisters around the world through prayer, action and donations.

In a change to our normal format, we have moved to a Saturday afternoon, to enable more people to participate. Our afternoon concludes in time for us to join parishioners of Our Lady and St Etheldreda for their usual Sunday vigil Mass - this is optional and you may wish to use this time to return to your own parishes.

Our programme for the day:

1:30pm Arrivals 1:50pm Welcome and introductions 2:10pm From Burma to Myanmar 3:00pm Preparing for Lent 3:50pm Tea and Coffee 4:10pm One Climate, One World 5:00pm Wrap up and questions 5:30pm Preparing for Mass 6:30pm Vigil Mass

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Together we pray, act and give what we can to help those who live with poverty and inequality around the world. CAFOD began 50 years ago through the generous response of the Catholic community to the needs of families overseas and is the official agency of the Roman Catholic Church.

Today, CAFOD continues as a partnership with people in over 40 countries, helping them rebuild their communities, increase their resilience to disaster and create livelihoods that so they can support themselves.

CAFOD in East Anglia enables people to share this mission, bringing hope, compassion and solidarity to poor communities, standing side by side with them across the three counties of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk that form the diocese of East Anglia.

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