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17th Sunday of Ordinary Time  25th July 2021
Church Services on Anglesey
Sunday Liturgy are streamed live and recorded at 10 a.m. on Sunday mornings from St. Mary’s, Holyhead.
This recording is available on the website for seven days.
The Newsletter, homily, Sunday Scripture and articles of interest will continue to be distributed every week by email and post to over four hundred households ensuring that members of our seven faith communities keep in touch.
We will continue to offer a range of  opportunities to gather together including the weekly and monthly
Services of Word, reading groups and courses of interest. 
Mass online with ​Denis McBride 
25th July 2021 
Available from Friday 23rd July 2021 at 20:00 gtm
Children's Liturgy 25th July 2021
Available from Friday 23rd July 2021 at 20:00 gtm
Are you fed up with plastic pollution? Well, it's Plastic Free July!
Plastic Free July is a global movement that helps millions be part of the solution to plastic pollution.
Working towards cleaner streets, oceans and creating beautiful communities.
Visit the link below to find out more
https://www.plasticfreejuly.org
The top 4 polluters are plastic bags, water bottles, coffee cups and plastic straws.
Tips are given to help reduce unwanted plastic packaging when shopping e.g. buy bars of soap not liquid or use shops that offer a refill service: available from
"A Little bit Eco" on Holyhead high street. Its a global effort to let our supermarkets know that we don't want so much plastic packaging
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I have bags to sell! Medium roast, high quality Arabica ground Fairtrade coffee 227g for £4.50.
Some of you may remember that in March 2020, just before the lockdown, we were visited by a vice chair of a cooperative of coffee growers called Jenipher from Uganda.
She talked to us about her coffee farm, the empowering of women and the affects of climate change.
The Welsh Government has made a commitment to buy her coffee beans, which are roasted and packaged in Wales.
I have bags to sell! Medium roast, high quality Arabica ground Fairtrade coffee 227g for £4.50.
The website below shows more products which you could buy direct or ask me. It would be great if we can support Jenipher and her community.
https://jenipherscoffi.company.site
Contact Alison 07918636229 or email amsea@btinternet.com
Oblate Connections May 2021
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The Oblate Central Government, in fulfilling a mandate from the 36th General Chapter, has organised a second Lay Association Congress.
The first Congress was held in Aix-en-Provence 25 years ago.
This Congress, to be called “Living as Oblate People”, is a Congress for ...   Read More
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AUDIO: Massimi Faggioli on The Church in America – The Fight for Hegemony of and Within US Catholicism
To listen to the audio click HERE
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CAFOD Children's liturgy
Prayers and resources for children's liturgy catechists.
While we cannot gather together in person due to coronavirus, we can still come together as a community through prayer.
Virtual children's liturgyJoin Bronagh, Eileen and Martin at 10am this Sunday for our next virtual children's liturgy. Once you have registered you will be signed up for the next 12 sessions. If you can't join us live, a recording will be available to watch afterwards. 
Register for virtual children's liturgy
Missed the last session? Catch up!
 A new Sunday Liturgy for families with children of primary school age  has been created by Ten Ten Resources to help enable Sunday prayer and worship during the period of church closures.
Bishop Edwin Regan is celebrating Mass in Welsh every Sunday at 11am on Zoom. 
For further information please contact Sr Miranda - mirandamair@hotmail.com 
Bydd Esgob Edwin Regan yn dathlu Offeren Gymraeg bob Dydd Sul am 11yb ar Zoom.  Am fwy o manylion cysylltwch a Chwaer Miranda - mirandamair@hotmail.com         
Times of Bishop Peter’s
​live-streaming of the liturgies via the Diocesan website www.rcdwxm.org.uk
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OBLATE NEWS
Congratulations to Fr Oliver Barry on his reappointment as Provincial for a second term.
​We extend our heartiest congratulations to Fr Oliver on his reappointment as leader of the Oblate province of Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales for a second term.
On February 8, 2021, the Vicar General of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Rome received the consent of the Council for the appointment of Fr. Oliver Barry OMI as Provincial of this province for a second term.
We wish Fr Oliver every success in all his endeavours in the coming years as our provincial. 
Y Cylch Catholig Readings Prayers & Intercessions HERE
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Countdown to COP26
The United Nations climate talks (also known as the Conference of Parties or COP), that were scheduled to have taken place in Glasgow in 2020, will no...  Read More
Pope restricts celebration of Tridentine Mass
Pope Francis published a Motu Proprio on Friday to redefine the use of the pre-Vatican missal, granting the decision to allow its use to the local bi...  Read More
THEN ON THURSDAY 22ND JULY A SESSION ON REFLECTION AND ACTION ON CLIMATE IN OUR PARISHES AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES, with speakers including Maria Elena Arana (CAFOD) and John Paul de Quay and Eleanor Margetts (Ecological Conversion Group). Find out more and register at:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reflection-and-action-on-climate-in-your-parishlocal-community-tickets-161804384269
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Call for entries to young people's Anti-Trafficking film competition
Six weeks are left for 16-24 year olds to enter a film competition on human trafficking with generous prizes. It is organised by RENATE (Religious in ...  Read More
​NJPN Blog - Supporting the Young Christians Relay to COP26
The Young Christian Climate Network (YCCN) is an action-focused community of young Christians in the UK aged 18-30, from different denominations, choo...  Read More
Laudato Si’ Action Platform (Launch 25th May 2021)
MULTI-YEAR LAUDATO SI’ ROLL-OUT PLAN TO MAKE COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD TOTALLY SUSTAINABLE IN THE SPIRIT OF THE INTEGRAL ECOLOGY OF LAUDATO SI’
During the Laudato Si’ Special Anniversary Year, the Dicastery for Promotion of Integral Human Development launch a new program and a public commitment for various institutions to begin a 7-year journey to total sustainability in the spirit of Laudato Si’.
Visit the Laudato Si' Action Plan HERE
Pope Francis Invitation - Call for Action 
 Laudato si' Action Platform:
25th May 2021
On 25 May, the new Laudato Si Platform for Action was presented in Rome. The Laudato Si’ Action Platform is a unique collaboration between the Vatican, an international coalition of Catholic organizations, and “all men and women of good will".
Pope Francis sends a message to launch the new Laudato si' Action Platform:
Source: Vatican News
25th May 2021
The Pope explains that the Laudato si' Action Platform is "a seven-year journey that will see our communities committed in different ways to becoming totally sustainable, in the spirit of integral ecology."
He invites everyone to "embark on this journey together," and particularly calls on the involvement of "families - parishes and dioceses - schools and universities - hospitals - businesses and farms - organisations, groups and movements - religious institutes."
Work together, he stresses, as "only in this way will we be able to create the future we want: a more inclusive, fraternal, peaceful and sustainable world."
Bringing his message to a close, Pope Francis recalls that "there is hope."
Working together, he says, "each one with his own culture and experience, each one with her own initiatives and capacities, so that our mother Earth may be restored to her original beauty and creation may once again shine according to God’s plan."

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Reading Group Via Zoom Wednesdays  10am:  
‘Let Us Dream –
​The Path to a Better Future' by Pope Francis
You are invited to join us to read and respond to read Pope Francis who offers an inspiring and actionable blueprint for building a better world for all humanity that puts the poor and the planet at the heart of new thinking. Copies of the book have been ordered for those joining the Reading Group on Wednesday Mornings at 10am. 
​Contact paulinepasassoc@btinternet.com
​ to request to  receive a Zoom Link to the sessions.
Wishing a Fair Wind to the Synod
Brendan Hoban 
Church’s Great Council is finally back on track 
Western People 23.3.2021
As regular readers of this column will know, the Second Vatican Council has long been a telling reference point for me. In summary, at the invitation of Pope John XXIII, the Catholic bishops of the world gathered in Rome and attempted in a few shorts years (1962-65) to drag the Catholic Church out of the Middle Ages into the twentieth century... Read More
Download the Article HERE
Towards a Synodal Church, Address of Cardinal Mario Grech to the Bishops of Ireland
Antoine de Saint-Exupery says that “if you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea”.
Read the Address of Cardinal Mario Grech HERE
​Pope Francis – Mass at Casa Santa Marta the Sunday Angelus
are being streamed live on the Vatican’s YouTube channel. No need to watch live, tune in at any time: 
Pope Francis- Holy Mass at Casa Santa Marta
Pope Francis - The Angelus 
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Online Masses for the Deaf 
For the Sunday signed Mass Click HERE
​One of the saddest things about the Covid-19 lockdown has been the closure of our churches. The Mass is still broadcast on radio and television - and many parishes now stream Masses and prayers on-line - but these are very difficult to follow for people with hearing impairment. There are a growing number of parishes that offer signed services online. Here is an up-to-date list of websites in the UK and Ireland ...
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