“You are safe, you are loved, you are welcome to stay.” On the Sunday of Refugee Week, at St Mary’s Church in Poole, around 25 children wrote heartfelt messages of welcome, each attached to a single rose, which they processed through the church to lay on...
At the heart of the Gospel is a simple truth: every person is precious, because God is present in everyone. Welcoming people seeking safety is an integral part of our faith: it is a response to the dignity God has placed in every human life. As Christians, we believe...
“I was a stranger and you welcomed me.” (Matthew 25:35) In his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV calls us to protect “the rightful hopes of those forced to leave” by ensuring safe and legal routes, dignified welcome, and genuine pathways to...
“Laudato Si’” Day in Exeter On Saturday, 7th March, thirty-four parishioners and students gathered at the Exeter University Chaplaincy for a day of prayer and reflection. Inspired by Pope Francis’s famous letter on integral human ecology and the...
Pope Leo XIV’s First Apostolic Exhortation: Dilexi Te (“I have loved you”) emphasizes the essential Christian duty of loving and serving the poor. On Friday 20th (clergy) and Saturday the 21st February, over 145 people from across the diocese attended an...
