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LIVESIMPLY MESSAGE 25.6.2023

We aim to live more simply, sustainably and in solidarity with each other.

You may have received a leaflet through your letter box recently inviting you to join in the conversation around the future of our region’s buses. Please take some time to complete the survey to help to secure this sustainable  form of transport for everyone.

Even if you do not often use buses, many people rely on them so let’s join together to support this initiative. The link to the survey is: https://www.liverpoolcityregion-ca.gov.uk/movingbusesforward/

LIVESIMPLY MESSAGE 3.7.2023

We aim to live more simply, sustainably and in solidarity with each other.

Will you be part of Plastic Free July by choosing to refuse single-use plastics for the next month? You will be joining with millions of others around the world in tackling plastic pollution on land and in the oceans. Please see the poster at the back of Church, take away a calendar (31 Days of Plastic Free Choices) and take a look at the Plastic Free July website.https://www.plasticfreejuly.org/

LIVESIMPLY IN BISHOP ETON AND ST MARY’S.

We aim to live more simply, sustainably and in solidarity with each other.

‘The world is charged with the grandeur of God’

                    Gerard Manley Hopkins

Thanks  to everyone who came to Hope Park on Sunday to celebrate our local community with volunteer musicians and singers;  crafters, gardeners, cooks and tea makers. A good time was had by all. 

The Living Simply stall was a hit with young and old as they wrestled with the Water Challenge and claimed their flower seeds in reward. 

 There was indeed hope in the air in the beautiful gardens, as we listened to the ‘sweet songs’ of  Bob Marley’s ‘ Three Little Birds’ with its good news ‘everything gonna be alright’. 

And hope too when the choir sang the Beatles’ refrain  ‘ and when the broken hearted people living in the world agree, there will be an answer-  let it be, let it be.’ 

 And in the words of the Jesuit poet priest

 ‘For all this Nature is never spent

There lives the dearest freshness deep down things

And though the last lights off the black west went

Oh, morning at the brown brink eastwards springs

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent

World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings'

LIVESIMPLY IN BISHOP ETON AND ST MARY’S.

We aim to live more simply, sustainably and in solidarity with each other.

5th June is World Environment Day. 8th June is World Oceans Day. We all know how single use plastics are damaging our oceans. This week think of ways in which your family can reduce its plastic use. Maybe buy fruit and vegetables loose rather than packaged.

Remember your shopping bag so you don’t need to buy carrier bags (even when shopping in town!). And families with babies—have you considered reusable nappies; they are nothing like the old terry nappies older parishioners might remember.

If all else fails—Tesco recycles soft plastics (the stuff you can’t put in the Council recycling bin).

Let’s do what we can to protect our oceans!

The webpage for  World Environment Day can be found at https://www.un.org/en/observances/environment-day and World Oceans Day is https://unworldoceansday.org/

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CHILDWALL IN BLOOM OPEN GARDEN EVENT

Childwall in Bloom will be held at Hope University, Sunday 11 June 1.00pm-4.00pm. Please come along to Hope University—just opposite Bishop Eton—next Sunday and join the LiveSimply team to support our volunteer community gardeners and help our local community blossom. Lots to enjoy including garden tours, plant sales live music and craft stalls.

LIVESIMPLY IN BISHOP ETON AND ST MARY’S.

We aim to live more simply, sustainably and in solidarity with each other.

15 June is clean air day. Air pollution is bad for our health and has a huge impact on climate change. Three things you can think about to help reduce air pollution.

1. Use your car less – walk, cycle or use public transport.
2. Eat less meat and dairy (animal agriculture is the largest producer of air pollutants).
3. Plant more trees and greenery.
4. Wood burners and Fire Pits. Do we really need them? 

Let’s live more simply and help protect our environment.

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CHILDWALL IN BLOOM OPEN GARDEN EVENT

Childwall in Bloom will be held at Hope University, today Sunday 11 June 1.00pm-4.00pm.

Please come along to Hope University—just opposite Bishop Eton—next Sunday and join the LiveSimply team to support our volunteer community gardeners and help our local community blossom. Lots to enjoy including garden tours, plant sales live music and craft stalls.

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LIVESIMPLY IN BISHOP ETON AND ST MARY’S.

We care about creation and we care about people living in poverty.

This weekend marks the end of National Vegetarian Week.

Plant-based food has a much lower carbon footprint, so by choosing more veggie meals, you’re making real carbon savings! The amount of carbon saved by your veggie dinner can be the same as driving long distances in a car. The National Vegetarian Week recipes are all carbon-calculated, allowing you to see the difference you’re making by swapping even a single meal for a veggie one this week.

It’s easy to get involved: check out the recipes, spread the word on social media, eat some delicious veggie food and make your meals better by miles!

Eat veggie, cut carbon, drive change! Have a look at  https://www.nationalvegetarianweek.

LIVESIMPLY IN BISHOP ETON AND ST MARY’S.

We aim to live more simply, sustainably and in solidarity with each other. Send forth your Spirit, O Lord and renew the face of the earth.

Celebrate the season of Pentecost and the glories of creation on Sunday 11 June at Hope Park (over the road from Bishop Eton). Support our volunteer community gardeners and help our local community blossom. Renew old friendships and meet new neighbours; enjoy leaf and birdsong, tea and scones; plants for sale; live music and crafts; garden tours and much, much more. Childwall in Bloom Open Garden Event at Hope University Sunday 11 June 1.00pm—4.00pm.

LIVESIMPLY IN BISHOP ETON AND ST MARY’S.

We care about creation and we care about people living in poverty.

Walk to School Week is upon us (15-19 May 2023). A challenge for the everyone in the family to step up their activity, leave the car behind and simply travel to school, sustainably, on foot and bicycle! 

LIVESIMPLY - MESSAGE 7.5.2023

‘We care about Creation and we care about people living in Poverty’.

Celebrating the coronation of King Charles III this weekend, we are encouraged that he is a committed environmentalist. Aged 21, he gave a speech to the Countryside Steering Committee for Wales warning against the environmental cost of oil pollution and plastic waste. He has since spoken on environmental issues at the European Parliament and at global conferences. We pray that he will use his position to encourage others to Care for our Common Home.

LIVE SIMPLY – ST MARY’S & BISHOP ETON:

 We care about creation and we care about people living in poverty.

Monday is May Day the celebration of which, with maypoles and Morris dancing, dates back to our pagan heritage when the day marked the start of a new cycle of growth across the land.

Pope Francis repeatedly reminds us that it is our duty as Catholics to live sustainably with creation. So, if you are venturing out in to the garden this week to tackle the ‘new cycle of growth’, why not make a May Day resolution and challenge yourself to try something different this year – buy a packet of seeds, or take cuttings, or create a bug hotel, or start a compost heap, or instal a water butt.