Hospital Chaplaincy Team

The Royal Stoke Chaplaincy team can be reached on 01782 676400. You will need to specify that it is the Catholic Chaplain that you want.

Sacrament preparation

Over the next few weeks Carol will be preparing a programme for anyone interested in getting their child or themselves through a sacrament. Please make sure you email the office with your contact details if:

• you have a child you wish to be Baptised. 
• you have a child in a non-Catholic school or homeschooled who is about to enter year 3 and wish to enrol them into preparation for First Reconciliation and First Holy Communion. 
• you have a child entering year 6, and again is not in a catholic school or homeschooled and wishes to prepare for the sacrament of Confirmation. 
• you are an adult considering joining the Catholic faith

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The Season of Creation 2025: Peace With Creation

We wish to encourage all our Catholic family - parishes, schools, communities and individuals to join in prayer to mark the Season of Creation from 1 September to 4 October - the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi.

The Season of Creation is the annual Christian celebration to pray and respond together to the cry of Creation: the ecumenical family around the world unites to listen and care for our common home. The “Celebration” begins 1 September, the Feast of Creation, and ends 4 October, the Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of ecology beloved by many Christian denominations.

Our Biblical text for this year is Isaiah 32:14-18. The prophet Isaiah pictured the desolated Creation without peace because of the lack of justice and the broken relationship between God and humankind. This description of devastated cities and wastelands eloquently stresses the fact that human destructive behaviours have a negative impact on the Earth.

Our hope: Creation will find peace when justice is restored.

There is still hope and the expectation for a peaceful Earth.

To hope in a biblical context does not mean to stand still and quiet, but to act, pray, change, and reconcile with Creation and the Creator in unity, metanoia (repentance), and solidarity.

This year let us ACT in our parishes: include Creation in our liturgy, pray for Creation, take up challenges like the LiveSimply Award, host screenings of The Letter and more.

Pope Leo's Message for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, September 1 "Now is the time to follow words with deeds. “Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience” (Laudato Si’, 217). "By working with love and perseverance, we can sow many seeds of justice and thus contribute to the growth of peace and the renewal of hope. It may well take years for this plant to bear its first fruits, years that, for their part, involve an entire ecosystem made up of continuity, fidelity, cooperation and love, especially if that love mirrors the Lord’s own self-sacrificing Love." Pope Leo XIV made this appeal in his Message for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, to be held on September 1, 2024, which was published Monday 30 June.