Saturday 6th September Bethel Convention Centre nr Birmingham Hosted by Anointed Fire Catholic Ministries Speakers include John and Aleksandra Stayne, (Cor et Lumen Christi) and dynamic youth ministry music. Talks, mass, confession, prayer ministry, healing in adoration. All ages including children streams and teen/ youth meetings  Buses available (venue just off motorway) Contact Madeleine Jeremy 07791503857

Holy Communion (2) Can you imagine? The created in union with the Creator. The Creator within the created. "He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood dwells in me and I in him." (John 6:56) Our distance with God at that moment is not a million miles away, but it is zero distance. At that moment, He is no longer that Almighty King who sit high up in Heaven, He become a kindly Father, a longing Lover. We share and converse with Him who we are, what we got, what we have gone through, what we want to ask for...He exchange with us His Love, His Blessings, His Grace, His Answers… If you truly believe then you will understand how beautiful and how wonderful this is. Communion with God, is like a man finally knows his roots, like a lost child finally find his mother; then one finally knows the meaning and purpose of life. One may also easily finds the word 'communion' sounds like 'come-union', and indeed Holy Communion is a Divine Invitation, therefore we need to prepare ourselves carefully for such an important and holy moment. How? If you need to find your best dress or suit to go to a wedding, then for a spiritual feast you will also need to make sure your spiritual garment is beautiful and clean enough to attend - your soul. To do so, we must examine our conscience, and if conscious of a grave sin then we must go to Confession. And when we worthily received Our Lord in the Holy Eucharist, this deepen union with Christ can transform our lives, not only it preserves, increases and renews the life of grace received at Baptism, strengthen our charity, even cleanse us from past sins and preserve us from future sins even mortal sins. (Reference: Catechism of the Catholic Church)

Pope Leo XIV at the Mass for the Jubilee of Young People at Tor Vergata in Rome on Sunday 3 August “It is truly beautiful, especially at a young age,” the Holy Father said, “to open wide your hearts, to allow him to enter, and to set out on this adventure with him towards eternity.” St Augustine, reflecting on his intense search for God, asked himself: ‘What, then, is the object of our hope…?’ Asking whether our source of hope is the earth or something beautiful that comes from it, he argued that these items were not, but rather ‘the One Who made them,’ ‘He is your hope.’ Like Augustine’s search for meaning, the Pope acknowledged the young people at times ponder similar questions, “There is a burning question in our hearts, a need for truth that we cannot ignore, which leads us to ask ourselves: what is true happiness? What is the true meaning of life? What can free us from being trapped in meaninglessness, boredom and mediocrity?” Pope Leo recalled the young people have had many beautiful experiences, adding that through all this, “you can grasp an important point,” namely the fullness of our existence does not depend on what we store up or, as we heard in the Gospel, on what we possess. Rather, he reminded, fullness has to do with what we joyfully welcome and share. “Buying, hoarding and consuming are not enough. We need to lift our eyes, to look upwards, to the ‘things that are above…'”  “Dear young people, Jesus is our hope,” Pope Leo insisted. “It is He, who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives… to commit… to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal…Let us remain united to Him, let us remain in His friendship, always, cultivating it through prayer, adoration, Eucharistic Communion, frequent Confession, and generous charity, following the examples of Bl Piergiorgio Frassati and Bl Carlo Acutis who will soon be declared saints.” Hence, he invited, “Aspire to great things, to holiness, wherever you are. Do not settle for less. You will then see the light of the Gospel growing every day, in you and around you.”