CARE OF CREATION
PREPARING THE CHURCH IN SCOTLAND FOR COP 26
COP 26 – RESPONDING TO CODE RED REPORT FOR HUMANITY
In August 2021, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, compiled by more than 230 Climate Scientists, warned that major climate disruption is inevitable and, in many instances, irreversible. The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres said – ‘Today’s IPCC Working Group 1 Report is a ‘Code Red’ for humanity. This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet.’
In June 2018, Pope Francis said – ‘As you know, in December 2015, 196 Nations negotiated and adopted the Paris Agreement, with a firm resolve to limit the growth in global warming to 2 centigrade, based on preindustrial levels, and, if possible, to below 1.5 centigrade. Some two and a half years later, carbon dioxide emissions and atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases remain very high. This is disturbing and a cause for real concern.
Yet even more worrying is the continued search for new fossil fuel reserves, whereas the Paris Agreement clearly urged keeping most fossil fuels underground. This is why we need to talk together – industry, investors, researchers, consumers – about transition and the search for alternatives. Civilization requires energy, but energy use must not destroy civilization!’
In their 2021 Pastoral Letter on the Sixth Anniversary of ‘Laudato Si’ the Bishops of Scotland stated – ‘The dioceses of Scotland are in the process of divesting from fossil fuel investments. The Bishops’ Conference is aiming for carbon neutrality for its agencies, as are the dioceses in as sustainable and timely a way as possible.’.
NOVEMBER – MASSES OF REMEMBRANCE
Tuesday 2nd November at 7pm – Mass will be celebrated for all families and friends of our parishioners who died in 2020.
Tuesday 16th November at 7pm – Mass will be celebrated for all families and friends of our parishioners who have died in the course of this year – 2021.
LADIES SOCIAL EVENING
In the parish hall every Tuesday evening (7pm – 9pm). Some light ‘line dancing’ plus tea and biscuits. Come along for a chat. All will be made most welcome (restarting Tuesday 26th October).
MARIAN DEVOTIONS (25th – 29th OCTOBER)
Monday – Friday – Rosary and Benediction at 7pm.
NOVEMBER LISTS
Available from porch or as you leave Church. Please return to Sacristy or parish house. Mass is celebrated each weekday evening (7pm) Monday to Friday for all we wish to remember during the month of November – our Holy Souls.
COP 26 (OCTOBER 31st – NOVEMBER 12th)
Please note diversions/disruptions to traffic around Temple area at Fulton Street, Crow Road in this area affecting ‘Crow Road’, to and from Glasgow City Centre.
SICK
Steven Welsh, Mary McGlin and Maureen O’Donohue.
MONTHS MIND
Wallace Laughland
Margaret McCabe (Birthday)
Alice McCafferty
– May they Rest in Peace –
PLEASE PRAY FOR THOSE WHO DIED RECENTLY
John Sieyes, Charles Sheridan, Monsignor Peter Smith (St Paul’s, Whitehinch), Hugh McFarlane, Annie Hill (Falkirk), John Burns, Fr George Smith (Mill Hill Missionaries), Gina Trainer, Elizabeth McLafferty, Justin McLaughlin (14), Patricia Farrell (Ashby Crescent) and Alan McNicol (Banner Road).
– May they Rest in Peace –
PLEASE PRAY FOR WHOSE ANNIVERSARIES OCCUR ABOUT NOW
Paul McGowan, Pat Gemson, Bernie Gemson, William McDonald, Mary Laughland, Romilda Biggs, James McIlwee, Gerard Bailey, Patrick McCafferty, Thomas Queen, Brendan Coleman, Jeanie Queen, Rose Gill, Patrick Gill, Henry Coleman, Mary Coleman, Christina McCarthy, John Francis Ayre, Hugh McKey, Josephine Canning and Patricia Roach
– May they Rest in Peace –