Sunday 8th February
5th in Ordinary Time
10.30am. Ordinariate Sung Mass at Hockley
Celebrant Fr Bob White -Preacher Fr Peter Walters from Let the Children Live!
Let The Children Live! is a charity registered with the Charity Commission No.1013634
through which people can respond to the needs of children from the streets and
shanty-towns of Colombia’s cities, and in particular the city of Medellín. It aims both to safeguard the lives of
children from the violence and poverty of the streets, and to make their lives
worth living by giving them love, education and a future.
Sunday 8th February at the 10.30am Ordinariate Mass at Hockley we welcome Fr. Peter
Walters who will preach and tell us more about this extraordinary mission of
mercy and charity.
The BBC ESSEX team
may also record part of the service for broadcast in the near future so make
sure you are all in good voice! Do please come prepared for a second collection
to support Fr Peter’s work? Many thanks
in anticipation!
The charity was founded in 1992 by Fr Peter
Walters, who first became involved with the street-children in 1982 when they
helped him after he became temporarily stranded in Colombia. It is a charitable
( not-for-profit ) organisation and does not engage in political activity. “We recognise that the phenomenon of the
street-children is the product of complex social problems to which there are no
easy answers. Our aim is to support the Colombian people as they take the
initiative in caring for the most disadvantaged of their children,” says Fr
Peter. “They are making the most of their
limited resources, but they need support from abroad for this work to continue
and grow. Because the children have no-one, they really belong to us all.
Unless we help them, these children will remain ‘disposable ones’: throwaway
kids with no future at all.”
We look forward to welcoming Fr
Peter at both Hockley and Eastwood this Sunday!
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