June 15th, 2025 | Day For Life
In a telegram for the Day of Life observed by the Church in England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, Pope Leo calls on Catholics to continue to bear witness to the God-given dignity of every person without exception. Pope Leo XIV has expressed his “spiritual closeness” to all those taking part in the 2025 “Day […]
June 2nd, 2025 | Day For Life, Pope Leo XIV
The Pope’s message was conveyed by the Holy See’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, in a letter to the Lead Bishop for Life Issues for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, Archbishop John Sherrington. “Pope Leo prays that, through your common witness to the God-given dignity of every person, without exception, and […]
May 30th, 2025 | Day For Life, Life Issues
The theme for this year’s Day for Life, celebrated on Sunday 15 June, is ‘Hope Does Not Disappoint: Finding Meaning in Suffering’. In this booklet, you will find the message from the Bishops of England and Wales, Ireland, and Scotland for the day, along with prayers that can be used on or around Day for […]
May 23rd, 2025 | Day For Life
With the assisted suicide debate continuing with great intensity in Parliament, this year’s Day for Life, celebrated jointly with the episcopal conferences of Ireland and Scotland, falls on 15 June with the theme Hope does not disappoint: Finding meaning in suffering. In a video interview on the subject, Archbishop John Sherrington, our Lead Bishop for […]
May 21st, 2025 | Day For Life, Life Issues
Based on the words of Carlo Acutis and Pope Francis Jesus, You wait for me.You let yourself be found when I think there is no hope.I need to set down the burdens of my history, my life, my sins, at Your feet,to consign to You the weight of my past.No matter how burdensome, how complicated, […]
May 21st, 2025 | Life Issues
Resource Resources were created to enable parishes to highlight and pray for Day For Life. Included the Day for Life 2024 Message and Prayers. Podcast: Hospices “help you live until you die” With this year’s Day for Life taking as it’s theme care at the end of life, it is fitting that this Catholic News […]
April 28th, 2025 | CBCEW, Donate, Life Issues
The Day for Life Fund provides financial assistance each year to organisations working to support the Church’s mission to protect human life from conception to natural death. Each year, the money donated by the faithful on the Day for Life is dispersed to these organisations to assist them in undertaking specific projects relating to life […]
June 16th, 2024 | Prayer
The Lord is My Shepherd, A Psalm The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.He makes me lie down in green pastures.He leads me beside still waters.He restores my soul.He leads me in paths of righteousnessfor his name’s sake.Even though I walk through the valley of theshadow of death,I will fear no evil,for you […]
June 4th, 2024 | Day For Life
Bishops message There has been much discussion in the media recently about ‘assisted suicide’, whereby people who feel they are overburdened by suffering will be facilitated in bringing their lives to a premature end by a change in legislation. The Catholic Church opposes this. As Catholics, along with many people of other faiths and none, […]
May 29th, 2024 | Add Category, Day For Life
Pope Francis has sent a message to Bishop John Sherrington, Lead Bishop for Life Issues at the Bishops’ Conference, praising Day for Life for encouraging “a deeper understanding of the precious gift of life”. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, conveyed the message to Bishop Sherrington, assuring him of the Holy Father’s “closeness […]
May 20th, 2024 | Day For Life
15 June 2025 The Church teaches that life is to be nurtured from conception to natural death. In England and Wales, Day for Life is celebrated on the third Sunday of June each year. This year it falls on 15 June. The theme is Hope does not Disappoint: Finding meaning in Suffering. It is inspired by […]
May 1st, 2024 | Day For Life, Life Issues
Grant applications for the Day for Life Fund opened on 1 May, giving organisations the opportunity to apply for funding for initiatives that promote the dignity of human life from conception to natural death. Bishop John Sherrington, Lead Bishop for Life Issues, said: “I am pleased to announce that this year’s applications are now open. […]
