LiveSimply - Events
As we journey to LiveSimply we will have events supporting our aims: living simply; living in solidarity with people in poverty and living sustainably with creation.
FASHION SHOW:
📅 Date: Sunday 11 October
📍 Location: Parish Hall
Our nearly new fashion show in aid of CAFOD and the South Liverpool food bank will be on Sunday 11 October from 2:00-4:00pm in the parish hall. We are looking forward to an afternoon of fun, fizz, fashion and some fantastic cakes! Tickets are £6 and will be on sale after Sunday Mass from 20 September or please see Mary Monkhouse. All welcome.
If you are ready to donate some of your own nearly new items, you can drop them at the presbytery during working hours or in the hall after Sunday Mass from Sunday 20 September
SEASON OF CREATION - DISPLAY IN CHURCH:
To assist with our ‘Season of Creation’ display in church, we are appealing for scarves in all shades of blue. Green scarves would also be welcome. There will be a green box at the back of church over the next two weekends, for you to put your unwanted scarves in. Thank you in advance.
SEASON OF CREATION WALK
📅 Date:Saturday 3 October
📍Meet: Holy Family Church 11am
We will meet at Holy Family Church at 11 o’clock. Our reflective walk will take us through the Halewood Triangle stopping at the Ducky Pond, which will allow us time to consider this years theme of water. We aim to arrive at St Marks by 12 o’clock, where we will have a short prayer service, including a blessing of the newly established Parish garden. The morning will finish with tea in the hall. All are welcome. ( For those not able to walk there is the opportunity to join us at either end).
SEASON OF CREATION 2026 PRAYER SESSIONS AT ST MARYS:
📅 Date: Saturdays 5th, 12th and 26th September
📍Meet: St Mary's Church
To mark the Season of creation St Mary's will be opening the church on Saturdays 5th, 12th and 26th September, for a time of communal and private. prayer. Please note St Mary' church grounds are closed in the 19th .
APRIL 2026 FASHION SHOW
Thank you to all those who took part in or donated to our April Fashion Show. Donations are still flooding in, but we're up to £1000 now, to be shared across CAFOD and South Liverpool Food Bank.
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HOME ENERGY EVENT 10.7.25
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LIVESIMPLY MESSAGE 9.3.25
We aim to live more simply, sustainably and in solidarity with others.
Lent is a time when we remember the poor and hungry across the world. By giving up some d little luxury and fasting for one day we can help by donating to CAFOD’s Family Fast Day on 14 March. CAFOD supports those suffering the impacts of war, global debt and climate change. Your donations help people find hope for the future. If you are able, why not join our Parish CAFOD Big Lent Walk on Sunday 6 April. Please see details below.ls.
LIVESIMPLY AWARD CELEBRATION JUNE 2024
In June we celebrated (simply!) not only achieving the CAFOD LiveSimply Award, but also the amazing spirit of cooperation between our parishes and between many groups within the parishes, that made this achievement possible. Thank you everyone!
Each parish received a wooden plaque, hand finished by artisans in Cambodia. The wood is sustainably sourced acacia and making the plaques enables the people with disabilities who make them to earn their own income. Once they are fully mounted both plaques will be proudly displayed in our two churches.
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Nearly NewFashion Show Thank You! |
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Thank you to everyone who helped to make our Fashion show a success! It was a fabulous and fun afternoon and it was great to see so many people there. We are delighted to have raised £1300 for CAFOD.
We started with a sparkling cream tea followed by our fashion show, modelled by our fantastic volunteers and showcasing some of the many new and nearly new items that people had so kindly donated. Thank you to our donors, everyone who was there to support us on the day and to those who couldn't make it but still contributed.
It really does support our Live simply aims –
living sustainably by choosing to reuse instead of buying new and
in solidarity with others by raising funds for CAFOD to help our global family and donating some unsold items to asylum link and Barnados.
It’s always fantastic to see our parish community of all ages coming together to support the event and to have fun.
Thank you once again and we are looking forward to our Autumn event! 
LiveSimply Question Time
Climate Crisis: What can I do?
On Thursday 30 November, to coincide with the first day of COP28, the church hall at St Mary's was converted in to a TV studio for a special edition of Question Time entitled Climate Crisis: What can I do?
Chaired by our very own Bill Chambers, the Panel comprised Paula Barker, MP for Wavertree; Ged Edwards, CAFOD Coordinator; Liz Makinson, Councillor for Calderstones; Liam Robinson, Leader of Liverpool City Council; Paul Rooney, Deacon and Environmental Academic.
The debate was very lively and wide-ranging and the audience didn't hold back in their questioning, but each of the Panellist gave full and informative answers to each of the questions posed to them. The topics covered ranged from the prospects for COP28 through to recycling food-waste here at home.
The evening closed with each person present, including the Panel, making a pledge of something they are going to do differently from now onwards in their own lives. You can see a summary of these pledges below.
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With thanks to Alex Monkhouse eyeofalex.co.uk for the photos
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