October is the month for the Rosary, and its power was recognised when the whole of Christendom, led by Pope Pius V, prayed for a victory over the Ottoman forces against enormous odds in the sea battle of Lepanto on 7 October 1571.<\/p>\n
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The Church invites us to pray the Rosary each day in recognition and thanks for that great victory and the ongoing freedoms we have received. It is also a way we can ask the Holy Spirit to intervene where these freedoms have been abused or taken away. We may be ineffective politically or diplomatically to bring change and often interference proves counter-productive, as we have seen with Afghanistan and Iraq.<\/p>\n
New initiatives are being started in our diocese, e.g. the \u2018Archbishop\u2019s Certificate\u2019, others restarting like \u2018Some Definite Service\u2019 and CCRS course, a part of the work of the Agency for Evangelisation and Catechesis, at Tooting Bec. The Pope has asked bishops to prepare for the Synod in Rome 2023 by consulting with their people as a continuation of the work of Vatican II to include \u2018The People of God\u2019 and give them a voice.<\/p>\n
By mid-October the new Southwark Archdiocese website will be activated. Why not take a look?<\/p>\n
1st\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/em>St Th\u00e9r\u00e8se of the Child Jesus<\/p>\n 2nd\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Holy Guardian Angels<\/p>\n 4th\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 St Francis of Assisi<\/p>\n 7th\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our Lady of the Rosary<\/p>\n 9th\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 St John H Newman\u00a0 National Calendar<\/em><\/p>\n 11th\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 St Pope John XXIII<\/p>\n 12th\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 St Wilfred\u00a0 National Calendar<\/em><\/p>\n 13th\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 St Edward the Confessor\u00a0 Diocesan Calendar<\/em><\/p>\n 15th\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 St Teresa of Avila<\/p>\n 18th\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 St Luke\u00a0 Evangelist<\/em><\/p>\n 22nd\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 St Pope John Paul II\u00a0 National Calendar<\/em> \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n 28th\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ss Simon & Jude\u00a0 Apostles, Martyrs<\/em><\/p>\n October is the month for the Rosary, and its power was recognised when the whole of Christendom, led by Pope Pius V, prayed for a victory over the Ottoman forces against enormous odds in the sea battle of Lepanto on 7 October 1571.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.saintstephens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.saintstephens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.saintstephens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.saintstephens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.saintstephens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.saintstephens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"http:\/\/www.saintstephens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.saintstephens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.saintstephens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.saintstephens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.saintstephens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Deacon Michael Baldry<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"