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Justice and Peace in Creation<br />
“<br />
We plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water seeds<br />
already planted, knowing that they hold future promise. We<br />
lay foundations that will need further development.’<br />
– St Oscar Romero, Patron Saint of Justice and Peace.<br />
In the year of St Joseph, protector of the church, safety<br />
against the pandemic was still very much on peoples’ minds<br />
but this didn’t prevent proceedings going ahead. The<br />
annual London Mass for Migrant Workers on the weekend<br />
nearest the 1st May Feast of St Joseph the Worker is<br />
hosted in turn by the dioceses of Brentwood, Westminster<br />
and <strong>Southwark</strong>. The Diocesan Commission for Justice,<br />
Peace and the Integrity of Creation (JPIC) organised the<br />
event in 2021, with the celebration livestreamed from St<br />
William of York parish, Forest Hill. Bishop Paul McAleenan,<br />
the lead Bishop for migration concerns in England and<br />
Wales, was joined by the Chairs of the Justice and Peace,<br />
and Caritas Commissions, of the three London dioceses<br />
and by the Coordinator of the capital’s Ethnic Chaplaincies.<br />
Renewable<br />
Energy for<br />
for Business<br />
Carbon Neutral Gas<br />
Certificate<br />
British Gas Trading Limited Limited certifies certifies that<br />
that 100% 100% of<br />
the of the gas electricity supplied by supplied British Gas by British to<br />
Gas to<br />
Archdiocese Rexel UK Limited of <strong>Southwark</strong><br />
(OFF-1865089, OFF-1865092)<br />
will bebacked by a combination of<br />
will Green be Gas generated Certificates by renewable and Carbon energy Offset Certificates<br />
sources<br />
backed for the period<br />
by Guarantee of Origin certificates<br />
for the period<br />
01/10/2019 to 30/09/2022<br />
22/03/2018 31/10/2019<br />
Mike Paul Lawton<br />
Chessum<br />
Industrial Director Energy & Commercial Supply CBS<br />
Energy Director<br />
Representatives from London Citizens introduced us to<br />
a lady who spoke of her persistent ordeal and difficulties<br />
in surviving life in the capital within unsympathetic<br />
Home Office constraints. The Mass included prayers<br />
and music embracing the individual ethnic communities<br />
who contribute so much to London’s everyday life and<br />
celebrated the major contribution migrant workers made<br />
during the exceptionally difficult times of the pandemic.<br />
2212/07/18<br />
1570/10/16<br />
britishgas.co.uk/business<br />
The above percentage of Renewable Energy for a supply period enables zero carbon emissions reporting<br />
as part of the Scope-2 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) protocol reporting requirements.<br />
ICN <strong>Report</strong> on Diocesan<br />
Ethical Investment<br />
britishgas.co.uk/business<br />
Subject to terms and conditions<br />
https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/42204<br />
View photographs of the<br />
2021 Migrants’ Mass<br />
https://bit.ly/2021MigrantsMass<br />
In May 2021 following suggestions from JPIC, the<br />
Archdiocese revealed an Ethical Investment Policy,<br />
divesting from fossil fuels and other activities<br />
contrary to the Church’s social teaching. This<br />
was closely followed by the introduction of an<br />
Environmental Policy based upon material drafted<br />
by the Commission, just days before the start<br />
of COP26. This confirms diocesan commitment<br />
to the care of creation and protection of our<br />
common home. Encouraged by Operation Noah,<br />
the Diocese developed procedures to work with<br />
organisations operating on principles consistent<br />
with Catholic Social Teaching and Environmental,<br />
Social and Governance (ESG) practices, important<br />
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