Our Lady and St Peter's, Stoke

02/09/2026

As the new school year begins please join us as we pray for all young people and school staff 🙏

Loving Father,

Thank you for the rest and relaxation we have enjoyed over the summer.
We pray for our young people as they begin their new school year.
Bless them with joy at seeing friends, excitement at new experiences, and a love of learning.
Grant all teachers and staff wisdom, patience, and joy in their roles in the lives of our families. Amen

St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary School Stoke Our Lady's Catholic Academy St Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Multi-Academy Trust

01/09/2026

Today marks the beginning of the Season of Creation. The theme for 2026 is Living Water💧

“As we observe this World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, we are once again invited to contemplate the gift of life and to cherish the earth that sustains it, for they are tangible ways of offering praise to our Creator.” Pope Leo XIV, Message for the 11th World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, 1st of September 2026.

Season of Creation 2026 Prayer

Holy God, whose Spirit hovered over the waters at the beginning, we gather as part
of your community of all creation, thirsty for your grace. We give thanks for the gift
of water, the veins of our common home, that sustains the cedar and the whale, the
pasture and the city. We are grateful for the local waters that nourish our
homelands and our fellow creatures. We give thanks that in your well-watered
garden, every drop is a sacred testament to your love.

Yet, we confess that we have treated this gift as a mere commodity. We have
choked the seas with our waste and watched the warming tides rise in judgment.
We lament the cracked earth of the drought-stricken and the salty tears of the
climate refugee. Melt our frozen hearts, O God, and let the waters of repentance
flow.

Lord of all Life, you promised that wherever the river flows, everything shall live.
Stir in us a calling to care for the waters — to protect the watershed, defend the
rights of water, and honor the dignity of the thirsty. May your Word be a spring
within us, gushing forth for the healing of the nations.

May God our Father who brought water from the rock sustain us in the desert. May
Christ our Lord who is Living Water refresh us for the work of restoration. And may
the Holy Spirit carry us on currents of grace until justice rolls down like waters and
righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Amen.

01/09/2026

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26/08/2026

O God, who chose the Priest Blessed Dominic Barberi
to be a minister of your salvation,
so that by his teaching and example
many might find peace and reconciliation in your Church,
mercifully guide our steps, we humbly pray,
along that same way of love and truth
until by your grace we gain its eternal reward.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.

24/08/2026

Who is joining the youth meeting on Saturday 5th September at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Hanley ❓

Come along and bring a friend!

23/08/2026

22/08/2026

O God, who made the Mother of your Son
to be our Mother and our Queen,
graciously grant that, sustained by her intercession,
we may attain in the heavenly Kingdom
the glory promised to your children.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.

16/08/2026

It was beautiful to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption as a community at our Family Mass today. Thank you to our readers, altar servers, choir and coffee morning volunteers and to everyone who attended and participated in our celebration 🙏💙🙏

15/08/2026

Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

O Immaculate Mary, Assumed into heaven,
you who are most blessed in the vision of God:
of God the Father who exalted you among all creatures,
of God the Son who willed that you bear Him as your Son and that you should be His Mother,
of God the Holy Spirit who accomplished the human conception of the Saviour in you.
O Mary, most pure
O Mary, most sweet and beautiful
O Mary, strong and thoughtful woman
O Mary, poor and sorrowful
O Mary, virgin and mother
woman very human like Eve, more than Eve.
You are near to God by your grace and by your privileges
in your mysteries
in your mission, in your glory.
O Mary, assumed into the glory of Christ
in the complete and transfigured perfection of our human nature.
O Mary, gate of heaven
mirror of divine light
ark of the Covenant between God and mankind,
let our souls fly after you
let them fly long your radiant path,
transported by a hope that the world does not contain eternal beatitude.
Comfort us from heaven, O merciful Mother,
and guide us along your ways of purity and hope
till the day of that blessed meeting with you
and with your divine Son
our Saviour, Jesus. Amen!

(Saint Paul VI)

13/08/2026

Join us for Family Mass, Coffee Morning and the Toy and Book Swap Event on Sunday. All welcome 🙏