Broadlands United Community Church

09/08/2026

Ashley Kitisya preaches for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, offering a reflection on climate and environmental justice as a call to communal responsibility:

"My neighbour is not only the person beside me. My neighbour is the family living near a polluted river. My neighbour is the farmer whose crops have failed because the rains no longer follow familiar patterns. My neighbour is a community forced to move because a wildfire, flood, or rising sea has made their home unsafe..."

Ashley Kitisya currently serves as Director of Africa at the Laudato Si Movement , spearheading continental initiatives that unite faith-based communities, youth, activists, and policy influencers to champion fossil fuel divestment and sustainable energy transitions. Ashley’s academic background in Law (LLM Strathmore University, LLB Catholic University of Eastern Africa), complemented by advanced training in justice, peace, and environmental governance, underpins her rigorous approach to policy advocacy and campaign development. She is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Visit www.catholicwomenpreach.org/preaching/09062026 to learn more about Ashley, to read her preaching text, and for more preaching from Catholic women.

09/08/2026

"Sometimes Churches"

09/06/2026

By salvation I mean, not barely (according to the vulgar notion) deliverance from hell, or going to heaven, but a present deliverance from sin, a restoration of the soul to its primitive health… the renewal of our souls after the image of God in righteousness and true holiness, in justice, mercy, and truth. ~ John Wesley(Farther Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion)

09/05/2026

In a few days, we celebrate St. Teresa of Calcutta's feast day and this is one of my favorite quotes of hers. It’s easy to move through the world thinking mostly about our own little circle, our own responsibilities, our own worries. But Catholic teaching keeps pulling us back toward one another.

We belong to each other. The person who is struggling across town, across the country, across the world is not completely separate from us. Their dignity matters. Their suffering matters. What happens to them should matter to us.

Peace asks us to remember that we are responsible for one another.

09/05/2026

“As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion but came instead to found an unorganized one. He seems to have come to carry religion out of the temples into the fields and sheep pastures, onto the roadsides and the banks of the rivers, into the houses of sinners and publicans, into the town and the wilderness, toward the membership of all that is here. Well, you can read and see what you think.”

~Wendell Berry, “Jayber Crow”
RIP WENDELL

Icon: “ Christ in the Wilderness”

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09/03/2026

Wendell Berry—

08/27/2026