This week it is National School Sports Week. To celebrate this and to make sure everyone’s able to take part, the Youth Sports Trust have created a set of activities that you can do at home. The annual National School Sport Week campaign takes place in the last week of June every year to celebrate the important role of Physical Education and school sport in enhancing young people’s well-being.
Attached to this post you will find a set of activity cards that you can use at home to take part in this fantastic celebration of sport.
YST have also set up a hashtag to use on Twitter which is #NSSWtogether, if you would like to share any of your home sporting events.
On the second day of refugee week we continue to remember those who have had to flee their homes in our prayers:
Jesus, friend and brother,
You know what it is like to be hungry and thirsty.
You know the plight of the stranger who is made unwelcome.
You know the suffering of all who have lost everything.
We pray that by welcoming the asylum seeker we may show love for our neighbour and draw closer to you. Amen.
Written by Tony Singleton/CAFOD
This week we have a focus on praying for refugees and asylum seekers as it’s Refugee Week.
Our Father who art in Heaven,
you want us your children to build a new earth of sisterhood and brotherhood, not a hell of violence and death.
Holy be your name,
that in your name Lord, let there be no abuse, no oppression and no manipulation of the conscience and liberty of your children.
Your Kingdom come, not the kingdom of fear, force or money, of seeking peace through war.
Your will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven,
in this land of ours and in sister lands which echo with gunfire and cries of fear.
Give us this day our daily bread,
the bread of peace, Lord, so that we can sow our maize and beans, watch them grow and share them together as a family.
Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.
Do not let our relationships be based on self-interest. Let us change laments for songs of life, clenched fists for outstretched hands and the weeping of widows and orphans for smiles.
Lead us not into temptation,
the temptation to conform, to do nothing: the temptation not to collaborate with you in the search for justice and peace.
But deliver us from evil,
from behaving like Cain to our brothers and sisters, from believing ourselves rulers over life and death.
For yours is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory.
You are our hope of salvation, in you we place our trust.
Written by El Salvador, group of refugees
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