Alleluia, alleluia.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
the God who is and who was and who is to come.
Alleluia.
Gospel: John 3:16-18
‘God sent his Son in order that the world might be saved through him.’
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
God our Father, you revealed the great mystery of your godhead to men when you sent into the world the Word who is Truth and the Spirit who makes us holy.
Help us to believe in you and worship you, as the true faith teaches:
three Persons, eternal in glory, one God, infinite in majesty.
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.
Amen.
Notes from meeting on 26 May:
Picture of a man in an enclosed room, there are no windows, no doors and no way out.
He is frantic to get out but there seems to be no way, he is stuck.
Many people are praying and including in their prayers those souls who have nobody to pray for them!
Blessed Mother takes those prayers in Her Immaculate Heart and magnifies them, taking them to Her Son, His Heart burns with Love and Mercy and permission of entry is given.
Blessed Mother Herself appears to the man and gently touches his heart, Blessed Mother leads the man to a door through which they pass into a beautiful place of light, The man meets Jesus weeping tears of repentance. Jesus hugs him.
"My dear little children
Your prayers have real meaning to the Heart of My Son Jesus! Never think that your prayer is disregarded, even the smallest prayer said from your heart can together with the Holy Spirit and magnification of My Immaculate Heart cause a miracle in somebody’s life, Freeing them from bondage and giving them the miracle of Life Everlasting!
My little ones pray earnestly with Me Your Mother to help prevent My adversary from snatching souls to himself.
We together form an army, an army of love, with this love and faith in the Holy Spirit mountains can be moved for did not My Son say so.
I cover you with My Mantle of Protection in these times. Pray little ones pray.
Mary"
Intercessions
I am the salvation of the people, says the Lord. Should they cry to me in any distress, I will hear them, and I will be their Lord for ever...
We pray in reparation for all offences against the life and dignity of the human person from conception until natural death. Lord have mercy on us!
Pray for our new Pope, Leo XIV, that he may shepherd the Church and proclaim Christ to the World.
Pope’s Prayer Intention – June 2026
For the values of sports.
Let us pray that sports be an instrument of peace, encounter, and dialogue among cultures and
nations, and that they promote values such as respect, solidarity, and personal growth.
Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.
Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.
We pray for all who are ill in mind body or spirit and all those in any need or difficulty.
Pray for Christine diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. and undergoing chemotherapy.
Continue to pray for Marcin. He is back at work which is a miracle considering that this time last year the hospital couldn't guarantee he would live. He still needs surgery and is waiting for more tests before further surgery so continuing prayers would be appreciated. Praise the Lord.
Pray for Jacob who is 6 years old he has been diagnosed with Perthes disease which affects his ability to walk.
Pray for upbuilding of Marriage and Family.
Pray for peace in our Country and our communities.
Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus.
Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.
Pray for all those we have been asked and have promised to pray for.
Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.
Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.
Pray for lost souls.
Pray for the conversion of the World.
Lord we continue to pray for Peace in the Middle East, Ukraine and in Israel and Gaza, in Sudan and throughout the World.
Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.
Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.
Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.
Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.
Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.
Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.
If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to
me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!
Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know
Resources
1.Theotokos Prayer Group:
https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415
/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/
2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:
https://universalis.com/mass.htm
3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -
https://www.cbcew.org.uk
4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:
Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)
5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International
https://www.charis.international/en/home/
6. Celebrate Conference website
https://www.celebratetrust.org/
7. CHARIS in England and Wales
https://www.charisuk.com/
8.CaFE - Catholic Faith Exploration (faithcafe.org)
9. The Holy See
Our next meeting is on 2 June 2026 at 7.30pm in The Creche in St Patricks Church, Glenfield Road, Fairfield, Stockton TS19 7PL. All welcome.
ADDRESS OF POPE LEO XIV
TO MEMBERS OF THE CATHOLIC CHARISMATIC RENEWAL
Audience Hall
Saturday, 30 May 2026
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In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Peace be with you!
Your Eminence, Your Excellencies,
Dear brothers and sisters, good morning and welcome! Buenos Dias!
I am pleased to have my first meeting with the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, and to greet all of you present, as well as the communities, groups and schools of prayer and of evangelization that you represent. God has indeed blessed your communities with so many gifts, including spiritual vitality. I also greet the leaders of the national and international Services of Communion of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal International Service (CHARIS), who have organized this gathering.
For the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, the years following the Second Vatican Council were a time of great expansion and growth, and of integration into the life of the Church, as well as for consolidating your structures of service.
My venerable Predecessors recognized this development as a great gift to the Church. Indeed, Saint Paul VI affirmed that nothing is more necessary for such an increasingly secularized world than the witness of this spiritual renewal, which the Holy Spirit is inspiring in the most diverse regions and communities (Cf. Address to the Third International Congress of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, Pentecost, 19 May 1975).
In emphasizing your characteristic focus on evangelization, Saint John Paul II said: “It is the Spirit himself who impels you to bear witness.” He likewise remarked: “How can anyone who has tasted the goodness of Christ remain silent and inactive?… Christ is our Savior… How can we fail to evangelize? Continue to communicate this zeal for the Gospel to those around you!” (Address to the Catholic Fraternity of Charismatic Communities, 7 December 1991).
For his part, Benedict XVI referred to the specific contribution you make to the Church. He said: “One of the positive elements and aspects of the Community of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal is precisely their emphasis on the charisms or gifts of the Holy Spirit and their merit lies in having recalled their topicality in the Church” (Address to the 13th International Conference of the Catholic Fraternity of Charismatic Covenant Communities and Fellowship, 31 October 2008).
Like Cardinal Suenens in the early days of the movement, Pope Francis frequently spoke of you as a “flood of grace,” which is “for the whole Church, not just for some” (Prayer Vigil on the Occasion of the Golden Jubilee of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, 3 June 2017). In summary, he outlined your path as “evangelization, spiritual ecumenism, caring for the poor and needy, and welcoming the marginalized,” and added, “all of it is based on worship! The foundation of the renewal is worshiping God!” (Address at the 37th National Convocation of the Renewal in the Holy Spirit, 1 June 2014).
I, too, wish to foster the relationship of mutual respect, closeness and support between the See of Peter and the great family of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. In this regard, I would like to reflect on the following key aspects of your spiritual experience: baptism in the Spirit; prayer of praise; the word of God; communion; and charity.
First baptism in the Spirit. Your shared journey of faith has its source in the personal experience of the Holy Spirit, which has enabled the grace of Baptism to become effective within each of you, leading you to a clear awareness of God’s love. This is the first powerful experience of grace that Saint Augustine himself had after his conversion and which he described in these heartfelt words: “O Christ Jesus, ‘my helper and redeemer’; suddenly it had become sweet to me to be without the sweets of folly. What I once feared to lose was now a delight to dismiss. You turned them out and entered to take their place, pleasanter than any pleasure” (Confessions, IX, 1, 1).
The Holy Spirit has likewise allowed you to taste the sweetness of Christ. For you, too, life has changed since that moment. God ceased to be a mere idea and became the real and ultimate expression of fatherhood. His Spirit has brought inner reconciliation, peace and freedom from worldly attachments and the oppression of sin. He has also made possible a new outlook characterized by openness and hope towards others and the future, in the certainty that nothing can ever separate us from the love of Christ (cf. Rom 8:38–39). From this experience of the Holy Spirit comes the inner desire to be witnesses and heralds of his love, bringing his consolation to people oppressed by a sense of emptiness and loneliness.
Prayer of praise. It was precisely from this captivating experience of the Holy Spirit that a new life of prayer began, taking the form of a new capacity for spontaneous and sincere dialogue with God, and a new openness to praise, worship and offering thanksgiving to him. Worship and praise, which are so characteristic of your gatherings, are essential aspects of Christian prayer, and you have helped them to be rediscovered and brought them back to the forefront in recent years.
The word of God. The renewed outpouring of the Spirit has also led you to a living encounter with Sacred Scripture. The Holy Spirit inspired the revealed word of God and is also the One who keeps it ever alive and active in the Church, causing it to resonate in the hearts of believers, especially in the Liturgy. Scripture has therefore become for you a wonderful source of spiritual nourishment that enlightens and comforts. It is similarly a source of discernment for guiding your daily choices, and gives substance to communal prayer, enabling you to address the Lord with words inspired by God himself.
Communion. The Holy Spirit is the wellspring of communion. In various documents, Pope Leo XIII encouraged Catholics to pray a novena to the Holy Spirit each year between the feasts of Ascension and Pentecost, especially for the intention of Christian unity. You clearly appreciate the significance of this invitation, for you have seen that unity in the Church is the fruit of the Spirit, because, as Saint Augustine affirms, the Holy Spirit “is a certain unutterable communion of the Father and the Son” (De Trinitate, V, 11, 12). It is the Spirit who creates harmony among the various charisms and components of the Charismatic Renewal, as well as with our brothers and sisters of other Christian denominations.
And finally, charity. Saint Augustine wrote that the Holy Spirit “who is himself love, has been given to man and inflames him to the love of God and neighbour. For man can have no love for God unless he be given it from God” (De Trinitate, XV, 17, 31). This is what you, too, have experienced. The renewed presence of the Spirit has awakened in you a new capacity to love, inspired by divine charity itself. This love is directed toward God and toward your brothers and sisters, and inspires closeness and compassion, especially for those who are suffering. Many works of charity for those in need, both in spirit and in body, have sprung from the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. I invite you, then, to keep alive this love for the poor, which reveals the true face of God.
Dear friends, I thank you for your commitment and encourage you to continue your mission. Put yourselves at the service of the dioceses and parishes, offering your experience and methods of evangelization. Faithfully follow the guidance of your priests; and, in your communal discernment, listen to the voices of wise people, even if they do not belong to your groups. Cultivate harmony and cooperation among the communities to which you belong, taking care never to give way to the desire for self-promotion, or the pursuit of power or personal prestige. May the Holy Spirit always be a light and a source of strength on your personal and communal journey, and may the Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, protect you. And now, with these heartfelt sentiments, I willingly impart my Apostolic Blessing.
Thank you.
Copyright © Dicastery for Communication - Libreria Editrice Vaticana
Alleluia, alleluia.
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful
and kindle in them the fire of your love.
Alleluia.
Gospel: John 20:19-23
'As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you. Receive the Holy Spirit.’
On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’ When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.’ And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.’
Lord God, you sanctify your Church in every race and nation by the mystery we celebrate on this day.
Pour out the gifts of the Holy Spirit on all mankind, and fulfil now in the hearts of your faithful what you accomplished when the Gospel was first preached on earth.
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.
Amen.
The Spirit of Love be with you all 🕊 🔥 🙏
Notes from meeting on 19th May :
Picture of a bent over and very dejected person, they seem to be carrying the weight of all their problems on their shoulders.
Blessed Mother beckons them to the foot of the Cross of Her Son Jesus, she encourages this person to look up at her Son and His Suffering and to take hold of the Cross under her Son’s Feet.
This person now stands erect and full of hope as His Healing Blood drips down on them.
"My dear little children when all seems lost and nothing feels right and seems out of control look to My Son Jesus and grasp the Cross. Through the Cross and Blood of My Son all things can be remedied, all can be healed, problems can become ways of purification and a light to lead you in the darkness!
I Your Mother will always lead you to My Son for in Him there is NO darkness only light.
So in times of travail hold on to the Cross and ponder My Son suffering. All will be well in the end.
Mary your Maternal Mother"
Intercessions
I am the salvation of the people, says the Lord. Should they cry to me in any distress, I will hear them, and I will be their Lord for ever...
We pray in reparation for all offences against the life and dignity of the human person from conception until natural death. Lord have mercy on us!
Pray for our new Pope, Leo XIV, that he may shepherd the Church and proclaim Christ to the World.
Pope’s Prayer Intention – May 2026
That everyone might have food.
Let us pray that everyone, from large producers to small consumers, be committed to avoid
wasting food, and to ensure that everyone has access to quality food.
Sacred Heart of Jesus have Mercy on us.
Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.
We pray for all who are ill in mind body or spirit and all those in any need or difficulty.
Pray for Christine diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. and undergoing chemotherapy.
Continue to pray for Marcin. He is back at work which is a miracle considering that this time last year the hospital couldn't guarantee he would live. He still needs surgery and is waiting for more tests before further surgery so continuing prayers would be appreciated. Praise the Lord.
Pray for Jacob who is 6 years old he has been diagnosed with Perthes disease which affects his ability to walk.
Pray for upbuilding of Marriage and Family.
Pray for peace in our Country and our communities.
Pray for our young people that they may be protected from the evil one, that they may find a home in the loving Heart of Jesus.
Pray for all in our Parishes who are ill in body, mind or spirit.
Pray for all those we have been asked and have promised to pray for.
Pray for all who are grieving give them strength, consolation and healing.
Pray for our Priests and for vocations to the Priesthood.
Pray for lost souls.
Pray for the conversion of the World.
Lord we continue to pray for Peace in the Middle East, Ukraine and in Israel and Gaza, in Sudan and throughout the World.
Lord we pray for persecuted Christians throughout the World.
Lord we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all peoples and nations.
Pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory may they be granted eternal rest.
Mary, Mother of God, Theotokos, pray for us.
Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.
Mary, Bride of the Spirit, pray for us.
If anyone has any prophecy, prayers, readings or intercessions I encourage you to please send them to
me. Let us share with one another the gifts and inspirations of the Spirit!
Also if there any changes necessary to the intercessions - please let me know
Resources
1.Theotokos Prayer Group:
https://www.facebook.com/Theotokos-Prayer-Group-142398089120415
/http://theotokosprayergroup.blogspot.co.uk/
2. Daily Mass readings can be found at:
https://universalis.com/mass.htm
3. Bishops Conference of England and Wales Website -
https://www.cbcew.org.uk
4. Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle Website:
Home - Diocese of Hexham & Newcastle (diocesehn.org.uk)
5. Catholic Charismatic Renewal International
https://www.charis.international/en/home/
6. Celebrate Conference website
https://www.celebratetrust.org/
7. CHARIS in England and Wales
https://www.charisuk.com/
8.CaFE - Catholic Faith Exploration (faithcafe.org)
9. The Holy See
Our next meeting is on 26 May 2026 at 7.30pm in The Creche in St Patricks Church, Glenfield Road, Fairfield, Stockton TS19 7PL. All welcome.
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