Bishop David McGough Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham and Lead Bishop to the Bishops of Wales and England Pastoral Care Project writes:

“Dear Friends, I warmly recommend to you Dementia – Prayer Week 12 – 19th March 2015. Dementia is a degenerative disease which tends to isolate both the sufferer and the families that surround them. Confronted with this condition we naturally feel inadequate.

Prayer is one very powerful way of connecting with all concerned. Let us pray for and with those whose lives have been touched by dementia. In this way we unite ourselves with them, forging a link with the Lord that words alone cannot express.

One of my own lasting links with my mother in her final months was to share with her the Hail Mary. Dementia had robbed her of many links with the past, but prayer endured as a living link to the end. Let this Dementia – Prayer Week become your link to the many families struggling with dementia.” www.pastoralcareproject.org.uk

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We use this prayer at Mass this Sunday. You could use it during the week too…

Lord Jesus Christ,
your anger in the face of the abuse of money and trade reminds us of your thirst for justice
and for the dignity of every human being to be recognised.

May the Spirit’s gifts of right judgement and courage enable us to see, and to name, what is wrong with the world and to act in your name
to work for what is right and just.
Amen