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Delia leads the call to Give it Up after UK Aid match funding award

CAFOD ambassador Delia Smith has called on the Catholic community to make a special effort to raise money for the Church’s official aid agency, after the Government agreed to match all donations made during Lent.

Thursday 14 February

Today’s reading: Luke 9:22–25
“If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross every day and follow me.”

Thursday 21 February

Today’s reading: Matthew 7:7-12
“Is there anyone among you who would hand his son a stone when he asked for bread? Or would hand him a snake when he asked for fish?”

Wednesday 27 February

Jeremiah 18:18-20
“‘Come on,’ they said, ‘let us concoct a plot against Jeremiah, for the Law will not perish for lack of priests, nor advice for lack of wise men, nor the word for lack of prophets. Come on, let us slander him and pay no attention to anything he says.’”

Friday 8 March

Today’s reading: Hosea 14:2-10
“They will come back to live in my shade; they will grow wheat again, they will make the vine flourish, their wine will be as famous as Lebanon’s”