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31 Wednesday May 2023
31 Wednesday May 2023
26 Friday May 2023
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inEvery summer, Kenelm and Life Teen UK host a summer camp for young people aged 12-18 from across the country.
The camp lasts a week and involves a range of exciting activities. The camp is based at Alton Castle, making use of the activities Alton Castle have on site, visiting the nearby theme park Alton Towers, as well as heading off to a variety of different places for fun and games. Alongside this, summer camp provides spaces and times for prayer, adoration and for young Catholics to connect and gather together.
So if you’re aged 12-18, and you’d like to join, we can’t wait to see you there!
For further details click here.
26 Friday May 2023
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inCome and join the team of fabulous volunteers offering support to homeless individuals at the project in Birmingham.
Previously located in Digbeth, as Tabor House, Tabor Living offers shelter and safety to people experiencing homelessness, supporting residents to move away from the streets –working with each individual to build positive futures.
Photograph of Homeless Jesus. (c) 2019, Allen Morris. Manchester.
24 Wednesday May 2023
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inCurrent vacancies for Caretaker and for Lay Chaplain.
Details available here.
16 Tuesday May 2023
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in15 Monday May 2023
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inIf you, or someone close to you, is experiencing signs of dementia, The Alzheimer’s Society wants to help.
This Dementia Action Week they encourage individuals and their families to seek a timely diagnosis and avoid reaching crisis point.
Getting a diagnosis can be daunting, but they believe it’s better to know. And so do 91% of people living with dementia.
A symptoms checklist can be completed on-line here or downloaded for printing here. It will be of help in discussing any symptoms with your doctor or other healthcare professional.
10 Wednesday May 2023
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inYou are invited to come to Harvington Hall for its first ever History Festival, exploring Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I’s relationship, plots and disguises, turbulent times of war and peace, the nitty-gritty everyday life of the Tudors and Jacobeans and beautiful Elizabethan music.
Discover more across 17 events with top historians and authors at this beautiful moated manor in Worcestershire.
For full details click here
To book call 01562 777555 or email reception.stonemanor@hogarths.co.uk
with the reference Harvington History Festival.
10 Wednesday May 2023
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inThe writers of the blurb for the new exhibition at the Barber Institute – Storytelling: A Life of Christ on Paper – seem to have forgotten the importance of the spoken word in sharing stories – and also of the antipathy of some Christian groups to the use of images in telling stories…
But that apart the Barber is always worth a visit, and this exhibition will surely have much to offer….
The Barber Institute writes:
How were stories told before most people could read?
They were painted, drawn, sculpted – imagined.
The Barber’s new print-bay exhibition explores how artists have told the story of Christ visually.
These artworks had the task of both educating and entertaining audiences, many of whom could only engage with the Christian faith through imagery.
This display of prints and drawings from the Barber collection tells its own story of the life of Christ, taking viewers through his childhood and ministry, to his death and resurrection.
The exhibition runs from Friday 12th May to 24th September
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TS
07 Sunday May 2023
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inDo you have petitions to send to the Grotto at Lourdes?
Mary Drozd is going with the Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes on 27th May and has agreed to take parishioner’s petitions to place at the Grotto.
If you wish your petitions to be presented, please place them in a sealed envelope and put the envelope in the folder pinned to the board by the Lady chapel by Weds 24 May.
The Rosary
Why not mark May by joining the group that meets on Zoom each Monday evening at 7pm to pray one of the set of Mysteries of the Rosary. It takes just 15 minutes,and is a lovely opportunity to remember Mary’s role in salvation history.
To join the Zoom meeting, use the link provided here.
07 Sunday May 2023
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inThe Bishops of England and Wales have chosen Tuesday of the 5th Week of Easter as the Day of Prayer for Victims and Survivors of Abuse — 9 May 2023 — it is a day of prayer for those who have been abused in a season of hope and new life.
Victims of abuse will be remembered at our parish Mass on the 9th May – as they regularly are during the year.
Resources for prayer for individuals and groups – much of which has been prepared with survivors of abuse – can be found here.
One particular resource which many may find helpful as they face any sort of difficult is a meditation on the Serenity Prayer.
God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
The resource can be found here.
What is important is for the Church not only to acknowledge and respond in prayer to the fact of abuse, but continue to take an active part in working to prevent such abuse and offer practical help to victims.
Photograph (c) 2003, Allen Morris. Image in St Werburgh’s church, Chester.