This week the Faith Summer Session is taking place at Woldingham School in Surrey. As usual, there is a large group of students from all around the UK, together with priests and a significant proportion of the seminarians from British dioeceses. The theme for the talks this year is The Church: I am with you always". I spoke this morning on the Church as our living link with Christ.
We have a guest speaker each year and I was delighted to hear that James MacMillan will be addressing us tomorrow. We're planning to have a bloggers' photo...
As well as the principal purpose of working to give young people a sound understanding of the Catholic faith, the Summer Session of the Faith Movement is always a great opportunity for networking. I have already been able to catch up with many friends and tomorrow is the guest day which will see a number of others, especially families joining us for the afternoon.
I see that Fr Zuhlsdorf is also at a networking thingy over at La Crosse, where he has, incredibly, crossed paths with Fr John Boyle, at a Canon Law Conference addressed by Archbishop Raymond Burke.
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Wish I was there! Missing it!
@ Father Finigan
I recently took my two sons Michael Roy 21 , and Joseph John 19 along to the first annual Sparkle Cup 5-a-side tournament which was hosted at 'Goals' Eltham http://www.jimmymizen.org/event/sparkle-cup
Joe is currently claiming Jobseekers Allowance, and he is desperately looking for a work opportunity. I asked Margaret Mizen if there were any places available on The Jimmy Mizen Foundation Apprentice Scheme, but Margaret said that it is "not up and running yet".
I think your networking thingy should link with http://www.jimmymizen.org/ so that the students are aware of The Jimmy Mizen Foundation Apprentice Scheme development, and the associated opportunities that will soon hopefully begin to materialise.
PAPA RATZI ( http://www.thepapalvisit.org ) ORA PRO NOBIS!
Our Lady of the Rosary ( http://the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.com/ ) pray for us too!
Many thanks, Vesper. I'll post on that.
Father, when you have a chance after the conference, please PLEASE post your Powerpoint slideshow from your lecture. Those of us that can not attend (nor hear) it would really appreciate it - there seems to be a giant pond in our way. Thank you.
Agnes - many thanks for your interest. I'm afraid the Powerpoint won't be much use because it is mainly quotations from the scriptures which I then explained. However I will try to post something of use.
Fr. Tim,
I would like to second Agnes' request. Would it be possible for the speakers' notes and presentations at the Faith Session to be posted on a blog or website somewhere so that they can have a broader audience internationally?
Here in Canada younger Catholics are desperate for real flesh-and-blood Catholicism and large helpings of doctrinal meat. All we get is totally uninspiring "be-nice-to-each another" religious instruction at school and "be-nice-to-each another" sermons at Mass.
We just can't survive on this sort of spiritual starvation diet!
Agnes and Francis - thank you again for your interest. I forgot to mention that all of the talks will be available as downloadable mp3s. I'll post a link here when they go online.
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