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Events
Please see below for a selection of national,
international and local information. If you have any information
about traditional Catholic events, which would be suitable for
young adults please e-mail ps99ddb@yahoo.co.uk
giving a brief description of the nature of the activities involved.
National Events
YCA Retreat at Douai Abbey
Friday 4th - Sunday 6th July
During the weekend of the
4th- 6th July Young Catholic Adults will be running a Traditional
Retreat at Douai Abbey, the retreat will be led by Br. Christopher
Greener who will give a series of talks on St. Benedict. The weekend
will be full-board (except for the Sunday lunch). Douai Abbey,
situated on high ground in the Berkshire countryside overlooking
the beautiful Kennet valley towards the distant Hampshire downs,
is within easy reach of London, Reading, Oxford and many places
of interest. It provides an ideal setting for quiet reflection,
retreats and for conferences.
Hospitality has been a special concern of monasteries
from the earliest times. St Benedict teaches in the Rule "All
guests are to be welcomed as Christ". All rooms are fully
en-suite offering accommodation for guests in the Bl Hugh Faringdon
, St Alban Roe and the St Benet Biscop buildings.
One of the comments frequently made about Douai is that it offers
an environment and atmosphere of peace and serenity, where the
cares of daily life can be left behind.
Places are limited so please book early
- YCA will have it’s own area set aside
- There will be a social bar available in the evening
- A Marian Procession will take place on Saturday 5th July
in the Abbey grounds
- Traditional Mass will be celebrated on Sunday 6th July
The cost of the weekend will be:-
Saturday 5th – Sunday 6th July (full board)*
48 pounds full-board (except Sunday lunch)
25 pounds for students/low waged/unwaged
Or to come for 3 days:- Friday 4th - Saturday 5th –
Sunday 6th July
88 pounds; 45 pounds for students/low waged/unwaged)
*All costs are full board - apart from Sunday
lunch
Come for the day
Or come for the day on Saturday 5th July
Suggested donation 5 pounds (extra for meals)
How to book - limited
places so please reserve your place early
To reserve your place FOR THE WEEKEND (no deposit needed if you
are coming for the day on Saturday 5th July), please a 20 pound
deposit (NON RETURNABLE) to Damian Barker, Flat 5, 12 St. Catherine
Street, Kingsholm, Gloucester, Glos. GL2 9DU (please make any
cheques payable to YCA), Click
here for more info.
International Events
Juventutem Events
Upcoming plans:
Paris-Chartres Pentecost Pilgrimage in
France (May 11-12, 2008):
Juventutem Chapter
The Youth of Britain marched last year under
the banner of Juventutem. Fr Withoos, Madeleine Readings and Gregory
Flash inspired the enthusiastic youngsters on the muddy road to
Chartres. Banners and flags flying, singing hymns and songs with
gusto, the miles flew by. It was reassuring to witness their laughter
and perseverance as they waded through inches of mud and water.
To build on this success and to cater separately for the broad
age range of young people, another chapter is planned this year
for those aged 13-18 to be led by Agostino di Falco and Anthony
Readings in addition to the main Juventutem chapter for 18 to
30 year olds. This is now a very important part of our apostolate
and we ask for both your prayers and financial support.
For more information please contact:-
Francis & Julie Carey
Tel: 01494 729 223 e-mail - Chartres@duc-in-altum.co.uk
Gregory Flash -International Juventutem
Chairman writes about the Juventutem chapter:-
Celebrate Pentecost with a pilgrimage!
I would like invite you to join me and several thousand other
young people on a pilgrimage in France at Pentecost this year.
What is the pilgrimage?
The pilgrimage starts on 10 May 2008 and ends
in the late afternoon of 12 May 2008. I cannot stress enough the
amount of graces, joys and laughter that is store for you if you
make the decision to join us. It would be really wonderful if
you did. You can find out more about the pilgrimage at www.nd-chretiente.com.
The pilgrimage involves walking from Paris to
Chartres, along part of one of the ancient routes to Compostella.
This particular pilgrimage, the largest of the annual pilgrimages
that takes this route, is now in its 26th year, so it is a well-oiled
and efficient machine. By the end of the pilgrimage, some six
thousand people come together in and outside the glorious cathedral
in Chartres for a solemn Mass. The average age of the pilgrims
is somewhere in the low twenties, as the vast majority of the
pilgrims are young, though people of all ages are welcome.
Who will be going?
I invite you to walk with the British young
adults' chapter, dedicated to St Alban, which will be made up
of 18-35 year olds. All the pilgrims in this chapter will be English
speaking, with the majority coming from the UK, though there we
hope to welcome pilgrims from other countries too. We will have
English speaking priests looking after us, giving talks, hearing
confessions and leading the prayers. There will also be lots of
opportunities to get to know pilgrims of other ages and other
nationalities.
The majority of the pilgrims are French, but there are chapters
from the USA, Canada, Ireland, the UK, Belgium, Spain, Italy,
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Russia, Lithuania and other
countries besides. The three Masses of the pilgrimage are celebrated
in Latin (booklets are provided to help you follow the prayers),
which enables this wonderfully diverse group of nationalities
to pray and sing with one voice. We walk in chapters of about
thirty pilgrims, singing and praying (in English mostly though
there will be plenty of opportunity to learn and sing in other
languages over the two and half days), listening to talks to from
priests and chapter leaders, and getting to know one another.
There is plenty of laughter and joy as well as prayer and hard
work.
How exactly does the pilgrimage work?
On Saturday 10 May, we all meet at 6am at Notre
Dame Cathedral in Paris. The pilgrims enter the great Cathedral,
where prayers are said and the pilgrims are blessed by the clergy.
We then begin walking our way out of Paris, walking with the rest
of our chapter. Half way through the morning, we have a short
pause for water and some fruit, before making our way to one of
the forests that surrounds Paris for Mass of the vigil of Pentecost
in the open air. A picnic lunch follows, and we resume our walk
until the evening (with a few pauses on the way), until we reach
a camp site outside a beautiful village. We spend the night under
tents (for details of sleeping arrangements see below). Early
the next morning, we set off again. Mass of Pentecost Sunday is
said again the open air, before another early picnic lunch. We
walk until the evening (again with pauses), spending the second
night in a campsite not far from Chartres. An hour before reaching
the campsite we should catch our first distant glimpse of the
spires of Chartres cathedral towering above the fields that surround
the city.
The following morning we set off for Chartres.
We have our final picnic lunch before arriving in Chartres in
the early afternoon. At half past three the final solemn Mass
of the pilgrimage begins, said in the presence of the bishop of
Chartres. I don't yet have details of the celebrant for this year,
but over the past twenty five years, bishops and Cardinals have
celebrated this closing Mass.
What do I need to bring?
You need the following:
* Good walking shoes
* Sleeping bag
* Optional tent - as non-French pilgrims you can sleep in communal
tents that are provided for the international pilgrims, though
you are free to bring your own tent (this is the option I take,
and which is arguably preferable to the communal option).
* Food for lunch on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. You should also
bring food to supplement the evening soup.
* Clothing suitable for two and a half days of walking in the
open air - you will need a good set of waterproofs. Last year
we had a lot of rain, but the previous year we had unmitigated
sunshine. Pentecost is early this year, so you should also bring
a couple of jumpers/warm clothes.
* Two rucksacks - one large, which will hold your sleeping bag,
tent if you take one, and any bulkier items, and a smaller one.
The larger bag will be transported from Paris to the campsites
and then to Chartres. The smaller bag will contain what you need
to walk during the day, i.e. your lunch, raincoat, jumpers etc.
How fit do I need to be?
The pilgrimage involves a heavy amount of walking.
You therefore need to be reasonably physically fit in order to
cope with walking 100km in two and half days. It is gruelling
and hard work, but it is not a death march!
Gregory Flash FIJ Chairman.
How do I book?
Francis and Julie Carey run a very successful
and reasonably priced package (highly
recommended!)for the pilgrimage with coaches,
hotels and ferries all included, to book please email Chartres@duc-in-altum.co.uk
for further details, or ring 01494 729 223.
Or you can register yourself at http://www.nd-chretiente.com/inscript/index.php?inscript=1
P lease contact Gregory Flash at flash@gregory-f.com
for this option.
International Eucharistic Congress in
Québec, Canada (June 18-19-20, 2008):
None of us will ignore that the Juventutem logo
depicts… a monstrance. Devotion of youths towards the Holy
Eucharist is part and parcel of the Juventutem identity. Therefore
Juventutem is glad to be able to partake in this important event.
As members of the “Summorum Pontificum generation”,
Juventutem youths will travel to Québec and partake in
Eucharistic events (liturgical and doctrinal) as encouraged by
Pope Benedict XVI: “young persons too have discovered this
liturgical form, felt its attraction and found in it a form of
encounter with the Mystery of the Most Holy Eucharist, particularly
suited to them”(cf Letter to the Bishops on Summorum Pontificum,
July 7th, 2007). We are very grateful to a successor of the Apostles,
Right Rev. André-Mutien Léonard, Bishop of Namur
(Belgium) for having kindly accepted to offer a pontifical High
Mass in the extraordinary form for Juventutem on this occasion
with the approval of Congress authorities. You are invited to
attend on Saturday 19th June 2008 in St Francis-of-Assisi Church
at 10am in Québec City. The Congress lasts one whole week,
but many youths will rather attend the final week-end (18-19-20
June) when in particular various Juventutem chaplains will give
lectures on the Eucharist, offer Holy Masses and preside at Vespers,
Complines and adoration.
World Youth Day 2008 - Juventutem
For more details see
http://juventutem-australia.com/index.php
For information from the England and Wales Juventutem
representative e-mail:-englandandwales@juventutem.com
Please forward this message to any
Juventutem/ YCA supporters and kindly translate it whenever needed.
You may also post it on your websites.
Yours cordially in Emmanuel, God made Man,
Fr Armand de Malleray (Eccles. Assist. Juventutem) and the Juventutem
Bureau.
Foederatio Internationalis Juventutem,
Kirchbergerstrasse 42, CH-3008, Bern, Switzerland.
Tel/fax: 0041 (0)31 371 29 20; fij_malleray@fssp.org ;
http://juventuteminternationalisfoederatio.blogspot.com/
Local Events
YCA Local Group(s)
Cheltenham
(Gloucestershire)
New Joint Local
YCA Meeting
YCA are sponsoring the
catechetical materials of Cheltenham Catholic Adults. The meeting
takes place on the 2nd Tuesday of the month on the 1st floor of
the Old Priory at St. Gregory's Church Cheltenham
Gloucester
(Gloucestershire)
Holy Hour at
St. Peter's Church, London Road, Gloucester - coming
soon!.
London
18-35 Group run
by Brompton Oratory
Meeting for young adults 18-35 years, which meets
on the Thursday nearest the 20th of the month at 8pm at St. Wilfrid's
Hall at Brompton Oratory, Brompton Road, London SW7 2RP.
For more information contact Fr. Rupert McHardy
at:- rupertmch@yahoo.co.uk
or telephone 0207 808 0900. For information on how
to get to the Oratory click here.
Mass Times
The following regular Masses follow the 1962 Missal
Westminster
Every Sunday Low Mass 9.30 am St James Spanish
Place George St London W1
Every Sunday Low Mass 9.00 am The Oratory Brompton Rd London SW7
Birmingham
Every Sunday Low Mass 8.00 am The Oratory Woodstock Rd Oxford
Every Sunday Low/Sung Mass 12.30 pm Cloister Chapel Birmingham
Oratory Hagley Rd Birmingham
Oxford
Every Sunday Low Mass 8.00 am The Oratory Woodstock
Rd Oxford
Every Sunday Low/Sung Mass 12.30 pm Cloister Chapel Birmingham
Oratory Hagley Rd Birmingham
Clifton
Ist Sundays of the month 3pm at Prinknash Abbey Cranham
Gloucester
Every Saturday Low Mass 11.00 am Prinknash Abbey Cranham Gloucester
For directions, please Click
Here
East Anglia
1st Sunday of month Low Mass 3.00 pm Our Lady &
St Joseph Chapel Lawshall Bury St Edmund's
2nd Sunday of month Low Mass 5.30 pm St Pancras Orwell Place Ipswich
Suffolk
Hexham & Newcastle
Every Sunday Low Mass 9.00 am St Mary Bernard Castle
Country Durham
Sung Mass 11.30 am St Dominic's Priory New Bridge St Newcastle
Low Mass 12.00 noon St Joseph High West St Gateshead
For those travelling to St Dominic's from a distance are advised
to tel 0191 232 5939.
Liverpool
Every Sunday Low/Sung Mass 3.00 pm St. Anthony Scotland
Rd Liverpool
Middlesborough
First Friday Low Mass 7.00 pm St Clare's Church
Brookfield Middlesborough
Northampton
Every Sunday Low Mass 10.30 am Our Lady of Perpetual
Succour Amersham Rd Chesham Bois Bucks
Every First Thursday Low Mass 7.30 pm Our Lady of Perpetual Succour
Amersham Rd Chesham Bois Bucks
Portsmouth
Every Sunday and Holy Day Low/Sung Mass 12.00 noon
Christ the King Northumberland Ave Whitley Reading
First Saturday of the Month Sung Mass 11.30 am Christ the King
Northumberland Ave Whitley Reading
Salford
Every Sunday Low Mass 4.00 pm
The Holy Name Oxford Rd Manchester
Southwark
Every Sunday Sung Mass 10.45 am
St Bede's Thornton Rd London SW12
Mon to Fri Low Mass 7.00 am St Bede's Thornton Rd London
SW12
Every Sunday Low Mass 6.00 pm** St Thomas Aquinas Ham
Common Ham TW10
First Sunday's Low Mass 4.00 pm St. Mary Crown Lane Chislehurst
First Friday's Low Mass 6.30 pm St Mary Magdalen East Hill Wandsworth
SW18
1st Sunday of the month Low Mass 12.30 pm St Francis 126 Week
Street Maidstone ME14 1RH
2nd Sunday of the month Low Mass 12.00 noon St Simon Brookfield
Road Ashford South TN23 4UE
3rd Sunday of the month Low Mass 12.30 pm St Andrews 47 Ashford
Road Tenterden TN30 4LL
4th Sunday of the month (Vigil) Low Mass 6.00 pm (on Saturday
evening) St Thomas Canterbury Becket Court Station Road Headcorn
TN23 4EU
5th Sunday of the month Low Mass 12.00 noon St Simon Brookfield
Road Ashford South TN23 4UE
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