Dates for your Diary
Now to 22 August, Exhibition: Thomas Becket: Murder and the Making of a Saint, British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/thomas-becket-murder-and-making-saint.
Wednesday 14 July 6pm, Panel Discussion: We need to talk about Death and Dying…Theological, Ethical and Pastoral perspectives on an (almost) taboo subject: https://shop.thetablet.co.uk/collections/frontpage/products/what-does-it-mean-to-be-able-to-die-well-how-can-the-church-support-the-dying-and-the-bereaved-in-pandemic-times-what-do-attempts-to-change-the-law-on-assisted-suicide-mean-for-christians?mc_cid=e499f0a063&mc_eid=5bdd9adb6a
Monday 19 July to Sunday 25 July, Weave Welcome and Working Week, Downside: https://www.weaveofmanquehue.org/events.
Wednesday 21 July 7.30pm, Pope Francis’ Let Us Dream: Q&A with Austen Ivereigh, Las Casas Institute Discussion via Zoom. For more information contact Sr Margaret Atkins on margaret@boarbankhall.org.uk.
Friday 23 July 7pm, Juventutem Mass and Reflection, St Mary Magdalen Catholic Church, Wandsworth. Celebrant and Preacher: Fr Armand de Mallaray FSSP.
Saturday 24 July 10.30am-3.30pm, St Tarcisius server training day, St Mary Moorfields: https://lms.org.uk/civicrm/event/info%3Fid%3D187%26reset%3D1
Wednesday 28 July 6pm, Walking together: how Christians can find a path to unity, webinar discussion Archbishop Ian Ernest (Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome) and Christopher Lamb of The Tablet: https://shop.thetablet.co.uk/products/walking-together-how-christians-can-find-a-path-to-unity?pr_prod_strat=collection_fallback&pr_rec_pid=6598070140972&pr_ref_pid=6580312768556&pr_seq=uniform
Friday 30 July to Sunday 8 August, St Dominic Novena: A Novena of Festal Masses followed by a daily Rosary Procession with a statue of St Dominic, Rosary Shrine: https://rosaryshrine.co.uk/calendar/.
Wednesday 4 August to Friday 6 August, The God Who Speaks: Celebrating, Living and Sharing God’s Word. Online via Zoom: https://www.ssg.org.uk/summer-school-2021/?mc_cid=e499f0a063&mc_eid=5bdd9adb6a
Thursday 26 August to Sunday 29 August, Latin Mass Society Walsingham Pilgrimage: https://lms.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=182&reset=1
Friday 27 August to Monday 30 August, Youth 2000: Rejoice, Ampleforth College: https://www.youth2000.org/rejoice/rejoice.
Friday 3 to Sunday 5 September, Catholic Student Leadership Summit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/catholic-student-leadership-summit-tickets-159326799747?fbclid=IwAR2PMcruC-ybeZQgMrlCPdFS6HmDJHYChnjEdQaRZWVXAu66vCcbMcPIY7E.
Friday 10 to Sunday 12 September, Lectio Divina Retreat, Ampleforth Abbey: https://www.weaveofmanquehue.org/events
Sunday 19 September 3.30pm, Corpus Christi Procession from Warwick Street to St James’s, Spanish Place.
Saturday 25 September 10.30am-3.30pm, St Tarcisius server training day, St James’s Spanish Place, W1: https://lms.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=186&reset=1
Wednesday 29 September 6.30pm-8pm, Common Good series event 3. The common good: what does it mean for society https://togetherforthecommongood.co.uk/news/new-event-series
Saturday 20 November 10.30am-3.30pm, St Tarcisius server training day, St James’s Spanish Place, W1: https://lms.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=185&reset=1
Regular Events
Mass for Young Adults, Farm Street, Sunday 7pm.
Pray the Rosary, online with Across Charity, Tuesday 6.30pm.
Young Adults Prayer Group with Eucharistic Adoration and Rosary, Corpus Christi Maiden Lane, Wednesday 7pm. For more information contact Annette at ccpguk@gmail.com.
Pure in Heart UK, Wednesday, Adoration from 7pm (Confession available) and Mass at 7.30pm at Maria Assumpta Chapel, Kensington, W8.
St Willibrord Fellowship, Wednesday 8pm: https://willibrord.squarespace.com/. For more information contact Kate Banks and Theo Shack at kateminolabanks@gmail.com and theoshack@live.co.uk.
Sodality of the Blessed Sacrament, Corpus Christi Maiden Lane, first Thursday of the month at 6.30pm: https://sodality.co.uk/.
Soul Food, St Charles Borromeo Church, W1, Thursday 7pm: http://www.soulfoodgroup.org/.
Online Rosary for Young Adults, 18-35. Thursday 9pm. For more information contact yam@jesuit.org.uk.
Live-streamed Rosary, Rosary Shrine, Friday 8pm: YouTube.com/c/RosariumOP.
Taizé Prayer Group, Notre Dame de France, Leicester Square, Saturday 7.15pm: https://www.ndfchurch.org/en/a-propos/groupes/priere-taize/.
Extraordinary Form Mass
Listings of Masses in the Extraordinary Form can be found here: https://lms.org.uk/mass-listings
London Shrines
Westminster Cathedral (shrine of St John Southworth): https://www.westminstercathedral.org.uk/
Rosary Shrine (diocesan shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary): https://rosaryshrine.co.uk/
Corpus Christi Maiden Lane (diocesan shrine of the Blessed Sacrament): https://corpuschristimaidenlane.org.uk/
Church of Our Lady of Willesden: https://parish.rcdow.org.uk/willesden/
Tyburn Convent (Shrine of the Martyrs at Tyburn): https://www.tyburnconvent.org.uk/
Volunteering Opportunities
Westminster Cathedral: https://www.westminstercathedral.org.uk/volunteering.php
St Patrick’s Soho: https://www.stpatricksoho.org/outreach
Westminster Youth Ministry: https://dowym.com/volunteer/
Jesuit Refugee Service: https://www.jrsuk.net/volunteer/
Quote of the Week
My dear young friends, I urge you to become familiar with the Bible, and to have it at hand, so that it can be your compass, pointing out the road to follow. By reading it, you will learn to know Christ.
Benedict XVI, Final Message of the World Youth Meeting, 2006
Postscript
Inevitably I will have left out events, prayer groups, and volunteering opportunities so please feel free to get in touch with me at edwardckendall@gmail.com if you know of anything worthy of inclusion in this newsletter. And please subscribe and share this newsletter with all your friends and anybody who you think might be interested by clicking the buttons below.