Mexican Night!

Ceilidh Dances!

Ceildh in the City, it was an event in aid of the Spirit in the City Mission. On Friday night we went for a ceildh, who was organised to raise money for the Spirit in the City Mission. It was pretty easy to join in as there were a dance caller, who were talking people through each dance. It was a perfect opportunity to support the outreach work of the four Catholic West End Churches whilst having a great evening out with our community. We had wonderful time together and great fun learning new dances!

Lala's 21st Birthday!!!

Celebrate!

We went to Ilfracombe during one week for the charismatic meeting “Celebrate” with all the community, Edna and two past students : Ewa and Wadim. We really enjoyed this time of prayers, charismatic songs, healing celebration and the talks about Lectio Divina, up and down in your spiritual life, evangelisation …We received so much graces. Moreover we were part of the organisation as we helped as stewart during one day and half. And then we could not forget the point of view when we went on the top of the hill in front of the sea in the natural reserve. Marie

Czech Night!

Hello all our friends! My name is Petr and I am from Czech republic. Our community organized a Czech culture night at St. Anne's Presbytery. I had the idea to prepare a traditional meal called “Vepřo – knedlo – zelo“ which is Pork – dumplings – sauerkraut. All the members of my community helped me with the preparing, cleaning and cooking.There were lot's of things to do, but I think we really enjoyed the day. We invited Fr. Francis Selman who is Dean of Philosophy at Allen Hall, Fr. Rafael, Br. John Bosco, Dominic and Christopher who are Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, Mr. And Mrs. Antošovi who are my Czech friends living in London and Monica, Edna and Tess who work at St. Patrick's Church. Fr. Osvaldo who is a brazilian parish priest visited us shortly and brought us a traditional brazilian meal, which was delicious. My Czech guests brought us a beautiful and delicious pudding. After a very lively conversation and meal we had a quiz about the Czech republic and also short slide show about my country. Thank you very much everybody who participated in this event, it was a really beautiful day. God bless you all. Petr

Easter

Happy Easter to everyone! Christ is Risen! Alleluia!! We had very beautiful Holy Week. We made a garden of Gethsemane for Maundy Thursday, then on the Good Friday we had Stations of the Cross through the Soho and in the evening we watched 'The Passion of Christ' with the parishiners. The whole Triduum was amazing, we were awaiting Christ Ressurection. We started to celebrate Easter after Easter Vigil on Saturday!!! Alleluia!!!

Chrism Mass celebrated at Westminster Cathedral

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, celebrated the annual Chrism Mass at Westminster Cathedral on Tuesday 7th April 2009 in the presence of over 300 priests and around 1000 people from the Diocese of Westminster.We were there supporting our priests and showing our appreciation for priesthood. 'We love our priests'!!!

Hull Mission

For our Lent Mission we went to Hull. Marcus (student from last year) Teresa, Jeanine and Edna joined us for the mission. We prepared a Holy Hour for the parents of children preparing to receive their First Holy Communion. It was a blessed and beautiful time spent before our Lord praying for the children and their growth in faith. On Friday and Saturday afternoons we hit the streets of Hull and handed out early Easter Gifts and Holy Week Mass times. We even had a young woman join us that we met during our time on the streets. Friday evening was spent with the parish youth group. We animated the Triduum for the students and set up stations to represent all 3 days. We had so much fun!! Palm Sunday was celebrated in Hull and before we knew it we were heading back to St. Pat's! Time just flew by! A huge Thank you to our hosts and host families that cooked and cared for us with great love! Thanks for your warm welcome!

Catholic Underground

A few Saturdays ago we went to Balham and hung out with the CFR's and many other young people at Catholic Underground. The night began with Adoration and then moved to the school gym where some local Artists played music and talked about their faith. It was pretty cool and we'd definitely recommend it. The next one will be on May 9th also in Balham. Lola

Littlemore

We went to Littlemore near Oxford with all the community and Adriano from Jeunesse Luniere community. It is a particularly holy place because the great theologian Newman lived there. The sister Myriam gave us a talk about Newman’s life. It is really amazing how Newman was a famous Anglican preacher who converted to Catholicism. How humble and brilliant he was. This presentation gave us the opportunity to better understand the challenge of England regarding its conversion and the conversion of each of us. It gave us also the desire to read the books written by Newman. It would be very useful in street evangelisation, if we meet an Anglican.

Marie