St Patrick's Soho Square is re-opening after 14 months of renovation work

Tuesday 31st May 2011 6pm Mass The Principal Celebrant will be His Grace the Archbishop of Westminster, the Most Reverend Vincent Nichols. The Mass will include the premiere of a choral work by James MacMillan.

Wednesday 1st June 2011 6pm First Vespers of the Ascension presided over by the Right Reverend James Conley, Auxiliary Bishop of Denver followed by a private, invitation-only address from the noted American scholar Prof George Weigel on ?Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the West?

Thursday 2nd June 2011 6pm Solemn Mass of The Ascension celebrated by His Eminence Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney

See you there

There?s so much going on at the Thomas More Institute

For example, Wednesday 6th April, Rt. Rev. Michael J. Nazir-Ali What has Christian Faith to Do with Essential Values?

Crosses for Life Saturday 13th November, starting at 1.30pm at Westminster Cathedral and ending at Westminster Abbey

Relational Thinking: a vision for Christian engagement in public life

November 11th Jubilee Centre founder Michael Schluter will describe what can happen when we view all of life through a relational lens.

November 18th Paul Mills, an economist who has worked in London and Washington on global financial stability, will argue from a biblical perspective that finance is inherently relational. This lecture offers a biblical critique of the current financial system and indicates how individuals, churches and society can find ways forward in the present crisis that reflect God’s character and ways.

November 25th, Jonathan Burnside, reader in Biblical Law at Bristol University, will show how a culture of control is not the best way to bring justice to a society in which relationships are unravelling.

All Souls, Langham Place, starting at 6.30pm. More details at the Jubilee Centre

James Featherby is speaking at the first meeting of the Economy Working Group of the Saint Augustine Institute, today, Friday, 8th October 2010. James Feather will take us on his

Personal Journey through the City and Leviticus: One family's exploration of Jubilee in an urban, post-modern, debt- driven, non-communal and never-resting world

James is author of The White Swan Formula: Rebuilding Finance and Business for the Common Good

Our problems are in reality human, not technical. They are philosophical and psychological, not regulatory or economic... F?rst, let us not rush past the moment in which we now stand. We will not learn lessons unless we engage fully with the consequences of our mistakes. A key part of that is a proper engagement with the pain caused by our shortcomings...

I am sorry that doesn't give you much notice. But you can admire the Institute's website. I have posted a couple of short pieces on the Economy page

The Word transforming - The composer James MacMillan and the poet Michael Symmons Roberts Thursday 29 October 12.00-1.30pm St Faith's Chapel, St Paul's Cathedral

Money: A Crisis of Value St Paul's Cathedral Institute's 2009 series will address the moral questions raised by the dramatic financial situation, and whether opportunities for society's good can come from the economic crisis.

Still on the subject of money, have you met Thomas Greco, David Boyle, Ellen Brown, David Korten and Richard Douthwaite ? A clear victory for the popularisers over the academics. Though there is a flash of genius from Willem Buiter (you'll need to persevere).

The Romanian Orthodox parish of Saint George invites you to join us in prayer for the celebration the Divine Liturgy and of the sacrament of the ordination to the priesthood of Deacon Liviu Barbu

His Eminence Josif Pop Archbishop of the Romanian Metropolis of Central and Western Europe will preside over the Divine Service

The Fourth Sunday of Great Lent of Saint John Climacus

The Romanian Orthodox Church

St Dunstan in the West

Fleet Street

London EC4

I am giving a series of four short Lent lunchtime talks, with Q&A, starting Wednesday 11th March at St Stephen's Walbrook. These will deal with Lent and Easter, Church and Eucharist, and they will be light but theological.

An Emergency Call to Prayer For Christian Leaders in the UK 11am - 4pm Saturday 28th February 2009 Emmanuel Christian Centre, Marsham Street, London SW1P 3DW

When a nation is in trouble it is right for leaders to call the people to prayer. Our nation is in trouble - more than most people are aware. In December 2008, 80 leaders from churches, politics and business, who are concerned about the state of our nation met in the House of Lords to seek what God is saying to us today about our nation. Those present agreed that: * The current financial situation is primarily the result of the pursuit of moral choices and values that do not accord with the word of God * God is calling all churches in Britain torepentance and a season of prayer and fasting for the nation * The Christian church should reach out to those who are already suffering as a result of the present financial crisis The United Kingdom, once a missionary powerhouse of the world, is now morally and spiritually bankrupt and our children are left without security, stability or hope. We believe, however, that it is still possible for this nation to be turned around if we turn to God in repentance trusting in His mercy. The House of Lords meeting is sending out this call to mobilise Christians across the land for prayer and action. You are invited to join in a special day of prayer to bring the national situation before the Lord for his guidance in these troubled times.

More Maranatha events in London

Professor Philip Booth Catholicism and Capitalism, ‘Faith Matters’ lectures Westminster Cathedral Hall, Ambrosden Avenue, London SW1, 18th March 7.00pm

The Catholic Church has never supported socialism and has often spoken against the excesses of welfare states. However, the Church has never been totally comfortable with capitalism either – and certainly not with the materialism which some argue is encouraged by capitalism. Indeed, individual bishops, priests and laity have often been at the forefront of arguing strongly for government intervention in the economy both in the UK and internationally. At a time when the premises of economic liberalism are being questioned due to the financial and economic crisis, we should ask whether Catholics should feel comfortable with capitalism? Do the economic problems surrounding the financial crisis change the arguments? And can a market economy deal with the grave challenges of environment problems and extreme poverty?

There is plenty of downloadable discussion of Christian economic thought by Philip Booth and others at the Institute for Economic Affairs

Helpers of God's Precious Infants

The next vigil at Marie Stopes abortion facility, 88 Russell Road, Buckhurst Hill, Essex IG9 5QB, will be held on 24 January 2009 From St Thomas of Canterbury Church, 557/559 High Road, Woodford Green IG8 0RB led by the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal

8.45am - Holy Sacrifice of the Mass at St Thomas of Canterbury Church 9.30am - Prayerful and peaceful procession to Marie Stopes abortion facility, processing with image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, holy rosary and hymns 11.45am - Return procession with prayers and hymns

These "liberals", as they like to be called, who constitute the hierarchy detest the Christian past and dismiss our forefathers in the faith as "primitive". Really they are old-fashioned Whigs in new Guardianista clothing - apostles of the discredited doctrine of "progress". And God help anyone who stands in the way of these ecclesiastical totalitarians as they bully conservative clergymen and steamroller traditional parishes into adopting their puerile new versions of the Bible and their trashy modern liturgies. The modernisers among the bishops and in the General Synod have dominated the English church these last forty years and all but destroyed it. They have denied or distorted every cardinal doctrine of the faith. The Resurrection of Our Lord has been reduced to a subjective feeling of cheered-upness among the disciples. The Virgin Birth has been dismissed as a mistaken reading of the Book of Isaiah. They have swallowed whole the notion of secularisation The result of all this iconoclasm is that people have voted with their feet and the congregations have diminished spectacularly. Where they have not diminished but increased and thrived is precisely in those churches so despised by A.N.Wilson: the Bible-based evangelicals and the traditional anglocatholics and high church. I must say that one of the great joys among traditional believers these days is the spectacle we can now enjoy of the liberal hierarchy's Pyrrhic victory. At last there they sit in full control of the Church of England – except that the only meaningful parts of the church have gone their own ways, leaving the liberal bullies with no one to boss about. I have been a priest for 35 years and watched the tyranny of apostates in high places and I know that people do not want a pale, euphemistic religion in which the gospel is reduced to a metaphor for the social policies of the soft Left. But they will come to church to be moved and stirred by words that are worth their weight in glory and to hear sound teaching.

Revd Peter Mullen at the Social Affairs Unit

Northern Europe’s suicidal infatuation with secularisation is not typical. And even in Northern Europe, in England, where the full faith is taught the church is growing...

What we have seen these last forty years is la trahison des clercs: the people appointed to be the guardians of our spiritual welfare have betrayed us....

The church authorities have caved in. The Church has resigned. We have been penetrated by the ideas that are working against us...

How long before I am carted from the pulpit and thrown into jail for preaching that Christian marriage is not the moral equivalent of sodomy? Don’t laugh – not when you read of how the Bishop of Hereford was fined £47,000 and sent on a re-education course because he refused to employ a practising homosexual in work with children in his diocese. Politicians and clergy who were appointed to defend what is of value in our common life deny and denigrate these things....

The antidote to the results of the nihilistic iconoclasm which began a generation ago and which now engulf us is the re-Christianisation of the West. This is what the Cardinal told us in his Corbishley lecture. It is what the Holy Father tells us every day and it is what is being preached by a few clear heads and devout spirits in the other Christian churches – such as the Bishops of Rochester and London. Brethren, pray.

Peter Mullen St Michael's Cornhill - Sermons 2008

Christian Concern for our Nation The final stages of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill (HFE Bill) will take place on 22nd October, subject to final confirmation still to be given by the Public Bill Office. This Bill is one of the most destructive pieces of legislation that we will see in our lifetime. It is anti-life, anti-family and anti-God. It will liberalise abortion law, create animal-human hybrids and create fatherless families unless we pray and act to stop it.

The March for Life is on Saturday 18th October. CCFON provide **information**about the ramifications of the Bill to help in letter-writing to MPs.

Monday 13th October St Edward the Confessor

O God, who didst call thy servant Edward to an an earthly Throne that he might advance thy heavenly kingdom, and didst give him zeal for thy Church and love for thy people: Mercifully grant that we who commemorate him this day may be fruitful in good works, and attain to the glorious crown of thy saints; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

Saturday 18 October - National Pilgrimage to the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor

9.00am Matins, said with hymns 11.00am Lecture: The Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon Theologian 12.00pm Sung Eucharist 3pm Choral Evensong All day - visits to the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor

And also on Saturday 18th October

Prayer Procession - 1000 Crosses for Life Starting at 1pm from Westminster Cathedral, over Westminster and Lambeth bridges, ending with a mourning ceremony at Westminster Abbey More at Family Life International.

You know what we need now? Large public acts of reparation (that's repentance, and penitence, which is repentance over the long-term).

Annual Rosary Crusade of Reparation - Saturday 11th October

Procession from Westminster Cathedral to Brompton Oratory with the statue of Our Lady of Fatima and the 15 decades of the Rosary. Starting 1.45pm in the Cathedral piazza and ending at the Oratory with the solemn crowning of the statue and solemn Benediction.

This procession is offered for downfall of the Human Fertilisation and Embyrology (HFE) Bill.

These people are not afraid to use the word 'crusade', so why should you be afraid to pray with these others with their rosary? If you are still a bit iffy about Mary, just sing 'Lord have mercy upon us', and think of it as another Prayer-Walk/March-for-Jesus. As it re-learns how to repent the Church in London is rediscovering the pavement. Maybe we will soon find out how to cry too. Here's a report of the procession from the year before last.

Reconciliation in Christ? Atonement and Sacrifice Touchstones of disunity or the pathway to communion? Saturday 14 June 2008 10.30 - 3pm Cheyneygates, Dean’s Yard Westminster Abbey, London SW1

Canon Nicholas Sagovsky Westminster Abbey

Douglas Knight Theologian and Author

The doctrine of the atonement has been controversial within Anglican thinking in recent years, marking the different principles held by evangelical, Anglican Catholic and those in the liberal traditions. In 2005 too, the Evangelical Alliance’s stakeholders looked closely at the differing emphases and positions among its members.

The concepts of sacrifice and atonement also go to the heart of catholicity in the Roman Catholic tradition and the nature and purpose of the Church in other Churches and Communions, as well as in relation between them. The centrality of Christ’s sacrifice is common to many of the Churches’ celebration of the Eucharist – yet it is the very point on which they have most disagreed.

What of the Jewish origins of our concept of sacrifice, and our relation with contemporary Judaism? And seeing that self-sacrifice and martyrdom are at the core of Christian’s common faith in Christ, how does that reflect on our understanding of Islam in the contemporary world where similar ideas remain potent?

Nicholas Sagovsky, Douglas Knight and other distinguished thinkers from across the Church help us to understand where unity can be found and how we might reach it.

I have copied out the flier before me, without comment. Make up your own jokes, but kindly book via ecumenicalstudies@btinternet.com. The day promises to end well - Evensong is at 3pm. I shall hang everything I say on the prospect of Evensong, and the privilege of being able to raise our voices to God in song. Come along, and if you have any idea how to answer any of these questions, mail me.

Coming up is the Pentecost festival in the West End from Friday-Sunday 9th-11th May.

Also on Pentecost weekend we have 24-7 Prayer and Global Day of Prayer events.

There is the New Dynamic Prayer Conference from Holy Trinity Brompton with Jesus House in June and and Worship Central's day conference in July.

All this prayer and worship will be

right in the heart of London, within earshot of the Houses of Parliament...putting worship back at the heart of this nation!'

Then there is the London School of Theology Deep calls to Deep Worship Symposium 11-13 September

Mark Earey Jeremy Begbie Peter Moger and others

Least fortunate workshop title ?

‘How would Jesus lead worship?’

Who do they think has been leading our worship all this time?

All these events seem a little light on the theology, perhaps, but then all these lovely people are future purchasers of my forthcoming little book on worship. The future of the Church is processional (that means we are going to be back out on the pavement). Now to learn our psalms off by heart, and then we'll have something to sing.

Facebook seems a good place to list London events, by the way

The Bishop of London

Tracing the Drama of Holy Week:Preparing for the Resurrection Life Monday 17th March, 1pm Tuesday 18th March, 1pm Wednesday 19th March, 1pm

St Stephen Walbrook

Love & Responsibility - Theological Lecture Series 2008

Due to the success of Catholicism for the Curious and Theology of the Body, the School of Evangelisation will be hosting a third series of lectures this year, commencing on Wednesday 27th February at supper & welcome at 6.15pm with talk starting at 7pm.

A series of high profile talks to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the encyclical Humanae Vitae. These talks will present a life changing message for a lifestyle of chastity that brings freedom, respect, peace and romance without regret. The talks will seek to unpack and explain the Church’s teaching on the truth and meaning of human sexuality in a way that is challenging, entertaining, encouraging and healing. The speakers will cover an abundance of compelling and uplifting reasons for embracing the virtues of chastity.

Wednesday 27th February - Fr Anthony Doe Call to Holiness & Communion with the Lord

Wednesday 12th March - Fr Stephen Langridge Aids, Condoms and the Catholic Church

Wednesday 2nd April - Fr Tim Finigan Humanae Vitae – A Challenge to the Culture

Wednesday 9th April - Fr Anthony Doe The Gift of Life & Christian Discipleship

Wednesday 16th April - Edmund Adamus The Genesis of Humanae Vitae – Memory & Healing

Wednesday 23rd April - Fr Richard Aladics Building the Civilisation of Love in a Media-Driven World

Wednesday 30th April - Bishop Alan Hopes Searching for Teaching Authority

Wednesday 14th May - Tommy Hughes Theology of the Body in a Glasgow Secondary School

Wednesday 21st May - James Parker Truths about Homosexuality & Contraception

Wednesday 28th May - Dr Jacqueline Laing The Reproductive Revolution

Wednesday 4th June - Nicole Parker A Practical Response: Natural Family Planning

Wednesday 11th June - Anne Hill The Gift of Life as a Woman and a Mother

Wednesday 18th June - William Newton Humanae Vitae & Contraception: Two Irreconcilable Concepts of the Human Person

Some oddly non-Roman Catholic speakers have been chosen for

The Cardinal’s Lectures – Faith and Life in Britain

Westminster Cathedral, London April-May 2008

We are facing great dangers as a society. An excessive emphasis on the rights of individuals not only dissolves those institutions in which we learn and grow as persons but also paradoxically it entails a huge extension of state surveillance and regulation. Regulation is increasingly necessary as social bonds erode, to order the traffic and prevent collisions among autonomous individuals so sensitive about their rights that they have the tendency to crash into one another like so many billiard balls. The family unit, the oikos, which was once fundamental to the economy, [the two words have a common root] is now largely marginal. We lack any common language of moral decision making and as a result it is difficult to build the stable frameworks in which people can grow and flourish and communicate truth to the next generation.

At such a time, the church must be forever building the city of the living God. This entails initiating individuals into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Mellitus belonged to the community of St Benedict who established new forms of community in the ruins of the antique pagan world. We have a similar task in the neo pagan world.

The future lies with communities, which have re-discovered the structures and the faithfulness, which make for human flourishing. Some of them will emerge from existing parishes; some will be organised in networks. All need to be serious about communicating with one another through the common celebration of the liturgy, the public work which binds us together as a community, as members of Christ and through him participants in the life of the Holy Trinity. It is the liturgy in which Word and Spirit are present, which builds us into a church fit to be a sign of the Kingdom.

The Bishop of London on the feast of St Mellitus, first bishop of London

The Bishop of London and the Bishop of Chelmsford, The Rt Revd John Gladwin today announced the formation of a new training college aimed at strengthening the churchâ??s mission in the dioceses of London and Chelmsford.

The new college will be named St Mellitus College and will incorporate some of the excellent ministerial training that is currently taking place across the Chelmsford and London dioceses into one overarching institution. With well over 200 people currently in ministerial training across the two dioceses, the formation of St Mellitus College will increase staff numbers, give greater flexibility for serving wider training needs and open up the possibility of new forms of training for ordination, post ordination and lay training within the regionâ??s growing Church.

St Mellitus Collegeâ??s constituent members will initially be the North Thames Ministerial Training Course, which operates across the two dioceses and the St Paulâ??s Theological Centre (SPTC) based at Holy Trinity Brompton. These institutions will both maintain a sense of autonomy within the College and teaching will continue at their various sites across the dioceses. There is a strong hope for the future that other training institutions within the region will be incorporated into the College, and that it will also strengthen the ecumenical training links in the area.

Staffing will come from these constituent members with the current Principal of SPTC, the Revd Dr Graham Tomlin, taking on the role of Dean at St Mellitus. Both SPTC and NTMTC will appoint new Directors to oversee the day to day delivery of teaching. The new Dean, along with the two Bishops will be responsible for ensuring that St Mellitus College provides training that represents a generous Christian orthodoxy and allows for all mainstream traditions of the Church to have proper recognition and provision within the training.

The Dean of St Mellitus College, the Revd Dr Graham Tomlin said:

â??The new St Mellitus College is an exciting prospect for both the dioceses of London and Chelmsford as it will provide a large, flexible and highly qualified training network across our region.

â??It is now possible for us to build upon the excellent training platform already established within the dioceses thus enabling them to be able to better resource the mission of the Church across Essex and London.â??

The Bishop of London and The Bishop of Chelmsford said:

â??We are delighted that the dioceses of Chelmsford and London have been able to form a strong collaborative relationship, which will better serve the needs of our regionâ??s growing Church.

â??The formation of St Mellitus College is a strategic step in ensuring that both dioceses are well equipped in the continued delivery of exceptional ministerial training.â??

Diocese of London

Who is St Mellitus?

Westminster Theological Centre - Conversations in Deep Church 4 evenings beginning June 19th 2007 The late C.S. Lewis coined the expression Deep Church in a call for a concerted exploration of the resources in the Christian tradition that unite orthodox Christians across the denominational and theological spectrums. One of Lewis' concerns was the erosion of a common Christian language and discipleship; the loss of the most basic understanding of the gospel that has been believed by the Church at all times and in all places.

In the last five years the Deep Church vision has been reawakened in the UK with St Paul's, Hammersmith in London hosting regular discussions under the leadership of Prof. Andrew Walker, Dr Luke Bretherton, Revd. Simon Downham and Revd. Ian Stackhouse. These discussions have now produced three publications (GOSPEL DRIVEN CHURCH by Ian Stackhouse, EVANGELICALS AND TRADITION Daniel Williams and REMEMBERING OUR FUTURE), a series of lectures by Prof. Walker (at Westminster Theological Centre in the Autumn of 2007) and some new discussion at Andy Goodliff and deepchurch.blogspot.com and deepchurch.org.uk.

Explorations in Deep Church takes the discussion wider with professional educators from around the UK bringing the best of today's theology to those of us committed to a passionate discipleship, orthodox faith and dynamic witness to a fast changing post-modern world.

Week 1 (19th June): Dr. Graham Tomlin - Luther, the Cross and the Christian Life

Week 2 (26th June): Dr. Chris Joby - Why do Christians worship?

Week 3 (3rd July): Dr. Alan Spence - The humanity of Christ

Week 4 (10th July): Dr. Douglas Knight - The people of the Spirit in the Body of Christ

Tuesdays 19th, 26th June & 3rd, 10th July 2007 7 - 9pm Weeks 1 & 2 at St Mary’s Church, York St, London W1H 1EA Weeks 3 7 4 at St Mark’s Church 245 Old Marylebone Road, London NW1 5QT

I have found three events organised by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster in London

1. First Sunday Plus Young Adult Ministries launches THEOLOGY-on-TAP, a speaker series for young adults 18-39 straight talk, hard facts and real answers about our Catholic faith and how to live it in real, everyday life.

2. Society and its problems: The Catholic perspective A series of four Monday evening talks and questions at St Mary Moorfields entitled: ‘Society and its problems: The Catholic perspective’ by Edward Hadas.

1. Wealth and work: Economic issues in an industrial age (Monday 4th June at 6.30pm)

2. The ruling class: The right way for government (Monday 11th June at 6.30pm)

3. War and peace: Idealism, realism and hope (Monday 18th June at 6.30pm)

4. Modern society: Light and shadows (Monday 25th June at 6.30pm)

Edward Hadas is Associate Editor at Breakingviews.com. His book, Human Goods, Economic Evils; A Moral Look at the Dismal Science will be published by ISI Books in August. He has also written a coursebook on political and social philosophy for the Maryvale Institute in Birmingham.

3. Marriage: the rock on which the family is built; the rock on which society is built. An evening with Dr. William E. May Vaughan House, Francis St (behind Westminster Cathedral) Monday 21st May, 6pm - 8pm.

Dr. May will share his reflections for discussion on male/female complementary,and the importance of the role of the family as the domestic Church in the work of evangelisation.

Dr May is the Author of 'Marriage: the rock on which the family is built' (1995) and the Michael J. McGivney Professor of Moral Theology, Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Member of the International Theological Commission from 1986 through 1996.

I'll go to that last one - even I have heard of William E May .

The Deep Church ecclesiology seminars at Notre Dame’s London Centre will continue to explore the resources of the whole Christian tradition for contemporary church worship and life.

Friday 11 May 3-5pm David Hilborn – ‘Why should evangelicals be Anglican?’ David is Director of Studies and acting Principal of the North Thames Ministerial Training Course. Previously he was the Evangelical Alliance’s Theologian, convenor of the Alliance Commission on Unity and Truth among Evangelicals, and editor of ‘Evangelicalism and the Orthodox Church’.

These seminars are open to anyone in Christian ministry or theological study in London. If you would like to come to any one of these please email, using the address in 'About Us'

The Book of the Series – There will be a book launch for Remembering our Future: Explorations in Deep Church, the papers from the last Deep Church series, edited by Luke Bretherton and Andrew Walker, on June 6th at Kings College London, Strand. Evening prayers in the King's Chapel at 6.00 are followed by a reception in the Council Room at 6.30.

The Society of St. Catherine of Siena will hold its annual Mass in anticipation of the Feast of St. Catherine at 6.15 pm on April 17th 2007, at St. Etheldreda's church, Ely Place, off Holborn Circus, London EC1.

Holy Mass will be celebrated by Fr. Andrew Wadsworth in the presence of the Rt. Rev'd. Malcolm McMahon OP, Bishop of Nottingham and Chairman of the Trustees of the Society. Bishop McMahon will preach and give the final blessing and the music will be provided by the Choir of Ely Place under the direction of Mr. Paul Gillham. Permission has been sought for the Mass to be in the rite of the Roman Missal of 1962. You are warmly invited to attend, and light refreshment will follow in the crypt.

This one might be a bit scary, but I'll go if you go.

Theology of the Body Explored St. Patrickâ??s, Soho Square, London.

March 23 Jane Deegan: â??Love is Victorious in the Struggle between Good and Evilâ?? (GA June 27th 1984)

IV. Reflections on Humanae Vitae

April 27 Edmund Adamus: â?? The Churchâ??s Position on the Transmission of Lifeâ?? (GA August 22nd 1984)

May 11 Dan & Anne Hill: â??A Discipline that Ennobles Human Love.â?? (GA Aug 28th 1984)

May 25 Alison Gray â??The dignity and vocation of woman and her role in the Churchâ??

Conclusion: Review of course and Discussion on ways of establishing your own Theology of the Body Group â??

June 8 Love and Responsibility â?? Theology of the Body

Previous post on theology of the Body in London and other events in London

Here is a selection of events from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster - events page

Commission for Justice and Social Responsibility - Inaugural Conference Catholic Social Teaching and its impact on the wider community Saturday 24th February 2007 Brentwood, London

Journey to Freedom - with the Augustinians of the Assumption Assumption Priory, Victoria Park Square, Bethnal Green, London E2

15 March 2007â?? â??Hope against all hope!â?? with His Grace Bishop Basil of Amphipolis, Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in Great Britain

25 April 2007â?? â??Love and do what you will!â?? with His Eminence Cardinal Godfried Danneels, the Archbishop of Brussels (to be delivered in French)

9 May 2007â?? â??The Church, Catholicity and Unityâ?? with Fr. John McDade, Principal of Heythrop College, University of London (SJ)

â??When the Truth is Silenced â?? Freedom of Religion and the Christian Response to 21st Century Rights Discourses.â?? Seminar 5 March 2007 Herbert Smith, Exchange House, Primrose Street London EC2

The Eucharist & Catechesis This course will focus on the core teaching about the Eucharist and how it challenges us on a personal level and as a diocese. These sessions will offer the opportunity to consider:

â?¢ the Eucharist as the source and summit of Christian life â?¢ the Eucharist and real presence â?¢ the Eucharist and sacrifice â?¢ Eucharistic spirituality â?¢ the Eucharist making Church

The sessions are being offered in locations throughout the Diocese so that all catechists can attend the core session plus the one relating to their area of catechetics.

Celebrate Love - at Ealing Abbey, Ealing, London

Celebrate Love promotes a healthy, celebratory attitude to sexuality and shows the link between sexuality and the spirituality of the sacrament of matrimony. The presentations give couples the insight to identify and change attitudes and behaviours that detract from the magnificent vision that God calls couples to live and the Church desires to sustain. Insights are drawn from some of the most experienced international relationship educators and the vision of marriage espoused in John Paul IIâ??s Love and Responsibility, and Theology of the Body for an effective renewal experience.

MAN AND WOMAN HE CREATED THEM - reflections on a theology of the body. 28 April 2007 - Westminster Cathedral Hall, Ambrosden Avenue, London SW1

A major event welcoming the renowned scholar Professor Michael Waldstein (International Theological Institute, Gaming) and author of MAN AND WOMAN HE CREATED THEM - a theology of the body (published in USA, copies will be on sale). To include visiting speakers on the subject and practical ideas for exploring further this vision for relating and building up community in family, home, workplace and Church.

So, some little signs of life then.