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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 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

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