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Homelessness!
Joe Ford, Church Action on Poverty deputy chair, speaks to the participants at the Poverty Civic Breakfast Sheffield Church Action on Poverty was recently involved in an event that brought together local politicians, council and community leaders and charities to look at a key issue confronting the city. Tim Renshaw, chief executive of the … [Read More...]
The People Behind the SVP 2
The People Behind the Society of St Vincent de Paul ~ St Louise de Marillac In this second article on key people influential to the formation of the St Vincent de Paul Society we are looking at the life of St Louise de Marillac. Although she was born 242 years before Frederic Ozanam founded the Society, her relationship with St Vincent, their … [Read More...]
The People Behind the SVP
The Hallam News has recently carried a number of articles about the Society of St Vincent de Paul, which have been well received. People have appreciated getting to know more about the work of the SVP and also their history. Over the next four months the paper will feature a series of articles focusing on the key people responsible for the … [Read More...]
RENEWING THE LITURGY: Six Simple Steps 5 and 6
At the annual gathering of the priests of the Diocese last October the speaker was Tom O’Loughlin, Professor of Historical Theology at Nottingham University. Tom gave the priests of the Diocese Six Simple Steps which could go some way to achieving Vatican II’s vision in our celebration of the Eucharist. This month we take a look at steps 5 and … [Read More...]
Society of St Vincent de Paul – Changing Lives
Recent articles about the St Vincent de Paul Society – SVP – have covered a range of aspects of the society including its founder, its history and more recently how it works and what it does locally. This article is the start of an occasional series presenting factual accounts of SVP activity, taken from the SVP publication ‘Changing Lives’, where … [Read More...]
Talents Abound at St Paul’s Parish, Cantley
Parishioner, Marian Johnson relates a fun-filled day of surprises at St Paul’s, Cantley. George exhibits his pictures The sun shone and the event brought together family, friends and visitors young and old, from near and far. The artist at work Many in the parish family were unaware of the wonderful artwork of one of our very own parishioners, … [Read More...]
St Joseph Festival of Art
The Festival of Art at St Joseph’s Catholic Academy, Handsworth, Sheffield celebrated all of the hard work and creativity that had been going on in school all year. The school’s new “Creative Curriculum” has been exciting and has engaged all of the children. The school made the decision to have a whole school arts topic, in our final term, … [Read More...]
Mini Vinnies
Our Mini Vinnie group was founded in St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Retford in 2015, with the help and continued support of the SVP Conference in St Joseph’s parish, Retford. We are now entering our fifth year of having Mini Vinnies in school. Our current Mini Vinnies have been busy working with the school community, the parish of St … [Read More...]
One Sheffield Many Cultures Festival 2019
The annual celebration of diversity in Sheffield took place in Barkers Pool on Saturday, 15 June, in partnership with Migration Matters Festival for the first time. Speakers included Bishop Ralph, and five Catholic schools participated – All Saints, Notre Dame, Sacred Heart, St Catherine’s, and St Marie’s. Pictured are pupils from St … [Read More...]
Our Fathers of Faith
Having spent over a decade quietly working on the significant amount of research that has gone into its production, Fr Nicholas Hird, of our neighbouring Diocese of Leeds, has published the biographical sketches of over 220 men who served as priests of the Diocese. The men featured were mainly ordained between 1915 – 1939, although a few were … [Read More...]