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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...]
Divine Renovation – Clearing out the Junk
The April edition of the Hallam News carried a report on The Divine Renovation Conference attended by a group from the Hallam Diocese. This is another instalment of the message of that conference, which was designed to bring parish communities from maintenance to mission. In chapter 4 we look at what a maintenance Church looks like. The building … [Read More...]
Creation Celebration
When people from all over the Diocese of Hallam gathered with Bishop Ralph at St Marie’s Cathedral for a Creation Celebration, he renewed Pope Francis’ call in ‘Laudato Si’, “Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience.” The news … [Read More...]
Icon Painting at Turvey Abbey
A report on the Icon Painting Course at Turvey Abbey, 30 April – 5 May Turvey Abbey is a Grade II listed Jacobean style house, located in the village of Turvey in Bedfordshire. The house is dated 1605 on the north facade and 1608 on the south facade. The building is stone, with a tiled roof. Historically, it was a country house and family home … [Read More...]
Pilgrimage to Medjugorje
John Rigby, parishioner of St William of York, Sheffield, relates his experience of this special place. In June a group of thirty pilgrims, mostly from Hallam Diocese, visited the Marian shrine in Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Our spiritual director, Rev Lee Marshall, was assisted by his father, Deacon Pete Marshall, who was also the Group … [Read More...]
Holy Trinity Students Travel to the Somme
Each year, Holy Trinity School, Barnsley, takes a group of students to the WWI Battlefields. This year forty Year 9 students, along with their teachers, embarked on a journey to the Somme, to remember and honour the fallen. During the trip, they visited memorials and took part in acts of remembrance for the soldiers who died during the Great … [Read More...]