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Meetings and events
We aim to organise at least one public meeting together with an AGM and Study Day each year. Many aspects of Catholic teaching and culture have been explored as the following list illustrates.
Next Meeting
20 September 2008 - AGM and Study Day
Meetings
AGM and Study Day 22 September 2007
The day began with the AGM.
Our Chairman, Mrs Josephine Robinson, has steered the Association of Catholic Women with enthusiasm and foresight, through another busy and challenging year. In addition to maintaining our regular commitments, we have been able to enlarge our activities and make plans to move forward from a sound base.
One major change was the unanimous decision of the executive committee to resign, with regret, from the National Board of Catholic Women. It was felt that over the years we have not had any opportunity to contribute meaningfully to the work of the Board. Our suggestions or offers of help were either ignored or quietly put to one side. We had hoped that the wide range of skills and expertise of our members would have been welcomed.
The afternoon session opened with a talk by Mgr Mark Langham entitled “Westminster Cathedral - More than just a beautiful building”. As Administrator it is his job to try and ensure that every aspect of Cathedral life is sustained and developed. He must attend to everyday matters such as paying wages, considering structural alterations and solving problems with the drains to sacramental programmes and requests to film TV commercials. He described the Cathedral as an enormous spiritual resource and an incomparable treasure for our nation.
The second speaker, Anne Vail, gave an illustrated talk of absorbing interest on the Shrines of Our Lady. There are today no less than 68 known shrines to the Blessed Virgin in England and Wales, the earliest of which was built in Glastonbury in the 6th century. Mrs Vail has obviously a great love of her subject which she has researched with great care.
Both talks are now available in booklet form.
It was a really interesting and enjoyable day.
*What it means to be a Catholic woman in today’s society - Lynette Burrows 1990
*Thanks for the feminine - John Saward 1990
*The Trial of Jesus - from a lawyer’s point of view - Judge Humphries 1991
*Pilgrimage to Walsingham - Dr Mary Remnant 1991
*Exposé of the hidden face of Catholic feminism -Donna Steichen 1992
*The Media and the Catholic Church - Alenka Lawrence and Joanna Bogle 1994
*Converts speak - Ruth Rees, Fr Graham Leonard 1995
*The Law and Marriage - Jamie Bogle 1996
*Looking forward to Christmas -Rosemary Rendel and Joanna Bogle 1996
*The Betrothal and Marriage of Mary and Joseph - Dom Bernard Orchard 1997
*Presentation of Medieval Music in Honour of Our Lady - Dr Mary Remnant 1998
*Marriage AD2000 and Beyond - Lynette Burrows, Fr Peter Bristow 1998
*Pre-Reformation Church Music - Dominic White 1999
*Edith Stein (St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) - Joan Slater 1999
*The Great Jubilee - Fr Martin Edwards 2000
*Can Catholics paint icons? David Clayton 2001
*Faith and the Pursuit of Beauty - Sarah Janson, Anthony Delarue 2002
*Pope Pius XII - the truth revealed - James Bogle 2003
*St Edmund Campion - Alexander Haydon 2003
*Newman a saint for our time - Fr Michael Lang 2004
* World Youth Day - Lucy Nash 2005
*Editing a Catholic Newspaper - Luke Coppen 2005
*A Journey to the Church from Islam - Aghi Clovis 2005
*Bishop Challoner - a good shepherd for hard times -
Fr Richard Whinder 2006
*Music and Liturgy - Jeremy de Satge 2006
*Westminster Cathedral - more than just a beautiful building - Mgr
Mark Langham 2007
*Shrines of Our Lady in England - Anne Vail 2007
Study Days
*The Dignity and Vocation of Women - Mulieris Dignitatem - Fr Jeremy Davies 1990
*Rerum Novarum - Dr Sheila Lawlor 1991
*Music in the Liturgy - Dr Mary Berry 1991
*The Problems of Suffering - Dr Forrester, Stella Lilley, Dr Peggy Norris and Sr Florence of the St Joseph’s Hospice 1992
*The Catechism of the Catholic Church - Fr Thwaites, Fr Finigan, Fr Bristow 1994
*The Eucharist and the Church - Fr Roger Nesbit 1995
*Lent A Time for Conversion - Fr Donal Corry 1996
*The Priesthood - Fr Kevin Preston 1997
*Day of Recollection - Fr Christopher Basden 1997
*The Holy Spirit - Fr Paul Hayward 1998
*Repentance - the Basis of Renewal - Fr Dangerfield 2000
*Day of Recollection - Fr Patrick Doyle 2001
*The Carmelite Way - Fr Stanislaus Callanan 2002
* Day of Recollection for Lent - Bishop Hopes 2003
* Day of Recollection. Preparation for Holy Week and Easter -
Fr Dominic Allain and Fiorella Sultana de Maria 2004
*Day of Recollection and Prayer on a Lenten Theme - Fr Anthony Pellegrini 2005
*Day of Reflection and Prayer - Fr Nicholas Schofield 2006
“Living Lent” A Day of Reflection and Prayer - Fr Stephen Wang 2007
“In Love and Hope” - Day of Recollection and Prayer - Fr Michael O’Boy 2008
Pilgrimages
When possible, we organise pilgrimages to sites of Catholic interest as for instance Our Lady of Consolation at West Grinstead, Stonor, Oxford, Cambridge, Tyburn Convent London, St Etheldreda’s Ely Place and Farnborough Abbey.
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