The Archdiocese of Liverpool

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Online Masses

 

Masses continue to be available online and the links are shown below:

- Every Sunday at 11am from the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral 

 

- Every Saturday at 5pm from St Mary of the Isle

 

- Daily at 10am from SS Anne and Bernard 

New Dawn Pilgrimage - Monday 5 - Friday 9 August 
This year's New Dawn Pilgrimage will take place from Monday 5 - Friday 9 August at the National Shrine and Basilica of Our Lady of Walsingham. New Dawn is a family event with a programme of liturgy, sacraments, praise and worship, keynote speakers, workshops, children/youth ministries and more. Further information can be found on their website at www.newdawn.org.uk. 
Amongst others, this year the Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain will be joining them, along with the visit of the Pericardium Relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis from Assisi!
For further information, please email Daniella Stephens at Daniella.Stephens@newdawn.org.uk.
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Adoremus - Saturday 21 Sept 2024

A day of Eucharistic Pilgrimage for the Archdiocese to ‘The Met’ will be taking place on Saturday 21 September at 9am until 6pm. In advance of the Jubilee Year 2025, and in celebration of this Year of Prayer, we will be celebrating Mass, offering confessions, a time of adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, a Eucharistic Procession with plenty of time for prayer and reflection. Watch this space for more information over coming weeks.
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Volunteers Needed for Education Service at the Cathedral

Volunteer Your Teaching Talent 
Are you a retired or part time qualified teacher? You could be part of the Cathedral’s Education Service team! Come and help hundreds of schoolchildren and young people to learn about this wonderful Cathedral. ‘It’s a joy to watch children be amazed by the sheer beauty of John Piper’s lantern of light and colour and be able to bring the Cathedral to life for the generations of the future’. Contact us at education@metcathedral.org.uk 

The SYNOD process, which included our own input, has resulted in the preparation and presentation of the Pastoral Plan. Check out our Pastoral Plan page. It includes links to the plan, to read or to download the plan for reading later. There is a lot of new information on this page and links to some MUST READ documentation for all parishioners.

Pastoral Development Bulletin

 

Every two weeks, the Archdiocese communications team sends out a Pastoral Development Bulletin with information and links to events within the Archdiocese and beyond.

 

Please find the link to the current version of the Bulletin on our PD Bulletin Page here.

Archdiocese Synodal Council

The Archdiocese council meets one per annum. The report on the discussions are held on our ASC page here.


Llysfasi Residential Spirituality Workshop - 12-29 August

Llysfasi will be hosting a transformative workshop at the Loreto Spirituality Centre in Llandudno from 12 - 29 Aug, 2024. This workshop offers a creative experiential journey rooted in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Participants will engage in prayer, personal reflection, contemplative listening, discernment, and retreat experiences, all aimed at deepening their spirituality and capacity for accompaniment. Spaces are limited, so apply soon by contacting Mary Rose Fitzsimmons HHS at maryrosefitzsimmons@btinternet.com or visit llysfasi-spirituality-workshop.org.uk for more information and application forms. More info is in the leaflet attached below. Please feel free to download and review.

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Missionaries of Africa - Message from Fr Hugh Seenan MAfr

 

"I write firstly to thank you, and all your priests for the wonderful welcome given to me and our team as we travelled through the Archdiocese. Your priests and deacons are quite extraordinary in their work and kind and generous in their welcome. 61 parish priests responded positively to our request for an appeal date. The appeals covered 103 parishes. £37,009.70 was raised through the collections.

To your people in all pastoral areas, thanks simply is not adequate. The scale of generosity in this difficult time is quite humbling. We are all working for the Mission of the Gospel. To be welcomed and treated in such a way as your parish communities did makes our mission that much easier.
Yours faithfully,
Fr Hugh Seenan MAfr,
Missionaries of Africa"

Vatican II Constitutions lecture & seminar series- book now! 

The Vatican II Constitutions lecture & seminars is a series of events with Liverpool Hope University in collaboration with the Archdiocese of Liverpool. These events are in advance of the Year of Prayer 2024, inpreparation for the Jubilee Year in 2025. 

These events are free and are available to everyone, but places are limited so it is essential to book tickets in advance.  

The dates and speakers are as follows:  

  • Wednesday 25 October: Reimund Bieringer (Dei Verbum) 
  • Thursday 7 December: Paul McPartlan (Lumen Gentium) 
  • Wednesday 17 January: Peter McGrail (Sacrosanctum Concilium) 
  • Wednesday 28 February: Pat Jones (Gaudium et Spes) 

 

Both the seminars and lectures will take place at Liverpool Hope University and are open to anyone, however they will focus on discussions about pastoral ministries and are therefore ideal for pastoral ministers including priests, deacons, chaplains, readers, catechists and liturgists.  The seminars will run from 3pm - 4:30pm.  After an hour's break for refreshments, the lectures will start at 5.30pm – 7pm. 

For those who can’t attend in person, a link can be sent for you to view the lecture online. The best way to do this is to log in to Liverpool Hope's online store ahead of time and register. Instructions on how to do this are attached to this email.

If you would like to sign up for either the seminars and/or lectures, click here: Distinguished Lecture and Seminar Series on the four Constitutions of the Second Vatican Council | Liverpool Hope University Online Store

Journey into Prayer Course

There are many different ways of praying, but many of us stay with the few methods we learned years ago. It is good to try other ways as they may lift us out of the ry place we sometimes find ourselves in. the Journey Into Prayer course aims to give a taste of a variety ways of praying, not just by talking about them but by giving us space to experience them.

 

The course, which will cost £160, will begin at The Cennacle on 16th January 2024 and continue for 12 sessions through to July, with a break for Easter. The closing date for applications id 1st December 2023. 

 

For more information, and the application form, please see the PDF below which can also be downloaded.

Scam emails about Ukraine

We have been alerted to an email entitled ‘FINANCIAL REQUEST FOR THE EMERGENCY MASS STIPENDS FOR PRIEST FOR THE EXARCHATE OF DONETSK UKRAINE’ being sent to people in our archdiocese. We have checked this with Bishop Gregory in Ukraine and he confirmed that this correspondence is a scam email so please do not respond to the email or send any funds.

 

Please do be vigilant if you receive any emails on this subject matter.

 

If you would like to make any donations to Ukraine, please do so via our #Liverpool4Ukraine appeal as this is a safe and secure way to get your funds directly to the people of Ukraine.

New Bishop for the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle

 

This week,  His Holiness Pope Francis appointed Rt Rev. Stephen Wright as the Fifteenth Bishop of the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle.

More information can be found here: Appointment of a new Bishop for the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle - Catholic Bishops' Conference (cbcew.org.uk)