On Friday 11th June, over 180 keen golfers gathered at Chevin Golf Club, Duffield to compete in the 25th Briars Am-Am.
'LIVE IT' are a series of events taking place all across the Nottingham Diocese. They are a chance for young people in different areas to meet each other to share and celebrate their faith. This is the story so far....
Held again this year at the Moorways Centre in Derby, we saw our biggest ever turn out! This year saw around a thousand year 6s from all over the diocese gathered together to reflect on taking the big step up to secondary school.
Well it was an amazing week, and finally here are the photos! Leave your comments on the post and thank you to all those who made this a really special Holy Week.
The photos from Advent 2009 are finally up, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!
October the 9-12th saw the biggest ever reunion of past and present Briars team members. In part of a series of events to mark the 40th Anniversary of The Briars over 150 people dropped in at some point to make this weekend a truly memorable celebration.
As part of the visit of St Therese’s relics to our cathedral in Nottingham, the Youth Service led an All Night Vigil. Starting at 11.00 on Monday 5th October and finishing the next morning with Mass at 6.30, it was split into three parts, each focussing on a different aspect of St Therese’s spirituality.
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We were back amongst the now familiar faces of the St. Peter’s confirmation group. Today we are in the parish for the whole day thinking about the idea of disiciplship and what it means to follow, but as well as that we thought about how to begin a journey like confirmation we must start with a clear slate and God can offer that to us in reconciliation. We started by watching Mary Poppins, what better than to think about what is really required in some one to look after us, after that we thought about a job description that Jesus would need in 2009 and then decided to build him out of very varied resources. We displayed all these to each other then considered the idea of reconciliation by burning away all the things we want to get rid of (on peices of paper) and the used those ashes to create an amazing banner which we displayed to the parish at Saturday night mass along with our prayers and role plays and rocking it out with great singing from everyone around, we can’t beleive we’re half way through.
This was a really good fun week and we loved all the adventure!
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Well Wednesday we went to St Patrick’s which was great as we had never been there before. We had a whole school assembly where we saw that you guys were great singers and also learnt that holding your arms up for to long – your arms really do hurt! Fr David Cain also came along and whilst we worked with all the year6s he worked with all the other year groups.
We started by thinking about the things that we want to pack on our journeys, whilst also thinking about the things that we might not want to take and some of the bad things that we do. We then made them into boats and floated them on our own little beach! We then painted an awesome Jesus-it looked great and we all got a bit messy!
We then finished by preparing for mass which year6s you guys did a stunning job along with the rest of the school all taking a part too. The prayers, banners and dramas were all brilliant! Well done guys!
We were out again today straight into sunny Nottingham. We were at Our Lady’s and St. Edward’s thinking again about the theme of lent and the journey that we are taking through it. We started with a very lively whole school liturgy which got us singing and dancing and really thinking about what we were doing for the day. We then went off with year 6 and thought about where we start and so had our own personal cinema and bag packing session.
After a good break, we split into small groups and did some finger painting, promise making and boat building, messy, fiddly but fun. After a great lunch we then started preparing the liturgy for the whole school, with one group taking the prayers, another a dance and another a role play. We ended by showing all our work and dancing and singing again. A great day, time to head back home.
Luckily for reach4 we are just down the road today in Matlock, at St. joseph’s, we we spending the whole day with the year 6 class thinking about the theme of lent, a perfect theme for the time of year we are in. We started off with a great monday ,orming liturgy and then settled straight down into thinking about what our journey though this time of year is all about. Then we broke down into small groups and did some painting prayers, packed our bags and made promises. We got messy but really started to think aobut our theme. The second half of the day after a full lunch we made some boats to float on our lake and then ended with a beautiful final liturgy displaying all our work over the past day.
Taking place over the weekend of 8th – 10th May at the Briars, it is perfect for those who work with young people in parishes and schools, focusing on resources and guidance on leading prayer with young people, safeguarding and safe practice, the use of games in youth ministry, how to be a Confirmation catechist …. and much more. It is workshop based to allow for residential or day participation. Download the poster and booking form here.
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This year the Briars is 40 years old and our Open day will be a big birthday celebration. Held on Sunday 28 June and starting with Mass at 1.00 celebrated by Bishop Malcolm, it will be a great chance to celebrate the past 40 years and a fun day out for the family.
