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Search for the Light – 2010

This year 'Search for the Light' - our open Easter retreat, is taking place from Thursday 1st to Sunday 4th April. Download the booking form here!

Diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes

We are now taking applications for young people 16 – 18 (years 11 – 13) who are not in a Catholic school but want to go on our Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes. This is a great opportunity to celebrate our faith and serve members of our diocesan family on pilgrimage.

Live it – Derby

Live it Derby is working with the parishes of Derby to put on a musical interpretation of The Stations of the Cross. Click here to find out more.

Team 2010/2011 – Applications now being taken

The Briars and Reach4 are seeking applicants for next years residential and outreach team.

Advent retreat 2009 – The Photos

The photos from Advent 2009 are finally up, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

The Briars 40th Anniversary Reunion

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.

The Relics of St Therese

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.

Fr Joe, Helen, Hannah and Tom make up the Leadership Team of the Youth Service. Each year this team is joined by our second year volunteers who also have leadership responsibilities. The team meets for a full morning once a month to discuss specific issues and frequently in-between to ensure that we work together well. We work with the Trustees and Management Committee of the Youth Service to provide the best service possible for our young people, parishes and schools.

Who to contact:

Fr Joe – Any general query about our work, for training, advice and guidance, resources, events and pilgrimages.

Helen Aldridge – Any question relating to bookings at the Briars and information on our fees and services.

Hannah Stevenson – Any question relating to our residential retreat work in general, applying to be on the volunteer team.

Tom Baptist – Any question relating to the work of reach4 and if you want us to come out and work with you and your young people in your parish or school.

St Mary’s Grimsby

Posted by reach4 On October - 9 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

Wow! Where to even start talking about the week! It was simply amazing! You are all so incredible and I loved getting to know so many of you! We really felt like part of your community so thankyou for that!

All of the trees were great and the amount of energy you put into them really showed how much you care about your community. It was a lot of fun working with individual forms…we had so many laughs while making the trees or playing the best game ever…SQUIRT!!

All of the Liturgies were great, thankyou all for putting so much effort into making them so good!

The Wednesday was so hectic…there was a lot to do but there was such a great atmosphere we were all buzzing. I loved working with the primary schools, it was such a fun day.

Thankyou to everyone who came to the Mass on wednesday night… I loved it! Everyone who helped with preparation for the Mass were amazing! The drama group that me and Eleanor had were soooooo much fun and made me laugh soooooo much I thought we were never going to get anything done!

The last day with the Year 7’s and 8’s was great getting to play loads of games and preparing the drama in the afternoon was so much fun!

It was such a fantastic week and can’t wait to see you all later in the year!

Sinead

Reach4 Team, Sinead, Who are we?

Ratcliffe on Trent Parish

Posted by reach4 On October - 8 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

You guys are amazing!!!!It was such a fun day I really didn’t want to leave! It was so easy to have a laugh with you all especially when playing the game where you have to say your name three times….we ended u[p shouting out our names for the rest of the day!

It was so easy to get on with all of you and you were all so welcoming! It was great to see how well you all get on with each other there was such a good atmosphere for the whole day. The food was amazing!!!!!! Thankyou!

Mass at the end of the day was awesome and it was great that you were all involved you made it really special!

Good Luck with your confirmation!

Sinead

Reach4 Team, Sinead, Who are we?

St Clare’s Coalville Year 6

Posted by reach4 On October - 8 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

Wow! What an amazing day! Wake and shake was soooo much fun and it definitely got me ready for a fun and busy day. You lads who led it did a great job…well done!

You guys picked up all the golden rules so quickly…quicker than me! It was so much fun playing all the games to understand the golden rules.

Everyone was so friendly and I had so much fun getting to know you all. I loved spending time with so many of you at lunch, the racing around was funny even if it did tire me out.

Thanks to the group I worked with on the drama for our Liturgy you guys blew me away with your amazing ideas and how enthusiastic you were i loved every second of it!

It was great to get to spend the final liturgy with the whole school…you all did really well at picking up the actions to the community song!

Sinead

Reach4 Team, Sinead, Who are we?