Monday 30th Nov – Thurs 3rd Dec

25th Annual Briars Golf Tournament

On Friday 11th June, over 180 keen golfers gathered at Chevin Golf Club, Duffield to compete in the 25th Briars Am-Am.

‘LIVE IT’ – The story so far…

'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....

Special 6′s 2010

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.

Search for the light 2010

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.

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.

Monday 30th Nov – Thurs 3rd Dec

Posted by reach4 On December - 4 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

I have never felt so Christmassy as I did after this week! Over four days we did an Advent day in four schools.

On Monday we were at St Augustine Webster and you were all so welcoming from the very beginning in assembly. We had great fun playing ‘In the pond, Out the pond’ and I loved getting to know a lot of you better when making the boxes. The Advent Calendar the other class made was fantastic. I had so much fun doing the drama with some of you…you guys were awesome! Everyone did so well in Mass and it was great to have contributions from every class in the school.

I loved returning to my old school St Mary’s on Tuesday. Your breakfast club looked like so much fun…I wish I was there to play on the dance mat every morning! I could tell straight away from assembly it was going to be a great day, you were all full of enthusiasm and excitement. I had so much fun with all of you playing games to bring the Nativity story to life and loved our word of the day… ‘anticipation’. All of your drawings of the characters for the Advent Calendar were amazing and I hope you’ve all been sticking to the great promises you came up with. Thanks to everyone for their contributions to the Mass at the end of the day it was a great celebration to end a fantastic day!

It was a very early start on Wednesday to get to St Norbet’s but you guys definitely woke me up with your amazing singing of the songs with the word ‘gold’ in. The boxes you all made were really creative and looked great! I loved working with a few of you on making the stable for the Advent Calendar…the animal pen you made for it was a genius idea! I really enjoyed the Mass, especially all of the singing and dancing!

For our last Advent day we were at Hole Cross school. First of all…WOW… your Christmas tree was AMAZING! I absolutely loved how full of life you all were and I was so excited all day because we were having so much fun! The drawings you did for the cards that went in the Advent Calendar were fantastic… I love how you all jazzed them up by making them multicoloured or giving them cool clothes! Preparing the drama for Mass was a great laugh and you came up with an amazing idea…well done!

All of the schools we worked in were AMAZING and have really helped me to think about Advent and now I’m VERY excited for Christmas. Hope to see you all again!

Sinead