THE WIDER CHURCH
Diocese
For the latest diocesan prayer diary please click HERE for a .pdf version which can be printed as a booklet, or HERE for a .pdf version which can easily be viewed on your computer.
News and much more can be found at the diocesan web site.
OFFA HOUSE
For details of the Diocesan Retreat House and its programme, click HERE.
PASTORING THE PASTORS
The booklet Pastoring the Pastors, which was produced by the Bishops to give some guidance for the pastoral care of clergy. Some of the helpful contacts listed in the booklet either are or will soon be out of date and so an updated version of the booklet has been produced. You can find it on the Diocesan website HERE.
COVENTRY CURSILLO
The following Cursillo weekends have been planned:
Coventry Cursillo 42
Friday 4th May - Monday 7th May 2012
Coventry Cursillo 43
Thursday 1st November - Sunday 4th November 2012
Cursillos are held at Offa House, the Coventry Diocesan Retreat centre, in Spring and Autumn each year. They commence at approximately 6.30pm on the Thursday or Friday and finish at approximately 5.00pm on the Sunday or Monday.
Please note: There is a closing Eucharist on the last day of each weekend in St Gregory's, Offchurch at 2.45pm; parishioners, relatives and friends are warmly invited to attend.
For an application form, please click HERE
For more information, please click HERE.
COVENTRY PILGRIMAGE
26th March to 1st April 2012
(Letter to all churches in Coventry Diocese)
November 2011
Dear Clergy,
We are writing to you on behalf of the planning group for a Coventry Pilgrimage to be held in the week beginning March 26th 2012 and culminating in a pilgrim service in Coventry Cathedral on the evening of Palm Sunday April 1st 2012. The small planning group is led by the Revd Robin Trew, Rector of Allesley, and has the support of our Bishops and Cathedral and Area Deans.
The proposal for a pilgrimage has arisen from Robin Trew’s experience of leading diocesan pilgrimages on the Camino de Santiago, from the recognition of Coventry Cathedral as an international centre of pilgrimage by the worldwide Community of the Cross of Nails, from the experience of a local group associated with the Northumbria Community of prayer walking along the River Sherbourne and parts of the Coventry Way, and from the inspiring story, told in Stephen Verney’s Fire in Coventry, of the Cross of Nails 40-day pilgrimage around the Diocese before the consecration of Coventry’s new Cathedral on 25th May 1962.
The proposal for 2012, the Jubilee year of Coventry Cathedral, is to follow the route of the 40-mile way-marked circular footpath, the Coventry Way, by walking from Meriden to Berkswell, Burton Green, Kenilworth, Stoneleigh, Bubbenhall, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Wolston,Brinklow, Ansty, Bedworth and Fillongley, then to walk down the route of the River Sherbourne via Allesley to the Cathedral. We hope that Christians from many different churches and denominations will join together to walk and pray for the city and the surrounding towns and villages.
A week event will cover the route with walks of 4 ½ to 6 ½ miles on weekday evenings between 5pm and 8pm from Monday 26th March followed by day walks on Saturday and Sunday, with pilgrims returning home each night. A weekend event for experienced walkers, youth groups etc. will cover the route with long walks from Friday evening to Sunday, pilgrims being accommodated in Kenilworth and Bedworth en route. A pilgrim service will be held each evening in a church on the route.
Additionally , there will be a route planned from the south of the Diocese which could be walked to link up with the Coventry Way.
Week Event
Monday Meriden via Berkswell to Burton Green
Tuesday Burton Green to Stoneleigh
Wednesday Stoneleigh via Bubbenhall to Ryton-on-Dunsmore
Thursday Ryton-on-Dunsmore via Wolston to Brinklow
Friday Brinklow to Ansty
Saturday Ansty via Bedworth to Fillongley
Sunday Fillongley via Allesley to the Cathedral
Weekend Event
Friday Meriden via Berkswell to Kenilworth
Saturday Kenilworth via Stoneleigh, Bubbenhall, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Wolston, Brinklow and Ansty to Bedworth
Sunday Bedworth via Fillongley and Allesley to the Cathedral
We would like to invite you to support and participate in this pilgrimage by:
- Advertising it in your church community
- Considering registering a group – perhaps a youth group – for the weekend challenge
- Nominating a “Pilgrimage Link Person” from your church to liaise with the planning group
- Indicating your interest by joining our mailing list
With every blessing,
John and Margaret Lloyd
For the Coventry Pilgrimage 2012 planning group
1 Hill Top,
Coventry
CV1 5AB
thecoventrypilgrimage@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: 07938 403290
Deanery
PRINCETHORPE RETREAT AND CONFERENCE CENTRE
Please click HERE for the current programme.
THE CHURCH OF OUR LADY AND ST WULSTAN, SOUTHAM
To visit their website click HERE.
This page last updated on 21/1/2012