Youth Ministry

The Youth Justice and Peace Group from our Liverpool parishes (St Mary's Woolton and Our Lady of the Annunciation Bishop Eton were highly recommended in the Dorothy Day Award. Part of the Million Minutes Awards. 

Here are some of the members with the leaders of the group

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CSsR trip to OSB and Vespers...

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Some of our young adults from Clapham went with Br Royston CSsR to visit the Benedictine monastery at Farnborough, where Abbot Cuthbert kindly showed us around and told us about Benedictine life, concluded by Vespers and Benediction.

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Christmas Meal for those alone on Christmas Day

Anita one of our RYM coordinators writes about the journey from the inception of the idea to the meal itself.

During a funeral mass in St Mary's in November 2017 I had a thought "Do a Christmas meal". This prompted a new venture and a year-long journey for RYM. 

Loneliness is a huge problem in the L25 area, George Kuruvilla, a Woolton GP started Woolton Community Life as a result of loneliness suffered by elderly in the area. This became the focus of the meal, to provide a Christmas Day meal where the emphasis was on Fellowship rather than food.

Christmas Meal in Liverpool

Our RYM coordinators Anita and Natasha, along with local parishes in Liverpool will be hosting a Christmas meal for those who would otherwise be alone on Christmas Day. 

If you are able to volunteer in any way to help on the day - please get in touch.

 

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Fr Peter Morris' reflections on Grenada 2018

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Back in July Fr. Peter was one of the many who took part in the Redemptorist Youth Congress in Grenada Spain. Here he looks back on the event and shares his experiences and thoughts.

European Redemptorist Youth Gathering July 2018

 

 

Granada 18 Poster

 

Click on the image above for full details. Places are limited so book early.

A New Way to Communicate...

 

A chance encounter at a conference has led the Redemptorist Youth Ministry down an unexpected path – one which has led to discovery and friendship.

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Last November, Anita and I decided to book a stall at Embrace, the Catholic conference for 14-25 year olds. We were hoping to meet lots of people aged 18 and over to get them involved in our young adult group. It was a great day – but most of the people we talked to were in the 14-16 age group, so not really appropriate for our group. Towards the end of the day a young man approached and began looking through the materials at our stall. We began to engage him in conversation, but it soon became clear that he could not hear us. Cal was deaf. We got by, him lipreading, us trying our best with our very very limited knowledge of sign language – and he agreed to come along to one of our young adult group evenings.

RYM - Christmas Meal 2018 for those who are alone

 

It may seem a long way off to Christmas, but if you are trying to organise a community event on that day a lot of planning is needed.  In this article are Youth Minister Natasha explains the thinking about a meal to be held this Christmas in Liverpool, and talks about an upcoming fundraiser to support this aim. This article was first published in the March 2018 edition of Bishop Eton's in house magazine BE Alive.

Christmas day can be difficult for a lot of people - squabbling families, getting in to debt, or not being able to find that perfect outfit for the Christmas party. For some people, however, the greatest difficulty around the most wonderful time of the year can be how utterly lonely that one day can be.

RYM - Confession talk and discussion

This article was first published in the March 2018 edition of Bishop Eton's in house magazine BE Alive.

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The Sacrament of Confession is probably the most misunderstood of all the sacraments. It is something which, for many, is a source of apprehension, fear, and in some cases, terror. The Redemptorist Young Adult group recently had an enlightening talk from Mgr Peter Fleetwood about this sacrament, and we put to rest some of the myths and mysteries surrounding it.