Events

An opportunity to join with others online in reflections on the Way of the Cross and how we continue to crucify Jesus in today’s world, instead of taking Him down from the cross. Using Sieger Koder’s images of the Way of the Cross, alongside contemporary photographs, this is an opportunity to reflect together how we recognise Christ in the midst of those who are suffering and are being crucified in our world today. Join us via Zoom using the link below: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84772389749

This day event is for people from across the Diocese of Leeds to come together to explore how parishes can draw closer together by working towards an award that enables all individuals and groups within a parish to come together and work out a plan to work towards some common goals.

It can enable parishes to become more visible signs of Hope in these troubled times.

LiveSimply is an award scheme managed by CAFOD. Parishes and schools submit a plan and work towards achieving 3 goals:

to Live more simply

to Live more sustainably

to Live more in solidarity with the poor.

Bishop Marcus commended the scheme in his pastoral letter during the Season of Creation in September 2024.

There are 5 parishes in the Leeds Diocese who have obtained this award and people from those parishes will be present to share their experiences with everyone.

The scheme provides a motivating way to involve people of many differing interests and can help renew parish life as people collaborate on achieving the things set out in their plan. Use the link to find out more about what to expect on this day and to book a place. There is no charge to attend but there will be a voluntary collection during the course of the day.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/live-simply-care-deeply-tickets-1278395327839?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Middlesbrough Diocesan Justice and Peace Commission Anthony Storey Memorial Peace and Justice Lecture

Middlesbrough J&P write:

We are delighted to welcome Ian Linden as this year’s speaker for the Anthony Storey Memorial Peace and Justice Lecture.

Professor Ian Linden is Visiting Professor at St Mary’s University, Strawberry Hill, London. A past director of the Catholic Institute for International Relations, he was awarded a CMG for his work for human rights in 2000. He has also been an adviser on Europe and Justice and Peace issues to the Department of International Affairs of the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales. Ian chairs a new charity in Beirut for Syrian refugees and Lebanese kids in danger of dropping out partnering with CARITAS Lebanon. His latest book was Global Catholicism published by Hurst in 2009.

Ian welcomes the opportunity to reclaim ‘The Option for the Poor’ which he feels is neglected, rarely mentioned and often misunderstood.

You are invited to join the Northern Dioceses Environment Group and the Southern Dioceses Environment Network for this evening of celebration for the 10th Anniversary of Laudato Si’ – On the Care of Our Common Home.

The publication of the papal encyclical, Laudato Si‘, galvanised Catholics around the world and in every country to unite with those of all other faiths and none in the common cause of caring for our home planet and all the people on it.

Pope Francis urged us to integrate questions of justice into our debates on the environment, ‘so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor’ – for they are one and the same thing. (LS, 49)

Both the Northern and Southern environment groups grew out of a desire to put the teaching of the encyclical into practice.

In this meeting our speaker and facilitator, Austen Ivereigh, will help us to reflect on where we have come in the last ten years and what we are being called to do in the next ten.

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This is a partnership event between the J&P Commission, Pax Christi in the Leeds Diocese and the Leeds Palestinian Film Festival.

Join a conversation on the issue of non-violence with Palestinian activist and academic Mahmoud Zwahre and Andrew Rigby, Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies

Illustrated with film by West Bank filmmakers

Includes updates from the West Bank and the significance of ‘Sumud’ in the Palestinian struggle.

Mahmoud Zwahre is a leading activist and organiser in popular non-violent resistance against settler violence in the West Bank and currently a scholar at Coventry University

 

 

 

 

Andrew Rigby has researched and written about unarmed resistance in the Occupied Palestinian Territories since the 1980s, activities informed by his deep commitment to nonviolence as practice and principle.

Use the button to book a place (£5 waged, £3 unwaged)

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This is the Annual conference of the National Justice & Peace Network.

Full details are still to be made available. However, Dr Rowan Williams has already been booked and several workshops are known to be going ahead with several others still under discussion.

Never a cheap weekend! – but usually interesting and a unique annual opportunity to meet J&P supporters from across the country.

Updates will be made when they become available.

Aged 18-30? SPARK Social Justice will be offering sponsorship for a limited number of people. email info@sparksocialjustice.org.uk if this is of interest.

This is a ‘save the date’ notification for the next Northern Dioceses’ Environment Group (NDEG) in-person meeting.

The idea is to meet up at Leeds Cathedral, walk down to the Leeds and Liverpool canal (by the dark arches underneath Leeds City Station) and then walk along the canal towpath to get to Kirkstall Abbey (about 4 miles in total) and do it as ‘Pilgrims of Hope’.

 

More details to follow soon – but put it in your diary now if it sounds of interest.